Nutrition Facts Label Changes

Health Canada has improved the information in the Nutrition Facts tables/label on most packaged food we find in our grocery stores. People want labels that are easier to read, have more realistic serving sizes and have more easily identified amounts of calories, sugar, salt, fats and nutrients.

Healthy Eating During Ramadan

Tips for eating well and supporting one another Ramadan is a month for Muslims to demonstrate their religious devotion to their faith. Beginning after the sighting of the new crescent …

Understanding Food Labels

Choosing healthy foods is much easier when you learn to understand food labels. Food labels contain valuable information like ingredients, nutrition information, and best before dates. Some food labels also …

Storing and Preserving Garden Tomatoes

This article was first published in the Manitoba Cooperator on September 1, 2016. Is there anything better than the first bite of a vine-ripened, sun-kissed garden tomato? As our first …

Apple Picking Tips

By Getty Stewart, Professional Home Economist The calls for large eating and baking apples continue to come in to Fruit Share.  It’s great to know we’re rescuing so many apples …

Are You Rhubarb Savvy?

By: Getty Stewart, PHEc, B.Ed., Author of Prairie Fruit Cookbook and www.GettyStewart.com Rhubarb heralds the arrival of spring. For many of us Northern gardeners, it is the first produce we …

Handling Student Stress During a Pandemic

By Carla Falkevitch, PHEc We all feel stress, anxiety, fear, and loneliness during this time. The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about the consequences of Covid-19 and the effects …

Canadian Guidelines for Budgeting

How Others Spend Their Income Many people have questions about how other families spend their income. How much of my money should be spent on food, clothing, etc.?Am I spending …

Ingredient Substitutes

There are times when cooking that you do not have the right ingredients on hand in your kitchen. For new recipes, it may not make financial sense to purchase a …