$1 brings clean water to 40 kids for a day through UNICEF TAP Project
Water. As Winnipeggers, we have a love/hate relationship with the stuff. It’s a basic necessity for life, one of our most abundant natural resources and a source of power, revenue, and recreation. And, with the arrival of spring, if you’re like me, you’re up to your baseboards in it right about now.
But 890 million people still use unsafe drinking water sources, and 2.5 billion lack basic sanitation facilities.
Enter UNICEF’s TAP Project, a simple idea with a global impact.
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Tuesday, March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day. Although rooted in the spiritual mythology of Ireland, it has since become a world-wide phenomenon where thousands of cities simultaneously celebrate their Irish culture by holding parades, festivals and dying rivers, beer and food green.
Winnipeg is no exception and St. Paddy’s has become a milestone moment in our pub culture calendar. In advance of our tippling Tuesday, Savour Winnipeg presents 14 Peg Pubs Perfect for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.
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Stay Active. Eat Like a Champion. March is Nutrition Month.
That’s a tagline at Nutrition 2009, a website created in partnership with the Dietitians of Canada and Dairy Farmers of Canada.
At the core, it captures what I think is a pretty healthy attitude towards food. If you eat a balanced diet that follows Canada’s Food Guide for Healthy Eating, and get 30 minutes of activity per day, you can enjoy those little indulgences without the guilt that all too often accompanies them. In fact, a good nutritionist will tell you there’s room for all foods (it’s just that a few of them…often the really tasty ones, are what they call sometimes foods). Visit the Nutrition 2009 website, and learn more about what you can do to promote a healthy and balanced lifestyle.
Or use Nutrition Month as an excuse to introduce some healthy new ingredients into your repertoire. Instead of that hunk of beef, try locally raised Elk or Bison that offers more protein and less fat per serving. Or go completely vegetarian one night a week. Try out the recipe finder at Manitoba’s Peak of the Market website. Specify the veg you want to use, and it’ll find you delicious recipes that feature it.
Or expand your food savvy with quizzes at Health Canada, Nutirition 2009 , or check out Shamona Harnett’s Test Your Food IQ column in today’s Winnipeg Free Press.
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Sometimes I’m too busy (read: lazy) to make something at home, and even hauling myself out to a place that lets you pick-up is more effort than I can bear. That pretty much relegates me to either not eating (perish the thought) or the tired old standbys–Pizza and Chinese food. Well how about sushi, roti, butter chicken or ribs?
For a couple of extra dollars over the regular menu price you can, in fact, tap into the kind of cravings that only a dine in experience can offer.
Enter Winnipeg’s Mobile Maitre’d.
Simply place your order at one of the participating restaurants, then call MM’s operator at 777-DINE (3463). They’ll dispatch a driver to pick it up and deliver it right to your doorstep within the hour.
The service operates Monday through Sunday, 4:30-9:00pm, and even offers lunch delivery from a select few restaurants.
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