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    brused fruit to make jelly ok (soft places)

    was given about 20 necturines from farmers market as discarded fruit...can this be used to make jelly or preserves, can you cook up the soft spots also? In canning doesn't it kill anything bad from fruit...
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    does soda get hard with time

    Read somewhere that soda hardens...what to do...put in bucket with seal? which soda? Washing or baking soda? thanks .............g
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    What did you do to save $ today?

    processed 3 roosters (first time experience) GREAT skinned the last one in 15 minutes...great in for on top of meate ETC thread on Backyard chicken...
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    Which blood tests? Update: An incorrect diagnosis :)

    I seem to agree that the symptoms are pre-menopause.... confusion is deffinately one symptom - tiredness is another - memory or should I say lack of at times - stress causes a lot of these also so try to reduce the stress.....may not cause these things but magnify them....maybe a harmone check...
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    Stock up alert!

    FarmerJamie - what can you do with 50# of onions? bought a dehydrator what do you dehydrate?
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    What did you do to save $ today?

    storm waiting in Louisiana - bought cabbage 3 for $l -- 5 pork chops,center cut (on sale) - smothered chops with many onions (sale) added 2 heads shredded cabbage -- smothered all together. DELICIOUS . made 4 meals for DH and myself. with one quart of fresh cream - made butter, then added...
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    INGREDIENTS to be ss in hard times?

    What a storage saver, thanks all.....live and learn...
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    receipe for dish detergent

    Marianne, just what is a " non-reactive" pan..? I know my daughters will ask as well as I am asking..... I really want this to be a working receipe as I plan on using it when.......I will have the ingredients.....also some store bought to back up the really greasy things.
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    By request ... How I process my turkeys - WARNING FOWL pictures!

    I cannot thank you enough for your time and the effort it took to do this for us " going to process soon " people........have 10 in the holding pen to stay put .... they were to be processed Saturday and here comes a storm.... thanks to your pictures I am ready... made a list of everything I...
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    INGREDIENTS to be ss in hard times?

    Britesea: did you mean that we can use pool shock to make a batch of " cleaning " clorox...? is this a dumb question? You can laugh....We had pools for years and I never even thought to use shock that way...
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    receipe for dish detergent

    I thank you for the receipes but are they for the ---- hand washing at the kitchen sink ---- I do not have a dishwasher, I am IT..Ha. can the automatic dishwashing machine soap be used at --- the kitchen -- sink --? Wannabee: I would like to try the castille soap.. could you find the...
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    receipe for dish detergent

    I have not found (other than to dilute dawn) a way to make a satisfactory dish washing detergent...not one for the dishwasher...does some one have this.....do you use the dry or liquid laundry detergent for this..? G
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    Soap Making 101

    I read about coconut oil in many things, when I went to health food store she asken what KIND I wanted, edible or ? ... I sure didn't know what to buy... can you help: am making (or trying to) my own products.... please explain....thank you somewhere it says coconut oil is solid...does...
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    Cowboy Shirt So Far (PIX on #9)

    makes me remember years ago when I WANTED to sew for my little girls...just DID IT... have progress to evening gown and mens suits....also a great BARTER trade in rough times to come, just had to encourage you and all who have not taken the LEAP....G You have done such a great job, he will...
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    INGREDIENTS to be ss in hard times?

    Marianne, am starting a notebook today, thanks...G
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    What did you do to save $ today?

    Hardly ever go to the mall only Sears for I Love Comfort shoes, I am diabetic and they are wonderful....well found the identical sandal I have been wearing to church, work and everywhere...paid 39.95 then got them for 14.99 in beige color (which I needed for the others are black and still going...
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    INGREDIENTS to be ss in hard times?

    I have a good start now thanks to you all....I am in Louisiana so we get hurricanes, rain, storms and heat...very hot now...Now that I know most of the ingredients I will start to buy....then start making a receipe book for my girls & myself (have six children 5 girls and 1 boy) all married ...
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    INGREDIENTS to be ss in hard times?

    Should have added, instead of buying boxes of STUFF I feel it is best MAKE as you need to save space and time.....I don't have that much space to store things as I read a lot of do not have..thank you again.......G
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    INGREDIENTS to be ss in hard times?

    am trying to prepare ahead with purchasing INGREDIENTS to make products as needed...such as I have 20 mule borax, washing soda, bar soap....pepperment oil, glycerin, ... coconut oil (what kind to buy) not all you can consume.... vinegar, etc...is there some kind of list I could draw from...wish...
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    I got into something - and it ain't good

    Hi, what is technu ...where do I buy it? thanks...G
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