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Tabasco Sriracha Sauce

Tabasco has been in the hot sauce game for more than 150 years, so they know a thing or two about keeping up with trends. The newest addition to their line-up is now available in Canada: a blend of sweet, spicy, and savoury flavours of Southeast Asia with their signature Tabasco brand heat, making for a sauce that goes with anything: we love it with chicken, Thai dishes, pizza, and eggs. And, as always, it’s vegan, halal, kosher, and non-GMO. 256 mL $5-6. Widely available.

Bridgeland Distillery Frosé

There’s still plenty of summer left to enjoy this delightfully refreshing, “Frozen Rosé” from Calgary’s Bridgeland Distillery. The dry, strawberry-hibiscus, garden mint wine cocktail is a rosé wine, fermented at the distillery and fortified with their grain spirit, and a little natural flavouring. We love everything about it – the name, the colour, and that you just pop it in the freezer for and hour and add ice, or soda to make it a longer drink. From the distillery or bridgelanddistillery.com. CSPC + 853421 $30.

Peace River Hot Honey

Hot honey is on trend, and after two years of development, the Wolfe family have launched three, hot Peace River Honey flavours: Hot Honey, Bourbon Hot Honey, and Pineapple Jalapeno, taking inspiration from their Friday family pizza nights where they enjoy slices covered in honey. We’ve tried them with charcuterie, roast and fried chicken, BBQ meats, bacon (mmm!), and on our own pizzas… and they’re winners! peaceriverhoney.co/shop to order and for stockists. 375 mL $10.

Oat Canada

The popularity of dairy alternatives is on the increase, but while some oat milks say “unsweetened”, the sugar content can be substantial from the malt and oat starch. Eloise and Jamari Ambursley have a family history of diabetes, so they set about developing a zero sugar and keto-friendly oat milk, launching last year and impressing Dragon’s Den too! More akin to skimmed milk in texture, Oat Canada can be used for cooking and baking as well as in your coffee. 946 mL, widely available.

Sisters Story Coffee

We love food and drinks with a good story, and Sisters’ Story Coffee is one of the best. It’s a new Canadian organic and Fairtrade Certified coffee exclusively purchased from farms owned and operated by Indigenous women in the Andes of Northern Peru. These women experience violence, and have very little financial or decision-making power, despite carrying the majority of the workload in the home and in labour-intensive coffee production. This program enables them to grow and sell their own product, providing them with direct payment and a Fairtrade premium to invest in their businesses and communities - and 15% of each purchase supports 11 women’s charities in Alberta too! $15-17. To order 340g bags of dark or medium roast, and decaf too, see sistersstorycoffee.com.

Sesame Snaps Seeds & Grains Bars

We’re no strangers to those little packets of crunchy sesame seed snacks, so we were thrilled to taste test Sesame Snaps’ four new Seeds & Grain Bars. They’re longer than the classic bars, glutenfree, and all made with honey, puffed grains, and sesame seeds of course, but no artificial flavouring, colours or preservatives. Which will your favourite be – Millet and Honey, Amaranth and Honey, Quinoa and Honey, or Buckwheat and Honey? We like them all! Widely available.