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Pulse Canada recipes; delicious meat alternatives
Topic Started: Feb 15 2016, 06:05 AM (366 Views)
Olive Oil
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I think many of you will enjoy this recipe site. Now that meat is so expensive I intend to have more meals centered around pulses. There are also non gluten recipes.

http://www.pulsecanada.com/
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I use pulses every day. Frozen peas daily plus many types of beans. Cheap food.
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Olive Oil
Feb 15 2016, 06:05 AM
I think many of you will enjoy this recipe site. Now that meat is so expensive I intend to have more meals centered around pulses. There are also non gluten recipes.

http://www.pulsecanada.com/
That's a good idea.
I think I might concentrate on getting more legumes myself.
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I was happy to see canned products are acceptable in the recipes. Although I have used dried beans (pulses), soaked them etc. I prefer to leave that step out. When I become absolutely fanatic about recycling, versus somewhat fanatic, I will go back to bulk beans - once paper bags are primarily used in the stores and own containers can be brought in. Pre- weighed of course.
Yet another reason for going home for a month, better selection for dinners. I have managed to make chili here, plus a dish with garbanzos, both of which my GS ate, but it remains a challenge. I hate seeing anyone push their food about on the plate in the pretence of eating it.
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Have made soup from dried pigeon peas with curry in it, OMG it is good. Want to make more but I have mislaid my recipe which I intend to look for today.
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Blizzard it is annoying that we can't refill containers, but I doubt we will ever be able to. The store would not be willing to take the risk that your container is in some way contaminated. Perhaps if there were some sort of sterilisation station in the store it would be allowed.
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I looked at a couple recipes featuring chickpeas. It made me sad to remember the good old days of Jersey City SHop-Rite's Can-Can sale where canned vegetables were almost universally $.25 for several weeks a year. I bought chickpeas and beets by the case. Now I cannot find them for even $1 a can. (My memory for prices is a curse.)
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Feb 16 2016, 07:44 AM
I looked at a couple recipes featuring chickpeas. It made me sad to remember the good old days of Jersey City SHop-Rite's Can-Can sale where canned vegetables were almost universally $.25 for several weeks a year. I bought chickpeas and beets by the case. Now I cannot find them for even $1 a can. (My memory for prices is a curse.)
I have a feeling it's because beans are starting to get trendy.

Walmart is the best place here to buy canned beans. Their house brand is 97 cents. It was .79 last year. They are just as good as the big label brands. They have a good variety. I used their 6 bean mix in a chili a few days ago and they were very good. i
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Walmart is the best place here to buy canned beans.

Can you imagine, New York city, the largest city in North America, has no Walmart.
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Feb 16 2016, 11:27 AM
Walmart is the best place here to buy canned beans.

Can you imagine, New York city, the largest city in North America, has no Walmart.
What...that is strange :)

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Kahu
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A number of those recipes say the particular food is a good source of Vitamin D ... is that for northern hemisphere consumers?
Most of our vitamin D is gained through a walk in the sun.
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Darcie
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That is a great site as some of the recipes are exactly what I can eat.
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I guess I was spoiled in China, we could bring our own containers to places that had scales for pre-weighing. More the open markets than actual stores. Peanut butter was very popular - ground right in front of us.
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Feb 16 2016, 11:27 AM
Can you imagine, New York city, the largest city in North America, has no Walmart.
I thought you would have one, only more posh.L0L. Do you have to go to separate stores for all your mundane purchases such as pens, socks, etc?
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Feb 17 2016, 05:02 AM
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Feb 16 2016, 11:27 AM
Can you imagine, New York city, the largest city in North America, has no Walmart.
Do you have to go to separate stores for all your mundane purchases such as pens, socks, etc?
Yes, indeed, separate stores galore. Fortunately most clothes can be had at J.C. Penney's. Food is spread all over the City, shopped by sale prices.
For example today we walked 7 blocks South for Fairway, good French Roast coffee beans at $7.99/lb. and bulk steel cut oats at $1.49/lb. (almost too good to be true.) We try to incorporate our walking and our shopping.
Once a month we do a HUGE grocery shop at ALDI'S in East Harlem (with a bus.) TARGET is next door so we can buy the kind of stuff they sell.
We also have a grocery store in our building for emergencies, and they have weekly sales circular so usually a couple items call to us.

But yes, we desperately need a Walmart.
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