What would you do with a big bag of grapes?

[BeccaOH]

I got a big plastic grocery bag of Concord grapes at the farmers market. I was excited about them, but now I'm not sure how best to use them because 1) we are using a lot less bread so we don't need jelly and 2) we are avoiding a lot of overly sweet things like dessert so we don't need pie or pie filling.

I'm thinking about making a grape juice concentrate that can be frozen or canned, but I don't want to have to use a ton of sugar in it. I'd use it for sweetening smoothies and ???

What would you do with the grapes if you were eating sort of like a Paleo diet or at least trying to follow some of the Weston A. Price/Sally Fallon guidelines?

Thanks!

 

[k15n1]

I would ferment it.

But grape juice is a good idea. You hardly have to concentrate it, it's already way too strong to drink straight.

Do you have a food mill?

 

[BeccaOH]

I do have a mill we use to make tomato juice.

I wouldn't know where to start with fermenting. :/

 

[ksalvagno]

What about just freezing the grapes as is for a frozen snack?

 

[cabinchick]

What about just freezing the grapes as is for a frozen snack?

I do this also. Kids love it

 

[keljonma]

I would freeze them until I had a really large amount of grapes to process.

I know you aren't using the jelly anymore, but I found homemade grape jelly is a wonderful addition to the food baskets given away by the church at the holidays. Just a thought....

 

[FarmerChick]

in the freezer.

frozen grapes are delish!

 

[Neko-chan]

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[hillfarm]

I feed them to the chickens. They gobble them.

 

[framing fowl]

Pop them in the dehydrator for raisins! Then they can be added to cereal, made into homemade trailmix, eaten by themselves, added to sweet breadsor for holiday baking...