24 surprise bags purchased in October 2026
We use Too Good To Go every month to save money on food and try out new restaurants. Restaurants on the app will post food that is left over or unsold for one third of the price. It’s a great initiative to prevent food waste. It’s a fun way to discover new restaurants and try new products. Continue reading
Enough bananas to feed lots of monkeys?! All for $5.45
Use Flashfood, a free app, to buy discounted groceries to save money and help reduce food waste! The stores on the app so far are No Frills, Loblaws, Real Canadian Superstore, Your Independent Grocers, Nature’s Emporium, some pet stores, and more.
13 surprise bags purchased in September 2026
Too Good To Go is an app where you can check out new restaurants and stores and buy food for a third of the original retail price. Participating stores will put together a “surprise bag” of what they can’t sell or have too much of. It’s fun to get a surprise bag! Continue reading
Hank Daddy’s Barbecue located at 7777 Keele St, Vaughan, ON
It has been a long time since I ate at an American-style barbecue restaurant (the last time being at Adamson Barbecue for a tasting prior to the pandemic). We found ourselves in the area of Keele and Highway 7 in Vaughan and decided to try Hank Daddy’s Barbecue for dinner on a weekend evening. Continue reading
This was my favourite Flashfood haul this month. This averaged to $1.55 per item!
Use the Flashfood app to save money on your groceries! Download the app on your smartphone, browse the items that stores have posted for the day (they upload new items throughout the day so you have to check often), purchase it, and then pick it up in store before the last day. Continue reading
17 surprise bags from Too Good To Go in August 2026
You can help restaurants reduce food waste by using an app called Too Good To Go to buy their “surprise bags” of leftover or unsold food for one third of the price! It’s a fun way to explore new restaurants and try food you wouldn’t normally buy. This means you have to be open-minded and don’t mind trying new foods you might not usually buy. Continue reading
Lobster on a Stick at the CNE 2026
The Canadian National Exhibition is on from August 21 to September 7, 2026 this year. We bought our admission tickets online using the husband’s corporate discount which came to $25.38 per person (the corporate ticket price is $19.47, then a $2.99 online processing fee, and then tax). Continue reading
Road trip to London, Ontario
We spent 4 days and 3 nights in London, Ontario this summer with 3 kids in tow. This blog post details what we did and some tips if you plan to make the same trip.
It was a 2 to 2.5 hour drive from Markham. We packed lots of snacks (the husband did a Costco trip a few days prior to get dry snacks and I picked up a Chinese buns TGTG bag) for the trip as our kids (ages 18 months to 5.5-years-old) like Continue reading
Description of the Junior Chefs Camp on the Markham registration page
This summer, my 5.5-year-old took the “Junior Chefs Camp” at the Victoria Square Community Centre in Markham. It was 5 days of camp where the kids followed recipes, played in the nearby playground and splash pad, did Continue reading
15th Ave Cafe & Bistro located at 169 Enterprise Blvd Unit L103, Markham, ON
I had brunch at 15th Ave Cafe & Bistro today with a friend and it was so good!
15th Ave Cafe & Bistro is located on the ground floor of Markham Cineplex and is basically the hub of Downtown Markham Continue reading
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