Preserve 1 million calories at the Harmon house

Next was a quadrupled batch of chokecherry/blueberry mix. 600 cal per jar of these, google says. 20 jars is 12,000cal!

And then I made a raspberry and peach variety. Google says thats about 685cal per half pints jar. I made 22 jars! 15, 070cal!!

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

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!

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

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

That's really impressive. What an achievement!

If you have the time at some point, I'd love to see a rough analysis of the breakdown of crop species (obviously, lots of fruits at this time of year in my latitudes c 51 N too) and maybe nutrients e.g. complex carbs, protein (and, I guess, bought-in sugar? I'm going to make some membrillo today with bought-in rapadura/powdered jaggery e.g. evaporated cane juice, which isn't growable in our zone 8ish climate of course) too?

I'll look back through your thread, but in a good year, I would have to grow a lot of potatoes to come close to this aim!!

Thank you so much for sharing your process in so much detail!

Riffing even more in this theme, the Black-led Mutual Aid scheme with whom I volunteer has been delivering an average of 100 people one cooked meal per day plus ready-to-wear extras ever since the start of the first COVID-19 lockdown.

A quick back of the envelope calculation suggests this is diverting from supermarket waste and local garden crop surpluses, around 30 million calories per year. (I personally grew, harvested, sorted and/or delivered food to people at least three times per week).

So I can reasonably suggest that my fair share of this is one million calories per year, diverted to community members in need. DAMCTP? Divert A Million Calories To People!