Self-Reliance & Skills

Preserving

How to Can Your Own Recipes

Canning recipes are great to have but they aren’t absolutely necessary.  Now, the GMO Food and Drug Pushers Administration might ...

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How to Adjust for Altitude When Canning

My canning friends, sometimes we have to look at our situations and say to ourselves, “I need an altitude adjustment.” ...

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Preserving

How to Sanitize Jars for Canning

Your preserved food is only as safe and sanitary as the vessels you put it in. You don't need to ...

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How to Pressure Can Food (You Will Not Blow Up Your House!)

You are NOT going to blow up your house when you are pressure canning. It's way easier than you ...

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How to Can Food in a Boiling Water Bath

Water bath canning is a great way to start for beginners. There is no scary equipment, the start-up cost ...

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Pressure Canning: Two Kinds of Chili

Chili is the perfect meal for a snowy winter day.  These recipes provide two very different takes on the traditional ...

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Cleaning

Nuts for Soapnuts!

I finally invested in a bag of soapnuts.  I read about them on Ready Nutrition, where Tess Pennington gave detailed ...

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Scratch Challenge – Update

Today, the 26th, my scratch challenge fell by the wayside. I’m kind of bummed, having made it this far without ...

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Orange You Going to Eat That?

I get a lot of my stuff from the “last day of sale” bin at the grocery store. This weekend ...

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Prepping & SurvivalPreserving

Canning for Preppers

Canning is the perfect solution for preppers – any preppers, not just those who are seeking a natural nutrition source. ...

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Cleaning

Removing Pesticide from Produce

While I would love for every bite we consume to be organic, budgetary restrictions don’t always allow for it.  I ...

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Scratch Challenge: Days 15, 16 and 17

The last few reasonably warm and hospitable days of winter are here so I’ve been slacking on the blog updates! ...

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Scratch Challenge: Day 12

I’ve been away at a funeral for the past few days, as I mentioned in yesterday’s post.  I had to ...

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You Need More Than Food to Survive

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