“I canned a bunch of the meat. Lasted for years in the jar.”
So did you have to eat LOTS of canned meat all at once or did you end up throwing some away after the (oops!) I mistook for “for” as “four” and was going to ask if you had to throw a lot out after four years. :-)
I live alone, so I canned the meat in jelly jars...lots and lots of jelly jars!