Fresh, colorful and easy-to-enjoy meal salads all summer long!
Granby, June 11, 2026 – To celebrate the beautiful season, April will launch its brand new summer inspiration notebookAn invitation to cook with simplicity, freshness, and creativity. Designed to accompany Quebecers throughout the summer, this guide highlights Balanced meal salads, light dish ideas and gourmet inspiration which promote the products of Avril's own brands.
For 31 years, this Quebec-based health food supermarket chain has been promoting a healthy lifestyle. This mission is reflected in this booklet, which brings together favorite products and recipes celebrating the freshness and simplicity of the warm season.
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Complete meal salads, designed for summer
At the heart of its summer menu, Avril offers a flexible approach to food: creating balanced, colorful, and flavorful meal-sized salads from a few carefully chosen essentials. Leveraging the quality of its ingredients and the diversity of its in-house offerings, the formula can be easily adapted to suit individual preferences, with a base of fresh vegetables, a source of protein, carbohydrates, a dressing, and toppings for texture and taste. This provides accessible solutions for nutritious meals that fit all lifestyles.
The booklet presents four salad and bowl recipes, designed to combine freshness and the pleasure of cooking. The suggestions are suitable for everyday meals as well as for sharing with friends or family.
Freshness at the heart of the season
Avril continues its commitment to offering 100% organic fresh fruits and vegetables in-store, prioritizing seasonal products that reflect the richness of the local terroir and expertise. The guide gives pride of place to organic microgreens grown directly in the Laval store's greenhouse, including organic coriander microgreens. April cultivated integrated into the poké-style bowl and the Tex-Mex microgreen mix April cultivated which accompanies the meal bowl of the same name.
Rich in flavor and nutrients, microgreens blend easily into salads, bowls, and summer dishes, adding a dose of vitality to every bite.
Avril's in-house brand in summer mode
The summer notebook illustrates the diversity of the house brands April selected et April Gourmet, which include more than 500 products designed to make everyday life easier, including oils, dressings, legumes, grains, organic ingredients and other ready-to-cook products.
Among the highlighted ingredients is organic black royal quinoa April selected used in the poké-style meal bowl, organic red lentil couscous April selected and organic semi-whole sesame tahini April selected which make up the herb tabbouleh, black garlic vinegar April Gourmet which adds character to the creamy sauce of the Tex-Mex bowl meal, or even the organic Mediterranean salad topping April selected which enhances the salad of the same name.
These products allow you to create accessible and inspiring meals throughout the season!
About April
Founded in 1995 in Granby by Sylvie Senay and Rolland Tanguay, Avril employs over 1400 people and has 13 branches in Quebec. It offers a transactional website, a private label of over 500 products, a loyalty program (Marguerite) and a new service for healthcare professionals (Avril Pro).
