What are you canning now?

[3goodeggs]

Do a search for tupelo honey and diabetic diets.
I remember it having beneficial affects, but as you know, there are a lot of claims out there.
Up the protein lower the carbs and exercise.
Not sweet, or satisfying but the best option.

 

[jomoncon]

I make my sugar-free jams using concentrated stevia & agave. Some diabetics can take agave. Some cannot. I've also tried truvia, and that works, but it's expensive.

Experiment with a small batch & see how you like them. Also look at using Pomona pectin. Their website, http://www.pomonapectin.com/ , has a lot of info on sugar-free jams.

Sugar-free jams do not last very long once opened, usually just 2-3 weeks. I tell my customers to freeze half the jar if they don't think they'll use it all up within 2-3 weeks.

 

[PlaidBattleAxe]

I've got the urge to start squirreling everything away for winter, and started canning/freezing in early June (I think I've got a serious problem lol, but where I live, I feel like fall is coming early. The leaves are turning, I can smell the tell-tale crispness in the night air.... I can't explain it, but I really think it is coming early this year).

So far I've got: 1 crop of spinach in the freezer (8 gallon bags), 1 crop of blanched beet greens in the freezer (12 gallon bags), 20 gallon bags of shredded zucchini in the freezer, and 4 quarts of pickled beets (My beets didn't grow very large, and the greens were starting to turn, so I had to pick them. It's my fault for not thinning them like I was supposed to!!).

I am going to can a good portion of whatever venison we get this fall. Anyone have any good recipes for canned meat that they'd like to share?

 

[3goodeggs]

My son said the same thing this morning. We are expecting 95+degrees today, so I just rolled my eyes at him. maybe he was right. Winter's coming!


@rancher hicks
This is not for canning, and the honey and fruit sugars will still count.

http://www.livestrong.com/recipes/chia-strawberry-spread/

 

[Raech]

There is are a lot of diabetic cookbook at the library. I had to look when I found out about Grandpa being borderline, then I returned it when he said he "isn't going to eat any of the crap, I'm 89 if I want to die I will eat your baking(I bake ALOT) I am just going to limit the amount of sugar." He is very ornery, but I love him most of the time. I think it is sick how you don't even have to finish a form for something and they already were calling you. It is a cookbook not a drug, insurance should not be factored into it, I know that some insurances will pay for that stuff, but it is still ridiculous.

 

[rancher hicks]

Raech this stuff happens far to much. The Tide ad is another one, where they get all your infor and then say, they're sorry they're out.

3goodeggs@ I've found recipes for jam with sugar substitutes but they're not "canning" recipes and must go in the fridge or freezer. I haven't looked at your recipe yet.

I swear this diabetes thing is serious stuff and more research needs to be done to find some help for diabetics.

 

[KentuckyMom]

Today I canned 8 1/2 pints of pear butter. Yesterday I canned more bread and butter pickles.
I am still trying to figure out the no sugar canning. My Mom is diabetic and my Dad was as well. Even with the no sugar pectin the consistency of the jams are always "off" and the taste is not quite right. It is frustrating. I can using sugar for my family but try and can a few things that my Mom can try too without sugar.

 

[rancher hicks]

I give up. I'll come back to diabetic jams another time.

I've really got to get moving on canning. I think this business with DW has us both in a funk.

 

[erinszoo]

Check out some paleo sites for sugar and flour free recipes. There are some really good recipes out there. You can make a jam using chia seed to thicken it instead of pectin and sugar with either honey or stevia to sweeten. There's also monk fruit out now that's a sweetener but I haven't tried it for anything but iced tea which we like it in better than the stevia.

I'm not sure what the "paleo sites" you're talking about are.  

I'm trying to find a substitute for sugar that won't cause an insulin reaction for diabetics. Aqave and Honey do. Most fruits do contain sugar too.  I believe Stevia doesn't cause a reaction, but there are differing opinions about it's safety. 

Most efforts to find sugar free substitutes have to do with caloric in take and while products have zero calories they do cause an insulin reaction. 

A paleo diet is great for diabetics because it eliminates simple carbohydrates in all forms not just sugar. Wheat flour is just as bad.

But I digress from canning.

Put up 6 more quarts of chicken. Have chicken stock and more tomatoes to do. And now apples. However I think given the infrequency of our apple pie filling usage, we may be making hard apple cider and apple jack this year.

 

[rancher hicks]

A paleo diet is great for diabetics because it eliminates simple carbohydrates in all forms not just sugar. Wheat flour is just as bad.

But I digress from canning.

Put up 6 more quarts of chicken. Have chicken stock and more tomatoes to do. And now apples. However I think given the infrequency of our apple pie filling usage, we may be making hard apple cider and apple jack this year.

What is a Paleo diet?