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Vintage Preserving

The channel that teaches people how to build a pantry they’ll truly use. I help families preserve food, cook from scratch, and make everyday meals from their pantry.

Because preserving food is only part of preserving the kind of home and family life we want to pass on.

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Have you ever tried making applesauce cookies?  I hadn't until I was in my 30's.....and they are so good!Super simple and I guarantee your family will love them.  This is a great way to use up your applesauce in your pantry from the canning season.KitchenAid Mixer - https://lasso.to/amazon/r05QUKDMt1Pampered Chef Stoneware Pan - https://lasso.to/amazon/SDBA1dDFyVTry it today and let me know if you like it!
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So easy, even my husband can make it.This one-pot dinner comes together in under 30 minutes and is a nostalgic comfort meal for the nights we had Hamburger Helper as kids.  Want to feel better about the heaviness?  Simply serve a small portion alongside vegetables and side salad.Either way, it's a filling dish that will go a long way for an easy-to-make meal.Digital Pressure Canner for Canning Beef - https://lasso.to/amazon/f34J6cwF7HStovetop Pressure Canner for Canning Beef - https://lasso.to/amazon/sXSI00EVkgBulk Ingredients - https://www.azurestandard.com/?a_aid=ccb9ee865aEnjoy!
Cheeseburger Macaroni | One-Pot Homemade Hamburger Helper
Chili made with Canned Ground BeefNeed a quick dinner that doesn’t taste like you threw it together at the last minute? This 15-Minute Chili is an easy, flavorful meal that comes together in almost no time.It’s also a perfect **Cantry Cooking** recipe! If you keep canned tomatoes, beans, or other pantry staples on hand, you may already have everything you need to make this quick chili.  Don't worry, store-bought is fine too ;)This recipe is:• Ready in about 15 minutes• Easy to customize to your family’s taste• Made with simple pantry ingredients• Perfect for a busy weeknight• A great way to use the food you’ve already preservedOne of my favorite things about having a well-stocked pantry is being able to make a good meal without a trip to the grocery store or a complicated meal plan. This is exactly the kind of simple, practical cooking I love.Whether you're looking for a **quick chili recipe, easy weeknight dinner, pantry meal, 15-minute meal, or ways to use your canned food**, this one is worth keeping in your back pocket.**Subscribe for more Cooking from the Cantry, home food preservation, from-scratch recipes, and practical ways to actually use the food you preserve.**Presto 23-Quart Stovetop Pressure Canner https://lasso.to/amazon/IdPyGdeRAQPresto 23-Quart Digital Pressure Cannerhttps://link.amazon/B0dCxzYk6Bulk Supplies - https://www.azurestandard.com/?a_aid=ccb9ee865a#15MinuteChili #EasyChili #CantryCooking
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Canning Cube Steak!If you've ever wondered, "what do I do with cube steak?" this is an answer.  While mostly used for Chicken Fried Steak (delicious) I like to have some cut up and canned for recipes like chunky chili, pot pies, breakfast hash, etc.Here are some helpful links:Ball Canning Altitude Chart - https://www.ballmasonjars.com/adjust-high-altitude-canning.htmlPresto 23 Quart Pressure Canner - https://lasso.to/amazon/IdPyGdeRAQPresto 23 Quart Digital Pressure Canner - https://lasso.to/amazon/f34J6cwF7HAzure Standard - https://www.azurestandard.com/?a_aid=ccb9ee865aElectric Kettle - https://lasso.to/sgNCFM7knhPlease consider liking and subscribing!  I am hoping to bring canning and preserving food into every Mom's kitchen to help them have good food in the pantry that helps making dinner, easier.
How to Can Cube Steak | Meals Ready in Minutes
Learn how to can ground beef safely using a pressure canner. Follow the step-by-step process, understand processing times, and stock your pantry for easier meals.Make cheeseburger macaroni, enchiladas, spaghetti sauce, tex-mex stuffed shells, and more.  Save yourself time and hassle :)Presto 23 Quart Pressure Canner (Same as in Video) https://lasso.to/amazon/NLsx28C3mOPresto 23 Quart Digital Pressure Canner https://lasso.to/amazon/f34J6cwF7HNesco 9.5 Quart Pressure Canner https://lasso.to/amazon/xmSSUqHRRYAll-American 21 1/2 Quart Pressure Canner https://lasso.to/amazon/3DsWRapErhJars and Lids https://www.azurestandard.com/?a_aid=ccb9ee865aCanning Accessories https://lasso.to/amazon/NLsx28C3mOElectric Kettle https://lasso.to/sgNCFM7knh
