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I saw this on Facebook at thought of you… The History of Aprons: The History of 'APRONS' I don't think most kids today know what an apron is. The principle use of Mom's or Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons used less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven. It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears. From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven. When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.. And when the weather was cold, she wrapped it around her arms. Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron. From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls. In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees. When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds. When dinner was ready, she walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner. It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes. Send this to those who would know (and love) the story about aprons. REMEMBER: Mom's and Grandma's used to set hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw. They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron. I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron - but love

My hubby and I just got our freeze dryer yesterday. We live in the middle of nowhere and driving 2 1/2 to 3 hours away to an affordable grocery store is not always easy for us, especially in the winter. The Harvest Right was a fair chunk of money, but we saved $200 by getting a factory blemished one (one small scratch about an inch long on the side). I think it will pay for it's self by not having to make those long trips to the grocery store as often.

I've been vacuum sealing romaine in jars like that for years. It's fabulous!! You can mix in some iceberg too if you like. Those are the only two types of lettuce that really work well with this process. The only other tip I have is to line your big bowl with a clean dish towel or paper towels and do one final light rub to super dry the lettuce. It gets any last bit of moisture off.

Now I'm all about preserving food. I had no idea you could extend the life of greens by vacuum sealing them in jars. That's a fantastic idea, thanks for sharing!!

One of my favorite channels for canning, dehydrating and freeze drying is Rosered Homestead. She prefreezes the foods she will be drying and she said it works much better. Choose NOT FROZEN even though it is , and foods come out better. Check out her RU-vid channel. She’s very knowledgeable!

You're so lucky you have a freeze drier!! That's on my list. The past year and a half I've used my excalibur dehydrator a TON. I've pressure canned so many meats, meals, vegetables. Ive water bath canned so many different things. Today is pressure canning sweet potatoes. Pantry is bursting at the seams and that is the best feeling, especially when you have a lot of mouths to feed (8 kids) Also have feed put back for our dogs, cats and chickens. It's already "sweata weatha" 🤣 (Im originally from massachusetts) where I am in Colorado so it's not unbearable to run the canner all day. Blessings to you and your family!

so awesome to see your husband helping you

I always hull strawberries by inserting a metal straw in the bottom of the fruit. The core comes out with the leaves and there’s a lot less waste.

The funnel that comes in the canning set ( it has the tong things, magnet, etc) works great for putting things like the coleslaw mix into jars without making a mess. 🙂

Excellent info! Thanks for sharing your time and effort. Much appreciated!!

fab video Kimmy good to see how you can freeze dry fruits etc. love to all the family. xxx

I just recently saw a video where someone made corn stock from the corncobs after cutting off the kernels, another kind of vegetable broth.

This is amazing! Please share more freeze drying. We have one and love it.

I immediately ordered the jar sealer! Thanks!!😄

I'm so glad you are mastering this new skill! I love freeze-dried strawberries. Yummy!

Morning kimmy ,, love watching your food preps 🌽🥬🥑🥭🤗👍

Good Sunday morning She''s in her Apron. Lovely video. Thank you for the tour of your pantry.

Save the ends! You can just grow it inside for the winter 😁 I just put it in my kitchen window (btw no dirt I just keep it in water and it grows but you can use dirt)

Good Morning family 🌅 and Happy Sunday 😊

Ty Kimmy for sharing this video. I can't wait till I get in my new house and set up a room for a freezer and dehydrator. I never knew you could do this with romaine lettuce and ty to Laura Knoop who shared doing this with iceberg lettuce. Can't wait till spring planting season, start small and then go larger.

Hello Kimmy! What a great video 😁. Lisa from Farmhouse On Boone, started freeze drying her harvest as well. Thanks for sharing the process. Have a good rest of your day 😁👍🏻.

🌺 Thank You Love Everything You Do

I am working on beans! Beans, beans, beans and more beans!! The beans in the garden are prolific this year! The freezer will be well stocked! That air sealer thing off amazon looks pretty cool!

I'm watching this and doing this lettuce trick as we speak! Love it!!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Love these videos here prepping our meals while I am watching.

I never knew you could freeze avacados..game changer!

Love the idea of having smoothies prepared ahead! I add chia to mine and I sneak in dehydrated/powdered kale (no one sees or tastes it). Dehydrating and powdering the kale takes a huge bag of fresh down to about 1/2 a pint jar. Great for long term/compact storage.

Wow what a game changer with lettuce!!

I got a Southwest salad kit recently that had some freeze dried corn in it. It is fantastic! It really made the salad over the top.

