Transferring Some Dry Beans to Smaller Jars for Mobility Challenges & Ease of Use: NO CANNING!
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I recently did a little project of filling my empty pint jars with beans. I thought I’d talk a little about my reasoning and some of the …
Hey Kathy, great idea! Jessica at Modern homestead Alaska has a great system for her buckets. She puts smaller mylar bags of beans , that fill her kitchen container, in the buckets so she just has to grab a bag once her container is empty.
Great video – love this system and may try this with my dry beans too. Easy peasy when the time comes to cook them up. Thank you!
I saw the jars in the thumbnail and thought- no way is Cathy canning, lol! Over the last couple of years, I've explored several different ways of food preservation and those darn jars are heavy, especially when filled with wet food. (ew, that sounded like cat food, but you know what I mean). I now have several dozen mason jars and have decided to can less and dehydrate more. I've watched several videos of people either repairing and bolstering the shelves they use for canning or buying/building new shelves. That 1870's Homestead just did a video about this topic and his fix, but the most interesting thing is the weight. Each quart weighed around 3 pounds when full. It's helpful to know how much the 2 cups of dry beans weigh, that's the info that I had a hard time finding when I got started making my pantry. For anyone interested, 5 pounds of beans, rice, etc., fit in a 1 gallon jar and 25 pounds of most of the beans etc. (not oatmeal) will fit in a 5 gallon bucket with a bit of room to spare. Why did you choose mason jars instead of the containers you use for your herbs and spices? I think this is a great idea to measure out the beans for those times you need a little help, thanks for the tip!
Hi Kathy! I agree that the Insta-Pot is a great tool in the vegan kitchen. So great to get beans and grains cooked quickly. I live in New England, so my basement is very cool year-round, allowing for safe storage of dried goods and home canned items. I prefer keeping several pints and quarts of home canned beans available for those "Oh bugger! I forgot!" moments. But also love keeping my bulk dry beans, grains, and dried mushrooms in the basement, using a quart jar to bring up/keep a small amount in my kitchen, and just refill as needed. I live alone, so do not typically need a large amount on a daily basis.
I love saving all my old store bought item jars for this purpose. I Love how you fine tune all of your storage and such. Goals.
I have recently cooked some pinto that apparently were old, I keep mine in gallon glass jars. how can you tell if your beans are old and if they are how would you cook them. Also can you show your recipe for cooking your pinto beans that you can. Nice video
Good call on the storage of canning items. You would not be safe to consume canned goods stored at high temps. Why go thru all the effort to do canning just to put your food at risk. I understand why you do a lot of dehydrating. It just works best for you. Large storage pails are awful for a lot of us. I usually bring a container and a measuring cup with me to the pail. That way i do not have to lift the pail.
I have a small house so the stored items are not far away. I have even tipped a pail rather than lift it. We all have to be careful with our back and bodies. Thanks for another lovely video.
Do you ever have mice problems? My husband built me a pantry last year and I've been slowly gathering EXPENSIVE buckets and totes as they are so high now. Anyways… I've got my pantry stocked but haven't been able to put everything away properly yet due to the expense of storage containers and the last couple weeks we've had a couple mice. I've been in this house 12 years and have never had mice til now and I just wondered how you address them if so? I know all of your goods are pretty much rodent proof but did you have any issues in the past, etc? I've found they really like pecans and cacao butter. Lol. Go figure.
Can’t wait to see what you do with the soy beans! I hope we get a whole series. Prices are ridiculous and just in the past month the stores around me seem to have stopped carrying refrigerated soy milk (at least unflavored, unsweetened) and upped their varieties of almond milk. Very frustrating. Never tried making tofu or tempeh but am very interested
I rely on dried beans and rices of various types (we even harvest wild rice)…and they are displayed on our kitchen shelves in jars, which are excellent for ambiance and also within easy reach…meanwhile, we have many pounds of each stored in mylar bags and other types of containers in our pantry.
I went from buying canned beans to canning my own beans. I’m a big time canner but I also have a basement to store my canning. If I don’t have home canned goods stocked up I feel very uneasy. I dehydrate and freeze dry so the majority of our food is something I’ve preserved. I love canning but I love saving money just as much. One major benefit with canning is water. If we were to lose water for a period of time I wouldn’t need to use what’s stored to cook a meal. Wether using jars for canning or dry storage the reusable glass jars is a big plus and I’m not contributing to my local trash mountain.
I'm going to try both of the recipes you linked. Thanks for sharing them.
Haha! I wasn't offended by "tweaky" but out of curiosity looked it up to see why someone would be.
I'm glad you're seeing a chiropractor and getting relief. I had horrible lower back pain prior to the birth of my first child and seeing a chiropractor did wonders for me. Not a bit of back pain during my pregnancy or after. In the last few years I've had a few falls with some lower back pain. When it flares I use my biomat. The temperature ranges from somewhere around 90° all the way up to 158 degrees. I prefer the highest setting. It's very relaxing, helps with inflammation, is used in Germany to treat cancer and so many other things. I have the full-size but if I were to do it over again would go with the smaller version. They're pricey. I've had mine for about 10 years and it's the best investment in my health I ever. Even better than a Vitamix. It's considered a medical device so your Insurance may cover the cost.
I think it's wise to use the glass jars for backup. I plan on buying gallon sized jars for a lot of my food storage. Thanks to your video I know how many jars I'll need for 25lbs.
Those buckets can be HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY!!!! I still have not done a pantry tour of my new setup (I moved my pantry to a different room), but the new pantry has room for me to have an "isle" of buckets. I have two rows of 4, stacked 2 high … so that's 16 that are super easy to access with minimal lifting and shifting. I have room to add 2 more stacks of 2.
Have you tried a cayenne salve to rub on your back for help with pain? Eeek. Sorry to hear about the pain!
Blessings! Joanne in SW MO