Home Canning Pork Shoulder

Image of a quart canning jar filled with chunks of pork shoulder in the meat juices.

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About a week before Thanksgiving I caught a good sale on pork shoulder at the grocery and bought two 10 pounders.  Since I'm trying to save freezer space, I decided to can the pork.  You might be surprised to know I only got 6 quarts (loosely packed) of meat from the 20 lbs I bought.  A quart is plenty enough to feed at least 4 adults depending on the recipe you use it in.

Due to this past summer's drought the price of animal feed is sky high; therefore, the ranchers are going to be culling more of their herd than usual rather than pay more for feed - IF they could find feed to begin with.  This means the price of processed meats is going to go down temporarily - so STOCK UP!  The price of meat will surely shoot much higher than it is right now after the "glut" is over.  After all, it takes many months to grow a beef steer or hog, so there won't be any meat relief for a while.  Chicken may not be as hard hit as it takes much less time to raise a chicken to maturity than our four-legged farm friends but they still need feed just the same.

You might want to be on the lookout for some good vegetarian recipes and/or maybe think of meat as a seasoning rather than the main course.