Quote Originally Posted by Tammy View Post
It always seemed risky to me to fill up freezers for this reason. Loss of power and your investment is gone. Canned and dried foods are better for the end of the world.
It takes enormous amounts of time to can stuff and especially to dry it. I think drying foods is a huge waste of my time and energy.


Please understand I have garden produce rolling into my house in the quantity of a small CSA.edited to mean: CSA producer! we are the producers, not the consumers.


Just yesterday I cooked a big batch of beets. They tasted like crap. I threw them out into the compost. And I plan to tell DH when he gets home from his weeklong trek that there’s no point in harvesting the rest of those beets because they are crappy. I’m not gonna cook them, preserve them, let alone eat them.

back to the freezer and refrigeration units we own: not all of them in Herman are plugged in. Well, the giant one is not plugged in. One in the kitchen gets normal use. One freezer in the basement is about halfway packed.


Here in my own house is a chest freezer and I’ve been working since last fall diligently to get rid of a 20 year accumulation of fruits and a few veg. We use up the veg but I do not use gallons and gallons of fruit because DH seems unable to just eat the fruit, he have to prepare it all with sugar and flour and who needs those calories?


On some level I wouldn’t mind if the damn freezer failed and we had to throw everything out.


The extra refrigerator in our city house is chock-full of apples harvested last fall and newly harvested onions. The apples are mostly rotten. He will bring a New truckload of them from the Iowa farm today. Because we need more apples to sit and rot.