Encouragement for Christian Sisters

Greetings to my Titus2 keeper at home sisters! I tell ya, I'm in my element here on the homestead, being able to do some of these things I love to do.  Hand washing clothes, cooking on the woodstove, collecting kindling sticks for winter, pickling things...oh how my flesh longs for that garden and all the other homestead things but I'm thankful for the brief time here to do so before (Lord willing) we head out on the road again. I grabbed some cheap seeds from the store for 'just in case'.  I used to buy seeds online and from some of the catalogs, pouring over them for hours every January trying to figure out which ones I wanted. Here's the truth, the best green bean crop I ever got was from the cheap seeds, just like these 4/$1 and 2/$1.  The rest of my crops were just fine with regular, affordable seeds.  (You all make your own mind, I'm not here to make you feel bad if you choose to do otherwise.) Pickled carrots.  Yum!  We found a jar at the disc

Greetings sisters, Here's another post from my old homesteading blog, canning beans.  It goes well with the 'canning rice' post I just did.  Open up one of each, stir together in a pan and you have a meal ready to go in minutes. Hope you enjoy. *********************************** If you are looking for an inexpensive nutritious food that is shelf stable for long periods of time then look no further than dry beans.  As we've mentioned before, we shop in bulk and store our dry goods in large air tight containers such as 5 gallon buckets, gallon glass and plastic jars, mason jars etc.  By shopping in bulk for beans, rice, white flour, sugar, grains etc you pay a fraction per pound compared to the smaller packages.  The same goes for spices.  I can get 1 lb of spices for the same or less than buying one little bottle at the grocery store.  (Yes there is controversy as to how long spices will last... ours last much longer than what you read on the internet.  Feel fre

Greetings to my Titus 2 sisters, Here's a post from my old homestead blog about canning rice.  I used to love canning (and dehydrating) anything I could get my hands on and now that we're in the van full time it's far in the past.  It is fun digging through the homestead blog seeing what we used to do, though now all our time is for the service of the Lord. Enjoy. ******************************** We really like rice...a lot...with basmati brown rice being our favorite but it takes 45 minutes to cook on the regular stove and sometimes much longer on the woodstove.  (Nothing beats a pot of steaming rice with a hunk of butter and a generous dose of salt.  Yum).  Normally we don't eat a lot of canned rice but we sure like to have a few jars on the shelf for those last minute dinners that we forgot to prepare for.  It's great to take a jar of home canned rice, mix it in with home canned beans ( click here to learn how to can your own beans) and add some salsa to