self-preservation
This morning I picked a bunch of raspberries, and now they're jam. Not as much jam as I would have liked, perhaps—I wanted to make two batches but my reckoning was off and I was short of both raspberries and sugar. Still, with the pickles I also made that's a total of two gallons of preserves in one day, which is fairly respectable, I think. We may make it through the winter yet!