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Challenge: No time to prepare a healthy meal
Solution: Planning and shopping ahead may seem like a time-consuming effort
initially but over the long run can help save time and money, reduce stress, and
improve nutrition intakes.
• Get organized - stock your cupboards, fridge and freezer with basics that will
help you pull together nutritious meals in a hurry. These include:
- Grain Products: whole grain bread, cereal, pitas and flour tortillas; pasta and
rice.
- Vegetables and Fruit: fresh vegetables and fruit in season as well as a variety
of canned and frozen vegetables and juices.
- Milk Products: milk, yogurt and cheese.
- Meat & Alternatives: meat, fish, poultry; eggs; canned fish; canned beans and
lentils; nuts and seeds; tofu and soy products, and peanut butter.
- Other foods: butter, soft margarine, vegetable oil (canola, safflower,
sunflower, corn, olive); sugar, honey, syrup; mustard, ketchup, salsa, vinegar,
soya sauce, and spices.
• Plan ahead - Choose three or four main dinner meals to have during the week
and make a list of items needed. Be sure to include something from each of the
four food groups in Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating. Buy all the
ingredients you need ahead of time to avoid unnecessary trips to the store. Post
the menu plan on the fridge so everyone knows what's for dinner. Leave out
simple instructions or the recipe so that whoever gets home first can start the
preparation or cooking.
• Make only one meal - No one has time to be a short order cook for different
family members at different times. Avoid cooking one meal for each person - no
matter what time they get home. Store leftovers safely in the refrigerator for
latecomers to heat up when they get home.
• Share the tasks - Younger children can set the table, older kids can help with
food preparation and everyone can help with the cleanup. Assign jobs to share the
load and so everyone knows what is expected of them.
- Make life interesting - Try a new recipe or new food every once in a while - ask
family members to find and suggest recipes that they would like to try. Remember
variety is the spice of life!
THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2004. PAGE 15.
Agriculture
Brussels Livestock report
Fed steers, heifers sell on steady market
Total receipts for Brussels
Livestock for the week ending Nov.
12 were 3,769 head of cattle, 537
lambs and goats.
On Tuesday the fed steers and
heifers sold on a steady market.
Choice steers and heifers sold $75 to
$80 with sales to $91.75, second-cut
steers and heifers sold $72 to $74.
The cows traded steady also. On
Thursday the veal sold on a strong
active trade with prices $2 to $5
higher. The lambs traded actively at
prices $2 to $5 lower than last week.
On Friday all weights and classes of
stockers sold on a fully steady mar-
ket.
There were 434 steers on offer.
Emerson L. Martin, Linwood, con-
signed one limousin steer weighing
1,415 lbs. which sold to Holly Park
Meat Packers for $91.75. His overall
offering of ten steers averaged 1,443
lbs. selling for an average price of
$85.92. Twenty steers consigned by
Aaron Martin, Holstein, averaged
1,484 lbs. selling for an average
price of $74.12 with his top gold
steer weighing 1,365 lbs. selling for
$89.25. Thirteen steers consigned by
Lloyd Frey, Harriston, averaged
1,393 lbs. selling for an average
price of $75.09 with his top limousin
steer weighing 1,225 lbs. which sold
to Dominion Meat Packers for $83.
Murray Shiell, Wingham, con-
signed two red steers averaging
1,450 lbs. which sold for $79.75. His
overall offering of twenty-five steers
averaged 1,439 lbs. selling for an
average price of $75.06. Manassah
Martin, Paisley, consigned seven
steers averaging 1,510 lbs. which
sold for an average price of $73.75
with his top red steer weighing 1,415
lbs. selling for $82.75. Seventy-two
steers consigned by Don McAlpine,
Ailsa Craig, averaged 1,575 lbs. sell-
ing for an average price of $73.70
with his top limousin steer weighing
1,505 lbs. selling to Holly Park Meat
Packers for $84.50.
Bob Johnson, Chesley, consigned
thirty-seven black steers averaging
1,533 lbs. which sold for an average
price of $72.51 with sales up to $81.
Cunningham Farms, Lucan, con-
signed one blonde steer weighing
1,490 lbs. which sold to Holly Park
Meat Packers for $84. Their overall
offering of thirty-two steers aver-
aged 1,464 lbs. selling for an aver-
age price of $72.22.
There were 138 heifers on offer.
Six heifers consigned by Clarence
Dekens, Clinton, averaged 1,296 lbs.
which sold for an average price of
$81.46 with his top gold heifer
weighing 1,345 lbs. selling for
$84.25. Murray Switzer, St. Marys,
consigned one limousin heifer
weighing 1,200 lbs. which sold for
$84. His overall offering of seven-
teen heifers averaged 1,301 lbs. sell-
ing for an average price of $73.73.
One gold heifer consigned by
Ronald Me.narv. 1.iieknow weinherl
1,330 lbs. which sold for $78.75.
