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Going Back to School: What To Snack On
Students all across Ontario will be heading back to school in the upcoming weeks ahead.
The government’s plan to reopen schools was approved by public health officials. This is a good thing according to pediatric specialists, who say that while the virus is dangerous, not going to school is dangerous, too – for education purposes as well as for children’s mental health.
Here is a great piece of advice from UNICEF:
“UNICEF is urging schools – whether open or helping students through remote learning – to provide students with holistic support. Schools should provide children with vital information on handwashing and other measures to protect themselves and their families; facilitate mental health support; and help to prevent stigma and discrimination by encouraging students to be kind to each other and avoid stereotypes when talking about the virus.”
Back to school means packing daily lunches for your kids once again! At Eat Sum More, we have a variety of delicious and nutritious snacks for your children’s lunch boxes:
Safari Kids Fruit Sticks
Peach and Apricot Rolls
Biltong
Dry Wors
All are very healthy and full of protein; have fewer calories than other snacks; great pick me up when your children need something to nibble on; stores well, and will not spoil in your child’s schoolbag or lunchbox; are all gluten free and chock full of vitamins.
Labour Day Weekend: BBQ Season Ending Soon
As the autumn season quickly approaches, we are in the last couple of weeks of prime BBQ season. Enjoy the last few days of summer with some of our scrumptious meats, that will spice up (pardon the pun!) any get together with your family & friends.
We carry:
Flattened Chicken (BBQ and Peri Peri)
Rotisserie Chicken (BBQ and Peri Peri)
Boerewors (Beef, Chicken and Breakfast Sausage)
We recommend Spur Salad Dressing and Nando’s Peri Peri sauces to compliment your BBQ, either as a marinade or a condiment.
Spur Salad Dressing, lovingly known as Pink Sauce, deliciously creamy and tangy, this much-loved condiment is now available to take home in a squeeze bottle.
Nando’s Peri Peri Sauce, enjoyable with almost everything. Nando’s range of Peri-Peri sauces combine flavour with varying degrees of heat that will satisfy the Peri-Peri beginner to the fiery heat seeker. Flavours in stock and in our store are Pepper Sauce, Mild, Lemon Herb, Medium, Garlic, Hot, Bushvelt, Extra Hot, XX Hot and Prego.
Beginning with this edition of our newsletter, we are going to be creating a recipe collection / forum. If you have a great recipe and would like to share it with us, please post it to our Facebook page – share a brief history and the sentimental value. https://www.facebook.com/eatsummoresouthafricanfoods
MINTY WATERMELON-CUCUMBER SALAD
8 cups cubed seedless watermelon
2 English cucumbers, halved lengthwise and sliced
6 green onions, chopped
1/4 cup minced fresh mint
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
DIRECTIONS: In a large bowl, combine watermelon, cucumbers, green onions, and mint. In a small bowl, whisk remaining ingredients. Pour over salad and toss to coat. Serve immediately or refrigerate, covered, up to 2 hours before serving.
Eat Sum More brings you natural, delicious meat products infused with a well-balanced blend of pure herbs and spices, tastefully blended together to form the perfect mix.
We carry: Biltong (Regular Flavour); Biltong (Peri Peri Flavour); Shavings; Chili Bites; Drywors (Regular Flavour); Drywors (Peri-Peri Flavour); Beef Boerewors; Chicken Boerewors; Kosher Beef Boerewors; Breakfast Sausage Boerewors; Flattened Chicken (BBQ Flavour); Flattened Chicken (Peri-Peri Flavour); Rotisserie Chicken (BBQ Flavour); Rotisserie Chicken (Peri-Peri Flavour).
We pride ourselves on quality and convenience; you can easily order a variety of our homemade meat products online – and start enjoying our carefully prepared, naturally produced meats which are bursting with flavour and traditional spices.
During this lockdown, many people have upped their baking game to the next level.
Are you interested in making some Malva pudding? How about some Hertzoggie slices? Or some delicious Koeksisters? Or a nice traditional Peppermint Crisp?
A melting pot of the Dutch, British and African traditions, the baking culture of South Africa embraces flavorful cuisine in which traditional desserts play an important role. South Africans love it sweet – be it a veggie dish or a barbecue sauce on meat, let alone delicious pastries, cakes & pies.
