Self-Sufficiency Recipes

Making an overnight slow cooker breakfast casserole is the answer to all of your ‘what’s for breakfast’ worries. With a few basic ingredients layered in a slow cooker, you will …

One of our favorite times of the year is upon us, Apple Season, and that means its time to make homemade apple juice! We are fortunate to live in an …

As the summer garden season progresses into late August each year, we always find ourselves searching for ways to preserve the hundreds of peppers that seem to ripen all at once. …

Over the past few months we have made spaghetti or some sort of pasta dish that ‘requires’ garlic bread to be served as well.  We typically open our freezer to …

It is really frightening to look on the back of a granola or protein bar package and attempt to read the ingredients label. I can’t even pronounce, let alone know …

Just when you think canning season has come to an end, hang on, there is one more thing you will want to do with all of those ‘end of the …

As the cooler weather begins to move in (ok, maybe not quite yet, but soon enough in my eyes), I begin to think of comfort food/meals that we will be …

In our effort to become more self-sufficient, we have given up using traditional household cleaners and have converted to a greener method for cleaning.  We have all heard of throwing …

Are you still buying those individual packets of chili seasoning?  Or do you know how long that bottle of chili powder has been sitting in your spice cabinet?  Don’t worry …

If you love apples – then this crockpot apple butter recipe is sure to please! In Ohio, many of us look forward to the change in temperature and the beauty …