Apples! Apples! Apples! Ever read the cute children’s book titled 10 Apples up on Top? Kinda how I’ve felt lately. Trying to keep all my apples balanced. But at least I’ve gotten the applesauce and the apple pie filling canned! Yay! Today I’m sharing how to make Homemade Apple Pie Filling to Can. There’s nothing quite like a fresh apple pie and using pie filling from the store is just never the same. However, using your own home-canned pie filling is […]
Food Storage Inventory Sheets
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Living in a land of plenty, we are blessed. If I go hungry it’s simply because I haven’t taken the time to eat. Food shortage isn’t an issue here. Food storage is. Because we live in a smaller home, I have to be very strategic and organized with my food storage technique. We buy most of our meat from farmers during the winter, and summer-time finds me preserving all sorts of fruits and vegetables. This means stuff really gets piled into […]
How to Freeze Fresh Green Beans
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I don’t know about you, but our little garden did very well this year and we were blessed with lots of green beans. I canned quite a bit, and canning is ideal because they keep well this way and there is no worries about loosing food if the electric goes out. However, we are huge fans of frozen green beans. They just taste so much better! I took some photos of the relatively simple process and thought I would would […]
How Canning is Beneficial to Everyone.
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Been thinking about canning lately; maybe because I’ve been doing a lot of it. And any rate, I got to thinking about how canning is beneficial to basically everyone. I love going out to my shelves and seeing the jars full of food all lined up in rows. It makes me feel good to know that we have food for the winter months ahead. And of course, it makes my tummy very happy! How Canning Benefits Everyone: The Earth: Buying […]
Canning Homemade Salsa
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Late summer finds me in the kitchen canning homemade salsa. We eat so much salsa during the year that it would be insanely costly to buy it. If you know how to can and don’t mind chopping onions and hot peppers you can also can homemade salsa. My homemade salsa is one that mother and I have been making for years. However, each year it tastes a little different. In fact, the salsa I can, tastes different than the salsa […]
Canning Problems and Solutions ~Simple Prevention
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For the homemaker who preserves her family’s food for the winter knowing canning problems and solutions is an important part of canning. Whether you use a hot water bath, or pressure canner, the problems and solutions are often the same. Jars don’t seal. Jars break. The liquid leaks out of your jars while canning. Jars unseal after they have been canned and shelved. I’m not THE expert on canning, but I’ve been canning for over 10 years and thought I would […]
Investments that Save Money ~Spend to Save?
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We try to live frugally around here, but that doesn’t mean we never spend money. In fact, there have been times where we’ve made rather large investments that save money. In some cases they quickly pay for themselves monetarily, in other cases, the side benefits help pay for them too. When you want to save money, it can be hard to “let” yourself spend a lot of money on an item when maybe you could get something else a little […]
Make Your Own Pumpkin Puree
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Why go to the store and buy canned pumpkin when you can make your own pumpkin puree? I mean after all, didn’t you just go and buy pumpkins to sit on your front porch, that normally get tossed in a month? And don’t you think the stores charge way too much for a tiny can of that orange stuff? It’s really easy to make your own pumpkin puree and about the only way I can justify buying one of those […]
Dehydrated Tomatoes ~How to Easily Dry Tomatoes
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The arrival of fall signals the end of my garden. But as usual my tomatoes are still slowly producing, so I’ve been making dehydrated tomatoes. It’s easy to do them in small batches, because 4 or 5 tomatoes won’t make much sauce, but it’s easy to dry them and you can do a little at a time. Originally I was going to make dehydrated tomatoes in my oven. I had cooling rack (for cookies and such) that fit perfectly in […]