Some of the baking items we carry: Goldcrest Grandilla Pulp; Illovo Golden Syrup; Ina Paarman Instant Chocolate Cake Mix; Lyles Golden Syrup; Moirs Custard Powder; Moirs Vanilla Essence; Nestle Condensed Milk.
Our story begins with my late oupa and ouma -George and Leah Slimowitz in Vanderbijlpark. They owned and operated a butchery called The Golden Highway Butchery – and people used to come from miles away to stock up on their meat for the month, and in particular the Biltong, Droewors and Boerewors.
Going to the slaughterhouse early in the morning with my oupa, watching him select his choice of meat for the store, unbeknownst to me at the time, would come in good standing in years to come. Back at the butchery my oupa used to mumble in Yiddish “It’s all in de spices” whilst making Biltong.
My late father, Louis Slimowitz had a number of butcheries in Klerksdorp and Stillfontein, and he also used to mutter, “It’s all in the spices”. Growing up in a farm environment in Ficksburg, I was always given the task of spicing the meats and I quickly became the mutterer of “It’s all in the spices”.
Now in our 3rd generation Slimowitz family grocery store, headed up by the family matriarch, our mother Rita, we still mutter, “It’s all in the spices”. We import all of our spices from South Africa and blend them in the store to produce the finest Biltong, Drywors, Chili Bites, Shavings and Boerewors, which people still travel for miles to acquire.
We encourage you to visit our online store where we offer no contact, curbside pick-ups and speedy home deliveries.
Whether the recipe includes a layer of grilled ripe bananas, heavy on the box spices or adding six tablespoons of sugar, CURRY in all its iterations is as close as South Africa comes to a national dish.
When you talk about the cuisine of South Africa, a culturally and ethnically diverse country with no less than 11 official languages, curry comes up in the first breath.
On South Africa’s palm tree-lined east coast, within the humid port city of Durban, a unique style of Indian cuisine has evolved over the course of 158 years. Locals say you can’t leave before you try one of their Durban curries: smoldering hot mutton curry studded with potato chunks called “gravy soakers”; fiery fish curry spiked with black tamarind and curry leaves; or bunny chow, a hollowed-out quarter-loaf of white bread filled with curry.
If you are looking to recreate some of these famous National dishes or any of your own delicious creations, here are some of the curry products that we carry in-store to help you achieve that goal:
- Packo Achars & Masala
- Rajah Curry Powders
- Cartwright Curry Powders
- Nice and Spicy Curry Spices
- Ina Paarman Tikka Sauce
- Chicken Durban Curry
- Something South African Cape Malay Curry & Spicy Durban Curry
Please visit our online store where we offer contactless, curb-side pickups and delivery to all of North America.
Eat Sum More is a South African grocery store located in Thornhill, which is just outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
We are a group of ex-South Africans catering to the needs and cravings of other ex-South Africans. We bring in all of your South African favourites, and we welcome everyone to try our unique South African delectable foods.
We are very proud of our homemade products and they are all made directly on our premises. Our meat products are fresh and tasty.
Our Boerewors and Drywors are all made with 100% beef. We do not use pork, nitrates or any preservatives. Our Boerewors and Drywors have no other animal fat substitutes, and the casings are made from collagen (ie – no pork).
Eat Sum More has worked very hard and with relentless passion and integrity to raise the bar as we continue to provide you, our clients, with the freshest, sustainable, top-of-the-line, hand cut, traditional South African meat products that you’ve come to love over the years.
We offer Biltong; Drywors (various flavours); Boerewors (various flavours); Flattened Chicken; Rotisserie Chicken & much, much more!
We also carry a wide variety of grocery items: Baking Goods; Canned Fruits & Veggies; Cereals, Porridges & Grains; Crackers, Biscuits & Cookies; Dried Fruits, An Assortment of Drinks; Health & Beauty Products; Jams & Preserves; Sauces, Soups, Spices & Dressings; and A Variety of Delicious Snacks.
We are currently offering contactless, curbside pick-up or home/office delivery. You can order online through our Website and start enjoying our mouth-watering selection of South African products!
