On March 23rd I woke up very, very early. Which is highly unusual for me! It was still dark out. You know there has GOT to be a good reason as to why on God’s green earth I would have done that, right?! Well there was! 

I was invited to Kraft Canada headquarters with a dozen or so other social media influencers to celebrate their launch on Twitter, to talk about their future endeavors in the social media world and to enjoy a day with food!

I didn’t expect it would take over 3 hours to get from my home to my final destination, which according to Mapquest… was only an hour and 15 min drive! #dumbsnowstorm Around 6 inches fell that night… good thing I had a car and driver!!

Thanks Kraft Canada, I really appreciated it!!

 

After mixing and mingling and eating breakfast together, we had a informational meeting with M. Bianco, the President of Kraft Canada. He told us that they are committed to the Three No’s! No artificial colour, flavour, preservatives. Change takes time but it is coming!

Did you know that 99% of households have a product that is made by Kraft in them?!

We then strapped on our feed bags!! {Pictured above is their Homemade Fruity Marshmallows which I finally bought all the ingredients for to make} They toured us around their facility, where their creations were concocted, tested and tested again and finally revealed.

Angel Lush Cupcakes were created by taking their ultra popular Lush Cake recipe and tweaking it for cupcakes. Their Lush Cake was on the cover of their Spring 2006 “What’s Cooking” magazine. I know… I made it! SERIOUS YUM!

Did you know that when you cook with less sodium… you allow more of the other flavours to come out? The better tasting homemade minestrone soup {above} was the one without all the added salt, it was much tastier.

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After the taste testing tour, we got to let our inner chefs out. While mine is still deep inside… some of the other bloggers were serious foodies, cook from scratch food bloggers and even recipe book authors. I like food. I eat food. But for the most part, I am not a fan of being a slave to the kitchen.  🙂

At Kraft Canada, there are four regular home-style kitchens  – on this day, three bloggers were put together into each kitchen to make an appetizer, main course and dessert.

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My favourite dish of the day had to be the Malabar Coconut Shrimp. It’s the 2nd plate in… Ruth from “Once Upon a Feast” had the pleasure of preparing this, their kitchen smelled divine!

Did you know that Kraft Food’s roots are Canadian?! It was started by James Lewis Kraft – who was born in 1875 in Stevensville, Ontario. He moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1903 with $65 in his pocket and started a cheese business and the rest as they say… is history!