David Bowles, Brussels, consigned
one blonde heifer weighing 1,250
lbs. which sold for $83.75. His over-
all offering of eleven heifers aver-
aged 1,300 lbs. selling for an aver-
age price of $77.09. Fred Bieman,
Ayton, consigned one black heifer
weighing 1,165 lbs. which sold to
Green's Meat Market for $77. Eight
heifers consigned by Machan
Construction, Monkton, averaged
1,348 lbs. selling for an average
price of $74.43 with their top two
black heifers averaging 1,395 lbs.
selling for $77.
Dave Golley, Wingham, con-
signed one gold heifer weighing
1,075 lbs. which sold for $79.25. His
overall offering of ten heifers aver-
aged 1,184 lbs. selling for an aver-
age price of $73.84. Fourteen heifers
consigned by Abraham Hoover,
Clifford, averaged 1,310 lbs. which
sold for an average price of $72.45
wittLiktis top nine charolais heifers
averaging 1,304 lbs. selling for
$75.25. Connell Farms, Palmerston,
consigned three limousin heifers
averaging 1,273 lbs. which sold for
$82. Their overall offering of twen-
ty-seven heifers averaged 1,397 lbs.
selling for an average price of
$71.21.
There were 190 cows on offer. DI
and D2 cows sold $20 to $25 with
sales to $30; D3, $15 to $20; D4,
$10 to $15; shell cows, $5 to $8.
Ikendale Farms, Walkerton, con-
signed eight holstein cows averaging
1,490 lbs. selling for an average
price of $17.14 with sales to $30.
One limousin cow consigned by
Alton Century Farms, Lucknow,
Weighed 1,365 lbs. which sold for
$26. Harold Culbert, Auburn, con-
signed one red cow weighing 1,710
lbs. which sold to Holly Park Meat
Packers for $25.50.
There were 13 bulls on offer sell-
ing $10 to $24 with sales to $28. One
limousin bull consigned by Hugh
Eskritt, Teeswater, weighed 2,105
lbs. which sold to Denview
Livestock Ltd. for $28..
There were 175 head of veal on
offer. Beef sold $100 to $120 with
sales to $124.50; good holstein,
$100 to $110 with sales to $115;
medium holstein, $85 to $100; plain
and heavy, $75 to $90. Enoch
Martin, Linwood, consigned three
limousin veal steers averaged 693
lbs. selling to Newmarket Meat
Packers for $124.50. One red veal
steer consigned by Mark and Paul
Pennington, Mildmay, weighed 605
lbs. which sold to Newmarket
Packers for $124. Ken Horst,
Fordwich, consigned one charolais
veal steer weighing 705 lbs. which
sold to Abingdon Meat Packers for
$120. ,
Lambs, 50 - 64 lbs., sold $146 to
$147; 65 - 79 lbs., $89 to $143- 80 -
94 lbs., $99 to $117; 95 - 109 lbs.,
$98 to $106; 110 lbs. and over, $93
to $95.
Sheep sold $35.50 to $45.
Goats sold $22.40 to $95.
Top quality stocker steers under
400 lbs., sold $70 to $110; 4Q)9 -499
lbs., $88.50 to $119.50; 500 599
lbs., $91 to $117.50; 600 - 699 lbs.,
$82 to $112.85; 700 - 799 lbs.
$82.50 to $97.50; 800 - 899 lbs., $79
to $93.25; 900 - 999 lbs., $80 to $93;
1,000 lbs. and over, $70 to $87.25.
Top quality stocker heifers 300 -
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lbs., $70 to $89; 500 - 599 lbs., $71
to $103.50; 600 - 699 lbs., $73.50 to
$96.50; 700 - 799 lbs., $72 to $90;
800 - 899 lbs., $73.50 to $91; 900
lbs. and over, $75 to $90.25.
There were 701 head in all weights
and classes of stockers which sold at
prices steady to last week at the vac-
cinated calf and yearling sale.,
Steers-under 400 lbs., sold $103 to
$117.50; 400 - 499 lbs., $101 to
$117.50; 500 - 599 lbs., $95/ to $115;
600 - 699 lbs., $87 to $111.75; 700 -
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lbs., $81 to $86; 900 - 999 lbs., $70
to $84.50; 1,000 lbs. and over, $75 to
$78.50.
Heifers, 300 - 399 lbs., $70 to $89;
400 - 499 lbs., $82 to $95.50; 500 -
599 lbs., $69 to $98; 600 - 699 lbs.,
$76.75 to $97; 700 - 799 lbs., $72.50
to $90.75; 800 - 899 lbs., $86 to $89;
900 lbs. and over, $65 to $85.
While the sun shines
Farmers have been making good use of the excellent
weather as demonstrated by this pile of corn outside the
Co-op in Londesborough this past weekend. (Keith Rouiston
photo)