Food Bank Haul With Meal 12-30-22 | Stocking My Freezer!
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- So many goodies at the food bank this week! Come along as I prep some of it to fill my freezer!
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Thank your mother in law for keeping our country moving💕 truckers are the life line of our country 👏
My son is a long haul trucker too.
@@johnettehaines6291 🥰🥰thank him too
I’m not in a situation to need help from a food bank but what I like about your channel is how you take the shame out of needing to use one, I also like seeing the different foods and what you do with them ❤
I appreciate that! Thank you! I enjoy the challenge of making something out of what I receive!
This channel has encouraged me to stop being so wasteful & truly utilizing everything! Cook once eat 3X, even my Dad’s coffee I’ve started refrigerating to heat later. I was inspired to take my elderly neighbor to the food bank, Walmart has compartment food containers, her & I filled them up, froze them, she just heats them up, it’s perfect 🥰 Thank you!
@@heathercottrill3505 I do this for a neighbor. Once a month I make 30 frozen "TV dinners" that he can microwave and eat. This keeps him independent enough to enjoy living in his own home.
She's on top bc she genuinely loves her cooking skills. People are like moths attracted to her flame.❤
I just ADORE the heck out of carolina.🥰💕
Her banter is everything! I love great humor & fun, mixed with delicious meals. PERFECT combo.👌🏾
So glad I found your channel in my UA-cam algorithm.
Thank you so much!
@@mamabairds you're very welcome. Thank you for gracing us with your time, & family.
I hope you enjoyed your dinner, what a treat! I love companies that appreciates their employees
Me too! It is rare now a days! I had a great time! little headache this morning..haha
Great tips and encouragement again today! Really helps me function at a higher and more productive level in my kitchen. I canned in the 70s and then got too busy with work and my career. Now I've returned to more holistic living and you really encourage that! We recently lost power four times here, and that no. 10 can would make a great buddy burner to stay warm in an emergency!
Mmm I love almond flavored items! My mom used to have a neighbor that would go to the local church food pantry and it was just a drive up one so you didn’t get to shop. She would give the items she wasn’t going to use to friends and neighbors was a nice treat! I hope you had a wonderful steak dinner!! You can make banana ice cream out of frozen bananas! You can make baked oatmeal bars with mashed up banana too!
Thank you! It was a great dinner! I felt so spoiled!
Your idea to make and can salsa with your peppers, onions, cilantro and can of tomatoes is PERFECT!
Thank you! It was meant to be!!
I check every day to see if you have posted a new video. I have decided that you are now family 😊 love your videos and love when you include the kids, they are cutie pies. My husband and I utilize the food banks in our area. Thanks for all the ideas you give me.
Thank you so much!! I consider all of you guys family as well!
I was sitting here bored and saw this pop up and was like- YAY! I just found out that Thursday in my neighborhood I can go and pick up a box of fresh produce, 1 lb ground beef and I was going to record it but most of it is already gone.
Myself also 😆
Go early
@@roxannepruitt4024 lol..Im sorry, what I meant was that before I could record the recipes I made and the things I got in the box, it was eaten-gone..I re-read what I wrote and it was confusing. I apologize. It was many fresh cheese curds and fruits and a bag of potatoes and a 1 lb of ground beef..
I don’t know if you read these, I don’t do facebook & am on Twitter strike which is sad. So, since my son was a baby Santa couldn’t come until we donated toys & clothes to kids that didn’t have any. He’s 22 now and sent me a picture of his donation pile before Christmas. Everyone still gets toys! I occasionally eat happy meals, just for the toys to stockpile for their stockings. A small lego set & Christmas p.j.’s on Christmas Eve was a tradition that my Mom started. She’s passed so I kept it up. Now my 22 yr old son & 37 yr old brother have to get matching legos or they fight 😝 Silly putty is also in every Easter basket, and yes I have adult siblings who still are babies 😂
I love the creativity that comes out of food bank cooking and preserving. I really want a electric canner to do my small batch canning, because I get a different case of produce each month. Last month I got a 40 # bucket of pesto. Keep doing what you do, I love it!
