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Sadly Lowblaw and the other Grocery mafia are just going to hike the price of the domestic options to the same price as the US and start wailing about the gas tax and COVID supply chains.
I’m calling it now. Watch those fuckers. You’ll see.
I will always check the origin of a product. EU, USA, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea are always a go. Now I will look a bit closer and make an effort to avoid the shithole red states.
As an American I really miss Liberté yogurt, its been over a decade since I saw it in stores.
Yeah, that was good stuff.
As an ashamed American, I really dig the solidarity and support you guys are showing with your alternative products and boycott lists!
Like Letterkenny says, if there’s one thing you Yanks have sorted, it’s your shopping. I will very much miss clothes shopping there because that really was a big savings.
thank you! together we stand, divided we fall!
Wait, what do you mean YOPLAIT?!? That brand still exists? I remember seeing it in Spain during the early 90s and then disappearing there. I thought it was a Spanish brand since I haven’t seen it outside that country. TIL.
Yoplait was the gourmet stuff we couldn’t afford back in the 80’s
It’s still here in Canada.
yoplait canada is not owned by general mills anymore. they closed on the deal to sell it back to the french company they bought it from just last week. src
Old Dutch is the best. I grew up on the rippled sour cream and onion. I never got the lays appeal…
Old Dutch All Dressed is really good too! I get the sour cream and cheddar every once in a while. It’s weirdly addictive. I also grew up on their ketchup chips.
Sour Cream and Cheddar is definitely their best imo.
old dutch was always what we had when i was a kid. mom wouldn’t settle for anything less. it had to be old dutch chips in the box.
it is a minnesota company but their canadian operations is huge, with manufacturing facilities across the country.
They also distribute Hawkins Cheezies… Canadian made
Fantastic list! Where’d you find it?
For anyone scrolling, add Rustica to the frozen pizza list. Siwin for excellent dumplings. Cheemo for perogies. I’ve just found them in the past few months and they’re all really well made.
Someone put it on Facebook. Also https://madeinca.ca/
I shop at my local Polish grocery store. I have no idea what some things are but it feels much better to support them.
I know it’s not a real option for many, but for those who can afford to I’d also recommend shopping local for groceries as much as possible. We need to stand together in the face of these tariffs, but I don’t love the idea of Loblaws and co. standing to gain so much from the struggles of the public yet again.
Check out local grocery stores and smaller chains like Co-Op if they operate in your area for Canadian made goods. Look and see if there’s a local farmers market you can buy staples like eggs and produce from. It’s the little guys that are likely to face an existential threat from all this international non-diplomacy.
I already shop almost exclusively at the local Polish grocery store. I have no idea what some of the products I’m buying are haha.
Probably mostly just kiełbasa, twaróg and kapusa. A good diet.
Have to make sure it’s a real farmers market though and not one that just buys bulk and resells calling them farm produce, often at a considerable markup.
Absolutely! This is the year where I finally sign up for a CSA. (I’m not a good cook and have always been a bit intimidated but apparently most come with recipes and honestly, all the AI has made me a lot more confident in my ability to “find” a few recipes with whatever random ingredients.)
I am not as against AI as your typical lemmy user, but I think LLMs generating recipes might sometimes not work the best? Especially if you are limiting the ingredients. If your on-hand ingredients typically wouldn’t be combined, it might hallucinate and spit out the recipe for some food crime creation. Maybe you’ve had a different experience though?
Oh, definitely not worth blindly trusting but I’ve had pretty good success when grabbing whatever is on sale at the grocery store or in excess in my pantry.
That being said, I use it as a planner, not in a “what can I make with what’s on hand.” So, a CSA box would have the stuff that I’d plan around! I haven’t tried more off the cuff but I rarely cook that way.
I know basic food safety so I’m only worried about a bad meal but of the last ten meals I made based on ai, a couple are going in my standard rotation and all but 1 worked out well. (The 1 being just fine.)
I quite enjoy seeing “President’s Choice” on this list.
Is it prescient, poignant or just apt?
à propos
For mayonnaise, if you’re in Quebec, I strongly recommend MAG.
I just came back from groceries, and I went in with every intention to not by anything from the USA. Much to my surprise, I’d say 90% of what I usually buy are products grown and made in Canada! The rest were from Spain, India, etc.
A few were made in Canada using domestic and imported ingredients, so I’ll be looking for all Canadian alternatives.
Orange juice was the only American product, and was a “one last time” purchase.
FYI, oats, most legumes and beans, and tomato products are nearly all Canadian.
Unico is a great Canadian brand for tinned beans, tomatoes, etc. I always buy it.
Can we please not call Tim Hortons Canadian?
Nor is Robin Good and Four roses
Sorry I didn’t make the list, that is dumb.
Who did make it? What is its source?
Tim Hortons is a fully owned subsidiary of Restaurant Brands International. Restaurant Brands International is a public company traded on the NYSE and TSE with its headquarters in Toronto. A Brazilian investment company 3G Capital owns 32% of Restaurant Brands International via “3G Restaurant Brands Holdings LP”.
Does that make it a Canadian company? Who the hell knows. It sure doesn’t feel like it, even if it does technically have a Canadian HQ. I guess theoretically it means they pay their corporate tax in Canada. But, realistically, they probably are using various tax dodges to avoid paying much of anything.
IMHO they stopped being Canadian when they switched to hiring the cheapest TFW’s they could, while championing how Canadian they are in all their advertising. Being Canadian is more than having your HQ in Toronto and sticking a maple leaf on everything.
Plus their food sucks now.
Exactly. Restaurant Brands which owns Burger King, Tim Hortons and Popeyes is a US company. Tim Hortons is garbage anyway.
According to Wikipedia they’re headquartered in Toronto
In 2014, Burger King bought Tim Hortons in a merger that formed Restaurant Brands International; a primarily American company, though headquartered in Toronto alongside Tim Hortons. Both then and now, RBIs primary assets/interests are in America.
Ah, good to know. Thanks.
It’s actually Brazilian.
Is that why they’re so smooth?
Well if there’s one place you don’t want hair, it’s in your coffee. Hang in there up there we’re rooting for you just south of the border.
Their name is ‘restaurant brands’? that’s so blandly corporate evil
Those are some grim coffee options. If your store carries jumping bean (mine does) they’re from Newfoundland. There’s some good rosters you can buy online like Detour. Of course if you’re in a city like Vancouver Montreal or Toronto you have endless local rosters but even smaller towns will usually have one or two good ones.
Local roasters are the way if you ha e them.
I actually get mine only from a local coffee shop. I’d rather drink less and buy better local quality anyway. I have a subscription and they deliver once a month. It’s nice!
Any recommendations? I do kicking horse or ballzacks but its like $15-20+ per bag of beans, its a bit crazy now. I’m willing to try any alternative that has enough caffeine and tasts halfways decent.
https://www.coasttocoastcoffee.ca/ Run by a buddy of mine. Excellent coffee
Those chips brands are so much better than lays.
Edit: Isn’t ms Vickies Canadian too?
Yes they are.
I stopped buying Lay’s when they stopped being Hostess.
Miss Vickie’s is now owned by PepsiCo, sadly
Miss Vickies originated as a Canadian brand but was purchased by Frito Lay in the 90’s.
Earth’s Own is Canadian and makes pretty good oat milk.
I’ve already switched to them for a while since it’s more affordable than other coffee creamers.
I like getting their almond milk packs from Costco.
Sold at Dollarama too, for the same price that other stores tend to have on special only.
Their Batista oat milk is great too, I legit prefer oat milk to dairy for most things, tastes better in coffee drinks imo.
100% Oat Milk lattes are no joke.
