All About Apples!
This week’s blog comes from Helen Sanders and the team at Healthy Ambition.com.
What is the Healthiest Apple?
Most people know apples are good for you, but just how healthy are they and is there a healthiest apple in the world?
Nutrition
Beat the Boring Breakfast Blues – A Guide to the Perfect Breakfast Bowl
Breakfast in a bowl: It’s an easy weekday morning classic, but it doesn’t always have to consist of multicolored sugary circles splashed with skim milk. We’re talking about flavor-packed, nutrient-dense, appetite-appeasing, soul-soothing starts to your day. Nutrition-packed breakfasts can have short-term and long-term health benefits. Research shows that consuming half of the day’s calories at breakfast followed by smaller lunches and dinners can help decrease hunger and help people lose weight.
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Simple Pickling: How to Pickle Vegetables
With so many fresh, delicious Ontario vegetables in season, there’s a simple way to extend summer’s bounty right into the fall. Give pickling a try. Pickled vegetables are a great way to add flavour to sandwiches, salads, and side dishes. They are great for snacking as well as adding to charcuterie boards. You’ll be sure to impress your guests with these simple tips on how to pickle vegetables.
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It’s Ontario Strawberry Season! Tips, Tricks and a Simple Strawberry Jam Recipe
Have you ever checked out the Foodland Ontario website? We highly recommend it for information and availability charts on all of your seasonal favourites. We have grabbed some great information from their site to help provide some great information on everyone’s July favourite – Ontario Strawberries!
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How to Eat Healthy with Food Prices Rising in 2016
Many news reports are out indicating a rise in inflation trends for food prices in 2016 in the 4-5% range. A lot of customers are asking us what is going on and how they can still eat healthy on a budget in 2016.
The solution: We need to re-consider how we buy our fresh food!
Try our simple tip to help you save money on fresh food in 2016.
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Vince’s Market Makes Meal Time Easy
At Vince’s Market, we pride ourselves on providing fresh and nutritious prepared foods for you and your family. We have a wide selection of heat and serve foods that are already in “ready-to-heat” containers that require just minutes in your oven. No additives, no preservatives… just fresh meal solutions for you and your family.
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Everything You Want to Know About Eggs!
The color of the egg shell is not related to quality, nutrients, flavor, or cooking characteristics. White shelled eggs are produced by hens with white feathers and white ear lobes. Brown shelled eggs are produced by hens with red feathers and red ear lobes. Brown egg layers usually are slightly larger and require more food, thus brown eggs usually cost more than white eggs.
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Cooking a Sunday Roast of Beef
Perhaps you have experienced sticker shock recently when shopping for that roast. The price of beef has gone up over 60% in the last two years so when you are looking to cook a “traditional Sunday roast”, the price might throw you off a bit. This is where Vince’s Market comes in!
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Peaches!
It’s peach season! We thought we would share some information about this beautiful fruit. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about peaches! Did you know peaches are low in calories, fat and sodium and contain vital nutrients that help maintain a healthy lifestyle? One medium-size peach contains 37 calories and is a good source of Vitamin C. Ontario leads Canada in both peach and nectarine production with 82 per cent of the national production.
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