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By bethany (dreadlock girl), October 26, 2009 4:38 pm

Canning tomatoes is one of my favourite fall things to do. I don’t really absolutely love the whole canning process, but I love to crack open the delights one at a time throughout the year until next fall comes. I also enjoy knowing what is in them, and that they are better by far than the ones processed by the thousands on a production line.

This year was the first year when I actually was able to tell the difference. Before that I had gone with all store bought canned tomatoes, but this year since we finished ours up that I canned last fall early I had to buy some. It isn’t that the store ones aren’t good, because I know I ate them my whole life and never complained-it is just that there is no comparison to the home canned ones. None.

I canned about 40 quarts of roma tomatoes this year. I did 27 last year and that wasn’t enough to get us through, this year we’ll keep our fingers crossed. And yes, I do hoard tomatoes!

Have you canned anything lately? If you could can one thing what would it be? For me it would be certainly tomatoes- and I would store TONS of strawberry, marion berry, and black berry freezer jam! YUM!

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By bethany dreadlock girl, October 20, 2008 5:35 am

27 quarts of red delight (aka roma tomatoes). I go through as many as we can every year. I hope to get my hands on more tomatoes, but it is not looking good. These are my favourite to can. What is your favourite thing to can? Or if you don’t can, what is your favourite thing your mom used to can, or your grandma? I was scared of canning for a long time. It seemed way to hard. I am over that now. Maybe because the home canned tomatoes just taste so good.