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Cereal Drive

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3rd Annual Grains for Healthy Brains Cereal Drive Collects 1100 Boxes of Cereal

To start the 2017-2018 school year off the Thunder Bay Student Nutrition Program hosted the 3rd annual Grains for Healthy Brains Cereal Drive. A community day was held at Metro to help raise awareness. Participating schools and the community helped collect over 1100 boxes of cereal and $215 in monetary donations. These donations will be used to support student nutrition programs in Thunder Bay and District. A big thank you to everyone who supported the campaign!

SNP Community Services Coordinator, Erin Hartviksen with some of the cereal that was donated at the community day in September.

How to Make Hard-Boiled Eggs You Can Actually Peel

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How to Make Hard-Boiled Eggs You Can Actually Peel

Some say that a hard-boiled egg is neither hard nor boiled, but we disagree. You need to maintain a gentle boil to ensure that the water you’re cooking in is the proper temperature (212° Fahrenheit). And while our ten-minute eggs aren’t “hard” per se—we like a touch of creaminess at the very center—they’re firm enough to be egg-saladable.

These might not have the same sex appeal as their jammy-yolked counterparts, but it’s their versatility that gets us going, ready at a moment’s notice to be pickled, transformed into a goes-on-everything sauce, or just salted and eaten standing over the sink to stave off a hungry state of panic.

  1. Bring a large saucepan of water to a boil over medium-high. (A 2-quart saucepan should be large enough for up to 8 eggs.)
  2. Carefully lower eggs into water using a slotted spoon. Cook 10 minutes, maintaining a gentle boil
  3. Transfer to an ice bath or very cold water and let cool until just slightly warm, about 2 minutes—this stops the eggs from cooking further and makes them easier to peel. Gently crack eggs all over and peel, starting from the fattest end containing the air pocket. Refrigerate if not using right away.
  4. Do ahead: Eggs can be cooked up to 1 week ahead. Cover and chill.
  5. Pro Tip: Some eggs just peel more easily than others, but older ones generally peel better—that’s the one drawback to fresh farmers’ market eggs. Shocking the eggs in ice water definitely helps, but if your shell is very stubborn, try peeling under running water.
  6. How We Use Them: Slice and layer on a sandwich, throw them in a salad, make some egg salad, or devil them

National School Food Program Studies

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CTV Mtl http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/one-in-five-kids-go-to-school-on-empty-stomach-breakfast-club-of-canada-1.3576668

CP24: http://www.cp24.com/video?clipId=1201107

 

CTV National news: http://video.theloop.ca/news/watch/hunger-among-students-/5564668409001/#.Wa2duLJ97IV 

 

Toronto Sun: http://m.torontosun.com/2017/08/31/one-in-five-canadian-children-are-at-risk-of-going-back-to-school-hungry

 

BCC Press release: http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/it-takes-a-village-breakfast-club-of-canada-calls-on-public-to-support-much-needed-nationalized-in-school-breakfast-programs-642661803.html

Ripen Avocado

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If there’s one food that people never seem to get sick of, it’s got to be the avocado. And there’s absolutely no shame in that — it’s all thanks to this smooth fruit that you can make avocado toast in the mornings or guacamole to scoop over everything and anything you eat. So is it really that surprising that someone decided to honour avocados everywhere with a stylish and useful accessory?

Meet the avocado sock: a snug covering for your avocado that promises to make it ripe and ready to eat in as little as 24 hours. So long to the three or four-day wait for your favourite fruit to ripen. According to the website, “The natural lanolin and warmth of the wool ripens the avocados evenly and gently, and faster than a paper bag,” by trapping the ethylene gas to speed up the ripening process.

The sock comes in four different colours as well: olive, nutmeg, pewter and tusk.

And it gets even better, folks.

“[It’s] all Canadian made, knit in Alberta with yarn imported from Scotland, finished by a social enterprise that trains and employs people with employment challenges,” Dianne Sherwood explained. “Even the laser-cut labels and hang tags using soy inks are locally made.”

Not only are avocado socks sustainable, but they also look so darn cute, don’t they?

HOW MUCH?

$15 each, plus shipping

WHERE TO FIND IT:

theavocadosock.com