Fall Havest Foods
By Wordjunkie
@Wordjunkie (435)
Canada
September 22, 2010 8:41am CST
So it officially fall! Harvest time! I love this time of year. All the markets fill up with the fall harvest foods such as pumpkin, squash, carrots, potatoes, beets, turnips, etc. and all the prices go down. I usually stock up in fall to last all winter. I buy bigger bags of potatoes (because they keep longer), I start buying lots of vegetables and prepare, blanch and freeze to stock up for winter. Sometimes I bottle food too, like tomatoes and fruit, so I can have fresh all winter and not have to pay the high price of purchasing these all winter. This can be time consuming but well worth the effort. What is available at the market this time of the year where you live? Do you freeze and/or bottle anything?
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
22 Sep 10
Pretty much the same thing as you have, but this year we have a bumper crop of apples. I have a unch in my freezer right now, the bottom bins in the fridge, and still more outdoors to pick.
@Wordjunkie (435)
• Canada
22 Sep 10
Wow, I forgot to mention the apples we always have tons and tons of apples. Good time to stock up on apples too. I put some in my basement too with the potatoes, I keep the basement cooler so I can store veggies longer. I make apple sauce too and I peel them wash then, dry them real good and freeze them for making apple pies for Thanksgiving and Christmas, Yum, Yum.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
22 Sep 10
Our season is coming to an end...just squash and pumpkins now...most of the cukes and tomatoes etc are all done for the year here up north...its so nice to get some of the fresh veggies though...they taste so much better then store bought!
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@Wordjunkie (435)
• Canada
22 Sep 10
Yes, they do taste so much better, that's why I try to freeze and bottle some every fall so I can enjoy them over the winter when they get very hard to find in the grocery store except in very small expensive frozen packages. If I am going to have to eat frozen, may as well be done the way I want them done without a lot of preservatives and additives, and at a price that I can afford. :)
