This no-fee wholesale food store is piled 20 feet high with everything you’d find in a supermarket and beyond. It stocks 4 times more selection than that famous warehouse club with more consistency and choices.

There’s 500 kinds of cheese, ethnic foods (Italian, Latino, Indian, Asian, Mideastern) and they import their fresh produce themselves – no middleman. They buy fresh fruits and vegetables from local growers whenever possible.

Since they are oriented for sales to restaurants, hotels and institutions, their prices have always been excellent. It also means that you can often find select meat in the AA or sometimes AAA grades, whole filet mignons and rib roasts, pork rump and hock, homemade sausages, marinated chicken and pork, fish and seafood.

There’s 70 varieties of olive oil, and dozens of flavorful Italian coffees and pastas. It’s fun to shop around and find items like 10 kg. Skippy peanut butter, an entire prosciutto ham or smoked meat, 15 kg honey, 3.5L bags of chocolate chips, pop-up aluminum foil sheets, or little paper lunch bags.

Don’t forget to pick up this weeks specials, see their flyer below for even better prices.

Location: 9701 boul Louis-H-La Fontaine, Anjou QC H1J 2A3
corner: rue de Lamartine
Date: Aug 2 – 8, 2017
Tel: 514-255-9330
Hours: Mon-Wed 6:45-6, Thurs & Fri 6:45-9 pm, Sat 6:45-6, Sun 9-6
www.mayrand.ca
sales@mayrand.qc.ca ou ventes@mayrand.qc.ca

Q: Where would I find a flank, hanger, skirt or onglet steak? I cannot find a store to buy it.

A: Any butcher in the Atwater or Jean Talon markets, or Marche de l’Ouest on Boul. des Sources, DDO should be able to cut these for you.

If you want great prices on meat, head to Mayrand (note they will be moving in Feb, see both addresses below), the no-fee wholesale food store is piled 20 feet high with everything you’d find in a supermarket and beyond. It stocks 4 times more selection than that famous warehouse club with more consistency and choices.

Since they are oriented for sales to restaurants, hotels and institutions, their prices have always been excellent.  It also means that you can often find select meat in the AA or sometimes AAA grades, whole filet mignons and rib roasts, pork rump and hock, homemade sausages, marinated chicken and pork, fish and seafood.

Location: 5650 Boul. Metropolitan Blvd. East, St-Leonard H1S 1A7
MOVING IN FEBRUARY, 2016: 9701 boul Louis H Lafontaine, Anjou
corner: boul Lacordaire
Tel: 514-255-9330
Hours: Mon-Wed 6:45-4:30, Thurs & Fri 6:45-9 pm, Sat 6:45-4:30, Sun 9-4
www.mayrand.ca

Q: Cheese fondue is our family New Year’s tradition (works too for the vegetarians in our family). Is there somewhere I can buy Emmentaler and Gruyere cheese without paying an exorbitant amount? I found it very expensive last year. Enjoy listening to you n CJAD.

A: I find the best prices at sales at  Mourelatos, Adonis or Euromarche. Keep your eye on the flyers for this week and next.

If you don’t want to wait for sales, head to Mayrand which is a no-fee wholesale food store and is piled 20 feet high with everything you’d find in a supermarket and beyond. It stocks 4 times more selection than that famous warehouse club with more consistency and choices.

There’s almost 1,000 kinds of cheese, fresh meat and fish, ethnic foods (Italian, Latino, Indian, Asian, Middle Eastern) and fresh fruits and vegetables from local growers whenever possible.

In addition to all the usual items they have the less usual like Halal meat, whole filet mignons and rib roasts, pork rump and hock, homemade sausages, marinated chicken and pork as well as 70 varieties of olive oil, and dozens of flavorful Italian coffees and pastas. Their ever growing catalog of products seems almost endless.

What a great place to shop…super prices and tremendous choice.

