Farmers’ Market

Travel with T1D – exploring food markets

Diabetes, Diabetes Dietitian, Farmers' Market, Registered Dietitian

Hello! Bonjour from Paris The husband and I set off on a quick trip to the City of Light two weeks ago while our son went off on a class trip to Quebec City and Montreal. What can I say, our family loves all things Français 😀  Travel with T1D is not always easy, especially on the food and insulin dosing front. But, food markets can help make our T1D struggles a bit easier. Exploring food markets with T1D One of my favourite things as a traveller, food lover, and person with T1D is visiting the food markets – especially in Europe!  I love the vibrancy of these markets, the liveliness, the cultures, the chatter and movements all around. I also love exploring all the foods. Markets are a great opportunity to try new foods, but they’re also a fantastic way to find foods that most of us are fairly […]

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Food: What can we do?

Farmers' Market, Uncategorized

I don’t know why I didn’t put up my hand. I don’t know why I didn’t ask the question filling my brain the entire time she was talking. I’ve rarely been one to shy from asking questions. I’ve got journalism in my blood for goodness sake; I should have asked the question. This week I attended the latest installment of the UBC Reads Sustainability series, a program that brings well-known authors to campus to discuss issues of sustainability. It was the first I’d heard of the program, and was intrigued for a few reasons: 1) The speaker, Simran Sethi, is a journalist (see blood above) and her book is called Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love. For those of you who’ve been long-time readers, you already know, but for those of you new to the PoP ways, chocolate might as well BE my blood. 2) I

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