When my two adult children come home they love to go "grocery shopping" in my pantry! They load up a few boxes of canned goodies ! This is why I can, for my family ❤❤❤!!!
Fantastic question, Michele. I'm going to add this topic to my Q&A video coming up later this month because I think it deserves more discussion than I can really give it here.
What a fantastic pantry! I chop my jalapeños small when I make cowboy candy and use it like sweet pickle relish. 😊 Thanks for sharing your pantry with us.
Amazing!!! Carter, this is an encyclopedia of gardening, canning and food possibilities mixed in with hope, experience and preparedness. Always so much to learn from your videos. Thank you again n again!!
I just now found out about the Carter Recipe Video Quality Control - aka - canning and testing, before sharing. I think it is awesome!!! You are a very good teacher!
I want to thank you for all the recipes you have put out. Every time I watch one of your videos my mouth is a watering. And the other viewer is right you look fantastic. You go girl. More videos please
And now I want a freeze dryer even more than I did before. Wow. This is my first year where I've had enough space to really do all this kind of stuff and have a garden so I'm still in the early evaluating stage of things. I really like how you approach it. In the beginning I was making huge batches of everything and now I'm working on smaller batches of things so that I know we'll actually use it all. Thanks for another great tour!!!
You are at such a fun stage of the journey, Jennifer! It's hard not to get carried away in the beginning. Frankly, even 20 years or so into it, I can still get carried away sometimes. It's all good though. Live and learn!
Hello, I am completely blown away! I am almost at a loss for words at how fantastic your pantries are! I have not done a lot of preserving in the past but have decided to give some of your recipes a try, on a much smaller scale. I, have also decided, once i get my current pantry and my cupboards all organized to try and pressure can. With that being said, i am not going to be going out and buying the biggest canner, but one that i use for both water and pressure canning. I live in an apartment which gets very hot in the summer so my canning list will be short, enough things i can do and use within six months. I am so looking forward to trying some of your recipes out. I am of the same mind as yourself when it comes to trying new flavours and new cuisines. Thank you for all of your hard work, with testing recipes and procedures. It definitely gives me incentive to do more! Stunning pantries! Have a wonderful day!
Your pantry is beautiful! Lots of hard work but so satisfying to know where everything came from and that you made it. I also love pretty things on my canning shelves…. I did a LOT of pepper relish this year and also tried your mango salsa. My family gets a big box of everything I have preserved at holiday time and then they restock as needed. We use a lot of tomato products so canning the freezer tomatoes works well. Keep up the great work- love watching your videos! 🙂
Thanks! So glad I'm not the only one with a ton of pepper relish! It's so good though. Hope you enjoy it. I will be loading up my son's car with jars at Christmas.
My kids and grandkids shop my shelves so they help clean things out. My girls and some of my grandsons help me can so it works. I am still working trying to make sure and can what we will actually like when it comes out of the can. This year I want to work on more meals in a jar just to have more of a variety.
You never disappoint and always do such a wonderful job. You are hands down my favorite You Tube channel to watch. I continue to learn through you and so very grateful for all your time and education with your videos. Thank you! BTW: You look Fabulous. 🙂
I would love to hear more about your keto meals. What your carb intake a day is. I was keto for over 6 years. My husband still is. Any meals that you could share would be great!
Wonderful pantry tour! Your hard work and organizational skills are well represented in your beautiful pantry. I am new to freeze drying and was inspired by all your freeze drying suggestions and tips. Thanks Carter for the tour!
I really enjoy your channel Carter. No nonsense, just straightforward and really good recipes showing both how to can, and how you use them. I LOVE to can, and cook, but with just me, i cannot eat all that i would love to can. Lol. Thank you for all that you do !
So glad to have you here, Roxanne! It is so tempting to just can everything that appeals to you, isn't it? Smaller batch canning or canner sharing sessions (more than one recipe or item canned at the same time) may be an approach to try. For instance, next Saturday's video is on 3 different chicken items I'm canning at the same time so that I don't end up with more than I need of any one item, but I'm still only creating one mess.
Peppers are my favorite too. I love all kinds of peppers next year. I wanna make a whole bed with peppers this year. I kind of have them scattered. I won’t plan them so close together cause I think you told me or someone else told me that don’t plan them too close, but I will plan them in one bed🌱🌱
Hope you have great results with your peppers. Mine have done very well that way. Next year I plan to experiment with spreading them to different beds. We'll see!
I have consistently found that planting them closer together by varieties, in well composted organic material rich beds with mild organic fertilizer and epsom salt at planting, produces an abundance. I also surround my pepper beds with my bulbing onions. Onions were huge this year and more peppers than I knew what to do with. I gifted many of both. I do not rotate my pepper beds either. Maybe my zone 5, is the beautiful result. I think the good Lord provided, personally.
Jams and jellys make great Christmas gifts. Loved your tour, it's a goal of mine to have at least a years worth of food jarred and stored. Then I think I can keep a rolling year going all the time. I've been working hard on that
I was hoping you'd be doing a tour video! I have made so many of your recipes that are keepers. I made the chili without beans yesterday. I got 6 quart jars and I make a triple bean in quarts with pinto, kidney, and black beans. I add that to the chili when I heat it up. We also really like the steak sauce and we go through chicken and pork the most. Thank you!
For canning sausage, use your instant pot to cook it (same with hamburger). When done, break up with a meat club (don’t know the name of it, but it has 4 sections at the top). Then, put in your jars and process. Works great and so little mess!
@ I have 3 sizes, but use my 5 qt the most - I can get 4-5 pounds of ground meat in it for this purpose. My 8 qt can do about 8. Since you don’t want to completely cook it, I put it in frozen (we get it from local butcher in 1 pound wraps) for 15 minutes with 3/4 -1 cup of water at the bottom and put the meat on a slight lift.
Thank you! I loved the video! I wish I was this organized and have to work on that. I have found myself not using enough of what I have canned and this has been a problem of jars going three years before being used.
It does take a bit to get into the rhythm of cycling through what you already have canned. I have found that the pantry challenge in Jan/Feb and smaller personal challenges throughout the year really help to keep me on track.
