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Grocery Shopping 101
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Grocery Shopping 101

Teach your new student how to properly shop for groceries

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As I entered the grocery store parking lot with my 21-year-old son driving, I had a flashback of when he was young enough to ride in the child seat of a grocery chart. On that day 20 years ago, I had just purchased groceries for the week, and I parked the cart right outside the
Get the whole family involved in making this naan recipe by letting everyone take 
turns forming and cooking the bread on the griddle.
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Family mealtimes matter

Sitting down for a meal together can improve nutrition, 
strengthen relationships and decrease stress

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Mom was going to make tater tot hot dish,” my husband said with a grin. I looked at him with narrowed eyes and raised eyebrows. I really exaggerated my expression for effect. He usually knows “the look” indicates he needs to stop talking. Our three kids laughed at our interaction. Actually, I was teasing him,
Cut your food waste with a few helpful tips
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Cut your food waste with a few helpful tips

Too often perfectly safe food is being thrown away, as much as 90 billion pounds a year

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Did you eat the potatoes I gave you?” I asked my son. He has been living in an apartment for a couple of months now. I had given him some large baking potatoes. I thought they would be the basis of an easy meal. Just scrub, poke a few holes and bake. I bought him
Fresh food, practical menus and a healthy way to eat
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Fresh food, practical menus and a healthy way to eat

Two Alberta professors of nutrition designed a 
healthy diet based on our locally produced foods

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One of the best steaks I ever ate was at a meal served on a Manitoba Forage Council pasture tour. We’d bounced around on a bus all day, looking at rotational grazing systems and winter feeding methods. Then it was time for supper. We were served these unbelievably tender and flavourful steaks, and baked potatoes
bowl of tomatoes
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Storing and preserving garden tomatoes

Eventually every year there comes a time when you can’t keep up to the tomato patch

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Is there anything better than the first bite of a vine-ripened, sun-kissed garden tomato? As our first tomatoes ripen, we enjoy them just as they are on buttered toast or BLT sandwiches. As more become available there’s bruschetta, pasta dishes, pico de gallo (fresh salsa) and endless salads. My mouth is watering just thinking about
Almost all food is packaged, creating a lot of waste. But what if that packaging was edible?
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Eat your package

Edible packaging could reduce waste and improve food storability

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Scientists are developing an edible form of packaging which they hope will preserve food more effectively and more sustainably than plastic film, helping to cut both food and plastic waste. The packaging film is made of a milk protein called casein, scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture said at a meeting of the American
Let’s get pickled!
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Let’s get pickled!

Gate to Plate: Classic Dill Pickles, Multi-Coloured Pickled Cauliflower, and Homemade Hot Pepper Rings

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It’s time to get pickling. While classic crunchy dill pickles probably come to mind, don’t stop there. Just about any fruit or vegetable can be preserved in a vinegar solution with added herbs and spices. Pickled veggies can be enjoyed as an appetizer, light snack or topper to main entrees. What’s a burger without pickles
Be inspired by zucchini
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Be inspired by zucchini

Prairie Fare: Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes

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I remember bringing home a zucchini in my purse. Someone had handed it to me at a gathering, and my purse became a makeshift grocery bag. When I pulled the zucchini out of my purse, my daughter, who was preschool age at the time, looked at me in amazement. I think she wondered if I
Residents wait to fill their containers with water in a field in Latur, India, April 17, 2016.
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Trafficking risk rises as villagers flee India’s worst drought in decades

A flood of migrants from rural India are searching for water, food and jobs as they flee arid conditions

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A mass migration of tens of thousands of people from rural India, sparked by the worst drought in decades, is fuelling concerns they may be trafficked or exploited. The migrants are searching for water, food, jobs and other basics of life, activists say. About 330 million people, almost a quarter of the country’s population, are
Ismail Cakmak, who recently spoke at the University of Manitoba, sees nutrition security and food security as two related but separate issues.
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Foliar fertilizer shows promise in reducing zinc deficiency

Yield can no longer be considered only in terms of volumes and weights

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While many people are focused on the fight to end hunger, Professor Ismail Cakmak of Istanbul’s Sabanci University is focused on the fight to end hidden hunger. “Hunger is a lack of food and that is related to food security,” Cakmak told participants during a special seminar at the University of Manitoba this summer. “But

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