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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 550182" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Lisa, my hat's off to you and your girls! I know how much work canning is. When we were kids, my grandparents lived in a suburb of a big city but they had a huge lot and used to raise most of their own food, even chickens and rabbits! They had a big garden and lots of fruit trees and my grandmother canned every bit of it. They had six kids and put up enough food every year to last all winter with very few trips to the store! My grandmother canned every kind of vegetable and fruit and even whole cooked chickens, and made all kinds of wonderful homemade jams and jellies. But I can't even imagine how much hard work all this was and how incredibly hot it must have gotten in her small kitchen ... way before the days of air conditioning. I remember going down in their basement when I was a child and seeing the walls lined with wooden shelves that were filled with hundreds and hundreds of glass jars full of fruits and vegetables. I wish I was that ambitious myself but I'm just not. I did make homemade pickles a few times and some wonderful plum jelly when a neighbor had a bumper crop and shared with us. And when I had a freezer I froze lots of corn, strawberries and green beans that we bought from the Mennonites. But now ... living just a half block from the grocery store has made me incredibly lazy! You did GOOD, lady!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 550182, member: 1883"] Lisa, my hat's off to you and your girls! I know how much work canning is. When we were kids, my grandparents lived in a suburb of a big city but they had a huge lot and used to raise most of their own food, even chickens and rabbits! They had a big garden and lots of fruit trees and my grandmother canned every bit of it. They had six kids and put up enough food every year to last all winter with very few trips to the store! My grandmother canned every kind of vegetable and fruit and even whole cooked chickens, and made all kinds of wonderful homemade jams and jellies. But I can't even imagine how much hard work all this was and how incredibly hot it must have gotten in her small kitchen ... way before the days of air conditioning. I remember going down in their basement when I was a child and seeing the walls lined with wooden shelves that were filled with hundreds and hundreds of glass jars full of fruits and vegetables. I wish I was that ambitious myself but I'm just not. I did make homemade pickles a few times and some wonderful plum jelly when a neighbor had a bumper crop and shared with us. And when I had a freezer I froze lots of corn, strawberries and green beans that we bought from the Mennonites. But now ... living just a half block from the grocery store has made me incredibly lazy! You did GOOD, lady! [/QUOTE]
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