Dehydrated zucchini is great if you grate it. To reconstitute boiling broth. You can also make zucchini powder add to sauces and chili. Love this veggie! So versatile. I also make jam with zucchini( zucchini with pear is bomb on cornbread) and zucchini bread starter. Thanks for getting me on task today. I best get to dehydrating more. Thanks for the coffee. Have a beautiful day!
Re: canned potatoes. My favorite way to make them is to drain and rinse them, then lay them out to dry a bit, toss in oil and season with garlic & onion powder, salt & pepper, then roast them. I like to have a roast veggie night. Potatoes, fresh green beans, okra and root veggies all roast so well using this method.
I've never heard of roasting green beans before and am happy to hear that there is another way to cook them. What amount of time do they need compared to raw root veg?
Mary's nest and Rose Red homestead have good videos on how to determine what you need. RRH has several self published books on pantry prep and how to work through and restock and replenish as you use
Thank you for the pantry tour and the great coffee! 💕 This was a much needed reminder for me to inventory my own pantry and do some planning on new stock too. Blessings on your day Kiddo!🥰🌻🐛💕 ps- your garden is looking AWESOME!!!
I had to create two "pantries" because I would forget to rotate or use the bulk items. So now I keep a few items of each in my kitchen pantry, pull from my (closet) pantry as those items are used, and add to a list to replace as needed. I wonder if you could add the potatoes to burritos or bowls, or make home fries if you fried them up a bit? For coffee, I mix really good flavored coffee with regular grounds, but tbh I like the flavored creamer more than the coffee 😋. I've always heard the goal is to accumulate two years of canned items in case a particular years crops don't pan out and use the previous years items and replace with current harvest. If you don't want to freeze zucchini it can be dehydrated or freeze dried. I do freeze shredded zucchini in muffin tins, then pop the pucks out into freezer bags, so single serving size, which is perfect for zucchini brownies...yummm!
I'm envious of your canned beans! That's on my list of things I would like to be good at. So far, I feel comfortable canning peppers, pickles and jam... I need to up my game! As for the dehydrator, the best thing I've dehydrated so far is fruit leathers..... and it was all because i failed at my first few attempts of making jam. Any jams that didn't set, I would mix with applesauce and dehydrate on the silicone fruit leather molds. They have been a huge hit with my kids and husband which is great and makes me feel less like a failure. lol
i watch City Prepper. He has a ton of stuff available teaching about prepping stuff in a practical way. He has spreadsheets available to help figure out generator stuff, videos on gardening, water catchment systems, solar stuff... he also has a recession guide and a prepping guide for printing.... for free.
You can pickle zucchini, it won't work for the dog food though. I'd love a honey give away 😊 Try making honey garlic ferment if you have a lot of both. Works as a natural antibiotic or as salad dressing. Love your pantry and thankyou for the coffee! Have a great day 😊
We don't eat meat, but we have dogs and cats. I can chicken for them and even though I will not eat it, it comes out very well for them. I have also made dog food and pressure canned it using the highest temp for the meat that I am using. I make it a little more runny than I would normally because when I can it, it will thicken up. It also has rice in it, but when I make it I blend it all together and make it into a pate canned food. This takes care of any squash that you may use and even the rice as they say not to can grains. But it has worked out just fine when I do that. I am not sure if you rebel can, but this is what I do because if there was an emergency, my husband would not know how to feed our dogs and I need something that is very convenient that he can do too. I have only canned this in the pint size jars. All the food is cooked before canning too. It really makes it like the pate dog food. I have not tried it in a more chunky form, but I may try that soon. With zucchini last year , I made a bunch of zucchini bread and sliced it up and froze it. It froze well that way and we had some good snacks, I can take a bag out that has 4 slices in it and it thaws in about an hour for after dinner.
Its really nice to see someone working towards self sufficiency/ food storage. Ive seen a lot of videos of peope witb decked out pantries. And its really encouraging to see you work towards that as in maybe I have a chance to grow in my skills and move towards it too.