I enjoy your videos and I am a freeze dryer fan myself. I slice my strawberries & mushrooms with a heavy duty hard boiled egg slicer. It works great, is fast & the slices are pretty uniform. Thanks for your videos!

Love the romaine in a jar! Learn something new everyday! Love all your hard work in the Kitchen and thank you for sharing! Blessings all!

I absolutely love your videos!! And I am even more super impressed to see a married couple doing all of this together!! Keep up the great videos!! You have so many great ideas!! ❤️

One of my favorite people😊😊much love from South African

That sealer is really cool! I hope you’re not throwing away the corn cobs, the chickens love them!

Thank you for all your information

Love seeing these long term healthy food storage ideas. Great job 👏 on the video. Who knew u dehydrate fruit.

I use a canning funnel for bags and jars. Even when I am just putting leftovers in a jar. Chris and I just froze pre seasoned corn in vacuum sealed bags a few weeks ago. Perfect quick side. A freeze drier is on my wish list, but I have a feeling it will be there for a while.

This is one of the coolest things ever! I too hate wasting food. I just might have to get one of these! I love mayo and grated cheese on my corn for something different. It’s so good. Take care. God bless! ❤️🙏

Yay fall! The best season of the year🥳

Just ordered a Freeze Dryer from your Harvest Right link...was on my list, and decided to go for it! Pray for my learning curve to flow smoothly! LOL!

Learning so much ~ I've also seen people use a bundt pan to remove corn from the cob.

I have never thought to use my vacuum packer for lettuce thank you

Thank you so much for sharing that was fun

I store baby carrots and celery sticks in Mason jars with water (change out the water once a week). Now I am going to start vacuum sealing lettuce and coleslaw mix in jars! 👍🏻 You should get one of those bag holder stands. 🙂

Great tips

Never give up.....you learn and then we learn from you...thanks for that...

Im going to get some bigger mason jars to pre-make salads...I forgot about this idea...thanks:)

Love the idea of putting the lettus in jars. I think I will try this today

Great video! Definitely going to try some of the mason jar ideas. Have you tried cutting the corn of the cob using a bundt pan. Works great the controls fits in the hole and the corn falls directly into the pan.

Great video 😁❤️

I use an electric knife to cut corn off the cob. Then I quick cook in microwave with a little water, bag and freeze. Tastes like fresh corn.

It’s been a while since I’ve been here but hold cow, you look fabulous!!!!! Well done!

I just ordered the jar sealer yesterday

I love my freeze dryer! I have squash in mine right now.

Lawrys garlic salt and butter on the corn on the cob...yummo!

I need to get that sealer for my daughter!

That is awesome about the romaine!!

We go through so many salads a week, we use those rectangle tubs that restaurants use for lettuce and other prepped fresh vegetables. They're easier to stack in the fridge. I have a vacuum sealer, so I should try that jar trick.

I just tossed an unopened bag or coleslaw and some lettuce today. Will definitely be getting my Foodsaver out and trying the jar sealing.

The food looks good and fresh ,but I have to say so do you !!! Keep up the good work

I just started my Freeze Dryer. I have 1 and 1/2 tray of peaches from a farm. Then I have a bunch of hodge-podge of stuff. I love our FD. I cooked sweet peppers on the Weber. They are in the FD now. Have you tried Weber cooked pineapple? OMG is that good! I will be trying this hack with the lettuce. I have some now I can do. Thank you! YES! I loved the Museum of Science. We New England girls got it going!

Growing up when we had corn on the cob, dad would save a few each time and used the cob to help clean the windshield on the car. It got all the bugs and bird dirt off without scrubbing too hard. Like the freezer tip on cutting the corn off the cob.

A canning funnel is a must have

I learned something! I am always learning something from ya. 😊

Girl! You look so good! Love the video!

Corn cobs can be frozen as well and added to soup stock to flavor and thicken a chowder

Growing season is coming to an end and I was bumming about my lettuce. Totally going to vaccuum seal it! Thank you

Good morning ☀️

I think it helps if the items you put in the freeze dryer are a similar size. The other option is you can take out the trays that are fully dried and leave the other trays in the freeze dryer to continue processing. Also, a funnel works well when putting veggies in jars. Happy Day

My smoothies are unsweetened vanilla almond milk, pea protein powder, ground flax and frozen berries of some sort. I haven’t been keeping up with watching RU-vid, but you look as if you’ve lost weight! You look fabulous ❤️

Thanks 😁

I never knew avocado could be frozen. I will do that. God bless

Nice idea....I usually bring home my lettuce and I take it from the bag.. I do not wash it until ready to use. I wrap it in heavy duty foil and I store it in the crisp drawer in my fridge for a month. Next time you have corn try warming corn in a pot with 3 heaping table spoons of mayo , a tsp garlic powder,a tsp onion powder, a top of ground Chipotle Chile, sprinkle some Paprika ,salt and pepper to your liking. The fruit looked delicious!

