ScrubbieLady

First they recommend or it is voluntary, then they go to mandatory(usually because people don't fall in line and get it done).

Since they started using bar codes, the checkers don't have to worry. The cash register checks your purchases to see if you have the correct bar code in there. If you haven't, it will kick the coupon.

Since it is a blood test, could they be looking for anything else while they are there.

(See I have a tin foil hat also).

Hi Highdesertgirl,

 

I put 1/2 teaspoon of beef boullion granules into each 12 oz jar (my favorite size jar). For chicken, I put 1/2 teaspoon of chicken boullion granules into each 12 oz jar.

 

Hope this helps

 

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Where do you get 12 oz jars? All I can find is half-pint (8 oz), pint (16 oz) and quart (32 oz).

I was sick at 7 1/2 months pregnant. OB said to take dramamine (motion sickness pills). Worked.

They stopped putting coupons in our paper. At least the Sunday edition. So, we stopped getting it. We have a couple of places that double but a lot don't and some are getting really picky (for instance they won't take a coupon for a free product or will only let you use one coupon for each product). If you have two coupons and want to buy two products, tough, you can't use the second coupon.

We have the big display of canning jars and other things canning at our Wal-Mart but the prices don't work. I don't pay more than $7 for jelly or pint canning jars and even the generic WM jars are more than that.

Around here, we plant onions in February but hubby likes some of the sweet onions so maybe I will try them now. They don't store so well. Thanks for the ideas.

Don't buy "back-to-school" anymore. Still using what I bought when I was homeschooling( 7 years ago).

Just a note about backpacks. Around here, they do go on clearance later but my best prices have been at the Goodwill. Very nice backpack, clean, no damage, $3. Only bought one backpack per child but I spent the money and got one that had a lifetime warranty. We still have it. It has been returned once for the zipper to be repaired. No charge except for what it cost me to send it to them. East something. I would have to dig it out to get the name but it will be on the backpack. They were sold at a community college book store.

We are in zone 7b and thinking about a fall garden. Do you grow one? What do you grow?

I only buy all-purpose so don't worry about it but the test of feel sounds like a good way to find out.

Nice ANewMe but be a little wary on telling them all you have. No one needs to know everything about others, including them telling you what they have. If the time comes when you all have to depend on each other there is time enough then to sort it all out.

 

New friends that both you and your DH like AND kids the same age as your children is great. Enjoy getting accquainted with them.

I agree. Wait until you know them much better. You really don't know if his definition of "prepper" is the same as yours. Oh, but if they do think like you do and ya'll are friends and the kids have friends can mean so much.

17 pints of tomatoes today. Last Friday it was 9 half-pints of crabapple jelly and 10 half-pints of wild plum jelly.

We were using crabapples from the same tree (we picked together). The plums were from my trees for both batches. BUT, we used the same quantity of juice. And mine set up beautifully.

Wierd but I didn't know how to word it. I made some crab apple jelly and plum jelly today. The crab apple takes 5C of juice and 7C of sugar. I wound up with 9 jelly jars. The plum takes 5 1/2C of juice and 7 1/2C of sugar. I would up with 10 jars.

Now, here is the question. I talked to my friend and she said that USING THE SAME RECIPE she only got 5 jelly jars. Mine has set up just fine and looks great. Sealed quickly. But, am I doing something wrong to have so much more than she does from the same recipe?

Actually, I usually have lemon juice on hand. If I forget to pick up lemon juice, who's to say I won't forget to order the citric acid as needed. I was just wondering if in a pinch, I could use lime juice.

Yep, no lemon juice, only lime available. I don't live close enough to anything to run to the store for that. Closest was 7 miles away and they didn't have lemon juice. Next is another 10 miles.

My tomato recipe calls for lemon juice to increase the acidity. Can I substitute lime juice?

Felt good that I put up 16 pints of tomatoes this morning until I talked to my buddy and she put up 56 pints over 3 days. And she's sick. That doesn't count the corn and other things she did during the same time period.

Per my hubby. Nope, I had a plastic plant one time and little plastic bugs ate it up.

I can load fast enough so I don't bother with youtube but the answer to the topic heading is "NO".

Wonder how long until this winds up not being voluntary.

This is why pressure canning of tomatoes is now the recommended procedure.

 

This is news to me. When did this happen?

I have a suggestion for them, make the monuments and memorials off limits to politicians on these types of holidays. Especially ones running for office but trying to make like this is a presidential speech.