I canned up beef broth, chicken broth, blueberry pancake syrup, and elderberry syrup for our home this week. Then, I helped my daughter at her home can up potatoes, stewed tomatoes, blueberry pancake syrup, and fish. We are both glad to have cleared up freezer space! Happy Canuary 😊
I've made blueberry syrup. Basically, boil the berries in sugar water. Then strain for a few hours. Take the juice and boil until it thickens. It's easy. I'm not sure how long it water bathed. I'm sure there's a recipe online. I took the blueberry pulp and cooked it with lemon juice and zest until it reached about 218°. Probably added some sugar to it.
I really like your idea of keeping all jars filled. No empties go to the basement pantry! I’m going to adopt the same. I have about 9 dozen of empty jars. So I’ve started. I filled 14 jar’s with chicken thighs, 12 jars of chicken broth and 16 pints of mushrooms. I’ve got 4 trays of avocados in the freeze drier. Happy cannuary everyone! 😊
I currently canning plum butter. When I was organizing my freezers for the pantry challenge, I didn’t realize I had 7 gallon size ziplock bags of plums! So it’s plum butter, Asian BBQ sauce, and plum sauce for pancakes.
To preserve fresh apples almost indefinitely, Cut up a thick brown paper grocery bag into 6-7 inch squares and wrap each apple separately. Newspaper works too, but I read them online so I use grocery bags. The individually wrapped apples are placed in another grocery bag or container and stored in a cool dry place. I use the bottom of my refrigerator. The paper keeps the apples from touching each other, which is why they don't spoil. I've stored apples like this for several months and they don't get mushy at all.
Last year I was totally unprepared for the challenge. Made it less than 2 weeks. This year, I am still going strong and making it into the 2nd month and maybe could do 3 months. I am taking note of what I need to stock more of or would have like to have done differently (more soups) This really gets my mind set on how to do hurricane preps better also.
Bless you for the hard work of continuity of the American work spirit! May you and all women like you, that can in jars, dehydrate, grow, render, butcher, store, and raise American families, stay strong and teach that strength through exampling. I am proud to be related to you through this strength of pioneering spirit. Finding a way to take care of our family is the most Christlike of Love.
I too can year around. I cannot grow enough to feed us for long and we are living on disability, so I visit food pantries and mobile food trucks. We usually get produce in quantities the 2 of us cannot eat before they go bad. I can it all. I might get 10 lbs of carrots but not see carrots again for months but I have jars of carrots. This week was 7 lbs of blueberries....so into jars the go.
I’ve been freezing lemon juice in ice cube trays from target. The bottoms of the trays are silicone and it’s easy to pop the cubes out and the trays have lids also!
I Love this video and the ideas ❤ I intentionally dehydrated Alot of onions and bell peppers during the summer and it's so easy to just add to meals and go. Also I did alot of soup bases and canned beans(It was my first time pressure canning) which has helped tremendously since the surgery and these freezing days we've had in Oklahoma. Also in 2024 I've started putting my meal planner and things to do (bake bread, pressure can, etc) into my daily planner🙌🏽 I don't know why I thought I could manage 2 planners 🤦🏾As Always Much Love From Okc ❤ Wishing Everyone a Blessed Week 🙏🏾
I am also making room in my freezer for two hogs that are being processed. I had a large bag of chicken backs and breast bones from when we processed our last batch of birds and canned up broth with them. The pieces of meat that were on the backs were stripped off and frozen for a later meal. Hope everyone has a great week!
Jessica, You are a leader! You remind me of my, Mama. Humble, Sweet, so, so Kind.... I have no children. Amazing. You are such a GOOD 'TEACHER'. Simple, easy, and practical. ❤😊
Oh, so helpful! ⚘THANKS TO YOU, I canned many jars of Beef and Chicken Broth and homemade Chili today. 1st time! Tomorrow is canning Beef. Wow. Thanks so much, Jessica!
