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Who’s up for this wonderful challenge to store 365 days worth of pantry food? Let’s do this together. Comment below on if you’re up for this challenge so we can keep track of each other and encourage one another. Please check out our harvest right link above. So excited for us all. Take care. See you soon.
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Love the challenge idea! My goal from the beginning has been meat storage. I feel like if I cover that first, I rather take a chance that fresh veggies will be around or we can grow them but meat could be harder to find or afford. Obviously we are stocking both but meat protein is on my mind. I have bought some canned meat too as you have. I'll also add that we get beef heart a decent prices from local sources and that this one is somewhat overlooked in preps. We are canning as much as we can because we also have dogs so it is a good base for both us and the dogs.
Well done . Happy New Year
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Good morning Ms. Jill. I always enjoy your video's and look forward to them. I wish I knew how to can but unfortunately I never learned. I do water bath when I make home made jelly but other than that I am just not a canner. I am scared of the pressure canner and just this year learned to use an instapot to cook. BUT I did learn to blanch potatoes and this summer I bought extra each month and got a small freezer and it is full. I have a very large freezer that will be filled with fresh beef when our beef is butchered next month. I have dehydrated potatoes, noodles rice beans, flour, cornmeal, and quite a bit of canned goods put away. I feel like a squirrel hiding away it's nuts for the winter.
I'm pretty much beyond a year of preserved foods now, but always have things I could add or improve on. Honestly, having another year of food preserved is likely to happen naturally this year once the warm weather vegetables start coming in. Still not sure yet if we will do more meat birds in 2023. I seem to manage to put up more food than we use in a year, so that's a good thing. It's been at least six months since we spent more than $150 on a grocery run, with the exclusion of those hams and turkeys we got on sale around Sept/Oct.
Your thoughts on diversifying the ways you preserve your food storage is spot on as far as I'm concerned. I'm a big fan of having things preserved in different ways and stored in different places to mitigate losses and support a flexible base for responding to emergencies. It also helps me make best use of my storage space.
I'll be following along with you. I'm excited to see what ideas everyone comes up with.
LOLOL….It's not hardly been 2-3 videos back you showed much of your veggies had bit the dust. But here you and Greg and Pops are bounced back up like one of those toy blow ups that you can knock over and it bounces right back up. Almost ran over us busting out of the shoot with a challenge missy.
It's interesting….we have a Brookshire Brothers down here but their sales are different.
Thanks for the challenge. I am hoping to get this propane tank up and rolling myself pretty soon. Also about to get my soil cranking better….then CHARGE!!! It's going to be a great year. I'll see how much preserving I can put a 2023 date on with ya. This will be fun. And always Jesus bless.
This is what I hope to accomplish too. I hope to be getting a freeze dryer in the near future. My favorite ways to preserve is freezing & fermenting.
I have been raw pack canning my turkeys. I cut as much meat off as I can then cook the carcass until I can pick off what meat is left. We use what we pick off and make turkey salad for sandwiches, then make bone broth to can. Raw pack doesn't look very pretty in the jars, but the flavor is so much richer. I do the same with my old chickens we process and you can't tell that they are old. Very tender. Makes great chicken salad.
Hi Jill, we need to get a Harvest Right. I'll be looking into them and what would be a good size. We are up for the challenge! We already have 18 months of food storage however with the garden not producing we need to store up more. God Bless, Mike
We're up for the challenge. I was discussing with my wife what we'll do with next seasons harvest because both freezers are full and our large basement pantry is basically full. I could probably reorganize it a little and get some space. I'll need more shelves and have to clear out more space in the basement. I guess that's a good problem to have.
