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Eating like a royalty: the most delicious food items and ingredients I like to buy.
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items I love cooking and baking, and I try to do so with the best quality ingredients I can afford. For everything I can’t make myself, like chocolate, I try to find products that have the same quality, even if I have to make them an occasional treat. So h...
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Cooking
Baking
Drinking
Ready to eat and treats
Cooking
For all your everyday and special occasions meals.
If you want TRUE extra-virgin olive oil that doesn’t break the bank (for your everyday cooking) I find that O-Live offer a good value for your money. The flavour is not super strong, so you can use it in most of your dishes without changing the taste...
O-Live olive oil
Look, I tried to make my own stock once. Yes, it’s MILES better than 99% of the concentrated ones you’ll find at the grocery store, but it’s a long and tedious process (and not necessarily cheaper if you have to buy tons of ingredients.) Enter Better...
Better Than Bouillon
If you want a decent soy sauce at a decent price, this is it. Their bottles are big and the sauce has a more complex flavour than most of the North-American brands. I use it in my everyday dishes, especially the low sodium version that I find perfect...
Soy Sauce | Kikkoman® Home Cooks
Baking
Every high quality baking ingredient I use when making treats for the people I love.
I’ve only tried their cocoa, as we have our own (excellent) flour brands in Canada, but I heavily recommend it. Their black cocoa is outstanding; I used it to bake both homemade Oreos and an Oreo-flavoured cake, and it tasted like the real deal. As f...
King Arthur Baking - Try it Once, Trust it Always
Cacao Barry makes probably the best couverture chocolate and cocoa available for a decent price. I use it in all of my baking recipes involving chocolate and they are miles better than the ones made with grocery store baking chocolate. I particularly...
Cacao Barry baking chocolate and cocoa.
I love their extracts; they are some of the best out there to use in baking. I particularly like the strawberry one that I use to enhance the flavour of my strawberry cake.
OliveNation | Bakery, Brewery & Restaurant Ingredients Supplier
**CANADA ONLY** Canadian bakers, you HAVE to try this artisanal vanilla brand from Quebec. It’s one, if not the best vanilla extract/paste/pods you’ll find on the market. They have many varieties of vanilla from different countries, and each has a u...
Colibri Vanille | natural vanilla and vanilla extract – Colibrivanille.com
***CANADA ONLY*** I’ve just tasted a little bit of this butter I bought today, and, OMG, I still can’t believe how good it is. Canadian butter notoriously tastes very bad, is pale and often hard at room temp. Not this one. While I don’t know how it c...
L’Ancetre Organic Butters for Healthy Recipes
Drinking
I may mostly drink water and cheap black coffee, but I like to treat my loved ones with these drinks.
Is it the best coffe in the world? I don’t know, but I would believe so. It’s so delicate yet so flavorful. Also, their beans have absolutely no bitterness. They are a Chicago based company, but ship all across North America.
Intelligentsia Coffee
This is my everyday coffee. It’s relatively cheap for the quality, has little bitterness, and gets the job done. I’d recommend it for waking up in the morning with something a bit better than your average grocery store brand.
Lavazza US | Official Website
I bought a few of their teas as a gift for some of my family members and they loved their quality. They also appreciated the inventive flavours blends David’s Tea has created, particularly the ones with vanilla, chocolate, and rose petals. I’d recomm...
DAVIDsTEA - Buy Loose Leaf Teas Online
**CANADA ONLY** If you want one of the best Quebec based coffe roaster, give Zab café a try. Their award winning beans have little bitterness to them and a lot of flavor. I gave their decaf blend to my stepfather and he loves it!
Zab Coffee Roaster
Ready to eat and treats
Everything that you don’t have to cook or that you can have as a treat.
I love these smoothies! They are a complete, nutritious and vegan breakfast that is so easy to prepare (no mixer required!) You can subscribe and get your smoothies delivered at your door, any time you want (USA and Canada). They have numerous flavou...
Evive Smoothies
Ok, this is probably one of the best chocolate IN THE WORLD. I mean it. They are an award-winning company that produces artisanal bean-to-bar chocolate with cacao seeds from Peru. If you think big brands like Lindt produce quality chocolate, think ag...
Quantu chocolat
**CANADA ONLY ** This is my go-to ice cream brand to buy. To me, it’s one of the best grocery store ice-cream and frozen yogurt brands you can find. Try the cappuccino frozen yogurt, it’s so smooth, creamy and flavourful!🤤
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