Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Nov 15, 2009, 11:19 am
It has been a while. My carpal tunnel having gotten the better of me, all little energy I had was used up at work and rest in the evenings was a must. Although honestly, it would have been hard to ge...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Nov 11, 2009, 6:29 am
Hey everyone, A quick hello this morning to share a site for a survey on "Sustainability In The Workplace" by the Brighter Planet team. Please take a few minutes to fill it out: You may win 200$ in t...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Nov 5, 2009, 4:56 am
Hello to all! I wanted to make sure you all knew I hadn't just dissapeared. I have been suffering from a bout of my CTS and have been unable to spend more than a minute or 2 typing away. I will...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 30, 2009, 8:51 pm
So I didn’t really think about it until today. I had thought of the challenge finishing before the holidays and not having to sacrifice any of my favorites like pumpkin pies, cranberry walnut sauce ...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 29, 2009, 5:25 am
Following a wonderful comment left by Elle on my post a few weeks ago, I decided to go on a hunt for information on a little town called Vernon in British Columbia that has been doing something pretty...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 28, 2009, 5:47 am
Sorry it may have looked as though I disappeared for a while. The week-end was a very hectic and fun one and it took a few days to catch up on sleep and get back in the swing of things. As I had ment...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 23, 2009, 5:33 am
So 2 weeks ago we received a very unexpected phone call from my mother-in-law announcing that they were planning a long week-end up in Quebec. Being from Pennsylvania, they would be driving up all day...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 22, 2009, 5:40 am
Hello to all. It's wednesday again and time for another Small Footprints "Change the World Wednesday Challenge" for you : For this week's challenge: Each time you shop for a non-food item,...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 21, 2009, 5:27 am
It is now late fall and Quebec is being tucked under a blanket of darkness. The sunrise this morning will be 7 h12 am and the sun set will be at 5 h 47 pm. Only a little over 10 hours of light and the...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 19, 2009, 6:13 am
Good morning. Friday (Day 33) was a pretty relaxed work day. We had a friend over for dinner and made warm yellow and purple beet salad and spaghetti squash. We served it with an apple-strawberry cid...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 17, 2009, 6:12 am
We have bread! Real bread… bread we could make little sandwiches with: Sourdough goodness that has a golden and hard outside crust and a wonderful creamy center. We couldn’t be happier! We decid...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 15, 2009, 2:55 pm
The main reason why my husband and I have been doing the 100-mile challenge was to not only have a better understanding of where our food comes from and to put a face on who feeds us, but it was also ...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 15, 2009, 5:18 am
Ever since I got back from holiday (It was Canadian Thanksgiving this past Monday), the week has been hectic to say the least. Overloads of tasks at work have forced us, both my husband and I, to put ...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 13, 2009, 5:33 am
Good morning. The last few days have been mellow ones as far as the diet goes. After Saturday’s roller-coaster, we decided to think of other things. When you’ve been thinking about food non stop ...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 11, 2009, 9:10 am
On Day 24 (Thursday), a friend of mine sent me a recipe for home made fresh cheese. Our first thought was “amazing! A money saving idea!” Turns out it may not replace the sharp cheddar we love so...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 9, 2009, 4:59 am
Back (a few days late) with another great CTWW challenge from my friend Small Footprints : Put on your walking shoes because this week we're going to walk ... not just idle walking ... we're ...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 8, 2009, 5:19 am
So, when we first started planning the challenge, we had been dead set on being absolute purists. My husband and I have a tendency to be very hard on ourselves. We feel very guilty about succumbing to...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 6, 2009, 7:30 pm
Monday (Day 21) was pretty uneventful. We had leftovers for lunch and made oven roasted root vegetables for dinner. We had leftover goat milk yogurt so my husband decided to make a nice little garlic-...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 5, 2009, 6:32 am
I hope everyone had a great week-end. Sorry for being away for a few days. Between not being home and then being home but having the computer unhooked for painting, I haven’t had the chance or the t...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 1, 2009, 6:12 pm
I’m sitting alone in my living room, waiting for my husband to get home from helping out a friend tonight and I decided to write. I rarely have time to write on the actual day I post about and end u...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Oct 1, 2009, 5:25 am
Until now, I’ve never really taken the time to fully appreciate what the convenience of quick food brings us. The idea of coming home, mixing together a few things and sitting, lazily, while they ba...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Sep 30, 2009, 5:07 pm

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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Sep 30, 2009, 4:58 pm
So here we go for another challenge! It's been a few weeks since I've posted, but I wanted to do my share. So this week's CTWW challenge is as follows : This week ... for the entire week...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Sep 30, 2009, 4:32 pm
I'm a little late posting today... ran out of time this morning. Yesterday (Day 15) was a very good night. Why you may ask? Because we took care of the first of many points I had on my list of th...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Sep 29, 2009, 5:32 am
Time sure does fly! We realized last night that we had hit the 2 week mark of our NOW 64 day venture. (Our new end date now being November 18 because of a few social life amendments taken.) We start...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Sep 28, 2009, 5:28 am
Hello to everyone. I hope everyone had a wonderful week-end. I’ve been so little at home this week-end, I didn’t have the time to write anything so I thought I’d jumble it all together. Friday ...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Sep 24, 2009, 7:20 pm
Good evening to all. Today was a good day food wise! Not only did my mayonnaise turned out great and we found a celery the size of a small grocery bag and I was able to make egg salad, but we had an ...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Sep 24, 2009, 5:14 am
After the slight slump that my hubby and I had early in the week about food choices and stuff we could not have, we decided to try our hand at making a list of things to make sure we wouldn’t feel l...
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Yanic A. posted an article on Adventures into Green - Sep 23, 2009, 4:58 am
Since yesterday morning, I’ve had that song stuck in my head. *Cues the 80s soundtrack* It started with being upset with myself in the morning for having problems concentrating enough to read my sc...
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