Krissi Hyland

Thankful for this little pumpkin. 🧡

I kept thinking it was my phone. Anyone turn their phone on and off? 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

👋🏻Hey you roasting that veg, baking that chicken, cooking those grains. Next time you do it, make double and make yourself some nourishing meals for lunch or dinner for a busy evening. Start there!

🔥Hot tip: Always cook a neutral protein, you can add flavour with veg. That way you can add it to anything!

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My first lunch ever packed for Cedar. Maybe I’m new to it but I enjoyed filling up the bento spaces in her .
I will figure out how much she eats but I kept thinking it wasn’t enough. ☺️

Here’s what’s inside:
•GF sandwich (last nights pulled pork from )
•carrots and cukes from .farm
•organic unsulphured apricots (her fave)
•granola bar
•organic apple sauce with flax seeds
•blueberry smoothie (not in picture)

Any lunch packing tips are welcome below.👇🏻❤️

Clear and crisp before the ferment! What is the difference between fermented and picked-pickles?

Fermented pickles is considered a wild ferment, you mix a brine of salt and water and let the wild bacteria (specifically lactic acid bacteria) that is on the vegetables turn into a probiotic food! The salt and lactic acid creates an environment where mold and problematic bacteria can’t exist.

To pickle foods you make a brine of vinegar, salt, sugar and water. The brine is then boiled and poured over the pickles (killing both the good and bad bacteria) and preserving the food.

This jar will become very cloudy once it ferments. That liquid is gold.

I choose to ferment the pickles because it’s healthy and super easy. Stay tuned for a quick demo on how to make fermented pickles.

Reduce edible food waste and use your carrot greens!! They are such a refreshing green and can be used like parsley in a tabouli or throw them into a pesto. I used my pesto recipe in a few posts back and combined half basil and half carrot greens. Then froze the pesto in ice cube trays. 🤟🏻🥕 Carrots lovingly grown by .farm

This weekend take advantage of all the fresh herbs like dill and basil. It’s pesto or chimichurri season baby!! 💚🌱

Summer Market Bounty! has so many incredible vendors. We signed up for an organic CSA (farm share) from .farm, crackers & dip from , honey and knitted bee from Hunking Honey, beautiful veg and herbs from , regenerative farmed meats from and some gluten & dairy free treats from . Thanks for making our market so awesome!

There was a horrific hate crime in one of our favourite parks in Collingwood, Sunset Park. The playground was spray painted and covered in words of racism, homophobia and violence. Some directed towards children. Let’s join together tomorrow and show our children and community the power of love, strength and support and to also accept that we have a long way to go and so much to learn.

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It’s pretty delicious and so worth it!! ❤️

New class drop! Just in time for summer, this recipe uses the brine from your kraut or kimchi to activate a delicious ketchup recipe!
Includes:
•Instant access to videos & eBook
•Three variations in a detailed recipe eBook
•Shopping & equipment list
•Video tutorial on how to sterilize jars

All for only $17!!
Link in bio to sign up or head to:

https://www.krissihyland.com/shop/p/rjj54x3cvlmwm6a4zpuktw5pttizel

New class drop! Just in time for summer, this recipe uses the brine from your kraut or kimchi to activate a delicious ketchup recipe!
Includes:
•Instant access to videos & eBook
•Three variations in a detailed recipe eBook
•Shopping & equipment list
•Video tutorial on how to sterilize jars

All for only $17!!
Link in bio to sign up or head to:

https://www.krissihyland.com/shop/p/rjj54x3cvlmwm6a4zpuktw5pttizel

What the heck is sauerkraut and kimchi? These are really fun ferments to start with. So much flavour and punch to your dishes and you only need a small amount. Where was the first time you tried sauerkraut or kimchi, did you like it?

Ever wonder how much fits in each mason jar? We use glass gars for most food storage as it’s nontoxic and inexpensive.

When I designed our new kitchen I had to make sure there was space for empty glass jars so I had them on hand for whatever ferment, soup, broth or dry good needed a home.

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5 reasons why you want to join our Fermentation 101 class next Wednesday!
This fun culinary skill is not only beneficial to your health but adds a flavour punch to your dishes!

To sign up head to the link in our bio or go to https://www.krissihyland.com/fermentation-101
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Ok, it’s time to forever ditch the plastic produce bags. You remember your mask 😷, you can remember your reusable produce bags. For most produce you don’t even need them!
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It’s GIVEAWAY time! Long weekend and 1K followers giveaway!!
You could win this sweet prize pack and make some epic plant-based protein packed almond milk!

