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Macaroons Made with Roasted Whole Crickets

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roasted whole cricket macaroons

 

These sweet treats are REALLY easy to make and no bake. For those looking for that insect “wow” factor these macaroons feature whole roasted crickets.

 

Chocolate Roasted Cricket Macaroons

Made with NMF Protein2050 Roasted Organic Crickets

Includes 1.5g of cricket protein per macaroon

Makes 20 macaroons

*These treats can be completely Gluten Free if using NMF Gluten-Free Organic Roasted Crickets and gluten-free oats

 

Ingredients

1 cup organic sugar or palm sugar

¼ cup milk

¼ cup butter

1 Tbsp cocoa

Pinch of salt

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 cup unsweetened coconut flakes

1 1/2 cup of oats

½ cup NMF Protein2050 Organic Roasted Crickets

 

Directions

  1. Combine sugar, milk, butter cocoa and slat in medium saucepan. Heat, while stirring, just until it boils and melts together.
  2. Remove from heat and add vanilla, coconut, oats and roasted crickets.
  3. Let cool for 2-3 minutes and use a small spoon to drop onto a cookie sheet covered with parchment or wax paper.
  4. Place in refrigerator to cool and set then eat away!

 

These also freeze very well.

 

 

Cheddar Cricket Biscuits

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Delicious biscuits made with Cricket Flour

These biscuits made with #CricketFlour are the perfect side for any soup or a great start to your day with eggs and salsa. Go wild with different cheeses or a mix of what’s in your refrigerator. Some herbs perhaps?

 

Cheddar Cricket Biscuits

Made with NMF Protein2050 cricket flour

Contains 1.5g of insect protein per serving

Makes 10-12 biscuits

 

Ingredients

1 ¾ all purpose flour

¼ cup NMF Protein2050 cricket flour

1 TBSP baking powder

1 TBSP organic granulated sugar

½ tsp sea salt

¼ cup cold butter

1 ½ cups shredded cheddar cheese

¾ cup milk

 

Directions

  1. Preheat your oven to 450F
  2. In a large bowl or food processor mix flours, baking powder, sugar and salt together.
  3. Cut in the butter with a pastry blender or by running your food processor until the consistency is similar to almond or corn meal.
  4. Transfer to a bowl and add the cheddar cheese. Use your hands to toss and combine.
  5. Add all of the milk and stir until a soft dough forms. Remove from the bowl and knead 10 times on a floured surface.
  6. Use a rolling pin and roll the dough out to approx. ½ inch thick. Cut into 2” rounds using a small mug or glass (flour the rim to prevent sticking). Place your biscuits on an ungreased cookie sheet covered in parchment paper.
  7. Bake for 10-12 minutes until your biscuits are golden brown on the bottom and nice and puffy.
  8. Remove from the oven and call the family, warm biscuits are truly irresistible!

 

 

 

 

 

Halloween Party Treats: Serve Insects! BOO!

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Halloween Bug Treats

Eat Insects for Halloween

BOO!

Are you having a Halloween party?

Do you want to be the best house on the block, with the scariest, and most amazing handouts for the trick-or-treaters?

This year blow them all away with packets of edible insects.

Right now, at Next Millennium Farms, we’re offering 10% off any order with Promo Code: Halloween so that you can have

the best Halloween party EVER, and so that you can be the house that everyone in the neighborhood is talking about!

Visit or store and order before October 31st, and you’ll get 10% off your order!

 

Eat Insects at the Norwood Fall Fair

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Eat Insects at the Norwood Fall Fair

When I say the words, “Fall Fair”, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?

Delicious homemade food? Beautiful handmade crafts? Rides? Livestock shows?

How about, “Edible Insects”?

Ok, well maybe that’s not typical fare for a fair, but in a few short weeks at the Norwood Fall Fair, on October 11th and 12th, that will be exactly what you can find amidst the cows, goats, horses, hand-cut french fries, and handmade doilies.

If you’re looking for something amazing and fun to do with the family on the Thanksgiving weekend, come on out to the Norwood Fall Fair, and be sure to stop by and say hello to Derek Sedgwick of Next Millennium Farms. I’m sure he’ll be more than happy to discuss the amazing benefits of #entomophagy (eating insects), and will give you a sample of our @Protein2050 #EdibleInsects and will talk to you about our #CricketFlour that adds a delicious nutty flavour to your shakes, pies, cookies and sauces, as well as a protein punch!

