Winter food in jars
By Suggar
@Suggar (3606)
Bulgaria
November 13, 2010 9:41am CST
Few days ago i went home to see my parents and took lots of jars with winter food.
Mom gave me some jars of tomatoes, roasted pepper, green beans, few jars of home made jam, and others.
In my country people who live in the cities usually don't make jars for the winter. May be the reason is that they live in apartments and don't have place to make jars, but present days i can feel something like disregard for people, who live in villages and make jars for the winter. Most people call the others who live in villages peasant, like the others has to feel shame of that.
I think that jars are great help for the winter cooking. In my country in the winter, we don't have natural vegetables, just fake one, made in greenhouses, cared with a lot of modifications. What could be better than natural food, made in the right season and prepared that way, that this food can be eaten some other time than her own season?
My mom gave me also a lot of flour, which will help me to make home made bread or other things like cakes. Now i feel really good, when i know that whatever happens with my money, i'll got something for cooking. My fair was because everyone says - this winter will be very bad, really cold and poor. That way i feel safe. It doesn't matter what money we will have, we won't be starving.
What do you think about making jars? 
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5 responses
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
13 Nov 10
I make jams in jars (apricot from my tree, prunes and probably next year I will also make from rasperries). I give a lot of homemade jams for Christmas as in my country Christmas is in Summer. I also pickle some things and put them in jars. Other foods are kept frozen. I freeze pesto to last the whole year. And when I make dry legumes, I soak the whole kilo, cook them in my pressure cooker (no salt) and then freeze them to add the other ingredients when I want to eay beans, lentils or garbanzos.
I know that I can have many problems but that I will never starve. I know how to make the most out of everything I have and leftovers are turned into something else.
Wise people should not feel disregard for people who live in the country: they should learn from them.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
13 Nov 10
Jars, frozen food, dry prunes and apricots. Yummy and helpfull all of them. Now I am starting a vegetable garden this year. I will have tomatoes, zuchinni, some potatos and lettuces of several kinds. I have discovered that some plants are loved by the pests I have in my garden. So next year I{ll pick up the snails, put them in a place with food and make a snail risotto when they are big
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
13 Nov 10
Sounds great, creative people live little easier, than those, who only expect money and go to the store. 
I don't have garden, my parents has, but this year was very bad for them. All seeds dry after one rain, after the volcano in Europe. But never mind, in the summer vegetables here are much cheaper than the other time of the year, so its good. It's really helpful.
I don't have garden, my parents has, but this year was very bad for them. All seeds dry after one rain, after the volcano in Europe. But never mind, in the summer vegetables here are much cheaper than the other time of the year, so its good. It's really helpful. 
@peavey (16936)
• United States
13 Nov 10
I make canned and jarred food, too, as much as I can in the summer and fall. I grow a garden in the city and I'm the only one around that does, but I don't care. While I'm eating good, home grown and cooked food, they're surviving on "fake food" as you called it - food that has little nutrition or taste, either, grown in conditions that food wouldn't naturally survive.
I give my daughter food in jars and cans, too. I'm glad to be able to because I know she will be eating well. Your mother probably feels the same way.
It makes sense to put up food for the winter, when prices go high and the produce is of poor quality.
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
13 Nov 10
You are totally right - there is nothing better than home made food, if it can be from a garden - it's amazing, because you know how the plants grow up and everything was natural. Bought food ... you never know. In my country they sell tomatoes and other vegetables in jars, but who knows what they put in? No one.
My mom is really happy she could give me that food, because soon we were eating only sandwiches, nothing more. I love cooking, but poor times came and can't afford to fill my fridge really good.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
17 Nov 10
I don't know how to do canning. I've thought about learning but my hubby is concerned because of the hot temperatures you need to can at and the fact we have small kids at home.
I agree with you though that veggies grown in green houses are not as flavorful as something you grew yourself or got from a farmers market.
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
17 Nov 10
My mom sometimes in doing jars on the hot plate, just has one big pot where she put around 5-6 jars at once. When they are ready, she put water in the pot and another 5-6 jars, this is how she boil them. It's not something you have to be afraid of, when you got children, because the temperature at the plate is the same when you cook food for your home, so some jars in pot won't be so hard to be boiled.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
13 Nov 10
That's an interesting way to put it, 'making jars', i like that. I always can things & put things in the freezer in the summer. Food that u fix for winter is so much better than things u can buy & fresh veggies get so expensive to buy in the winter. I think u are very smart to do that. Don't worry what others say about u , keep up the good work.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
14 Nov 10
I like to see a young person like u being so smart. Happy sunday to u.
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@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
14 Nov 10
Here i can see that lots of people all over the world, think the same like me and it makes me feel good. Like i'm on the right way.
Me and my boyfriend live in rented apartment, so we have only one fridge with little freezer, that's why jars are better for us.
I'm happy to know, that a lot of people are doing different things to make their life better. Keeping food for the time of the year, when that food is expensive is something really great - it means that people are interested and cared about the future.
Me and my boyfriend live in rented apartment, so we have only one fridge with little freezer, that's why jars are better for us.
I'm happy to know, that a lot of people are doing different things to make their life better. Keeping food for the time of the year, when that food is expensive is something really great - it means that people are interested and cared about the future.1 person likes this
@rovered777 (649)
• United States
14 Nov 10
Awe, your mom is such a sweet person. She definitely leaves a good impression for being a mom. Her work of putting pack loads of stored food into jars, all for you to use during the winter months is such a good deed. Her caring spirit touched me when I read your article. Imagining the love alone makes my heart warm, let alone the savings you will have. Being out there for her daughter is really important to her, and I'm so happy for your lovely relationship. May she bring you lots of jarred food in the winters to come. Its because of mothers that many kids are prepared food, and their work is exemplary.
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
14 Nov 10
Yes, the connection parents - children is so great. Making jars or cold food made at home helps to all of us, to save money in the bad moments. It's easy when you got money to go to the store and to buy something, but when you don't have enough - you are thinking for today and for tomorrow, what it will be, how we will handle it. It's great investment, which, actually keeps our wallets little more full than usual.
