Fall Preserves for a Colorful Table: Tips for Canning Creatively

October 26, 2022

After a summer and fall of abundance, you may have so many fruits and veggies you just cannot eat them all. Learning to can, pickle or preserve food enables you to save food for a year without a need for refrigeration.

Whether you picked too many apples at the orchard, have a tree full of fruit in your yard, or got too ambitious with those end of season deals at the farmers’ market, preserving ensures nothing goes to waste. The holidays are a wonderful time to break out the literal fruits of your labor to bring back the color and sweetness of summer fruit well into the fall and winter.

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What To Do With Leftover Halloween Candy

November 3, 2017

Parent or not, Halloween candy is inescapable this time of year. Between your kids’ haul, the leftovers from what you give out to trick or treaters and the snack bowl at work, most of us are facing more candy than we can or should eat.

To deal with this candy deluge, many people let their kids eat it for a week then simply throw away the rest when the novelty wears off. We get it—we shouldn’t sacrifice our health for the sake of reducing food waste. But before you send that sack full of sugar to the landfill, consider these ideas.