Canning Pinto Beans

   We don't eat a lot of pinto beans in our house.  Well, the humans don't anyway.  Our 4 legged friends eat a lot of them and love them....though the wind they produce isn't always the most pleasant afterward.

     Pinto Beans are one item that we use to supplement our animals diets because of the added protein in gives them.  We do purse a dog food that has 21% protein in it, (if I am remembering correctly), but its not always enough.  Our dogs are very active animals and we found that some of the other dog food we were buying just didn't have enough in it and they were actually loosing weight.  This was alarming for me so we started looking into other dog foods.

    The one we get now is not an expensive brand or even a name brand food, but it has a good amount of protein and meat in it and we add things, like pinto beans, to give them additional nutrients to help keep them healthy.

    Today's project was canning pinto beans for use in the dogs food.  Pressure canning them instead of having to soak and then cook them.  I do also cook the beans in a slow cooker all day.  Choose which ever method suits your needs and schedule.

Watch the video here:

See you all soon,

Danielle