[Gabz]

I’ve never done any pressure canning. To be perfectly honest the idea of using a pressure cooker or canner actually scares the dickens out of me.

When I make sauces including meat I always freeze them. Pickles and jellies/jams are the only things I have ever canned. Everything else I either freeze or dry.

[Red_Devil 232]

Freezing my sauces - that is what I have been doing also. But when Katrina blew through this area my wife and I were without power for two weeks. I am just thinking ahead here - something that only would need a heat source and a meal could be had.