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We’ve stored food as long as I can remember....because we canned and stocked up for winter in NYS. We all had fruit cellars and/or storage areas.

We had a fruit cellar and my mom filled it.

I am carrying on the tradition even though the house I'm in now surprisingly doesn't have a fruit cellar, because it's certainly old enough to.

Both places are in NY as well.

Winter alone makes stocking up worth it. Who needs to drag groceries through slop and what with the weather, God knows what the roads will be like.

Anyone who lives in this climate and doesn't stock up is a fool.

>>We’ve stored food as long as I can remember....because we canned and stocked up for winter in NYS. We all had fruit cellars and/or storage areas.
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But that’s not what we’re talking about, is it? We’re talking about the pain Obama is going to inflict on this nation for who knows how long?

Much more sinister than “storing up for the winter,” wouldn’t you say?

When I was a kid, my family had a fruit celler in the basement, mom canned and made jam etc...I canned also when my kids were young, it took 17 batches of jelly/jam to get from the end of canning until the following canning started in the early summer with strawberrys etc but had a farm that let you pick your own so all your strawberrys were equally ready for jelly and as different fruits came in, they got made into jelly/jam....canned peachs, pears and sometimes some neighbor would bring me a 1/2 bushels of fruit that they got from some relative...tomatoes are easy, pickels etc....my one son does his own pickles, relish etc cause he loves picking it from his own little garden and canning.....I always let the kids help me when they were young and the skim off the ready to put into jars for the jams was quite a treat...but my favorite was cherry jam, had a small orchard close by that let you pick your own. The kids ate more cherrys than they picked...It was fun to do with all 5 kids helping, pitting, pealing pears etc...the males in my family all hunt and one makes venison to die for..cook great venison and they love (yuk) squirrel.I have had my daughter in laws thank me for their husbands cooking. The boys (men) say they had to learn to cook as I was not that great. :O) One of my grandsons got his first deer with bow and arrow 2 years ago at 16 If the SHTF, they won't starve...

at my age, living alone for 20 years, if you cannot microwave it, its not in my pantry...times do change except a large pot of spaghetti sauce can be put into plastic bags and frozen... I think its just the present generation that don't know how to can unless brought up on a farm...