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The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for Freezing, Drying, and Canning

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I used to feel intimidated about preserving fresh vegetables. I thought all sorts of expensive equipment and a vast knowledge of preserving were needed in order to successfully preserve food. Then I purchased a copy of The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food and was delighted to find that I could almost effortlessly preserve many of the fresh vegetables I grew and still have good results with the finished product. Now, I look forward to a healthy crop of green beans, yellow squash, zucchini, and tomatoes and no longer wonder what I'll do with all of the produce.

I used this book when i was just starting to learn how to can, and it was a savior. Provides detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to can, freezer, and dry store. Also contains great basic receipes to get you started.

The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for Freezing, Drying and Canning is an excellent resource if you need help learning how to preserve food. It gives the preferred preservation method for all different types of fruits and vegetables then also gives alternate methods for each as well. You can definitely preserve produce you buy locally as well as produce you grow using the methods in this book even if you have never done so before.

This is an excellent all-around book for home preserving: root cellaring, canning, freezing and dehydrating. Plenty of recipes and I like how the author rated the final product. For instance, freezing strawberries yields a better end product than canning them. It helps the beginner determine the best way to preserve each fruit or vegetable.

This is an easy book to follow. I've never canned before and this book made it easy. The results were good also.

This book is full of great info, giving different preserving options for the veggies and fruits most frequently harvested by home gardeners.

But if you, like our family, prefer to NOT cook food, especially your organically grown veggies, in plastic "boiling" bags, then you might find some of the advice as frustrating as I did.

Overall, a great starting point, but I'm going to look elsewhere for canning and freezing advice.

I ordered serval books about preserving food and this one was the best. Easy to read and a good starter book for preserving vegtables and herbs.
This is our third year tiling our garden and the most abundant.

Gardening in Massachusetts

The author provides detailed advice for preserving food by freezing, drying, canning, etc. The directions are to-the-point, without a lot of superfluous information. I expected a bit more on reheating in boiling bags (the reason I bought the book), but overall I'm happy I ordered the book.

What an excellent review of all the ways a person might preserve food! Much appreciated is the fact that each chapter is divided into the good, better, and best methods of preserving a particular item. This lets you decide whether blanching your carrots is really worth the time, or if tossing them in the freezer is nearly as good. However, I would have appreciated more photographs of techniques and recipes, but the quality of the book is otherwise top-notch.

A beginner to the canning/preserving process should always check the latest resources for recommendations and guidelines. My copy of this book has a 1995 copyright date, so there are some changes. That being said, I did like the "Tips, Hints, and Other Shortcuts" chapter as well as the "Quick Harvest Meals" chapter. The Quick Harvest Meals chapter could be very beneficial to those who like to cook on weekends for weekday meals.
Overall, I found the book to be very interesting. I wish I could take advantage of the root cellaring information, but here in the deep south, we are out of luck in that department.