Amazing job Carter!! Also in defense of David, the SW Black Bean Corn soup is to die for. I canned up several jars as a part of my prep for Hurricane Helene just incase I needed soup and honestly I could eat that out of the jar if needed. Well I didnt have to but oh my goodness, I have never had the name brand version but I seriously doubt it is anywhere close to your version. Will definitely make more and try others too. 😍
I went hog wild with cowboy candy and relishes in 2022. I still have a lot to eat through to this day. Would love a freeze dryer to try that method but economics prevent that at this time. Keep up the great work. Just recently did the canning of potatoes without liquid and we've been loving them. I make fried potatoes and add the quart jars to soups and stews for a much better flavor than the old fashioned way of canning potatoes. I learn a lot from you so keep on keepin' on! Next project is the meals in jars.
Awesome, Lori! So glad to have you here. Glad I'm not the only one to go overboard on pickles and relishes. They're yummy, quick and easy. What's not to love? Enjoy getting some meals in jars on your shelf!
Hello Carter 👋 Been a long time since ive watched your vids. Keto huh? Well, i can say with all honesty....you look fantastic!!! You look like you've reversed aging...SERIOUSLY. You look at the least, 10 years younger. Your hubby gotta be loving that! Lol Stay healthy!!!
Hi Carter! I've been listening to Rfk jr. He says it could take a few years to replace our poisoned food with new nutritious foods. Many are saying we need a 2 year supply! Personally I have noticed a lot of our basics have disappeared! So you may want to rethink the 750 and keep it at 1300 plus. Most will last 3 years anyway so you can't really error if things do go downhill! This week, I freeze dried pineapple and potato dices are in now! I also finally used the sous vide and made peppered turkey breast lunch meat! Also replenished my schwarma 15 servings in the freezer, made two loaves of bread, and canned blueberry syrup and cranberry juice! I still have a case of frozen blueberries to get in jars. I still have enough pie filling so will probably just can as light syrup berries! Finally got to Costco, but they did not have all on my list. I did come home with avocados and organic eggnog lol. I was ashamed of myself for falling for the warm and delicious smelling loaves of walnut and rosemary breads at 17$. I could have made them myself for only 2$ but I guess I was hungry and gave in! They were out of chicken thighs but I did get my ground turkey to make lunchmeat! Have a great week
Hey, Connie! Agree that I had much rather be overprepared than underprepared. Our food system is a mess. I too have noticed so many things that are no longer reliably around. Costco has has had many holes lately. Please let me know about your avocados from Costco. For the past 3+ years, every time I have tried them again, they have been horrible. I used to buy them there all the time, but something changed just before we left Atlanta. $17 for their specialty loaves now! Yikes. They do know what they're doing with all the bakery smells and testing stations, don't they? So glad you used the sous vide! It's pretty awesome, isn't it?
Carter, what an excellent video. Thank you so much for being so descriptive and thorough through each section of your food storage. You simply have the prettiest pantry on all of UA-cam - I kid you not! All of your jars look divine! I know all of that hard work must give you a great sense of satisfaction, and it certainly benefits all of us as well. And I know I mention this often, but I'm going to do it again because I know Keto is not the easiest diet to stick to by any means. But it has certainly served you well. Your skin, your hair, your nails... everything about you is glowing. It is truly working well for you. And you deserve a big ol pat on the back for sticking with it! Yay for Carter! I'm back on a lower carbs after losing hard earned muscle while on keto, but what I've learned about different diets is that everyone is different. I appreciate you so much for taking the time to show us your pantry and to teach us on this journey called food preservation. I'm learning so much and enjoying the process as well ❤
So good to see you, ArkansasSquaw! I totally agree each of us is different in what works to keep us healthy. That makes total sense. I hope you settle into what works best for you. I'm so glad to have you around!
LOVE 💕 YOUR PANTRY with all your beautiful canned goods! Mine is so spread out some here some there would love a place specifically for my canned goods! And who doesn’t love looking at all the beautiful jars?! I eat very low carb, so I need to stick to meats and non-carbs veggies, but oh, I want those sugar free jams, the ones at the stores, who knows what those ingredients are? Anyway, I did make a no sugar cranberry jam last year but didn’t use a recipe who knows if I can get lucky like that again? lol. It flew off the shelf! Thank you for sharing your beautiful pantry with us!!!
This is a great video, Carter! It sounds like you’ve really taken stock of what you should or shouldn’t can in the future. But canning fresh fruit really IS so much fun!!
Love this video’! I can a lot of soup for my husband too. His favs are ham and bean, split pea and ham, and sausage-kale-white bean soup. I love your meal in jar series. I remember you did sandwich fillings. Are you out of those? I’d love to see a paprikash or savory cranberry chicken. I’m also with you on the jams. I have SO MANY flavors at the moment
Thanks, Karen! David asked for split pea soup last night. Thankfully that was one of the ones I had left! The sausage and white bean soup was the first to go in my house. Definitely need to make more of that. I bet he would like a ham and bean as well. Thanks for the ideas! I only have a few of the sandwich fillings left. Maybe a meatball and some of the Italian Beef. Having good keto bread options available lately has really made these a fun option. Oooh...paprikash. I don't have any Hungarian flavors on the shelf. That could be fun. Savory cranberry chicken sounds delish. I'll have to give that one some thought. Do you have something specific in mind? I'm thinking I might get some oddly colored chicken!
@@growandpreservehubby and I went to Budapest this fall and fell in love with paprikash. I think it can be canned and then add the sour cream/yogurt when serving. As for the cranberry chicken, I think it’s kind of like a tangy sauce. There’s a popular recipe for turkey breast, cranberry sauce and onion soup mix in the crockpot. Thats what I was thinking but you always come up with healthier, tastier recipes 😊
Hi, Carter!!! Of all the pantry tours I've seen, YOURS is the one I want to copy!! WHERE did you get those shelves??!! I want good strong shelves!! I LOVE your content!!!!!♥️
Hey, Lisa. Thanks so much. These are my shelves: www.samsclub.com/p/members-mark-5-shelf-storage-rack/prod19280016 I love them. No issues at all. Do note that I bought an extra shelving unit so I could use the shelves to add to the three units you see in the video.
