Even when cleansing, woman cannot live on salad alone.

Throughout the month, Calgary’s two Planet Organic Markets are hosting a variety of free cooking classes including Indian Cooking 101, Complete Cleanse and Glorious and Gluten-free. The one-hour classes are quick recaps for all levels that will get you on the right track for another year of, “I plan to cook more at home.” (Have faith, it will happen.)

Our pick is Wednesday’s Ayurvedic cooking class, based on ancient Indian principles that when applied to food, can help facilitate body purification and mental wellbeing. 


We'll leave the rabbit food to the bunnies.

Full schedule here and here.

In your mind you spend Saturday afternoon happily baking oatmeal cookies with your kids. In your reality, you barely have time for lunch.

Sweetpea Baby Food’s new kids’ cookies are made the way you’d do them if you could: with whole grains like spelt and no dairy, eggs, or additives.

Healthful flavours like banana-pear and pumpkin spice mean there’s no guilt in doling them out by the handful. 

One for baby, three for mummy….

Sweetpea Organic Cookies ($5.99) at IGA, Planet Organic, Pusateri’s and other Canadian retailers at www.sweetpeababyfood.com

We’d love to subscribe to the GOOP way of eating (translation: have Mario Batali cook all our meals), but sometimes a quick snack is in order.

But it still has to be Paltrow-worthy, meaning probiotic and packed with nutrients, antioxidants and fibre, of course.

Lucky for us, Genuine Health’s new Hip to be Healthy Squares ($3.49) fit the bill. The uniquely square-shaped bars (it’s hip to be rectangular just doesn’t sound as cool) are made up of organic oats, raisins, almond butter and brown rice crisps and pack plenty of fibre and protein on the go.

The natural ones are our pick but if you enjoy a chocolate treat, they come coated in organic dark chocolate too.

At Community Natural Foods, 1304 10 Ave. SW, Calgary, 403-229-2383, www.communitynaturalfoods.com