Foods to Avoid Eating Over the Holidays

Foods to Enjoy Over the Holidays

Survival Guide: Stress-Free Holiday Travel

When it comes to holiday travel, Santa’s got it in the bag. The magic sleigh, flying reindeer—he never has to worry about traffic jams, crowded buses, or flight delays. For us mortals, getting to our holiday destination is almost as stressful as the actual festivities themselves. Before you cancel your travel plans in frustration, here are slice.ca’s tips for stress-free holiday travel.

Tips for Ordering a Wedding Cake

I can’t even remember what my first wedding cake looked like. It was quite a few years ago, we might have discussed flavours but not much comes to mind. What I do remember is walking into the reception eager to see my wedding cake and feeling absolutely crushed: there was no cake topper! Where were the bride and groom smiling happily from their place of honour?

Survive a Summer Wedding with Tips on What NOT to Wear

Pre-Summer Checklist

Remember hot sand sifting between your toes? An inviting aroma wafting from a backyard barbecue? The cool refreshment of a sticky popsicle? Oh, summer! How we have missed you!

Buying the Perfect Bathing Suit Style for Every Body

Swim season is approaching as fast and as swiftly as the waves that carry it. Storefronts are boasting their best bathing suits and sending women into a tizzy over what to wear. Every body is unique and different and even your own body changes from year to year as your habits and lifestyle do, so avoid slipping yourself into a category or a pre-packaged idea of how you should look. Instead, focus on what you like about your body and emphasize those features.

Survival Guide: The Quest for Great Skin Shouldn’t End at Your Chin!

As we age, it’s not just the skin on our faces that loses collagen and elasticity. These parts listed below will give away your age even if your face is wrinkle-free...

Behind the Scenes at the Royal Wedding

Wedding Shows Across Canada

It’s wedding season across Canada and to help you take advantage and make the most of it, slice.ca has prepared a calendar of some of the wedding shows happening across Canada in 2011.

Survival Guide: Holiday Kitchen Safety Tips

It's easy to let daily household tasks slip during the hustle and bustle of the holidays, but this is a prime season to keep your kitchen;and your family and friends;safe and healthy! These simple tips will keep your kitchen merry and bright this holiday season.

A Healthy Halloween for Kids (and Adults)

Halloween is a fun time of year for everyone, young or old. Dressing up as your favourite character, lots of parties and trick-or-treating. The problem for parents is deciding what to do with those big trick-or-treat bags full of candy and sweet treats. With childhood obesity on the rise, loading up on all that sugar isn't a great idea. Here are some tips to help control your children's consumption of treats...

Dating Again - An Exclusive Interview With Josey Vogels

This "Survival Guide" features dating advice and Josey Vogels. She appeared on episode 6 of Re-Vamped - Season 1 and offered the women advice on how to tackle dating again for the first time. This is taken from transcripts from her time with the women and includes goodies that didn’t make it to air. Enjoy!

Surviving Your First Job

Starting off on the right foot in your career is integral. But your first foray into work can be scary – what if you don’t know how to do what’s expected of you? What if you don’t fit in? Should you socialize? How much? What if you hate it? These questions – coupled with the mountainous task of choosing what to wear during your first week – can really make a girl nervous.

The slice.ca Guide to Cleaning Your Home

What is it about spring that makes us want to fill up buckets of hot soapy water and clean our homes from top to bottom? I love a clean home myself, but finding the time to do a regular weekly clean, let alone a marathon spring clean, is beyond my organizational abilities.

Good Nutrition for a Happy and Healthy Pregnancy

Maybe you have decided to try to get pregnant, or have found out you already are. Congratulations! Your first step is to educate yourself about how to be the healthiest you possibly can be before and during your pregnancy. Your body goes through many changes during pregnancy. To support these changes, you must modify your diets nutrients and energy.

Survive Online Dating

Thanks to Web 2.0, finding dates online no longer carries any stigma. In fact, surfing for potential mates makes good sense, considering how much time we spend on the ‘net, and how much work we put into fine-tuning our online presence. Here’s how to maximize the experience.

