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Don't you just love it?

15 years ago

and feel pretty darned smug about all those goodies you put up from your own garden or your own effort. I get all smiley when I open the door of the freezer or the pantry to decide what's for supper? I have about 30 pounds of asparagus in the freezer that I didn't grow...$1 a pound at one of the local markets but I still feel good about it...That stuff is 2.99 during the rest of the year here and we love it so I jump on it when it is selling for $1....

Anyway I just get this puffed up feeling of goodness as in "I done good!" when I look at all my hard work and when we sit down to supper....

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zabby17
15 years ago
ruthie,

You bet --- I get that prideful feeling every time I walk past my pantry/laundry room (which has no door in the doorway, the better to admire the rows of lovely jars of canned goods each time I go by!).

But I think I like even better the wonderful feeling of anticipation and *relief* when I realize I can have something yummy made with fresh ingredients without doing much work NOW. Especially in the mornings --- sitting groggily over our coffee, my husband and I will often start to think wearily what do do about breakfast---we are NOT morning people, and I'll start to be deciding whether this is a day for something boring but easy (cereal, say) or something satisfying but that takes work (eggs or pancake), when I suddenly remeber "Hey, there's zucchini bread in the freezer and home-canned applesauce in the pantry!" It feels like a little miracle, every time....

Z
digdirt2
15 years ago
And if you are really weird like me you even get a kick out of packing away the washed, now-empty jars of all the stuff you have already used. ;)

Dave
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I have always gloated over my pantry, stocked as it is with jars and jars of grains, legumes, dried fruits, spices, and all manner of other foods. When I started canning, it only made me gloat more to add the rows of jams, relishes, pickles, marmalades & chutneys. This Spring, I am definitely going to buy a pressure canner so I can do a wider variety of foods and I WILL can some of my own tomatoes and sauce next Summer.

It makes me feel cozy, somehow, knowing that all the grocery stores could collapse tomorrow and we could live off what I have for at least a month, maybe longer. Must be some atavistic instinct to store for the winter or something.
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I suppose I am in the same boat as you Dave, :-) I actually emptied out an entire cabinet unit to store empty jars so I could see em all shiny and ready to go!

On the other hand, I didn't have enough points at the grocery store for a free turkey last year, or this year. My jellies and jams, now the nine day French cornichon pickles I grow and pickle get asked for so often now, I will be almost out of all by Xmas giving requests.
With my larger veggie garden this year, it was so much fun walking past the produce section, saying I have that, and that and that, plus mine looks so much healthier!
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When I grow a garden, my vegetables all get harvested and either pickled like cukes, or frozen like peas, beans, asparagus. My asparagus needs only corn gluten every year to yield a big crop. Its harvested throughout the the whole month of May, and part of April. Only things that cost are the fertilizers, my labor, and the costs of the plants or seeds. In 2009, I will be growing corn again. I blanch, cut it off the cobs and freeze. Have about 20 pounds of broccoli that was frozen this year. For me, if food stores were closed, I would be able to survive for more that just a few months.

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