At least you have your pantry. My basement fills with water and then goes out with the sub pump. And mice in the basement. So a spare room will be set up. So for now in storage containers. For the butter I freeze mine too. I do like the Amish butter I get from Publix. I put it in a plastic container in the fridge
We use our canned potatoes by frying them with garlic and thyme. So good. Rosemary works as well. It takes a while to go from eating what you buy in the store to eating what you grow. You have to change your whole way of thinking and it doesn't happen all at once. For instance, a regular green salad with lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes isn't a possible here because while I do get lettuce and cucumbers at the same time, tomatoes don't ripen until way later. We're spoiled and don't know how to eat seasonally any more. For onions I put in shallots because they multiply by themselves, I can grow them year round and harvest when I need one and I never use up a big regular onion so the small shallots work for us.
We usually have too much garlic. When its on the verge of sprouting (Feb), I take apart the cloves, leaving the skin on, put them in a jar and into the freezer. Carrots are stored in a 5 gal. bucket filled with wood shavings (much lighter) and stored in a ground level room by an outer wall. Works well.
I grow too much garlic, too. I have dehydrated them for garlic powder....cant remember when I bought garlic powder last. I have also peeled the cloves, put them in a jar with water and salt to ferment on the counter. A week later, put them in the frig. Works great for ready to use cloves. I am going to mince the cloves next time and ferment minced garlic.
@@michellerose6721 One can never have too much garlic, right? I love garlic powder on homemade popcorn. I should try fermenting. Have you ever tried fermenting the garlic in honey?
Storing summer squash is so hard! I did the whole shredded zucchini thing and found I needed to strain it really well before tossing in my chilis and lasagna. A few years ago I watched Luke from MI Gardner show how to freeze sliced summer squash. He sliced them, laid them on a tray, froze them, then placed them evenly into a vacuum seal bag with parchment paper in between layers. They still come out mushy, but if you strain them, they still work great in casseroles.
i want to get a bunch of honey and infuse it with different things like ginger, garlic, cloves to put in tea when I'm feeling under the weather or horsetail, borage, catnip to put in my tea before bed.
@Acre Homestead freezes zucchini and puts it in soups. She says it pretty much dissolves into nothing. I believe it also thickens the soup with more nutrition than using flour or cornstarch.
Start out slow and small. Don’t try to reach your end goal in one season. It can become overwhelming and counter productive. Making a list of what you have is a great place to start. Also writing down your meals will let you know what ingredients you are using. Do that for a week or a month and than times that by how much food you want to store. 6 months, a year or more. I hope this helps. 🙂
Make potato soup!❤ Wow that’s amazing! Sooo many jars for canning 😲Awesome Anna ! Maybe ask a UA-cam person that can’s about how much you might need for your family size & then see how close you might get. Last year I learned how to make - Leather Britches ! I learned from Whiporwill holler channel on UA-cam she’s a Sweet lady - Miss Lori !
I use canned meats in all kinds of stuff! Not just soups and stews but it works great in stir fries too. I dehydrate my cabbage. I rehydrate it in hot water before using and it has a great crunchy texture when I use it. I was amazed!
I dehydrate my zukes in slices and use them thru the year in place of noodles I. Lasagna. As for eggs, be on the look out, you may have a hen eating eggs. She'll teach the others too. In addition, as hens age, they lay less. Your pantry looks like mine. I can keep store bought stuff rotated out, but it's hard to figure home grown. I think the saying is to grow for two years in case there's a bad year.
I'm impressed! I know it's easy enough to forget you have something, it's happened to me too. A friend of mine "goes grocery shopping"in her pantry and cold storage - a regular weekly event. Zucchini is hard, I only seem to use a little of my frozen supply. I don't like dehydrating either but I've heard of people drying it and then grinding it to a powder, and then using it as a replacement for part of the flour in baking recipes. Probably work in the dog food too.
My “pantry” is all over the d*** place. A real pantry is on my wish list, but until it happens I just shove food anywhere it fits. Right now I’m cooking the last of the spaghetti squash from last fall. I had a crate of it left and it won’t last long in our New Mexican summer heat. I’ll probably give most of it to the dogs since I already have some squash in the freezer and fresh squash will be coming in soon.
If you want to know what you need for a year, keep track of what you use now. Have a piece of paper taped in a cupboard. And every time you eat green beans make it down. After a month multiply by 12. Rough estimate to shoot for.
I was just looking at my pantry today thinking how much it sucked. I stole one of the racks for my seedlings in the spring so I need to get it moved back. Excited to get it filled back up though.
I restocked pantry today. I try to restock as I go, but sometimes I just go buy flats of canned goods because it's looking low. The level of pantry is closely correlated with the amount of news I consume. I "prep" primarily for supply chain interruption which served us well in 2020.