I really enjoy watching your preservation videos. The simplicity of delicious home cooked meals is straight forward in your words and actions. Thank you 😊
Before this challenge I thought of canning preservation primarily for late summer. I’m so inspired now besides the chicken broth I’ve made; I plan to preserve beans, grape jelly, onions and beef broth! This is good stewardship of all those goodies buried in the pantry and freezer! Blessings on your family Jessica!❤🙏🏻
Jessica, I had the same kind of “oops I’ve” and forgot to bring in several jars of my homemade ferments. I brought everything inside and realized that the freezing wasn’t totally destructive. I threw away several quarts of whole dill pickles…mushy pickles sounds less than appealing. But, my kraut, fermented garlic, fermented kohlrabi, and fermented radish seed pods were just fine. Now my inside fridge is stuffed with all my salvaged ferments. So all is not lost if you act fast! I really appreciate your ways of preserving onions. Mine are now getting a bit over-the-hill. Time to preserve them.
Great video ,,iam so impressed for a young mother how much you do for your family so nice to see ,I love canning to but just 2 of us at home so don’t do to much
Oh my goodness, this pantry challenge has been so good for my freezers and store! I am really cleaning house in the food department. Getting creative with the meals. Thank you for hosting this. GOD bless
I've been canning a lot myself - bone broth, meat, pasta sauce and soups, plus I rendered few pints of tallow. A local butcher is kindly giving me all his bones and meat offcuts for my pets (free of charge) so I use the best ones for canning - my cats turn up their noses at it, but the dogs and foxes eat like royalty. My dogs in particular love bone broth and get a bowl full of it every day. Meat I get when it's on sale or short-dated and I can it up for quick dinners. Your videos keep me motivated to get busy when I'm not feeling 100%. I have an autoimmune condition and sometimes the pain is just too much, but I soldier on. Thank you for sharing your cooking and canning - they are really helpful.
Great job! A lot of good work done this week. Glad to hear you are planning an indoor access to the cellar - those stairs remind me of my "Grandma's cellar" and are not fun with an arm load. I too am changing it. Not sure where you are putting the new stairs - will be interesting to see. Perhaps a dumb waiter too. Good video Ma'am.
Good morning my dear friend, wow, you sure were productive this week!! I always look forward to Sunday with you and you never disappoint! You are an amazing mom, wife and woman, always remember that!! Already looking forward to next week, have a Blessed week!
Great video! You’re such an inspiration for me regarding canning. I’m getting 120lbs of pears on Wednesday and I’m rewatching your pear canning video for the 4th time in preparation. ❤ Definitely gonna try pear scrap jelly and your GF pear pie filling! Can’t wait! Thanks for all the love and ideas. ❤
I learned refilling emptied jars from you. Told my husband I needed to keep enough empty jars for upcoming maple syrup in Northern Indiana. Then I was offered free jars from an elderly woman. Problem solved. Storage space is the biggest problem.
I love your channel and the wY you think about saving everything last week I had soup going to waste and you inspired me to turn into pot pie.i got 3 out of it .then I canned up homemade bbq jelly Mississippi pot roast pork roast in spicy broth.andturkey broth so thank you so much.from a momma who just lost her job thank you
I feel you. My husband just lost his job and to make it worse he lost his job a month before our second baby is due. So the whole health insurance it’s been a nightmare. Prayers for us mama
I did it! We had dinner tonight and completed our January challenge. For us it was eating at least 1 thing out of our overstuffed freezer every day. I live in the woods so don’t put up a garden. We decided to continue into February. The surprise was finding some chicken breasts from 2019 that hadn’t been eaten in a timely manner.
I started in October with my food challenge. Husband had a heart attack and with no money coming in we have lived out of my pantry and freezer. It helps so much to be prepared! I started following you almost 3 years ago. I believe you refill jars as they empty. I also get my beef the first of January, cleaned out part of my freezer with left over beef from last years cow. It is a blessing having everything you need on hand. I also bought leaf fat from a pug when I picked up my beef. Love having both beef tallow and pork lard in my refrigerator. I have found my onions aren’t holding out this year as well. Been dehydrating a batch of them every few days. Have a great week!
We all do redundant meals! Thanks to you, I am combining pantry and freezer stuff to use up old stuff. Today was beef broth, Turkey broth, grains and a taco soup mix plus ground Turkey.! Threw away or washed three freezer bags!❤tyty!
Thank you so much for all the tips you give while showing us how you preserve foods. Also appreciate that you show how you use things in smaller batches to prevent food loss. I look forward to your videos because I always seem to learn some little gem that makes life better and they are such a positive happy place to spend some time with a cup of tea.