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iLearn how to can chili beans at home and stock your pantry with a practical staple for easy, from-scratch meals.If you love canning, cooking from scratch, and having ingredients ready for busy weeknight dinners, this is the kind of pantry staple you'll want to have on the shelf.🌶️ IN THIS VIDEOHow to can chili beans for your pantryWorking with dried beansBuilding a more useful home-canned pantryWHAT CAN YOU MAKE WITH CHILI BEANS?Think chili, taco bowls, burritos, nachos, and other hearty family meals. At Vintage Preserving, we teach how to preserve food, use what we preserve, and make our home pantries work harder for our families.Subscribe to Vintage Preserving for practical canning tutorials, home-canned food recipes, pantry cooking, and approachable ways to make the most of the food you preserve.Preserve More Than Food.Equipment to Pressure CanRegular Pressure Canner - https://lasso.to/amazon/IdPyGdeRAQDigital Pressure Canner - https://lasso.to/amazon/f34J6cwF7HAll-American Pressure Canner - https://lasso.to/amazon/1dICuprmUHJars - https://www.azurestandard.com/shop/pr...#Canning #PressureCanning #HomeCanning
How to Can Dried Beans for Chili
The humble potato.  Potatoes not only taste good but they stretch meals and are inexpensive.  I love to have these canned on-hand because they are already peeled, basically cooked, and ready-to-go. Having canned potatoes helps make meals get to the table in no time.Here are 5 different easy ideas for what to make for dinner using canned potatoes.Sausage, Spinach, & Potato Soup https://vintagepreserving.com/sausage-spinach-and-potato-soup-with-home-canned-potatoes/Chicken Potato Casserole - https://vintagepreserving.com/chicken-potato-casserole-home-canned-potatoes/Cheesy Taco Skillet - https://vintagepreserving.com/cheesy-taco-potato-skillet/Sausage, Peppers, & Potato Skillet - https://vintagepreserving.com/sheet-pan-dinner-with-canned-potatoes/Beef Vegetable Soup - https://vintagepreserving.com/beef-vegetable-soup-canned-potatoes/Condensed Cream of Chicken Dry Mix - https://lasso.to/amazon/iAhMbvUcKEEquipment to Pressure CanRegular Pressure Canner - https://lasso.to/amazon/IdPyGdeRAQDigital Pressure Canner - https://lasso.to/amazon/f34J6cwF7HAll-American Pressure Canner - https://lasso.to/amazon/1dICuprmUHJars - https://www.azurestandard.com/shop/product/household-family/kitchen/canning-supplies/jars/quart/canning-jars-quart-wide-mouth-with-lids-bands/32032?package=NF010&a_aid=ccb9ee865a
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Welcome to Vintage Preserving!I'm Darcy, and I believe preserving food should make life easier.Here, we're doing more than filling shelves with jars. I'll show you how to preserve the foods your family will actually use, cook simple meals from your pantry, and build a home that works for real life.You'll find:• Canning and food preservation• Practical pantry cooking• Meals made with home-canned food• From-scratch recipes and homemade pantry staples• Pantry planning and organization• Simple home skills• Slow, intentional livingBecause the goal isn't a pantry full of food that looks impressive.It's a pantry that helps you feed your family, a kitchen that makes everyday life a little easier, and a home built around the things that matter most.If you want to preserve food you'll actually use—and learn how to turn those jars into everyday meals—I'd love to have you here.Subscribe and come along!New videos about preserving food, building realistic pantries, and creating meals from what you preserve.Need a new canner to start?Presto 23 qt Stovetop Pressure Cannner https://lasso.to/amazon/IdPyGdeRAQPresto 23 quart Digital Pressure Cannerhttps://lasso.to/amazon/f34J6cwF7HStovetop Water Bath Cannerhttps://lasso.to/amazon/xALEu4r7LpBall Electric Water Bath Cannerhttps://lasso.to/amazon/QmfIAlPWp8
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Hi, I’m Darcy.  I want to bring you ideas for canning, preserving, and using those items in your home for your family.  It can be intimidating to get started so I’m hoping you’ll find some simple ways to make a big difference in your stash.  I’m just a regular Mom who wants to provide good food for her family without being chained to the stove.  I’m here to help you do the same and find some little joys along the way.  Learn more about Vintage Preserving here!

