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Damian aka louisiana suvivor
Damian aka louisiana suvivor
9 years ago

Johnny six pack was Jack’s nickname back in high school true story. Loving the show Jack!

Damian aka louisiana suvivor
Damian aka louisiana suvivor
9 years ago

I remember you saying that in an old episode! That’s what makes it even better!

Adam
Adam
9 years ago

I found the picky eater is fixed with a garden. My daughter loves just eating things off the vine as do I. I’m okay if kids don’t like things though because I don’t like things, say strawberries from the store 🙂 I love them from my plants though 🙂 I just want the kids to try it first and try it cooked different ways. I found it’s also important to admit daddy screwed up that meal when you cook it wrong 🙂

This issue is fixed with a pantry, if you don’t have it, well they have to eat something you have 🙂

Eric
Eric
9 years ago

I love all the shows and listen almost every day but this is the best show you’ve had for a while. I so appreciate all the information and this back-to-basics stuff is great. Thanks for the hard work, Jack.

bill
bill
9 years ago

I was a single parent PFC after a very short marriage. 1991. We were poor.
I got my 3 and 5 year old kids to eat whatever I cooked.

Step one put as much meat as you can afford (sometimes none) into the hamburger helper recipe.

Step two: put one third onto each person’s plate.

Step three: wolf down my plate in less than 45 seconds, then start wolfing
down the kid’s plates (making little eye contact) while they were still making faces and holding their noses.

Fear of loss is a great motivator. They would recapture their plates,
and eat until satisfied. I never brought up Ethiopians starving, bi-planes, choo choo’s or any such non-sense.

At 7 yrs old my daughter was stove-top cooking the hamburger helper (loosely supervised and upon a sturdy step) or my son 9 yrs was pounding poor cuts of beef, marinating and grilling (caught himself afire a couple of times, but never needed EMS)

The more they were involved in the process the happier they were.

Everybody became a good cook, because we had honest feedback, and
we kind of competed to be the Cook. There we a lot of fails, way too salty…
too mustard… too rare… too overcooked…

Chad
Chad
9 years ago
Reply to  bill

That’s great that you had them in the kitchen that young. I can remember being about that age and my mom teaching me how to make meals because both of them would be gone, driving to work, at 4am and wouldn’t be back until around 5pm. Me and my brother had to get up and get ourselves ready, catch the bus, and then get home and find something else to eat. Kids can do this stuff and I don’t know why everyone thinks they can’t now. My grandma taught me an awful lot also. Teach a kid to make gravy now and he’ll probably be ahead of most other kids his/her age.

Chris
Chris
9 years ago

My brother Frank hounded me to listen to your show and I am grateful that he did. I learned so much from just this show, I cannot thank you enough. Thanks to you I have a plan to start storing food and I wont have to take out a loan to do it.

Thanks again, Chris

Kayzonara
Kayzonara
9 years ago

Timely. I’ve been busy dehydrating garden abundance and good buys.

Pam
Pam
9 years ago

Good review show. I was intrigued by the electric canner you mentioned as I find my big pressure cooker bulky and slightly scary. I was reading the reviews on Amazon, and in the 1 star comments. “One star only because the manufacturer claim to be able to can food is false. It not safe to can food in this appliance despite what they say. The National Center for Home Food Preservation has recently posted its position on this issue. You can read about it at this link. If you have already canned food, throw it out. You will be playing Russian roulette with your life and those of your loved ones if you eat this food. http://preservingfoodathome.com/2014/11/25/can-i-can-in-a-multi-cooker/“. I trust your judgement. Have you had any concerns about canning meats and soup? I really want to ramp up my meat preservation with canning. Already love the Biltong. Do you have a good baked bean recipes for the pressure cooker?

John
John
9 years ago

Jack, we agree in many respects, but when you say a Velvetta-like cheese is awesome stuff, we are on diametrically opposed! Great show.

wrestler
9 years ago

Jack,

Have you done meats with the electric canner? I am very intrigued.

wrestler
9 years ago

I may have missed that, thanks. I will give it another listen, we have a newborn so I have to hear the show in bits now. so will give it another bash. Thanks again for the excellent show and information.

phillynick
phillynick
9 years ago

went to get the canner a little late I know , Amazon not available. did a quick Google found it on QVC

John
John
9 years ago

For all the folks thinking about the Power Pressure Cooker, I was at Walmart today and the 8qt model is on sale for 74 bucks.

Debra Grumbach
Debra Grumbach
9 years ago

Do you feel the vacuum sealer with jar attachments is inadequate? The cost of the vacuucanner is pretty pricey, especially if I can do the same thing with my sealer and jar attachments.