Hey NOT a lot of changes have been happening on the blog (but there are over 900 recipes, plus hundreds of posts - you probably haven't read/made them all). I've been exhausted - whether it's depression/anxiety or tumor-related, I don't know, but I'v...

Hey (It really IS Friday this time ....)You (might) remember that I had an MRI booked because things in my head have been getting really *weird* in the past year.The MRI was on Monday. Yesterday I was in to our doctor with one of my kids. I didn't ha...

Good morning!A quick brief personal note - on Monday morning, I'm having an MRI to check to see if the brain tumor has returned. Happy positive thoughts and prayers would definitely be appreciated (because I'm more than a little scared, to be honest)...

Hey Where do I even start?So on a personal noteloving my new therapist and working on issues around my dissociative identity disorder. So far when I tell anyone who knows me that I'll likely be officially diagnosed with that (whenever I get to see a...

Hey I was just informed that those of you who recently joined the list did NOT get your copy of the workbook and I'm embarrassed.Download it hereAbout 99% certain I'm recovering from a bout of COVID. It was going around a friend's neighbourhood and I...

Hi I really hate when people email me saying "Do you still want to hear from me?" with a generic email and absolutely not one link to their site. I'm thinking "Well, maybe, but who are you?"So here is me. I'm Marie Beausoleil from Just Plain Cooking....

Do you celebrate Christmas ? Plenty of people don't.For quite a while, our Christmas has been so low key as to have people saying we "didn't do Christmas".In fact, a few years ago, someone spread a rumour that we were "opposed to the Christmas tree"...

It's not over yet, is it ?I mean, Black Friday is over, but now we have all of the giveaways and Christmas sales and Boxing Day (which seems to start two weeks before Christmas these days) sales ...I'm finding it exhausting.I don't sell in these emai...

Hello lovely Pantry WorkbookOh my goodness WOW - thank you to all who have shown an interest in the Pantry Workbook.I took a bunch of your ideas into account, made some changes, printed off a new copy, and now I'm working at it again to see how I can...

Hey !Lest We ForgetIt's Remembrance Day here in Canada, and we're in Nova Scotia. What does THAT mean? It means that it's a stat holiday - lots of businesses are closed, the kids are home from school and EJ's getting holiday pay because the roads mus...