Well, this is my cellar pantry count, does not include upstairs in use pantry items or what is in my freezers or what is on the hoof so to speak, just what is currently in my cellar in regards to canned foods..
Canning count July 2012
Meats-total 53
– Canned Ham- 23
– Canned Turkey- 10
-Canned Chicken -10
-Canned Salmon -4
-Lamb- 6 pints
Veggie- Total 177
-Pumpkin Pickled – 6
-Pickled Turnips – 6
-Corn- 10
– Beets- 18
– Tomato’s Products of all kinds-110
– Red Pepper Sauce- 3
– Green Pepper Sauce- 6
– Beans-18
Fruits Total 221
– Strawberry-2
-Rhubarb or Rhubarb mixed fruits-15
-Apricots-47
-Cherry-1
-Apple- 33
– Pear-8
-Peach-32
-Pinnapple-2
– Ginger- 7
-Blueberry- 25
– Watermelon- 3
-Plum- 8
-Grape -7
Chokecherry -1
Chokeberry- 2
Red Current -14
Wild Cranberry-6
Pickles and Relish’s Total 84
Red Relish- 5
Dilled Sliced-1
Brussel Sprout -1
English style -18
Bread and Butter-23
Dill Baby-10
Relish (different kinds)-26
Soups or Stews
Lamb soup -2
Extra’s
Carrot pudding -3
Canned milk -51
Herbed Jelly -3
Maple syrup- 3
Dandelion Honey-3
Homecanned left as of July 2012 =502 jars from 2010 to 2011
Just another Day on the Farm 
I know this is TOTALLY off topic, but wanted to know your status on the Wheatbelly plan. Immediately after reading your post weeks ago I started following it and quickly progressed to the Paleo/Primal plan and am so grateful to you for alerting me to this. As a Type II diabetic I am well on my way to dumping the only medication I am taking, bio-equivalent insulin — and have greatly reduced my dosage of that already. Your post was the best thing that has happened for me in a very long time. I can never thank you enough. BTW my husband is on his way to soon having a flat belly and is a very happy camper as well.
That Awesome!! Way to go Brenda! Please continue to keep me updated, as you can see from my post in regards to the Grape leaf dish, now that I am home, Dh and I are working very hard to get all wheat out of our diet, we are working a bit slower in other area’s, as I don’t want to remove all grains (oats/barley) out of the diet at this time and I don’t want to remove things I can grow on the farm itself, where I have control, vs buying at the store if I can help it example, keeping a limited amount of potato, corn etc.
I am not quite ready to go really Paleo but I’m reading the books and wanting a Paleo breakfast, with alot more Paleo/Primal meals..
If folks are interested, I would be happy to do a report once or twice a month on how its going!
I found this website to be the most inspirational and motivating of all. I recommend reading every entry. It is so worthwhile. http://paleoparents.com/
So did you remove all wheat only? or did you remove all grains? and what about the veggie carbs? Clearly the diet is helping hugely in regards to your meds but what about the other side effects he talks about, do you have more energy? Do you feel better on it? Has it reduced bloating? etc etc I read your comment to DH and he is interested (as am I) in knowing more about what you are doing..
What does your typical day in regard to meals look like? Have you lost weight in the past few weeks?
I removed all grains and dried beans and peas. No rice, no wheat, no corn, no oats, nothing. The only veggie carbs that are gone are white potatoes.
No side effects at all. Yes, more energy in that I’m not ready for a nap at 2 or 4 pm everyday. I used to be ready for bed by 8 pm and now I can easily manage 10 pm if I want to. Quality of sleep is much improved, too.
There is no bloating, cramping, or any other digestive problems.
The first thing we did was clear all the grain-related items from pantry and freezer. I am a professional researcher so that part was easy and still working on it.
Breakfast: Almond pancakes with fruit and maple syrup or almond-four donuts or muffins or 3-egg omelet or scramble with meat, cheese, and loaded with veggies. Usually have cut strawberries or blueberries or grapefruit sections. Coffee with cream and stevia.
Lunch: Lettuce, tomato, and onion salad with meat and cheese, olives, cashews with salad dressing (homemade or one that is pretty much paleo/primal compliant).
Just started making our own gyros, which we put on salad with homemade tzaziki sauce. We also cook up chicken to put on salads or use shrimp.
Dinner (supper in my part of the country): Grilled meat or pot roast or roast chicken with mashed cauliflower or baked sweet potato and a vegetable.
Dessert: Yogurt with fruit or just some fruit.
There are endless recipes online and it is easy to convert regular recipes. I have the “Gluten-Free Almon Flour Cookbook” which has recipes for just about any pastry you could want.
Instead of cornstarch you use arrowroot. Instead of sugar you use maple syrup or honey. Besides almond flour you can use coconut flour.
Instead of processed oils you use coconut oil or palm oil (sold in healthfood stores are vegetable shortening) and olive oil and butter.
I just purchased a spiralizer to create zucchini “noodles” which can be used a multitude of ways. Baked spaghetti squash also works.
Also: keep away from the scale. It’s not about counting calories and pounds or measuring things out.
Omg Brenda, this is awesome news! CONGRATULATIONS!! Just the impetus I need to seal the deal (going right along with my response to FarmGal’s latest post, that I now see was an answer to you… (Gaak! Did that make sense, I hope?)
