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One thing you need to do is get a canning book that tells you which foods need only a hot water canning or whether you need a pressure canning pot. All in all I will show you a couple of different vegetables that we preserve for ourselves and this on will not require a pressure canner.
Preparing and canning Tomato sauce:
Wash your garden tomatoes in cold water,I filter my water to remove flouride and chlorine.Add a couple of capfuls of hydrogen peroxide per gallon of water and simply wash the tomatoes.
 Core the tomatoes and cut them into quarters, fill a saucepot with whatever you have. Bring tomatoes to a boil then cut heat back. Use a potatoe masher or somthing similar to crush the mix ocasionally for about an hour. this allows water to be cooked out.Let Mixture cool a bit while preparing jars for canning.
Using Ball brand Jars or any brand you have available, you will need pot of water deep enough to cover the jars completly,you will want to have at least one inch of water over the tops of the jars. Bring water to boil and take out only the jars you are going to fill when ready.
While those jars are sterilizing get an empty pot or bowel. Find a metal mesh pasta strainer itm works best for me. Set strainer over the pot and compress tomatoes down and the juice will strain through the strainer. Continue pressing until all juice has been expelled.
In the clean jars that you are ready to use,add one teaspoon of lemon juice and one teaspoon of organic canning salt to each one.Fill jars with tomatoe sauce leaving one inch of head space.
Make sure rim of jar is clean,wipe it with paper towel befor you install lids. Remove lid from hot water and set in evenly on top of jar. Install ring and tighten it securely.
Don’t overtighten as you will need to remove ring after cooling.
After you submerge the jar it should have at least one inch of water above lid. Leave jar in water for 40 minutes before removing. Lay a small towel out on the counter to set your completed jars. Now you are an expert canner.
You will hear the jars begin to pop as they cool. This is a good sign because they have sealed. Leave the product to cool overnight before you decide to remove the rings.After you remove them, wash around the top to prevent mold and store the jars in the cabinet. They last for years. I have eaten food canned from 8 years prior.
Learn how to eat for energy. We all feel the need to have more energy most of the time. Is your hectic schedule draining all your energy from your body? Do you feel tired or just out of “gas” when you finish exercising? Do you think you are doing all you can to maintain the highest energy level you possibly can?
Your body needs to be full of life at all times:
- When you sleep, your body needs tremendous energy to eliminate waste.
- When you get up in the morning you must feel happy and anxious to get with it.
- If and when you exercise, your body needs to be operating in the best possible shape to make you feel very alive.
If you are still reading it is because you know what I am talking about.
- You normally feel pretty good but not always?
- You feel something missing and can’t explain that feeling?
- You eat well and still feel something is missing?
- Your mind plays games with you, wonders from time to time, and you just don’t get it?
Eating raw foods for energy will change your feelings. It will stabilize your vision of what is wrong. Eating the right foods have helped develop a clear picture of what I was going through. I feel at least ten years younger and I can’t believe it took me all this time to understand how eating is so important to my every day energy level.
Start today, eating for energy is all your body wants. It needs the “high octane” levels of fuel to ensure maximum performance at all times. From the moment you get up in the morning to the time your eyes close at night, your body must be in the best shape in can be both physically and mentally. Food for thought.
Originally, all foods were “organic” – grown and prepared without pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, hormones, irradiation to prevent spoilage, and microwave cooking.
Our food these days, whether of vegetable or animal origin, is not only deficient in
nutrients but also full of pollutants and farm chemicals. The modern denaturing of
foods through massive refining and chemical treatment deeply affects their
Energy qualities, making them devoid of the exact boost that we should be
getting from our food.
Not only are they not giving us that KICK that we need, but many Energy
foods could actually be making us sick. As pesticides get lodged and increase in our
tissues, the immune system becomes weakened, allowing other carcinogens and
pathogens to affect our health. Yuck!
Top five reasons to shop and eat organic foods
1. Fresh organic produce contains on average 50% more vitamins, minerals,
enzymes and other micronutrients than intensively farmed produce.
2. If you eat dairy or meat products, eating organic has never been more essential to
safeguard your health. Intensively reared dairy cows and farm animals are fed
dangerous antibiotics, growth hormones, anti-parasite drugs and many other
medicines on a daily basis, whether they have an illness or not. These drugs are
passed directly onto the consumers of their dairy or meat, which contribute to
meat-related diseases like coronaries and high blood pressure.
