I was fortunate to borrow a pressure canner from a woman at my church so I could put up some chicken. It was on sale for .97/pound (rib attached) which is a California price (weather, beach, chicken prices....the only 3 noteworthy things in California.) As all of my jars are still in California in storage buying chicken to put up means I have to buy jars too.
40# gets me about 24 pints. I know there are ace canners who can get more but I'm not one of them. I forgot I should have looked for an aluminum separator "plate" when I was getting jars. Yes, I've been told you can stack them on top of each other. I'm too chicken (get it?) to try it.
So this becomes an all day project. At least I know I can use a Presto pressure canner on my glass top stove. And I happen to have one of those in storage! Still, it's going to be mid October before all of our stuff in storage gets out here. So I started adding to our stockpile. Money is still tight but I added 50# of rice last week and 24 pints of chicken this week. DS19 loves chicken salad sandwiches so those pints won't last too long. Still, better than nothing.
I started looking into beekeeping. There a group which meets the first Thursday of each month about 2 hours from me. Yikes. There's a drive. I really need to find one a bit closer.
Mostly I am grateful to be in a house in Texas where I can start working toward getting a garden in and re establishing a stockpile. Even if I have to buy produce by the bushel to put it up (or by the can if commercially done) SOMETHING is better than NOTHING.
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