What a great year of preserving! Thanks for sharing all your knowledge with us! You are a great teacher! Please let us know how the freeze dried cauliflower rice comes out when you try rehydrating it. 😊
Thanks, Sharon! I will try the cauliflower rice soon. If it works well, I'd love to do more. I'd also like to blend it into a powder and try for caulimash. We'll see!
I love this video. So neat and organized. One thing I have not had much of on my shelf is soups so I’m now working on that. One soup I love is the Japanese clear soup with mushroom and spring onions. I have found recipes, but nothing on the processing time for canning. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks, Nicole! For your soup, I would use the recommended soup times in this chart: nchfp.uga.edu/how/can/canning-vegetables-and-vegetable-products/soups/ Pressure can 60 minutes for pints or 75 minutes for quarts.
Your pantry is amazing !!! It’s my dream pantry. I too am keto/low-carb…. My goal was to lose weight, I have managed to lose 30 kg, and I’m almost at my goal right now, but I agree with you, i feel so good and so much better that I can not see myself ever going back to eating sugar or lots of carbs.
Looks like you are almost set for the pantry challenge this year. Maybe your kids or extended family would like the jams and jellies if you are intent on getting rid of them. Maybe you could make some fruit gummies for Christmas gifts or for hubby ( sorry forgot his name and don't want to get it wrong by guessing).
Love all your videos! I canned raw pack chicken this year for the first time after following your instructions. You mentioned canning rotisserie chicken. Do you have a video on that or can you tell me how you did it? Thank you!!
Carter, great video of your pantry! Have you done a video of your rotisserie chicken canning process? I haven't been able to find. Appreciate any info or direction.
Carter, thank you for sharing. Your food preservation and planning is incredibly intentional and quite admirable! I'm such a newbie I'm just getting the hang of food preservation and organization. My space is limited so I'm having to be careful with my available food real estate and I want to can everything. lol. You mentioned canned bacon. What convinced you that canning bacon was a good idea? Actually, what do you consider when going against "the grain"? I would love to do the same, but "they" have put the over the top fear of not branching out and away from the "rules" firmly planted in my psyche. (Don't tell the canning police I'm considering leaving the path! lol) Thank you for all you do to encourage and inspire us! Oh! And thank you for the video playlist! I feel a binge coming on, 🙃
Thank you, bluebird! Really great question about the bacon. I actually said on an early video that that was one thing I would not do. Never say never! In the case of the bacon, it was a couple of longtime canners whose judgement I trust that tipped the scale for me. I am not one to rebel can "because I can", and I'm not a believer that "if it seals, it's good". Having done several rounds of bacon now, I remain comfortable with it. Now you have me thinking about a bacon sandwich for dinner!
I haven't tried it yet, but I've heard that cowboy candy mixed with cream cheese makes a great dip! If y'all are looking for ways to use em up in the meantime 😅
Here you go, Marilyn. I love them. Do note that I bought an extra unit so I could have more shelves for these three units. www.samsclub.com/p/members-mark-5-shelf-storage-rack/prod19280016
Mine are from Sam's Club: www.samsclub.com/p/members-mark-5-shelf-storage-rack/prod19280016 Do note that I bought an extra unit just so I could have extra shelves for the various jar sizes.
Carter you know those jars of sweet delights make wonderful Christmas presents. lol. Is David pampered with his own fridge of hot sauces. They all look good. Enjoyed the video. Thank you. Notify the kids to return your jars!!! ha ha . Have a box of empties in my car from this morning. Pantry looks really good. All the stores in Texas have had potatoes on sale. This week sweet potatoes are .20 cents a pound. Wow what a steal. I'm going to stock up. Do you work with the recipes that don't make it and reconfigure for a different use? or Have you figured out what flavor profile was missing?
You are right, Donna. I will be gifting lots of sweet things! I'm clearly going to enlist your help in getting jars back from my son! How is that so hard?? I do work on recipes that aren't quite there...just ask David how many soups he had to try for the soup series! Sometimes it's obvious what's missing, so it's easy to try again. Sometimes it can be just that the final product doesn't warrant the time and resources. Those I tend to just let go until it hits me what may improve the product.
@@growandpreserve Bribe with canning their favorite item. Jars were ready and waiting with waffles and delicious coffee and the great granddaughter. It was a fun morning. Have a great evening.
When you freeze dry your potatoes do you fully cook them first or just blanch? We are low carb right now as well but I don't want my garden potatoes to get soft. Thanks for this video!
I don't personally can lamb because it's so expensive here. I tend to save lamb for a beautiful leg of lamb or lamb chops that I can cook and serve mid rare. However, I don't see any problem canning it. Like with any meat, just pick cuts that have a bit of fat so they don't turn out super dry. I don't can sweet potatoes because I can't get a product that suits me. I store them fresh as long as I can (generally 10-11 months) and then slice, roast and freeze what's left.
I would like to know more about your background. Just curious what kind of career you had. Did it involve food? What made y’all decide to move to Tennessee? My husband and I were born and raised in Texas. Lately we have discussed making a move
I have a question I hope you can answer. I make a quick jambalaya by buying a lot of the vegetables in cans. One of can goods is tomatoes, oka, and corn. Do you water bath this or presser can it
Hey, Debbie. Are you asking about just canning the tomato/okra/corn mixture? Definitely pressure can. The okra and corn are low acid. As for timing, that's a bit trickier. Usually we would use the timing for the ingredient that needs the longest time. In this case, that would be corn at 55 minutes for a pint. However, the NCHFP guidance for "mixed vegetables" is 75 for a pint. That seems quite long to me.
You did great but Tina the ones that you say you don’t want maybe you can give them as gifts maybe your children or somebody you know you know I give out preserves to like the landscaper or the guy that’s gonna come and cut my tree down I’ll give him a preserve orsome of everything I have that I have abundance. I always give out as a gift.
