The Canning Pantry turns a pile of produce into a plan: how many jars your family needs this year, how many this batch will make, the tested time and pressure for your kitchen, and how many jars are still to go. It is one product in two parts, a Google Sheet that plans and counts and a 374-page book with all 246 tested recipes.
A Google Sheets canning planner that does the arithmetic and keeps the count.
Type your ZIP code and it fills in your growing zone and frost dates
Plan my year: how many jars of each food your family needs, and the jars and lids to buy
Counter Calculator: the pounds on your counter turned into jars and canner loads
Canning Day: the tested time and pressure for your recipe, jar, elevation and canner
A batch log that keeps your pantry count, with what's left to put up
A recipe index that matches the Book's numbers and pages
Free Google account needed. An Excel copy comes with it if you prefer.
For the kitchen
The Canning Pantry Book
A 374-page printable book to keep by the stove, or to read on a tablet.
All 246 tested recipes from the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning and the National Center for Home Food Preservation
Each recipe starts on its own page with its full processing table and its source
Canning basics: the water bath and pressure canner steps
Printables: year plan, calendar, canning day checklist, batch log, pantry inventory, jar labels, problem jar log
Guides, troubleshooting and an A to Z index
Print the pages you want, as often as you want, for your household
Letter size PDF. Recipe numbers match the Sheet.
The Canning Pantry, $27
The Sheet and the Book together, for one payment. Nothing renews. Both arrive by email a few minutes after checkout. If something is wrong with it, write within 7 days and I will fix it or refund you.
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What it works out for you
Tell the Sheet your elevation and your canner once. Then pick the food on your counter and it gives you three numbers: how many jars, how many minutes, and how much pressure. The Book has the same recipe, with the whole table, on its own page.
7quarts
25minutes
15lb pressure
14 pounds of green beans in quart jars, at 2,100 feet on a weighted-gauge canner. The yield (the USDA average of 2 pounds per quart), the time and the pressure all come from the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning.
246 tested recipes
Fruits, tomatoes, salsas, vegetables, meats, pickles, jams and jellies, from the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning (2015) and the National Center for Home Food Preservation. The steps are written in plain language, every rewritten recipe was checked against its source, and each one cites the page it came from.
Your time and your pressure
Boiling water, dial gauge or weighted gauge, at your elevation. The Sheet reads the row from the published table, and the Book prints the whole table so you can check it.
Plan my year
Mark what your family eats and how much. The Sheet works out the jars of each food, the lids to buy and how many jars are still to go.
Your zone and frost dates
Type a ZIP code and the Sheet fills in your growing zone and average frost dates from the nearest weather station.
The pantry count
Log each batch when the jars come out of the canner. The Sheet keeps the count of what's on the shelf and what's been used.
Printables
Year plan, calendar, canning day checklist, batch log, pantry inventory, jar labels and a log for jars that didn't seal. Print them as often as you like.
Try 20 recipes free, in the app
Give an email address and 20 of the most common recipes open in the Canning Pantry app on your phone, with the time and pressure for your canner and a step-by-step Canning Day mode. No account, no password, nothing to download from an app store. Can a batch with it and see how the recipes read. The other 226 are in The Canning Pantry Book.
Buy it once.Here, or on Etsy. Nothing renews. Refunds within 7 days.
Check your email.Within a few minutes you get The Canning Pantry Book as a PDF, and the Sheet as an Excel file in case you want it.
Copy the Sheet.Open the Book on a computer or tablet and tap the copy link near the front. Google makes your own copy of the Sheet in your own Drive.
Fill in your household.Your ZIP code, your elevation and your canner, once. Every tab uses them from then on.
Print what you'll use.The recipes you can most, the year plan, the jar labels. Keep them by the stove.
The Canning Pantry app
The app puts the same 246 recipes on your phone, timed for your canner, with a Canning Day mode, timers and a pantry that counts itself. It isn't on sale yet. It opens after the rest of the website and the web app are finished, and people who own The Canning Pantry will get it at the $10 upgrade price. Twenty recipes are free in it now.
The Canning Pantry plans and calculates. Your tested recipe decides the safety.
Every recipe, processing time and pressure in the Sheet and the Book comes from the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning (2015) or the National Center for Home Food Preservation, with the source cited right where you read it. Where the steps are written in plain language, every rewritten recipe was checked against its source with every figure unchanged. For your elevation and canner the Sheet finds the matching row of the published table. Nothing in it invents, adjusts, rounds or corrects a tested figure, and nothing in it tells you whether a jar of food is safe to eat.
If your canner's manual says something different, follow the manual and check the tested source. When in doubt, ask your county extension office.
Questions
Do I get both the Sheet and the Book?
Yes. It is one product. You get the Book as a PDF and your own copy of the Sheet, and the recipe numbers in one match the other.
Can I try it first?
Yes. Give an email address at mothersteader.com/free and 20 common recipes open in the Canning Pantry app, with the same time and pressure for your canner. No account and no password. The marketing box on that form is unticked, and it stays that way unless you tick it.
Do I need Excel for the Sheet?
No. It opens in Google Sheets, free with any Google account. An Excel copy comes in the same email if you would rather use Excel.
Do I have to print all 374 pages?
No. The Book has a contents page with links, so you can read it on a tablet and print only the recipes and printables you will use.
Where is the app?
The Canning Pantry app holds the same recipes on your phone, timed for your canner. Twenty recipes are free in it now. The full app goes on sale later, and people who own the Sheet and Book will get it at the upgrade price.
Where is my pantry stored?
In your copy of the Sheet, in your own Google Drive. Nobody else can see it.
I bought on Etsy. Where are my files?
Your Etsy download holds the Book and the Sheet. Open the Book and tap the copy link near the front to put the Sheet in your Google Drive.
Can my family use it?
Yes. It is for your household. For another household, please buy them their own copy.
Why does my card statement say LINK.COM* MOTHERSTEADER?
Checkout is run by Stripe through Link, which handles the payment and the sales tax for this shop. That line on your statement is this purchase.
What if something is wrong with it?
Write to me within 7 days and I will fix it or refund you. The refund policy has the details.
