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.
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.