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Potatoes. So simple. Not many soups or casseroles Potatoes. So simple. 
Not many soups or casseroles that don’t like to see them coming. These 7 quarts cost me $2.  I’ll be doing a couple of batches to get me up to where I want to be for a year or so. I really need to bite the bullet and buy a second pressure canner 🫠 But for now just these 7 jars at a time make a big difference when I go to cook dinner. 
I really really don’t like peeling potatoes. And definitely when it comes to making dinner I try to just skip the peeling part. But my kids don’t like potato skins so I don’t know which I’d prefer less, the peeling or the whining. Never mind - it’s the whining. 
So here I am peeling a ton of potatoes but it saves me all the work later on when I can just dump these out and we are good to go. 
There really is something satisfying about putting jars up onto the shelf. Saving my sanity a little bit at a time :) 

#canning #potatoes #canwithme #momlife #easymeals
How do I know my daughter loves me? It’s written o How do I know my daughter loves me? It’s written on the walls…. 🙃 

#toddlerlife #sahm #littlelove #vintagepreserving
Today’s decision: chicken salsa. Now whether I’ll Today’s decision: chicken salsa. 
Now whether I’ll put it on rice, a salad, or a wrap….. tbd. 

#vintagepreserving #cookingwithcannedfood #easydinner #easyfood #lifelessons
Jam restock! 5 years ago jam wasn’t in my rotatio Jam restock!

5 years ago jam wasn’t in my rotation. We never ate it. But once I had kids, it all changed :) As did mostly everything else in our lives 😆
This took a solid chunk of time because I do strain the blackberries but, on the other hand, I blend my strawberries instead of mashing them so that saves a ton of time. 
A chunk of a weekend is a fair trade-off for a solid stock of jam and less time I have to spend in the grocery store. Plus it saved a ton of $$$ and I’ll never complain about that. 

Canning, preserving, kid food, jam, pantry, stock the pantry, easy canning, Midwest living, vintage home

#vintagehome #vintagepreserving #makeyourown #preservingfood
It’s time to start living a life you’ve been wanti It’s time to start living a life you’ve been wanting to start.  This account is all about learning some new handy skills by canning and preserving food, saving money (where you can), sewing, and carving your own path to life. 
I’m a millennial and it shows 🤷🏻‍♀️but it seems like we are a group that is forging our own way and aren’t afraid to do things a little differently. 
So I’d love for you to follow along as I help to show you some things to make this way of living feasible. A little bit of work for some more time to play and slow down where it matters most. 
#vintagepreserving #preservingmorethanfood #millenials #sahm #workhardplayhard
A homesteader is a person whose heart and focus is A homesteader is a person whose heart and focus is in the home. 
The term homesteader and the ideas associated with it are broad.  I feel like building a strong home, supporting your family, being mindful of what’s going into your food, and trying to work towards self-sufficiency are some main things homesteaders do. 
Being observant of nature, its tendencies and how to work with it. Being thoughtful about how and what money is spent on. There are so many things that come to mind and you can truly do as little or as much of it, it just depends on intention. 
You don’t need a huge farm or live solely off of the land to be a homesteader, even if we may be striving to that goal one day. 
Making intentional decisions in our homes and for our family to provide a certain way of life is all you need. The more the merrier! 
Hopefully we can all encourage each other through our own journeys. 
In the meantime, I’ll be here sharing canning, preserving, cooking and more to help you towards your goals. 
So what is homesteading to you? 