You could win...
🌱Designs for Health PurePea Protein Powder (450g Tub)
🌱Mason Tops Multi Top / Flip Cap Lid (awesome for homemade PBM or smoothies)
🌱Organic Unbleached Cotton Nut Milk Bag
🌱 150g (1 cup) raw organic almonds
🌱Mason jar with Almond Milk Recipe and directions
VALUE $69.99

Here’s how to enter
☑️Like and save this post
☑️Must be following
☑️Tag two friends in separate comments, each tag = 1 entry
☑️5 bonus entries if you share to your story and tag us!
☑️25 BONUS ENTIRES if you sign up for the Plant Based Milk Class Part 2 LEVEL UP! (Link in bio)

Winner MUST BE local to Collingwood, Ontario 🇨🇦 or surrounding areas and is REQUIRED TO PICK UP THEIR PRIZE in Collingwood.

Contest closes Monday May 24th 11:59pm.
Winner will be announced Tuesday May 25th (watch my stories for the announcement, I will also contact winner by DM)

This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Instagram. Good luck!!

Nut juice just doesn’t have the same ring 🤣.

FREE Plant-Based Milk class is tomorrow at noon (Toronto time). If you can’t make the time you will be sent a recording that’s all yours! Sign up here: https://www.krissihyland.com/classes

Here it is, as promised, sign up for the first series of classes is live!!
This has been a long time in the making and I can’t wait for you to join me in the kitchen.
Link in the bio to sign up or head over to krissihyland.com.
Need ingredients for the class?
In the area? Head over to

Badass branding COMPLETE all thanks to the talented ! 🙌🏻

I am in love with the minimalist clean design and earth tones 👌🏻

So many exciting things coming at you this week... website and cooking classes being announced SO SOON!
It’s all happening!

Lions Tooth!! Interesting facts about one of my favourite flowers.

Here are some interesting facts about the dandelion flower:

The dandelion is the only flower that represents the 3 celestial bodies of the sun, moon and stars. ☀️ 🌙 ⭐️. The yellow flower resembles the sun, the puff ball resembles the moon and the dispersing seeds resemble the stars.

The dandelion flower opens to greet the morning and closes in the evening to go to sleep. 😴

Every part of the dandelion is useful: root, leaves, flower. It can be used for food, medicine and dye for coloring.

Up until the 1800s people would pull grass out of their lawns to make room for dandelions and other useful “weeds” like chickweed, malva, and chamomile.

The name dandelion is taken from the French word “dent de lion” meaning lion’s tooth, referring to the coarsely-toothed leaves. 🦁

Dandelions have one of the longest flowering seasons of any plant.

Dandelion seeds are often transported away by a gust of wind and they travel like tiny parachutes. Seeds are often carried as many as 5 miles from their origin!

Animals such as birds, insects and butterflies consume nectar or seed of dandelion.🐦 🐛 🐜 🦋 🐝.

Dandelion flowers do not need to be pollinated to form seed.

Every part of the dandelion is useful: root, leaves, flower. It can be used for food, medicine and dye for coloring.

Dandelion can be used in the production of wine and root beer. Root of dandelion can be used as a substitute for coffee. 🍷 🍺

Dandelions have sunk their roots deep into history. They were well known to ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and have been used in Chinese traditional medicine for over a thousand years.

Dandelion is used in folk medicine to treat infections and liver disorders. Tea made of dandelion act as diuretic.

If you mow dandelions, they’ll grow shorter stalks to spite you.

Dandelions are, quite possibly, the most successful plants that exist, masters of survival worldwide. 💪

A not so fun fact: Every year countries spend millions on lawn pesticides to have uniform lawns of non-native grasses, and we use 30% of the country’s water supply to keep them green.

Bee Happy Gardens 🐝

Breathe. It’s a new week. Out of the “effing lockdown” funk and onto creating some classes for next month!! Stay tuned on how and where to sign up! 💚

Happiest birthday to our ride or die ! With every trip around the ☀️ you grow into a deeper and expanded version of yourself, I am grateful and lucky to be a part of it. Continue to shine my love. Cedar and I wish you the very best birthday (& week), we love you so much.

Here’s a chocolate chaga brownie with coconut whip frosting and bee pollen sprinkles for James’s birthday tomorrow. I’ve been perfecting this recipe over the years. Hope to have it in a cookbook one day. ☺️
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My winter pursuit of sustainable and local companies continues. Got my micro greens! Buy one microgreen tray and another goes to the food bank. 🙌🏻🌱❤️
Picked up my tray at along with some other amazing goods.