Are You Done With Debt?

Gail Vaz-Oxlade, star of ‘Til Debt Do Us Part and author of the forthcoming Debt-Free Forever, has 5 fantastic tips for getting out of the mess you might have made with that credit card burning a hole in your wallet.

Healthy Holidays Survival Guide

I always felt that the short-lived pleasure I gained from tucking into my arch nemesis, the Quarter Pounder with Cheese (or, Royale with Cheese en Francais) must be akin to the thrill a man feels when hunkering down at a table in a strip club.

Get Your Career Moving This Holiday Season

Although lots of people gear down for the holidays, some smart slice.ca career girls are wondering just what they can do to take advantage of some of the slack that others create during this busy time of year.

Holiday Shopping

More than any other holiday activity, shopping for presents is the number-one cause of seasonal stress. The overwhelming crowds, the cash crunch, and the difficulty deciding on what to purchase are the usual suspects.

Family Party Survival Guide

I love Christmas, but I find the holidays stressful – especially when I have to gather with family and in-laws that I normally don’t see throughout the year.

Holiday Stress

No one ever said the jolly season was easy. It’s not laid back, it’s not always fun, and it’s definitely not for the faint of heart. Lesser women than you have given in to the stress and worry that comes along with the month of December.

Office Party Survival Guide

As the festive season approaches, invites for spectacular fêtes will soon be flooding your inbox. Most functions are just frivolous fun but one in particular ushers in the worst type of party paranoia: the office celebration.

Finding Holiday Happiness with Parents and In-Laws

In a perfect world, in-laws and parents alike would understand the demands placed on new families during the holiday season.

The Party It Up Holiday Guide

Hearty partier or shrinking violet? No matter your seasonal party M.O., we’ve got the goods to help you on your merry way without suffering massive holiday party burn out.

The Newlyweds' Guide to the Holidays

Make your newlywed year special with these tips on prioritizing time for togetherness and pampering each other silly during the holidays.

Survive a Diet and Lifestyle Re-Vamp

“You are what you eat.” Those famous diet words ring true for Roland Semprie, fitness and nutrition expert on Slice’s Re-Vamped.

Surviving Friendships – The Real Housewives of New Jersey Style

Looking for some new friends to hang out with? Your timing couldn’t have been more perfect! Welcome to the drama-filled world of the Real Housewives of New Jersey. Five expensively coiffed women living the champagne lifestyle – endless shopping on hubby’s tab, palatial palaces they call home, and an attitude to match. Nab yourself an influential spouse, a coveted black Amex credit card and maybe, just maybe… this quintet will take a glance at your application for membership into their condescending clique.

Survive Toronto Fashion Week

There’s no eating, no sleeping, and no time to breathe: Fashion Week (Toronto Fashion Week begins October 19 2009) is the pivotal time of the year and where next season’s looks are revealed (in Fall, Spring and Summer looks are revealed and in Spring, Fall and Winter looks come out).

Survive the Mom-mobile

I recently blogged about the ever-sensitive issue of minivan moms. As in, you're a mom and you've chosen to embrace this style of domestic travel. Or conversely, you're a mother and the mere thought of driving a family van makes you squirm uncomfortably.

Surviving Your Teenage Adventure

A lot of the time, teens don't realize the reasons and influences behind why they do what they do. Here, two teens talk about navigating the wilds of adolescence and making the most out of those complicated years.

Survive a Trip With the Women In Your Life

Women-only trips and girlfriends' getaways are more popular than ever, and many women are choosing their daughters, mothers, aunts or even grandmothers as their travel partners. If you are thinking about planning a trip with the most important women in your life for the sake of girls-only bonding, here are a few tips to help make sure your getaway is a success.

Survive Long-Distance Friendships

It's a fact of life that as we get older, our lives often move in different directions from our loved ones. Maybe your friends are leaving the town where you all grew up, or maybe you're the one that moved, for school, or a job, or a romance. Add the constraints of children, or elder care, plus the actual time difference between the places where you live, and the next thing you know it's been weeks—or months—since you bonded with your girls.