You feed your children what's good for them. And has nutrition. Better to ask them then waste time, money, and food on non compliant eaters. Except Miss Hannah, who I believe loves everything she gets. I just enjoy watching them all enjoy everything you make.😊🙏
Awesome information about keeping your jars filled….I better get a going on canning. You have many great recipes and information. Aloha from Big Island Hawaii
I love watching your videos! I've learned so much from you. I also thought it was funny that we had to empty our freezer of bones to make room for meat! I canned up some nice beef broth while my hubby was off for some extra days. I have been liking the challenge of using what I have creatively and saving that extra money in our food budget for our bulk purchases. We unfortunately don't have property yet for our own animals, but we manage with wonderful local farmers. Thanks again for your inspiration!
Amazing momma. Blessed children. I'll come back later to see if there's any videos I missed. God bless you and your beautiful families. One thing I learned from you was to click on the hash tags . Duh!! Never knew that before. Thanks for that.
I simmered 9.5lbs beef bones this past week for 48 hours. Today, I am canning 7 quarts taco soup and Turnip green soup that both use beef broth. I am also using canned beans, corn, Rotel, diced, and tomato sauce to rotate through them and restock my canned items with sales. I have 2 more bags of beef bones and will start another roaster of bone broth after canning. I will use some of it to can Rustic Tuscan soup ( smoked sausage, potatoes. carrots. beans, and tomatoes)in a few days, as well as some quarts of the broth.
Jessica, your homemade apple butter took me back to my youth when my mother made it while I was growing up. One of my favorite ways to eat it was on peanut butter sandwiches, instead of jelly we occasionally would use apple butter. Have your little ones ever tried it on a sun-butter sandwich. I bet it would be delicious 😋.
It’s been great to follow and participate in the pantry challenge. I’m using a lot of canning and looked at empty jars thinking I need a box to store them. I checked my canned beans and was out of black beans so I will be getting the jars filled. Found a deal on citrus and while my budget was $25 for the entire month and already used up I made the exception and got over 15 lbs of lemons for $6. I will be freezing the juice for lemonade and most likely going back for more. I’d like to try zesting and dehydrating some of the lemon peels. I do have beef bones to move out of the freezer so bone broth will be coming up. Thank you for the great content. I enjoy your channel even as an empty nester and grandmother of 4.
I have gone through 3 cases of jars recently, but unfortunately most of them are 1/2 pints, because of us being empty nesters. We also have freeze dried foods, so we are emptying mylar bags as well. Watching your video has me getting the pressure canner back out and putting up something. My one splurge in January was to get 100 lbs of frozen vegetables and freeze dry them. It was the only thing missing from my pantry, peas, broccoli, green beans and mixed vegetables.
I have never thought about preserving onions. That's something I should definitely be doing. I am excited to grow garlic this year, it will be my first year, so I am hoping I succeed. I love split pea and ham soup, Yummy!!! I hope you have an amazing week.
Thank you Jessica! It’s just hubs and I. We’re older and don’t eat as much as we used to but I’ve managed to only have to buy potatoes this month but I’ve been making a lot of soup! I’ve got about 30 empty jars too. Love this challenge.
Thanks Jessica, this is great... I've been loving the challenge and got great ideas for suppers. I'm also processing what was left over from this past season... Blessings ❤
This was wonderful Jessica :) I'm always amazed at the way you don't waste anything! your very inspiring and encourage me to do likewise. Blessings to you and your dear family ~ Linda
Hi Jessica!!! Happy Home Church Day ❤❤❤ sending Joyland love to you and your family. You are an amazing lady!! Keep the Faith my friend. You are looking great!! Your Michigan Fan and Friend Araminta 😊😊😊😊
My steps to the basement are a little steeper than yours and I treat it like a ladder and go down backwards. Much safer. I bet you are really looking forward to having better stairs and access from inside your home! That will be so wonderful.
