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Preserving

Category: Preserving

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

How Long Does Kefir Last? #AskWardee 060

How Long Does Kefir Last? #AskWardee 060

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

Bowl of homemade granola.

Soaked Granola Recipe (raw & enzyme-rich!)

“How do you store sprouted grains, and how long do they last?” asks Sue. Watch, listen, or read to find out the answer PLUS discover how sprouting grains makes baking cookies so easy — just mix and pop them in the oven! | AskWardee.tv

How Do You Store Sprouted Grains And How Long Do They Last? #AskWardee 017

woman smiling in a kitchen with whole grains and a bowl of flour in front of her

How To Store Flour & Grains #AskWardee 149

different types of buckwheat groats and buckwheat flour arrayed on a wooden surface

Buckwheat Flour 101: Choosing, Milling Flour, Sprouting, Recipes & More! #AskWardee 141

Mason jars of canned tomatoes

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

woman smiling in kitchen next to a 9-tray vertical food dehydator

How To Choose The Best Food Dehydrator #AskWardee 152

Sulfites and Food Preservation

Sulfites and Food Preservation

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

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

Homemade Vegetable Broth Recipe (Stove Top, Instant Pot)

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

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

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

How To Use A Pressure Cooker 101

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

75+ Fresh Cranberry Recipes… From Breakfast To Dessert!

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I’m Wardee Harmon and I help Christian families who know they should eat healthy but are tired of complicated, time-consuming, weird-tasting, and unsustainable “healthy” diets…

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