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This is a thread to document how I preserved a million calories of organic or better food with no plastic!

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To begin the season, I made 6 quarts of cherry syrup. So late to have cherries in July! I know! It was a weird year. Anyways! I grew the cherries. I stewed them quite a bit so that only a little local honey was needed per jar. Google says that one cup of cherry syrup has 8,472 calories to start off the totals!
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6 quarts of cherry syrup
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A few different canning projects from last year that count: 1. common native plum syrup. I think the scientific name is "potawatomi plum" or maybe the indigenous name? It's what my father in law calls them. Anyways, my kids can never say this, so they call them hippopotamus plums! They grow 2 miles from my house, and it's a common Sunday walk for us. This is 2,680 cal
Next is 2 gallons of pear juice. These pears came from my friend, Debbie's house, 2 miles away. This is 1,888 calories.
Finally, I have 16 cups of salsa verde to count. I made this from green tomatoes and tomatillos in my garden. That makes 1,280 calories.
5,848 calories this post.
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5 pints of hippopotamus syrup
5 pints of hippopotamus syrup
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2 gallons of pear juice
2 gallons of pear juice
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16 cups of salsa verde
16 cups of salsa verde

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Ok, back to this year. Here I have crabapple cider in 6 quarts. Straight off my tree! 120 calories per cup gives me 2,880 calories for this post.
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6 quarts crabapple apple cider
6 quarts crabapple apple cider

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In July, I butchered and plucked the 27 chicken and 1 rooster that made it through my trip to Wheaton Labs. (started with 50! 23 died due to poor help while I was away) . It took me two days. I packaged them in butcher paper before putting them in 2 gallon plastic bags and storing them in the freezer. So they aren't technically touching plastic. I'd love to know if anyone has any more sustainable ideas on how to do this.

Google says that one large, whole chicken, with the skin on, is about 1978 calories. I think that's a modest estimate, since my birds were close to 6 pounds, dressed out, and most store-bought fryers are 4.5 to 5 lbs. So I'm adding another quarter to make it 2500 per bird.  28*2500 is 70,000 calories. This goes towards my freezer total.
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me, teaching my kids anatomy while I deviscerate
me, teaching my kids anatomy while I deviscerate
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One load of the chickens
One load of the chickens
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wrapped and bagged
wrapped and bagged
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Next is a LOOOONG string of apricots.  Here are 5 quarts of apricot jam. And then freeze drying. Each pan of food in the freeze dryer is about a quart of preserved food. All the apricot trees came from a little old lady's house down the street. I didn't know her before this year! Her name is Ellie.  The other trees I am used to gleaning from didn't fruit due to a late frost, but her tree was sheltered from the storm. I met her by knocking on the door and asking if I could pick her tree. I biked them home by the grocery bag.
15000 calories
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5 pints of apricot jam
5 quarts of apricot jam
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I would pre-freeze the apricots, so as to reduce the electricity needed in the freeze dryer. They are crunchy! Totally worth the time and energy. My kids love them. Each jar represents 4 cups of dried apricots, about 300 calories per cup, google says. That's 16,800 calories.
Then I did 8 more quarts of apricot jam. That's about 24,500 calories, since each quart is just under 3,000.
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14 quarts of dried apricots
14 quarts of dried apricots
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more apricot jam

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I pressure canned extra broth from my chickens. Not many calories, but packed with flavor from tons of homegrown herbs! About 152 calories per quart, making 912 calories there.
I also preserved some ginger gummies for my kids to eat when their tummies are upset. Each cube is about 45 calories, estimating off of these ginger gummies: https://www.mynetdiary.com/food/calories-in-sweet-ginger-gummies-by-gin-gins-pieces-46044361-0.html making about 2,250 in 50 pieces, which I would estimate is in this 2-cups in my jar.
I pickled some veggies this summer! Here is a gallon of kraut, only 100 calories per quart! Haha! Why add it up here? 400 total on those.
3,562 on this post

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6 quarts of pressure canned chicken broth
6 quarts of pressure canned chicken broth
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2 cups of ginger gummies
2 cups of ginger gummies
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1 gallon of sauerkraut
1 gallon of sauerkraut

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This was a first for me! Grape jelly from grapes I grew. It's my first season of fruit! The new vines yielded 9 pints of jelly.... besides the ones we ate fresh! Since 1 TBSP of grape jelly is around 50 calories, there's 800 calories per jar. 7,200 calories
Next, I made and stored flax crackers. Sprouting the flax seeds and dehydrating them should make them a viable/shelf stable a little longer. I used 6 cups of seeds for this recipe, plus veggies and spices. I estimate 6,000 calories for this jar. (A half-gallon pickle jar)
13,200 calories this post
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grapes!!
grapes!!
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9 pints of grape jelly
9 pints of grape jelly
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The last batch of apricots! Each pint is about 800 calories, making 4800 for these jars.
I missed the cherries for the year! Usually I put up several quarts of choke cherry syrup, but this year, I was at Wheaton labs for the entire two weeks of the chokecherry season. :'-(
Then come the apples! Starting with crab apples in July. The first round of fruit leather for the year comes from crab apples from a tree in my local park. After the kids and I play for awhile, we pick crab apples and bike them home. Each sheet of fruit leather is about 4 cups of sauce before dehydrating, about 664 calories. These pictures show 6x4 sheets= 24 sheets = 15,936 calories!