I am doing the challenge for the first time. As I live in a city and don't have a garden I am allowing myself a small budget to buy fruit,veg, dairy and coffee! LOL. That said my daughter is a freshman in college, so I am alone(I am a widow) and I don't eat as much as one person so I am not seeing as much depletion in my pantry stores. So I am going to extend until my daughter is home for the summer with a pause for spring break as she has requested a few different meals and items I will need to get. I just got a late xmas present of an electric pressure canner so I will can some of the beans in my pantry and stock from bones I have saved.
I had one lid failure on a batch of broth this weekend and I was pleased to see that the failed lid was the only Ball...the good ones were all ForJars lids. Haven't had a failure yet on the ForJars lids... ❤
This is so very inspiring! I have a video request and im not sure exactly how to get it to you. When you have the opportunity, I would absolutely love to see a flip through your recipe cards and hear your comments on ways to edit and get creative with each one. During these challenges I am totally stumped by week 2. I am exhausted and after hours of video, feeling a bit scattered. I bought Hope's kitchen (for the simple recipes!) And its been a start. Having some of your thoughts in one condensed refrence would be such a wonderful resource for those of us not as experienced in kitchen creativity! ❤ it could be a beutiful collaboration across the threeriverschallenge group! thank you for inspiring us all!!
Jessica, I simply love watching you can and cook all your wonderful meals. Reminds me of my youth young lady. God has truly blessed you and your family. May you continue to have many blessings.
Going to be watching this one over and over again!! 🙏❤️ Btw hope you're saving the crackles from rendering - I save in bags and add to my sourdough biscuits with lard and butter as some of the fat! And in cornbread!
Always such a pleasure learning from you ! The kiddos are precious. There is nothing comparable to homemade applesauce. I just tastes so much impressive.
Good Sunday morning. Hope you had a great week. Been waiting for you video this morning. Been up for a while due to the restless and sore legs and back. Love watching you with the kids and cooking. I have learned so many great recipes and canning tips from you. Never put empty jars back on your shelves, fill them with water. That way you always have some extra water if the water goes out/ freezes. I learned this tip yrs ago. God bless. Have a great weekend. 🙏🏻💜🙏🏻💜
I watched a video recently that a guy said tallow is great for skin. He said to get grass feed organic. I tried it the only problem is you walk around smelling like beef. Ha ha
Still in bed with the flu..but watched David make his pie crusts and have taken his recipe. Im looking forward to making some fruit oies when better x thanks David
❤I love all the ideas for filling jars. I recently used your Forjars code 2 times before Christmas to capture specials and the Christmas towels. Thank you ❤
Actually for our home, because I became quite sick after Christmas, our pantry challenge started the week before Christmas. I have only gone to the grocery store once, and that was for dairy, fresh fruit and butter. I am similar to you, in that I am not doing this challenge to deplete my pantry, however to be sure to rotate our storage. I have chicken carcasses thawing as I type this, chicken broth on the list to do tomorrow. Thank you Jessica for all that you do 🥰
Jessica, once again, thank you for starting the pantry challenge, and and entry bit counts you do in August. You have impacted so many people with these. You are a true blessing.
Yeah Jessica those stairs scare me…I’m glad you’re working on an inside access! I have cranberries, bones, and apples to work through. Thanks for the inspiration. Also for the reminder we don’t have to have a freeze dryer to get the work done! Have you ever dehydrated liver for supplements? I wondered about making it into a powder to fill capsules.
I just put the apples from Azure in my slow cooker on low i just cored them . Blemded them like you did. 5 pints in the canner. That was a game changer. Thank you❤
Thank you for making this video. I love watching what you do with everything. I did this years ago with tomatoes and apples. Would like to do it again someday.
You are an inspiration! I learn so much watching you. Love doing the pantry challenges! Im working on saving my potatoes before they go bad. Thanks for all you share with us!❤
Ooh I have missed your videos Jessica. I've been having some time away from social media so this was a lovely video to come back to. I really should try making apple butter or apple sauce as I love the idea of making a cake with it. Also I have onions and gherkins in my freezer ready sliced for pickling plus Saville oranges to make marmalade, really need to get those things on the shelves in my pantry.
Working through my freezer and organizing it. Found some beef stew meat I forgot about and some chicken breasts. I spent today canning meals in a jar from the Ball book. Next up is another batch of Cranberry juice and cowboy candy. Thank you, Jessica, for teaching the difference about the Lard. I learned something new again!