Pick the meat off, pack it into jars, clean rim, lid/ring --no broth added-- then pressure can. Pints 75 minutes, quarts, 90. I buy turkeys when on sale, oven roast (same temperature as turkey at Thanksgiving) but not as long a time. I prefer to pull out when internal temp is around 150⁰. Let cool enough to not burn your hands, pick off meat - I prefer to have larger chunks when possible. Then pack & can same as described above. I think poultry canned this way is SO much tastier than with broth added or raw packed. The already roasted meat will produce some additional juices when you can it. I prefer to roast turkeys in my oven roaster so that one meat is picked off I can just put all bones/skins into the same pan, add water (onions, celery & onions added are good too) then on low 200⁰, let simmer for 24 hrs. Strain & then pressure can lots of really yummy stick.
I really like following Keto but I love tomatoes and I eat so many that it throws off my macros. I struggle to stick with it. That's the only sugar I eat, it's surprising how fast it adds up!
Do you use an electric canner ever? I have a pressure canner I have never used and it’s been two years since I had it checked.. I really wanna try an electric canner but hear differing views on safety. Thank you!
Welcome, Danielle! I bought the Presto Electric Pressure canner 2 years ago and have used it almost exclusively since. That's well over 1000 jars pressure canned using the Presto Electric. I love it. I have not had a single issue with it. I have zero safety concerns with it. If something happened to it, I would buy another one immediately. This is the one I have: amzn.to/40rp5Kb Hope that helps to alleviate your concerns!
I was confused when you said that you loved your canned rotisserie chicken when you don't want shredded chicken. Are you saying that rotisserie chicken stays in chunks, as opposed to raw pack which does not? Thanks - love your videos!
@@growandpreserve My question was about rotisserie chicken as well. Did you can the Costco rotisserie chicken? (I assume yes) Have you tried making rotisserie chicken and canning? How does the store bought rotisserie chicken compare to hot pack chicken?
@@rachaelpainter Rotisserie chicken video next Saturday. However, I didn't address rotisserie versus hot pack. I find that Rotisserie provides the best "pieces of chicken" results for me. Baking a whole chicken, then hot packing the meat comes in second in my experience. Hot packing chicken cooked boneless produces the driest meat in my experience. My guess is that something they inject in the rotisserie chickens is likely the reason it does best (sticking my head in the sand on that one), but cooking it on the bone produces a good result too.
When my two adult children come home they love to go "grocery shopping" in my pantry! They load up a few boxes of canned goodies ! This is why I can, for my family ❤❤❤!!!
Mine do this too, and beg for me to freeze leftovers for them coz they miss Mums cooking
Same here👍. Or if a friend gets a new house… great gift. I feel proud that they truly want to shop at moms 🤩🤩👍👵🏻❣️
I loved the pantry tour. Some people will only see food on the shelf. I see many many hours of hard work to make healthy food to feed your family.
So true, Cindy!
I love canning but, I'd like to fill my shelves with keto friendly foods. Can you suggest or show more keto friendly canning ideas.
Fantastic question, Michele. I'm going to add this topic to my Q&A video coming up later this month because I think it deserves more discussion than I can really give it here.
What a fantastic pantry! I chop my jalapeños small when I make cowboy candy and use it like sweet pickle relish. 😊 Thanks for sharing your pantry with us.
Thanks, Karen!
I call you the QUEEN OF HOME CANNED CONDIMENTS
Thanks, Joyce!
Amazing!!! Carter, this is an encyclopedia of gardening, canning and food possibilities mixed in with hope, experience and preparedness. Always so much to learn from your videos. Thank you again n again!!
Thank you, Daryl! Always so good to see you here!
I just now found out about the Carter Recipe Video Quality Control - aka - canning and testing, before sharing.
I think it is awesome!!!
You are a very good teacher!
Thank you, Carrie!
I want to thank you for all the recipes you have put out. Every time I watch one of your videos my mouth is a watering. And the other viewer is right you look fantastic. You go girl. More videos please
Thank you so much, Debbie!
And now I want a freeze dryer even more than I did before. Wow. This is my first year where I've had enough space to really do all this kind of stuff and have a garden so I'm still in the early evaluating stage of things. I really like how you approach it. In the beginning I was making huge batches of everything and now I'm working on smaller batches of things so that I know we'll actually use it all. Thanks for another great tour!!!
You are at such a fun stage of the journey, Jennifer! It's hard not to get carried away in the beginning. Frankly, even 20 years or so into it, I can still get carried away sometimes. It's all good though. Live and learn!
Thank you for all the valuable links you provided in the show notes! Rewatching the beginning of your video that I missed!
You are so welcome!
Hello, I am completely blown away! I am almost at a loss for words at how fantastic your pantries are! I have not done a lot of preserving in the past but have decided to give some of your recipes a try, on a much smaller scale. I, have also decided, once i get my current pantry and my cupboards all organized to try and pressure can. With that being said, i am not going to be going out and buying the biggest canner, but one that i use for both water and pressure canning. I live in an apartment which gets very hot in the summer so my canning list will be short, enough things i can do and use within six months. I am so looking forward to trying some of your recipes out. I am of the same mind as yourself when it comes to trying new flavours and new cuisines. Thank you for all of your hard work, with testing recipes and procedures. It definitely gives me incentive to do more! Stunning pantries! Have a wonderful day!
Thank you so much, Angela! I love to hear that you have a good plan for upping your food preservation game!
Love seeing how you yearly evaluate what you need and have, thanks
Thanks, Tammy!
Your pantry is beautiful! Lots of hard work but so satisfying to know where everything came from and that you made it. I also love pretty things on my canning shelves…. I did a LOT of pepper relish this year and also tried your mango salsa. My family gets a big box of everything I have preserved at holiday time and then they restock as needed. We use a lot of tomato products so canning the freezer tomatoes works well.
Keep up the great work- love watching your videos! 🙂
Thanks! So glad I'm not the only one with a ton of pepper relish! It's so good though. Hope you enjoy it. I will be loading up my son's car with jars at Christmas.
