By Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Pressure Canning
Making homemade bone broth is a delicious, healthy, and frugal way to extend the value of a whole chicken. Learning how to can bone broth at home means you’ll always have broth on hand for soups, stews, gravies, and sauces. Not to mention you’ll be saving about $4 a quart! Learning how to pressure can […]
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These preservation methods will help you build your food storage up and be well prepared in case of an emergency. Learning these methods to preserve your own food at home is something every family should implement, not just for survival or preparedness, but for frugality, better health, and working together. An old fashioned kind of […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Podcast , Pressure Canning
Wondered about canning in electric pressure cookers? Are you interested in pressure canning but also worried that you will make a mistake that causes your canner to explode or your family to get sick? I have good news for you: pressure canning doesn’t have to be scary! In fact, it’s one of my favorite methods […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Podcast , Pressure Canning , Recipes , Water Bath
Preserving rhubarb is one of my favorite spring forays, especially canning rhubarb. My heart can’t help but love rhubarb, a vegetables that lends itself as a fruit and is one of the first things we can harvest in the spring, long before my berries and fruit trees produce. It makes a mean dessert, excellent sauce […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Pressure Canning
Knowing how to choose the best pressure canner for you and your family is one of the first step towards becoming more self-sustainable. A pressure canner will help you put up a greater variety of foods to stock your pantry and food storage. I warn you, once you begin to see how many things you […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Podcast , Pressure Canning , Recipes
Anyone else feel late to the bone broth parade? Up until a year ago I had no idea the awesomeness of bone broth. I simply new it was a good way to get more money from your meat purchases and a more frugal way to make broth at home. Then I started reading up and […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Pickles , Podcast , Pressure Canning , Recipes , Water Bath
Getting produce in season and preserving it for the following year is the most frugal way to cut your food budget and increase your pantry. These 6 fall canning recipes are what we’re putting up on our homestead right now and the perfect time for you to do so as well, before prices rise […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Pressure Canning , Recipes , Water Bath
Learning how to can tomato sauce is life changing. No, seriously, with a jar of tomato sauce you can create spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, barbecue sauce, tomato soup, chili, cabbage rolls…. see, pretty much anything your heart desires can be made with the base of tomato sauce. I am able to grow enough tomatoes to […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Podcast , Pressure Canning , Recipes
Get pressure canning like a pro with these time saving tips. The end of summer earns my pressure canner a permanent spot on the counter. It gets used every day, sometimes multiple times a day, despite it’s hissing at me. Okay, if that joke fell flat, I blame it on all the pressure canning I’m […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Canning Recipes , Food Preservation , Food Preservation - Canning , Fruit, Jam and Jelly , Pickles , Pressure Canning , Recipes , Water Bath
Am I the only one always on the hunt for awesome canning recipes? I’ve rounded up my favorite 10+ easy home canning recipes for you. I have a love affair with canning. Seriously, wholesome food, ready to go meals with just a pop of the lid, food storage in case of emergency or financial crisis, […]
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