VG Blog

This Sunday, May 11th is Mother’s Day—the perfect opportunity to celebrate the moms, grandmothers, stepmoms, special aunts and other maternal figures in your life. Whether you gather together for brunch, enjoy dinner as a family or aren’t able to be together in person, we hope you’re able to connect with your mom this weekend and let her know how much she’s loved. And if you’re a mom yourself, happy Mother’s Day!

Mother’s Day is coming up on Sunday, May 11th. Read on for some delicious meal ideas from VG Meats, plus great gifts for the moms, grandmas and other maternal figures in your life. Thanks as always for shopping local and supporting our family-owned and operated business! If you’d like any assistance, please contact us.

In case you missed it: we’ve got a new product, and we’re really excited about it! VG Meats now offers delicious breaded pork cutlets in our frozen section. They’re fully cooked, so you just have to heat them in your oven or air fryer. These cutlets are crispy on the outside, moist and tender on the inside, and packed with delectable Ontario pork flavour. There are plenty of ways to enjoy this convenient new item—read on for some dinner inspiration from our team.

Did you catch our recent online event with farmer Cory Van Groningen? In a livestream on Facebook, Cory introduced some of the key concepts of holistic management while talking about critical ecosystem processes. This helped participants gain a better understanding of why holistic management is beneficial to communities like yours, and how buying local food supports regenerative outcomes. What we eat, where it’s from and how it’s raised—it’s all connected, and these decisions have a ripple effect on the world around us!

Cooking for a crowd is a lot of work—especially when it’s a holiday dinner that has to balance taste, timing and tradition. At VG Meats, we understand that your family wants high quality, delicious products for Easter, and we’re here to help you serve an incredible meal with less of the work.

April is here and Easter is just around the corner! This year, it falls on Sunday, April 20th—that’s less than three weeks away. While you’re out buying chocolate eggs, sidewalk chalk and bubble wands for the kids, don’t forget to start planning your family’s Easter brunch or dinner. The VG Meats team is here to make it easy (and delicious).

If you’re familiar with VG Meats’ bundles, you know that they offer incredible value on your favourite local products. We’ve always offered a variety of bundles in store and on our website, and we’ve also offered large custom orders through our retail locations in Simcoe and Stoney Creek—for example, half of a beef cut to a customer’s specifications. This personalized service allows customers to request exactly what they want: mostly steaks, for example, or a mix of steaks, roasts and ground beef.

At VG Meats, we’ve always been passionate about holistic management, regeneration and creating a stronger local food system here in Canada. On Thursday, April 3rd, we invite you to join us for a webinar that will teach you more about where your food comes from, how it’s produced and why all of this matters to Canadians. Please read on for details, or contact us if you have any questions! We’d be glad to hear from you.

VG Meats is pleased to introduce our new Canadian value packs. Choose from lean ground beef, medium ground beef or our amazing ground beef and pork blend. Available in store only, these delicious products are being offered at approximately 60% off their regular retail price.

Grab your favourite green sweater—St. Patrick’s Day is this Monday, March 17th! We may not be Irish ourselves (did the name Van Groningen tip you off?) but we love a family celebration featuring lots of delicious, high quality, shareable local food. Here are five delicious meal ideas for St. Patrick’s Day—green beer and shamrock glasses optional.

We’ve always been thankful to customers who choose to shop from local, independent businesses like VG Meats—your support means everything to our team and our family, and allows us to contribute to stronger local food systems here in Ontario. As the issue of buying Canadian has taken on new meaning in recent weeks, we wanted to share an overview of our products and highlight just how many of them come from your own backyard. We’ll get into details below, but in short: over 90% of our products are Canadian, and more than 95% of our meat is local.

Here are some delicious spring BBQ essentials from VG Meats. All of these products are raised on Ontario farms using holistic management to achieve regenerative outcomes in communities like yours. This contributes to healthier local ecosystems, economies and families—that’s something to feel good about!