Posted March 25, 2011 by Global Administrator
We recently found something that you can add to your disaster dining arsenal- a spice kit that can easily fit into your home preparedness kit or can slip into a backpack to take with you on-the-go. Called “The Mobile Foodie Survival Kit” it cont...
Posted February 25, 2011 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
It's been awhile since we posted a Food Friday blog! I just saw this posting by Robin Parker on the RedCrossPDX blog, and thought it was a perfect fit. Have a look:Prepare-aphernalia: The Survival StoveI'm not making that headline up. That's the actu...
Posted February 23, 2011 by Global Administrator
Last Friday, it appeared at first glance like it would be a regular February day around the Canadian Red Cross Toronto office. However, we had no clue that four children would come by and put a smile on all of our faces. In the morning, an 8-y...
Posted December 17, 2010 by Global Administrator
As food lovers, the team at Red Cross Talks have been busy planning our menus for the holidays. We were curious what our fellow Red Crossers would be whipping up in their kitchens, so we asked them. Here’s what we found out! It appears that there ...
Posted November 05, 2010 by Global Administrator
I definitely haven’t been feeling like my sunny self these past few days fighting belly aches, fever, chills and a sore throat. It’s flu season, and my body has picked up some bug somewhere. So, while I was "belly aching" about my recent bout wit...
Posted October 22, 2010 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
In a recent Twitter conversation about spam (the junk mail), it came up that Red Crossers tend to talk about Spam (the lunch “meat”) quite often because it's an no-brainer for any emergency preparedness kit. Through the conversation, Red Cross Talk f...
Posted October 08, 2010 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
We put a simple question out to some of our Red Cross staff: What are you having for Thanksgiving dinner? In true Red Cross fashion, the responses we received were diverse, creative and downright hearty. Can you guess who is having the smoked turk...
Posted August 27, 2010 by Global Administrator
*Every Friday we invite Red Crossers to share their favourite recipes, or recipes that remind them of the Red Cross.For this week’s Food Friday, we thought we would write an entry that caters to all the non-cooks out there. We recently came across...
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