Five Ways to Preserve Your Garden Excess

With summer coming to an end, it may be time that your home garden is wrapping up. You may have an excess of good produce that you do not want to go to waste. Here is a list of five easy ways to store and use up the food from your garden. 1) Canning is an excellent way to store items from your garden. You can bottle green beans, make pickles from your cucumbers. You can make spaghetti sauce, tomato juice, and tomato soup with your tomatoes. You can make jams, and pie filling with the fruit, as well as … Continue reading →

Storing Freeze Dried Foods

You may want to consider storing a few cases of freeze dried food in your food storage. I do not advocate having your entire food storage be made up of freeze dried food because your family will not be used to eating it and you will need to make sure that you have a source of water available to reconstitute the food. However supplementing your food with freeze dried items will give you a wider variety of food items, which would otherwise be unavailable to you. You can supplement with items such as freeze dried fruit. Examples of these include … Continue reading →

Another Reason to Store Food

There are many reasons to store food. It can save you money to stock up on food when it is on sale. It can provide for your family during a time of financial security. Another reason to store food is to prepare for a time when you may not be able to purchase food for a long period of time. If another epidemic were to strike, chances are that normal day-to-day activities would be shut down to prevent the spread of the illness. Normal day-to-day activities include grocery stores, jobs, school and church. There are other factors, which may make … Continue reading →

Planning a Garden for Food Storage

If you are storing a year’s supply of food you may want to consider storing seeds in your food storage. This can save you space, room and money. Gardens allow you to grow plenty of fresh vegetables for your family to eat. If you have a large enough area you can also market the excess food you grow and make a little extra money in a difficult time. Some people enjoy gardening and others do not. You will need to decide if this is a good option for your family. Here are things that you should consider when planning to … Continue reading →

Canning Food

One art that is slowly dying is canning and preserving food. There are many reasons that people have stopped canning home grown foods. It is certainly a lot easier to buy a can off the shelf. Canning is a lot of work and does involve a great deal of time. It is also usually done in the summer when it is hot, and it can heat up the kitchen if not the whole house. However there are reasons to can food. You may be interested in canning food if you want to have organic fruits and vegetables throughout the year. … Continue reading →

Dry Pack Canning

There are some simple ways to preserve food to help it to last longer. One way that I have found to be fairly easy and inexpensive is to dry pack can items. A dry pack canner will can items that contain little or no moisture. I have dry pack canned flour, sugar, rice, pasta and wheat. These items work well with the canner, and will store for varying lengths of time depending on the food you are storing. You can find a list for the different foods and their length of storage time here. When you dry pack can, you … Continue reading →