Reduce Your Food Waste!
By Symone Moodoo, RD Do you ever look in the fridge and find groceries that have gone bad because you either a) may have forgotten the food you bought earlier …
Kids and Teens Can Prep Meals Too!
By Tressa Alexiuk, PHEcWhile those not dealing with the very worst of the global COVID-19 outbreak are fortunate, everyone is affected to some degree by the stresses of adaptation and …
Making Food and Making Friends at Mary Jane’s Cooking School
Home Economics for the New Millennium: Making Food and Making Friends at Mary Jane’s Cooking School Mary Jane’s Cooking School, Inc. provides education on nutritional home cooking and homemaking in …
Understanding Best Before and Expiry Dates
By Ellie Topp, P.H.Ec. Updated in June 2015 by the Manitoba Association of Home EconomistsWith stories in the news about Listeria and other causes of foodborne illness, consumers are beginning …
Canadian Housesoldiers and War Time Rations
During World War II, a call to help win the war went out to housewives across the country. They were being enlisted as “housesoldiers” to keep their families strong and healthy by …
Pumpkins and Jack ‘o Lanterns – Edible or Not?
It’s pumpkin season and people are asking… Can we eat these big pumpkins? Yes! You can eat the seeds and the flesh of big pumpkins as long as they haven’t …
Sweet Potato or Yam? Know your Fall Vegetables
I love fall and I’m really looking forward to having the fall season instead of what usually happens… sometimes we get summer, then one to two days of wearing cardigans …
Enhance Flavour with Veggies Instead of Salt
by Ellie Topp, Professional Home Economist ‘Eat your vegetables,’ has been consistent advice echoed by mothers for generations. Significant advances in nutritional science over the past two decades have confirmed …
Tips for Storing Tomatoes
by Getty Stewart, Professional Home Economist We’ve pulled all of our tomato plants (sigh) and took home a bunch of green, somewhat orange and red tomatoes. Looks like we’ll have a …
Storing Vegetables for Winter
By Alma Copeland, Home Economist TEAM Resources Pumpkins, winter squash and root vegetables can easily be stored for winter use. Even apartment dwellers can be successful at storing some vegetables …