20,736 calories this post
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6 pints of jam
6 pints of jam
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washing crab apples
washing crab apples
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there's about 4 cups of sauce in every dehydrator sheet.
there's about 4 cups of sauce in every dehydrator sheet.
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here's 6 sheets, cut up
here's 6 sheets, cut up
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then I put them in paper sandwhich baggies
then I put them in paper sandwhich baggies

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Next comes endless apples and tomatoes, in the form of applesauce, different flavors of fruit leather, freeze dried apples and tomatoes, and a few tomato sauce products, depending of what was ripe and what I had available in the garden at the same time!
37 quarts of applesauce are shown here and 24,568 calories
1 quart of salsa 256 calories

24,824 calories
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13 quarts of applesauce
13 quarts of applesauce
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7 sheets of fruit leather
7 sheets of fruit leather
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12 more jars of applesauce
12 more jars of applesauce
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5 quarts of applesauce and the first quart of salsa!!
5 quarts of applesauce and the first quart of salsa!!

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The salsa comes from my own tomatoes and peppers and onions and spices, except cilantro, which didn't do well for me this year. Weird!
The honey crisps that got preserved were mostly freeze dried. Each tray represents 5 big apples or several smaller ones
Salsa: 1280
fruit leather: 3948
dried apples: 9,750
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next come the windfall honeycrisps. These are off the trees in my backyard
next come the windfall honeycrisps. These are off the trees in my backyard
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and honeycrisps from a friend's house, a quarter mile away. Literally I walked to their house. But then 50 pound boxes of apples were too heavy. So I had to come back
and honeycrisps from a friend's house, a quarter mile away. Literally I walked to their house. But then 50 pound boxes of apples were too heavy. So I had to come back
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about 6 sheets of fruit leather. It's purple because of American Nightshade, or garden huckleberry it can be called. yummy!
about 6 sheets of fruit leather. It's purple because of American Nightshade, or garden huckleberry it can be called. yummy!
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5 more quarts of salsa
5 more quarts of salsa
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15 freezer trays of apples
15 freezer trays of apples

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Next, I stored 200 pounds of potatoes, (locally gleaned. I picked them up from the school drop-off point, just half a mile from my house. This time, loaded with 50# boxes, I used a trolley. half a mile never felt so long) 63,000 calories
20 pounds of parsnips, 6,821 cal
30 pounds of sunchokes in my tiny root cellar ( two large sprinkler boxes underground) 10,000 cal

79,821 calories
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potatoes
potatoes
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they are separated by straw
they are separated by straw
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sunchokes 30#
sunchokes 30#
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going in the cellar
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More tomatoes, man!

I canned some, and freeze dried more, depending on how many jars I had left.
Sauce: 2620 calories
Diced: (assuming a pint has about 90 calories)
3600 calories this post
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4 pints of diced tomatoes and 2 quarts of pasta sauce
4 pints of diced tomatoes and 2 quarts of pasta sauce
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3 quarts diced tomatoes, 3 quarts marinara sauce
3 quarts diced tomatoes, 3 quarts marinara sauce
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6 trays of diced tomatoes
6 trays of diced tomatoes
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4 trays of tomatoes
4 trays of tomatoes

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Next come hunting season. Although I attempted to fill my own tag, I failed to secure a deer myself. (Dang it! The bb would have been awesome!) However, I was gifted two beautiful bucks over the season, which I hung in my greenhouse and butchered myself.
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A large buck, hanging in my greenhouse, waiting to be butchered
A large buck, hanging in my greenhouse, waiting to be butchered
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Grinding burger and sausage that I wrapped in butcher paper and froze
Grinding burger and sausage that I wrapped in butcher paper and froze

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First off, to get a pressure cooking bb, I made venison stew. 4680 cal
Then I tried my hand at venison jerky with some of the roasts I saved. I'll calculate it by pound. 6006 calories
10686 calories of jerky

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prepping the stew. All the ingredients except black pepper and celery were very local
prepping the stew. All the ingredients except black pepper and celery were very local
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6 quarts of venison stew
6 quarts of venison stew
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2 lbs. 8 oz
2 lbs. 8 oz
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5 lbs. 13 oz
5 lbs. 13 oz
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sliced and ready for seasoning
sliced and ready for seasoning
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drying on silicone mats
drying on silicone mats
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stored in jars with a vacuum jar sealer
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This ground deer got frozen. Since only 10%, or 100,000 calories of this bb are allowed to be frozen, I will only count 30,000 calories of the deer meat I froze. So 42 pounds.
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7 pounds 11 oz
7 pounds 11 oz
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6 pounds 7 oz
6 pounds 7 oz
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5 pounds 15 oz
5 pounds 15 oz
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7 pounds 14 oz
7 pounds 14 oz
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4 pounds 14 oz
4 pounds 14 oz
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6 pounds 15 oz
6 pounds 15 oz
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6 pounds 8oz
6 pounds 8oz
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6 pounds 16 oz
6 pounds 16 oz

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The rest of the deer roasts will slowly be processed into jerky. About 5 pounds at a time, as that's what we have learned my family will eat before it goes bad. (Sucks when it molds in two months! So much work...)

