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So I have a bushel of apples in my kitchen that the children picked, I was going to make apple butter... Then this morning my dad shows up with a huge bag of pears. I thought I'd make pear butter with them and just make applesauce with the apples. He also brought 10 pounds of potatoes, on top of the 10 pounds I bought Monday at the market. I'm clueless on what to do with these - how do I keep potatoes? He also brought a slew of red and green peppers. Can I just slice these and freeze them? Can I use ziploc freezer bags for all of the above rather than can them? (except for the potatoes, I know.) Any other ideas? Thanks!
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Yes, you can chop and freeze peppers, I have a ton in my freezer ;).
Apples are better if you actually make apple sauce, apple pie filling, etc, then bag and freeze.
Potatoes, no clue 
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The peppers can be chopped and frozen in ziplocks--very easy. I freeze mine in small bags so I get a single serving size. If you freeze them on cookie sheets you can put them into bigger bags and they won't stick together. Then you can just take out what you need.
I'd start next with the pears (since they spoil the fastest) and make the pear butter. YUM!
Then the apples-some sauce and some butter and some dried.
The potatoes will keep the longest if you keep them cool-perhaps out in the garage, so I'd deal with them last.
Here is a guide to freezing potatos.
Hope that helps!
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Thank you both! Better get off my keester and get to choppin'!
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Do you have a basement? We store our potatoes in buckets of food grade plastic filled with sand. We grew 4 or 5 bushels of potatoes this year, and they should keep well into spring.
If you have some place cool to store them, your apples will keep as is for a long time... Those apples you buy in the grocery store in the spring have usually been stored since fall (unless they happen to be from New Zealand..)
You can make pear sauce as well as apple sauce, too. 
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theresa.. you can freeze chopped peppers in the bag and then beat on them a bit and they'll break up while frozen and you can just use what you want of them.
I store potatoes for the winter but I just put the bags of potatoes into a cardboard box (to block light) in my garage (stays very cold but doesn't freeze unless something is directly on the cement floor) and I can keep potatoes from oct through march at least.. just depends on the weather.. i'm watching now for potatoes to go on sale cheap to stock up for the winter.
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All you ladies, with your abundance of the fruits of the harvest, please share with us all by joining in the Fruits of the Harvest Fair part of the From Thy Bounty Fairs at Catholic Cuisine.
The fair is Monday. I will be compiling the links for the fair. You can PM me the links or leave them in the comment section at Catholic Cuisine by Sunday evening. Thanks!!
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I have had good luck with freezing mashed potatoes in a ziplock bag. Just reheat slowly, and they are good. Another idea is twice baked potatoes. They are more time consuming, but oh, so good!
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each 10 pound bag of potatos is ONE meal of baked potatos w/ toppings for my family!
I wouldn't bother with preserving them - I'd just make 2 dinners with them sometime this week.
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Martha wrote:
each 10 pound bag of potatos is ONE meal of baked potatos w/ toppings for my family!
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ditto!!!
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Here's a post I wrote a couple of years ago. maybe you'll find some apple inspiration.
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Angel wrote:
You can make pear sauce as well as apple sauce, too.
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How do you do this? I have thirty or so pears and I can't figure out what to do with them.  Thanks!
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