Canning & Preserving
Canning green beans is simple and a great first-time canning project. Older children can even lighten the work by trimming beans and filling jars.
I purchase much of my food storage basics from our local LDS Cannery or Home Storage Center. Home Storage Centers are located in many areas around the world, and typically have the best prices for wheat, beans, rice, etc.. The LDS Church had previously welcomed members and non-members alike to walk in to the centers, [...]
If you’d like to share your enthusiasm for food storage with others, this darling idea from www.sugardoodle.net might be the ticket. Similar to being “BOO’ed” at Halloween, you attach a cute food storage poem to two items from your food storage (like bottled peaches, or even a couple of cans of beans) and place them on [...]
Our local fruit stand had cases of beautiful bing cherries, so we couldn’t resist spending a couple of days canning. With purple fingertips, we stemmed and pitted 40 pounds of cherries and turned them into pretty jars of Cherry Pie Filling, Cherry Jam, Cherry-Boysenberry Jam, Cherry-Raspberry Jam, Cherry Vanilla Bean Syrup, and plain bottled cherries [...]
When it comes to storing fruit, you have a few options depending on how fast your family can rotate it. You can store fruit in your freezer or in jars and cans, or freeze-dried or dehydrated for longer-term storage. It’s good to have a variety. My family is slow to use up canned fruits, but we use [...]
