Nutritional Info and Recipes

Grocery Shopping Tips – how to navigate your local store

Tip #1: Healthy shopping is not just about the store perimeter. You can find healthy food in the inner aisles too! You’ve probably heard that you should shop the outer aisles of the grocery store. It’s good advice – that’s where you’ll find vegetables and fruit, fresh lean meat, poultry, fish, eggs and milk products. …

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Strawberries – nutrition, buying, handling and prepping

Strawberries are the warm up act for berry season. Sometime in June, the only fruit with its seeds on the outside, these ripe juicy red bundles of flavour start showing up at your local farmers’ market or grocery store. Strawberries are an excellent source of Vitamin C and a good source of folate. They are …

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Cauliflower – one of the least sexy vegetables

Cauliflower really is the Rodney Dangerfield of the veggie world. This intensely white veggie even has the nerve to give some people gas! It may not “get no respect” but this member of the cruciferous family is packed full of nutrition. Cauliflower and other cruciferous vegetables, such as the more popular family member broccoli, contain …

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Edamame

Ever had a bowl of slightly furry green pods at a Japanese restaurant? If you answered yes, you were eating green soybeans or baby soybeans. Rich in protein these little green bundles have a mild flavour and go great with a beer! Edamame grow in clusters on bushy branches and are harvested at the peak …

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