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

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

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

Canning Salsa

I wasn't going to make any salsa this year, but as you can see I changed my mind.  I made a big batch and we used about half of it at a get together and I canned the rest.

5 pints salsa


2012 canning:

16 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
16 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

= 89 jars of food preserved for later

Canning Spaghetti Sauce Again!

I canned another batch of spaghetti sauce up last night:

7  24oz jars
1 pint jar


2012 canning:


16 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
16 24oz spaghetti sauce
6 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
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

= 84 jars of food preserved for later

I am feeling really good about the amount of food I have put away this year.  I will have a few more batches to do yet before the move. 

Canning - more potatoes & peppers

I dug the last of the potatoes and fried up a big batch of the little ones for supper yesterday but there were still some little ones left so I canned them and all the peppers that were ready too.

3 pints potatoes
3 1/2 pt chili peppers


2012 canning:


16 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
9 24oz spaghetti sauce
5 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
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

= 76 jars of food preserved for later

Canning More Spaghetti Sauce

I had another batch of tomatoes ready, so that means more spaghetti sauce.

Spaghetti Sauce:
5 24oz jars
1 pt jar


2012 canning:


13 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
9 24oz spaghetti sauce
5 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce


= 70 jars of food preserved for later

Canning Spaghetti Sauce

Found a new recipe for spaghetti sauce and when we were taste testing it we gave it a thumbs up!

4 - 24oz  jars
1 - 1/2pt jar


2012 canning:
13 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
4 24oz spaghetti sauce
4 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

= 64 jars of food preserved for later

Canning more Ketchup

Last time I canned ketchup I put about 4oz in the fridge and the kids and I tried it and we all thought it was great!  So I made more!

Today's ketchup  10 - 12oz jars & 1 8oz jar.


2012 canning:


13 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 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

= 59 jars of food preserved for later

Canning Corn

I have always frozen my sweet corn and I love it that way.  However, I am out of freezer space, so I canned some corn and we will see how we like it. 

8 pints of sweet corn


2012 canning:
13 pints potatoes
8 pints corn

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

= 48 jars of food preserved for later

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

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

Nectarine sauce

The kids hadn't eaten up the nectarines yet and they were getting soft so I cut them in half, pitted, skinned, cooked them down into sauce form.  Then I poured them into two 1/2 pint jars and canned them up!

Canning trial - Easy Grape Juice

My neighbor brought over some grapes that she said she wasn't going to eat before she left on vacation.
My kids weren't eating them so I decided to try my hand at making some easy grape juice that I had heard about on several canning sites. 

Here is what I did:

I put 1/2 cup of washed grapes into each pint jar.  Then I took three cups of water and stirred 3/4 cup of sugar until dissolved.  I poured that equally into the three jars and added plain water up to the neck of the jar.  I wiped the rim of the jar and added my lids.  Then I put them in my water bath canner and brought it up to a boil and continued to boil them for 20 minutes. 

Now the hardest part is to wait a few weeks before opening and trying the "juice".   And if we like it, I will be doing this every year when my grapes are ready.

Canning potatoes

My first time using my new pressure canner.

8 pints of potatoes

Pressure canner $26.54!!!

I bought a 23 qt Presto Pressure Canner from Amazon.

It was priced at $81.54 with free shipping.

However I didn't want to pay that, so I used a $50 giftcard from MyPoints and a $5 giftcard from Swagbucks!

So I paid $26.54

Tattler lids

My special purchase of Tattler reusable canning lids came!!!

It was a very good deal. 100 regular size lids and 100 wide mouth lids for $85