Want to donate some to a study on food storage oils at BYU? I love food storage experiments, so you know I’m letting them have some of my old stuff. If you’d like to help out the oil study, see the details here. They are looking for vegetable oils that have been in food storage […]
Canning Plum Jam
Cooked jams are not too difficult and a little bit of fruit can actually make more jam than you might think. And one of the best parts about making jam is that you can make “variations on the theme” jams that you’ll never find in a store, like cherry-strawberry or plum-pineapple or peach-jalepeno (hubby’s personal […]
Waxing Cheese Update
Had to use some of the waxed cheese from storage the other day and thought I’d update the cheese waxing post. Here’s some thoughts on the waxing cheese experiment: This was my first attempt at waxing cheese. It worked pretty well. To do it again, I’d skip the strings and just dip half the cheese […]
The Difference Between Instant and Non-Instant or Regular Powdered Milk and a Question for my Readers
Make sure you get to the question at the bottom of this post even if you don’t want to read about powdered milk :) I had a comment on the powdered milk post about the difference between instant and non-instant powdered milk. There are two basic kinds of powdered milks, instant and non-instant or “regular”. […]
Getting Preparedness Gear on the Cheap
You all know I’m cheap. I do not like spending money and rarely buy anything new. In the wake of the free canning jar episode, I thought I’d let you all in on some other methods of finding canning supplies without paying an arm and a leg, then I thought, heck, I’ve gotten gear outside […]
Making Canned Milk Products from Powdered Milk
Back when I started storing food I stocked up on some canned milk products like evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk. I’ve found they don’t store very long–the expiration date on the can is pretty much all they’re good for and I don’t use them often enough to rotate through them quick enough. So check […]
Scored Some FREE Canning Jars
My UPS guy called yesterday morning and let me know that a friend of his was moving and had some canning jars they didn’t want to take with them and did I want any. Well, of course I do. So I loaded up some boxes for the loose jars, headed over to the moving house, […]
Fabulous Homemade Canned Salsa
I was going to write something fantabulous about Christmas or winter or something, but to be honest, my brain’s about done, so I’m pulling out the Salsa post I’ve been wanting to write. It’s kind of Christmasy because some people I love are getting some of my salsa as gifts this year. There you go. […]
Canning Tomatoes
Today we have another flashback to summer post. Canning tomatoes. I was going to do salsa, but the first steps of salsa are the same as canning tomatoes, so we really need to cover canning tomatoes first. Canning tomatoes starts with getting some tomatoes. Really not cost effective to buy your tomatoes at a grocery […]
Product Review: Best Prices Signature Canned Meats
In planning our food storage, one area that’s caused some trouble is meats. Now I know meats aren’t on the “wheat, beans, powdered milk, and honey” plan, but I like meat. So does my sweet husband. So do my kids. I really want some in my food storage. The standard way to store meats is […]
