>>>My pantry is over flowing.<<<
Well, we are making a dent in ours - think we have eaten about 7 or 8 cases so far...
Of course potatoes, butternuts, cabbage, etc all add to it.
I am looking for two more racks 6’tall and 3’wide as I still have some stacked in cases. As well as the 5 gallon pails (have only used two of them so far. One sugar and one flour)
Oh, and can’t forget the dried veggies and meat... Had venison stew - all from dried the other night. Yum... Venison, potatoes, green beans, mushrooms, limas, corn, zucchini and yellow summer squash. All dried. Fresh made biscuits and pickled watermelon rind- Mmmmm Mmmmm Good. On that snowy, cold day with the wind getting 30-40 mph,wind chill about 6 degrees, the dinner was a huge hit with everyone.
We MAY finish up most of the pickled items I got on a kick and made two years ago... Sauerkraut, broccoli, beets, relish, sweet and dill pickles, mixed vegetable pickles, pickled green tomatoes and pickled green beans. Made way more than we could have eaten, so this year I will probably pickle up a storm again.
Sure is a reassuring feeling.
Just canned up some more too - store had boneless-skinless chicken breasts for .99 - so we canned up 3 cases of them and froze a bunch more.
They can say 6% inflation all they want, but I can show you many items that have more than doubled in the last year!
As the seed catalogs are now starting to trickle in, I’m going through my saved seeds and deciding what new ones I’ll need for this year. The way things look, I’m planning to increase garden size again this year by about 50% - Gee, won’t have much time for FR this summer LOL.
Oh, and I am still getting some Romaine lettuce from the garden... that cover has kept it great.