The Food Preservation Notebook

You preserved a lot of food this year. You're just not entirely sure how much — or whether it's enough to get through until next season.

Most home preservers keep track of what they put up in their heads, or on a scrap of paper that ends up lost somewhere in the kitchen. Come January, you're opening the last jar of peaches and wondering if you should have canned more. Come July, you're staring at a pantry full of jars of green beans because your family really prefers frozen green beans.

There's a better way to do this. And it starts with keeping a real preserving notebook.



That's exactly what The Food Preservation Notebook is designed to help you build. I'm Angi Schneider, and after 25 years of preserving food for my family on our Texas Gulf Coast homestead, I've learned that the single most useful thing you can do is keep good records. This notebook gives you a beautiful, practical system to do just that — your family's favorite recipes in one place, your preservation goals written down, and your pantry inventory tracked year after year.

Here's what you'll be able to do

🫙 Know exactly what you preserved, how much, and whether it was enough — no more guessing come winter

📋 Set preservation goals at the start of the season so you're preserving what your family actually eats

📝 Keep all your tried-and-true recipes in one organized place — not scattered across bookmarks, printouts, and sticky notes

✅ Use a quick-reference cheat sheet to remember which preservation method works for each fruit and vegetable

📦 Track your freezer inventory so nothing gets buried and forgotten

🌱 Build a preserving system that gets better every year as you add your own notes

What's inside:

The notebook is organized into four sections — Vegetables, Fruit, Legumes and Meats, and Worksheets — with a dedicated page for each food. Every page includes:

🎨 A beautiful watercolor illustration of the fruit or vegetable

📖 Quick-reference preservation notes: which methods work, time and temperature for dehydrating, pressure and timing for canning, fermenting brine percentages, and freezing guidelines

✏️ A notes section for your own recipes, tips, and observations

The worksheet section includes:

📊 A Preservation Cheat Sheet — a full at-a-glance reference chart for canning, freezing, fermenting, and dehydrating across all major fruits, vegetables, and more

🎯 A Preservation Goals Worksheet — set your targets at the start of each season so you preserve with purpose

🫙 A Canned, Fermented & Dried Foods Tracker — log what you put up and in what quantities

❄️ A Freezer Storage Inventory — so you always know what's in there and when it went in

Produce covered includes:

🥦 Vegetables: Artichoke · Asparagus · Beans · Beet Root · Broccoli · Cabbage · Carrots · Cauliflower · Corn · Cucumbers · Kale & Greens · Okra · Onions · Peas · Peppers · Potatoes · Radishes · Summer Squash · Winter Squash · Sweet Potatoes · Tomatoes · Herbs

🍑 Fruit: Apples · Apricot · Bananas · Berries · Cherries · Citrus · Figs · Grapes · Mango · Melons · Passion Fruit · Peaches · Pears · Pineapples · Plums

🥩 Plus: Legumes, Meats, Broth, and Soup

Get The Food Preservation Notebook — $12.97

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