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Get meals under control with  STEP BY STEP instruction recipe booklet with crystal clear snacks, homemade pantry staples, and freezer meal recipes perfect for beginners that will please the whole family!

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5 Canning Recipes & 5 Freezer Meal Recipes to Win at Meal Planning

What always overwhelmed me about meal planning was it was so much planning. Don’t laugh because I’m totally serious. I love canning because it allows me to stock my pantry with ready-cooked ingredients for cooking and snacks for me and the kids. And, it’s inherently NOT-planning. The recipes that I compiled with my good friend Elisa of www.mealplanningblueprints.com  are a combination of snacks, homemade pantry staples, and freezer meals so you have a little bit of planning, a little bit of flexibility, and none of the what’s-for-supper madness.

With this booklet, you’ll master:

Best Berry Jam
Tomato Sauce
Strawberry Kiwi Lemonade Concentrate
Apple Butter
Carrot Pickles
French Dip Sandwiches
Apricot BBQ Wings
Chicken Tortilla Soup
Loaded Potato Soup
Man-Pleasing Chicken
Meal planning + jar planning = time freedom and meal flexibility!

Having fully cooked staples like tomato sauce and apple butter on the pantry shelf and full meals in the freezer like loaded potato soup and french dip sandwiches mean no more impatient “What’s for dinner??” and instead you’ll be hearing, “Yum!” and, “More, please!”

Downloadable and printable, as well as easily viewed on your mobile phone, this recipe booklet will guide you from meal planning overload to confident and cool mealtimes.

I truly think it’s a no-overwhelm collection of recipes that will help you get rolling with meal planning and canning in a low-key way (low key is the name of the game, right?!)

Get the 10 Canning & Freezer Meal Recipes here!

Worried about the canning portion? Don’t be! I teach beginners all the time in my Free Canning Basics Course!

You can sign up to learn easy-peasy canning right here-

What produce is in season now? This post will tell you which fruit and vegetables are ripe and in season. There’s a great graphic you can pin to Pinterest to reference any time and you’ll never wonder what’s in season again. Read on for the post!

We’ve all done it: We’ve opened the fruits and vegetables drawer in our fridge only to find out that something has gone rotten, and far sooner than we expected it to. It’s disappointing, and it’s a hard pinch on our wallets, too. No one wants to throw those strawberries that cost a pretty penny—you want to eat them.

There might be a reason for that waste that you haven’t considered, and a way to save yourself the agony of throwing things away (and save some cash, too): think about produce seasonally.

Most people don’t do this. Within reason, they buy what they want to buy at the grocery store, and then they take it home. But a lot of that produce had to trek hundreds, if not thousands, of miles to get to you, meaning it has a greater risk of spoiling when you get it home. So how do you look at things more seasonally? This graphic explains it.

Big thanks to https://zerocater.com for this graphic!

The idea of buying fruit and veggies when they taste the best, are the closest to locally grown as possible, AND are the least expensive all seems too good to be true but that’s exactly what buying in season means.

When you buy in season produce, you can purchase BULK, and then preserve, quickly and easily, wholesome jars with canning.

If you are canning curious, sign up for my FREE Canning Basics Course 

In the Free Canning Basics Course, you’ll get easy, fast lessons on how to preserve ripe, fresh fruit and veggies, in a way that fits your busy, modern life. Dive in today!