Ingredient List: Inuvik, NWT

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Includes some ingredients from North of Inuvik from:

• Ulukhaktok
• Paulatuk
• Sachs’ Harbour
• Tuktoyaktuk

Meat:

• Moose (all parts)
• Caribou (all parts)
• Grouse
• Ptarmigan (willow)
• Beaver
• Squirrel
• Muskrat
• Duck
• Goose
• Reindeer
• Muskox (from further north)
• Chicken
• Rabbit

Fish:

• Grayling
• Burbot
• Pike
• Whitefish
• Arctic Char
• Loche
• Seal (from further north)
• Beluga (from further north)

Dairy: None Eggs

• Chicken Eggs

Grains:

• Lambsquarter/Pigsweed

Fruit:

• Kungalik (arctic rhubarb)
• Low bush cranberries
• Rosehips
• Saskatoon berries
• Haskap berries
• Black currents
• Blueberries
• Raspberries
• Rhubarb
• Salmonberry/Cloudberrry/Bakeapple
• Strawberries

Vegetables (can store fresh year round):

• Potatoes
• Carrots
• Cabbage
• Kolrabi
• Onions
• Celeriac Root
• Rutabaga
• Turnip
• Beets
• Spaghetti Squash

Vegetables (can store frozen, dried or canned):

• Tomatoes
• Kale
• Spinach
• Swiss chard
• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Zucchini
• Celery
• Peas
• Cucumbers as pickles
• A few sweet peppers
• A few Hot peppers
• Bok Choy
• Corn

Seasonal only vegetables:

• Lettuce
• Green onions
• Cucumbers – fresh
• Radish

Herbs:

• Basil
• Dill
• Mint
• Thyme
• Oregano
• Cilantro/coriander
• Marjoram
• Rosemary
• Parsley
• Sage
• Sorrel
• Lemon Balm
• Catnip

Wild plants:

• Wild plantain
• Wild onions
• Fireweed
• Juniper berries
• Spruce tips
• Labrador tea
• Wild Sage
• Colts foot
• Stinging Nettle
• Yarrow
• Dandelion
• Chickweed
• Wild Rose Petals
• Mushrooms: puff balls
• Chaga (a bit)
• Rodeola Root

Sweetener:

• Stevia

Thickener:

• Yellow dock
• Birch and Alder Catkins (if not allergic)

Fats:


• Moose lard
• Muktuk

Misc:

• Kephir
• Sourdough starter
• Kombucha