November 23, 2010
Canning & Dehydrating Food: My New Venture
Posted in Food Storage tagged canning, dehydrating, economy, food, storage, usa at 10:16 am by Dey's Cleaning
With our ever depleting economy, I have been doing a lot of research on food storage.
In my search, I’ve come across tons of videos on canning and dehydrating fresh fruits and vegetables. As usual, some are great and some, well, continue your search…
Have to say that I am amazed at how easy they both ‘seem’ watching these women teach. My most recently viewed video is making grape juice. I just ordered two dozen canning jars ($16.98 each dozen) along with the steamer / juicer ($79.98) from Amazon. The steamer/juicer was not the one I wanted, but was in my budget and it did have predominately positive reviews. Total order with Super Saving Shipping (all items included shipping) came to $133.
By the way, the steamer/juicer I want was $160!! Not at this time ;0
The jars I chose were the regular as opposed to the wide mouth. Two reasons why the regular jars are okay for me right now: 1) My first attempt will be making juices which with the tube from the steamer/juicer the regular jars will be just fine. When I’m ready to do the dehydrating that is when I’m sure the wide mouth jars will be needed. 2) the regular jars were Super Saving Shipping!! The wide mouth jar shipping for two cases (24) was over $40!!! Much more research on finding these jars locally is needed! If I can help it, I’m NOT doubling my price for shipping.
Please check back from time to time. I will be sharing with you my new venture through video and will be posting them here (started a new blog – Dey’s Foods) along with whatever recipe I am using pertaining to that video.
Stay tuned!
