>>>>Sustainable Living PLUS Canning and Dehydrating Food<<<<

cheezy potatoes would be awesome! let me know if it works. i may try to can bacon for real.

it's great to have neighbors with gardens themselves. sharing is good.

we'll be getting more tomatoes from one of ours. i've still got corn, beets, cabbage, potatoes, lima beans, baby lima beans. there might be more but i'm so tired right now, i can't remember.

i love pickled beets. my mom has the best receipt.

it's so great to be able to go outside and pick fruit and use it. i have trees growing right now, some had small fruit this year. maybe by next year i'll have a crop.

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I will let you know :) I will let you know how the soups turn out too..I will make vegetable soup too:)

It would be nice if more people worked together.

Please see if your mom would mind if you posted her beet recipe and the fridge pickles. I have never made pickles in the fridge and would love a good recipe to try :)

i certainly will. mom would love to have other people try it out. i do love the beets. she's sleeping right now, so i'll post the receipes in the morning.

i gotta go to sleep. i have a bushel of peaches to can tomorrow. i'm also going to try canning peach pie filling. should be tasty!! i may have to whip up a pie crust of two also. just in case.

Perhaps i should now ask u how to can brocolli? Have u ever tried doing that? Do u guys eat much brocolli in USA? We call canning 'bottling' here in NZ.-

I dehydrate 6 bags of frozen veggies everyday, vacuum seal them with oxygen absorber and store.

Stir Fry
Mixed Vegetables
Rancho Blend
Soup veggie mix

I think of all food storage in terms of family servings so Im trying to get at least 1 year of dehydrated veggies.

last year i canned for the first time. wow, i was nervous.

this year, i'm doing better. i have been canning like mad.

if you'd like, tell us your how's and why's. learning to preserve food is one of the most important skills a person can learn.

if you have a picture of your preserved foods uploaded, let me know and i'll post it for you.

so far this year, we have canned...

green beans
yellow wax beans
peas
peaches
plums
zuchinni
sweet pickle relish

i'm going to try making my own fruit pie filling.

trying my hand at canning potatoes also.

finished the green beans while i was trying to write this. 14 quarts and 15 pints.

some of our canned goods. i have many in boxes and on shelves.

these were done a few days ago.

that is incredibly smart. i should try that myself. is it hard to do?

198 jars and counting, lol

This weekend, the big jelly and jam jam....about three gallons of rhubarb, two of blackberry, and about four gallons of raspberries to process. Plus, about 40 pounds of salmon, plain versus smoked.

Will have more green beans to do shortly, plus zucchini relish, and then there are the spuds.......

I'd say I was right on target for my usual 500 jars ;)

yeah, the biggest draw for me on canning, is being able to keep food if the grid was to go down.

i went through hurricaine ike and we didn't have power for 12 days. it was awful. i was the only person on the entire block who had a gas stove. i cooked for many people. then all our stuff went bad. it was awful.

i learned the hard way. now i'm taking advantage of the fact that i have all the canning stuff and the produce for the most part. i'm going to start canning all year around.

I'm happy to see I am not the only "mad canner" lol.

You can also check the lids by taping on the top, if they talk back? They haven't sealed.

Happy canning!!!

198 jars and counting, lol

This weekend, the big jelly and jam jam....about three gallons of rhubarb, two of blackberry, and about four gallons of raspberries to process. Plus, about 40 pounds of salmon, plain versus smoked.

Will have more green beans to do shortly, plus zucchini relish, and then there are the spuds.......

I'd say I was right on target for my usual 500 jars ;)

Yumm! I did not even think about Salmon!

Good advice as Irene is coming. I wanted to do some canning but a fucking woodchuck destroyed our whole garden. I might can him just yet.

Anyone canned sausage i heard it can be done?

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It's very simple, you just open the bag and spread it out over the dehydrating tray. It s already blanched, so there is no work involved. There are plenty of vids on youtube.

Just make sure you have some lemon juice in there before sealing. You sure as hell don't want that botulism shit inside you.

yes. food prep is very important. salt is also good. i've never gotten sick from home canned food. yet.

thanks for the tip. we need as much advise as possible!!

last year i canned for the first time. wow, i was nervous.

this year, i'm doing better. i have been canning like mad.

if you'd like, tell us your how's and why's. learning to preserve food is one of the most important skills a person can learn.

if you have a picture of your preserved foods uploaded, let me know and i'll post it for you.

so far this year, we have canned...

green beans
yellow wax beans
peas
peaches
plums
zuchinni
sweet pickle relish

i'm going to try making my own fruit pie filling.

trying my hand at canning potatoes also.

finished the green beans while i was trying to write this. 14 quarts and 15 pints.

some of our canned goods. i have many in boxes and on shelves.

these were done a few days ago.

I just canned about 50 lbs. of fresh blueberries and put in about a 1/4 cup of lemon juice in the bell jars. Some lids still popped after an hour of pressure cooking, so I did it all over again. No problem.

Brings back memories of my grandparents half-acre garden and my parents quarter acre. Spent hours snapping beans.
I don't see tomatoes on your list. Always great to grab a jar of canned tomatoes in February, too.

Another prolific producer is okra. At least it was in Illinois. Don't know about the red clay in North Carolina.

Nice stash tinygreen.

I used to do a lot of preserving and canning when the kids were young.

Your pics are making my mouth water.

wow that's some impressive canning there!I only managed to make a few jars of jam this year but I would love to make more. I really like these websites for tips and ideas for canning and dehydrating food, hope you find them useful too.

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(if you go to near the bottom of the page you can click on the link for the canning and preserving forum)

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