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When September rolls along I feel a renewed interest in like I’m forced to revisit the concept of meal planning. If it were up to me I would eat chickpeas and good cheese and leafy salads all day long. But my family is not me. Last year I hit a breaking point with my ever […]

01 Sep, 2008

Chickpea salad

Posted by: andrea tomkins In: Recipes and Food

Good golly. It’s not even dinner time and I have already eaten an unholy amount of this chickpea salad … even though I forgot to add the ginger and used green onion instead of the red (I ran out!) and didn’t add cilantro (ditto!). And think of the fibre! Woot!   eta: AND I just […]

After my post on Friday I biked to pick up the ingredients for my special lunch. I planned to cook it up and eat it within an hour. My goal: ginger noodle soup. A perennial fave of mine. What’s best, I knew there were going to be leftovers for dinner. I was partway through cooking it […]


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