I'm a total Maxwell house girl.... Old fashioned coffee I can't do the cold brew or those flavored crap lol .... Girl my pantry ugh .. over a week ago I walked in there to use my microwave and my biggest fear in life is snakes and what do I see and rat snake hanging out of my pantry wall so that room is a big no go here the family goes in but not momma lol my microwave is no longer in the pantry 🤦😂 You've got a nice stock girl.... ♥️☕ From SE Ohio
Cut up or break into cloves and freeze in oil/water. I did parsley oregano and basil like that. Im going to try it with chopped garlic. I froze some scrambled eggs with pinch of salt experiment. I’ll try them soon to see what they taste like. Those freeze dryers are too expensive but it’s an option unless you have no power 😂 or generator.
With your honey and garlic, you should definitely do the fermented garlic in honey, such a good way to preserve the garlic and so tasty! Pickled coleslaw with your cabbages is lovely too, re the Zucchini, Zucchini butter is delicious, you have to freeze it not can it, but it is a large amount of zucchini down into a small amount and totally delish.
@@AnnaWagnerCarroll it’s awesome as a pasta stir through, or as the ‘pizza sauce’ on a pizza, used as a spread instead of mayo on bread, so many things :)
Canned potatoes for potato salad. 😊 I was looking for one of the bottles of lemon juice I'd put back and I couldn't find it. I am an unorganized prepper but at least I'm trying.
Hey Anna! Love your pantry tour and coffee.😊 I take my sprouting onions and plant them in pots so they can go to seed then I harvest for future crops. Plus the flower is pretty.😊 I also harvest the greens while they are growing instead of purchasing scallions. Great for salads. 😋 Rachel at That 1870's Homestead dehydrates her onion tops and grinds them into onion powder. I have yet to try that. It is definitely a way to get the most out of a forgotten vegetable! 😂
I've heard that root veggies you can store in ground and they will keep. If you are in an area that gets snow, plant in containers to move inside for storage... maybe create a vertical storage space? I haven't yet tried these methods myself.... I'm hoping next year I will be able to be more prepared for a garden to have the chance to harvest enough of anything to try preservation methods. Until then I must keep tuning in to see what you try!
2 things. 1 it's pronounced ore-gun. 😊Born and raised in Oregon, now I'm am Alaskan. My my heart is still in Oregon, even with its craziness. 2. I too would like to see your dog food recipe. Please
My plan for zuccini this year is to make soup and freeze it, and also make dried zucchini chips. I cant tell ya if its a good idea as this is my first time really trying either! Also, I wish I had honey I needed to use because I would make Russian honey cake every day. Its sooo good, it tastes a bit like graham crackers but a cake and with tangy sour cream frosting.
Re: zucchini, could you do freezer meals with it? Like Zucchini boats or lasagna with zucchini in place of noodles? Then you'd have ready made meals to thaw and bake. Sweet Zucchini bread freezes well and is a nice treat with our coffee. Just sayin'. 😉
I had a hard time figuring out how much to store at first. I found it easier to store two years, so if I make a mistake there is still food. I think in terms of weeks, how many times per week do I want green beans or tuna or ramen. 5 lbs of flour makes 6 bread or pizza. A pint of canned meat is about one lb, four servings. Two servings of meat per day. One lb per week each of pasta, beans and rice (is actually too much, but it works). Some things I only eat on occasion or could live without, so I try to consider the “use by” date and not end up stuck with too much. I need to eat a can of chili per week for several months to avoid waste, so it is not a perfect system. Canning jars are expensive and hard to store, so I just buy canned if it makes sense.
eggs... @Rain Country dehydrates raw eggs. I know you hate dehydrating.... girl ya gotta figure out your issue with that so you can address it! ;) I hate processing before putting it in the dehydrator. I just want to stuff it somewhere and get on with life. I want it to work this way so I can be justified in my desire to procrastinate the chore! The only way I get through this is with two mantras: 1. I am worth the effort this takes. and 2. I won't have to do this later. Future me is going to be so grateful! (and when I get to "future me" using the item I make sure to take the time to thank "past me"... I'm not sure how to explain it, but taking the time for these little "silly" details has really helped my mental state! Anyway... eggs... dehydrate! can use to make scrambled eggs or bake with them. *again... I haven't yet tried any of this myself. that is why I am referring you to channels I hear about stuff from. ;) Is it annoying I am doing separate comments? if so I apologize... it's just easier for my ADHD brain sometimes. I figure it increases your number of comments and that is supposed to be a good thing right? ;)
my sister gets frustrated when I mention buying more jars. I think we have MAYBE 100. I try to explain it to her... I try to show her through UA-cam videos... She still acts as though I am buying too many.
