Keystone Processors Blog

It’s that time of year again – back to school!  Time to start shopping for school supplies and planning healthy lunch choices for you and your kids.  Incorporating lean beef in after school dishes and in lunch boxes can be easy and help kids stay fueled throughout the day.

Starting Monday, August 23 and running until September 5, Keystone Processors is offering a special 10% off back to school sale on our popular Variety Pack, which includes:

·    One roast (approx. 4 lbs)
·    Two packages of two lbs, 85% lean ground beef
·    One package of wieners
·    One package of two ribeye steaks.

Visit our online store and you can pick up your order on-site at 663 Marion St. or at our two new pick-up locations at the Carver’s Knife (1530 Regent Ave W, or 39 Marion St. in the Dominion Shopping Centre).

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Congratulations to our official Facebook winner Norman B Mitchell and our official Twitter winner @PamReiss for each winning our delicious Sirloin Tip Roast!

Please contact Kym at Keystone Processors at 204-235-0454 to claim your prizes!

We appreciate all of our fans on Twitter and Facebook! Thanks for all of your comments, questions and recipe ideas! Keep them coming!

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Love your beef? Love celebrating Canada Day weekend? Here’s your chance to show it!

Between Thursday, July 1st to Sunday, July 4th Keystone Processors wants you to submit a picture of yourself or with friends and family, preparing, grilling or eating your favourite beef dish. Could be a hamburger or a steak… the best Canada Day Weekend picture will win a sirloin tip roast.

You can enter the contest by visiting our Facebook page and becoming a fan by clicking the “Like” button and choosing the “Upload Photo” option.  Remember to include your name with your entry.

Keystone will select the winning entry on Wednesday, July 7th and announce the results on Twitter and Facebook.  Deadline for entries is on Sunday, July 4th.

We can’t wait to see your best shot of eating, grilling or cooking your favourite Keystone Processors dish! Happy Canada Day everyone!

(Contest is open to Manitoba residents only. We reserve the right to substitute the equivalent cash value where shipping and handling is prohibitive.)

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So it turns out (to no surprise), that Winnipeggers like their barbecues!  Our annual barbeque was held today on location at 663 Marion St. and was a great success!

We would like to thank everyone who came out, showed their support and donated to Siloam Mission.

We really lucked out and had fabulous weather. With the sun shining and the aroma of delicious burgers, hotdogs and steaks in the air, we ended up attracting and serving close to 100 people, from families to business people.

Larry Updike, Senior Communications and Advocacy Spokesperson of Siloam Mission with Kelly Penner, President and CEO of Keystone Processors Ltd.

We greatly appreciate everyone attending.  It was a lot of fun talking to Winnipeggers about our products and what we do here at Keystone Processors Ltd, while serving our premium Manitoba-raised Natural Prairie Beef products.  And it was also very gratifying to see so many of our guests buying a box of our products to take home.

If you would like to buy some of our products, all of our steaks are 15% off, until Sunday, June 27th. Visit our online store to learn more.

Thanks to everyone for taking part and making the event such a great success! We can’t wait until next year!

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It’s that time of year again! Keystone Processors welcomes its friends and neighbours to our annual BBQ lunch on Wednesday, June 23rd.

The BBQ will be free of charge and held on location at 663 Marion St from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Not only can you try our products, but we’re also selling delicious, hormone-free Natural Prairie Beef on site. Straight from the farm to your tables.

We’ll be collecting donations at the BBQ for Siloam Mission, a connecting point between the compassionate and Winnipeg’s less fortunate. Siloam Mission is a Christian humanitarian agency offering programs and services at no charge to those experiencing homelessness.

So come out and sample a premium burger, join us in giving back to the Winnipeg community and talk to us about our vision for bringing top quality Manitoba cattle to market here at home and around the world.

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Just when we thought Chef Rob from iTV Winnipeg’s Chef’s Pantry Raid couldn’t make a more delicious dish with our products, he does it again with a tender flank steak.

In this episode Chef Rob raids Linda’s pantry and demonstrates how to tenderize and marinate a flank steak.  He also chooses the perfect accompaniments to complete the meal.

Chef Rob shows how easy it is to make a tasty and unique dish using items you already have in the kitchen.

Flank steaks and all of our products are available at our online store.

The final product looks so appetizing, we’re jealous we’re not sitting with Chef Rob and Linda on her balcony!

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Food Day is a national celebration of restaurateurs, suppliers, growers, farmers and citizens joining together to show the world the depth and breadth of Canada as a culinary nation.

Over 120 of the top Canadian restaurants are on board, with many more to come.  Restaurants participating in Manitoba include: Fusion Grill in Winnipeg, Manitoba (a Keystone Processors customer); Chris’s Café in Rivers, Manitoba and Churchill Wild in Churchill, Manitoba.

July 31st marks the 8th annual coast-to-coast-to-coast event, heralding our regional diversity, culinary creativity and world-renowned reputation for throwing an amazing party! This year we encourage you to make Keystone Processors a part of your Food Day Canada celebration. What better occasion to experience Manitoba’s premium, locally raised beef for the first time then on a day designated to celebrate local beef producers.

Food Day was originally introduced in 2003 as The World’s Longest BBQ and was launched in order to help Canadian Beef farmers deal with the wave of difficulties brought on by US and world beef bans. The BBQ was a huge success and has evolved into Food Day, an annual mid-summer celebration when we share Canada’s rich culinary heritage, our delicious northern bounty and the best managed food system on the planet.

Click here to learn more about Food Day

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If you’re looking for a new recipe to cook tenderloin on the barbeque, look no further!

Check out iTV Winnipeg’s Chef Rob as he raids 102.3 Clear FM’s Jay Oliver’s pantry and creates a mouth-watering dish using our Natural Prairie Beef tenderloin. Click here to watch the full video.

All of our steaks are aged at least 21 days to ensure extra tenderness and flavour.

Tenderloins and all of our other products are available at our online store.

Chef’s Pantry Raid is an online program, where Chef Rob visits homes and shows what he can do with an interesting combination of basic items from the pantry and makes a unique dinner.

Click here if you want Chef Rob to visit your kitchen

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We’ve made it even easier for you to enjoy and purchase our Manitoba-raised beef, by teaming up with The Carver’s Knife and adding their two convenient locations for pick-up of your paid online orders.

You can choose to pick up your online order the following day from either of their two locations: 1530 Regent Ave.W or 39 Marion St. (right in Dominion Shopping Centre).  For your convenience, The Carver’s Knife is open six days a week and orders will be available for pick-up the next day after noon until 6 p.m.

If you haven’t ordered online before, it’s easy.  Go to www.keystoneprocessors.com and click on online store.  Then create your customer profile by clicking ‘register’ in the Authentication Box and you’re set.  Now the hard part is choosing which delicious product to BBQ this week!

Keystone Processors will continue to be open as a retail outlet Monday to Friday, from 10 a.m.     to 4 p.m.

If you have any questions, please give us a call at 204-235-0454

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Did you know that nearly 19 percent of men and 31 percent of women have protein intakes that are below the current Recommended Dietary Allowance?

The Beef Checkoff teamed up with the 2010 John Hancock Sports and Fitness Expo Boston Marathon Weekend to inform runners and spectators about the protein power found in lean beef.

Sixteen runners wore BEEF jerseys at this year’s Boston Marathon and all were fueled to the finish with beef!

Team BEEF extended the message to fellow runners and spectators, that incorporating high quality protein into the diet throughout the day can help in maintaining a healthy weight, building muscle and fueling physical activity.

What a great way to promote beef! Have you seen runners or know of any interesting ways beef is being promoted?

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