Rebekah Harmon

822,252 calories 😁 about 178,000calories left!

Coming close to the end of apple/pear season! This is the last of the apple pie filling I will make. Unless I get more apples from another tree.... 5,000cal

Pears almost gone, too. These are a lower-honey variety of pear butter. About 450cal per cup makes 3,600cal.

And another batch of cinnamon apple fruit leather. 9 trays is 5,850cal.

Ac Baker wrote: DAMCTP? Divert A Million Calories To People!

I love that, AC!! A food bank that delivers to my hometown often gives out items that are just barely expired. So much better than throwing things away!

The Hunger Coalition, another group I vollunteer with, has large gardens in the town next to me, and packages up lunches for kids three times a week in the summer. Not the whole lunch, but often fruits and veggies are local and my kids love it. Me too!

Good people sharing good things helps this world be a brighter place 😊

4 more packets of freeze dried pears. If i shimmie the bags just right, I can get in about a tray and a half. (Saves me a little on bags!) These bags have closer to 1,000cal per bag. 4,000cal.

125 plates left 😁

I just learned that there is a pig ranch not far from my town! I had to buy some ham as soon as I heard! They deliver to the greenhouse less than a mile away.
Here's what we made: corn chowder.

I used walking onions, potatoes, the pork, and corn that were all local. Some seasonings and the oil i used to brown the ham weren't. A gallon of corn chowder is (400cal per cup) 6,400cal. 6 plates.

For dessert, I made apple pie 🥧 😋.  I made 4 big pies. 2 for my family, and 2 for the families who shared apples from their trees with me.

The pies used local flour and apples. I did use deer tallow,  but cut it with not-local lard so it wasn't an overwhelimgly gamey flavor in the dessert. The sugar and spices werent local. 3 9inch pies, 4,000 calories each, and a 10-inch pie for 5,000 calories. 17,000calories, divided by 500 calorie plates is 34 plates.

40 plates altogether!

First off were German pancakes and hippo syrup for breakfast. 1200cal of pancakes made with local flour and my brothers chicken eggs. 400cal of syrup. Thats about 3 plates.

Next was a breakfast I made myself with white beans, raspberries and carrots from my garden, and goatmilk and local honey.

4 plates

My current total is 803,802calories!!! Less than one quarter left to go.

AND! the final batch was plain strawberry, which clocks in at 700cal per cup, of 8400 for 12 half pints!! That makes a total of 67070cal in ONE DAY!!

Thank you, Tara for all the calories! She says thanks to me for all the freezer space we cleaned out!

Strawberry blueberry is the next combination. 700calories per cup, with 17 half pints! Is 11,900cal