Wow, you do it all. We had a huge freezer, but canning finally in cans not jars. No canned meats since we were doing it for cost and not worried about long term power loss.
I inherited the freezer and always had it packed when I had children at home...things change and I am alone now so rotate huge amounts of staples, and plan for water safety. There is a limit to what I want to do now.
Then the girls divorced and moved in with their kids, so we made a basement apartment, and had a refrigerator with a freezer there too.
When we started gardening, we bought an upright freezer, but right after the warranty, was gone it quit, and repair man couldn't find anything wrong with it. So after it quit and ruined stuff a couple of more times, we unplugged it, bought a Walmart small chest style freezer, and started putting up stuff by canning or dehydrating.
I understand the willingness or lack there of. When Hubby gets too ambitious with the garden, I just tell him there's no way babe - you gotta do the preps, and I'll finish it up.
I try to get him to do succession cropping, but he just plants big humongous amounts all at the same time, so it really overburdens when it comes time to preserve it.