5650 boul. Metropolitan E, St-Leonard H1S 1A7
corner: boul Lacordaire
Tel: 514-255-9330
Hours Mon-Wed & Sat 6:45-6,Thurs & Fri 6:45-9, Sun 9-6
http://smartshoppingmontreal.com/store.php?s=43

for flyers:
Mourelatos   http://mourelatos.com/en/visit-circular-2/
Adonis     http://groupeadonis.ca/CMS/index.php/en/en-vedette-2 and
Euromarche    http://euromarche.ca/flyer_en.html

This no-fee warehouse food store is piled 15-20 feet high with everything you’d find in a supermarket and then some. It stocks 4 times more selection than that famous warehouse club and is consistent with what you can find.

They have a whole kosher poultry section with: chicken – whole, boneless breast, bone-in breast, wings, minced dark meat, legs with back, chicken bones for soup or cut-up into 1/4’s . Turkey is there – half breast with back, drumsticks, wings and Cornish hens.

There’s 500 kinds of cheese, ethnic foods (Latino, Indian, Asian, Mideastern) and they import their fresh produce themselves – no middleman.

Since they are oriented for sales to restaurants, hotels and institutions, you can select meat in the AA or sometimes AAA grades, Halal meat, leg of pig, tongue, or oxtails. They make homemade sausages and sell fish and seafood.

It’s fun to shop around and find items like 10 kg. Skippy peanut butter, an entire prosciutto ham or smoked meat, 15 kg honey, 80 types of olive oils (even organic), 3.5L bags of chocolate chips, pop-up aluminum foil sheets, 6 x 1 Kg. bags of espresso coffee or little paper lunch bags.

Location: 5650 Boul. Metropolitan Blvd. East, St-Leonard H1S 1A7
corner: boul Lacordaire
Tel: 514-255-9330
Hours: Mon-Wed 6:45-4:30, Thurs & Fri 6:45-9 pm, Sat 6:45-4:30, Sun 9-4
www.mayrand.ca
sales@mayrand.qc.ca ou ventes@mayrand.qc.ca

This company has been a meat distributor for 38 years (so they really knows how to keep customers happy) and for the past 6 years their retail shop, L’Entrepot de Viandes, has been open to the public. Now you can take advantage of their direct-to-consumer prices.

Sales on the flyer below are for racks of lamb or pork, veal shoulder roasts, veal cutlets or boneless chicken breasts, ed

Steaks are a specialty here. Their customers know to come in when they want high quality rib steaks (they use high grade prime rib for these), T-bone steaks, tenderloin, rib eye or filet mignon. The meat is Angus beef and is aged for 4 weeks; it comes from Canada and the U.S. Filet mignon is often aged 6 weeks. You can buy beef, veal, pork, chicken and lamb here.

All you have to do is stop by L’Entrepot de Viandes in St. Leonard before 5 pm on Sat and fill in the coupon. At 5 pm, they will be doing the draw for the $200 voucher. While you are there, you can buy tender meat for a Mother’s Day banquet.

At L’Entrepot de Viandes, you can take advantage of their direct-to-consumer prices. Steaks are a specialty, so their customers know to come in when they want rib steaks (they cut high grade prime rib for these), T-bone steaks, tenderloin, rib eye or filet mignon. The meat is Angus beef  and is aged for 4 weeks. Filet mignon is often aged 6 weeks.

Expect to find beef, veal, pork, chicken and lamb  as in rack of lamb, standing rib roast, pork rib roast, chicken breasts, Italian sausage, baby back ribs, marinated chicken and pork brochettes, and even chicken nuggets.

You will enjoy dealing with the butchers as the are all knowledgeable, very helpful and very friendly. What a pleasure in this day and age of human-less warehouse shopping.

There is no charge for them to cut and vacuum pack your meats. Many different cuts of meat are available and everything is sliced to your specifications. When you leave, it’s all ready to be placed in the freezer, and is perfectly portioned for you and your family.

Don’t miss the freezer for: veal cutlets, Nathan’s hot dogs, rack of lamb and lamb chops (from UK), tuna steak, swordfish steaks and salmon filets.

They have weekly specials so if you give them your email address, they will add you name to their list and you will receive their weekly flyer.