My kids and grandkids shop my shelves so they help clean things out. My girls and some of my grandsons help me can so it works. I am still working trying to make sure and can what we will actually like when it comes out of the can. This year I want to work on more meals in a jar just to have more of a variety.
Great plan, Denise!
Beautiful tour of preserved food, great job.
Thanks, Gloria!
You never disappoint and always do such a wonderful job. You are hands down my favorite You Tube channel to watch.
I continue to learn through you and so very grateful for all your time and education with your videos.
Thank you! BTW: You look Fabulous. 🙂
Wow, thank you so much! I'm glad you're here!
I would love to hear more about your keto meals. What your carb intake a day is. I was keto for over 6 years. My husband still is. Any meals that you could share would be great!
Good questions, Trish. I will add this to the Q&A video later this month.
Wonderful pantry tour! Your hard work and organizational skills are well represented in your beautiful pantry. I am new to freeze drying and was inspired by all your freeze drying suggestions and tips. Thanks Carter for the tour!
Thank you so much 😊
I was highly impressed again by your canning pantry. Now, I'm blown away by your freeze-dried pantry. Well done!
Thank you, Patty!
Carter, I love going on pantry tour with you it's so much fun.
Thank you. I love to watch pantry tours too!
I really enjoy your channel Carter. No nonsense, just straightforward and really good recipes showing both how to can, and how you use them.
I LOVE to can, and cook, but with just me, i cannot eat all that i would love to can. Lol.
Thank you for all that you do !
So glad to have you here, Roxanne! It is so tempting to just can everything that appeals to you, isn't it? Smaller batch canning or canner sharing sessions (more than one recipe or item canned at the same time) may be an approach to try. For instance, next Saturday's video is on 3 different chicken items I'm canning at the same time so that I don't end up with more than I need of any one item, but I'm still only creating one mess.
Peppers are my favorite too. I love all kinds of peppers next year. I wanna make a whole bed with peppers this year. I kind of have them scattered. I won’t plan them so close together cause I think you told me or someone else told me that don’t plan them too close, but I will plan them in one bed🌱🌱
Hope you have great results with your peppers. Mine have done very well that way. Next year I plan to experiment with spreading them to different beds. We'll see!
I have consistently found that planting them closer together by varieties, in well composted organic material rich beds with mild organic fertilizer and epsom salt at planting, produces an abundance. I also surround my pepper beds with my bulbing onions. Onions were huge this year and more peppers than I knew what to do with. I gifted many of both. I do not rotate my pepper beds either. Maybe my zone 5, is the beautiful result. I think the good Lord provided, personally.
@@justpatty7328 Good info, Patty!
Jams and jellys make great Christmas gifts.
Loved your tour, it's a goal of mine to have at least a years worth of food jarred and stored. Then I think I can keep a rolling year going all the time. I've been working hard on that
Fantastic goal! No doubt you'll achieve it.
I just love your pantry videos, you have the most unique recipes! I wanted to say you look amazing, I know how hard keto is. Great job❤
Thank you so much, Shell!
Fantastic pantry ! Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm new to your channel. Your pantry is beautiful, and I found from your pantry new ideas to add to mine. Thank you.
Welcome!! Good to have you here, Gloria.
Thank you carter, wonderful video as always. Cannot wait to get our house built and get started on canning some of these delicious things.
Oooh! A new house! How exciting!
Carter, You are wonderful. So smart and kind. Love watching your videos -- so informative. Hope your husband knows how lucky he is to have you. Barb
Thank you so much, Barb! I will tell my husband you said so!
Job well done!! Busy as a bee! It's way time for a little rest!! Looks good enough to eat!! ❤🙏🫶
Thank you, Jamie! I could use a rest! Hoping I can find time for that over the holidays. Glad to have you here!
I was hoping you'd be doing a tour video! I have made so many of your recipes that are keepers. I made the chili without beans yesterday. I got 6 quart jars and I make a triple bean in quarts with pinto, kidney, and black beans. I add that to the chili when I heat it up. We also really like the steak sauce and we go through chicken and pork the most. Thank you!
Excellent! So glad you're enjoying have a well-stocked pantry!
For canning sausage, use your instant pot to cook it (same with hamburger). When done, break up with a meat club (don’t know the name of it, but it has 4 sections at the top). Then, put in your jars and process. Works great and so little mess!
Thanks. How many pounds of meat can you get in your InstantPot. I never use mine, but I feel like it's too small for my purposes.
@ I have 3 sizes, but use my 5 qt the most - I can get 4-5 pounds of ground meat in it for this purpose. My 8 qt can do about 8. Since you don’t want to completely cook it, I put it in frozen (we get it from local butcher in 1 pound wraps) for 15 minutes with 3/4 -1 cup of water at the bottom and put the meat on a slight lift.
Your pantry is amazing... very impressive 💜 I aspire to be like you ✌🏼
Thank you, Annie! You are too sweet.
Thank you! I loved the video! I wish I was this organized and have to work on that. I have found myself not using enough of what I have canned and this has been a problem of jars going three years before being used.
It does take a bit to get into the rhythm of cycling through what you already have canned. I have found that the pantry challenge in Jan/Feb and smaller personal challenges throughout the year really help to keep me on track.
Amazing job Carter!! Also in defense of David, the SW Black Bean Corn soup is to die for. I canned up several jars as a part of my prep for Hurricane Helene just incase I needed soup and honestly I could eat that out of the jar if needed. Well I didnt have to but oh my goodness, I have never had the name brand version but I seriously doubt it is anywhere close to your version. Will definitely make more and try others too. 😍
Thanks, Debbi! He loved that one too. Tonight he asked for the last jar of split pea. It's time for another round!
Thank you for sharing the beauty of canning☺️. Well stocked & organized! Enjoyed the tour 👵🏻❣️
Thanks, Dee!