I also harvested and stored corn kernels.
Deer: 4,590 cal
Corn: 2,444 cal

    7,034 cal
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6 pounds 5 oz
6 pounds 5 oz
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Grown in my GAMCOD garden
Grown in my GAMCOD garden
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Finally, with this deer, I saved enough lard from butchering to process over half a gallon of tallow! 16,849 cal

And the rest of the never-ending tomatoes....
2,610 cal
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15 more quarts and 7 more trays of diced tomatoes.
15 more quarts and 7 more trays of diced tomatoes.

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So the grand total for the year for my food storing efforts this year is 371,400 calories.
I did store more food than this total reflects which wasn't local or organic. There is also quite a bit more meat in my freezer than the 10% rule allows. I also froze quite a load of veggies in plastic bags in the freezer. I'm sure that I reached 500,000 altogether, but that's not what we are counting for this bb.
Half a million for one year isn't bad!
Over the next few months, I may eek more calories out of roasts that turn into jerky, or fish/venison that gets pressure canned. But mostly, this bb is on hold til next harvest season.

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Rebekah Harmon wrote:So the grand total for the year for my food storing efforts this year is 371,400 calories.
I did store more food than this total reflects which wasn't local or organic. There is also quite a bit more meat in my freezer than the 10% rule allows. I also froze quite a load of veggies in plastic bags in the freezer. I'm sure that I reached 500,000 altogether, but that's not what we are counting for this bb.
Half a million for one year isn't bad!
Over the next few months, I may eek more calories out of roasts that turn into jerky, or fish/venison that gets pressure canned. But mostly, this bb is on hold til next harvest season.



Wow, this is impressive!

Dumb question: why not freeze dry the venison?
 
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Morfydd St. Clair wrote:

Rebekah Harmon wrote:So the grand total for the year for my food storing efforts this year is 371,400

Wow, this is impressive!

Dumb question: why not freeze dry the venison?



That's an interresting idea! Sounds like a good experiment.

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I made jerky again! 7 lb.11.5 oz 5,536 calories
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Here is the honey my bees produced last year which I actually saved. We ate so much comb before I got to that. But here are 3.5quarts, each 4,096 calories. Total of 14, 336 calories.
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Separating beeswax out
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1 dozen pickled duck eggs. 1,560 calories.
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392,832 calorie total now.

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Strawberry jam happening here. Google says one quart is 3, 684 cal.  6 quarts is 21,504 cal.
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4 quarts
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You know how some fruot trees have good year and lean years? Not my cherry tree. Its another great season for Mary the cherry. 3 quarts of cherry juice, 1800 calories
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It's that season of year... the one where I am almost constantly butchering, canning, or watching a football or volleyball game... I have a lot of catch up on turning in pictures and preserved calories.

First! It's spud harvesting season! We glean potatoes from local farms. The funky spuds left behind by the machines come in all kods of shapes and sizes. Here's a batch, dirt still on, going into my cold storage room. The first 50 pounds! 18,000 calories.
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Next, my daughter, fabulous hunter extraordinaire, took down an elk for the first time this year. We stored over 200 pounds of elk! Since I'm close to my freezer limit, I will be making batches of jerky. Heres the first 5 pounds, 13 oz, for 2,900 calories.
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The beautiful cow elk
The beautiful cow elk
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Elk meat sliced, ready for jerky seasoning
Elk meat sliced, ready for jerky seasoning

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Next, I have raised 4 turkeys this year. Today, I butchered the first 2. A 21 pound turkey, according to Google, is an estimated 15,000 calories. A total of 30,000 calories for the day
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Two turkeys
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I spent the weekend with my brother, the pickle king, learning how he makes the best pickles. Cucumbers aren't very high in calories, but these 14 jars represent some of the most exciting preserving of the year for me! 50 calories per jar is 700calories.
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My peach tree produced for the first season! So far, I've made 5 pints of jam, 5 pints of peach halves in syrup.
1 pint of peach jam, 1200 calories times five: 6,000 calories.
1 quart is 416 calories 2,080 cal.

8,080 calories this post.
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7 pints of homeade jelly from my own grapes! 😁 1,000 calories each is 7,000 calories.
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It's elderberry time! I juiced a huge batch of berries and made syrup. 1,000 calories per quart. 7 quarts today.
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Early season apples turned into applesauce and fruit leather. Each tray of leather is about 1 quart. Each quart is about 400 calories.
20 calories pictured here is 8,000 calories
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6 quarts
6 quarts
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14 quarts of fruit leather

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Another 4 quarts of grape jelly.
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