[DrCaleb]

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

Local/Canadian are important, but I still have to be careful where I go because I am on a budget and can't afford to pay much extra on a lot of things. It's tough when you want to help out more locally but are unable to.

-J.

One of the great things grown here in Alberta are Pulses. Beans, chickpeas, lentils, mung beans. That is what we lived on, before grocery stores began importing all this produce from South America and Mexico. Learn how to cook a good Dal or Chickpea soup, and it will not only stretch your budget, but improve your hunger for the variety out there.

Chickpea soup is literally; Chickpeas, Vegetable stock, Cumin, Coriander and Lemon. Some fresh coriander or parsley on top, if you like.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

fifeboy fifeboy:

I know what you’re saying. Hutterite chickens are a bit cheaper than that here, but my wife and I have found they go further than a supermarket bird. One meal of thighs, breasts filleted and sliced for sandwiches, another meal from legs and other parts and then chicken soup from bones. When it tastes like it should, one tends to use ALL of it.

Grocery stores don't seem to carry the different type of chicken any more. Roasters, Fryers, Broilers, etc. I have to go to the farmers market or butchers to get one. And they are very seasonal! You can't get a good fresh roasting chicken, with the hard breast bone, in the winter. Only frozen ones.

And the local butcher only carries local chicken, usually Hutterite. They also let you preorder Turkeys in September, and will smoke them on site for you.

I take the bones and freeze them, and use them for stock when I have 3 or 4. Nothing like a real chicken soup made basically of nothing but chicken.

Not sure if you've ever tried Acme Meats, but they are a great butcher shop.

http://www.acmemeatmarket.ca/

[DrCaleb]

bootlegga bootlegga:

Not sure if you've ever tried Acme Meats, but they are a great butcher shop.

http://www.acmemeatmarket.ca/

I have, and if I'm in the Richie Neighbourhood (my sister lives there) I stop in. They have some good stuff. I also like eating at Biera, in the same building. That was the last restaurant I ate in, in the before time.

But Sandyview Farms is closer to me. They have a guy trained in Germany to make sausage, and he is awesome! Plus they have a small Deli where you can get things like Duck fat, or properly prepared horseradish. And sometimes they have Bison or Elk.

http://www.sandyviewfarms.com/sandyview-deli-home.php

[bootlegga]

It looks like palm oil additives to livestock feed isn't the only reason for hard butter:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/but ... -1.5954569

[DrCaleb]

The struggle is real.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

The struggle is real.

It sure is, how's a guy supposed to make a decent grilled cheese sandwich?

[DrCaleb]

bootlegga bootlegga:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

The struggle is real.

It sure is, how's a guy supposed to make a decent grilled cheese sandwich?

Oh, that's easy! Beans on toast isn't beans on toast without buttered bread though!

[Strutz]

bootlegga bootlegga:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

The struggle is real.

It sure is, how's a guy supposed to make a decent grilled cheese sandwich?

Instead of butter spread mayo on the bread. It works just as well!