Survive Your Worst Parenting Moments: Part 2

Sometimes our kids make us bust with pride at how well they're turning out, while other times we wonder how we could have gone so far wrong as parents. Family therapist and author Jennifer Kolari has been working with families and children for 20 years. She's also the mother of three children. Her book, Connected Parenting, will be published by Penguin Canada in May 2009.

Survive Your Worst Parenting Moments: Part 1

Sometimes our kids make us bust with pride at how well they're turning out, while other times we wonder how we could have gone so far wrong as parents. Family therapist and author Jennifer Kolarihas been working with families and children for 20 years. She's also the mother of three children. Her book, Connected Parenting, will be published by Penguin Canada in May 2009.

Survival Guide: The Calm After the Storm

You’ve laughed, you’ve cried, and you’ve even honeymooned but now it’s time to settle in on this trip called marriage. What happens now? Where do we go from here, you ask.

Survival Guide: Wedding Checklist

When it comes to planning a wedding Rich Bride, Poor Bride planners agree that time is of the essence. The more of it you have, the less stressed you’ll be leading up to your special day.

Plan a Wedding in a Tanking Economy

The Rich Bride Poor Bride planners are finding that wedding trends in 2009 will be heavily influenced by the economy. Their upcoming weddings have scaled back the opulence and are going for more natural, relaxed events with the focus being on friends and family.

The First Year of Being a Parent

The first year caring for an infant ranks right up there with some of the greatest challenges known to humanity. It can even hold its own against other firsts, such as your first year living on the space centre or your first year as president of the United States.

Survive Winter Skin

It’s not officially winter yet but if you save your skin nurturing for when you’re already dry and flaky, it’s too late, ladies. What you need is a perky pre-emptive skin strike!

Survive a Walk Down the Beauty Aisle

I am a beauty product expert and addict (check out my perfume collection featured on HGTV.ca’s decorating blog). And while I love many products, there’s a select group that actually live up to the glamorous promise inherent in cosmetic marketing. Today, I’m going to share my list of must-haves, some of which are literally life changing!

Help! My Friends Are All Having Kids!

After surviving the mega-year of pocket-draining weddings (everyone’s got that one season where the wedding invites just won’t stop coming) comes the next milestone in the lives of your best girlfriends: the baby boom. And though all your girls are beyond proud and beaming with joy, you’re feeling slightly jilted because you’re missing the quality time and daily talks with your BFFs.

Green Your Beauty Routine

Now we all know that going green is better for the planet, but with what seems like a million different certifications and terms like “biodynamic” and “organic” versus “natural”, shopping green beauty products is enough to make any beauty junkie want to ditch her regime and go au naturel.

Money Talks (Part Two)

Gail Vaz-Oxlade shares her common sense path to financial bliss

Money Talks (Part One)

A lady who knows what it's like to be a mom, work in a job she hated and still have a little left over at the end of the month, Gail Vaz-Oxlade didn't just fall into financial success - she created it.

The Job Interview

You’ve landed an interview for your dream job. After putting together a portfolio, you’re ready to meet your potential future boss. But before you head off to that important interview, consider Slice.ca’s tips to leaving a great first impression.

Period Peace

Slice helps you survive that time of the month

Pack It In

While travelling Europe as a young(er) scholar, the first thing I learned was, “You will not look good when you travel.” And, after careful inspection of digital video of me in Germany, I can attest that I did not, in fact, look good. I’ve since changed my travel philosophy to, “Look good, but be smart about it.”

The L Word

After clearing my six-year-old son of lice, my two girls came home with the same problem two weeks later – and we've been waging war ever since. We have the head lamp with the magnifying glass and we use a LiceMeister comb, which is excellent. We've even used one of the lice shampoos (Resultz), which kills the lice but not the nits. This really is where the fight begins and ends.