Canning Beef & Veggie Soup

Canning for 2013 has began!

I had some leftover beef roast that we had been eating on for two days and we were tired of it.  So I  needed to do something with it.  So I cut it into bite sized chunks and added it to jars, then I cut up some potatoes and carrots and threw them in the jars too.  Then I added beef broth and canned them up.  I used pint and a half jars because that will be a good size for us.



Canning Log 2013

6  24oz Beef & Veggie Soup

We have moved!!

Sorry to have been absent for so long.  We finally moved to our house in the country on January 6th.  And then we were without internet for 25 days.  So I will finally be able to post again.


Remember if you want to check out our new adventures in the country check out my other blog:
http://footprintsofsustainability.blogspot.com/

Canning beans & beef

I was able to get a 2 lb bag of Northern beans on sale for $1, so I thought I would try canning them up to have on hand for quick use.  I was surprised that it produced 8 pints.  I also got some good beef roast on sale, so I bought two, one to eat and one to can.  My first attempt at that too.  Five pints of cubed beef roast.



2012 canning:

16 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
21 24oz spaghetti sauce
6 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
20 1/2pt pizza sauce
5 pints salsa
4 1/2pt bell peppers
3 1/2pt chili peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce
7 pints diced applies
8 pints northern beans
5 pints beef roast

= 134 jars of food preserved for later

My baby is 4!

We recently celebrated my youngest daughter's birthday!  She is four now!!

She was very excited to get the Mickey Mouse kitchen that she had wanted for a few months now.  And after we got that all set up we went rollerskating.  That was also by request of the birthday girl.  And the day was topped off with an Angry Bird cake!!

Several times she told me that it was the best birthday she has ever had!  The smiles said it all!!

Canning diced apples

Picked some apples off a friend's tree last month that she didn't want.  The kids ate quite a few and I decided to can some diced in a very light syrup and see how the kids like them in the middle of the winter.

7 pints diced apples

2012 canning:

16 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
21 24oz spaghetti sauce
6 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
20 1/2pt pizza sauce
5 pints salsa
4 1/2pt bell peppers
3 1/2pt chili peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce
7 pints diced applies

= 121 jars of food preserved for later

Canning pizza sauce

Made a batch of pizza sauce:

20 half pints



2012 canning:


16 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
21 24oz spaghetti sauce
6 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
20 1/2pt pizza sauce
5 pints salsa
4 1/2pt bell peppers
3 1/2pt chili peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

= 114 jars of food preserved for later

More spaghetti sauce!

I was able to can another batch of spaghetti sauce this weekend.

5  24oz jars


2012 canning:


16 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
21 24oz spaghetti sauce
6 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
5 pints salsa
4 1/2pt bell peppers
3 1/2pt chili peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

= 94 jars of food preserved for later