Canada grows a ton of pulses and legumes. So much that we have to export most of it out!

We should be eating more beans, not beef!

Because I'm eating them all.

Good article, thanks for posting.

I had heard that Canada was a lentil powerhouse, so I set about finding a supply of black beluga lentils locally. (These are like the French ‘lentils de puy’ that stay whole when cooked and have a great texture - quite expensive when imported from France.) I found a shop in a farming community about an hour away, but when I got there I found I was buying their last 2 bags, and that they had discontinued that product. I’m stocked up now but don’t know if I’ll be able to get them again, despite being next door to Saskatchewan here in Alberta.

It’s a great example of the importance of supply chains - abundant resource relatively nearby, but largely unavailable nevertheless.

Probably because most of us didn't know. I didn't know until I heard a podcast episode about the Lentil King of Saskatchewan

I'm buying big bags of them for my soups!

Is it because they taste bad? Maybe you should grow something people actually want.

The local Coop in Saskatoon sells them.

Compliments dried lentils at Safeway and Sobeys should be Canadian if you want the dried ones. Pretty sure Bulk Barn also sources their lentils domestically.

For canned, Unico comes to mind, but I'd assume Compliments would also be Canadian. I'd check other brands since while I'd imagine them to be the same case, some might also be imported from China or India.