Food Storage Week

On Tuesday, Aug. 26, Heather, Livvy, Noelle, Maxon, Addi and I all loaded into Heather's car and headed down to Blanding for food storage week. Heather had suggested awhile before this that we try to find a week when all the women in the family could get together and work on our food storage. After we realized finding a full week when we could all do it was going to be impossible we scaled back and decided to do a food storage Saturday once a month. Then mom suggested that since we were all coming down to go out to the Colorado cabin over Labor Day weekend maybe the women could go down early and spend a couple of days canning and dry canning. Stacy and Kera couldn't make it but we decided we'd still do it.

We started out Wednesday morning canning Grandma Black's awesome chili, and taco sauce. We canned and canned and canned. By the time we were done we had a few bottles done and we wondered how in the world Grandma does it. She's 92 and we're all a lot younger than that (not going to admit how much younger however!) and we were all dead tired! Grandma ROCKS!


Thursday morning we started canning again, adding beans today. In the afternoon we went to Grandma Black's house so she could teach us how to make her wonderful spud-nuts (just think Krispy Kreme donuts) and cake donuts (MY FAVORITE!). We spent the afternoon, mixing, rolling, cutting, frying, glazing, and frosting donuts. Again, by the time we were done we were exhasted but they were delish! I know I ate way too many but I can not resist Grandma's donuts. Luckily we made so many that even with all the ones we ate we didn't put in a dent in them so we had tons to take out to Colorado on Friday to share with all the men and kids. They were all grateful. After we got done with the donuts we headed to the dry packing shed by the Stake Center. It took about 2 1/2 hours but we got cans and cans of wheat, oats, rice, and sugar done. It was a lot of work but well worth the effort.
92 years old and she kicked our butts mixing those donuts. That woman has some triceps!

The finished products, YUM!

All our hard work ready to go home to the basement.