Posts Tagged by canning and preserving

Low Sugar Plum Jam and Canned Plums Recipes

Inspired-Housewife: Low Sugar Plum Jam and Canned Plums Recipes

Where my husband works there are eight plum trees that bear lots of fruit, but usually no one picks the plums and they fall to the ground for the deer and bugs to eat.  My hubby and I loaded up the kids early one Saturday morning with baskets and a step ladder in hand to go and forage some of these sweet baby plums.   When  we arrived the branches… more

Homemade Low Sugar Strawberry Jam

Low Sugar Strawberry Jam

Growing up In Montana and Nevada I never had the experience of U-Pick farms where you can go with your family to pick the fruit yourself.   My husband grew up in Southwest Michigan among the fruit orchards, and picking fruit with his dad and brothers are some of his fondest memories. When we moved to Maryland we found lots of U-Pick farms within a half hour of our home.  It… more

Homemade Strawberry Fruit Leather

Strawberry Fruit Leather

As a child I loved fruit roll-ups and my mom sent them in almost all my school lunches.  When my children got old enough I planned on buying them fruit roll-ups, but when I read the label of ingredients it saddened me to see all the chemical, colorings, and unhealthy ingredients in them.  Recently I pinned a roll-up recipe by The Copycat Cook and I realized I could make my… more