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Innovative food processors get funding kick-starts

Growing Forward 2 funding aims to help this province’s unique processors 
and agribusinesses grow, says provincial agriculture minister

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A small on-farm processor hoping to start selling milk in old-fashioned recyclable glass bottles is one of seven companies to receive Growing Forward 2 funding supporting investments in made-in-Manitoba food products. Dairy farmers Jim and Angie Appleby, who farm with Jim’s family near Steinbach are developing an on-farm micro-creamery to pasteurize and bottle milk and
food waste
Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Let’s waste less food in 2015

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Food bloggers and various groups love talking about what’s ‘in’ on the food scene as a new year begins. For 2015, we’re told to expect sustained interest in local food and how food production impacts the environment, eating healthier, a fondness for ‘mini’ food, more meatless Mondays, demand for more intense flavours and so on.
cooked turkey on a plate with vegetables
Country Crossroads

Food safety tips

Keep these tips in mind as you celebrate the holidays

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Food is an important part of many celebrations. However, many of the foods found at holiday parties, such as baked goods, eggnog, cider, seafood and turkey, can carry viruses, bacteria or parasites that could cause foodborne illness. Health Canada would like to remind all Canadians of some basic steps they can take to help reduce
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Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Smaller meat cuts for smaller families

A stuffed turkey breast is a way to enjoy a Christmas food 
tradition if a whole bird is too much for your smaller brood


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If you have a big extended family squeezed around the dining table next week, you’re blessed. The large, blood-relative family event seems to be going the way of the grandfather clock. Many extended families don’t gather as they once did at Christmas. Part of the reason is family members live farther apart nowadays. They can
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Recipe Swap

Tiny sweets make great holiday treats

Recipe Swap: Drops, squares, bars and dainties are perfect small-portion desserts

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Keep your eye on portion sizes, because it’s often not what, but how much we eat that makes the difference. That’s such sensible advice and so hard to heed, especially over Christmas, with so many opportunities to overindulge. But there is one holiday treat guaranteed to pack a wallop of pleasure without excessive calories. It
People putting food in a donation box
Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

New book ‘The Stop,’ about empowerment, transformation of food banks

Recipe Swap: Oatmeal Risotto with Cherry Tomatoes and Basil, and Parsnip, Sage, Rosemary 
in no-time Risotto

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As we head toward Christmas, many of us give generously to charitable causes. Food banks are one of them and they definitely need our help. Goodness knows what would happen if we suddenly closed our wallets on them. Over 60,000 Manitobans turned to one in the month of March, according to the Hunger Count 2014
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Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Hot chocolate. Magic in a mug

The cure for homesickness (or other winter-related blues) 
is really, really, really, good hot chocolate

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Food memories are vivid. We remember not just what we ate or drank, but the smallest details of when and where. Early winter recalls a year on a post-university, backpacking trip in Europe. As winter set in, the fun was over. Hostels were colder and emptier. I was homesick. Other young sojourners’ spirits were just
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The lowly potato gets a healthy makeover

A low-glycemic potato expands the menu for diabetics

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Scientist Benoît Bizimungu and his team at the Potato Research Centre in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and the Lethbridge Research Centre in Alberta have developed a low-glycemic potato. Low-glycemic-index foods digest slowly, without creating a big spike of sugar and insulin in the body. This helps to achieve sustainable weight loss and improvement in the management of
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Recipe Swap

Barley, a smart carbohydrate

Recipe Swap: Savory Butternut Squash Barley Pilaf, Quick Breakfast Bread, and Curried Chicken and Barley

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With winter well on its way early November is when we look for those filling, satisfying foods that give us energy and comfort for coping with cold weather. Barley recipes are especially popular during the month of November for many reasons. They’re the perfect ingredient for making the soups and stews we like to make
Canadian loonie
Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

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

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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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