Food Preservation

The Wonders of Canning with Grandma

I don’t think it was my grandmothers original intention to have me help. However, this encounter placed the seed of intense curiosity in me in regards to canning and homesteading.

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Food: The Way It Was Meant To Be

Choose simple, whole foods for your health and the health of the environment. For example, in fresh-churned butter, the only ingredient is cream. In apple cider, the only ingredient is apples.

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The Old Ways: Love ‘Em or Leave ‘Em?

Growing vegetables, butchering meat, canning food, making soap and butter, hanging clothes on the clothesline and using a wringer washer were things they did all the time, yearly if not daily.

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The Canned Food Expiration Date Myth

Why to start canning your own food: You won’t have to worry about BPA, you’ll know what’s in it, when it was canned and you’ll learn a lifelong self-sufficiency skill.

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