I went hog wild with cowboy candy and relishes in 2022. I still have a lot to eat through to this day. Would love a freeze dryer to try that method but economics prevent that at this time. Keep up the great work. Just recently did the canning of potatoes without liquid and we've been loving them. I make fried potatoes and add the quart jars to soups and stews for a much better flavor than the old fashioned way of canning potatoes. I learn a lot from you so keep on keepin' on! Next project is the meals in jars.
Awesome, Lori! So glad to have you here. Glad I'm not the only one to go overboard on pickles and relishes. They're yummy, quick and easy. What's not to love? Enjoy getting some meals in jars on your shelf!
Hello Carter 👋
Been a long time since ive watched your vids.
Keto huh?
Well, i can say with all honesty....you look fantastic!!!
You look like you've reversed aging...SERIOUSLY.
You look at the least, 10 years younger.
Your hubby gotta be loving that! Lol
Stay healthy!!!
Thank you so much, Hueman! So good to see you.
Hi Carter! I've been listening to Rfk jr. He says it could take a few years to replace our poisoned food with new nutritious foods. Many are saying we need a 2 year supply! Personally I have noticed a lot of our basics have disappeared! So you may want to rethink the 750 and keep it at 1300 plus. Most will last 3 years anyway so you can't really error if things do go downhill! This week, I freeze dried pineapple and potato dices are in now! I also finally used the sous vide and made peppered turkey breast lunch meat! Also replenished my schwarma 15 servings in the freezer, made two loaves of bread, and canned blueberry syrup and cranberry juice! I still have a case of frozen blueberries to get in jars. I still have enough pie filling so will probably just can as light syrup berries!
Finally got to Costco, but they did not have all on my list. I did come home with avocados and organic eggnog lol. I was ashamed of myself for falling for the warm and delicious smelling loaves of walnut and rosemary breads at 17$. I could have made them myself for only 2$ but I guess I was hungry and gave in! They were out of chicken thighs but I did get my ground turkey to make lunchmeat! Have a great week
Hey, Connie! Agree that I had much rather be overprepared than underprepared. Our food system is a mess. I too have noticed so many things that are no longer reliably around. Costco has has had many holes lately. Please let me know about your avocados from Costco. For the past 3+ years, every time I have tried them again, they have been horrible. I used to buy them there all the time, but something changed just before we left Atlanta. $17 for their specialty loaves now! Yikes. They do know what they're doing with all the bakery smells and testing stations, don't they? So glad you used the sous vide! It's pretty awesome, isn't it?
@ that was for 2 loaves. 7.99 and 8.99 but delicious!!
@@constancebeck2992 Better!
Carter, what an excellent video. Thank you so much for being so descriptive and thorough through each section of your food storage. You simply have the prettiest pantry on all of UA-cam - I kid you not! All of your jars look divine!
I know all of that hard work must give you a great sense of satisfaction, and it certainly benefits all of us as well.
And I know I mention this often, but I'm going to do it again because I know Keto is not the easiest diet to stick to by any means. But it has certainly served you well. Your skin, your hair, your nails... everything about you is glowing. It is truly working well for you. And you deserve a big ol pat on the back for sticking with it! Yay for Carter! I'm back on a lower carbs after losing hard earned muscle while on keto, but what I've learned about different diets is that everyone is different.
I appreciate you so much for taking the time to show us your pantry and to teach us on this journey called food preservation. I'm learning so much and enjoying the process as well ❤
So good to see you, ArkansasSquaw! I totally agree each of us is different in what works to keep us healthy. That makes total sense. I hope you settle into what works best for you. I'm so glad to have you around!
@@growandpreserve thanks so much! Ps. Sorry that I didn't initially catch those typos! Lol. Have a beautiful week.
This is a 5 star video, ❤
Thanks, Jean!
LOVE 💕 YOUR PANTRY with all your beautiful canned goods!
Mine is so spread out some here some there would love a place specifically for my canned goods! And who doesn’t love looking at all the beautiful jars?!
I eat very low carb, so I need to stick to meats and non-carbs veggies, but oh, I want those sugar free jams, the ones at the stores, who knows what those ingredients are? Anyway, I did make a no sugar cranberry jam last year but didn’t use a recipe who knows if I can get lucky like that again? lol. It flew off the shelf! Thank you for sharing your beautiful pantry with us!!!
Thanks, CCR! I used to have to keep my jars all over the house too. My goodness, it was hard to keep track of everything! So glad to have you here!
I love your videos. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Joyce!
This is a great video, Carter! It sounds like you’ve really taken stock of what you should or shouldn’t can in the future. But canning fresh fruit really IS so much fun!!
Thanks, Vicky! I totally agree about the fun to be had canning fresh fruit!
YOU look fabulous! Great job.
Thank you so much, Samantha!
Love this video’! I can a lot of soup for my husband too. His favs are ham and bean, split pea and ham, and sausage-kale-white bean soup.
I love your meal in jar series. I remember you did sandwich fillings. Are you out of those? I’d love to see a paprikash or savory cranberry chicken. I’m also with you on the jams. I have SO MANY flavors at the moment
Thanks, Karen! David asked for split pea soup last night. Thankfully that was one of the ones I had left! The sausage and white bean soup was the first to go in my house. Definitely need to make more of that. I bet he would like a ham and bean as well. Thanks for the ideas! I only have a few of the sandwich fillings left. Maybe a meatball and some of the Italian Beef. Having good keto bread options available lately has really made these a fun option. Oooh...paprikash. I don't have any Hungarian flavors on the shelf. That could be fun. Savory cranberry chicken sounds delish. I'll have to give that one some thought. Do you have something specific in mind? I'm thinking I might get some oddly colored chicken!
@@growandpreservehubby and I went to Budapest this fall and fell in love with paprikash. I think it can be canned and then add the sour cream/yogurt when serving.
As for the cranberry chicken, I think it’s kind of like a tangy sauce. There’s a popular recipe for turkey breast, cranberry sauce and onion soup mix in the crockpot. Thats what I was thinking but you always come up with healthier, tastier recipes 😊
@@karenm7433 Good food for thought, Karen. Thanks!