I just randomly watched this video from Heidi @ Rain County. I had no idea zucchini can be dehydrated or powdered or made into relish or some other things I need to rewatch the video for. ua-cam.com/video/gmHgBX-BiXE/v-deo.html
I would really appreciate a video of how you make your dog’s food. 🐶
Yes!
Dehydrated zucchini is great if you grate it. To reconstitute boiling broth.
You can also make zucchini powder add to sauces and chili. Love this veggie! So versatile.
I also make jam with zucchini( zucchini with pear is bomb on cornbread) and zucchini bread starter.
Thanks for getting me on task today. I best get to dehydrating more.
Thanks for the coffee. Have a beautiful day!
Zucchini and pear jam! That sounds delicious!
Re: canned potatoes. My favorite way to make them is to drain and rinse them, then lay them out to dry a bit, toss in oil and season with garlic & onion powder, salt & pepper, then roast them. I like to have a roast veggie night. Potatoes, fresh green beans, okra and root veggies all roast so well using this method.
I've never heard of roasting green beans before and am happy to hear that there is another way to cook them. What amount of time do they need compared to raw root veg?
I’ll have to try this! Thanks!
Wish you lived in NC and was my neighbor and we could have coffee for real and compare notes and stuff. Thanks for being real and my kind of person.
Reuse the Classico sauce jars, I think reg. canning lids will fit those jars.
yes! 🥫
100% I use the 24.oz all the time. Regular mouth lids fit.
Mary's nest and Rose Red homestead have good videos on how to determine what you need. RRH has several self published books on pantry prep and how to work through and restock and replenish as you use
I Dehydrate the summer squash and add it as a hidden vegetable in a lot of my cooking.
Thank you for the pantry tour and the great coffee! 💕 This was a much needed reminder for me to inventory my own pantry and do some planning on new stock too. Blessings on your day Kiddo!🥰🌻🐛💕 ps- your garden is looking AWESOME!!!
Thank you!
I had to create two "pantries" because I would forget to rotate or use the bulk items. So now I keep a few items of each in my kitchen pantry, pull from my (closet) pantry as those items are used, and add to a list to replace as needed. I wonder if you could add the potatoes to burritos or bowls, or make home fries if you fried them up a bit? For coffee, I mix really good flavored coffee with regular grounds, but tbh I like the flavored creamer more than the coffee 😋. I've always heard the goal is to accumulate two years of canned items in case a particular years crops don't pan out and use the previous years items and replace with current harvest. If you don't want to freeze zucchini it can be dehydrated or freeze dried. I do freeze shredded zucchini in muffin tins, then pop the pucks out into freezer bags, so single serving size, which is perfect for zucchini brownies...yummm!
I'm envious of your canned beans! That's on my list of things I would like to be good at. So far, I feel comfortable canning peppers, pickles and jam... I need to up my game! As for the dehydrator, the best thing I've dehydrated so far is fruit leathers..... and it was all because i failed at my first few attempts of making jam. Any jams that didn't set, I would mix with applesauce and dehydrate on the silicone fruit leather molds. They have been a huge hit with my kids and husband which is great and makes me feel less like a failure. lol
i watch City Prepper. He has a ton of stuff available teaching about prepping stuff in a practical way. He has spreadsheets available to help figure out generator stuff, videos on gardening, water catchment systems, solar stuff... he also has a recession guide and a prepping guide for printing.... for free.
Use your onion skins and scraps to make more stock.
