Chef Derek’s Home-Made Ready Made Meals
Chicken Curry
Lasagna
Chicken Wings
Puerco Pibil
Madras Beef Curry
Mediterranean Vegetarian Lasagna

Meat Pies
Dark Ale Beef Stew Pie
Chicken Pot Pie
Tortiere

Homemade Soups – made from scratch!
Cream of Mushroom Soup
Thai Soup

Local Seasonal Produce Includes:
Ontario sweet corn
Ontario peaches
Ontario cherries
Ontario strawberries
Ontario blueberries and wild blueberries
Ontario raspberries
Ontario red currants
local spinach from Collins’ Spinach
local tomatoes and grape tomatoes from Floralane Produce
Ontario lettuces from the Holland Marsh
Ontario peas, beans, cauliflower, broccoli
Ontario fresh radish, green onions, mint, cilantro
Ontario zucchini
crisp Ontario apples – Empire, Red Prince
local potatoes from Smoyd Farms
Ontario root veggies (beets, parsnips)
Ontario onions, rutabaga, sweet potatoes
Ontario hothouse red peppers, green peppers, and cucumbers
Ontario mushrooms and portabello mushrooms

Produce
a wide selection of produce staples – from brocolli and bananas to oranges and zucchini are always available

Deli meats
our own homemade roast beef, black forest ham, and turkey breast
Harriston’s delicious summer sausage – this is the best summer sausage you have ever tasted!
Montreal smoked meat, deli loaf, genoa salami, pepperettes

Local meat
fresh, local chicken from family farms in the Arthur area (delicious!)
steaks from Harriston Packers
pork loin chops from Harriston Packers
smoked and fresh sausage from Harriston Packers
grass fed beef products from Hav A Heart Beef, Harriston

Gourmet Cheese
Thornloe cheese
Balderson 5 year and older than 6 year cheddar
local buffalo mozzerella
parmesan
Oka

River’s Edge Goat Dairy Products
Chevre – prize winner at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair!
Feta – prize winner at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair!
Milk
Yogurt

Best Baa Sheep Dairy Products
Ramembert
Eweda
Mouton Rouge
yogurt

Gourmet Items
From These Roots gourmet jams and salsas
Harvest Goodies salad dressings and preserves
Breadalbane Inn Apple Cider Garlic Dijon Vinaigrette
Eadrey’s Gourmet rubs and sauces
local maple syrup
local honey (Coneybeare)
Garlic King

Baked Goods
fresh bread baked daily
pies
scones
butter tarts

Snacks
Fraberts Famous Flatbreads
Fraberts Famous Hummus
Six-Bean Hummus
Gourmet Nacho Chips

Scottish and British Foods
scotch pies
steak and kidney pies
Cornish pasties
pork sausage rolls
haggis
square sausage
Ayrshire bacon
blood sausage
oat cakes
lots of british confectionery

Seven Days of Fresh Food!
Fraberts Fresh Food for Thought – July, 2009

Fraberts Now Open 7 Days a Week

We are now open Monday to Friday 9am till 6pm, Saturdays 9am till 5pm, and Sundays 10am till 5pm.  Fraberts will also be open most holidays except New Year’s Day, Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving Sunday, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day

We are open on Canada Day – stop in for sausage on a bun and/or strawberries with whipped cream!

Summer Strolling in Fergus

Out for a wander in beautiful downtown Fergus on the weekend?  Drop by Fraberts for delicious local sausage on a bun and other seasonal treats.  Most of us in the Fergus Marketplace are open both Saturdays and Sundays – Cherry Hill, Grand River Running, Wee Scottish Shop, Troutfitters, the Interior Store, Legge Fitness, and the Goofie Newfie – come and see what the new Marketplace has to offer!

Take Fraberts on Holidays!

Going to a cottage or on a camping holiday this month?  Take some Fraberts favourites with you – flatbreads and dip, nachos and salsa, Chef Derek’s new Ultimate Nacho Dip, delicious meat and kebabs for the BBQ, fresh local fruit and veggies, or ready made meals to keep it simple.  Let Fraberts make your holiday yummy!

Fraberts at the Guelph Farmers Market

We love farmers markets!  We are trying out the Guelph Farmers Market for the month of July to see how it goes.  We aren’t guaranteed a spot every week, but we’ll try to get in as much as we can.  If you can’t make it to the store or to the Elora Farmers Market, come and see us at the Guelph Farmers Market Saturday mornings from 7am till noon.

Fraberts Family Profile – The Collins Family

Most of you have by now tried our wonderful locally grown spinach.  After a long winter of imports, you can really appreciate the flavour of fresh, local spinach.

We get all of our local spinach from the Collins family farm.  Paul Collins is a third generation farmer.  He farms along with his father and is raising three girls – potentially the fourth generation?

The Collins family grow spinach on approximately 300 acres of land along Wellington Rd 26, just north of Hwy 24.  The family moved their farm from the Huttonville area (Jackie’s hometown), just west of Brampton, in 1979.

Spinach is an interesting crop to grow – the first crop of the spring was actually planted last fall.  You can get about three cuts of spinach from the same field in one year.

The Collins family have completed an Environmental Farm Plan to ensure that they are minimizing their impact on the environment.  This program has been very successful – nearly 80 % of Ontario’s famers have participated in the Environmental Farm Plan program, even though it is voluntary.

We purchase the spinach fresh from the Collins.  It is not pre-washed, which allows you to keep it fresh in your fridge longer.  Be sure to give it a really thorough wash before eating to get the sand out!