I will try, I usually find meat on sell (ha ha) as much as possible fill my freezer then can it my freezer is pretty full but one of my freezers is full of rice, beans oats and some flour till I can bag them up and put in buckets, I have a Question: I have a well for water but if electricity goes off for a long time I'm looking for a reasonable priced good quality hand pump do you know a good reasonable price well hand pump (we are poor) this is for my daughter to survive I don't think I will old and disabled and it's OK my time is coming but I want to give her a chance if things go bad I have a spring fed pond but a hand pump would work better, FYI: also I get food grade buckets from deli at Walmart with lids for a dollar a bucket just have to wash them God bless
So glad you made it through the "arctic" freeze as well as you did! 😎,I think the challenge is a good one and I'm willing to take it on. Next Costco run will be rotisserie chickens to can.I did not plant a garden last year as we had our home up for sale. It didn't sell, as no one wanted to care for an orchard, flower and vegetable gardens! So, this will now be my biggest challenge yet as we see the way our country/world is going. Thanks for sharing and motivating us/me with your challenge. We're here in the PNW so will get started NOW!!🤗
Thank you so much Jill!!❤what a great video to bring community together and challenger ourselves 💓💪💯✨👏 i’ve always wanted to learn how to can but I get anxious sometimes of trying new things, now is a good time to learn and that’s why…I am up for the challenge!!!💪Thank you for the motivation and encouragement and I love following your channel! 💓💓✨💫🪐💪!
This is a great idea!! I’m not going to commit to 365 but I definitely want to keep plugging away at my preserving this year. I look forward to watching your progress!!
Hand is up 😆😆 Is this 365 meals, that can be used now-as needed? Or is this to be put away for later use? I could do it! I just need to plow a garden, buy some more jars. I should get a freeze dryer, because I don't have a big enough freezer or shelf space… 🤔🤨I think I can do it… 😆😆I think…I don't have help muscle help like you do. I'm the mule, the plow and the chief cook and bottle washer. 😆😆
I'm up for this, I'm in. Just starting my back up pantry. Freezer is full. I'm gonna be doing meats and veggies.
I would love to take on this challenge for my family. I’ve never canned before and super nervous about it. I know you have canning video, but are you going to walk through the process? Love your videos.
I in it with you. Three Rivers does this every August. I love it. God bless.
Loving this video!! Please share how you can your meat. I plan to call my turkey and chicken broth POULTRY broth as they are interchangable. I am asking my husband for that Freeze dryer for my birthday!
Game On! I have done alot the last couple months and cant wait to hopefully start preserving from my own garden this next season. Love to hear more ideas to freeze dry:)
I’ve canned chicken, our grass-fed beef, and venison. I want to start canning the salmon that Albertsons regularly runs on their digital deals. I have canned vegetables & fruits (beans, potatoes, tomatoes, peaches, pears, etc), but my spiritual heart sees the need to prepare meat, poultry, and fish for long term storage. I will be following you and those who take the challenge!
We do not have the room for canning large quantities of food, but are looking into investing in a Harvest Right in the next few months. We will be sure to use your affiliate link when we’re ready to order.
I have much stored away, but I like the idea of ready meals. When I first canned I did chili, stew, soups, etc. not everyone liked them so I think I got discouraged. But I love the convenience along with the knowledge that no heat is required to have a cooked meal. So I hope to participate in this challenge while finding recipes we all like.
Challenge accepted!! Thanks for the encouragement 💜
I'm game! 365 per year seems possible, I was afraid it was 365 days and I didn't think I could do that!
I always canned poultry(as of 3 years ago lol) what do you cover your cooked turkey with? I’m cooking one tomorrow and would love to can it instead of freeze it.
OK challenge accepted. I love my freeze dryer so glad I got it.
Yesterday I decided to get my self focused and organize my seed bank. I have a ton of seeds I will be testing for viability. So I decided the seeds I needed or was low on, I would get ordered. Imagine my "SAY WHAT?" when I went to one of my got o seed suppliers online and nope. None of the broccoli seeds I have been buying from them for over a decade. They had ONE variety. That was it. So later that day my hubs came home from hunting and got the mail on the way up the drive. There was a catalog from that very supplier. So my curios self grabbed it and turned to the broccoli page. No longer a page. ONE variety up in the corner of the cabbage page. (Which used to be 2 pages of cabbage! Now just one) So my take away from this is make sure you have the seeds you need NOW and keep saving your own. I was and am shocked and humbled. Just a heads up. PS We are finally out of the subzero weather. Whew, that was a challenge.
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I’ve just started doing an inventory on what I already have and am excited to join your challenge. goals are good, goals with friends even better ❤