I’m so glad you mentioned this! Maybe those onions weren’t a total loss. 😅
You can pickle zucchini, it won't work for the dog food though. I'd love a honey give away 😊 Try making honey garlic ferment if you have a lot of both. Works as a natural antibiotic or as salad dressing. Love your pantry and thankyou for the coffee! Have a great day 😊
We don't eat meat, but we have dogs and cats. I can chicken for them and even though I will not eat it, it comes out very well for them. I have also made dog food and pressure canned it using the highest temp for the meat that I am using. I make it a little more runny than I would normally because when I can it, it will thicken up. It also has rice in it, but when I make it I blend it all together and make it into a pate canned food. This takes care of any squash that you may use and even the rice as they say not to can grains. But it has worked out just fine when I do that. I am not sure if you rebel can, but this is what I do because if there was an emergency, my husband would not know how to feed our dogs and I need something that is very convenient that he can do too. I have only canned this in the pint size jars. All the food is cooked before canning too. It really makes it like the pate dog food. I have not tried it in a more chunky form, but I may try that soon. With zucchini last year , I made a bunch of zucchini bread and sliced it up and froze it. It froze well that way and we had some good snacks, I can take a bag out that has 4 slices in it and it thaws in about an hour for after dinner.
Its really nice to see someone working towards self sufficiency/ food storage. Ive seen a lot of videos of peope witb decked out pantries. And its really encouraging to see you work towards that as in maybe I have a chance to grow in my skills and move towards it too.
Love your sense of humor!
At least you have your pantry. My basement fills with water and then goes out with the sub pump. And mice in the basement. So a spare room will be set up. So for now in storage containers. For the butter I freeze mine too. I do like the Amish butter I get from Publix. I put it in a plastic container in the fridge
We use our canned potatoes by frying them with garlic and thyme. So good. Rosemary works as well. It takes a while to go from eating what you buy in the store to eating what you grow. You have to change your whole way of thinking and it doesn't happen all at once. For instance, a regular green salad with lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes isn't a possible here because while I do get lettuce and cucumbers at the same time, tomatoes don't ripen until way later. We're spoiled and don't know how to eat seasonally any more. For onions I put in shallots because they multiply by themselves, I can grow them year round and harvest when I need one and I never use up a big regular onion so the small shallots work for us.
We usually have too much garlic. When its on the verge of sprouting (Feb), I take apart the cloves, leaving the skin on, put them in a jar and into the freezer. Carrots are stored in a 5 gal. bucket filled with wood shavings (much lighter) and stored in a ground level room by an outer wall. Works well.
I grow too much garlic, too. I have dehydrated them for garlic powder....cant remember when I bought garlic powder last. I have also peeled the cloves, put them in a jar with water and salt to ferment on the counter. A week later, put them in the frig. Works great for ready to use cloves. I am going to mince the cloves next time and ferment minced garlic.
I’ll have to try this. Thanks!
@@michellerose6721 One can never have too much garlic, right? I love garlic powder on homemade popcorn. I should try fermenting. Have you ever tried fermenting the garlic in honey?
Toaster strudel and popcorn for breakfast? It's summer girl we ALL do it LOL
Storing summer squash is so hard! I did the whole shredded zucchini thing and found I needed to strain it really well before tossing in my chilis and lasagna. A few years ago I watched Luke from MI Gardner show how to freeze sliced summer squash. He sliced them, laid them on a tray, froze them, then placed them evenly into a vacuum seal bag with parchment paper in between layers. They still come out mushy, but if you strain them, they still work great in casseroles.
What a nice site your brother runs. I have at least 1500 jars, but I'm not admitting to more than that.
1500! Goals! 🫙
I ❤ canning meats because it makes making meals easy. I also shred zucchini & dehydrate it. I add it to soups in the winter.
I put a shelf in my kitchen, in plain view, just for my canned convenience foods because, I too forget to use them. 😅
i want to get a bunch of honey and infuse it with different things like ginger, garlic, cloves to put in tea when I'm feeling under the weather or horsetail, borage, catnip to put in my tea before bed.
@Acre Homestead freezes zucchini and puts it in soups. She says it pretty much dissolves into nothing. I believe it also thickens the soup with more nutrition than using flour or cornstarch.
Start out slow and small. Don’t try to reach your end goal in one season. It can become overwhelming and counter productive.
Making a list of what you have is a great place to start. Also writing down your meals will let you know what ingredients you are using. Do that for a week or a month and than times that by how much food you want to store. 6 months, a year or more. I hope this helps. 🙂
Make potato soup!❤ Wow that’s amazing! Sooo many jars for canning 😲Awesome Anna ! Maybe ask a UA-cam person that can’s about how much you might need for your family size & then see how close you might get. Last year I learned how to make -
Leather Britches ! I learned from
Whiporwill holler channel on UA-cam she’s a Sweet lady - Miss Lori !
