I came across a good deal on green beans from Bountiful Baskets last week and decided to get them even though I'm planting a bunch in my own garden. The last 2 years my beans have been completely eaten by grasshopper so I thought'd I'd at least take advantage of what I could get my hands on. Beans are easy to freeze but they do take a little prep work. Here's how I do mine up.
I start, of course, by washing up my produce.
Then I cut the tips off my beans.
Before you start, have a boiling stockpot of water ready. Add the beans a few handfuls at a time and boil for 3 minutes.
Then remove the beans and put in cold or ice water. This helps keep the beans nice and crispy.
This little pile of scraps? My chickens call it heaven. 
Once the beans are cooled I fill up quart sized freezer bags, label, and freeze. That's it!
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My mom used to do this years ago when we had a huge garden. She’d do peas, carrots and beans and we’d live on them all winter long. It’s funny I used to hate snapping beans and shelling peas. But now I kinda miss those days.
I’m going to try my hand at canning beans this year.
I’m going to do up my peas this way as well in a few weeks and I plan on pressure canning some green beans later in the season as long as I can keep away the hoppers!
I remember canning green beans as a lil girl we had in our garden….oh how I miss this…
When I was growing up we had to snap beans and my mother always told us to snap off both ends of the bean. When I got married I noticed my mother-in-law didn’t take off the pointed end of the string bean she said that was part of the bean and it wouldn’t hurt to leave it on. So now I leave it on too and when I pick the beans I take my finger nail and kind of cut the bean off right below the part that is attached to the plant now all I have to do is just snap them saves alot of time.
I’m so glad I saw you post my green beans are starting to produce…
I froze 40 ozs. of green beans this morning that I picked fresh from my garden. Really brought back memories helping in the garden and getting things ready to be canned. This is my first garden in 50 years, and I really enjoy it.
I did this for the first time a few weeks ago, but must have done something wrong. After you add the beans to the boiling water, the water stops boiling. Are you supposed to wait for it to boil again, THEN start timing 3 minutes? Because I just dropped them in for 3 minutes, and pulled them out….did 10lbs this way….
Michele