Dry-Pack Canning
Food Saver Dry Canning. Another easy way to dry can is to secure your contents in a mason jar with all the air zapped out. In short, it's vacuum sealing! You can vacuum-seal food quickly and easily with Food Saver and a special attachment to your wide-mouth mason jars, pictured at the top of the page. You don't need an oxygen absorber with a FoodSaver vacuum seal. If you're new to vacuum sealing your food, check out the Preparedness Pro. (Kellene Bishop, Doomsday Prepper) for tips on how to dry can with your Food Saver. You'll be amazed how easy it is.

Ingredients

Instructions

Foods to consider dry-packing canning include:
beans and legumes
banana chips - do not apply heat method
baking soda
baking powder
biscuit mix
bread crumbs
buttermilk powder
cake mixes (try this yellow cake mix)
cheddar cheese powder
candy (bubblegum, jellybeans, hard candies) - do not apply
heat method
cereals
crackers
corn
cornmeal
couscous
dried soup mixes
hard wheat
lentils
oats
pancake mixes
pasta
pretzels
popcorn kernals - try grinding popcorn into cornmeal!
potato flakes and gems
powdered milk
raisins
rice (white rice varieties, not brown rice which has too much
oil)
sugar (brown sugar should not have an oxygen absorber and
should not be canned with the heat method)
sour cream powder
sugar, powdered and granulated
sunflower seeds
seasoning mixes (ranch dressing powders, taco seasonings,
onion soup mix)

Note: Such things as nuts and chocolate chips, can also be dry
canned, but they have a very short shelf life. Chocolate chips will
start to turn in color.
Jan's canning