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Preserve! Preserve! Preserve!

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With these outrages prices happening all over the country, I figured most people would want to learn how to preserve their own food. You don't have to be growing your own food at first, you can always go to farm stands and farmer markets that sell pr...
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Canning Supplies

This list has links to canning supplies. I figured most people want to learn how to preserve their own food due rising prices on groceries and that our food system is not the best. I hope you find this list helpful, let me know if there are supplies ...

 
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This is the first digital pressure canner that meets USDA home canning guidelines for safely processing low acid foods. It is easy to use digital display that will guide you through each step of the canning process. It has a built in timer which is a...
Presto Precise Digital Electric Pressure Canner 12 qt 1 pk
 
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This graniteware canner with jar rack holds all size canning jars. Its great for smaller batches and provides excellent heat distribution for reduces heat up time. Great for preserving fruits, pickles, relishes, jams, jellies, marmalades and salsa.
Cinsa Graniteware Canner/Rack 15.5 qt 1 pk
 
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7 inch/ 18 cm magnetic wand picks up one lid at a time safely removing canning lids from boiling water and helps to keep the lids sterilized.
Norpro Magnetic Lid Wand 1 pk
 
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This is a bubble popper plus measurer, which is used for canning to remove air bubbles before sealing the jars. The measurer marks on one end of the bubble popper is used for measuring the head space in your jars so you're not accidently overfilling ...
Norpro Wide Mouth Canning Bubble Popper and Measurer 1 pk
 
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HIC's stainless steel canning funnel makes it easy to transfer hot liquid and dry items into wide mouth mason jars. Its lightweight, strong and it'll never rust! Helps change, fill or refill contents quickly and easily.
Harold Import Wide Mouth Canning Funnel 1 pk
 
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This jar lifter helps safely and easily lift hot jars out of the canner. It has a rubber grip that safely grabs the sealed jars while keeping your hands away from the hot jars. Its chromed steel with PVC coated handle and soft grips that reduces chan...
Fox Run Wide Mouth Ball Jar Lifter 1 pk
 
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Canning and pickling salt is essential to canning. This particular brand has high purity salt that produces a sparkling clear brine. It has no iodine or other additives, it is specifically designed for food canning and makes up to 9 quarts.
Mrs. Wages Pickling and Canning Salt 48 oz 1 pk
 
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These ball regular mouth 8 oz glass jars are great for fresh preserving recipes like jams or jellies. These are dishwasher safe, air tight containers, BPA free and freezer friendly!
Ball Regular Mouth Mason Jar 8 oz 12 pk
 
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These 32 oz wide mouth jars are great for pressure canning vegetables, meats, beans and stocks or sauces. You also can syrups or meal jars!
Ball Wide Mouth Mason Jar 32 oz 12 pk
 
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This is a manual pressure canner. It is used to can low acid foods like vegetables, meats and fish. It has a easy to read dial gauge that automatically registers a complete range of processing pressures. It has a air vent/cover that locks and allows ...
Presto Brushed Aluminum Pressure Cooker and Canner 23 qt
 
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This electric mason jar vacuum sealer kit for wide mouth and regular mouth mason jar is great for canning dry goods such as beans, flour and rice. It makes your dry goods have a long last shelf life. Its also great for dehydrator foods or freeze drie...
Electric Mason Jar Vacuum Sealer Kit - Wide & Regular Mouth

Canning books and Resources

I have complied this list of books and free resources to learn how to preserve your own food. The resources I find are either from Pinterest or well known content creators who want to teach others how to preserve food. Please look into these creator ...

 
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Learn how to preserve your food with the 38th edition of the Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving. It includes step-by-step instructions, tips and tricks, for canning, pickling, freezing and dehydrating. It has more than 500 recipes and its fully based...
Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving 38th Edition, Recipe Book
 
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The Foolproof Canning and Preserving Bible is a great book for beginners. It'll teach canners how to can step by step, and it is USDA approved.
The Foolproof Canning & Preserving Bible
 
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Now, Ashely Adament has great recipes for canning on her blog. She has been canning for years and the recipes are FDA approved. She is a wonderful content creator and loves sharing her recipes! Please give her a follow on her instagram!
100+ Meal in a Jar Canning Recipes
 
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Fleur is a blogger, in this post she gives tips and tricks that the Amish use when they can their food. This post is very useful and helpful for those that are just starting their canning journey. Please, support her blog!
25 Amish Canning Tips & Tricks
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Utah State University made a blog post about common canning mistakes that can be deadly. They included the common mistakes and how to avoid them, these are perfect for people learning about canning.
Avoiding Common Canning Mistakes
 
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This book is perfect for beginners that want to use an electric pressure canner to can all their fresh produce. It has tips and tricks and step by step instructions on how to can certain foods.
Electric Pressure Canning For Beginners Guide

Dehydrating Food

Now, there is more than just canning food, there is also dehydrating your food! Which is perfect to make healthy snacks, like jerky, banana chips, apple chips and much more!

 
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LEM Dehydrators are great for dehydrating fruits, vegetables, fresh herbs and meat! This dehydrator is made with stainless steel which great if you're trying to minimize plastic use. It has a 800 watt heating element, rear mounted fan and rear vented...
LEM Mighty Bite Black/Silver 10 sq ft Food Dehydrator
 
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This is Jerky Gun is great for making beef jerky or venison jerky! All you do is load the barrel with lean, seasoned meat and shoot out flat strips of jerky or round snack sticks then place in dehydrator for some time and then you have homemade jerky...
LEM Black/Clear ABS Plastic/Stainless Steel Jerky Gun