Banff Nutritional Consultant Mandy LeBlanc shares some yummy ideas on how to get more healthy fats into our mornings. She gives you the goods on what to look for when incorporating fats in general so you can be empowered to create dishes of your own. It's a no wonder the importance of starting the day with good, healthy fats (and not thinking of breakfast as having to include carb breakfast foods) is catching on. Why? It benefits energy levels, hormonal balance, adrenal health, blood sugar regulation and digestive health and sets you up to have a more stable mood throughout the day. 

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense."

Rumi

Rumi has been a favourite poet of mine since we 'met'. Was it the handwritten poem shared by a fellow backpacker in Turkey or the letter from my poetry loving university soul sistah or the poem read at the end of the meditation retreat in Northern India? Hmmm, I do know that there was a ring of ... truth (?) to his writing for me from the start ... 

Some simple, healthy ways to up level the party tray and bring it into your family Summer time food fare!