Canned chicken

Ryan and I have felt very strongly about getting our year supply built up recently. We have been stocking up on cold cereal on sale for the past month (as low as $1 a box!) and this week Sprouts is having a sale on their chicken breast tenderloins for $1.77/lb. Yeah I know it's more expensive than other places, but I take a lot of comfort knowing that my meat doesn't have any added solutions or dyes. We bought several (8) family size packages of them and I decided I would try my luck at canning them up instead of freezing them. I will have 4 batches of them, so a total of 20 jars when I am finished. Here is a pic of the first batch. 

Lucky for me, every jar sealed with the first batch!! This sure beats having to pay a couple of bucks for those cans of chicken with 1/2 the meat and twice the cr**!

I love learning how to can my own foods. Before all I knew how to can was beans, but then E became allergic to them and I had to stop. I was always afraid of meats, b/c I didn't know if I would do it right or if I would end up with some nasty meat. Now that I have done it, it's really not so bad.