She was either open kettle canning (big no-no nowadays) or she was waterbath canning most likely. Was it jellies and pickles you helped with?
Rice and Beans
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Some of those, but I remember green beans, and peas, and beets, and squash I think. Just stuff she grew in her garden.
Go get yourself a Presto canner from Wally world and get to work. It's easy peasy.
Does it come with a Dummy's Guide to Canning? lol
I can walk you through it. You want to get the Ball Blue Book of canning and preserving, it'll be with the canners. With a pressure canner, you can use it as a water bath canner as well so you don't need to buy one.
I'll have to see if I can pick one up.
I'm thinking they run $60 or less and it's a good size so it's not a bitch to lift off of the burner. I have a few of them so I can rotate what I'm processing and I don't have to wait for the steam to exhaust before using the canner.
Wait. Did that make any sense to you?
Sweet, I'll see what they have and go from there!
Lol yeah, I'm not THAT slow. I remember Mamaw having to do that.
Ok... this seems like a lot of rice but I saw this on an LDS website:
The following suggested amounts are for one adult.
The following suggested amounts are for one adult.
Quantity for One Month
Recommended Products
11.5 kg./ 25 lbs per adult per month
Wheat, white rice, corn, and other grains
2.5 kg. / 5 lbs per adult per month
Dry beans
On a grain heavy diet, that seems about right if you are planning to feed bulky carbs to fill people up.
rice is a filler beans are protein!My family and I (wife, teenage boy, and myself) are pretty new to prepping. I have bought about 90 lbs of different kinds of rice and about 5 gallons worth of different kinds of beans. My question is what is the rice to beans ratio that I should be shooting for?
We don't have a lot of money so I wanted to get something now as a staple and then build on it with the finer things in life (canned chicken, canned beef, canned ... ). To head off people telling me I need more than rice and beans to eat... please understand that I know I need to add other things to our diet but that will come in time. If the SHTF, I want to be able to feed my family something and with the Obama economy the way it is... I have/want to start building my emergency supply with rice and beans.
So any ideas about the rice:beans ratio?
THANKS!