I use canned meats in all kinds of stuff! Not just soups and stews but it works great in stir fries too. I dehydrate my cabbage. I rehydrate it in hot water before using and it has a great crunchy texture when I use it. I was amazed!
Ok. I’m going to have to try dehydrating cabbage I guess! It never even crossed my mind to try. thanks!
Impressive Anna! Looks great!
Like you im burned out on cooking. And the prices at the stores are outfageous.god bless keep on trucking
I dehydrate my zukes in slices and use them thru the year in place of noodles I. Lasagna. As for eggs, be on the look out, you may have a hen eating eggs. She'll teach the others too. In addition, as hens age, they lay less. Your pantry looks like mine. I can keep store bought stuff rotated out, but it's hard to figure home grown. I think the saying is to grow for two years in case there's a bad year.
I'm impressed!
I know it's easy enough to forget you have something, it's happened to me too. A friend of mine "goes grocery shopping"in her pantry and cold storage - a regular weekly event.
Zucchini is hard, I only seem to use a little of my frozen supply. I don't like dehydrating either but I've heard of people drying it and then grinding it to a powder, and then using it as a replacement for part of the flour in baking recipes. Probably work in the dog food too.
I dehydrate shredded and sliced summer squash for use in chili, stew, casseroles, etc. Haven't tried rehydrating it for baking.
I also dehydrate or freeze dry precooked ground beef. Canned ground beef is gross.
My “pantry” is all over the d*** place. A real pantry is on my wish list, but until it happens I just shove food anywhere it fits. Right now I’m cooking the last of the spaghetti squash from last fall. I had a crate of it left and it won’t last long in our New Mexican summer heat. I’ll probably give most of it to the dogs since I already have some squash in the freezer and fresh squash will be coming in soon.
If you want to know what you need for a year, keep track of what you use now. Have a piece of paper taped in a cupboard. And every time you eat green beans make it down. After a month multiply by 12. Rough estimate to shoot for.
Hello from Oregon. I am new to your channel. thanks for sharing
I was just looking at my pantry today thinking how much it sucked. I stole one of the racks for my seedlings in the spring so I need to get it moved back. Excited to get it filled back up though.
I restocked pantry today. I try to restock as I go, but sometimes I just go buy flats of canned goods because it's looking low. The level of pantry is closely correlated with the amount of news I consume. I "prep" primarily for supply chain interruption which served us well in 2020.
I'm a total Maxwell house girl.... Old fashioned coffee I can't do the cold brew or those flavored crap lol ....
Girl my pantry ugh .. over a week ago I walked in there to use my microwave and my biggest fear in life is snakes and what do I see and rat snake hanging out of my pantry wall so that room is a big no go here the family goes in but not momma lol my microwave is no longer in the pantry 🤦😂
You've got a nice stock girl....
♥️☕ From SE Ohio
Eeeek! I’m ok with snakes outside. Inside the house is a different story! 😖🐍
@@AnnaWagnerCarroll right 🤦 the door stays closed and I have an anxiety attack everytime I have to go in there it's insane 😂
@@jennifertriplett9537 😫
Cut up or break into cloves and freeze in oil/water. I did parsley oregano and basil like that. Im going to try it with chopped garlic. I froze some scrambled eggs with pinch of salt experiment. I’ll try them soon to see what they taste like. Those freeze dryers are too expensive but it’s an option unless you have no power 😂 or generator.
With your honey and garlic, you should definitely do the fermented garlic in honey, such a good way to preserve the garlic and so tasty! Pickled coleslaw with your cabbages is lovely too, re the Zucchini, Zucchini butter is delicious, you have to freeze it not can it, but it is a large amount of zucchini down into a small amount and totally delish.
Zucchini butter? This is the first I’ve heard of it! What do you use it for?
@@AnnaWagnerCarroll it’s awesome as a pasta stir through, or as the ‘pizza sauce’ on a pizza, used as a spread instead of mayo on bread, so many things :)
Yes, you can each year while eating what you canned years prior.
I always want to buy jars😀
Canned potatoes for potato salad. 😊
I was looking for one of the bottles of lemon juice I'd put back and I couldn't find it.
I am an unorganized prepper but at least I'm trying.
