We spoke to the CBC about our switch to ‘zero-waste’ packaging and how we are ready for the planned Canada wide plastics registry.
Aired on CBC’s The National Jan 7, 2024.
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We were feature on this morning’s broadcast of Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan in a segment titled: What’s the point of a federal plastics registry?
Co-owner, Jennifer spoke about our amazing zero-waste plastic containers and some of the behind the scenes thinking that led us to use the ‘Friendlier’ solution.
Originally aired on Jan 9, 2024
Ottawa gourmet grocer uses deposit system to reduce plastic footprint.
Aired on CBC’s The National Jan 7, 2024.
David Thurton, CBC’s Parliamentary Reporter, came to speak to us about our plastic usage, how we transitioned away from single-use containers and partnered with Friendlier.
Click here to read the entire article on CBC’s website.
Article published on Jan 6, 2024.
CBC Ottawa News Segment on our Community Mural
Aired October 31st, 2023
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.
Follow us in Instagram, Facebook or YouTube for all the details and stay tuned for our next in our video series.
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.
