{"id":19116,"date":"2016-03-23T14:33:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19116"},"modified":"2016-03-23T14:34:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:34:03","slug":"ideas-thoughts-and-observations-on-home-canning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19116","title":{"rendered":"Ideas, Thoughts And Observations On Home Canning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/ideas-thoughts-observations-home-canning\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ideas, Thoughts And Observations On Home Canning<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>We\u2019ve only two adults in the household these days (not counting pets of any age) and here\u2019s a few ideas I use for \u2018down sizing\u2019 &amp; trying to manage the food rotation. All just a few basic ideas, humble opinions, etc., that I\u2019m happy to share with any &amp; all that may be interested.<\/p>\n<p>1. When I home can foods, I use MORE PINT JARS than quart jars simply because we are two and not four or more, right now. Exceptions most noteworthy being food products the two of us use a lot of, like tomatoes, tomato based sauces, salsa mixes, &amp; quick pickled veggies, simply because our two, singular yet like-minded taste palates can eagerly consume a quart of any within a week or so. So, nothing goes to waste and most things that are well processed and if not used within a year can also remain \u2018shelf safe\u2019 for a much longer time.<\/p>\n<p>For another food example, my husband &amp; I could both eat green beans or green garden peas eight days a week (so I have canned both green beans and green peas in quart jars) but canned carrots, not so much. Not that there\u2019s anything wrong with canned carrots, ha, ha, ha, \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 just not a \u2018go to\u2019 canned veggie for us! I mostly only need a smaller amount of carrots for certain soup, stew and casserole recipes. Therefore, carrots are assigned pint jars only, for now. Saves on food waste.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also hoping to teach myself how to (properly &amp; consistently) can preserves, jams &amp; jellies \u2013 which I hear ??? isn\u2019t as scary as I imagine \u2013 this summer. Since a) this will be an \u2018experiment\u2019 of sorts and b) we love such but don\u2019t need or crave such every week, I\u2019ll be starting out with even smaller, 1\/2 pint (one cup), jars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideas, Thoughts And Observations On Home Canning We\u2019ve only two adults in the household these days (not counting pets of any age) and here\u2019s a few ideas I use for \u2018down sizing\u2019 &amp; trying to manage the food rotation. All just a few basic ideas, humble opinions, etc., that I\u2019m happy to share with any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[319,13089,1526,13088,8745],"class_list":["post-19116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-food","tag-food-canning","tag-food-preparation","tag-home-canning","tag-survivalist-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19118,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19116\/revisions\/19118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}