Canning Spaghetti Sauce

Canning for today:

Spaghetti Sauce   4 pints and 1 half pint

Canning for 2012:

13 pints potatoes

11 1/2pt ketchup
4 pt spaghetti sauce
1 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

= 40 jars of food preserved for later

I have started another blog!

I have officially started another blog which will be all about our new journey on our little homestead.
Here it is:

http://footprintsofsustainability.blogspot.com/


Here is a picture of the south of the house with the driveway finally finished!  That was a lot of rock to get all raked out the way we wanted but it is very fulfilling to see it finally done.  My goal is to be completely moved in by October 1st.

Canning Ketchup

Tried my hand at making ketchup today for the first time and it turned out really good!

Canning today:
11 1/2 pt  Ketchup


Canning for 2012:

13 pints potatoes
11  1/2pt ketchup
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

Canning - Potatoes & Peppers

It was nice to be able to harvest food from my own garden and have enough
to eat fresh and put away some for the winter!

Canning for today:
5 pints potatoes
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers


Canning for 2012:
13 pints potatoes
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

Garden Pics 7/28/12

Here are pictures of my new garden at the acreage.
All taken on 7/28/12

the whole 20'x60'

 Corn

 1 Bushel gourd plant

 2 watermelon plants



Plus 20 tomato plants, 13 potato plants, 3 pepper plants, 2 cucumber plants, and a row of peas!

A little break

Obviously in this season of my life I don't really have the time to post all of my purchases.  I started doing this to keep myself accountable to keeping my purchases as low as I could.  But now with trying to get the house out at the acreage remodeled enough so that we can start moving.  So, what I have done is to hang a paper on the fridge and whenever I come in with a purchase I write all the info down on the paper.  This is how I will keep doing it until I need to change again. 

I doubt anyone is missing seeing those posts, but in case somone was wondering what was going on I thought I would let you know. 

After the move and completion of the house, I hope to have time to post regularly again.  And I hope to share some pictures too.