I enjoy cooking and spend many hours in the kitchen preparing homemade meals from scratch. But with a crazy schedule due to kids’ hockey, I sometimes have to turn to some help in the form of kitchen hacks!

Whether it’s a side dish to compliment a recipe, or a certain ingredient that I use in my cooking to help make kitchen prep faster, there are some tasty organic products out there to cut down my time in the kitchen. One of those is Seeds of Change®, the only Certified Organic, ready-to-heat rice and grain brand available in Canada.

The Quinoa & Brown Rice w Garlic is ready to heat and has healthy ingredients, like brown rice and quinoa and is also soy free. Tasty organic goodness.

If you have a microwave, heat it up in two minutes for a healthy side dish or if you don’t (like me), heat on the stove top. I made a quick BLT for lunch and added the Seeds of Change® Quinoa & Brown Rice w Garlic as the side dish. My kids like rice but I like that the quinoa is mixed in so they don’t even know the extra protein they’re getting!

Seeds of Change® also has a grant program in Canada – 1% of sales to goes towards community gardens across the country. Working with local partner Evergreen, Seeds of Change has identified 12 community gardens from coast to coast who need grant money to get their garden started and keep them going all season long. With one garden in every province, Seeds of Change® is helping Canadians get access to local, organic food from coast to coast!

Seeds of Change® comes in these flavours: Quinoa and Brown Rice with Garlic, Indian Style Pilau, Spanish Style, Seven Whole Grains, Wholegrain Brown Basmati, Caribbean Style.

Join the Seeds of Change® Canada Facebook page, a great resource for Canadians who are interested in growing or cooking with organic ingredients.

CONTEST

This summer, Canadians have a chance win a GRAND PRIZE trip to Prince Edward County, Ontario to enjoy a once in a lifetime meal of original recipes from world renowned Chef Jamie Kennedy made with local, seasonal produce and Seeds of Change.

There will be five grand prizes that include travel for two to Prince Edward County from anywhere in Canada, two nights’ stay in nearby Toronto, and $1,000.000 CAD spending money.

To enter, head to your local major grocery retailer and purchase Seeds of Change®, and then enter online with the code on the package at www.SeedsofChange.ca. The contest ends on August 14, 2016.

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post for SheSpeaks/SeedsofChangeCA.