Category Archives: Food Preservation

Food Preservation for a Warp Speed Life!

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My life is too busy.  I am a hamster on a wheel and can’t seem to get off.  I have a life, and so do all of my children.  We have not had a day since last summer where someone (or many someones) didn’t have to be somewhere, including me.  Planning your day in fifteen minute increments is not a way to live!  Trying to find the time to preserve all of the bounty we grew this year has been
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Drawbacks to Gardening in the City

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Nebraska weather is crazy!  One day it’s over 100 degrees, and the next it barely makes 70!  That’s where we have been in the last two weeks.  The kids are keeping it watered—and it is incredible!  Last week we planted sunflower seeds in plastic cups to demonstrate what roots look like and why they are important.  Everyone had sunflower spouts this week!  I explained that roots are like straws to feed plants.  This seemed to go over OK. Yesterday, we had
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Are Canned Foods Nutritious for My Family?

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by Roberta Duyff, MS RD FADA Quick and convenient: more than 1500 varieties of canned foods appear on today's supermarket shelves: traditional fare, along with a variety of nutritionally positioned products – for example, sodium-free, low-fat, no-added-sugar and others. Some benefits:
  • Long shelf life. Canned fruits and vegetables are preservative-free; the canning process (high temperatures and sterile containers) destroys organisms that would cause spoilage. Canned food remains safe as long as the container remains intact. Although most canned foods are coded
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