3. Organic produce simply tastes better. Fruit and vegetables are much more full of
flavor. Experiment with an organic carrot and a conventionally grown carrot. Which
is sweeter?
4. Organic food is not really more expensive than intensively farmed foods, as we
pay for conventional foods through our taxes. We spend billions of dollars every
year cleaning up the mess that agrochemicals make in our natural water supply.
5. The few extra cents you pay for organic food may save you hundreds, if not
thousands of dollars in doctors’ bills.
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If you are worried about the kind of stuff (read insecticides and pesticides) which go into your stomach along with the food you eat, then perhaps, you may consider cooking a healthy meal using organic food. So what does organic food mean? And how is cooking with organic food more healthy for you?
When you go shopping for food, do you look for the green USDA label which says that the food you are buying is organic? Probably not. You are probably wondering if it matters all that much after all. Well, it does.
Typically, when you eat food, you are pretty much ingesting a whole lot of chemicals – and it doesn’t matter if you washed it. These chemicals are inside the food or the meat that you are going to eat. After you eat them, they are going to remain inside your body – and perhaps get passed down to the children you may have. Not a pretty picture, is it?
Organic food is the kind of food which is made without the use of chemicals like insecticides and pesticides. This is the kind of food which is naturally grown. It is often not genetically modified.
Organic farmers use natural fertilizers such as manure and compost to fertilize their plants. In order to prevent insects and pests, these organic farms prefer to use beneficial insects and birds, and techniques to prevent the mating of pests. They also use traps to catch pests. To make sure that the soil retains its nutrient content, these farmers practice crop rotation. They remove weeds by hand or use mulch to manage the weeds.
Organic animal farming is also used so that we can have organic meat and poultry. Animals at such farms are given organic feed and they are allowed to go outdoors. Preventive measures like rotational grazing and clean housing are used to prevent disease. These animals are given a balanced diet which does not include chemicals to boost their growth.
The end result: food which is naturally grown and contains all the natural nutrients and vitamins. And best of all, this food is free of chemicals and genetically modified components which may harm you and your children. In the long run, organic food can even prevent diseases such as obesity, Alzheimer’s and Cancer. And these foods are tastier than you could ever imagine!
This is why, more than ever, nowadays people are looking for healthy cooking options. Organic food provides you with the most basic raw material which you require for cooking healthy. Also, cooking with organic foods means not having to use highly processed foods. Flavors are usually enhanced using sea salt or kosher salt in the place of iodized salt. Many organic cooks even avoid using microwaves to cook the food – preferring to use the stove instead. They also prefer to reduce the quantity of liquids like stocks, sauces and and tomatoes (a high water content food) to enhance the taste of a dish. They also prefer to use organic, unsalted butter for baking and cooking.
These and many such tips and tricks will help you cook healthy and eat healthy – helping you to live healthy.
 
With the development of the consumer society, home agriculture has decayed more and more. Plus, the chances of growing food independently, in urban areas is next to zero, and one depends on hypermarket chains and markets for the necessary supplies. Whole industries have grown out of the food demand, and the advantages of organic food have been forgotten by many of us. We are sometimes too busy, too ignorant or uninterested in the consume of naturally grown products. In the following lines we’ll make a brief attempt at underlining the benefits of organic food once more, in the hope that more and more people will get back to nature.
The most important of the benefits of organic food is that it has a total positive impact on the body system. Such food contains no chemicals, food additives or preservers, it has no risk of genetic modification and the cultures from which it comes are completely herbicide and insecticide free. This means that the nutritional value and the quality of the food is the real thing that the human body needs to function within optimal parameters. More nutrients thus create the major benefits over items resulting from mass crops.
Lots of studies have been conducted in order to expose the benefits of organic food to a larger number of consumers. Thus, statistics indicate that there are more trace minerals, more vitamins and anti-oxidants in the food. People who suffer from chronic health problems should only use organic food, and here we refer to cancer patients in particular. The chemicals and fertilizers that are spread on the crops for the production increase, pass into the fruits, vegetables and the rest of the food items and then into the consumer’s body, leading to gradual intoxication.
All the benefits of organic food could in fact be reduced to a singular concept: that of health convenience. If you are curious to analyze things in depth, you’ll find out that there are dozens of studies, articles and materials that depict the advantages of the organic food. If people were more careful with what they ate, the number of diseases would decrease and so would mortality rates. The market thus changes its demands and hopefully evolves towards a healthier, safer future.
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