Gen Z consumers say Buy Canadian movement is unaffordable
Gen Z consumers say Buy Canadian movement is unaffordable
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Real Canadian Superstore prices for my hummus since this started:
Swapping from Peru-made lemon juice for my hummus to malt vinegar - cost down from $2.79 to $1.50
No Name Chickpeas to Unico equivalent - $1.50 to $2
Using canola oil and not olive oil as suggested by nearly every recipe - no name olive oil costs $12 for 750 mL whereas canola oil costs $8.29 for 3 L getting you more for less with hardly a change in the recipe
Tahini - found a good recipe from Diabetes Canada that completely removes this ingredient, saving me a solid $10 for a jar
To finish things off, while both Canadian, swapping from sandwich bread to sliced French bread for dipping - $1.97 to $1.25Cost of hummus ingredients goes from $28.26 to $13.04 with the added bonus that one of those ingredients lasts three times as long.
People need to learn substitutions in their recipes, that alone saved a tonne. I pay more for Canola oil personally cause I get Canola Harvest and not the no name brand since they're unionized, but even with that in mind you're paying less than olive oil for like, double the amount.
Thank you for using tonne ❤️❤️❤️
I've switched to canola from olive oil for nearly every recipe that needs oil (barring a couple key recipes) due to the enormous price difference in the oils alone. Huge way to cut grocery costs with virtually no perceptible difference in taste
Okay now I need this recipe!
Here's the page on the Diabetes Canada site: https://www.diabetes.ca/nutrition-fitness/recipes/pear-rhubarb-breakfast-crisp-(1) (the URL doesn't match what the recipe is for, not sure why)
I substitute the lemon juice with malt vinegar as stated. Found malt vinegar works better than lemon juice personally since when I first started making hummus, I used that instead since I didn't have lemon juice off hand and just grabbed something acidic, and lemon juice didn't provide as bold a flavour.
I also use jarred garlic instead and play it by eye since I really like garlic and the jarred stuff is more convenient for me.
Lastly for the spices I ditch the black pepper in favour of paprika, and use 3/4 teaspoons of salt rather than 1/2.
But this link below will get you to the pair rhubarb breakfast crisp that I was hoping for when I saw that link above...