What we ran out of... pasta sauce, pasta noodles, flour, rice, catsup, pickles, mushrooms, cooking oil, mayo, potatoes, potatoes, potatoes, carrots, apples, beans, corn starch, honey. A lot of it repeatedly. I cannot believe how many potatoes we went through. 9 50 pound bags and counting!
What's left:
18 quarts beets
17 quarts 2010 beets(I fed a lot of the older stuff to the poultry)
15 tomato juice (how is that possible? I don't remember buying any, and I know we used some. Must have counted wrong in the fall.)
7 pints salsa
8 quarts watermelon rinds
1 quart blueberries
1 quart applesauce (was hidden at the back, missed the fall count)
53 pints assorted jams
4 pints dandelion syrop
2 beet juice
1 pints rose hip syrop
6 pints stew
2 pints tallow (don't bake with it. It makes beefy cookies.)
28 pints raspberry sauce
21 pints blueberry sauce
9 peanut butter
2 bbq sauce
1 catsup
2 mayo
8 pasta sauce
4 pickle
6 mushrooms
6 salmon
18 tomato soup
1 onion
1 potato
2 rice
1 flour
I had to toss one of my big pumpkins that started to rot, and we tossed a lot of carrots before winter set in, due to the cold room being too warm in the fall. Everything else has held up well. I only made one small batch of apple sauce. The boys ate nearly all of them!
Still a ways off from starvation, but pushing my comfort zone. Here's hoping Husband has a busy summer with big pay cheques so I can restock!
i'd say you did pretty good what with the time of year it is - good job Wendy! but i also understand that you're pushing your comfort zone and looking to re-stock. do you grow your own potatoes??? you could save a ton of money if you did and if you keep them in a cool basement, barn, root cellar made out of hay bales - they'll last right up until you can start harvesting baby potatoes. anyway - let us know when you do your re-stock!
ReplyDeleteyour friend,
kymber
Do you feed pumpkins starting to rot to the hens? Mine love a good pumpkin. Of course, by "rotten" I don't mean moldy, just going bad, a little soft.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there is a way to keep the cold room a bit cooler if there are other warm falls to spoil your food.
Do you ever set goals like a jar of whatever each week or two each week when you home can? Or, when you grocery shop? If I have 50 qts of home-canned tomatoes on my shelf, I would consider turning my efforts to canning something else unless I had it in the garden. Now, mind you, I never have an abundance of anything since a few tomato plants is all I have ever had. Just curious.
Yes, the chickens love pumpkin.
DeleteNo, no goals like that for me. I rarely buy anything to can, so it's just whatever I can pick or grow around here. I pick as much as I can while it's in season and preserve it. I did buy strawberries last year, for jam, and probably will again this year. I haven't had much luck growing strawberries yet. So that's pretty much it exactly, they're in the garden or the yard or the bush, and I need to do as much as I can while they last.