Pulse foods are healthy, economical and readily available from local producers.

Do you include pulse foods on your menu?

You should, these foods are high in both protein and fibre

Mom, I made lentil soup and it’s pretty good,” read the text message from my son. I smiled as I read the message from my formerly finicky 23-year-old son. “I made a ton by accident, though,” he added. I chuckled as I visualized my tall son stirring a giant pot of soup with a huge


Primo’s “Rustic Beef Barley” soup. (PrimoHeartySoups.ca)

Soup maker Baxters sells Canadian arm

The Canadian business of Scottish soup and condiment maker Baxters Food Group is back in Canadian hands, including private, public and labour-sponsored Quebec investors. Provincial venture capital firm Investissement Quebec and labour-sponsored Fonds de solidarite FTQ and Fondaction announced Tuesday they would each put up $8 million, plus an unspecified amount from investors led by

The ingredients in the potato soup recipe below are good sources of vitamin C and the mineral potassium.

Warm yourself with some soup

Soup is high in liquid, which means it usually is lower in calories than other foods

Mom, now my hands will smell like onions!” my older daughter said as she chopped a particularly fragrant onion we had grown this summer. She has been my long-term vegetable chopper, even when we have gadgets that will do the work for us. We had onions, bell peppers and potatoes to chop as we tried

Canada’s 150th anniversary is a good time to celebrate our unique recipes.

A ‘new-old’ food business celebrates cross-Canada ties

Prairie Fare: Avion Harvest’s first incarnation marketed yellow peas to Quebec cooks

Canadians are planning many celebrations for our 150th year, and guaranteed these events will revolve around lots and lots of food. Expect to consume, for example, copious amounts of ultra-Canuck and super-delicious pea soup. Pea soup’s been around awhile. It would have fuelled French explorer Samuel de Champlain and his crew as they rolled in


Enjoy soup as your main course or a starter course.

Enjoy more slimming soup this winter

Prairie Fare: Eating more soup can help prevent weight gain

When I was young, I often was greeted by the sound of our pressure cooker hissing and the weighted gauge clicking rhythmically as I entered our home after school on winter days. After slogging through snowbanks in my snow pants and knee-high winter boots, I needed some sustenance. My favourite type of soup was homemade

a bowl of hearty chicken soup

The cure and comfort of soup

Recipe Swap: Hearty Chicken Soup, and Easy Chicken Noodle Soup

Cough, cough, cough! That’s the sound of January. Sit through any meeting, classroom or other public gathering and you’ll hear it. Maybe we’re the one coughing. We should stay home, say health authorities, because it’s when we insist on, cough, trying, sneeze, to go about our regular routines, cough, that we spread our germs around.

vegetables in a bowl

Last year’s leftovers

RecipeSwap: Spinach and Green Pea Soup, and Hodgepodge

A sure sign of approaching summer around here is an almost-empty freezer. Last fall I made a list of everything we put into it, and all those bags of carrots, peas, beans, corn, rhubarb, saskatoons and strawberries seemed like a lot of food at the time. So a few months later, I’m amazed to see


More Questions For Reena – for Sep. 1, 2011

Hi Reena, I am planning to install pot lights in my newly renovated home. Are there any guidelines as to where to place the lights? Dear Bentley, Try not to place lights too close together or in rows down the centre of the room. You don’t want to create an airport runway appearance. Match the

How Should You Feed A Cold?

Can you see the love floating out of the bowl?” my husband asked our 12-year-old daughter as he brought her a steaming bowl of chicken soup. “I’m kind of hungry. This is the best chicken soup ever,” she said as she propped herself up on our couch and took a sip of soup. She looked