Homesteading | self-sufficient | life | happiness | home | mom life | canning | preserving food
Heat the butter and oil in a pot. Add the rice and Heat the butter and oil in a pot.
Add the rice and pasta. Stir until the pasta turns a bit brown. 
Add seasonings and stir to combine.
Add water, bring to a simmer on medium-low. 
Cook, covered, about 15 mins, stirring occasionally.
Easy as that! Enjoy :)

I grew up on rice-a-roni and love the flavor but, like most of us, I am trying to have simpler ingredients in the house. This fits the bill and they love it. Nothing like a throwback comfort food that isn’t terrible for you. 
#comfortfood #quickrecipes #90sfood #easyfood #childhoodfavorite
36 cartons. $18 ➡️ 13 pints of seedless blackberry 36 cartons. $18 ➡️ 13 pints of seedless blackberry jam. If you don’t use jam frequently during the week this could easily have been 26 half-pints. That a lot of jam! And for $18 plus sugar and a little elbow grease it’s worth it. 
You truly don’t have to make this mass quantity and could easily buy smaller amounts and make the general recipe size :) 
I usually just go big and get things done in bigger batches to save time later.
Both recipes are from @ballcanning. One is from a book and the other is from the pectin jar instructions. 
My family loves it and I hope yours does too! 

#frugalcooking #homemadejam #homecanning #canningandpreserving #vintagepreserving
Seriously so handy. There’s a how-to on my blog if Seriously so handy. There’s a how-to on my blog if you want to take a look. 
Great to use in way more than tacos. Honestly, I usually just cook meat that day if I’m doing tacos and this gets used for anything Tex-Mex-ish.
•tex mex stuffed peppers
•breakfast casseroles
•chilis
•taco soup
Easy enough to add taco seasoning to canned ground beef too, but sometimes it’s nice to just empty the jar and keep moving. 
What do you think, would you can this?

#canning #preservingfood #eatwell #cannedmeat #taco
Nothing like that pop Nothing like that pop
One of the things I do the most for my family is m One of the things I do the most for my family is making sandwich bread. I feel like lots of us are doing it. So how lucky are our families!? Not only do I like the smell of it in my house but to walk into someone else’s house to a fresh baked loaf just feels so good. 

It may not be perfect but it tastes good and makes for some great garlic bread too, which my husband would eat every day if I made it.

Just a little glimpse into something that’s easy to do and keeps me out of the grocery store a little bit more 🙋🏻‍♀️ 

Real life | simplify | homemade bread | sahm | mom life | simple joys
I wasn’t meant for a traditional lifestyle. I’ve I wasn’t meant for a traditional lifestyle. 

I’ve always had an entrepreneurial spirit, I work really hard to accomplish goals, and once I have a dream in my heart it’s usually hard to break it. 

Growing food, being outside, canning any harvest….all of this feels right to me. So a couple of years ago my husband and I bought a defunct strawberry farm on the other side of the state. I can see (in my head) what it could be.  I’m still working on all the logistics and finances to make it work but I can feel it getting closer. 

So to see my kids in the strawberry fields and loving it….it makes it feel like it’s that much closer to happening for us. 

To see my family working side-by-side doing something we love, being a food source for the community, and a place for families to come and spend time together is something I can’t wait to have happen ❤️

Follow along as I work towards this dream.  I am hoping this account will help to make it happen :)
#canning #strawberryfields #familylife #familyfarm #midwestliving #preserving
English muffins 🥰 They’ll be made into breakfast English muffins 🥰 
They’ll be made into breakfast sandwiches to stash in the freezer tomorrow and made me a pretty tasty lunch today. 
I love using sourdough but it’s rare I make something without following someone else’s recipe.  This English muffin recipe is from @heartbeetkitchen. Give it a try!

#sourdough #englishmuffin #homemadefood #momlife #cooking #cookfromscratch #vintagepreserving
And me, of course. Life is inherently busy when And me, of course. 

Life is inherently busy when you have kids, family, friends, furry friends, etc. But being chaotic and rushed is something I really try to avoid. Overfilling schedules and trying to keep up with the Joneses just becomes such a burden. My goal is to jump off of the hamster wheel and do things a little differently. I think a lot of you feel the same way. 

