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?
Seasonal Produce
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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Best Techniques for Slicing and Dicing Mangoes & Pineapples
Summer is fast approaching and the warm days leave us looking for fresh, flavourful snacks that give us that little pop of energy we are looking for. Fresh fruit is definitely the answer for most people. A lot of times when we are speaking with customers, they ask about the best technique for cutting and preparing fruit so that most of it does not end up in the garbage with a peel. So, this week, we’ll show you the best techniques for two exotic fruit items we get asked a bunch about: mangoes and pineapples.
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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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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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Try Something New! – History and Uses for Currants
When is the last time you included currants in your cooking, baking or even in a cocktail? Here at Vince’s Market we are always encouraging our customers to try something new! Not sure how to use them? Here is some history on this beautiful fruit and some tips on how to enjoy them.
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Bringing Ontario Products to your Plate – 7 Great Ideas
Do you ever get tired of the same old carrot sticks, boiled carrots, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes or what to do with that white onion other than putting it into soups or stews? Below are 7 great ideas to spice up some of the basics.
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