The different Methods used to store your garden produce include

• Clamping
• Freezing
• Drying
• Salting
• Canning
• Pickles and Chutney’s
• Relishes, Ketchups and Sauces
• Jams and Jellies
• Fruit Butters
• Fermenting.

Most folks in Canada would use a combo effect of the different methods listed above, I am unsure who lives in a zone good enough for Clamping to work but I am sure that it would in a mild enough climate. Just as Overwintering and Wintersowning are now choices to make, that were not really talked about at the time that list would have been made orginally.

Do you use all the methods listed? What is your favorite way of storing your extra’s? I use all the different methods listed above, it just depends on what its is and how my own family perfer’s it.

Wanted something crunchy, sweet and chocolately but at least a bit healthy if possable..

Enter chocolate Granola

1/2 cup dark bitter chocolate chips, poured enough sheep milk (which would be light table cream fat wise) in the bowl till it just covered the chips, and melted them together, stirring till I had a smooth chocolate paste.

4 cups of old fashioned oatmeal, 1 cup of dried cranberries, 1/2 cup of raw pumpkin seeds, 2 tbsp of poppy seeds, 2 tbsp of Chia Seed, poured the chocolate mix over top and stirred it all together, then spread out over a cookie sheet at low heat, and mixed it every five or so min till dried into clumbs and crumbs. Cool and enjoy, could be used as breakfast with cold milk or maybe pressed into a very well greased pan and then cut into bars. or dropped by spoonfulls and allowed to harden.

Breakfast-Eggs

Lunch -Hambuger, leftover mashed, and carrots.

Supper-Steak/onion Pizza with tomato base sauce.

Extra’s -Buns, Bread and Pizza dough, chocolate Granola

Drinks-Water, Tea