You Are What You Eat

It's always a good idea to know what you are eating, and to be mindful of what you eat, and now there is an easy way to keep track of what you eat every day, EATracker, from the Dieticians of Canada website.
You enter all the food you have eaten for each meal and snack on any given day, and there is also an activity tracker for any exercise. Based on the data you input, EATracker gives you a nutritional and overall health assessment based on Canada's nutritional guidelines. One problem I have found with this site is that it's difficult to list food accurately if you eat food that isn't traditionally north american (for example, I couldnt find a listing for bok choy). In addition, other foods surprised me with their absence, who doesn't eat butter tarts? or Fruit smoothies?
While far from being perfect, I think the main benefit of this site is to make us more aware of what we should be eating, and who couldn't use that, especially with summer fast approaching..

mmm Pocky

The Kitchener-Waterloo area has a few Asian grocery stores, like New City Supermarket and Ben Thanh Supermarket (not to be confused with the similarly-named restaurants) that are generally adequate for our cooking staples (cheap veggies, fish sauce, etc.)
About once a month or so though, Argie and I like to do a run down to Mississauga to T&T Supermarkets, at Central Parkway. T&T is enormous, well organized, and in my estimation, cleaner than your average Loblaws chain store.
One of our favourite things to do at T&T is to search for new and unusual products, or new takes on some of our favourites. The candy aisle is especially interesting for fun discoveries.
One of my favourite treats to keep in my desk at work is a box of Pocky
and I always try and grab a new flavour each time we go. Some of the tried and true flavours that I've had include Green Tea Mousse, Almond Crush, and Milky Coffee. Pocky is basically a pretzel stick that is covered in a different flavoured candy or savoury coating.
If you haven't tried Pocky, I suggest you do, then ask yourself that age old question: If you were Pocky, what flavour would you be??