Location: 6802 des Grandes Prairies, St-Leonard
corner: boul. Langelier
Tel: 514-807-6725
Hours: Mon-Fri 9-6, Sat & Sun 9-5

Q: Do you know if any of the fabric shops on St Hubert north of Jean Talon sell rib knit fabrics for sweatshirts and t-shirts?

A: If you didn’t find it there (and you should), on my site Tonitex  sells that kind of fabric. http://www.smartshoppingmontreal.com/store.php?s=8. See page 73 in the book.

This no-fee warehouse food store is piled 15-20 feet high with everything you’d find in a supermarket and then some. It stocks 4 times more selection than that famous warehouse club and is consistent with what you can find.

They have added a whole kosher poultry section with: chicken – whole, boneless breast, bone-in breast, wings, minced dark meat, legs with back, chicken bones for soup or cut-up into 1/4’s . Turkey is there – half breast with back, drumsticks, wings and Cornish hens.

All November, they will be having a Cheese Fest with promotions, tastings and cheese platter ideas for entertaining.

There’s 500 kinds of cheese, ethnic foods (Latino, Indian, Asian, Mideastern) and they import their fresh produce themselves – no middleman.

Since they are oriented for sales to restaurants, hotels and institutions, you can select meat in the AA or sometimes AAA grades, Halal meat, leg of pig, tongue, or oxtails. They make homemade sausages and sell fish and seafood.

It’s fun to shop around and find items like 10 kg. Skippy peanut butter, an entire prosciutto ham or smoked meat, 15 kg honey, 80 types of olive oils (even organic), 3.5L bags of chocolate chips, pop-up aluminum foil sheets, 6 x 1 Kg. bags of espresso coffee or little paper lunch bags.

Location: 5650 Boul. Metropolitan Blvd. East, St-Leonard H1S 1A7
corner: boul Lacordaire
Tel: 514-255-9330
Hours: Mon-Wed 6:45-4:30, Thurs & Fri 6:45-9 pm, Sat 6:45-4:30, Sun 9-4
www.mayrand.ca
sales@mayrand.qc.ca ou ventes@mayrand.qc.ca

Mayrand is a no-fee wholesale food store is piled 20 feet high with everything you’d find in a supermarket and beyond.

It stocks 4 times more selection than that famous warehouse club with more consistency and choices.

There’s almost 1,000 kinds of cheese, fresh meat and fish, ethnic foods (Italian, Latino, Indian, Asian, Middle Eastern) and fresh fruits and vegetables from local growers whenever possible.

Since they are oriented for sales to restaurants and hotels you can buy at excellent prices in a variety of sizes…. but not too big.

In addition to all the usual items they have the less usual like Halal meat, whole filet mignons and rib roasts, pork rump and hock, over 70 varieties of olive oil, dozens of great Italian coffees and pastas, homemade sausages and other marinated chicken and pork products. Their ever growing catalog of products seems almost endless.

What a great place to shop…super prices and tremendous choice.

Location: 5650 Boul. Metropolitan Blvd. East, St-Leonard H1S 1A7
corner: boul Lacordaire
Tel: 514-255-9330
Hours: Mon-Wed 6:45-4:30, Thurs & Fri 6:45-9 pm, Sat 6:45-4:30, Sun 9-4
www.mayrand.ca
sales@mayrand.qc.ca ou ventes@mayrand.qc.ca

Q1:  Everyone is so busy these days that they don’t even have time to prepare dinner, and its so cold to go out, you say that you have some solutions for this dilemma

Located in the Jean Talon market, Milliner is preparing french-inspired home-cooked meals for you or you can enjoy Comfort Meals which are home-cooked meals by a husband and wife team. Both companies deliver them to your door and make all the meals from scratch with no additives, coloring, fillers, etc.

Q2:  How does it work? What kind of food do they cook?

You can look online or call them up and order ahead.

Milliner prepares 75 different dishes (350 gr. $9-$13) in its open kitchen using grain fed chicken, Quebec AAA beef, but no additives, colorings or preservatives. Start drooling over the  lamb with apricot, blanquette de veau, Thai chicken, bbq baby back ribs, cassoulet de fruits de mer, pork with prunes or even beef cheeks with mashies. 70% of them are even gluten free. You can also buy box lunches or use them for catering. Home delivery is available.

