What does it mean to you to eat seasonally? For us, that’s eating as much fresh produce as possible during the growing season. But it looks different once the garden stops producing! Today’s Pantry Chat is all about how our family eats seasonally to save time, energy AND money in the kitchen.
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0:00 – Chit Chat
7:33 – Question of the Day
9:11 – Lehmans
11:50 – Main Topic
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27 Comments
Love this topic! Thanks for sharing. ❤
Lehman s is awesome I've got several items from them I would love to visit the store great video❤
Great vlog, thanks
In one of Eliot Coleman's gardening books, he says he doesn't preserve from the garden, he says he just doesn't have the time. He eats fresh from his Maine garden all year. Warm season crops in the warm season, cool season crops in the cool season. No need for canning jars or lids. Now that I've been digging into health more and circadian + seasonal rhythm, light and dark cycles, it totally makes sense to me. Carbs have a season, and it's when they grow. Logically it makes sense, eat how our ancestors ate. Getting there has been a bit harder for me to implement. Thank you for the encouragement, will keep working towards my goal.
consider spouts is gardening
Some farmers markets are a scam, or like mine a partial scam. I live in Germany, and a few years ago, I walked over the farmers market in February. They had watermelons from Latin America… Everyone, just keepyour eyes open, and don't let them scam you <3<3<3
Very interesting and informative! I am one of those people who preserve vegetables then buy vegetables at the store to eat fresh. What is wrong with me???? After watching your Pantry Chat I am going to start eating more from the garden (although most of my garden died this summer from the heat) once my fall garden starts producing and eating from what I've been preserving rather than buying food from the grocery store. Thank you Carolyn! I always learn something from you.
Love your pantry chats. I am waiting for your book to come in the mail
I received my book on Frees drying. It is amazing ! Thank You 😊❤
I need to get some food out of my garden.
Agreed! I came to the realization some time ago after watching pantry haul video's that although folks are living this lifestyle and growing their own food, they are still being driven by commercialism in the grocery store, convenience and are eating what they want when they want, even though it may be out of season and an item has travelled thousands of miles to get there. It makes me smile and scratch my head. I live in a part of the world where the only thing I can grow or store outside are snow banks so my root cellaring and preserving are key. Although I like the convenience meals, my preference is to preserve as individual ingredients to give the freedom to use as necessary. Good chat.
I have a salad table in a southern window. Fresh greens all winter. I'm only feeding 3.
My mother loved Lehman’s catalog. Every time we went overseas starting around the middle 50s she would order a refrigerator and stove run on bottle gas from there. Electricity did not come out as far as the house. The generator handled evening house lights, Monday laundry and the kitchen aid on bread making day. I still love looking at their catalog
My uncle has tomatoes in the greenhouse but they're not turning red what can we do to get them to ripen up before the first Frost which could be any day now. I'm only about 3 to 5 hours South of you. Above Kamiah, Idaho
I have your new book on freeze drying and I don't even have my freeze dryer yet. It is going to be such a help because I will know just what I need for the FD to be hooked up and ready to go when it gets here. Still have more to pay, but just can't wait!!! God bless y'all and keep growing.
Its not just a mental shift, many preservatives are addicting.
The longer you can go without some of these highly-processed foods, the easier it is. You find the stuff you were eating doesn't taste as good as you remember, you feel kind of crummy or lethargic and you are hungrier in a shorter time after eating.
The trick is paying attention, because after a year or 2 of healthier eating, you will find you do not crave many food items.
What a great video. You are so right
Great chat. It takes a lot time to build all the skills to make this work (cooking, growing, eating, preserving) but it does really make a difference.
Question off topic of video…where can I pre-order/order your freeze drying book? Is there somewhere to purchase it that is NOT Amazon? I try not to give them my money lol. I clicked on one of your links and it took me to amazon.
Can you put onion seed, leek seed and scallion seed in the ground for over winter so they grow on their own?
Thank you for this valuable info! We are so spoiled when it comes to this!
Speaking of healthy packaging options, what do you use to freeze your meats and other food items? Plastic seems like a bad option anymore and virtually everything is in plastic 😮
I live about an hour from Lehmans here in Ohio. It’s a great place to visit!
So jealous! Not having the best year and we are getting some abundance!
Oh girl….trust me I get to have my Marinara sauce in the winter here in michigan. I make all my romas and other paste tomatoes into pasta sauce and can it 😂😂😂😂😂 I canned, and froze alot of beans, corn, and butter nut squash as well as zichini soni can add a touch of summer in the cold winter months here too.
Love this chat, for sure…and may be more than a little jealous of your having so much asparagus to enjoy in the spring!!
Great video. I have a favorite cookbook I picked up years ago that's based on cooking seasonally out of the garden, SIMPLY IN SEASON… Recipes that celebrate fresh, local foods in the spirit of More-with-Less. Highly recommend it 😊
Well in theory it would work, but in a multicultural society not everyone is originally from the country they live in. I would hate not to be able to eat tropical fruit, or other things I wouldn't be able to grow here in the Netherlands without a large heated greenhouse.