Week 52 - Purchase Cranberries and Make Sauce or Juice for Later Use

Week 52 – November 24

Purchase Cranberries and Make Sauce or Juice for Later Use.  There are many recipes on-line for making cranberry sauce and juice.

I will post my pictures and the recipe I choose to make when I get the berries canned.

Home Food Storage: Purchase cranberries

Week 51 - Purchase and Can an Extra Turkey for Future Use

Week 51 - November 17

Purchase an extra turkey while they are on sale and can it.  Follow the time and pressure amount from your instruction book.  The turkey just needs to be cut into chunks and placed in pint jars.  It will make its own juice.

NOTE: See the canning and preserving page where I canned chicken.

 

Home Food Storage: Purchase an extra turkey and preserve it for later.

Week 50 - Cook in a Squash, Purchase Spices or Seasonings

Week 50 - November 10

Cook in a squash.  Cook any meatloaf or stuffed bell pepper filling in a large zucchini or in a winter squash.

Home Food Storage: Purchase any spice or seasoning you use often.

Week 49 - Cook in a Pumpkin, Purchase anything you need

Week 49 - November 3

Did you know you can cook soup, stew, and pudding in a pumpkin?

Set the cleaned-out pumpkin with its lid on in a cake pan.  Add 1/2 to 3/4 inch of very hot water to the pan. Bake for 45 minutes until almost tender in a 350 degree oven.  Fill pumpkin as desired and bake without the lid on for 30 to 45 more minutes.

Home Food Storage: Purchase anything you don’t have enough of.

Week 48 - Cook Quinoa in a Thermos, Purchase Canned Meat

Week 48 – October 27

Cook quinoa in a metal thermos. Preheat thermos with very hot water and let it set. Empty thermos.  Add 1 part quinoa to 2 parts boiling water in the thermos.  Leave plenty expansion room. Shake well. Lay the thermos on its side.  Quinoa should be ready in 45 minutes.

Home Food Storage: Purchase canned meat.

Week 47 - Cook Cracked Wheat in a Thermos, Purchase Powdered Drink Mix

Week 47 – October 20

Cook cracked wheat in a metal thermos. Preheat thermos with very hot water and let it set. Empty thermos.  Add 1 part cracked wheat to 4 parts boiling water in the thermos.  Leave plenty expansion room. Shake well. Lay the thermos on its side.  Wheat should be ready in 40 minutes.  It can also sit overnight and will not be overcooked.

Home Food Storage:  Purchase powdered drink mix.