Never stack jars like that so the weight of the second layer is directly on the first. I whiled away many lockdown hours last year watching YouTube preppers, bought a pressure canner ($275 for an All American, the $$ was the hardest part) and after a year I have mastered this and filled every cranny with prepared meat. It's fun, actually, but you don't get there in a few days. Slightly faster, get Mylar bags, preferably the aluminized ones, oxygen absorbers, a curling iron to seal the bags, and dried foods to make your own backpack type meals. Pro tip, don't mix air dried and freeze dried foods, they have different rehydration and cooking directions. Downside, this method is more expensive and doesn't supply water like the canned stuff. On the other hand, the bags are light and easy to carry if you have to flee. If things were really bad, water and fuel could be a problem. The 25# bag of dry beans may be cheap but hard to eat.
It's the most efficient use of a pressure canner, plus better than any commercial canned meat meals. With the meat and dried vegetables you get a lot of food for the space. This is what drove me to learn to can, just in time for the great jar shortage of 2020. Maybe a lot of other stay-at-homes had the same idea.
Jars seem to be available now (for those who need them), but I still can't find lids anywhere.
I usually keep a two year supply, but I haven't been able to replenish this year and I hesitate to buy questionable Chinese no-name knockoffs on Amazon.
I learned that Ball, Kerr, and Golden Harvest brands now all have the same parent company, and wholesale only to Target, Walmart, Ace Hardware, and Kroger, so everyone else is reselling. I've gotten lids from Walmart recently, not many. Last year before I knew that, I got scammed by fake Ball lids from China that had been repacked in Ball boxes. It may have been preppers adding to the shortage, but it was too much like all the PPE suddenly disappearing when we needed it. Just when all the crops are coming in, there's a complete lack of a key component.
Never stack jars like that so the weight of the second layer is directly on the first. I whiled away many lockdown hours last year watching YouTube preppers, bought a pressure canner ($275 for an All American, the $$ was the hardest part) and after a year I have mastered this and filled every cranny with prepared meat. It's fun, actually, but you don't get there in a few days. Slightly faster, get Mylar bags, preferably the aluminized ones, oxygen absorbers, a curling iron to seal the bags, and dried foods to make your own backpack type meals. Pro tip, don't mix air dried and freeze dried foods, they have different rehydration and cooking directions. Downside, this method is more expensive and doesn't supply water like the canned stuff. On the other hand, the bags are light and easy to carry if you have to flee. If things were really bad, water and fuel could be a problem. The 25# bag of dry beans may be cheap but hard to eat.
upvote for canned meat!
It's the most efficient use of a pressure canner, plus better than any commercial canned meat meals. With the meat and dried vegetables you get a lot of food for the space. This is what drove me to learn to can, just in time for the great jar shortage of 2020. Maybe a lot of other stay-at-homes had the same idea.
Jars seem to be available now (for those who need them), but I still can't find lids anywhere.
I usually keep a two year supply, but I haven't been able to replenish this year and I hesitate to buy questionable Chinese no-name knockoffs on Amazon.
I learned that Ball, Kerr, and Golden Harvest brands now all have the same parent company, and wholesale only to Target, Walmart, Ace Hardware, and Kroger, so everyone else is reselling. I've gotten lids from Walmart recently, not many. Last year before I knew that, I got scammed by fake Ball lids from China that had been repacked in Ball boxes. It may have been preppers adding to the shortage, but it was too much like all the PPE suddenly disappearing when we needed it. Just when all the crops are coming in, there's a complete lack of a key component.