Re: Where to shop for food in Canada?

[Guest guest]

Yes , it is hard to find stuff in the " big " cities too. I am good

at adapting though. I love cheese so I will have a few of the part

skim mozzarella cheese strings that my kids like with an equal amount

of carbs in wasa crackers. Each of those cheese strings have 60

calories, 4 g fat, 1 carb and 6 g protein. It's good for a take along

like yesterday when I had to drive my son to a doc appt in Toronto (an

hour drive, then the wait at the office, then the hour home) and I

know I won't be near somewhere to grab something healthy.

One of my daughter's lives in Mississauga and I have shopped with here

there. I am amazed at some of the stuff you can buy there that will

never in a thousand years get to a shelf near me. I live in a

village...LOL I'll keep on looking though.

Dianne

[Guest guest]

IGa, No Frills, Dominion and Loblaws have low fat cheese strings - I

think it's either Black Diamond or Kraft. You can also buy low fat

cream cheese, and light cheddar, etc. at both No Frills and IGA.

IGA, the larger ones, and Dominion and the Loblaws Supestores have

things like Bob's Big Red Mill Flaxmeal and Flax and Golden Flax and

just about every other 'weird' whole grain there is, quinoa, and

various barleys, etc.. Look in the organic food sections. You'll find

flax oil there as well.

Egg whites are where the eggs are. Sugar-free 'maple' syrup is

available in all the major stores as well, but you can't get things

like DaVinci syrups unfortunately. Some health food stores carry them

though, or similar things. Also, some coffee places have the

sugar-free syrups.

Shoppers Drug Mart carries some good protein powders - I like

Nu-Life's WheyDelicious the best.

I do find it hard to find to soy-less protein bars though, so I don't

bother with them. Occasionally I make my own.

What else ya looking for?

Scout

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> Yes , it is hard to find stuff in the " big " cities too. I am good

> at adapting though. I love cheese so I will have a few of the part

> skim mozzarella cheese strings that my kids like with an equal amount

> of carbs in wasa crackers. Each of those cheese strings have 60

> calories, 4 g fat, 1 carb and 6 g protein. It's good for a take along

> like yesterday when I had to drive my son to a doc appt in Toronto (an

> hour drive, then the wait at the office, then the hour home) and I

> know I won't be near somewhere to grab something healthy.

>

> One of my daughter's lives in Mississauga and I have shopped with here

> there. I am amazed at some of the stuff you can buy there that will

> never in a thousand years get to a shelf near me. I live in a

> village...LOL I'll keep on looking though.

>

> Dianne

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks Scout. I will travel into the city and have a look at those

stores for what I want. We used to have an IGA but it got closed down

in order to allow a Sobees to open. They have the Red Mill oats and

stuff - I got my ground flax meal there. They don't have oil but I buy

my flax seed oil capsules at Costco along with my glucosamine which I

am taking to help with my crackling knees.

Dianne

[Guest guest]

I get my multi & glucosamine at Costco, plus I decided to try the CLA

as well for one bottle anyway. Also, I saw the EAS whey protein tthere

at a decet price for a huge tub, but it was only chocolate and I

wanted vanilla to be able to add to cooking and stuff and didn't think

chocolate was the way to go for the first time....LOL.

We don't have a loblaws even in St. Catharines anymore I don't think.

Everything down here seems to be Zehrs or Sobees. Zehrs seems to have

a better selection of low fat things, although low fat usually means a

higher sugar content and I tend to stay away from that stuff.

I love my fresh fruit and veggies and I like the selections that we

have here locally.

Dianne who lives near Welland, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls

[Guest guest]

Ask and ye shall receive:;

http://www.zuccariniltd.com/syrups.htm

You can send me my personal shopper fee in the mail, . LOL

Scout

(North of Toronto)

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> > I was able to get the sweet and low brown sugar at Price Chopper.

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> > Re: Re: Where to shop for

food in

> > Canada?

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> >

> > What a wealth of knowledge you are! I was waiting to hear the

response to

> > this post too as I live in Alberta. I am patiently waiting for

the South

> > Beach foods to come to Canada. I would really like to try some

of them for

> > my lunches at work. Has anyone heard anything? And for Diet Rite

sweetened

> > with Splenda we can only get it in cans yet at our IGA. The guy

working

> > there said it hasn't come out in bottles yet. I also am waiting

for the

> > Sweet and low brown sugar or is it splenda brown sugar?

> >

> > Celine

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[Guest guest]

Great - the check's in the mail

Dianne

[Guest guest]

Hmmph! That was ME! Send the cheques to ME!

Scout

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> Great - the check's in the mail

>

> Dianne

>

[Guest guest]

Oh my! So sorry Scout - rerouting the check....LOL

Dianne

[Guest guest]

I've been using Sugar Twin Brown Sugar.

>

> What a wealth of knowledge you are! I was waiting to hear the

response to this post too as I live in Alberta. I am patiently waiting

for the South Beach foods to come to Canada. I would really like to

try some of them for my lunches at work. Has anyone heard anything?

And for Diet Rite sweetened with Splenda we can only get it in cans

yet at our IGA. The guy working there said it hasn't come out in

bottles yet. I also am waiting for the Sweet and low brown sugar or is

it splenda brown sugar?

>

> Celine

>

>

[Guest guest]

After I posted I had wished I had included my thoughts on this

product, so thanks for asking.

It does have an after-taste. I don't use it as much as I used to

because I started baking my sweet potatoes instead of microwaving

them. For whatever reason the sweet potatoes are so good plain or

with spray butter only when I bake them. When I microwave them I put

spray butter and the Sugar Twin brown sugar. I don't like it near as

well. I also don't know of any other product like this, so hopefully

someone else will chime in.

dj

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> > What a wealth of knowledge you are! I was waiting to hear the

> response to this post too as I live in Alberta. I am patiently waiting

> for the South Beach foods to come to Canada. I would really like to

> try some of them for my lunches at work. Has anyone heard anything?

> And for Diet Rite sweetened with Splenda we can only get it in cans

> yet at our IGA. The guy working there said it hasn't come out in

> bottles yet. I also am waiting for the Sweet and low brown sugar or is

> it splenda brown sugar?

> >

> > Celine

> >

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