Joining in the ranks of Canadian Doomer and others like Chile Chews, and Backyard Farm along with unprocessed real food month with its daily updates on idea’s and thoughts on how to use whole food in your diet, we are eating out of our pantry this month.
Wow, three weeks already, the time has just flown by, this week has been a good week in regards to food storage, I am still processing food from the garden into the storage itself, I am still getting fresh fruit in the form of rasberries and high bush Cranberries, along with greens and horseradish. Now that the cool weather is coming, its time to wrap up the garden and get into butcher mode.
Well this week has been a good one on the eat out of your pantry week, we have been enjoying meals like Lamb Stew with Dumplings, Chili with fresh homemade buns , Dippy Eggs with Baked oven fries, Winter Sqaush Soup with cabbage salad, Homemade Scallop Potatos with lamb meat scramble, Fresh Roasted baby carrots with fresh mint and local drizzle of honey. Desserts, Puddings with fresh fruit, Homemade Fruit Jello, Apple-Peach Sauce.
On the baking front, I have made a wonderful Pumpkin Walnut Loaf, Fresh bread, Flax ground red wheat bread, Cornbread, Chocolate Almond Cranberry Cookies.
Drinks have included Apple Cider, Elderberry Juice, Grape Juice, Chokeberry Juice, Hot Tea’s and hot chocolate, all homemade, and most home canned.
Speaking of Canning, I had set myself a goal of a min of 1200 Jars to can this year and I made the goal this week, so far this year I have canned a total of 1234 Jars.. Can’t wait to see what my final year total will be..
On the unprocessed front, we have done well on most of it, the main gives have been my unbleached white flour, and my one Cookies and Cream Pudding Mix as a dessert one night, but I wanted a treat for my Dh.I don’t know if I feel better or not, the weather is cool and wet, DH had a cold this past weekend, it was a little one but it was there and I so don’t want it to develop into anything for me.
Well that’s about it for me girls, how was your week?
Just another Day on the Farm 
I’m jealous of all your stored beverages! I’m in the process of designing a small press so we can make more juices since we drink a ton of store bought.
A bunch of sickies here too- lots of soup and hot lemon and herb tea on the menu. Wrapping up the gardens too. Full post to come!
Hope you will show off the design of your little press when you get it done, I hear you on the being sick, is must be the time of year.. Look forward to the full post! I tried to post about the nuts one but the dial up would not let me load the word that was needed to get it do though, so I hope you will read it here.. great post, very interesting but sounds very stinky.
I know I haven’t canned that much. 🙂 Not that I’m complaining about them, but the kids keep me too busy to get in the amount of canning you’re doing. I have done a LOT of drying – mostly apples!
It’s been a good year for putting up in so many ways, I am hoping to start doing alot more drying but will still continue with the canning, it will be nice to have the different choices, as each one gives the finished end product its own texture.