I DO a crap TON of celery, onions, and herbs. I use a ridiculous amount of the stuff, but never all at the same time, which makes buying and using a whole bunch at a time wasteful, and freezing it, well that bottomless pit freezer issue. LOL.
I also do pasta and rice that's already been cooked so rehydrating only takes time, not tons of wasted water and heat. (think camping)
but I also use it here when I don't want to long cook rice for DH.
I have cheeses too.
Just a lot of stuff.
I put them in soups and roasts, grind them up in meatloaf. powder and reconstitute for sauces or leave whole and rehydrate for roasting or grilling.
My thin sliced meats are marinated, cooked, and then freeze dried and packaged for my high protein, non-jerky jerky.
Lots of things you can do.
THOSE WINDS this morning were NUTS! We managed over an inch of rain.
I hoping to hay this next week.
I wander into the garden on occasion, but really could care less this year for some reason. There is just too much going on elsewhere around the place.
I need to get a batch of kraut going...
I save the bug crumbles as a mix in for when I make mash out of the crumbles in the bottom of the feed can or I sprinkle the bug crumbles on top of their fruit treats (scraps from canning/processing) They get eaten.
OR frozen in ice blocks. Funny how they wont eat them out of hand, but put...
Would love to, but it was on our morning national news radio show 2-3 weeks ago. Couldn't begin to tell you how to find it. I just remember hearing it and saying, ' oh, we're still on the upswing side with eggs, eh?' And going about the morning.