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4.5 pints of cherry jelly. 800 calories each makes 3,600 cal

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Earlier this year, during cherry season, I canned a lot of syrup. Here are 7 pictured quarts. Plus 2 quarts of pie filling. Google estimates each at 2,240 calories. 20,160 cal

More cherry jelly, 5 pints, 5,000 cal.

And 5 pints of apricot jelly, 770 cal. Each
3,850 cal

29,010 cal this post

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And that means!!! I rolled over halfway a million calories! 🤩 total currently is 517,26 calories.

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Incredible work! What percentage of your food do you think you grow/hunt?

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Rebekah Harmon wrote:And that means!!! I rolled over halfway a million calories! 🤩 total currently is 517,260 calories.

Is this for one or two years? Very impressive!

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Gray Henon wrote:Incredible work! What percentage of your food do you think you grow/hunt?

What percentage of these meals I show here? Or over all? And would you count food I harvest from neighbors? I often get potatoes or lettuce or apples from people in my small town. They dont count as foraging for the permies SKiP foraging badge.

My family's food overall includes more purchased food. But I grow food amd forage 3 seasons of the year. I'd say a fourth of my plate is usually a local fruit and or vegetable. I eat more foraged greens and stuff that I don't serve my whole family. More than half of the meat we eat is raised or hunted. So maybe another fourth. In the fall, the percentage is probably higher, since I'm harvesting a lot more local food. Last September, I ate only local food, and I showed that on youtube.

For the sake of this bb, I show off 90% local foods, but that's not every meal I serve. I'm not showing the Costco chicken or pizza every Friday. It would be an interresting project to count each plate!🤣😂

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Is this for one or two years? Very impressive!

It's taken me a season and a half, so far, to count up the calories in this thread. Hopefully, I finish one million calories by the end of this year, which would make 2 years. 🤩

It's a BIG goal! I dont think anyone calculated, but this 1,000,000 calories, divideded into one year is 2,000 calories a day! Or 20,000 a week. Most people haven't preserved that much.

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9 pints of peach jam, at 2,000 calories per pint, is 18000 calories

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It takes about 3 lbs. Of apricots to fit on one freeze dryer tray. These have been frozen and waiting to be dried when I took the time. 9lbs. Apricots, 5lbs cherries, before pitting.
About 2,000 cal for the aprocots,
And 1700cal for the cherries

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I noticed the last of the grapes ripened up. Enough for 9 cups of juice, which made 3 pints of low sweetener jelly. 600cal each, that's 1800cal

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540670 cal right now

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Elderberry season! Got another batch of syrup processed. 500cal per pint is 4,000cal

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The last 5 pints of jam. The last of the peaches. 800cal per pint is 4,000.

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7 quarts of common native plum syrup, also known as potawatame plum, which one of my kids nick-named hippo syrup.

Google estimates 2500 to 2900 per quart. Since I boiled mine down before sweetening this time, I'm going with the higher count. 20,300 cal.

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Iwas out of honey to finish more canning for the season. So I bought more, 12 gallons! This is local honey, purchased at a farmers market.

I used the honey to finish 3.3 gallons of fire cider I had been brewing. The herbs are all local, including homegrown or foraged:
Horseradish,
Garlic,
Seaberries,
Rosemary,
Sage,
Bee balm,
Cayenne pepper,
Onion
Thats 52.8 cups, times 450cal per cup. 23,760 cal.

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Over 600,000 calories now!!

Recalculating through to check for math errors. Plus, I counted more than 100,000cal for frozen foods. Without them, I'm only at 584,666cal actually. Until I decide what else to do with the turkeys.

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I processed 2 gallons of little barley for another bb. The calorie count for it is 4,632 calories, since each cup is estimated at 193cal.

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I used the same plums to make jelly with my new honey! Im totally out of jars now, using weird reused ones, including a pickle jar! 44 cups here. Thats 23,760cal! 😯

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It's the end of spud season near me. Im putting all the spuds to bed. These, like last year, came from a local organic spud farm. I was given 200 pounds of gleaned potatoes again.

I keep 50 or so pounds in the house at a time. My family can go through this many in a month or two! These 70 lbs. Have been sorted and are big enough and unspoiled so that they will perform well in long term storage.

I store them in sprinkler boxes, separated by layers of fresh straw, and covered in straw bales on top. They last 6 months this way before getting gangly.

I packed 63,000 cal of taters last year. This year, 50#, or 18,000 cal have already been stored. This is 70#, more than enough to make it the 19,000 calories I have left of calories I can put towards my 100,000cal max of one type of food.

19,000cal

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I got feedback from my kids that I need to sweetening the fruit leather a bit more. So 1/4c sweetener per tray now adds a few calories.
This batch is flavored with garden huckleberries, or American nightshade.
9 trays times 650cal is 5,850cal

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I looked back through my totals and noticed I already had 100,000 cal counted towards my freezer allotment before I froze the turkeys. So I subtracted their 30,000cal from my total for now. Until I do something different with them. Canning them?

Anyways, my total currently is 637,908. 😁

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I uploaded Jerusalem artichokes into the underground storage today, too. 59.7 lbs. In these pictures is about 20,000cal.

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