BOB-FM’s Movies on the Beach is coming back to Ottawa and the first showing is planned for Westboro Beach on June 26th. Woo hoo!
This year’s theme is Sing-Along-Summer-Movies and you can vote for your fave on the BOB-FM website and also find out that dates of future shows. They rotate around Ottawa beaches too, which I think is totally fab. And it’s free! Double fab.
We went last summer to see Cars (Dani was there too!) and had a great time. Emma and Sarah loved whole outdoor movie-watching experience, and they loved playing with Tristan and Simon too. In fact there may have been talk of marriage. (!)
If you’re planning on going to Movies on the Beach, here are a few things to keep in mind:
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Summer = fresh strawberries. Yum.
I’m researching the best U-pick strawberry farms in the Ottawa area for an upcoming article.
This photo is from last year. And it’s making me hungry.
We have a good place to go (near Kanata) but I know you must have your favourite places too. Care to share?
Frankly, I’m a little worried about the strawberries this year. It hasn’t been very warm and it’s been a little too wet. I have it on good authority that the 2009 strawberry-picking season is going to be delayed a bit this year. (In fact June 20th is supposed to be the “be ready to pick” date.)
So tell me, what do you do with your lovely baskets of strawberries once you get home? Make jam? Make pies? Freeze them? Or just eat them as-is?
Edited to add: check out this post about our favourite place to pick strawberries in Ottawa!
I like to know what I’m eating, and what my family is eating too. I always check to see how much sodium/calories/fat etc. is in a product I’m buying or in a recipe I’m making from a cookbook or from a magazine.
I didn’t realize that when a recipe is published in a newspaper this nutritional information often doesn’t seem to get published along with it.
Here’s the question: Do you think newspapers should provide the nutritional information for each recipe they publish?
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff of the Ottawa’s Bariatric Medical Institute seems to think so, and he’s trying to convince the Ottawa Citizen to provide this information to Citizen readers.
Plainly put:
“There are tens of thousands of Citizen readers for whom nutritional information would be beneficial. Readers with diabetes, hypertension, obesity, kidney disease and those who simply are concerned about their nutritional health. Those individuals would greatly benefit from having the Citizen publish nutritional information along with their recipes and frankly it’s dead simple and dirt cheap to provide it.”
Check out his post and let me know what you think.
