Did you take on a new challenge in 2013?  What was it?  Are there challenges you deliberately avoided?  What do you want to do to challenge yourself in 2014?

A new challenge I tackled with a friend this year was canning!

And as with anything, I went big or went home. Off the top of my head I think I canned the following:

• 7 quarts of salsa
• MANY (not sure on a number as my peppers kept producing) pints of pickled peppers
• 6 pints Habenero Jelly
• 23 quarts of peaches
• 22 quarts of pears
• 12 quarts tomatoes
• 7 quarts spaghetti sauce

Needless to say if a Zombie apocalypses comes we are prepared! My husband thinks I am crazy, but has enjoyed the canned peaches 🙂

I can’t think of any challenges I avoided this year, we pretty much took everything head on!

I would love to challenge myself next year to learn to pressure can. I am still scared to do it and just stuck to water-bathing this year, but maybe next year I will get the nerve up to try!