The 23 surprise bags I got in September 2025
A fun food-saving app to try new restaurants and stores outside of your everyday routine is called Too Good To Go. I use this app on the regular to buy ready-to-eat food items, groceries, desserts, and even floral bouquets (now that more florists are joining TGTG). It’s satisfying to help the planet reduce food and floral waste too. 😊 Continue reading
CashWalk app homescreen
CashWalk is a reliable walking app that pays you for your steps. My mom’s friend was the one who recommended it to us over a year ago. I downloaded it in July 2024 and still use it to this day because it pays fairly well (I log a moderate number of steps and I can get a $5 gift card to Amazon every month). My husband logs more steps than I do and he can redeem a $5 gift card about every 2 to 3 weeks. Since using it for a year, we’ve gotten consistent gift card rewards every month!
(My referral code is: VCU55. Use it to get 500 coins when you join or click this link.) Continue reading
Pears Restaurant located at 170 Enterprise Blvd, unit J105 in Unionville
For our sixth wedding anniversary celebration, we went to Pears Restaurant by Keith Pears located in downtown Markham for dinner. It was easy to make a reservation for the early dining time of 5:15 p.m. for a Monday evening as there were many available time slots. We were one of the only two tables dining in when we arrived. There is free Continue reading
My fave haul from Flashfood this month! All these for $12.49
It’s that time of the month again! Time to see what our family bought from the Flashfood app and see how much money we saved on groceries this month. 🙂 This blog post recaps what items I purchased. Continue reading
24 surprise bags purchased in August 2025
I’ve been very active again this month with my favourite food rescue app, Too Good To Go!!! Stores and restaurants don’t sell everything by day’s end, so they assemble “surprise bags” of a certain value for customers to buy and put it on the app. It is a fun way of Continue reading
The Sumatran Orangutan Habitat at the Toronto Zoo
On a Friday in August, we took the kids to the Toronto Zoo for a day trip outing. This was the first time we took 3 kids since the birth of the new baby and here’s what went down:
From our past experience attending the zoo with kids now, we Continue reading
What we saw and ate at the CNE in 2025
The Canadian National Exhibition runs from August 15 to September 1, 2025 this year. How fast the days fly to bring us to our most anticipated end-of-summer event before school starts again and the cooler weather rushes in!
This year, we had three kids under the Continue reading
The 20 surprise bags I got in July 2025 from Too Good To Go
A lovely app called Too Good To Go is what I check daily or hourly on my smartphone. Restaurants and stores put together “surprise bags” of unsold surplus goods at a third of the retail price to sell to Continue reading
4 mixed produce boxes from Flashfood
Use the Flashfood app to buy discounted food from participating grocery stores! Items nearing their “best before” dates are posted to this app and consumers can buy them on the app and pick them up in-store. It’s very easy and fun. Continue reading
Meron To Go located at 11 Disera Drive in Thornhill
We found ourselves in this area of Bathurst and Steeles and I was looking for a quick fast-casual restaurant for lunch. Google Maps showed Meron To Go as a nearby contender serving Middle Eastern food with high ratings, so we decided to check it out. Continue reading
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