Learning how to make dehydrated beet chips will help you preserve your harvest, expand your emergency food storage, and provide a delicious, healthy snack! When I was a kid, my parents loved to eat pickled beets. They would have them a couple of … [Read more...]
Beginner’s Guide to Dehydrating Food at Home
Whether you're a camping pro, a hiking buff, or just someone looking to preserve your garden's bountiful harvest, dehydrating food at home is a useful skill to have! Campers and hikers usually like to take dehydrated (and freeze dried) food with … [Read more...]
Delicious Fermented Pickled Asparagus Recipe
Something about the salty, briny taste of fermented foods that's slightly sour (like a pickle) is so good to me! I've made a few different fermented foods including shredded carrots, and of course I've made sauerkraut (because it's my favorite … [Read more...]
Fermented Shredded Carrots
I have to be honest with you about something. The last time I wrote about fermenting carrots, they weren't as good as I thought. Sure, I tried them, and they tasted like pickled carrots, and I was happy enough with them at the time I wrote that … [Read more...]
Super Easy Homemade Sauerkraut Recipe
I may have mentioned in an earlier article that I love sauerkraut on hot dogs. It's one of those condiment type foods that I have to have on hand just in case we do have hot dogs. But something I never knew until recently is sauerkraut is a … [Read more...]
Fermented Foods – A Primer on Lactofermentation
My wife and I finally got ourselves a water bath canning set that we had been wanting for a long time, and I've been learning more about preserving foods that way. However, I want to continue to broaden my mind when it comes to food preservation --- … [Read more...]
How to Freeze Tomatoes
Number 9 on the list of "40 Ways to Save Money on Groceries" should have included freezing food before it goes bad. It probably should have been on the list of "25+ Ways to Keep Food From Spoiling", too. Regardless, if you have tomatoes that are … [Read more...]
Tips for Freezing Meat
My husband had the uncanny ability to detect when meat has been frozen and then cooked. It has resulted in numerous issues over the years, but it also prompted me to find the best ways for freezing meat I buy in bulk to avoid these unpleasant dining … [Read more...]
25+ Ways to Keep Food from Spoiling
According to a report from August 2012 by the National Resources Defense Council, America wastes about 40 percent of its food supply. Let that sink in for just a moment. Imagine going into your kitchen and just throwing away 4 pounds of food … [Read more...]
Canning 101: Basic Canning Instructions
The process of canning has been around since the 1800s when a French confectioner and brewer named Nicolas Appert found that food cooked inside a jar didn't spoil unless the seals leaked. He developed a method of sealing food in glass jars, and the … [Read more...]
Delicious Homemade Dehydrated Apple Chips
We try to eat as many fresh fruits as we can instead of greasy chips or candy. Bananas, oranges, and apples are three of our favorite fruits! Sometimes when we've gotten a really good deal on apples, and some of the batch looks like they may go … [Read more...]
How to Store Onions
Have you ever bought something that came in one of those plastic mesh bags? Of course you have --- produce... toys... I've even seen socks packaged in them. Typically, you rip into the bag from any old angle, dump the contents, and toss the bag in … [Read more...]