Continuing with our series on saving money while feeding your family healthy, nutritious meals, today we are preparing a delicious meal to feed a small crowd – Beef or Chicken Enchiladas!
This video shows how you can take one of our popular Red Apron retail items – Burritos – and by adding a few other items from the store and your pantry, you can feed 4, 5, 6 or more for under $40.00
You will need a package of 4 burritos, your favourite cheese (we used cheddar) and salsa (we used Mom’s brand from our retail store). From your pantry and fridge you will need some fresh or leftover vegetables, rice, and garnishes like sour cream, hot sauce, avocado and fresh herbs.
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Continuing with our series on saving money while feeding your family healthy, nutritious meals, today we are preparing everyone’s favourites – Crispy Chicken Tacos!
This video shows how you can take one of our popular Red Apron dinners items, add a few items from your fridge & pantry, and turn it into a meal that serves 6 or more generously for less than $6.30 a portion.
Start with a package of our chicken tenders and a container of our kale slaw. From your pantry and fridge you will need corn or flour tortillas, some salsa, grated or crumbled cheese, your favourite hot sauce, and maybe some leftover rice!
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I don’t know about you, but at the end of every week I have a fridge full of odds and ends leftover from a week of eating nutritious Red Apron meals. The simplest way to deal with these leftovers is to make a SOUP! From your pantry you will need a few items like a canned or dried beans, or some dried pasta, some barley or rice. You will also need stock – vegetable or chicken stock.
For this delicious and nutritious soup (below) I boiled off some white beans, added the leftover vegetables from the weekly meal, which included Brussels sprouts, green beans, diced potatoes, carrots, onions. I diced everything into bite size pieces because for soup, everything needs to fit on the spoon. I also had some ham leftover from one of the fresh meals. It all went into a pot with a bit of leftover tomato salsa for extra flavour.
It was delicious! With a piece of crusty sourdough toast, this fed two of us dinner one night, and lunch the next day. Total cost – almost nothing!
We are all concerned about the rising cost of everything, including food. In this series we will give you tips & tricks to stretch your food dollars using the Red Apron.
This video shows how you can take one of our popular Red Apron dinners for 2, add a few items from your fridge & pantry, and turn it into a meal that serves 6 or more generously for less than $6.50 a portion.
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There are a lot of meal kit delivery services out there these days and everyone is looking to save time and money these days with rising food costs.
I tried one of the national brands recently and compared it to items you can purchase in the Red Apron’s retail store, or have delivered to your home.
My overall observations were that the meal kit food required me to dirty a LOT of dishes. For example one menu required 3 pots, a fry pan and two baking sheets to cook the entire dinner for 2. Overall the packaging was excessive, weighing in at over 3 kilos of packaging, including the ice packs. Without the ice packs the packaging weighed almost 1 kilo, none of which was reusable.
The Red Apron meals are 20 percent less costly per gram of cooked food, contain significantly less packaging and our Friendlier containers are reusable, so that means zero waste. The time required to reheat the Red Apron meal was 15-30 minutes, and the meals can be warmed in the microwave in the blue container, or in the oven in one oven safe container.
Overall Conclusion: Red Apron offers better value, less mess, more food, and much less packaging.
We love going out for dinner and supporting small, locally owned restaurants. But let’s be honest, dining out is becoming more and more expensive. Recently we found ourselves dining in a Chain Restaurant. We ordered 2 main entrées and 2 deserts and shared a bottle of wine. There were no local or organic ingredients on the menu. The meal came to $201.00 including tax and tip.
If you are a regular Red Apron client you know that you can enjoy a Thursday Fresh meal dinner, picked up in store or delivered to your home. These meals are generous and always include multiple components, feature local and organic ingredients, include a delicious dessert and require less than 30 minutes to re-heat. You probably have leftovers for the next day, and if you choose a bottle of wine from our beautiful selection of Ontario small batch/small vineyard wines, the total will come to $81.00 all in!
This difference of over $120 can go a long way to stretching your food budget!
Every couple of weeks my family orders burgers from our favourite Canadian Chain burger joint. Typically our order includes 4 cheeseburgers, two fries, no drinks or sides. The total, including tax and tip is $57.00
We are all concerned about rising costs and food is a big one. We have seen the impact of increased costs on everything from lettuce to flour and we work hard to keep our prices as low as we can.
By comparison, if you come into our store and purchase a 9.5″ Savoury Meat Pie, loaded with Ontario beef & pork which we source directly from the farmers, and add a large Roots & Shoots organic kale salad, you can feed 4 – 6 people a healthy, nutritious dinner that contains local and organic ingredients for $55.00.