Hey Anna! Love your pantry tour and coffee.😊 I take my sprouting onions and plant them in pots so they can go to seed then I harvest for future crops. Plus the flower is pretty.😊 I also harvest the greens while they are growing instead of purchasing scallions. Great for salads. 😋 Rachel at That 1870's Homestead dehydrates her onion tops and grinds them into onion powder. I have yet to try that. It is definitely a way to get the most out of a forgotten vegetable! 😂
I've heard that root veggies you can store in ground and they will keep. If you are in an area that gets snow, plant in containers to move inside for storage... maybe create a vertical storage space? I haven't yet tried these methods myself.... I'm hoping next year I will be able to be more prepared for a garden to have the chance to harvest enough of anything to try preservation methods. Until then I must keep tuning in to see what you try!
2 things.
1 it's pronounced ore-gun. 😊Born and raised in Oregon, now I'm am Alaskan. My my heart is still in Oregon, even with its craziness.
2. I too would like to see your dog food recipe. Please
My plan for zuccini this year is to make soup and freeze it, and also make dried zucchini chips. I cant tell ya if its a good idea as this is my first time really trying either! Also, I wish I had honey I needed to use because I would make Russian honey cake every day. Its sooo good, it tastes a bit like graham crackers but a cake and with tangy sour cream frosting.
Ok. I need to look up that cake, because that sounds delicious! 🍰
I chop up onions and freeze them
Re: zucchini, could you do freezer meals with it? Like Zucchini boats or lasagna with zucchini in place of noodles? Then you'd have ready made meals to thaw and bake.
Sweet Zucchini bread freezes well and is a nice treat with our coffee. Just sayin'. 😉
Good ideas!
I had a hard time figuring out how much to store at first. I found it easier to store two years, so if I make a mistake there is still food. I think in terms of weeks, how many times per week do I want green beans or tuna or ramen. 5 lbs of flour makes 6 bread or pizza. A pint of canned meat is about one lb, four servings. Two servings of meat per day. One lb per week each of pasta, beans and rice (is actually too much, but it works). Some things I only eat on occasion or could live without, so I try to consider the “use by” date and not end up stuck with too much. I need to eat a can of chili per week for several months to avoid waste, so it is not a perfect system.
Canning jars are expensive and hard to store, so I just buy canned if it makes sense.
I don't even have a pantry. Just stuffing food everywhere 😂.
Wow
I was watching a vid before and she freeze dried her zuchinni & squash. They are way to expensive her in New Zealand but one day.
eggs... @Rain Country dehydrates raw eggs. I know you hate dehydrating.... girl ya gotta figure out your issue with that so you can address it! ;) I hate processing before putting it in the dehydrator. I just want to stuff it somewhere and get on with life. I want it to work this way so I can be justified in my desire to procrastinate the chore! The only way I get through this is with two mantras: 1. I am worth the effort this takes. and 2. I won't have to do this later. Future me is going to be so grateful! (and when I get to "future me" using the item I make sure to take the time to thank "past me"... I'm not sure how to explain it, but taking the time for these little "silly" details has really helped my mental state! Anyway... eggs... dehydrate! can use to make scrambled eggs or bake with them. *again... I haven't yet tried any of this myself. that is why I am referring you to channels I hear about stuff from. ;)
Is it annoying I am doing separate comments? if so I apologize... it's just easier for my ADHD brain sometimes. I figure it increases your number of comments and that is supposed to be a good thing right? ;)
I definitely will try to get over my dislike of dehydrating. 😂 And multiple comments are great. haha
my sister gets frustrated when I mention buying more jars. I think we have MAYBE 100. I try to explain it to her... I try to show her through UA-cam videos... She still acts as though I am buying too many.
I saw a cool video where someone cook their garlic and squeeze it out in a Goo and then froze the goo
Interesting. 🤔🧄
I don't like canned potatoes either
I do the same thing! We have 4 cartons of unopened sour cream in the fridge because I just keep buying it. Ugh.
we have to prepped for the zombies
I dehydrated zucchini 😂.
I just randomly watched this video from Heidi @ Rain County. I had no idea zucchini can be dehydrated or powdered or made into relish or some other things I need to rewatch the video for. ua-cam.com/video/gmHgBX-BiXE/v-deo.html
Try dry canning your potatoes. My family likes those better
I will look into it! Thanks!