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Yesterday I found limes on sale at Walmart for 25 cents each! 5 of them made a pound, so that was $1.25/#. I got 10 pounds! :celebrate I will be canning limeade soon, but first I want to freeze them. So this was my first test of the vacuum sealer. For the first one I kind of wasted some from...

Walmart had limes on sale for 25 cents each! I weighed them, and it worked out that 10 limes was 2 pounds. So $1.25 per pound! I got 10 pounds! :hide And I had just cleaned my canner and put it back in the cupboard today. That’s ok. I read that if you freeze them, they will release their juice...

No, we don’t get earthquakes here. Well, there actually was a tiny one about 20 years ago. It was in Southern Indiana, but we could feel a little vibrate-ey feeling here. I noticed it but I think my husband did not. I agree with you though, you would want to secure those canned goods. Would be...

Oh, thanks for the tip about liquid. The manual talks about the overflow tray, but here I was thinking I would be careful and not do actual liquid, so my tray would stay clean. 😂

Ha ha, that’s funny about the Torani syrups! I actually dislike the peach one. 😅 It’s going to get thrown away as soon as ant season arrives. The other one will get moved to the fridge unless it’s gone by then. Major battle with ants here every spring through fall. I’ve been loathe to use any...

Front closet would make an excellent pantry! Probably not too far from the kitchen. Nicer than going up and down the stairs all the time. Of course, the trade off for most people would be, would moving all the regular stuff people keep in their front closet end up being more of a hassle than...

Do we have a thread with tips on how to get the best use out of vacuum sealers? I couldn’t find one. I know they get mentioned randomly here and there on various different threads. From what I’ve read, all of you that have them love yours. So for quite a while now I’ve been mulling over the...

So the yield from my lemons was better this time. 5 cups of juice from 6# of lemons. (As opposed to the 4 cups I got from 10# last time!) Translated into 3 pints of concentrate, which will make 3 half gallons of lemonade. Oh, plus a half cup leftover that made about 2 cups of lemonade in the...

CC, something tells me you got mystery chicks there. Silver Laced Wyandottes are supposed to look like this: They’re very cute though. No wonder your doggie loves them!

Ok I just measured the dog, and I’d say we did get about 5 inches.

Depending on the source I look at, we got between 3.5 and 5 inches of snow today. I can say for sure, it’s higher than a dachshund’s belly! :gig

Butter and cream cheese prices are almost double what they used to be. Milk has only gone up a little. All the meat prices are stupid high, but sometimes I see salmon and boneless chicken breast for close to what they used to be. Pork shoulder roast used to be cheap, and it’s still cheaper, but...

@Mini Horses I have read you and @baymule and others talking about canning beans without soaking. I looked it up before I did mine, and none of the dry bean methods are tested approved recipes. So I decided that I would stick with tested recipes for now and hold off on branching out (rebel...

Ha ha thanks! That came with some Swiss Miss cocoa in the grocery store several years back. One of my favorite Christmas/winter decors.

Man, @baymule you sure have had one awful winter of rain rain rain. You deserve some sunshine 🌞 for a while! My goose pen is a muddy mess, but it’s nothing like what you have had to put up with.

I can identify with the momentum that comes with the sunshine. It is such a nice change from the weeks of gloomy weather! ☀️

So today’s canning kind of was a large amount. I did 2 pounds of great northern beans and 2 pounds of pinto beans. I forgot to soak them overnight, so I started at 9am with the boil 2 minutes and sit one hour method for the pintos, and the pressure cook 2 minutes method for the gr northerns...

It was for sure the confidence of use that sold it for me. Now that I’m familiar with using it, I think I would be more willing to try the manual kind. Heck, I’m already more confident using my older GoWISE, since I can see how similar it is to the Presto electric one. The Presto owner’s manual...

Oh, thank you for the update. I was wondering, but I figured you would have said if it had gotten delivered. I’m glad your cc company took care of it. What canner do you use for big batch stuff? How many jars does it fit? Now that I’m into canning, I’ve been starting to think about what I...

No, I got the Presto. I’m doing my best to get some use out of it. My new hobby. 😂