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Old 12-08-2005, 01:53 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Soooooo.....

Anyone know where I can buy this is Canada?

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Old 12-08-2005, 05:11 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Bulk stores are probably the best place to find it. Ones that also have a health food section will carry it for sure.
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Old 12-08-2005, 11:35 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I had to google to learn what it is..
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Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.)
Quinoa originated in the highlands of Peru and Bolivia, where it became a staple crop of the Inca empire. By comparison with most cereals it is rather primitive, requiring dehulling to remove bitter seed coat saponins. Considerable quinoa is sold in Canada as a gourmet item in health food stores, in the form of whole grain, pasta, or flour. Quinoa is considered to have some promise for Canada, and there is a Canadian Quinoa Association (Anon. 1992). Currently available forms are late-maturing, therefore vulnerable to frost, and are also susceptible to insect damage. Quinoa would appear to have some possibility for development through germplasm selection in Canada, but is likely to find a more receptive area of cultivation in other countries. In the US, quinoa seems to represent one of the relatively few apparently successful introductions of a new food plant (Johnson 1990).
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Old 12-09-2005, 08:19 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Bulk Barn has it at a good price. Superstore as well but way overpriced.
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Old 12-09-2005, 08:37 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I don't have a Bulk Barn and I have never seen it in superstore...any idea where it might be there?

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Old 12-09-2005, 10:45 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Hmmm I thought Bulk Barn had locations all over Canada but I guess they're all east from Manitoba.

I've seen in the health food section in Bob's Mills packaging.
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Old 12-09-2005, 11:34 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Check I will look into it in those packages. I'm more curious than anything.

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Old 12-09-2005, 01:45 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I've found it in the bulk bins at Whole Foods. Not canadian, but south american. Ate a lot of it while in Peru. Good stuff. Check this out: quinoa
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Old 01-10-2006, 10:38 AM   #9 (permalink)
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I realized 2 weeks ago that the regular grocery store (IGA) where we (mostly my byfrd) go every week has Quinoa!
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Old 01-10-2006, 11:30 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Cool. I will check out sobeys for it as well then. I discovered recently that co-op out here carries it as well. Although it is pretty expensive. Well as expenive as organic oats, which are also expensive in my books!

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Old 02-14-2006, 09:27 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Ogedei, Safeway carries it in the stores where they have the full 'organic' section....

What kind of organic oatmeal were you referring to above?
I wish I could find proper steel cut oats somewhere - you can get 'pinhead' oats (scottish oatmeal), but not the bigger variety.. Let me know if you ever see it..
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Old 02-14-2006, 09:29 AM   #12 (permalink)
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The brand of the stuff at Safeway is 'Ancient Harvest' and it is south american organic quinoa.
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Old 02-14-2006, 09:45 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I don't remeber the brand of organic oats, but it was one of those small brown bags that the fancy grains come in in the organic section. They wanted 3 bucks or something for them. Heck I can get a 5kg box of quaker oats for like $5 at superstore. Guess I'm not Mr. Organic.

I will take a look for the ancient harvest stuff.

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Old 05-09-2006, 03:33 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I bought 2 new (to me) Quinoa products this week.

A rice, quinoa snak.. 28 grams =
111 calories
2 gr protiens
1 gr fat
24 gr carbs
230 mg sodium
57 mg potassium

They are baked, not fried. and instead of eating them as a snack.. I'll just take a few rings with an omelette in the morning.

The other product is just Quinoa Flakes to eat as instant hot cereals by just adding water.

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Where did you get the Quinoa flakes?
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Old 05-10-2006, 03:39 PM   #16 (permalink)
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at a local health food store in Saint-Hyacinthe, but here.. I looked up the company (sorry, I actually didn't look at the photo and thought we could read it)

this might help you find some. I know I'm going to take the empty package to my local grocery stores and start asking for it


gogo quinoa


*edit* and I just noticed .. you can buy online

and retailer's list

*NATURAL FOOD PANTRY126, YORK STREET OTTAWA, ONT.(613) 241-6629

*RAINBOW FOODS (BRITANIA PLAZA1487, RICHMOND ROAD OTTAWA, ONT.(613) 726-9200

*NATURAL FOOD PANTRY # 22277, RIVERSIDE DRIVE OTTAWA, ONT.(613) 737-9330

*LE GRAIN DE BLÉ206, RUE MAIN OTTAWA, ONTARIO(613) 235-7580
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Old 05-14-2006, 02:22 PM   #17 (permalink)
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I don't remeber the brand of organic oats, but it was one of those small brown bags that the fancy grains come in in the organic section. They wanted 3 bucks or something for them. Heck I can get a 5kg box of quaker oats for like $5 at superstore. Guess I'm not Mr. Organic.

I will take a look for the ancient harvest stuff.

Thanks Oxy.
Community Health Foods carries Quinoa and Steel Cut Oats.
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Old 05-15-2006, 05:00 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Thanks bryan! I will check them out, not a place I have ever shopped before, but I will def check them out.

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They've got all sorts of cool stuff there. Wheat berries, quinoa, flours of all kinds, dextrose, whole wheat pastas, grains and rices of all kinds. And it's all 'bulk format' for the most part, so not that expensive.
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Old 05-18-2006, 03:16 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Sweet, will def have to check it out sounds cool.

Make sure you're not a stranger we have 4 guys from Calgary now!

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