Ever since I started reacting to eating anything from the onion family, shopping for food products have been a chore reading every label. 95% of the recipes you see on the food channel and or read in books have onions somewhere in the recipe. I feel bad for those who do have a food allergy; it’s not fun at all.

With that I started figuring out what food I really enjoy that does have onions in it normally that I can sub in or not have any in at all. I came up with a more peppery version of a Greek Salad which became a main staple side dish or dish on its own.

Pepper Salad (serves about 6)

Feta Cheese – Chucky Cubes
Grape Tomatoes – Cut in half or left as a hole
3 Bell Peppers per colour – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green (if you can find other flavours like Blue Jay Pepper [blue/purple] add it as well)
Raspberry Vinaigrette – I found Auntie Annie’s works wonders (or homemade)

What food dish inspired you to increase your own?

After doing a Canadian household survey of what we purchasing (and getting $30 for it) I remember hearing back in high school that we were just pawns in the wide seem of marketing, it wasn’t until I did the 200 page survey it finally clicked.

Have you ever noticed how many name brands products we all personally own? Whether its clothing or how many technology gadgets you own? Even if you are someone like myself who are not into getting the latest trends. Do we really need to upgrade to a new Ipod every year?

The latest trend for walking adverting boards have been to get tattoos or a henna tattoos of a companies logo somewhere on the body for money. Money would be nice but a permanent tattoo of a company that could fold within a few years? Not so cool in my opinion. For an example: Getting a tattoo of Bolt.com (was one of the 1st social media sites out there) somewhere on your body and now years later they aren’t really around anymore. Think before you ink.

Personally I do find myself owning a lot of work out clothing from champion, under armour mostly cause I liked what they have and if its on sale even better. I want clothes that can last years with the abuse of the daily life of Kimm. Instead of spending money on something that’s made cheaply which will fall apart within a year. The same thing goes with why should I spend $30 bucks for a tank top when I get the same solid colour and cut for under $10 elsewhere?

The one thing I don’t like adverting are car dealerships, I don’t know why but I just don’t. When I got my car second hand I took off the dealerships sticker and plates within minutes of owning it.

Do you find yourself purchasing a specific name brand?
Would you get a tattoo for money?