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How to manage splurges at big-box food stores

Prairie Fare: Avocado Egg Scramble

By Julie Garden-Robinson May 1, 2015

Are we going to buy a pallet of baked beans today?” my husband teased. I grabbed the handle of the van-sized grocery cart and began strolling through the towers of food in the warehouse where food is sold in bulk quantities. I put a large bag of avocados in my cart even though I had

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Grilled asparagus adds variety, nutrition to menu

Prairie Fare: Grilled Asparagus

By Julie Garden-Robinson April 24, 2015

I noticed the thick bunches of asparagus at a grocery store and the sight of the green stalks carried me right back to my childhood. In the early summer, with paper bags in hand, my dad and I hunted for asparagus near our home. We walked about one-half mile to an asparagus patch in a

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Is it time for an oil change in your recipes?

Prairie Fare: Personalized Homemade Salad Dressing and Crunchy Munchy Cookies

By Julie Garden-Robinson April 17, 2015

Whew!” I thought to myself when I opened the can of solid shortening. It looked OK, but the aroma almost took my breath away. I have one recipe where I use this particular type of fat, and I hadn’t made it in at least six months, based on the date I had listed on the

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Be the grill master this spring

Prairie Fare: Foil Vegetable Packets

By Julie Garden-Robinson April 2, 2015

What should I grill for dinner tonight?” my husband asked the other day. I began naming a variety of possibilities. Then I paused and grinned. Buying him a grill for Father’s Day was the best gift I ever bought myself, our three kids and even our three dogs. We all enjoy the benefits of delicious

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Enjoy spring with regular outdoor walks

Prairie Fare: Chocolate Cereal and Fruit Snack Mix

By Julie Garden-Robinson March 27, 2015

Well, did you see a hawk?” my 11-year-old daughter asked me. I’m sure I looked at her with a confused expression on my face. My 19-year-old son and I had just returned from a two-mile walk around our neighbourhood. “Did you hear it squawk?” she continued with an impish grin on her face. I now

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Food product developers search for inspected, equipped kitchens

Churches, halls, Legions can rent space for food product developers

By Lorraine Stevenson March 20, 2015

Temi Akindipe has lived in Canada a long time, but never stopped missing the taste of a sweet, dense pan bread popular back home. She knew fellow West Africans living in Manitoba missed it too. That’s why this nurse by profession decided to become baker and sell the Lagos Loaf. She now turns out hundreds

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Prairie Fare: Reduced-Fat Morning Glory Muffins

By Julie Garden-Robinson March 6, 2015

Let’s starting cooking!” I said with enthusiasm to my daughter. “Mom, what’s the difference between cooking and baking?” my 11-year-old daughter asked. We were about to bake some bread, so I think she was associating cookies and breads with baking. My husband chuckled when he saw me wrinkling my brow and pondering her question. Is

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Campbell’s for Christmas?

Kelly Beaulieu hopes to sign contracts with a couple of food industry giants in the next couple of weeks

By Meghan Mast December 18, 2014

Kelly Beaulieu’s idea for converting the nutrition from vegetables that would otherwise be thrown away into a tasty food product has caught the eye of some big names in the processed food business. Beaulieu’s company, Canadian Prairie Garden Purees, has recently received letters of intent to purchase from Nestle and Campbell’s after sending them samples.

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Eating well on $4 a day – free ‘Good and Cheap’ cookbook shows you how

Recipe Swap: Cornmeal Crushed Veggies, Brussels Sprout Hash and Eggs, Peanut Dipping Sauce

By Lorraine Stevenson November 13, 2014

The cookbook is free. The meals made from it will cost $4 a day. The creator of Good and Cheap is Leanne Brown, a former Edmontonian, who was earning a food studies master’s degree in New York City when she began noting how poorly Americans on low incomes ate. What sorts of meals could be

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The war at the dinner table

The Second World War transformed the Canadian diet

By Lorraine Stevenson November 7, 2014

Some can remember the war years. The rest of us can only imagine, from stories we’ve heard, what life was like during them. Some of those stories are found in places we might not think to look, like cookbooks. Canadian women shared thousands of wartime ration-stretching recipes during the Second World War. Magazines and newspapers,

Daily Network News

Consumers not confused by plant protein ‘burgers’ or ‘milk’, research suggests

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures rise on expectations of tight supplies

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans fall, but achieve first annual gain in three years

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How to manage splurges at big-box food stores

Grilled asparagus adds variety, nutrition to menu

Is it time for an oil change in your recipes?

Be the grill master this spring

Enjoy spring with regular outdoor walks

Food product developers search for inspected, equipped kitchens

Where do you get your recipes?

Campbell’s for Christmas?

Eating well on $4 a day – free ‘Good and Cheap’ cookbook shows you how

The war at the dinner table

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