Hello from Pfenning’s Organic,
 
    We are pleased to send out our STORE NEWS and SPECIALS update for February 6-12!

    As always, feel free to visit our Online Catalogue to see any items that are featured or on special at the top of the page.
 
 

Store Notes from Almut:

- STILL ON SALE! Dessert Essence Shampoos or Conditioners. Buy one - get one free! Whenever you order a Dessert Essence Shampoo and/or Conditioner, mix 'n match (Coconut Shampoo and Conditioner not included). Call the Store for flavours still available (sale not specified on the website).

Dessert Essence Shampoo/Conditioners are: 100% vegan, NO Parabens, Sodium Lauryl Sulfates, Phthalates, artificial colors, silicones, EDTA, glycol, mineral oil, petrolatum or paraffin.

Produce NEWS:

It is winter and we are hibernating with warming soups and stews and other delicious comfort foods. The ancient Chinese medicine practitioners discovered that most foods have either cooling or warming characteristics. When you eat cooling foods, they are adding cooling effects to your body and eating warm foods will add warming effects to your body. Interestingly, root veggies, onions and garlic, for example, are considered warming foods, just when they are readily available!

- Apples and Citrus make up the bulk of our fruit display this week. 

- Try a Kiwi for a change. You can cut them in half and eat them with an egg spoon right out of its skin. They are a delightful vitamin boost.

Here is what is in 1 medium Kiwi fruit: 

     Calories - 42

protein - 0.8 grams
total fat - 0.4 grams
fiber - 2.1 grams
vitamin C - 64 milligrams
vitamin A - 3 micrograms
iron - 0.2 milligrams
potassium - 252 milligrams
folate - 17 micrograms

Did you know? The fuzzy little kiwi also packs in the vital nutrients vitamin E, copper, vitamin K, choline, magnesium, and phosphorus. The kiwifruit is higher in vitamin C per ounce than most other fruits.

- Our organic Blueberries are from Chili and are $4.50 each. Very tasty.

Veggie NEWS:
 

- Local Squash is nearing its end. Only Butternut and Spaghetti left. The imported Kabocha Squash is already at the Store.

- Broccoli ($3.25) and Cauliflower ($4.50) are back with a normal price tag on it.

- Hard to believe, but Ontario English Cucumbers came in today. They are grown in Leamington.

- Grape Tomatoes on the Vine from Quebec greenhouses. Beautiful quality     - $4.75 each.

- Our Vine Tomatoes are also from Quebec.

- Romaine!  Perfect quality and freshness - $3.25 each head.

- We have all the Kale colours in stock. Purple/Red - Black - Green. All are showing superior quality.

- Make sure to check out our Bargain Corner! Always lots of very interesting bargains to find there.

Last weekend Wolfgang and myself went to visit the Guelph Organic Conference & Trade Show. The trade show featured many local Ontario vendors (eg. Crofters Jam, Mountain Gem Coffee, Camino Chocolates, Little Stream Bakery, Pfenning's Farm, Tradition Miso etc) selling and sampling their products. This is the show to be educated about anything that concerns organic. From learning the 'know how' of growing to certification, the process to the finished product in your shopping bag. 

I was astonished to see so many people/families walking around at the show. Such an interest in the organic lifestyle! 

I would like to share a quote by Jane Goodall (monkey lady):

"How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poison?"

And in 2019 it is not stopping with the food. We have poison in our clothing, furniture, wall paints, floors, plastic cutlery and dishes, food storage containers, cosmetic products, our water supply, pharmaceutical medicine etc. In other words it is everywhere! In the air, the soil and the water. 

It all starts with each one of us humans. Do we really need that much plastic in our lives? We at Pfenning's Store will make an extra effort in 2019 to use as little plastic as possible for packaging your food. Let us know your comments please. 

Have a wonderful start into February,

Almut
 

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    We always look forward to serving you at our Store – or with our Organic Home Delivery Service,
 
    Wolfgang, Almut and the Pfenning's Organic team

 
   
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