Hi Robin, I don’t drink much red wine either, but it doesn’t have to be expensive. A basic dry red table wine. I’ve used whatever we had given to us as gifts LOL!

Do you can with a pressure canner? I keep hearing you can buy cheaper cuts of beef, cut into 1 inch cubes and can them raw. When you go to use the meat in your recipes, its already cooked & super fall apart tender. I plan to be trying this out as soon as I run across a really awesome meat deal.

I have a Weight Watcher scale that I use. I keep it on my refrigerator but I reach for it fairly often, especially if I dont know how much something weighs. I dont weigh every single little thing since Im pretty good at judging weights & measures (its a part of my daytime job so Im good at it) but even then, sometimes still I measure. I agree that sometmes you’d be surprised how much or little something weighs.