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Pressure Canning Pinto Beans

Clean and rinse beans to make sure there aren't any rocks etc. I then soaked 3/4 of a cup of beans in each jar full of water overnight. Next morning drain water and refill with fresh water These need to go for 70 minutes at 10 pounds. SUPER easy. For me, even better than Mylar bags for long term storage. One pint of home canned is about 2 store bought cans. Those beans are packed…
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Food Storage

Zaycon Bulk Meat for Food Storage

I wanted to share with you real quick that Zaycon has ground beef back. I have purchased their bacon, chicken, and ground beef and have never been disappointed. Before you say "Oh, I don't need THAT much ground beef. Or Chicken" Notice nobody says they don't need that much bacon. I love Zaycon for their bulk options for food storage. I have pressure canned all of their meat with success. You can read my instructions…
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Food Storage

Pressure Canning Bacon

  Yes! You can safely pressure can ;   Line the bacon up on parchment paper and then fold over Roll it up like a sleeping bag, tucking as you go. Put it in the larger wide mouth may have to force it in. It will be a tight fit. All snug in the pressure canner. This is what you get That grease will harden and look gross. But it will be super yummy on…
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Prepping

Dried Beans in Just Over an Hour!

This is a guest post from Tina. I am excited to share this post with you. So informative. Dried Beans ready in just over an hour! Time saving ideas and recipes! (this post contains affiliate links) Let me start by saying, I LOVE my Instapot I have a total of 5 pressure cookers and this one is my “go-to” pressure cooker! I use it for rice, beans, stew, vegetables, cooking a whole fryer chicken, making…
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Food Storage

Pressure Canning for Long Term Food Storage

  Pressure Canning Raw Chicken Breast It is much easier than you might think to pressure can raw chicken breast at home. It can be done safely and ;I love to have pressure canned chicken breast on my prep shelf. Why Pressure Can Chicken? I have taken to canning my meat because, if we were ever to lose power for an extended period of time I might lose my freezer contents and that could be…
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Prepping

These are a Few of My Favorite Things

I wanted to share with you a few of my favorite things. These are items we have purchased for our emergency preparedness plan. We have these in case of extended loss of power due to snow storm or wind. Now, I could say in case of financial collapse or Zombie these scenarios aren't as likely. These are in no particular must haves. Solar oven. Even if it's the cold dead of winter, as long as…
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Christian Living

Homemade Crockpot Apple Butter

Safeway had a sale on organic apples. .99 a pound! So I bought a a few pounds. I ended up with 9 full trays for the dehydrator. I am hoping I can have enough to store. The kids eat it faster than I can vacuum seal it. I had a few left over so I decided to can some apple-butter. Because I am lazy I didn't bother to peal. I did wash them well though.…
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