Hi, Carter!!! Of all the pantry tours I've seen, YOURS is the one I want to copy!! WHERE did you get those shelves??!! I want good strong shelves!! I LOVE your content!!!!!♥️
Hey, Lisa. Thanks so much. These are my shelves: www.samsclub.com/p/members-mark-5-shelf-storage-rack/prod19280016 I love them. No issues at all. Do note that I bought an extra shelving unit so I could use the shelves to add to the three units you see in the video.
Love your pantry tour! We put together our downstairs pantry this year. Love canning to fill up the shelves. Thank you for sharing!
That is awesome!
What a great year of preserving! Thanks for sharing all your knowledge with us! You are a great teacher! Please let us know how the freeze dried cauliflower rice comes out when you try rehydrating it. 😊
Thanks, Sharon! I will try the cauliflower rice soon. If it works well, I'd love to do more. I'd also like to blend it into a powder and try for caulimash. We'll see!
I love this video. So neat and organized. One thing I have not had much of on my shelf is soups so I’m now working on that. One soup I love is the Japanese clear soup with mushroom and spring onions. I have found recipes, but nothing on the processing time for canning. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks, Nicole! For your soup, I would use the recommended soup times in this chart: nchfp.uga.edu/how/can/canning-vegetables-and-vegetable-products/soups/ Pressure can 60 minutes for pints or 75 minutes for quarts.
Thanks Carter! You've given me some great ideas for next year!!
Excellent, Leona!
Your pantry is amazing !!! It’s my dream pantry. I too am keto/low-carb…. My goal was to lose weight, I have managed to lose 30 kg, and I’m almost at my goal right now, but I agree with you, i feel so good and so much better that I can not see myself ever going back to eating sugar or lots of carbs.
Congrats on your success, Karen!
@ thank you so much :).
I just installed long bungee cords for my canning shelves! I'm low carb too and my jellies and jams never get used. But I love making jams 😂
Jams are fun, aren't they??
Looks fabulous! I'm definitely trying the Cuban Piccadillo!
It's delish, Melanie!
Looks like you are almost set for the pantry challenge this year. Maybe your kids or extended family would like the jams and jellies if you are intent on getting rid of them. Maybe you could make some fruit gummies for Christmas gifts or for hubby ( sorry forgot his name and don't want to get it wrong by guessing).
Good ideas, Erica. Thanks!
Excellent job, so excited for you ❤❤
Thank you so much!!
Love all your videos! I canned raw pack chicken this year for the first time after following your instructions. You mentioned canning rotisserie chicken. Do you have a video on that or can you tell me how you did it? Thank you!!
Thanks, Susan! As for rotisserie chicken...tune in next Saturday. ;-)
Carter, great video of your pantry! Have you done a video of your rotisserie chicken canning process? I haven't been able to find. Appreciate any info or direction.
Thanks, Jamie! Rotisserie chicken in next Saturday's video!
@@growandpreserve FABULOUS! Cant wait!!
Carter, thank you for sharing. Your food preservation and planning is incredibly intentional and quite admirable! I'm such a newbie I'm just getting the hang of food preservation and organization. My space is limited so I'm having to be careful with my available food real estate and I want to can everything. lol. You mentioned canned bacon. What convinced you that canning bacon was a good idea? Actually, what do you consider when going against "the grain"? I would love to do the same, but "they" have put the over the top fear of not branching out and away from the "rules" firmly planted in my psyche. (Don't tell the canning police I'm considering leaving the path! lol) Thank you for all you do to encourage and inspire us! Oh! And thank you for the video playlist! I feel a binge coming on, 🙃
Thank you, bluebird! Really great question about the bacon. I actually said on an early video that that was one thing I would not do. Never say never! In the case of the bacon, it was a couple of longtime canners whose judgement I trust that tipped the scale for me. I am not one to rebel can "because I can", and I'm not a believer that "if it seals, it's good". Having done several rounds of bacon now, I remain comfortable with it. Now you have me thinking about a bacon sandwich for dinner!
Awesome you have such great ideas. ❤❤❤ thank you for sharing ❤❤
Thanks for being here, Letha!
Job well done!!!
Thanks, Theresa!
This is amazing ! Thanks for sharing !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful! Love it all!
Thanks, Libby!
Enjoyed it!
Thanks, Linda!
This looks fantastic- thank you! 😊
Thank you!
I am smoking and then dehydrating the bulk of my hot peppers. I will turn them I to a chunky sized flake for cooking with and as gifts.
That sounds fantastic, Barbara!
Amazing
Thank you!
I haven't tried it yet, but I've heard that cowboy candy mixed with cream cheese makes a great dip! If y'all are looking for ways to use em up in the meantime 😅
Brilliant! I think you just figured out what appetizer I'm taking to a pot luck party tomorrow night! Thanks!
I love your videos. Where did you get your heavy duty shelves? Do you recall the brand?
Here you go, Marilyn. I love them. Do note that I bought an extra unit so I could have more shelves for these three units. www.samsclub.com/p/members-mark-5-shelf-storage-rack/prod19280016
Great job. Where did you get your shelves?
I’ve been looking for something that can stand up in the middle of the room without tipping.
Mine are from Sam's Club: www.samsclub.com/p/members-mark-5-shelf-storage-rack/prod19280016 Do note that I bought an extra unit just so I could have extra shelves for the various jar sizes.
I too found myself canning a bunch of things I’m not eating due to keto however my hubby is eating them.
Good enough!
Carter you know those jars of sweet delights make wonderful Christmas presents. lol.
Is David pampered with his own fridge of hot sauces. They all look good.
Enjoyed the video. Thank you.
Notify the kids to return your jars!!! ha ha . Have a box of empties in my car from this morning.
Pantry looks really good. All the stores in Texas have had potatoes on sale. This week sweet potatoes are .20 cents a pound. Wow what a steal. I'm going to stock up.
Do you work with the recipes that don't make it and reconfigure for a different use? or
Have you figured out what flavor profile was missing?
