How Much Damage Acceptable on Produce ?

[Carol Dee]

Well Thank Goodness @Nyboy has a great sense of humor.

 

[Smart Red]

You guys left out one of the oldest ways of preserving fruit, make it into wine!

I just had to check it out. When you mentioned it being "one of the oldest ways of preserving fruit" I had to know. Yes, just as I thought, it is not only fruit being used for wine-making (or as someone here once said, every plant produces fruit). Here is a wine recipe to eliminate the necessity of stashing veggies into unlocked cars by season's end.

I expect a big thank you and a small sample by Christmas from someone at TEG.

 

[catjac1975]

I freeze my peaches prepared in a syrup and ready for eating.

 

[bobm]

@Jared77 I accidentally gave a friend food poisoning she had heavy duty vomiting , No one in their right mind would eat something I canned, I know I willn't.

Well then, you could donate the bounty to a soup kitchen. But you would have to pick and deliver the crop to them. Then hope the soup kitchen management isn't aware of your reputation of food poisoning friends.

 

[Smart Red]

Bobm, I am aghast! What do you have against the down and out who need soup kitchens while they try to improve their circumstances? Actually, in some places, home grown produce isn't acceptable to soup kitchens by law. Go figure!

I have taken fresh produce to my local Salvation Army -- who cannot use the food -- where I set the unusable foods to one side along with recycled grocery bags and over the course of a soup kitchen meal everything evaporates. Win-win!

Now for Nyboy to pick up and deliver the freshly picked bounty in his soon-to-be Bee Truck, I could see being done, but then there would be no reason for @Nyboy's reputation to come into the discussion.

Speaking of Nyboy's reputation, It is fantastic! I will definitely be using it early and often!

 

[ninnymary]

Smart Red, you and I must read things differently. I don't see anything offensive in bobm's post.

Mary

 

[Smart Red]

We do. I am trying to address that issue.

However, in this case I was addressing the quote bobm posted: "No one in their right mind would eat something I canned, I know I willn't" immediately followed by the suggestion Nyboy take the foods [he wouldn't eat] to the soup kitchen. (Should'a been read as a tongue-in-cheek joke which I hope both bobm and Nyboy caught.) The fact that I was 'aghast' rather than upset, disappointed, or angry was intended to be teasing in nature.

In the third paragraph I addressed what I knew was bobm's real intent with his post. That Nyboy share his fresh -- not canned -- foods in a way that will bless himself and others. It is a great idea whether Nyboy chooses to throw dinner parties to eat his produce or donate his garden largess to the needy.

Speaking of needy, @Nyboy, WOW I really needed something like that. I've never seen anything quite like it before. Did you get one for yourself as well?

 

[Nyboy]

My friends run a soup kitchen out of their churches basement. Mon - Fri from 11;30 till food runs out. Church has no money but lets them use kitchen, almost all lunches are pasta all donations.

 

[Smart Red]

@Nyboy, that is because hearty soups and pasta dishes are easy, filling, and cheap. They are also healthy for most people -- all necessities when working with donations only -- and certainly apt to put a smile on the faces of the hungry men, women, and families who get the meals.

Speaking of putting a smile on faces, WOW! I had a big one on my face last night! Mission accomplished? You bet!