Derek was just out at the Purple Onion Festival in Peterborough last week, and was asked to do an interview with Cogeco and for Trent University regarding Next Millennium Farms and on the benefits of #EatingInsects not only relating to personal health, but for the globe as well. Derek spoke with many festival goers, and was pleased to see that many were interested and keen to try the samples in the Next Millennium Farms’ booth. Tons of excited and happy customers walked away with their bags of cricket flour to add to their cooking and baked goods.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

 

 

 

 

 

Eat Insects at the Incredible Edible Festival

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Eating insects at the Incredible Edibles Festival

Do you live in Ontario, and are looking for something fun to do tomorrow? Maybe you want to take a little drive, eat some great food, listen to amazing music, and listen to some fantastic speakers?

Check out Campbellford, on Saskatoon Avenue, there will be a large food festival, called the Incredible Edibles Festival. Derek Sedgwick of Next Millennium Farms will be there with great tasting crickets, mealworms and cricket flour for sampling and purchasing, and at 1:30 pm, he will be speaking about how eating insects is a great way to get protein, iron, essential amino acids and calcium into your diet in a delicious and easy way.

Hope to see you out there!

Eating Insects with ASAP Science

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Eating Insects from Bug Bistro

Last week I was taking a little break at work, chatting to one of my friends at her desk, when suddenly, another one of my friends came running out of his cubicle when he heard my voice, phone in hand, saying something like, “They’re eating crickets, they’re eating crickets!” (My co-workers at my 9-5 job are all VERY intrigued by my new-found interest in eating insects) I looked at him and asked, “Who’s eating crickets?” He responded with, “The ASAP Science guys! They’re eating crickets, and posted a pic on Instagram!”

We had just heard of ASAP Science through one of our instructors during a course we were all taking together at OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design), and many of us started following them through different social media channels.

So, of course I take the phone from his outstretched hand and look at the picture, and sure enough, not only are they eating insects, they are eating insects from THE BUG BISTRO! I totally freaked out, shrieked, and said, “OH MY GOD, they’re eating our bugs! They’re eating crickets from Next Millennium Farms!”

Well, that was just the beginning.

A few days later, there were two videos posted by ASAP Science, AKA Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown.

There are two videos: “Should We All Be Eating Insects” discusses the nutritious value and environmental component related to eating insects, and “How to Eat Bugs” offers the new insect eater some great ideas for including insects in their daily diet.

ASAP Science cred Youtube

 

ASAP Science cred to Youtube showing you how to eat insects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All A-Buzz at the Peterborough Farmers’ Market

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Eating Insects at the Peterborough Farmers’ Market

Who are those handsome young men sporting the Next Millennium Farms shirts #Entomophagy? Why, they’re the Dereks of course! Derek Sedgwick and Derek Delahaye, members of the Next Millennium Farms family, represent at the Peterborough Farmers’ Market.

They made their debut last weekend, and were over-whelmed by the wonderful response from the many people who came by the Next Millennium Farms booth at the market.

Next Millennium Farms Booth at the Peterborough Farmers’ Market

Every Saturday, from 7am to 1pm, hundreds of people browse through the stands of the Farmers’ Market at the Memorial Centre parking lot at Lansdowne and George street.

According to Derek S. (shown on the left), there were many passersby who were curious, and who started talking to the ‘Dereks’ and asking them questions about the products, eating insects, and other pressing questions, such as- ‘Ya, but how do they taste?’

Many people were really open to the concept and trying the product. Mothers, without any hesitation, were allowing their very curious children to sample a seasoned cricket or a mealworm from the newly launched Bug Bistro line of edible seasoned insects.

Lots of insect sampling!

Everyone who tasted a cricket or mealworm was pleasantly surprised to find that they are really quite delicious! By the end of the first day, it was clear that the most popular insects to crunch on were the crickets, and the best seller of the day was the 113 gram bag of cricket flour.

If you live in the Peterborough area, or love spending your summer in Ontario trawling from one farmers’ market to another, stop by the Next Millennium Farms booth for a sample of bugs bursting with flavour!

“The Next Bug Thing”, on The Lang and O’Leary Exchange

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Darren Goldin talks to Dianne Buckner of The CBC’s Lang and O’Leary Exchange

Have you ever been in a studio’s Green Room? If you haven’t, the Green Room is where you wait before you go on the air, and if you are a guest on a show, there will typically be some kind of refreshments for you.

