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Reporting on food, groceries and the culture shaping how Canadians eat.
OUR MISSION
At Cart Culture, healthy living is about real life. Cart Culture’s mission is to cut through the online noise around wellness culture and report on how Canadians are actually shopping, cooking, and eating today.
Welcome to Cart Culture…your source for reporting on food, groceries and online health culture.
I’m Daniel Reale-Chin. For the past three years, I’ve interviewed Canadians across the country on how they eat, shop and stay healthy for The Globe and Mail. At the end of every interview, I ask the same question:
“What’s in your cart?”
In traditional media, those conversations are compressed. Interviews that unfolded over 45 minutes, distilled into a few hundred words. Here, I get to tell the full story.
At Cart Culture, you can expect:
Real accounts of how Canadians eat and manage their health
Weekly round-ups of Canada’s top grocery news
Sharp coverage of online health culture: what works, what doesn’t and what people are actually doing
Thoughtful conversations with experts
Sharp criticism from nutritionists, dieticians and researchers that help cut through that noise
And, always, a look at what Canadians are putting in their carts.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daniel Reale-Chin
I’m Daniel Reale-Chin, I’m a Toronto-based journalist with bylines in the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the Toronto Star, among others.
I’ve been writing the Globe and Mail’s “What’s in my Cart” series since 2024. Originally, the idea was a four-part series in the Globe’s lifestyle section, speaking to four healthy Canadians about how they grocery shop, save money and occasionally splurge to stay healthy. The series has grown — once weekly, now monthly — into a column people tell me they look forward to.
Since then, I’ve interviewed over 70 Canadians on how they grocery shop to stay healthy. Some of the most interesting ones include a young lobster fisherman in Tignish, P.E.I., a grandfather in Nunavut who grocery shops for a family of 12 in a town prone to food shortages, a mother who changed her diet after her son was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease, a few olympic athletes, some specialized doctors and dieticians, and very many everyday Canadians.
It’s also always inspired me to stay healthy — something many of us are constantly striving for.
I love what I do and I want to continue sharing these stories with you.
WHAT YOU'LL READ
Topics we cover
Grocery Prices
What Canadians are spending on groceries today.
Food Culture & Trends
How real Canadians are eating, cooking, and thinking about food — from shopping habits to diets.
Grocery News
Weekly round-ups of the latest grocery news from around Canada.
Health & Nutrition
The intersection of what we eat and how it affects us.
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