Preserving

Category: Preserving

39 Nourishing Postpartum Freezer Meals To Prepare While You’re Pregnant {slow cooker, too!}

39 Nourishing Postpartum Freezer Meals To Prepare While You’re Pregnant {slow cooker, too!}

As the fresh tomato season wears on, you find that you've exhausted your family's patience with all. those. tomatoes. So make sauce! You'll use up several pounds of tomatoes at a time, plus sauce freezes well and cans for long-term storage. This sauce includes healing bone broth!

Fresh Tomato Sauce with Healing Broth

How To Can Beans The Nourishing Way | Canned beans are easily found on grocery store shelves, but by canning your own you can go further. And not just 1 -- but 2 -- steps further! Here are directions for *nourishing* canned beans, and you'll save money, too! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Can Beans The Nourishing Way

Mason jars of canned tomatoes

What’s The Best Food Preservation Method… Canning, Freezing, Dehydrating, or Fermenting? #AskWardee 147

How to Dehydrate Apples | As much as I love fall's crisp apples, I can't eat them all before they go bad. That's why I enjoy making pies, apple sauce and muffins. Or, I preserve them through dehydrating -- which is easy and requires very little storage space. Here's how. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com GNOWFGLINS.com

How to Dehydrate Apples

Bowl of homemade granola.

Soaked Granola Recipe (raw & enzyme-rich!)

three pint-sized glass jars full of vegetable broth, next to a carrot and fresh herbs

Homemade Vegetable Broth Recipe (Stove Top, Instant Pot)

Photo of a woman holding up the insert pots of her Instant Pot pressure cookers.

How To Use A Pressure Cooker 101

Got a large family and a small food budget? Yet, due to your high standards for nutrition, you shudder at the thought of filling hungry tummies with cheap, non-nutritious filler foods? Here are 14 ways to feed a large family on a small budget. (These tips apply to smaller families, too!)

14 Ways To Nourish A Large Family On A Small Budget

Can you freeze sourdough starter? The short answer is: yes. Some people just put the sourdough starter as-is in a bag in the freezer, yet I'm going to suggest a better way to do it... My way takes up less space and is easier to share with others. Watch, listen, or read to learn the best way to freeze sourdough starter and then bring it back to life! | AskWardee.tv

How To Freeze Your Sourdough Starter {Best Way} #AskWardee 059

How To Make Pre-Soaked Oats {that aren't rock-hard or glued together!} #AskWardee 094 | You go through all the effort of soaking and dehydrating your oats (for granola or traditionally prepared Trim Healthy Mama recipes) only to end up with rock-hard, glued-together clumps! Ouch! Watch, listen, or read to learn how to make pre-soaked oats that are perfect!

How To Make Pre-Soaked Oats — NOT Rock-Hard Or Glued Together… And GREAT For Trim Healthy Mama! #AskWardee 094

instant pot reheating freezer meal

How To Reheat Frozen Food In The Instant Pot {Instant Pot Freezer Meals} #AskWardee 079

cranberry sauce made in the Instant Pot, in a small white bowl on a white background

75+ Fresh Cranberry Recipes… From Breakfast To Dessert!

Preserve your harvest AND stay away from metal cans by canning your own tomatoes! Learn how to safely can tomatoes, plus let's bust the myth about heirloom varieties and acidity once and for all! (Hint: you NEED to pick an acid no matter what!)

How To Can Tomatoes — 16 Ways!

Array of beautiful tomatoes, some whole, some sliced, in a variety of different colors: red, yellow, green, and orange.

50+ Tomato Recipes (from breakfast to dinner)

Dehydrate Your Way To Green Powder | I know I can freeze my greens, but I have an even better way of preserving the them -- I turn them into a nutritious green powder which I can then add to countless dishes (even on the sly). Here's how to dehydrate greens into powder! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Dehydrate Your Way To Green Powder

Small glass jar of cultured butter.

How To Make Cultured Butter

Compound Butter {butter gets dressed up!} | If you’ve ever had honey butter, you’ve had compound butter. Compound butters are easy to make and they freeze well so they're handy whenever you need a quick flavor boost, an easy sauce, or a way to dress up simple food for company. Here are a myriad of flavor combinations and ideas for using them. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Compound Butter {Butter Gets Dressed Up!}