You may have noticed some of your meals are packaged in this distinctive blue container. It’s part of an important testing phase and we are looking for your help in making a really exciting decision.
As you know, the Red Apron is committed to sustainable solutions and if this re-useable packaging works for our clients and us, it would represent a giant leap forward for our business and our planet.
Our partner in this effort is
A Friendlier Company, located in Guelph. Not only is this company woman owned, and Canadian based, but the packaging materials are made in Canada.
Thank you and we appreciate your continued support of our business.
The Red Apron
August 2021
It’s that time of year, where we try to squeeze the last drops out of summer vacation while anxiously preparing to head back to school and work. We all know that this will look a little different this year, but given the events of the last 18 months, it’s exciting to return to something resembling normal.
Check out our recent video below featuring some ideas for getting you back into the swing of things!
Red Apron Back to School Ideas
We have stocked our retail store with items that we believe will help you make this transition easier. Starting with the most important meal of the day, we have some tips and suggestions for you.
- Red Apron leftovers from the night before always taste delicious with a poached or fried egg on top! Think rice-vegetable-egg, or potato-meat-egg, trust me it’s a winner every time!
- Against the Grain farm supplies us with pancake mix and muffin mix that is made from a blend of highly nutritious, heritage grains like barley flour & corn flour.
- Sheldon Creek Dairy produces delicious, gently flavoured and sweetened milks in seasonal varieties. Currently we are carrying the Strawberry Milk and S’mores Milk in addition to the A2, Whole Milk and Cream! Delicious on berries, or breakfast cereal. Their yogurt is rich and nutritions and perfect for making smoothies, or to serve with fruit and Red Apron’s house made Granola in two flavours.
- Beking’s Eggs, Creel & Gambrel Bacon, and Around the Block Sausages round out our traditional breakfast offerings.
Lunches can be a real challenge for busy parents rushing out the door in the mornings. We have expanded our retail offerings to include Mepal storage containers in a variety of sizes. They go from fridge to freezer, to microwave to lunch bag and are leak proof and beautiful. Our Danica Tiffin containers, and Small Hinza Bags are a stylish way to transport your lunch to and from school or work.
Fill your lunch bag with a variety of nutritions options including:
- A selection from daily lunch offerings including sandwiches, noodle bowls, and side salads. The generous size of these offerings would make them an ideal option to share.
- Scout Canning’s tinned salmon & tuna are obvious choices for lunch sandwiches and salads.
- Against the Grain Corn chips paired with our house made dips is a delicious and nutritious option for lunch, accompanied by some fresh cut vegetables.
- Fill your snack cravings with Covered Bridge Potato chips or Lesser Evil’s popcorn.
- If you have access to a microwave at school or work, our single serving meals make the perfect lunch offering. Many of our Law Firm and Accounting Firm clients order them by the dozens during crunch times for their employees who are working long hours.
Look for our ‘Back to School’ themed dinner on Wednesday September 7th – Spaghetti and Meatballs!
We want to thank everyone for your support during our first month in our new location. It’s been going really well, and we are settling in nicely. Our spacious patio and huge parking lot have been real hits with our customer base. Wishing everyone a safe and happy return to school!
Every week this summer we have customers rolling into the Red Apron on a Wednesday, Thursday or Friday and loading up the cooler for the camp-site or cottage. Well this weekend I got invited to a cottage and decided to do the same so Amanda, Julie and I (Jennifer) put together a little video to show you how we can help you make your weekend adventures fun and delicious!
Watch me load my cooler for my weekend at the cottage!
Here is a short list of some of the items you can find in our store to make feeding a crowd on a weekend easy:
- grill ready items like Enright Beef Burgers and Hot Dogs, Around the Block Sausages, Ontario Rib and Flank steak, Atlantic Salmon, seasoned 1/2 Chickens, already cooked Pork Ribs, and more
- side salads and dishes to complement your grill items like summer risotto, potato salad, local kale slaw, beet salad, macaroni & cheese, organic quinoa dishes and so much more.
- dips, spreads, condiments, jams, jellies, mustards and so much more from producers like Mrs. McGarrigles, the Ketchup Project, Mom’s Salsa, and more
- Sourdough breads, demi baguettes, burger and hot dog buns from Nat’s Bread Company
- a fantastic selection of Ontario Wines, Beer Blends and Ciders
- baked goods, fruit pies, cakes, prepared meals, dips, spreads, cheeses, charcuterie and so much more.
Our team of knowledgeable, passionate and enthusiastic foodies will be on hand to help you plan your weekend meals.