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Slow Cooker Season Is Here. USDA Says Never Add Frozen Meat, and Here’s Why
Cool mornings mean it’s slow cooker season again. Toss in a cheap cut of meat, some vegetables and broth, and …
Got a Bushel of Pears? Here’s the USDA-Tested Way to Can Them at Home
Pears are one of the easiest fruits to put up for winter. Under tested USDA procedures, halved pears go in …
Turn Fall Cabbage Into Months of Sauerkraut With Just Salt, a Crock and Time
Long before refrigerators, families kept cabbage through the winter by turning it into sauerkraut. It still works, and it may …
Review of 22 Studies Finds Dairy’s Natural Trans Fats Didn’t Raise Heart Risk
For decades, “trans fat” has been one of the scariest phrases on a food label. But a new review argues …
October’s Best Pantry Buy? Here’s Why Winter Squash Can Keep for Months
October is when winter squash takes over farm stands, garden beds and grocery bins. Butternut, acorn, buttercup, delicata, Hubbard and …
How to Dry Apples at Home So They Last Up to a Year
Apple season is here, and if you have a tree, a farm stand nearby or a good sale at the …
Oats, Rye, Cabbage and Herring: What a 64,000-Person Study Found About the Nordic Diet
Most diet advice comes with a shopping list of pricey imports: olive oil, avocados, specialty powders. The Nordic diet is …
Cooking Dry Beans to Save Money? Never Start These in a Slow Cooker. Just 4 or 5 Undercooked Kidney Beans Can Make You Sick.
Chili season is here, and few things stretch a grocery budget like a bag of dry beans. One pound of …
Same Calories, Different Body Response: What a New Ultra-Processed Food Study Found
ultra-processed food, whole foods, insulin, blood sugar, Virginia Tech, healthy eating A calorie is a calorie, right? A new study …
Frost Is Coming. Here Are 4 Safe Ways to Save Your Green Tomatoes
The first frost is coming, and your tomato vines are still loaded with hard green fruit. Don’t let them go …
Ground Beef Is Nearly $7 a Pound. Here’s How to Stretch Every Pound.
A pound of ground beef now costs about $6.92 on average, according to the latest federal price data. That’s for …
Canning Pumpkin This Fall? Cube It, Don’t Mash It. Here’s the Safe Method.
October is pumpkin month. Farm stands are full, and a few pie pumpkins can go a long way. If you …
Regular or Decaf, Coffee Was Linked to Lower Stress in a New Irish Study
Good news for anyone who switched to decaf and worried they were missing out: a new study suggests some of …
Turn 21 Pounds of Fall Apples Into 7 Quarts of Applesauce, the Safe, Tested Way
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Fiber is both diet fad and fixture for good health – a doctor explains why there is no one‑size‑fits‑all way to increase your intake
The numbers are clear: Americans aren’t getting enough fiber. Research has consistently shown that high-fiber diets are linked to significant …
The Egg That Never Saw a Chicken: What’s Really in Your Protein Bar
Walk down the baking aisle or grab a protein bar off the shelf, and there’s a decent chance the “egg” …
Jam making in a 1916 kitchen
Today I went to Green Briar Jam Kitchen, America’s Oldest Jam Kitchen. Since 1903, they have been the makers of …
Best Tallow Rendering Guide I Have Ever Watched
This is an amazing start-to-finish professional-level guide to rendering your own tallow (beef fat) for use in cooking, skincare, household …
Rosemary and Sea Salt Chickpea Loaf
This loaf contains double the fibre of sourdough, it is high in protein, blood sugar stabilising and fills you up …
This African Tribe Was Eating Carnivore Before It Was Cool — And a Century-Old Study Proves It
Long before “carnivore diet” was a hashtag, a Scottish nutrition scientist and a British colonial doctor stumbled onto living proof …
Neat Jello recipes for July 4th!
Nothing says summer, America and a celebration like Jello! Here are a few recipes to make the weekend fun. Also, …
Blue States Feed Taxpayers to Food-Stamp Wolves
By Scott McClallen President Trump has put states on the hook for waste, fraud, and abuse in the nation’s food …
How to turn a $20 chuck roast into three meals that include two steak dinners!
Not every chuck roast will look like this. Only about the first 12” off the ribeye end of the chuck …
Growing Mushrooms Follow-up
Do you remember this article? Our friend who set up a mushroom farm on his land. https://selfreliancecentral.com/2025/09/16/from-a-reader-growing-mushrooms-on-logs/ Well, he’s got …
One Man’s War: The Biochemist Who Took On the Trans Fat Machine
Who Took On the Trans Fat Machine In the shadow of processed food empires and entrenched medical dogma, a lone …
3-ingredient zero-flour cottage cheese bread – Viral video that looks delicious
Just cottage cheese + eggs + a few basics. It’s gluten-free and sky-high in protein 🚨 OBSESSED with this viral …
Amazingly useful guide to preparing different doughs
1. Basic Bread Dough Ingredients • 3 cups flour • 1 tbsp sugar • 1 tbsp yeast • 1 tsp …
Growing spuds vertically! Genius space-saving idea
I saw this on @ModernLiving_X It shows how to grow potatoes vertically in milk crates. It’s a great use of …
A Wake-Up Call on Candy: Arsenic Levels That Might Surprise You
We all grab a handful of candy for a quick smile—kids after school, movie nights, holiday treats. But a recent …