Category Archive: Food Storage & Skills

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May 23

The Best Way to Can Peaches

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” Make It Do ” website shares the an amazing way to can peaches to add variety to your food pantry. This is a step by step process tutorial with beautiful pictures to fully illustrate how to get those delightful sweet smelling peaches into your canning jars. After canning these peaches, you can at a …

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May 22

Hot Pepper Jelly Recipe

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Averie cooks shares a recipe for hot pepper jelly. This is so good. I have made it twice since I found her recipe and we go through it like crazy. You can use this for so many things. We like it as dipping for egg rolls. I have also used it as a glaze for …

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May 20

Dehydrating Food Without Electricity

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The Prepper Project website shares the different ways to dehydrate food without electricity. There is a section how the easiest food to dehydrate and the most difficult foods… giving tips for both. I personally use my Food Saver machine to store my fully dehydrated foods because it removes the oxygen from with the bag therefore …

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May 20

3 Ways To Preserve Watermelon – 3 Recipes & Methods

Kate Payne

The Hip Girl’s Guide To Homemaking website shares three methods of preserving watermelon. There is even a recipe to showing you how to preserve the rind meaning no waste. Did you know that when you dehydrate watermelon that the natural sugars intensify ? It is absolutely beyond delicious… trust me on this one, lol. By …

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May 19

Peach Pie filling and a Brownie Mix in a Jar Recipes

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Mess hall bistro has 2 recipes to put into jars. They have a brownie mix to make up and use for gift giving or just to have in the pantry for when ever you wish to make some brownies and then there is an easy recipe for peach pie filling. It uses the water bath …

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May 17

Steak Sauce Canning Recipe – Tastes Almost Like A1

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Sb Canning website shares a steak sauce recipe that almost taste like A1. Personally, I am going to whip up a batch of this recipe as soon as I can because I am tried of paying for A1 steak sauce in the supermarket…. it is so expensive. SB Canning is one of our favorite websites …

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May 15

Storing Onions in Mesh Bags and Pantyhose – For Months

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One Hundred Dollars A Month website shows how to properly store onions vertical for months to come. Every time you need an onion just cut off a section of the knotted pantyhose.

May 14

Apple Rhubarb Jam

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I have added rhubarb to my garden this year and even though I know it will be a year or two before I can actually harvest some I have started looking for recipes to use it.    I know we like strawberry rhubarb pie and jam but I found this recipe for apple rhubarb jam …

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May 14

MORE Grocery Store Knock Offs!

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Every day food storage has a lot of recipes for making your own homemade from scratch knock offs using your food storage. Pretty cool. She has soups, pop tarts and fruit rolls,hot fudge and bread. Plus all kinds of food storage recipes. Great site with loads of info.   http://everydayfoodstorage.net/2011/09/07/more-grocery-store-knock-offs/food-storage-recipes

May 13

Violet Freezer Jam Recipe

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All the violets are in bloom in my area so I went looking for a recipe to use them in. I really like this one because she used honey instead of sugar and wild violets which is what I have. The jam is so pretty, seems to keep the color of the flower well and …

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