The past couple of weeks I have been spending some of my extra free time canning. My friend let me borrow this nifty little machine called the "deni jar vac." It is so easy to use and actually really fun. I went to costco and bought some of our favorite snacks and dry packed them. Apparently it keeps most things good for 3 to 5 yrs.
My kids actually helped & had fun stuffing jars full of snacks!
I probably went a little crazy but this is obviously something you would do once you have most of your year supply. It is just a little added bonus and may taste really good after eating the cannery's food or my dehydrated stuff.
A few things that I chose were.... fishies - marsh mellows - licorice - snickers bars - M&Ms - trail mix - almonds - walnuts - pretzels - pistachios - fruit snacks - jolly ranchers - chocolate chips - turkey jerky - etc!
This past week we spent a few days @ one of my sister's house CANNING ALL day! It was a team effort and was really fun. Her poor kitchen was a total mess - we canned BUTTER - GROUND BEEF - SALSA & PINTO BEANS. Thanks Carrie for allowing us the use of your kitchen, next time it will be in mine or Tiff's!
The ground beef was so easy & I believe will be nice to have someday to add to different meals
Yummy Salsa
We borrowed my mom's food saver and stocked up @ costco again. We bagged and sealed lots of yummy dry snacks.
Our family loves popcorn and with my butter..... DELICIOUS!
Here is the salsa - ground beef - butter & pinto beans getting ready to be stored away
We also did granola bars - oreo's - ritz crackers & graham crackers. This is also a really cool machine to have @ your home. I like the use of the jars but this is probably better if you have limited space.
This is a part of my storage room down in my basement ( favorite room in my house) I try and use it as my little grocery store and just keep things rotating all the time.
I am just showing a part of my supply - on the other side are all the boxes of dehydrated and cannery food.
And then last but not least you gotta have your water! Scott buys a crate @ costco every few months and we just rotate thru it!
I do not believe you can ever have to much food and water. As scary as our world is becoming, I feel much more @ ease with anything that will come our way as long as I am doing my part to be prepared spiritually and temporally. Hopefully when the time comes and things start to fall apart... I can have the attitude "Bring it on" and will not fear what is to come. I guess that is why we are told to have our year supply. Any of you who have this hanging over your head..... just take baby steps & don't get over whelmed - it has actually been a little addicting for me!
