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Cricket Flour Pancakes and Waffles

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cricket flour pancakes and waffles

 

This delicious recipe comes to you from Megan Stevens of www.eatbeautiful.net . Megan is an author, blogger, and all around food and health enthusiast!

There is also an egg-free, nut-free, dairy-free version of this recipe on her blog. There are two Paleo recipes with cricket flour; both gluten-free, grain-free and sugar-free to accommodate different people’s dietary needs.

Thank you, Megan!

 

CRICKET FLOUR PANCAKES AND WAFFLES

This batter can be used for pancakes or waffles. They are good by themselves, very substantial for a meal, and also excellent with any traditional toppings. I am partial to having them with maple syrup and butter, since I grew up with buckwheat pancakes with maple syrup; and these are quite similar. If you can’t have chia seeds, try substituting in coconut flour for the seeds, or another grain-free flour substitute you can have.
Servings Prep Time
3-4people 10minutes
Cook Time
15minutes
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Place all the ingredients in a blender.
  2. Blend on medium speed for 30 seconds, or until you have a mostly smooth batter.
  3. Allow the batter to set up and thicken for 10-15 minutes. The chia seeds will perform this action.
  4. Heat a griddle or cast iron skillet with 1 T. preferred fat and fry up those pancakes, adding more fat as needed. They will cook as traditional pancakes do

BBC’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ Talks About Eating Crickets and Next Millennium Farms

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Next Millennium Farms on BBC

Sian Griffiths, reporter for BBC’s “From Our Own Correspondent”, talks candidly about eating crickets, her visit to the cricket farm and worm farm of Next Millennium Farms in rural Ontario, and meeting the Goldin Brothers, Jarrod, Darren and Ryan, the co-founders of the company.

Click to listen to the podcast, and scrub to 4:45, to hear Griffiths talk about the impact that eating insects can have on global food security as well as the nutritional and environmental benefits of eating insects.

Griffiths points out that 2 billion people on this planet already consume insects as their main source of protein; from Asia to Africa, to South America. She bravely tries the ginger cookies made with cricket flour, and the brownies made with cricket flour, (and states how delicious they are!) but passes on the chocolate covered mealworms.

Maybe next time, Sian!

#InsectProtein #CricketFlour #Entomophagy

 

 

 

 

 

Eating Insects and Cricket Flour Make the News in the United Kingdom

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The Daily Mail had a huge spread in their online and print paper today about Next Millennium Farms and the reality of insect protein becoming the new viable source of protein for humans as we skyrocket towards a global population of over 9 billion people.

Next Millennium Farms is the first farm of its kind in North America that raises crickets for human consumption.

The article in the Daily Mail clearly outlines the health benefits of humans consuming insect protein, as well as the environmental aspects of raising insects for protein consumption versus other more readily accepted (in North America) forms of protein that put a drastic strain on the Earth and its resources, such as fresh water and land.

Read the article and share with your friends and family! Change is a-coming!

#CricketFlour #InsectProtein #Entomophagy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Insects for Humans on the Inside Scoop- Emerald Planet

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Co-Founder Jarrod Goldin on Emerald Planet

Jarrod Goldin, Co-Founder of Next Millennium Farms, spoke to Dr. Sam Hancock about eating insects for health, taste, and the sustainability of the planet as we skyrocket towards a population of over 9 billion by the year 2050, on Sunday’s edition of Inside Scoop- Emerald Planet.

This show, based out of Washington D.C. typically draws an audience of 5 million people.

This episode of Inside Scoop- Emerald Planet, is almost an hour long, and focuses on the vision and mission of Next Millennium Farms.

There are some wonderful slides with graphics just before the 5 minute mark that highlight the amount of resources it takes to grow different kinds of protein.

If you are interested in how insect consumption can greatly reduce your carbon footprint, tune in just before the 10 minute mark.

For many of you, you might not be necessarily interested in the environmental impact of your food choices, rather your driving force for the foods that you choose to eat, might simply just be straight up nutrition. Check out the video just before the 11 minute mark to hear Jarrod talk about the nutritional information that correlates to one serving of insect protein; carbohydrates, protein, fat and calories.

The conversation continues, and at 17:20 you can get a glimpse of the Norwood, Ontario farm, the benefits of farming, and how Next Millennium Farms processes their insects.

Nicole Kilburn, professor of anthropology at Camosun College in British Columbia joins Dr. Hancock at 23:00, and discusses entomophagy as it relates to nutritional anthropology in different societies.

The last segment that runs from 45:30 to the end, features Jarrod discussing the possibility of setting up global insect farms, and the benefits this will have not only from a nutritional point of view, but also from an economic point of view as well considering it could conceivably create many jobs. There is also conversation around who are the early adopters to eating insects, and insect flour as RUTF (Ready to Use Therapeutic Food) for populations that are involved in disasters, and are unable to provide their own nutrition.

Now that you’ve watched to show, I’m sure you’re going to want to sample some of the insects yourself.

Check out our newly launched Bug Bistro, where you can taste some crunchy and flavorful mealworms and crickets, or try some insect flour in your cooking!

“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!

 

 

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.

 

Cricket Protein and Next Millennium Farms: In the News

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Insect Protein from Next Millennium Farms

Jarrod, Darren and Ryan Goldin, the founders of Next Millennium Farms, were interviewed by the Toronto Star.

Here is the article that appears in the Business section of the Toronto Star on May 17th, 2014. It is a great summary of the business to this point, and captures the vision- from a global environmental viewpoint as well as from a business viewpoint- so beautifully.

Eating insect protein such as cricket protein, can have tremendous benefits for the globe, both in terms of reducing our protein-associated carbon footprint, and in feeding our own food insecure, which will grow to alarming rates as our world’s population skyrockets to over 9 billion by the year 2050.

Please read this article and share with your circles!

We would love to hear your feedback!

Which Bugs are Edible?

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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations there are an estimated 1 462 species of recorded edible insects in the world.

Included in this list are:

  • Globally, the most common insects consumed are beetles
  • Caterpillars
  • Bees
  • Wasps
  • Ants
  • Grasshoppers
  • Locusts
  • Crickets