If you grow your own food over the warm season, storing food to last over the winter becomes an essential step in becoming self-sufficient. There are specific ways to store home canned goods to ...
Home Canning Safety: 7 Essential Tips to Sanitize Your Equipment
When I first started canning, I was taught to sterilize the jars, lids, and rings because everything must be sanitized before you ever put food in it. Years later, I've learned that we don't actually ...
How to Make Homemade Applesauce (Chunky or Smooth) in Only 7 Easy Steps
When you think about one of your favorite meals as a child, does grilled cheese come to mind? What about homemade applesauce? Applesauce is one of those snacks which goes great with practically ...
How to Make and Preserve Homemade Tomato Sauce That Only Takes 8 Steps
Do you enjoy cooking with fresh ingredients? Would you like to make tomato sauce to enjoy on nights you make Italian food? Well, whether you make tomato sauce for a fresher flavor, or you’re ...
How to Make Healthy Homemade Flour by Grinding Wheat Yourself
I open one eye only to notice the sun gazing through my window. I know it must be time to start the day. Like most people, I reach for my phone to check any missed emails, texts, or notifications ...
How to Make a Basic Chicken Stock and Store It for Later
Do you enjoy making soup? I’m a fan of any one-pot meal. It makes dinner time easy, and it also helps with meal prep as well. But when making a variety of soups, you’ll soon realize you need a ...
20 Easy-to-Build DIY Firewood Shed Plans and Design Ideas
Do you heat your home with wood during the colder months of the year? Are you searching for the perfect place to store your chopped wood? Look no further because we have you covered. I’ll be ...
Oven Canning: 4 Important Things You Should Know before You Try It
Oven canning. A highly debated topic in the home canning world. What is oven canning? What are the facts of oven canning? How would you go about oven canning? What items should you oven can and ...
22 Spacious DIY Platform Bed Plans Suited to Any Cramped Budget
It was almost three years ago. My husband came home one day and declared we needed a new bed. We didn’t have much money in the budget for a new one, but he told me not to worry because he was going ...