As I work through the 20 lbs of pears we picked the other day, it occurs to me $20 can go a long way.
We ate breakfasts of yogurt, honey and pears (breakfast under $1). We ate them plain in our lunch kits. I turned them into a batch of pear jam for a few dollars a jar ( a storebought jar fetches almost $10 now). With a little elbow grease of peeling, coring preventing browning by dipping them in water and lemon juice, then putting them into jars and waterbath canning them, they became ten jars of shelf stable goodies to enjoy in the winter months. The pears that didn’t make the cut for the jars became pear sauce, almost 3 cups worth. We had some with our roast pork hock, beets/turnip/ carrot hash for lunch and will enjoy the rest for dessert through the week. I have one more batch of sweet and hot chili sauce to make that calls for two pears.
The cores, peels, and brown bits went to the chickens who will turn them into eggs and compost. I could have turned them into vinegar but I still have apples to work through.
$20 may not seem like a lot of money nowadays. But goodness, isn’t it lovely when it is a never ending bag of yellow gold?
love Jenn xx