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The “Pantry Peace” Challenge!

Did you ever think there would come a time – in our lifetime – when we would be dealing with food limits and shortages here in America?  I didn’t.  I generally have a well stocked pantry, but it certainly wasn’t because I was afraid of a pandemic and a Quarantine.  (It’s because I save money by buying while things are…
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Using Your Pantry To Bless Your World – Holiday Challenge!

We all have different reasons for stocking our pantry, but one of the most compelling reasons is so that we can be instantly ready to help someone in need or make someone’s day a little brighter.  A well stocked pantry will make it possible to bless others with food, without breaking the already-overextended budget.  Today I’m going to share with…
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How to Can Fruits and Vegetables Safely

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Which Canner Should I Buy For Canning Fruit? (Water Bath Canning Supplies)

In a previous post, I explained that we select which type of canner to purchase based on what kind of food we are planning to can.  I talked about how fruit, tomatoes and pickles have a high pH level and vegetables, beans and meat have a low pH (or acid) level.  Now why does all this talk about the acidity…
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Ph Scale of Fruits and Vegetables

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Which Canner Should I Buy? (Water Bath vs Pressure Canning)

If you’re just getting started canning you’re obviously going to need a canner. Basically, your canner is the big pot that you put the jars of food in to process them in to kill bacteria and get the jars to seal.  In this post I will explain the difference between  water bath vs pressure canning to help you know exactly…
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How To Get Miss Picky-Pants To Eat

My biological children are not picky eaters. They’ll eat practically anything you put in front of them. So when we began hosting orphans from Eastern Europe and I was told in our training, “Don’t expect them to enjoy healthy food!” I thought to myself, “Boy Howdy! This might be HARD.  At our house, there is nothing but healthy food! How…
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Where To Buy Cheap Mason Jars

I was talking to another mom the other day who said, “When I was a young Mom I would have loved to stock my pantry with whole foods, but just the cost of the of the jars alone would have sent me to the poor house.” I understand how she felt.  Brand new, I can usually pay $8 for a…
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Should I Stock My Pantry? 6 Facts That May Surprise You

When I first shared that I wanted to write a blog all about stocking your pantry, people looked at me like I had a mason jar growing out of the side of my head.  “A pantry is a place to put food,” they said.  “What could there possibly be to write about?”  But during the first several years that I…
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The Evolution of My Pantry

I’d like to share with you how my pantry has changed through the different seasons of my life.  It’s easy to look at the way I run my kitchen now and think “Wow, she’s really got it all together.”  But that wasn’t always the case.  Jon Acuff says, “Never compare your beginning with someone else’s middle.”  Today, I want to…
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How I Became A Pantry Insider

Once upon a time, I didn’t spend very much time thinking about what or how much was in my pantry. After all, if I needed something, I could just run out to the store and get it. And that’s exactly what I did for many, many years. My Newlywed Years When we first got married, I had no clue what…
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The Evolution of My Pantry
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Using Your Pantry To Bless Your World – Holiday Challenge!
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The “Pantry Peace” Challenge!
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Hi! I'm AlinaJoy Dubois... Healthy Eater, Happy Wife, and (Very!) Busy Mom of 5 sweet children. (Well, 3 sweet ones and 2 adventurous ones!) I'm often asked how I manage to feed a family of 7 real food without spending hours and hours in the kitchen preparing everything from scratch or without spending hours online researching mysterious ingredients. On this site, I hold nothing back. I show you all my secrets so that you can confidently feed your family healthy, real foods, in a way that is convenient and doesn't break the bank. Read More…

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