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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 1,780 calories per pint, is 16,020 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.
Unfortunately, I put them into mylar bags, which I've recently learned are plastic and not suitable for this BB. No new calories!

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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. I thought this VERY high, but then i learned that just the honey is 1,000 cal per cup. Since I boiled mine down before sweetening at a ratio of almost 1 to 1, 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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Time for my kids' favorite fruit leathers!! Choke cherry and autumn berry were in this batch. 8 more trays. 5,200 more calories

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This week has included SO MUCH dehydrating! My machines are constantly humming.

I've got dried elderberries and sunflower seeds im putting up now. Pears and pears and pears to come! Haha 😄

This is 5 cups of elderberries, which google estimates at 300cal per cup. 1500cal

250cal per cup of sunflower seeds. Here are pictured 11 cups (half a gallon plus 3) which is 3,080cal.

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667,688cal total for now.

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9 more trays of fruit leather 🍎🍓🫐💚
This time, I've got garden huckleberry, and strawberry. How wonderful to get a bumper crop off my ever-bearing strawberries!!
5850 cal

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I picked 200 pounds of pears from my friends' tree. They are huge and beautiful!! The tree is overloaded!
These are packed into jars with medium syrup, made with local honey.
12 jars x 8,400cal

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Next I made 6 pints of pear jam. 400cal per cup x12 is 4800cal 😁

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6 jars of pear butter, at 600cal per cup, 7,200cal!

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Here's a big batch of sweet corn. We love how it tastes and feels to crunch freeze dried corn! Almost as pleasant as eating corn chips, but without the salt and oil.

My little helper is holding is about 6 cups of freeze dried corn we grew. 2640cal.
We've stored a lot more in the freezer, waiting for it's turn in the freeze dryer.

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Sorting frozen pears on a try for the freeze dryer is like art!!

Once again, it's a bummer, but I packed them into mylar baggies, which aren't allowed for Food Prep BBs. Sorry, folks, but I'm still learning! No new calories.

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650x9 is 5850cal

This is apple-cinamon fruit leather. ☺️

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From my applesauce party, I got to keep 5 quarts of applesauce pie filling, at 1,000cal each, thats 5,000 cal.
And 4 quarts of applesauce! 400each makes 1600

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I did a whole dehydrator of plain pears. Each cup is estimated at 419cal. There are about 16 cups here. Thats 6,704cal.

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14 more jars of apple pie filling is 14,000cal!

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736,732 calories so far!!

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Awesome work, once again! Do you have any trouble getting through your preserved food? Over the years, I’ve found we sometimes get burned out on certain preserved foods. We usually get through them eventually, but it takes effort. I do my best to minimize what ends up going to the animals or compost, too much work!

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Gray Henon wrote:Awesome work, once again! Do you have any trouble getting through your preserved food?

Hey, Gray! My family eats through everything i make in a year or two. 6 kids will do that! 😆 so I dont hesitate to preserve as much as I have time to do as each food comes into season.

Except sunchoke pickles. They did NOT like those 😋

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My friend, Tara owns the local greenhouse. She's very low on jams, and asked me to come in and whip up some jams from the stockpile of frozen fruit she's built up over a season of harvesting!

This first batch is elderberry jelly, which google says is 800cal per cup. 15 jars is 12,000cal

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The next type we made was raspberry! 770cal per cup, with 10 more half pints. 7,700cal

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