Absolutely makes sense. When you do go to the Paleo Parents website, make sure to check out Stacy’s pix. That woman is an absolute inspiration for everyone. She went from 335 pounds to around 185 in 18 months by simply changing her eating habits. And, honestly, you soon find yourself NOT wanting all the extra carbs.
We at at Applebee’s the other day — I had the Jalapeno-Lime Shrimp without the rice — and watched plates go past me with mountains of food on them that literally made me feel ill.
Yes. I have lost about 20 pounds and my husband a little more. We eat very well and are never hungry.
I hear you and will for sure find time this week to go read that site, I have clearly gotten out of my regular smaller bowls/plates serving sizes on my trip home to mom’s, twice now DH has said.. wow, filled that bowl didn’t you.. and one, honey, put some of that back.. clearly I need to get back into the habit of smaller sizes..
Have you posted your carrot pudding recipe? My grandma used to can that! I’d love the recipe.
I have posted twice on my recipe, let me track down those links for you? Its not on the recipe page?? if not, I need to get it there 🙂
You know what! I found it…twice…just like you said 🙂 Thanks!!!! Hopefully we get an abundance of carrots again this year.
Wonderful, thanks for letting me know, I had to go mow the front peaple yard before I was allowed to come back and answer emails, next to clean the rabbit hutches, breed a doe, trim toes etc.
I’m a Dill Baby… I LOVE dill pickles – large or small – and love makin’ em too! So what do you put in yours? Are you a salt/dill only “kosher” type? Use pickling spice or no? Or lovin’ the garlic & dillweed combo (with a grape leaf or pinch of alum for added crunch; ) like me? Shoot! This sounds like a blog posting… Your cukes ready yet FarmGal?
All of the above.. I have rarely meet a pickle I didn’t like.. well, I am not to found of the really old fashion true sour dills, put I love dill or garlic ones, I love bread and butter, I adore beet pickles, and don’t mind sqaush ones, I like watermelon rind pickles..
I never even heard about the grape leaf trick until I moved here to ontario and now I love it! my cukes are so SO! not ready, in fact they are itty bitty plants that are not growing well at all and no flowers.. sigh..
such a homey list – reminds me of my mom’s canning cellar
Thanks, reminds me of my grandmothers 🙂
Highly recommend these websites as well for recipes and info:
. http://yourlighterside.com/
. http://nomnompaleo.com/
. http://www.marksdailyapple.com/
. http://www.elanaspantry.com/
. http://www.paleodigest.com/
. https://crankingkitchen.wordpress.com/
. http://www.grassfedgirl.com/
. http://paleomg.com//
. http://cavegirleats.com/
. http://civilizedcavemancooking.com/
WOW! What an inspiration you are! It’ll be a challenge to figure out what we can this year, but I’m going to do it. Next year, I’m confident our yields and canning stores will be better than this years, although nowhere near yours, I’m sure. Grape leaf trick? Can you elaborate on that?
Hi Carolyn, I am pleased to see that we have in fast used just a touch over 800 of our home canned goodness, plus I am down to about 3/4 of one of my big freezers, I will be using and processing out of what is left, including canning up the rest of the meat from 2011, as its only a matter of time before fall arrives, and I will have meat from 2012 to fill them back up with again.
Its worth keeping an eye on what you can and what is used up, it helps you figure out some things only need to be made in smaller batches if yearly and or which things go over better, we will eat alot of peachs but apricots will just sit there, so this helps me plain both my own fruit tree’s and also how to do things, We will eat dried apricots with pleasure but canned, not so much.. so other then a small batch of jam here or there, I will dry them from now on.
As for the grape leaf trick, its as easy as can be, when you go to make your pickles, pick a grape leaf to fit your jar. (if you are wild picking, makes sure that its from a healthy plant that has not been sprayed and don’t take more then 20% of the leaves per plant), wash well, stem and put in your jar, there are properties in the leaf that will help make your pickles crunchy.. I don’t eat the leave though personally..
Brenda: AWESOME job on getting off wheat. You will never look back and your health will improve, AND>>> the scale pointer is an absolute gem 🙂
I love your list! But I’m imagining that some of those are from last year, right? You didn’t already get brussles sprouts for instance did you? I made some attempts at listing stuff, but *sigh* life is short and the lists can be long… Surely you won’t go hungry. Also, on the total giving up of grain products, I’m w/ you…if I grow it here (ie: the floriani flint corn this year) I’m much more content to consume it…in moderate amounts of course, since I’m still in fat loss mode.
*anna
The list is what is currently in the cellar right now as of July 8th 2012, so they were all canned in either 2010 or 2011..
I work to hard at growing my own food to just not eat it and go to the store to get XX..
Absolutely, regardless what eating plan you are currently following. We are eating last year’s canned and frozen applesauce, last year’s canned tomatoes, relishes, etc., plus this year’s rhubarb, not to mention last year’s dehydrated vegetables and fruit. There is nothing incompatible with home storage and changing one’s eating lifestyle. For many people processed sugar is forbidden. It’s a matter of moderation and choosing what is best for YOU.
This is my most recent paleo/primal website find and that is precisely the owner’s perspective. http://primaltoad.com/
Wow Brenda J., All of these links will really help to get in the paleo/wheat belly groove: thanks so much for sharing all of your research and, even more, for sharing your inspiring progress on this path. It’s been truly awesome to be able to “listen” right from the start: )