Your fitness, health, and well-being depend on food and proper nutrition. Yet, knowing what is in the foods we eat, understanding the differences between good and bad fat, learning which foods are good sources of vitamins, keeping up on the latest scientific discoveries, or discerning the effectiveness of different diets can be challenging. To help answer these questions there's The Handy Nutrition Answer Book. Additionally, the book scrutinizes the...

Trust The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing, and Sausage Making to ensure you get the most out of your beef, venison, pork, lamb, poultry, and goat. Everything you need to know about how to dress and preserve meat is right here. From slaughtering, to processing, to preserving in ways like smoking and salting, author Philip Hasheider teaches it all. Detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations guide you through the entire process:...

"Make healthier life choices to heal yourself and the environment through self-sufficiency. Holistic Homesteading by Roxanne Ahern provides the tools for living slowly, intentionally, and better through permaculture, edible gardening, and organic farming." -- Amazon.

"Keep you pantry stocked throughout the year with delicious, homegrown vegetables, fruits, and herbs! Choose your favorites from 55 popular crops. In-depth profiles guide you in selecting the best varieties, determining how much to grow, and using the most effective harvesting and preserving methods for each plant. With Barbara Pleasant's proven techniques, you'll enjoy the bounty of your garden year-round." -- Page [4] cover.

"Canning Full Circle breaks the mold of traditional canning cookbooks by demonstrating how to preserve your favorite foods and use them in meals, desserts, drinks, and more! Create delicious dishes like Black Bean Casserole, Fruit Cocktail Cake, and authentic Chicken Posole. This revolutionary cookbook keeps your pantry--and stomachs--full no matter the season. Not a home canner? No problem! Canning Full Circle includes recipes, tips, and techniques...

"A complete beginner's guide to walk you through the different processes of canning fruit and other homegrown produce, Canning Essentials simplifies food preservation so that even today's busiest people can find time to do it themselves. From frozen recipes for berries, beans, peaches, and pumpkins, to canning recipes for apple juice, grape juice, tomatoes, and beets, you'll learn methods for freezing, canning, pressure canning, and water-bath canning....

"Homesteading is small-scale, intensive agriculture with a self-reliant attitude. Since the 1970s--when this book was first published--countless numbers have flocked to the countryside in search of self-sufficiency and refuge from cities and suburbs. This is the book that guided them. And now, 50 years later, it is finally back in print for a new generation of aspiring homesteaders. Written in simple, direct language, The Owner-Built Homestead contains...

Freda uses jars to save everything from a chocolate chip cookie to the full moon, just as her grandmother saves summer blueberries.

This edition includes information on how to preserve with less sugar and salt, how to freeze for the microwave, preservation and canning for the small family, canning convenience foods, and making Christmas presents. It also shows the best ways to can, freeze, pickle, dry, cure, and preserve with the newest procedures and processing times.