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This easy, homemade fruit cocktail can be canned in a boiling water canner for a customizable, shelf-stable fruit cocktail you can feel good about feeding your family!

Must-have canning essentials for preserving the season's bounty. From jars to tools, equip yourself for successful home canned goods.

This Fruit Salad with Condensed Milk is made with fruits such as strawberries and bananas. It is a sweet and creamy salad, and is so easy.

Fresh Fruit vs Processed Fruit - canned fruit is a concentrated source of sugar (natural and added), sterile and lifeless. share my convenient alternatives

Canning oranges is a great way to preserve the fruit’s delicious flavor all year round. Whether you have a surplus of oranges from your yard or you simply want to enjoy them long after their season has ended, canning is a simple and effective method to keep them fresh.

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Canned fruit cocktail — it’s just a bunch of mushy, syrupy fruit with a few kid-friendly cherries thrown in, right? Not so fast. Fruit cocktail is actually a triumph of turn-of-the-century marketing and food technology — a perfectly packaged paean to the industrialization of our country’s food system. Here’s how it went from cookbook to can.

These marinated fruit jars have a honey poppy seed dressing, and are a great meal prep staple.