You are right, Donna. I will be gifting lots of sweet things! I'm clearly going to enlist your help in getting jars back from my son! How is that so hard?? I do work on recipes that aren't quite there...just ask David how many soups he had to try for the soup series! Sometimes it's obvious what's missing, so it's easy to try again. Sometimes it can be just that the final product doesn't warrant the time and resources. Those I tend to just let go until it hits me what may improve the product.
@@growandpreserve Bribe with canning their favorite item. Jars were ready and waiting with waffles and delicious coffee and the great granddaughter. It was a fun morning. Have a great evening.
@@donnamullins2089 Wow. Hard to top your morning, Donna!
Hot peppers make a fermented hot sauce. Put in a firecider.
When you freeze dry your potatoes do you fully cook them first or just blanch? We are low carb right now as well but I don't want my garden potatoes to get soft. Thanks for this video!
Just blanch for a couple minutes first.
Carter, do you ever can lamb?
(I can't eat pork because I'm allergic to it.) Or sweet potatos?
I don't personally can lamb because it's so expensive here. I tend to save lamb for a beautiful leg of lamb or lamb chops that I can cook and serve mid rare. However, I don't see any problem canning it. Like with any meat, just pick cuts that have a bit of fat so they don't turn out super dry. I don't can sweet potatoes because I can't get a product that suits me. I store them fresh as long as I can (generally 10-11 months) and then slice, roast and freeze what's left.
I would like to know more about your background. Just curious what kind of career you had. Did it involve food? What made y’all decide to move to Tennessee? My husband and I were born and raised in Texas. Lately we have discussed making a move
Fun questions, Cindy! I'm adding these to the list for the Q&A video later this month.
I have a question I hope you can answer. I make a quick jambalaya by buying a lot of the vegetables in cans. One of can goods is tomatoes, oka, and corn. Do you water bath this or presser can it
Hey, Debbie. Are you asking about just canning the tomato/okra/corn mixture? Definitely pressure can. The okra and corn are low acid. As for timing, that's a bit trickier. Usually we would use the timing for the ingredient that needs the longest time. In this case, that would be corn at 55 minutes for a pint. However, the NCHFP guidance for "mixed vegetables" is 75 for a pint. That seems quite long to me.
Have you ever mentioned where those shelves were purchased? I found your source! Sam’s club!
I love these shelves, Vicki!
You did great but Tina the ones that you say you don’t want maybe you can give them as gifts maybe your children or somebody you know you know I give out preserves to like the landscaper or the guy that’s gonna come and cut my tree down I’ll give him a preserve orsome of everything I have that I have abundance. I always give out as a gift.
Yes! I try to do that too.
How do you can rotisserie chicken? Do you just purchase the cooked ones from the store or what do u do? Sounds great.
Pick the meat off, pack it into jars, clean rim, lid/ring --no broth added-- then pressure can. Pints 75 minutes, quarts, 90. I buy turkeys when on sale, oven roast (same temperature as turkey at Thanksgiving) but not as long a time. I prefer to pull out when internal temp is around 150⁰. Let cool enough to not burn your hands, pick off meat - I prefer to have larger chunks when possible. Then pack & can same as described above. I think poultry canned this way is SO much tastier than with broth added or raw packed. The already roasted meat will produce some additional juices when you can it.
I prefer to roast turkeys in my oven roaster so that one meat is picked off I can just put all bones/skins into the same pan, add water (onions, celery & onions added are good too) then on low 200⁰, let simmer for 24 hrs. Strain & then pressure can lots of really yummy stick.
Not sure why the "no broth added" shows up lined through. Don't add broth.
Stock. Spell check... grrr lol
@@roxannesears7878 thank you so much. I’m excited to try this.
This was a great share! Will start on this right away. Thank you! ❤
I really like following Keto but I love tomatoes and I eat so many that it throws off my macros. I struggle to stick with it. That's the only sugar I eat, it's surprising how fast it adds up!
Do they throw off your ketones and blood sugar? Macros are an easy target to track, but the only thing that really matters is how your body responds.
Do you use an electric canner ever? I have a pressure canner I have never used and it’s been two years since I had it checked.. I really wanna try an electric canner but hear differing views on safety. Thank you!
Welcome, Danielle! I bought the Presto Electric Pressure canner 2 years ago and have used it almost exclusively since. That's well over 1000 jars pressure canned using the Presto Electric. I love it. I have not had a single issue with it. I have zero safety concerns with it. If something happened to it, I would buy another one immediately. This is the one I have: amzn.to/40rp5Kb Hope that helps to alleviate your concerns!
@ yes! Thank you !
I was confused when you said that you loved your canned rotisserie chicken when you don't want shredded chicken. Are you saying that rotisserie chicken stays in chunks, as opposed to raw pack which does not? Thanks - love your videos!
Not perfectly, but it does hold up better.
@@growandpreserve My question was about rotisserie chicken as well. Did you can the Costco rotisserie chicken? (I assume yes) Have you tried making rotisserie chicken and canning? How does the store bought rotisserie chicken compare to hot pack chicken?
@@rachaelpainter Rotisserie chicken video next Saturday. However, I didn't address rotisserie versus hot pack. I find that Rotisserie provides the best "pieces of chicken" results for me. Baking a whole chicken, then hot packing the meat comes in second in my experience. Hot packing chicken cooked boneless produces the driest meat in my experience. My guess is that something they inject in the rotisserie chickens is likely the reason it does best (sticking my head in the sand on that one), but cooking it on the bone produces a good result too.
Do you have a pizza sauce recipe to share?
Hmmm.. I'm not sure I have a video on it. If not, I'll do one when I make the next batch.
Do your hot peppers get soft?
They're not a crisp as fridge pickles, but they hold up ok for the first couple of years. After that, anything pickled starts to get pretty soft.
Thank you for your reply.
I’ve stopped canning any fruit products or anything with sugar like bbq sauce because they don’t get used fast enough.
It's good that you've got a handle on your pantry management. I'm hoping to catch up!
🇦🇺Give the jars that you won’t eat to kids or friends.
I didn’t think you can canned bacon safely
It's definitely a rebel one.
Forget the 🐷