Canning Season. - Page 9

imp · September 30, 2017

2 of the chicken jars did not seal, so they are in the 'fridge for now, will re do one and opened the other for dinner last night. I wanted to see/taste how they came out; this batch of the chicken was canned plain, just a little salt. Was good, used some in a ramen dish for a quickie supper.

More canning tomorrow.

pmcgrady · October 1, 2017

Quote:

Originally Posted by Worth1

Canned chicken is expensive and something we should all learn to do.
You cant even find canned pork I dont think in the US.

At least not around here.

What? They don't sell SPAM in Texas?

Worth1 · October 1, 2017

Forgot all about SPAM and at work just on Friday we were talking about SPAM.
We both like SPAM.
They used to have a SPAMARAMA in Austin but the last one was in 2007.
It started in 1976.
It fell to corporate greed from what I can tell.
Everything good about what Austin used to be has fell to corporate greed and regulations.

Worth

imp · October 1, 2017

Walmart sells a pouch , shelf stable 8 ounce package of shredded pork for $3.64.

My pints hold a bit over a pound, and cost me less than $2.00 each, counting all the cost of the jars in that amount, too.

clkeiper · October 1, 2017

canned meat is very expensive. canning your own is so much more economical.

Worth1 · October 3, 2017

Most folks of a younger generation 40 or even 50 down wont even eat any kind of canned meat but they will eat Chicken McNuggets.
Fast food is so ingrained in their lives from childhood they dont know anything else.
Heck it all started with people my age.
That is practically 60 years of people being force fed garbage.
Think about it, Americas food ways have been contaminated with this crap for almost 60 years now.

Worth

clkeiper · October 3, 2017

this is just a thought maybe totally off but my "take" on it none the less.... my parents "gardened" because "it was what that generation did" and there were 7 children in my family. a lot of mouths to feed. so my mom canned to help feed us, but how many of that generation and the next found food to be cheap enough that there was no way they were going to spend all that time on a garden and canning? the next generation lost out on the knowledge of how to garden and that garden produce is so much better than grocery store varieties. the people younger than me? many of them have no idea how to plant a plant, that carrots and potatoes, beets etc are root crops and you eat something that came out of the dirt... eek.... green bell peppers, red bell peppers, yellow bell peppers.. all start as green fruit before they turn color. they don't know that. they "never get red" bell peppers. people my age ask me why their peppers are never red even though the tag they bought with the plant says its a red bell pepper. gardening and food preservation has become an art and many people are afraid of a pressure canner because they have no idea how it is used. (and the stigma of being a ...prepper, oh no!) me? I just like to eat good food.

taboule · October 3, 2017

I got one of the supermarket flyers last week, junk mail that I never look at -usually. Being in a new town I got curious and leafed through it quickly, just to see. It was 10~12 pages or so, all of which except 1/2 a page were for various ultra-processed foods on sale. All packaged or bagged, dozens of brands of cereal, chips, munchies, frozen meals, sweets -tons of sweets, including/in addition to all the sugar that's in everything else. I can't understand how some can eat that stuff as a regular diet.

When people hear that I garden first thing they reply is -I don't have the time. As if time was all that was needed. Besides, we all have the same, exact amount of time, 24 hrs/day -no more nor less.

Worth1 · October 3, 2017

Time is like money if you waste either one you wont have any.
I am as guilty as the next person.
Worth

clkeiper · October 3, 2017

Quote:

Originally Posted by taboule

I got one of the supermarket flyers last week, junk mail that I never look at -usually. Being in a new town I got curious and leafed through it quickly, just to see. It was 10~12 pages or so, all of which except 1/2 a page were for various ultra-processed foods on sale. All packaged or bagged, dozens of brands of cereal, chips, munchies, frozen meals, sweets -tons of sweets, including/in addition to all the sugar that's in everything else. I can't understand how some can eat that stuff as a regular diet.

When people hear that I garden first thing they reply is -I don't have the time. As if time was all that was needed. Besides, we all have the same, exact amount of time, 24 hrs/day -no more nor less.

yep... ever look at the red plum ad? nothing but coupons for stuff... never things such as flour, sugar, rolled oats etc.. razors, more razors, shampoo, more shampoo, hair coloring, dog treats, maybelline, nexium, advil, centrum, checks, and Always bladder products...... that was page by page from todays ad... no food... stuff.

Worth1 · October 4, 2017

Seems like every time someone brings up canning someone else brings up prepper.
It has happened to me several times.

I need to make more of my favorite preserves, cranberry preserves.
I have found that them made the way I do I like better than anything else out there.
Around 12 pints should do it.

Worth

clkeiper · October 4, 2017

the art of canning is not food hoarding... aka prepping imo. sorry, Worth, I didn't mean to cause distress over the word. just poking fun at it. if I can grow it and put it in a jar I get to eat when the roads are yucky and I don't want to go anywhere on snow or in the bitter cold.

Worth1 · October 4, 2017

Not you but people outside here I have spoken too.
I bring up canning and they say you're not turning into one of those preppers are you?
Your comment just reminded me of it.
In all honesty I dont see one thing wrong with being a pepper.
They will probably be getting the last laugh anyway.

