Cooking is an essential life skill and fosters healthy eating. When teens eat well, they’re fueled for study, work and play.
Make Your Kitchen Work For You
Quick tips to make your kitchen work for you so that you enjoy working in it and preparing meals for you and your family.
Your Money-Saving Guide to Storing Tomatoes
You probably know that good tomatoes are firm, heavy for their size and free of blemishes, bruises and cracks. Choosing tomatoes is simple, but do you know how to store them? This guide can help you prevent spoilage and reduce food waste. And that saves you money!
How to Make Chicken or Turkey Stock
Making homemade chicken stock is simple to do, and one of the best skills you can have in your kitchen repertoire.
4 Quick and Easy Steps to Meal Planning
Need help getting fast, healthy meals to the table? Meal planning is the secret to stress-free meal preparation.
Top Five Tips to Make Family Meals a Reality
Answering that age-old question of ‘what’s for dinner?’ seems to be getting more and more difficult. Our lives are busy. Between school, work, after-school programs, and a myriad of other obligations and activities, it can be a struggle to provide a healthful, satisfying, and delicious dinner for your family, night after night.
3 Fabulous Ways to Enjoy Tomatoes
Canadians love tomatoes, and it’s easy to see why. They’re delicious and versatile. They’re packed with vitamin C, which plays an important role in bone health. And because Canada’s farmers grow nearly half a million tonnes of tomatoes each year in their fields and greenhouses, we can enjoy local tomatoes virtually year-round.
How to Make a Simple Vinaigrette
Homemade salad dressing is another essential kitchen hack, and it tastes better than anything that comes out of a bottle.
3 Tasty Plant-Based Burgers
Burgers are always a family favourite. Juicy and full of flavour, the following plant-based burger recipes are a delicious way to add a bit more variety to the dinner table without compromising on taste.
How to get Dinner on the Table Fast: Start with a Plan
Ask your family what they like and come up with a plan. Get what’s on the list, and then get into the kitchen and chop, slice and dice to create delicious meals with your family for everyone to enjoy!
Healthy Eating Myths Debunked
Four myths about healthy eating: expensive, time consuming, tasteless and boring – debunked!
What Staples do you Need for a Well-Stocked Pantry?
Looking for a quick dinner that doesn’t include picking up the phone? Well, are you ready for the secret? Stock your pantry!
Food Safety Basics Rule 1: Keep it Clean
Time to brush up on your food safety know how! Best practices are easily organized into four simple categories: clean, separate, cook and chill.
Food Safety Basics Rule 2: Separate to Prevent Cross-Contamination
Cross-contamination is when bacteria from one food are transferred to another. Separate to prevent cross-contamination.
Food Safety Basics Rule 3: Cook to the Right Temperature
Cooking food properly is the best way to kill bacteria such as E. coli, salmonella and listeria.
Food Safety Basics Rule 4: Keep Things Chill
Just as it is important to keep hot foods hot, it is equally important to keep cold foods cold. Avoid the temperature danger zone because it is where bacteria and food poisoning grows.
5 Common Bacteria Causes of Food Poisoning
More than four million Canadians get some form of food poisoning annually. Most recover quickly with no lasting complications but sometimes the effects can be serious,
10 Common Food Safety Mistakes
Here are 10 simple things to avoid that will help you prevent food poisoning!
5 Food Safety Shopping Tips
5 food safety shopping tips
How to Grow Your Own Tomatoes
You can almost taste sunlight when you bite into a fresh, perfectly-ripe tomato. Capturing this flavour inspires many people to grow their own. Besides, who doesn’t enjoy nibbling on cherry tomatoes from a pot on their deck?
