September 25, 2007 – Putting Food Up
When people wander to the basement and see our assortment of canned goods, they accuse us of being Mormon or survivalists! Since we’re near the end of the canning season, I thought it would be a good time to show the canned goods. This reminds me a bit of the inside cover of Bill Bryson’s “Thunderbolt Kid” that shows a family of the 50′s posing in front of all the food they’d consume in a year. (Though, I didn’t drag out all the frozen stuff from the freezer or root crops for this photo.) I wondered how drastically that picture would change if you did the same today for the average American family – it would be dominated by pre-packaged foods and fast food containers.
The shelves contain stewed tomatoes, pickled dilly beans, peaches, blueberries, blackberries, salsa, raspberries, applesauce, and about six diffferent types of jam.
4 Responses to “September 25, 2007 – Putting Food Up”
Darlene says:
October 9, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Congratulations, little family!! Your pantry is lovely and oh how safe and prepared you are for winter’s arrival. My own little pantry looks pretty good as well.
Darlene
Elke says:
November 16, 2007 at 3:39 pm
A friend of mine had the same shelves built this year and keeps them well stocked as you do.
nt says:
November 21, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Hey! Green bean pickles! I love those things so much so that I doubt I’ll ever bother with cucumber spears again.
Doober says:
April 12, 2009 at 2:27 am
Very nice collection of home canned goods. I would like to can my own veggies. At the present time I do not have enough land to do so, trailer park lots are rather small and in my case full of rocks. Saving money up for containers. I am able to grow mung bean sprout indoors. Sort of like gardening. In fact I am planning to pickle some and can those. So far pickled sprout with onion slices are good.