How much food do you store

[diamond lil]

Think Amish- Lose the car woman Buy a horse and get the jars !

[itsybitsy]

Think Amish- Lose the car woman Buy a horse and get the jars !

Interesting point. But I wouldn't suit a bonnet!

[Brambles]

One of my ambitions is to one day buy a canner so I can preserve more foods in jars or tins...

Yeah, I'd like a pressure canner and about 200 kilner preserving jars. Ain't gonna happen this year though. Bloody car needs quite a lot of attention, AND a full service.

Yup, I want one too. I'm slowly increasing the kilner jar count. I buy one a week from Morrisons(they're cheapest I've found)

[jansman]

One of my ambitions is to one day buy a canner so I can preserve more foods in jars or tins...

Yeah, I'd like a pressure canner and about 200 kilner preserving jars. Ain't gonna happen this year though. Bloody car needs quite a lot of attention, AND a full service.

I piggin'hate cars. Thats why I bike most places. My Wifes car costs more than I want to know. Cars suck resources out of your life faster than a hole in a plane at 30,000 feet!

[mongrel]

Maybe just over a month, but it would get boring lots of pasta rice and oats. we always have a large stock of tinned veg mainly pulses, makes a quick stew with what ever the rifle provides mainly rabbit.
but the answer has to be no where near enough, I like a full years stock to start with.

I'll keep buying extra every week it's not a bad habit

[the-gnole]

Well we did have 60 days+ but some of that has gone and been not been replaced, but will be once the racking is finished.

We also use from the garden for the occasional meals.

A couple of weeks back we managed a two course meal for three for under £1 using fresh fruit and veg from the garden, a couple of bags of rabbit portions I had put in the freezer after a night shoot and the apples off the fruit tree we planted a few years back. Only thing bought were gravy granuals, flour, sugar and Margarine.

Wouldn't want to have to do it that way everyday though.

[preppingsu]

We also use from the garden for the occasional meals.

A couple of weeks back we managed a two course meal for three for under £1 using fresh fruit and veg from the garden, a couple of bags of rabbit portions I had put in the freezer after a night shoot and the apples off the fruit tree we planted a few years back. Only thing bought were gravy granuals, flour, sugar and Margarine.

Wouldn't want to have to do it that way everyday though.

I quite like the idea that when I make a meal I've had minimal 'assistance' from the supermarket. We will never be truly self sufficient but we try to be as much as we can. I don't mind cooking like that everyday but it is time consuming.

[the-gnole]

I quite like the idea that when I make a meal I've had minimal 'assistance' from the supermarket. We will never be truly self sufficient but we try to be as much as we can. I don't mind cooking like that everyday but it is time consuming.

We only have a small plot, about 20ft X 65ft, but that is overall, we have eight small growing beds working for us at the moment, hoping to increase that next year though. So nowhere near enough to grow even a few months food if used full on without back-up stores like Tesco

It usually takes a few hours to get a few rabbits around here, my permission is about three miles away and I probably cover a mile or two walking the area I can use, this might change next year, instead of wandering around looking for them it might end up with a hide and a chair, though not as healthy an option for me, (the walk is often the best part) sometimes I get nothing so we would have to go without if there was no fray bentos in the cupboard

[preppingsu]

I quite like the idea that when I make a meal I've had minimal 'assistance' from the supermarket. We will never be truly self sufficient but we try to be as much as we can. I don't mind cooking like that everyday but it is time consuming.

We only have a small plot, about 20ft X 65ft, but that is overall, we have eight small growing beds working for us at the moment, hoping to increase that next year though. So nowhere near enough to grow even a few months food if used full on without back-up stores like Tesco

It usually takes a few hours to get a few rabbits around here, my permission is about three miles away and I probably cover a mile or two walking the area I can use, this might change next year, instead of wandering around looking for them it might end up with a hide and a chair, though not as healthy an option for me, (the walk is often the best part) sometimes I get nothing so we would have to go without if there was no fray bentos in the cupboard

By next spring we will have some pigs to fatten (3 families working together on this project). I am planning to document the progress with that. That will fill the freezer with meat. I also plan to get some chickens for meat as well. So should be fairly self sufficient in meat. Veg we pretty much have covered. Apple trees going in this winter. So we could have a varied diet without too much supermarket help. I just need to learn to bake without marg.

[the-gnole]

You'll need to learn butter making then Su.

Are you going to do dry curing and other methods of preserving rather than relying on freezing?