{"id":1326,"date":"2011-05-29T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2011-05-29T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T07:00:22","slug":"q-and-a-long-term-food-storage-and-canning-butter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/05\/29\/q-and-a-long-term-food-storage-and-canning-butter\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Long-term food storage and canning butter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Long-term food storage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In Vickie Tate\u2019s article on &#8220;7 mistakes of food storage&#8221; she says not to use trash bag liners in buckets. Since I have already done that. Would you recommend that I rebag the food ? I look at the bag box and it says not recommended for food storage but nothing about pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Don Cogger<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Twin Falls, Idaho<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I would not use trash bags to line buckets. Personally, I don&#8217;t use any liners in my buckets. Some foods, I just place in the buckets in their own bags: like chocolate chips, sugar, and pasta. Other bulk foods like wheat, popcorn, rice, etc. I just pour into the bucket and seal it. I&#8217;ve never had any issue with storage problems that way. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canning butter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>My canned butter is too salty! Can I substitute 50% unsalted butter to the salted and be ok? I only use quality butter, Champion or Land O&#8217; Lakes. I live in Central East Texas so I keep butter indoors, dark and cool.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Susan Blouch<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Oakwood, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can even can up unsalted butter if you want. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term food storage In Vickie Tate\u2019s article on &#8220;7 mistakes of food storage&#8221; she says not to use trash bag liners in buckets. Since I have already done that. Would you recommend that I rebag the food ? I look at the bag box and it says not recommended for food storage but nothing about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}