The Best Use for Extra Cherry Tomatoes! How to Make Sun Dried Tomatoes
Every garden, I plant a cherry tomato plant. Or two, just in case one dies. Later in the summer they start producing those little red balls of juicy goodness. Oh, my. Cherry tomatoes right off the...
View ArticleHow to Filet a Fish
Do you like fish? We do. We like fishing and eating what we catch. Most times we are just fishing for lake or river trout, which we don’t filet, but sometimes we get fish that are bigger or hard...
View ArticleSurprisingly Simple 5 Step Guide for Creating the Perfect “Throw Together” Soup
Leftover soup, throw together soup, clean out the fridge soup. Whatever you call it, this soup is a staple at our house for finishing off the leftovers and stretching our meal budget. After many...
View ArticleHow to Can Your Leftover Turkey
Every Thanksgiving that we’re cooking our own meal, I get the biggest turkey I can find because we love the leftovers. Some years, there’s so much left on the turkey that we won’t be able to eat it...
View ArticleHow to Dry Pears for Pear Candy
Dehydrating pears is a simple and super delicious drying project. Dehydrating fruits intensifies the flavor and makes them portable, snackable, and easy to pack with you for day trips, camping, car...
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How to Make Pemmican
Pemmican has been called the ultimate survival food. It is nutrient dense and fits right in with the paleo diet. It was originally produced in the 18th century by native Americans and French...
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Making and Canning Delicious Apricot Syrup
It’s apricot season here! I love apricots and one of my favorite canning products of apricot season is apricot syrup! This stuff is to die for. Tangy and sweet and perfect on french toast,...
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How to Make and Can Apricot Nectar
It’s apricot season! If you have access to an apricot tree, you know they can produce plenty of the sweet tart little guys. Where we live, apricots are a luxury, only producing on years where there is...
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Our Favorite Super Easy Banana Applesauce Bread Recipe
My kids love bananas. Until they don’t. And they never tell me when the banana consumption will spontaneously shut off, so occasionally, I’m left with a bunch of over ripe bananas. When there are...
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12 Favorite Comfort Foods You Want in Your Food Storage PLUS How to Store Them
Nobody wants to go through a hard time eating just beans and rice. I’ve heard frequently that “if you’re hungry enough, you’ll eat anything.” But why should you need to when you can have foods you...
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27+ Clever Ways to Use Dandelions
Hold off on the weed spray! That shining yellow flower that pops up all over creation in the spring doesn’t need to be eradicated. Although dandelions are typically thought of as a pesky weed, they...
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How to Save Carrot Seeds
Welcome! this post is part of the Prepared Bloggers’ 30 Ways of Homesteading roundup! At the bottom of this post you’ll find lots of great links to other ways to become self sufficient through...
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8 Delicious Ways to Use Freeze Dried Vegetables
When I started buying freeze dried food, I knew I needed to take my own advice and try the food out rather than just set it on a shelf and call it food storage and hope I liked it when I needed to use...
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Sinfully Delicious Pumpkin Roll
I’m going to be right up front here. I have ulterior motives in publishing this recipe and detailed instructions. I have pumpkin roll for my birthday each year, but nobody in the house knows how to...
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How to Make Homemade Marshmallows
Homemade marshmallows are super easy and taste so much better than store marshmallows, you’ll want to be making them all the time. Well, at least your husband might want you to be making them all the...
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How to Make Butter with a Butter Churn
Want to start making your own butter? For our Thanksgiving meal this year, we made our own butter using my grandma’s butter churn. It’s probably an antique, but you can get something similar here....
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Canning Homemade Peach Peel and Pit Jelly
What do you do with your peels and pits when you’re canning peaches or using them for jam? Mine used to go straight out to the chickens, but I’ve found a new way to get one more delicious use out of...
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Fabulous Home Canned Peach Raspberry Jam
Homemade jam is one of my favorite reasons for canning, and today I have a delicious jam that’s going to our “I Grew Thanksgiving” dinner with me since it’s made from raspberries and peaches I grew!...
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Making Evaporated Milk and Sweetened Condensed Milk from Powdered Milk
When I started storing food, I thought it would be a good idea to store forms of canned milk like evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk. I bought quite a few cans and have used most of them...
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Food Storage and Survival Radio Episode 64: Canning Your Own Jams, Jellies,...
Episode 64: Canning Your Own Jams, Jellies, and Syrups Listen Here! Got some extra fruit? Want to make your own jams, jellies, or syrups but don’t know where to start? In this episode we’re talking...
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