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Last trip to the grocery store I couldn't find any non-US salad kits, and Silk NextMilk is made down there now, because I guess our plants were the listeria ones. Chip dip was surprisingly hard to find too, although I did it.

I'm very pleased with how many vegetables actually come from Mexico (definitely via the US though), and there's even a few things you can get from greenhouses, so that situation is less dire than I'd expected.

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[โ€“] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Not bad. I get most of my veg from local Chinese grocery where everything is a little closer to spoil but cheaper by half and all the sourcing info is in a language I don't read so I basically wrote that off as a whole in the name of scraping by.

But was decently happy to learn that my spending habits were mostly Canadian centric by default anyway exempting snacks. Mind you I live in a chunk of Van where most of my fav stuff is imported from Asia through local companies and ports so my easy solve was just segwaying hard into Korean and Japanese imports.

[โ€“] thistlexthorn@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Iโ€™m lucky to live in a rural place with great farmers market infrastructure, so many options to buy from here. When I do go to the grocery store, buying Canadian has been the norm for quite a few years but I am making a more conscious effort, taking my time to check all the labels. Havenโ€™t had problems so far

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice to see another rural person. Lemmy is pretty urban on average.

Farmer's markets are very seasonal, of course. And like I've brought up elsewhere, people absolutely will resell store goods in them if they can make a profit doing so.

[โ€“] bowreality@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Me three! We buy all our meat from local farms. And veg in summer and we grow our own. I am also increasing what we grow on fruit

[โ€“] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Didn't buy anything american this week, at all, but I'm due to go grocery shopping.

I'm making a pot pie from some leftover beef and bacon fat that I turned into roux, I've got some potatoes that are getting old, some carrots, mushrooms... it should be tasty

[โ€“] mski@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Purchased some local onions instead of onions from the US, along with a few other things. Salsa from Mexico. Was a small grocery run, but my purchases would have been 15% American previously - but 0% this time.

If everyone is doing this, the numbers do start to add up quickly to a meaningful impact.

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[โ€“] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Had to buy Corn Starch from Austrian company. Because the Fleichmann's CANADA brand corn starch is Made in USA. And could actually find a Canadian Manufacturer

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