YES!lazyday said:absolutely beautifulAm I seeing corn in the third picture?
So far we have corn, beets, tomatoes, green beans, potatoes, jams, spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, corn relish, sweet relish, pickled peppers, and....apple butter, and..... 
i can't remember it all. Not ALL of it is out there yet.
We have 128 quarts of green beans, but we are shooting for upwards of 200-250 quarts each of beans and corn, and less of some of the other less consumed things like relishes and such. That was 6 bushels of beans BTW, if that helps.
I started water bath canning years ago. This is actually a cooperative effort between me and the neighbor family, and THEY do the pressure canninglazyday said:
I'm just taking baby steps on that road. We help each other, and I know they won't not let me in there because I make too much of their food This is at their house, but it's collectively our food. 
10x30 There is a chest freezer on one end that I was standing in front of for the pics. Plenty of space on there!moolie said:Looks great!
What are the dimensions of the room? I'd love to have a space like that, our "pantry" is spread throughout kitchen cupboards, shelves in a converted coat closet, buckets here and there, and two metal canning shelves in an odd bumped out section in our basement guest room.
With the AC being out down at the neighbors, they at least sent the three kids down here. They got here about 8:30 and we threw everyone in the bath to get cooled down and into jammies. Then we peeked in on the chicks hatching in the bator for an hour or so, they loved that. Even the 17 yr. old was entranced by the little fluff butts hatching out The twins sat up with me for a bit longer watching cartoons, and my boy fell asleep laying across my lap. Such sweet kiddos 
I carried him to bed, then hit the bed myself. The other two were out shortly afterward as well. I think we all slept hard. Everyone is just now getting up, and I am about to prepare a breakfast for 6. 4 year olds are bossy They want eggs, cereal, toast, and bacon, and chocolate milk.....we'll see what we can come up with See ya'll in a bit 
), then he calculated the amount of canned goods needed for each meal X how many times we eat that meal in an average year, and told me how many half pints/pints/quarts of each item I'd need. Keep in mind, the guy is a bit anal ( ), so he divided our pantry into store bought and home canned. He has a log book just inside the door, that DS and I MUST keep up with - he goes through and 'checks' how well we're doing once a month I pick on him about it, but it makes things SO much easier to be so organized. I planned my garden based on his calculations. It would be different for everybody, of-course. If I try something new and we like it, he sits down and figures out the additional needs for me. So, if you have an anal math whiz handy, figuring out the canning needs for any size family would be a snap BTW, we wait for our local big box lumber store (here it's Menards) to run their sales on canning jars - we get cases of pints/quarts for $6.88! Half pints are impossible to find anywhere around here, so we order those (we use a lot for butter, cheese and some of our cubed up meats). Just so you know, our pantry looks pretty bare too! There are still a bunch of empty jars, waiting for this years harvest! 
