Winter menu

In short

• Winter lasts roughly 13 weeks (December–February), and the stores must last another 8–10 weeks, until the first greens and vegetables.
• A family of 3.1 AE uses roughly 6–7 kg of vegetables from store, 5–6 kg of potatoes, 3–4 kg of fruit and 2.5 kg of meat a week.
• The weekly ration of each store = quantity ÷ weeks until spring. Work it out on the 1st of every month.
• From a home-killed pig, nothing is eaten or processed before the trichinella result.
• In winter, vitamin C comes from sauerkraut, potatoes, apples, rosehips, winter greens and tunnel salad.

What's inside

Chapters

1. What winter gives on the homestead
2. How much the family eats in a week
3. Stores: how much you may use each week
4. The pig in the kitchen
5. December: a menu of the pig and the holidays
6. February: a menu from the end of the stores
7. Vitamins and fresh food in winter
8. Basic winter recipes
9. The range all day
10. Common mistakes
11. Printable checklist

Worksheets

• Winter quantity calculator
• Stores-until-spring calculator
• Recipe calculator
• Weekly menu
• Winter kitchen calendar
• Stores through the winter
• Freezer labels