Location: 7010 Henri Julien, Marche Jean-Talon at Mozart
Phone: 514-270-0004
Hours: Sat-Wed 9-5, Thurs & Fri 9-7
www.milliner.ca

Comfort Meals costs only $5-$8 for a 350-400g  of stick-to-your ribs home cooked meal.They are cheerfully delivered to your door, and ready for microwave, oven or freezer. Meals are lower in salt (and can even be no salt) and made with fresh ingredients.

Some interesting choices might be: chicken with apricots or Kiev style, vegetarian lasagne with bechamel sauce, pineapple ham, Hungarian goulash, shepherd’s pie, salmon in Spanish sauce, veal in mushroom sauce or tourtiere. For those cold winter days there’s soups: perhaps pea, barley or lentil. Delivery is only offered in the western end of town with a minimum of 7 meals, and all meals should be ordered on Wednesday or Thursday  for delivery the following Wednesday.

Phone: (514) 713-1951
comfortmeals@sympatico.ca
www.comfortmeals.ca

Q3: Those are good deals but since you’re the Smart Shopper you have an even less expensive alternative – is it really airplane food?

Delta Daily Food use to make food for airlines; Nowadays they prepare meals for schools, cafeterias and even supermarket chains. Dietitians create interesting menus every month. At the end of each month, whatever hasn’t been sold to them, is offered to the public at really inexpensive prices (mostly around $2.50 or less per meal).

I’ve recently toured their premises and they seem more sterile than a hospital surgery room.

Q4:  Okay, I’ll bite, how much do they cost and how do you go about buying them?

My family has been eating “frozen airplane food” for over 15 years. Some of the food is in bulk and others are individual or family dinners. They’re great for: quick dinners, after school (or anytime) snacks for kids, for elderly folks who don’t cook anymore, college students, etc.

If you are ordering the individual meals, they come in packaged in 4/8/10, so an idea might be to form a buying group with friends and that way you can get an assortment. What you might find at a sale:  shrimp in spicy sauce (only $2 per meal), salmon tapenade or beurre blanc ($2.50), chicken in green curry ($1.40), shrimp and scallops ($3.50 each), vegetarian Indian meal ($1), beef Yakaniku  ($1.70), beef with oriental noodles, rice with mango and coconut, chicken a la king, meat lasagna, and lots more…

Location: 26 Seguin, Rigaud
Phone: 450-451-6761
Directions: Exit 9 on Autoroute 40 Ouest
Date and time: Sun Jan 31st and then Sun Feb 28: 10-3
You can be on their e-mail list for future sales, write to: l.brasseur@deltadailyfood.com

Not homemade but if you never wanted to cook again, shop at M&M and you would not have to repeat a dinner for a long time. Some of their new meals to try: slow cooked beef pot roast, veggie lo mein, lemon chicken, sweet potato fries and the shrimp hors d’oeuvres or last year’s hit: hors d’oeuvre quartet – vegetarian hors d’oeuvres (mushroom, spinach, cheese and roasted pepper). If you’re having a crowd, there’s the all time favorites, the oriental party pack and the cranberry brie.

Ten single serving options are available: lasagne, cabbage rolls, chile, mac ‘n cheese. Seasonally you can find their stuffed turkey breast (freezer to table in 2 hours) or the ultimate cream puff selection made with Belgium chocolate or try the new raspberry almond tart or banana chocolate chip cake.

Locations: Pointe Claire: 6321 Transcanadienne, Complexe Pte Claire at boul. St-Jean (514-426-1894); Laval, 3192 boul. St-Martin (450-686-0220); 6295 Somerled (514-485-9913); 3547 boul. St-Charles (514-694-9515); Dorval, 475 Dumont (514-633-9350); 2137 boul. des Laurentides (450-975-9595); 6925 boul. Taschereau (450-926-9518); 8453 boul. Newman (514-363-2929); 7864 Sherbrooke e. (514-493-1444) and more.  www. lesalimentsmm.com
Hours: Regular plus Sun 10-5