Is canning worth it? It depends. Overall I'd say yes, but it does depend on your situation and season of life. You have to consider the cost of supplies, the food, your time and the canned food quality. When you start buying jars, lids, a canner (especially if you buy a pressure canner) an
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Our banana peppers have done better than any other plants this year. Banana Peppers Cloves of Garlic Mustard Seed Vinegar Sugar Sterilize 2 - pint jars. Keep jars hot until it is time to fill them. Heat up your lids. Pickling Juice 2 cups white v
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We put up green beans a couple weeks ago. now we're working on sweet corn... Oh, how I hate the mess... but I sure do love the results! We've also made pickles... both dill and bread and butter. 20 -30 jars at a time will make this winter e
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These are my favorite canning supplies: Presto 23 Quart Pressure Cooker Using a pressure cooker to can produce sure does cut processing time way down! Hot water canner, perfect for processing tomatoes or if you are cautious about using a pressure cooker. All of these gadgets make canning e
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We're still working on canning at our house. Right now we are getting tomatoes and peppers at great prices! Jeff and Emma picked tomatoes for $4.00 a box today, can't beat that! The down side of canning is that it heats up the kitchen something awful. So to apply some of our outdoor cook
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Last week we had an abundance of produce to can, in fact so much that I had to part with some of it to the Prittchet Family...I just didn't have time to get it all done. Emma and I did get 21 quarts of vegetable soup... and 7 quarts of squash relish. I used this re
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Canning your harvest can be very much like child birth. Saturday as I was finishing up canning corn my friend Kelly called and told me that she cried as she watched the raw video I took during the recent birth of her daughter. I laughed at her as I often do. :o) For those that don't know m
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Today we held our canning class at the home of Sandra and Ana Smith. It was a good day with sweet fellowship and encouragement as these girls learned how to can blueberry jam, tomatoes and vegetables soup. One of the young girls made the comment, "Or you could just buy them (
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He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame. Proverbs 10:5 Whether you're harvesting your own fruits and vegetables, buying from the local farmer's market or buying straight from the grocery store, summer is the best time to stock up
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If you do not have any canning supplies yet now is the time to start buying them. If you buy one or two items a week when you shop it will only take a few weeks to gather all your supplies. Of course keep your eyes open at yard sales and thrift stores, or just order from Amazon and have them
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Yesterday, after I sent Olivia off to Florida for 2 weeks with some friends to help with their children, Emma and I got busy canning salsa and tomatoes. It was a lot of work, but we really enjoyed doing it. There is nothing like working elbow to elbow with your children to bind hearts! Je
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This was Jeff's grandmother's recipe: You will need: onions, bells peppers, salt, sugar, vinegar, water 12 onions 12 Red Peppers 12 Green Peppers They could be all one color, the combination just makes it pretty. Wash the pep
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Here is a little of what we've done today. Tomatoes are probably the sloppiest thing to can. Letisha emailed me and asked: I have been wondering what are the pros and cons for canning and freezing. I froze our blueberries. I picked some pears from my MIL's tree and am freezing them. I
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There is an orchard about a mile from us that will let us pick the apples that are on the ground for free. :o) Jeff and the girls spent Saturday morning doing that with another neighbor. Only down side was that Jeff hurt his back. &nbs
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Our family's choice:
“It’s absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age and social class.
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