That machine is sooo cool!!! Found a lemon-blueberry cupcake recipe once... called for freeze dried blueberries POWDERED mixed into the FROSTING!!!! (never made them.... couldnt find fd berries anywhere!😢) You are gonna have a BLAST with that thing!!!💕😆

I just did banana slices in my freeze drying. I don't care for them. And rehydrated they slimy and mushy. Maybe they'd be good dog treats. Definitely looking into that mason jar sealer for keeping veggies fresh longer. I also hate waisting food but it makes it less dreadful to know that I can feed it to my chickens as a snack instead of throwing it in the trash.

Good video! I watched the freezer one but didn't know I could freeze avocados or how to do it until now. Thanks. I avoid buying them because I won't use it all up, I'll be buying some avocados 🙂😀

Hi Christine from AZ. Get yourself a canning funnel to put your veggies in your jar without the annoying bits ending up on your cutting board or counter. Just a little FYI

Ball jar funnel a must. They sell the separately around here!

Hi I am a new subscriber. I tried you sweet and sour meatballs and I can say is WOW! I don't like meatballs and it is my new best meatball recipe. I am in the process of binge watching your videos.

TFS been wondering what other fruits and veggies I could help keep longer.

I have to scrape the cob for that wonderful milk.

Where did you get your freezer containers? I like them. You do such a great job with everything! Very inspiring!

Kimmie, Jessica at Three Rivers Homestead has the same freeze dryer, and keeps it going 24/7. She is an amazing resource for what and how to use in it! I did check through your comments to see if anyone recommended her, but you have a lot of comments lol. Anyway, this was a great video! Oh and I don’t comment often (probably next year will be the next time lol) so I want to get tell you how fabulous your hair looks!

You can also use a mandolin to take the corn off

Another vlog I enjoy that deals with preserving foods is Three Rivers Homestead..today she shows how she uses the skins off tomatoes..she freeze dries thrm to mske tomato powder..

I think I’m going to try green tea in my shakes!

I added the mason jar vacuum sealer to my Walmart list for next month. I live alone and often find myself wasting lettuce as it goes bad before I can use it up.

If you want Greek yogurt in your smoothies you can freeze dry blobs of that to put in your bags. You can make you're own milk powders freeze and blitz them up in a blender, instant coffee.. so many things! Also I heard the rings on the cans, especially in the fridge promote mould growth. So best to store without rings. The tops are sealed theyre not going anywhere 🤷‍♀️

just discovered this hint and it really does work! take your strawberries from the market, DO NOT wash or take stem blossom off. drop them in a mason jar and pop them in fridge. they will stay fresh up to ONE MONTH!!! Honest!

My biggest food loss is salad items. My cousin just told me about this storage method. So I had to research it! 😊

I have been putting my strawberries in jars in the refrigerator for a long time. They stay fresh for a lot longer than the packets they are bought in. Also if you wrap the lettuces in aluminium foil then into crisper section in refrigerator they have stored for weeks. Just don’t wash until required.

For the corn use a Bundt pan. The centre of the pan fits the corn cob while you scrape it and the pan catches the corn. I just did 60+ corn to can using the Bundt pam

I made some baked oatmeal in a muffin pan, that my grandson didn't care to eat. He was so burnt out of oatmeal at home. I had froze the baked oatmeal and I cut it into 1/4 as a base to my smoothie packs. He's also not a big veggie fan, so I shredded some zucchini and carrots and added those to the packs, along with 1/2 a banana. I then added some frozen triple berry blend to the packs. When making the smoothies, then I add yogurt, a flax & chia seed blend, I made and a milk of some kind. He's getting alot 3things in his smoothies that he doesn't like to eat and we're both happy 😁

You should check out john in bibs, he does amazing freezedryer things. Even shows how to rehydrate them.

I do this with the lettuce. But I don't vacuum the air out. I put paper towel on bottom and top and they are fine for a few weeks.

I do this with romaine. Trick is to put very dry in the jars. Have kept over a month no problem.

I loved your video. I never knew about the jar sealer and put lettuce in them. Does th e harvest dryer cost alot to tun?

Use your corn cobs to make corn cob jelly

You can make corn syrup with those cobs.