Have you ever grown cucumbers? If so, you know that just one plant produces an insane amount of cucumbers. You pretty much need to have a plan of attack before they start producing or you are going to be eating cucumbers for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Sometimes I have an entire produce drawer full at […]
Storing food for emergencies is an important job. What is the best method to preserve food? I’ve already covered how to store grains, long-term storage of meat, protein, and oils, and the longest-lasting vegetables. Today, we’ll cover preserving food naturally. I’m not ready to spend hours per month checking my food stores, rotating supplies, and
Having a healthy food stockpile list is essential to any household – but what’s a real foodie to do? What are the best fruits and vegetables to stockpile when you don’t want preservatives or processed foods? Here is the best food to store up from the produce section: The best food to stockpile is what
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Zucchini is an amazing vegetable, but you have to know what to do with it. Maybe you’ve tried zoodles and need more zucchini ideas? Should you hide zucchini? Dehydrate it? What’s the best way to make zucchini? How do you prep zucchini? How to Use Zucchini Oh zucchini, how I love thee! There are so many
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If you’re a beginner in the world of canning, this post is for you. Tomatoes are a wonderful long-term storage food. Learning how to can tomatoes is a great way to store the abundance you may be getting from your garden! Whether you’ve spent the time and effort of growing tomatoes in your backyard or you
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I’ve already written on Healthy Food Stockpile Options -The Best Produce to Stockpile, but how do you keep vegetables fresh? What are the best veggies for long-term storage? We wake up in a whole new world every day lately, it seems. There’s always something changing, and that uncertainty is hard on the psyche. But I
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Apple season is here! If you can buy in bulk, you’ll want to make lots of healthy recipes PLUS preserve apples for later – read on for instructions for freezing, canning, and dehydrating apples in multiple ways plus our best real food apple recipes! If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, how many
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We’ve talked about easy healthy meal prep, but today we are zooming in on how to meal plan with a CSA! Two years ago, I wrote up a handy 5-step plan for using all the vegetables you receive in a weekly crate from a Community-Sponsored Agriculture farm. That article tells you all about how a
Want to learn how to make dehydrated greens for smoothies and more? It’s easy to make a dehydrated greens powder when you dehydrate spinach, Swiss chard, beet greens, and kale! “Mom, is this a stick in my soup?” I admit that we eat some weird food around here, but I really wasn’t serving a soup
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We’re all trying to add more vegetables into our diets – from steamed vegetables to dehydrated vegetables to roasted veggies. That’s why I have The Best Produce to Stockpile. Today, we’ll be covering fermenting vegetables! All it took was one bite. I was hooked. A friend had offered me a small jar of her homemade sauerkraut
Who knew you’d need so much courage just to accomplish things in the kitchen? Forget worrying about whether you’re measuring flour correctly or cutting the cucumbers straight, we’re talking real danger here. If we real foodies were on America’s Got Talent, the judges would be saying we bring an element of danger they’ve never seen
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I live in Michigan, where we have all four seasons, sometimes three in one day. If you’re in the Midwest as well, I hope there are some tips here to inspire you to find healthy, organic food sources; if not, do take away some ideas for poking around your own community to find the secret deals
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It’s just as easy to dehydrate vegetables as it is to make steamed vegetables or roast veggies. Read on to find out how I make sure to use all of my dehydrated vegetables. Dehydrating Vegetables This is hardly even worth a blog post. Dehydrating veggies, at least the ones I’ve attempted, is so simple: Wash
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