Well, today on The Lang and O’Leary Exchange on the CBC, Next Millennium Farms’ own Co-Founder, Darren Goldin, brought the refreshments to them instead of the other way around. What snacks were those, you might ask? Well, chocolate covered mealworms, of course!

The 5-minute interview with Dianne Buckner was wonderfully executed. The responses flowed from one into the other seamlessly, allowing Darren to showcase the exciting growth that has been taking place at Next Millennium Farms at a rapid pace; they have already outgrown their newly acquired 9000 square foot facility!

The mission and vision statements of Next Millennium Farms were organically brought to the forefront through the interview; producing great tasting and highly nutritional insects for human consumption, which are beneficial for people, but also for the globe, as the carbon footprint produced by raising and producing insect protein is much lower compared with other protein sources like beef or chicken.

Before you know it, eating insects WILL BE mainstream in our society. It will be common to see someone snacking on crispy crickets on the subway, or pulling out a pack of sea salt and pepper mealworms from their lunch bags. Just yesterday, City News aired a spot shot in Norwood, Ontario at Next Millennium Farms’ headquarters, where news reporter, Audra Brown was given some wax worms from one of Goldin’s daughters, and she remarked, quite surprised I’d like to add, “These are GOOD!”

Check out our new Bug Bistro to get your own!

 

 

Eat Insects at the Bug Bistro

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Eat Insects at the Bug Bistro

Bug Bistro. Yup, that’s what I said. Get your edible bugs right here at Next Millennium Farms’ own Bug Bistro. Eating insects has never been more delicious or easier for you to start or continue doing!

We have a bunch of different flavors for you to choose from: honey mustard, barbeque, sea salt and pepper, fire and brimstone and Moroccan spice. You can also choose between crickets or mealworms. If you’re not sure if you prefer crickets to mealworms, or the other way around, you can try our assorted snack pack which gives you both crickets AND mealworms, and a sample of all the flavors. With the assorted pack of 6 2 gram bags, you get barbeque, fire and brimstone and sea salt and pepper mealworms, and Moroccan, honey and mustard and barbeque crickets.

All the insects are cooked to perfection so they are crispy and crunchy, which makes them the snack that you want to reach for at any time of day- pre or post workout, the mid-morning nibble or the 3:00 pm snack attack.

Chock-full of protein, essential amino acids and iron, these cricket and mealworm snack packs from Bug Bistro can be enjoyed right out of the pack and down the hatch, or sprinkle them on your favorite salad, burrito, or sandwich.

The other cool thing about this snack, is that for those of you who have fussy kids, who barely eat foods with protein and iron (mine were like that for many years, and it used to drive me absolutely crazy), your kids will absolutely love these- they’ll be their new favorite snack, and you’ll always say, “yes”, because they are nutritious, delicious, and low in calories and fat.

If you’ve never tried eating insects before, this is a great way for you to get started. Don’t be scared. You’re doing yourself (and the planet) a favor.

Let us know which ones are your favorites!

Introducing: Geoentomarian

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Eat Bugs, Help Heal the Planet

So, you’re on a first date.

You’re at some nice restaurant with tons of atmosphere, and you’re trying to get to know the person sitting in front of you; trying to look like you’re not really trying.

You ask each other questions about your past relationships, hobbies, habits (good and bad), and then you ask, “So, are you a Geoentomarian?”

At this point in time, no one would be able to answer that question because no one knows what that means, except for the few of us who work at Next Millennium Farms.

A Geoentomarian is simply someone who eats insects to help better the health of our planet. Broken down, it’s “geo”, for the Earth, “entomo” for insects, and “arian” someone who engages in something.

The day will come, and we’re hoping sooner than later, when this question will be mainstream- just one question on a list of many to help you get to know someone better, or for someone to use as they describe themselves, as in, “I run, do yoga, and I’m a Geoentomarian.” But at this point in time, we are just launching the term, Geoentomarian into the stratosphere, hoping that it will gain as much momentum as Vegan, Vegetarian, Humanitarian, or Environmentalist.

Thank you to Nutritional Anthropologist, Nicole Kilburn, and those at I Am Eco Warrior .

Read, the article, share with friends, post to your fave social media outlet, and let us know, Are you a Geoentomarian?

I am.