There’s a difference between a full life and and busy life. 

Anyhow, I’ll just be over here drinking my black coffee wishing I could be one of my pets for a day because they truly know how to unwind and relax. 😎 

#sahm #livingdifferently #homelife #slowdown #slowingdown #familylife #littlethings #midwestliving
And art is - lovingly drawn squiggles on the walls And art is - lovingly drawn squiggles on the walls when Mom turns around for 3 seconds. 

Some days I start to understand why some older people had plastic covered sofas when I was growing up. 

I do love decorating actually. But since we are in a smaller home right now our living room is also a play room so it shows 🙃 

Having little kids also means a lot of hands-on time so I’m not able to spend leisurely time in the kitchen. Although I love to cook, most days are either quick prep and a long cook in the oven/crockpot or a quick 15 minute meal. And canning food has helped this immensely. Follow along to learn how to still get good meals on the table, stock your pantries, and still keep some sanity. 

#sahm #canning #midwestliving #vintagepreserving #preserving #momlife #momlifebalance #food
No trending audio, just birds. What if you just No trending audio, just birds. 

What if you just picked 3-5 things to always have on hand? And the ingredients can be totally store bought, bought from a farmers market, who cares. 

Wouldn’t it be nice to always have tomato sauce, chicken and beef stock, salsa, and canned chicken on the shelf? Just a couple of times a year and you can shop your own pantry for at least those couple of things.

I love gardening and growing food but we don’t have dozens of acres. One day, that’s the goal 🤞but for now I make do with my small garden, supplement the rest of the ingredients elsewhere and my family still has some great canned food ready-to-go. No homestead and still not chained to the stove if I don’t want to be because I have easy meal prep mostly done. Most days…. 

Sham | canning | motherhood | homestead | intentional living | real life | content creation | preserving food |
Do you like pesto on pizza? Pasta? Soup? Fish? Chi Do you like pesto on pizza? Pasta? Soup? Fish? Chicken? Caprese Salads? Anything?

Freeze it. Flash freeze in little compartments and then store it however you like it for using later. It’s one thing that truly adds so much flavor without having to hardly lift a finger. Fresh is fantastic but I’ll always take some frozen, too. 

I found this on sale so I stocked up 💪

#freezer #freezerstash #frugaltips #easytouse #easyfood #foodtips #midwestliving #simple #budgetfriendly
I did. Not. Want. To. Cook. The other night. So t I did. Not. Want. To. Cook. The other night.  So thankful for the canned soup I have because Michigan had kind of forgotten summer arrived and I also had no energy so it was a good night for a warm, quick dinner. 
TIP- pesto is the best thing to have around for adding to most soups. It bumps up the flavor and is so easy. 
Cream is optional but if there’s one thing I learned from Miss Ree (as my kids call @thepioneerwoman) it’s that cream is usually the answer. 
Take it from me, a Mom who was crabby that night and still got dinner on the table, canned soup is a life saver. 

#canning #easymeals #easycannedfood #easycanning #soup #vintagepreserving #midwestliving #makeyourown #betterthanstorebought
Me and my helper buddy making tortillas. They’re n Me and my helper buddy making tortillas. They’re not perfect but they taste great and she has so much fun. So do I. 
She helps to get them started in the press and I’ll take it from there rolling them into the worst circles ever. Then I’ll cook them up and no one ever said shapes taste different so…. We eat them and are happy. 

#Cooking #homemadetortillas #betterthanstorebought #easydinner
Roasts of any kind in the crockpot will always ran Roasts of any kind in the crockpot will always rank high for a quick prep and delicious meal. 

I like this one because the flavor is different than any traditional beef. It has sweet and sour from the pickled tomatoes and savory from the Worcestershire sauce and seasonings. Always adjust to what you and your family like but this is so simple and good it’s a nice go-to. 

Let me know what kinds of meals you’d like to see more of! 

#canning #5minmealprep #dripbeef #easymeals #easymealideas #familyfood #crockpotmeals #crockpot #vintagepreserving #crockpotrecipes
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