Epic Fail-Epic Win

A friend of our's who has a catering company gave us a huge box of potatoes.  In my attempt to be domestic, frugal and prepared I tried  making my own hashbrowns.  I baked the potatoes first and then tried to grate them and put them on a sheet pan to freeze.  They were too gummy and sticky and froze into yucky dried out clumps.  So we won't be making our own hashbrowns I guess.

In other news I did make 22 jars of strawberry freezer jam.  I bought a flat of strawberries from Bountiful Baskets Easter weekend and made the jam on Monday April 1.  The berries were going bad pretty fast.  I didn't have room in my fridge though for them so that is probably why.  I forgot to take a picture before I put them in the freezer though. I didn't need to make strawberry jam, I needed raspberry jam.  I think I gave away about 6 jars but we still have lots and lots of jam.

Jars of Plenty

My mom gave me my Christmas present-a Food Saver with lots of accessories-earlier at Thanksgiving and ever since then we have been bottling things like mad!  We've bottled the essentials like Goldfish and Swedish Fish and MandM's plus some other important things like Grits and brown sugar.  We also used the actual vacuum packing part and sealed asparagus and spinach that we have put in the freezer.  Thank goodness that we will be prepared.  I think my goldfish and Girl Scout cookies will be a hot commodity when we are all living on the 1000 pounds of wheat under the stairs.