Worth

**coronabarb** · October 4, 2017

One reason I love this community I moved to 4 yrs ago. Canning is a way of life here. Emergency preparedness is also taught and followed too, w/o any "stigma" attached. We are fairly isolated from the nearest large cities, about 1 1/2 hrs each way, so in case of an emergency, we are on our own. We do have the biggest West Coast interstate running north/south going through the city though.

imp · October 4, 2017

I don't think there is anything wrong with putting food by, and being prepared for those needs. I don't buy into the extreme stuff, but I guess my mindset comes from being poor before and also having had parents who grew up in the great depression era.

Besides, it can be thrifty to can up the excess or when one finds a good sale.

October 1, 2017	#125
clkeiper Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: ohio Posts: 4,350	canned meat is very expensive. canning your own is so much more economical. __________________ carolyn k

October 3, 2017	#127
clkeiper Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: ohio Posts: 4,350	this is just a thought maybe totally off but my "take" on it none the less.... my parents "gardened" because "it was what that generation did" and there were 7 children in my family. a lot of mouths to feed. so my mom canned to help feed us, but how many of that generation and the next found food to be cheap enough that there was no way they were going to spend all that time on a garden and canning? the next generation lost out on the knowledge of how to garden and that garden produce is so much better than grocery store varieties. the people younger than me? many of them have no idea how to plant a plant, that carrots and potatoes, beets etc are root crops and you eat something that came out of the dirt... eek.... green bell peppers, red bell peppers, yellow bell peppers.. all start as green fruit before they turn color. they don't know that. they "never get red" bell peppers. people my age ask me why their peppers are never red even though the tag they bought with the plant says its a red bell pepper. gardening and food preservation has become an art and many people are afraid of a pressure canner because they have no idea how it is used. (and the stigma of being a ...prepper, oh no!) me? I just like to eat good food. __________________ carolyn k

October 4, 2017	#132
clkeiper Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: ohio Posts: 4,350	the art of canning is not food hoarding... aka prepping imo. sorry, Worth, I didn't mean to cause distress over the word. just poking fun at it. if I can grow it and put it in a jar I get to eat when the roads are yucky and I don't want to go anywhere on snow or in the bitter cold. __________________ carolyn k

October 4, 2017	#134
coronabarb Tomatoville® Recipe Keeper Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Roseburg, Oregon - zone 7 Posts: 2,821	One reason I love this community I moved to 4 yrs ago. Canning is a way of life here. Emergency preparedness is also taught and followed too, w/o any "stigma" attached. We are fairly isolated from the nearest large cities, about 1 1/2 hrs each way, so in case of an emergency, we are on our own. We do have the biggest West Coast interstate running north/south going through the city though. __________________ Corona~Barb Now an Oregon gal

September 30, 2017	#121
imp Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas Posts: 4,832	2 of the chicken jars did not seal, so they are in the 'fridge for now, will re do one and opened the other for dinner last night. I wanted to see/taste how they came out; this batch of the chicken was canned plain, just a little salt. Was good, used some in a ramen dish for a quickie supper. More canning tomorrow.

October 1, 2017	#123
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Forgot all about SPAM and at work just on Friday we were talking about SPAM. We both like SPAM. They used to have a SPAMARAMA in Austin but the last one was in 2007. It started in 1976. It fell to corporate greed from what I can tell. Everything good about what Austin used to be has fell to corporate greed and regulations. Worth

October 1, 2017	#124
imp Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas Posts: 4,832	Walmart sells a pouch , shelf stable 8 ounce package of shredded pork for $3.64. My pints hold a bit over a pound, and cost me less than $2.00 each, counting all the cost of the jars in that amount, too.

October 3, 2017	#126
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Most folks of a younger generation 40 or even 50 down wont even eat any kind of canned meat but they will eat Chicken McNuggets. Fast food is so ingrained in their lives from childhood they dont know anything else. Heck it all started with people my age. That is practically 60 years of people being force fed garbage. Think about it, Americas food ways have been contaminated with this crap for almost 60 years now. Worth

October 3, 2017	#128
taboule Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: MA Posts: 903	I got one of the supermarket flyers last week, junk mail that I never look at -usually. Being in a new town I got curious and leafed through it quickly, just to see. It was 10~12 pages or so, all of which except 1/2 a page were for various ultra-processed foods on sale. All packaged or bagged, dozens of brands of cereal, chips, munchies, frozen meals, sweets -tons of sweets, including/in addition to all the sugar that's in everything else. I can't understand how some can eat that stuff as a regular diet. When people hear that I garden first thing they reply is -I don't have the time. As if time was all that was needed. Besides, we all have the same, exact amount of time, 24 hrs/day -no more nor less.

October 3, 2017	#129
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Time is like money if you waste either one you wont have any. I am as guilty as the next person. Worth

October 4, 2017	#131
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Seems like every time someone brings up canning someone else brings up prepper. It has happened to me several times. I need to make more of my favorite preserves, cranberry preserves. I have found that them made the way I do I like better than anything else out there. Around 12 pints should do it. Worth

October 4, 2017	#133
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Not you but people outside here I have spoken too. I bring up canning and they say you're not turning into one of those preppers are you? Your comment just reminded me of it. In all honesty I dont see one thing wrong with being a pepper. They will probably be getting the last laugh anyway. Worth

October 4, 2017	#135
imp Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas Posts: 4,832	I don't think there is anything wrong with putting food by, and being prepared for those needs. I don't buy into the extreme stuff, but I guess my mindset comes from being poor before and also having had parents who grew up in the great depression era. Besides, it can be thrifty to can up the excess or when one finds a good sale.