Browsing Category : Food Delivery

Vaughn Murphy prepares to load groceries into a customer's trunk //photo credit: Cheryl Young/Salty
 May 6, 2020

A RETURN OF DELIVERY

COVID-19 spurs a shift in how we buy our food Decades ago, before large national grocery store chains became commonplace in Prince Edward Island, Islanders got their groceries at the small ‘Mom and Pop’ general stores in their town (or village) or with door-to-door delivery services. Though I don’t consider myself ‘old’, I do recall my mother placing our milk…

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March 31, 2018

THE LOST LINK IN AGRICULTURE

Reconnecting consumers to producers with Community Supported Agriculture “Eating is an agricultural act,” said great writer, activist, and farmer Wendell Berry. If you consume food you are a participant in agriculture, and so we all are. Not that long ago people grew most, or all, of their food and if they didn’t grow it themselves, they often knew who did.…

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March 31, 2018

CSA FARMS ON PEI

VEGETABLE CSAs Jen and Derek’s Farm Located in the Wilmot Valley, pick up in Summerside. Produce also available at the Bedeque Village Store and Farmed-Market and Craft Butchery in Summerside, Riverview Market in Charlottetown, and Arlington Orchard farm stands at Stratford, Ellens Creek and Miscouche. Little Victory Microfarms Located in New Glasgow. Pick up in Charlottetown and New Glasgow.  …

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February 1, 2018

SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED

Meal kits deliver on promise of easy delicious meals Easy. Nutritious. Step-by-step recipes and all the needed ingredients, including fresh produce and meat, delivered weekly in a meal kit to your doorstep. Last month, Salty looked at meal kits from a waste perspective; this month taste testers sample the meal kits from HelloFresh and Chef’s Plate, two companies who began…

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January 1, 2018

What a Waste?

Meal kits fail to deliver on 100% recyclable guarantee This is part one of Katherine Bell’s review of meal kits for Salty. Next month, she’ll compare flavours. Pre-planned menus, prepared fresh ingredients, and easy-to-follow recipes shipped right to your door for less than a meal at a restaurant. For many busy Islanders, the allure of meal kits is clear and…

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December 1, 2017

Put a Chef in Your Kitchen

Creative Kitchen offers healthy, chef-prepared meals in your home Tracy Bishop of Charlottetown, like many Islanders, is trying to juggle healthy eating with the demands of a busy life. “We have a pretty active life and are on the go a lot,” Bishop said. “Healthy eating is a priority for us, but it was challenging to make that happen and…

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Chef Emily Wells and her kitchen team April 1, 2017

YouMeal Heads West

Meal delivery service expands to western PEI A delicious, chef-prepared meal waiting on your front porch when you arrive home from a long work day sounds like a dream right? Well, dream no more because meal delivery services, once the exclusive domain of big city-dwellers working on the high street, are now accessible on Prince Edward Island. YouMeal, one such…

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January 1, 2017

No excuses with The TnT Food Experience

Meal delivery service offers delicious eats and positivity “Excuses are BS, let’s get better together,” Terrence Taylor said mere moments after we first sat down to chat about food, health, and inspiring change. Taylor is the man behind The TnT Food Experience, a meal delivery service based out of Charlottetown. It’s been just over a year since The TnT Food…

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December 1, 2016

TopFeed Launches, Marks Island First

PEI’s first Canada-wide subscription box service shines light on Island food producers. Does coming home to a box filled with a week’s worth of breakfast goodies or tasty snacks sound like a sweet idea? The founders of TopFeed are counting on it. Vaughn Murphy and Rafael Aguirre recently launched the first Island-based web subscription service, featuring Island-made edibles delivered to…

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