RE: Weekend Part 2: Homemade Fruit Butters
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We were talking about this only earlier in the week. At the moment life is pretty hectic with my job and Faith business so we don't really have a lot of time for this sort of thing but moving forward we hope that will change a little and we can do more food preparation. Faith hates cooking, but it's more of a time thing than the actual cooking. Moving forward we'd like to do a lot more food preparation, make use of seasonal foods and prepare things ahead of time.
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Yeah I’m glad we started to do it when we did because my wife’s business has really exploded recently. It’s one that was a little shaky for a bit but now that Rona is here it’s taken off which is surprising in some ways. She’s been waking up every day the past week to at least 10 orders lol can’t complain there!
It takes a bit of time to get all the stuff together but once you have it, it lasts a long time. I would try and get mason jars now if you could, that’s what has held us up the most as far as how much we’ve been able to do. After that, it’s just a few hours a night during the prime picking seasons and you’re all set. If you don’t have one, I would highly recommend a pressure cooker! These things are glorious for knocking down cook times by dozens of minutes to hours! One of the most versatile things we’ve ever bought. This fruit butter recipe would have been a pain doing it stove top.
The other gadget we will be getting at some point is a vacuum sealer but we don’t have room in our kitchen for anything else at the moment lol
We've got a few things on our plate at the moment and this sort of thing is going to have to take a back seat although we talk about it now and then, as a prepper I'm always talking about stuff like this, and I have no doubt that when things settle down a little we will start to get more active with it.
God to hear your wife's business is going well, corona chan will close so many around the world so a good news story is welcome.
Yeah with your mother in law’s health, this type of stuff absolutely takes a back seat to it.
She was thinking of quitting honestly, the time needed for the money she was making was not a good ratio but the last 30 days have been crazy so we will see how it goes. We’ve made enough money out of it to have it be worth it so now we are just seeing how things shake out. It could be great or it could just fail but either way we aren’t exposed financially so it’s not a bad position.
Seems like you have options which is a nice position to be in I think; You can react one way or the other depending on circumstance and need. Works well I'd say.
Our friend Soyrosa has a friend and the two of them get together once a month to cook. They make enough for 3 weeks for both of them (and their partners, of course). A pretty darn good idea. They enjoy the company for the day and end up with home made stuff to eat. Winner winner.
This what Faith and I were talking about, as part of our debt free deliberations. Being debt free will give us, among other things, time.
We were discussing how our lives might change and food preparation, how and where we shop due to having more time and about becoming more self-sufficient. We know people who make their own things, moisturiser, shampoo and conditioners, soap and foods to name a few...Having time will allow us to shop more intelligently, self-prepare ahead of time and learn new/develop existing skills. It's one of the big attractions to a more simple life.