Cаnning, frееzing, аnd drуing аrе popular home рrеѕеrvаtiоn mеthоdѕ tоdау. In the past, people рrеѕеrvеd fооd bесаuѕе they didn’t hаvе аnу оthеr сhоiсе. In times оf pestilence, wаr, famine, tѕunаmiѕ, and earthquakes, people wаntеd tо mаkе ѕurе thеу had some fооd ‘рut by.’ Unlike tоdау, thеу lасkеd a year-round ѕuррlу оf frеѕh fооd and mechanical […]
Best Vegetables to Grow for Canning
Being able to grow your own vegetables which you can then can and store in the pantry for the winter is one of the most rewarding parts of gardening. Growing vegetables is the best way to enjoy fresh produce whenever you want, picking it right out of the garden and serving it up on the […]
Freezing Vegetables and Fruits
Summer time brings on lots of great produce but if you are anything like me I never get it all used up. So instead of throwing it out I have learned to freeze it so I have more to use in the other months of the year. Freezing vegetables and fruits isn’t hard. Freezing Fruits […]
Canning Pumpkin
Save your Pumpkins by Canning Them! Fall is in full swing, Halloween is now over and now you still have pumpkins. If you are anything like me you want to be as frugal as possible so you save the seeds, the “fruit” if you will and then you think, wow, that’s a lot of pumpkin. […]
Vegetable Canning 101
This time of the year I always have a lot of extra vegetables from the garden. But I don’t want them to go to waste so I’ve turned to home canning as a way to help preserve them and cut down on our out of pocket expenses at the same time. Vegetable canning is easy […]
Fruit Canning 101
In years past, fruit canning used to be done all of the time. Now that we are looking into ways to be more frugal, we are going back to things we used to do in the past. Canning fruits is a huge money saver! On top of that, you have fresh fruits and you know […]
5 Steps to Dehydrating Jalapeno Peppers
Dehydrating jalapeno peppers is a great way to preserve them for later use in soups, chilies, beans, or anything you cook. It seems we use them in just about everything. Dehydrating basically takes all the liquid from them, or dries them out. Later, when you soak them in water or use them in your recipes, […]
