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Canada Grows a Hell of a Lot of Lentils. Why Won’t We Eat Them?

Canada Grows a Hell of a Lot of Lentils. Why Won’t We Eat Them? | The Walrus

Does anyone have recommendations for places to get Canadian lentils? Stores or brands to look for

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Canada Grows a Hell of a Lot of Lentils. Why Won’t We Eat Them?

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Canada grows a ton of pulses and legumes. So much that we have to export most of it out!
We should be eating more beans, not beef!
We eat lots of lentils/legumes. I'm about due to buy more. And didn't have black lentils at the store last time. Mostly we use several kinds together in a thick indian soup, or add to a stew.
Because I'm eating them all.
Good article, thanks for posting.
I had heard that Canada was a lentil powerhouse, so I set about finding a supply of black beluga lentils locally. (These are like the French ‘lentils de puy’ that stay whole when cooked and have a great texture - quite expensive when imported from France.) I found a shop in a farming community about an hour away, but when I got there I found I was buying their last 2 bags, and that they had discontinued that product. I’m stocked up now but don’t know if I’ll be able to get them again, despite being next door to Saskatchewan here in Alberta.
It’s a great example of the importance of supply chains - abundant resource relatively nearby, but largely unavailable nevertheless.
- Black lentils are great, I call them vegan caviar. I usually stew them with some veggies and spices plus a bit of nutritional yeast and eat them on toast. Highly recommended.
  
  Most people use sous vide for meat but it does an amazing job with lentils. You can get a great caviar like texture with it.
- If you want a tasty vegan dinner meal that uses lentils, you should try this.
- OMfoods sells them
Probably because most of us didn't know. I didn't know until I heard a podcast episode about the Lentil King of Saskatchewan
I'm buying big bags of them for my soups!
The local Coop in Saskatoon sells them.
Compliments dried lentils at Safeway and Sobeys should be Canadian if you want the dried ones. Pretty sure Bulk Barn also sources their lentils domestically.
For canned, Unico comes to mind, but I'd assume Compliments would also be Canadian. I'd check other brands since while I'd imagine them to be the same case, some might also be imported from China or India.
Because we as Canadians are almost as fat and unhealthy as Americans and most Canadians hear the word lentil and think healthy and therefore shy away from it.
I am in Alberta and I have several friends who just straight up do not eat vegetables. And they brag about it like it makes you feminine or something if you eat vegetables. Ironically they all have huge tits.
Is it because they taste bad? Maybe you should grow something people actually want.
- Sounds like someone doesn't know how to cook.
- Lentils only taste bad if you have the diet of a 7 year old.
- Learn to cook.

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