Darienne

Section of what store/s please?

Ed shops at No Frills, FreshCo, and Superstore mainly. We have Sobeys but Ed considers them too expensive and the only thing we get there are Poblanos. We got Promise bread there before it was carried at Superstore.

Thanks for the reply. I'm overwhelmed right this minute and not sure about buying M&M stuff. We never have before but I'll send Ed in next trip to get a copy of their products if they have a printed version.

No Farm Boy, alas.

At this point, it's ready to eat as is, or ready to heat and eat only. I'm still not well enough to go further than that. Thanks for the reply.

I'll leave out all the drama and just ask for some direction to decent tasting gluten-free products in Ontario. Ed is now gluten ...at least...intolerant.... if not outright unable to tolerate any of it. We found out by accident and now I have to turn my mind (not in the best shape currently ...long story) to finding products he can buy and places to look. We live outside Peterborough and he can go to JoAnne's to start looking. I've not been able to go much of anywhere for a while now and so he's on his own in this one. We have a Main Ingredient store also but we haven't gone there much since our long-time acquaintances sold it. What good products are on the shelves in what stores? He's not much of a food searcher. As my health returns, I'll get back to cooking and baking...I hope...but in the interim, I'm eating almost all of the frozen foods I made some time ago ...and Ed is eating quite a lot of sandwiches on gluten free bread. Promise is the brand he buys at Superstore or Sobeys. All replies gratefully received.

The recipe please. I can't seem to find it. Thanks. We love cabbage soup. n n

Don't know how I missed this topic. We bought our Breville toaster oven in 2017 and it just died last week. I loved it to pieces. Used it all the time for almost everything under the sun that I could cook. And now we've bought two lemons....money returned now....Brevilles both of which were terrible and didn't match the temperature anywhere...did not heat up, did not hold the heat....useless. And both from the same store...Canadian Tire.... Now what? Help!!!!

Twice in two days Ed brought home a Breville toaster oven, the same model we've had for years since 2017 to be exact. It's not an air fryer or a steam oven....it just is a small oven. Twice in a row, from Canadian Tire, the Brevilles have been basically garbage....the pre-warming bell rang out that the temperature was 390....and both my oven thermometer and my friend's oven thermometer said...I don't think so....it's more like 225 degrees. That's two duds from one store. What should we buy now? I'm desperate without my toaster oven for small cakes and brownies and you name it. That Breville performed like a champion for 7 years. And then, of course, it didn't. Should we buy a Breville from some other store? Assuming we can find another store in our small city which carries them. They certainly are not expensive but they do outcost many other brands, like Black and Decker and also they are big enough to fit a 12" x 9" pan, just what I need...or an 8" cake or a regular pizza. Give me your best shot please. . photo from box

Seems to me that the words "salad kit" are a giveaway. Certainly keeps us from buying ready-to-eat processed foods, were we so inclined.

Really unacceptable...

We have an old Breville toaster oven which has given us yeoman service. It's basically pretty dirty inside I think...I am a terrible house keeper and have a wonderful cleaning lady who is not only beautiful, but a total delight and the same age as our youngest and she loves to clean...but I've never asked her to clean the toaster oven. And besides it's on its last legs and slowly dying the deaths of a thousand cuts. Sorry.

I would use them as per @Smithy...a thickener in a soup. Not even necessarily a creamy type soup either.

Incredible! And the Super Bowl is tomorrow. And then what for the poor Ontario avocado lover? No, no, say it isn't so!!!!

Normally in Ontario I would say that avocados are over a dollar each...and sometimes almost a dollar and a half. That's for one.

Does anyone have any idea of why recently we can buy 5 or 6 avocados for such a low price in Ontario grocery stores? As low as $1.99. I love avocados and have been eating one a day for weeks now. And wondering when this bounty will end. Or is there something I should know about avocados which I obviously don't?

My only answer to date is with Basil which I grow in the windowsill and cut off when I need some. The rest is the same as above....

Greetings from someone else who lives in Ontario. There are lots of us in Ontario and soon you will meet more. Good luck in your studies.

Sorry I'm not up on abbreviations....San Francisco?

Facebook must be where I found it. As far as I know I've not installed any apps in our computer life which is very basic. And I can't do Zoom on my desk computer. And our cell phones are the most basic you can buy and you cannot even text on them. We really have not joined the computer generation.

Completely different. Perhaps it has something to do with the locale. My district is almost completely rural...maybe that makes a big difference. I've yet to see anything commercial or inappropriate posted on it. And a couple of young women administer the posts. It seems that most of the items are baby clothes, oddments of furniture no longer wanted, Christmas items (I contributed big time in this one), paving blocks.... I've gotten empty cottage cheese size plastic containers needed to store homemade chicken broth in the dog freezer when our wonderful little Mandy wouldn't drink water but would certainly drink the broth in great quantities. I think that's about as exciting as it has gotten for us.

I think this forum is at least all over Canada and the USA: buynothingproject.org It's where I live and I do belong to the local chapter. So when you need something like....small sized cottage cheese containers....or whatever...you ask on the forum and if someone in your area has them, then Bob's your Uncle. I've received wonderful things using this forum...and also given our own things away to someone who is only too pleased to get them...like our collection of Chinese dishes and bowls no longer in use because we don't entertain any more. (I was about to thank you for pointing me in the direction of this thread...and then discovered that I already belonged. Duh.)

And, dear sir, you have been sorely missed.

Sorry about the hands. I know whereof you speak. Seeing as we are both Canadians and shopping at basically the same stores, could you please tell me of at least one acceptable brand of boxed potato that I can have Ed buy for us. And where in the store might Ed find such an item? Thanks in advance. And please.

This entire thread has been most useful to me. I've never bought a potato which wasn't in some more traditional potato format really and now can see how useful the dehydrated forms might be, particularly for mashed potatoes...which are not a favorite of mine. I always thought that buying boxed potatoes was a cop out and now I see how wrong and judgemental I was being. Thank you all.