Wow! 40 pounds of pesto?! Did you freeze that in batches?! Holy moly! I love pesto as a sauce to grilled sandwiches! Yummy!
I froze some, canned some in old salsa jars and put a few jars in the back of my fridge.
I saw an electric canner on Amazon today for $160.00. It had good reviews and looked great at half the price I thought it would be.
Sounds like a fun evening! I love how you just whipped together the salsa out of what you had around. 😊
Thank you!
Wow wow wow ! What a haul as a single mom I wish they had a food bank like your here in northern Ontario Canada ? You could freeze the banana and use them frozen in a smoothie ❤
I wished they did as well! Our food bank is so amazing! I've never seen another one like it.
I get a food box from my local food pantry once a month, I also volunteer to help pack the boxes once a month. I think it's a good idea if you're able to volunteer, it kinda evens out in the long run.
Yes I agree! I'm working on setting up a cooking class with them right now!
Just freeze your cilantro spread out on a cookie sheet. Then you can add it to whatever. But I think salsa was a great idea. You’re very resourceful.
Great idea! Thank you!
Thank you for all the hard work to make these videos... as a senior on fixed income I am going to my first food bank in years.. they are great when time are hard...we had to use all our saving recently on an emergency and food baking will help us get by
They really are so amazing! I'm glad you are going!
1 cake mix (I use butter or yellow cake mix)
2 eggs (unless really small ones)
3 smashed up bananas vanilla (however much your heart desires)!!
Mix all together. I use 8x8 or 9x9 pan. Bake at 350* till done!!
Ps I beat some sort of nuts in it would be good in it as well but yet to try that!!
I’m a big fan of pepper jack cheese.
I love the commercial wrap and foil, we use both and makes it so easy to take care of things for fridge or freezer.
Yes it does!
Wishing all A Very Happy New Year 🎉. I'm to old to stay up that late but getting it out to Everyone Now.. Hug's from Oregon
Love your videos! Great haul! The food bank is such a blessing! We have needed to use them in the past. Those gingerbread cupcakes look delicious! 😋
Such great ideas! I find that using my immersion blender on whole canned tomatoes is a great way to make pizza sauce! No seasoning necessary it’s really good as is. When I make salsa I find that hand chopping all my veggies keeps them chunky and good to dip. And I add a little oregano.
Finally as a mom of 8 I find you uplifting and hopeful. Thanks for sharing tips for the rest of us 😊
Great tip! Thank you so much for the love an support!
That is a nice set that you got for Christmas. I like it. That way you have a mini food processor and your immersion blender. Awesome. I like Cuzin art to. It’s a good brand.
Those bananas will make great dehydrated chips. Bananas cake, bread, pancakes, muffins, pudding, pie, and homemade ice-cream.
And peanut butter banana honey sandwich. Banana splits with lots of hot fudge and marshmallows and nuts. Banana shakes with chocolate and strawberries and vanilla ice-cream.
That's a score on the plants! There are two things I can never pass up. They are free books and sad plants!
Agreed!! House plants are so expensive too!
Love watching your hauls, catching your chats, or watching your recipes! Love watching Carolina from Montana❤️🙂
Yay! Thank you!
Those chocolate Costco Muffins warmed in the microwave with butter are my birthday treat every year I love them!!!
Oh, I'll give that a try! They are so good!
Hi mama Baird I really enjoy watching your videos I've been watching you for awhile now just haven't had time to comment your amazing with your cooking meals. Taking small items or what you have and making a meal I don't have small children at home anymore there married with there family but I use to do the same thing as you food bank cooking with what I had love deer elk and moose meat just brings back memories just wanted to say to you Great job and keep it going love watching you and have a blessed New year and your year be Great 👍❤️
Aw thank you so much for the love and support!
The mango salsa idea sounds delicious! Great haul.
What a fantastic haul! All those tomatoes, green peppers and bananas looked so good, that was a great idea making salsa. Hope you had a nice evening out with your husband.
Thanks so much! It was perfect! We had such a good time! It was much much needed!
I absolutely love your channel. We have a trucker in our family. We always make sure he has food o his truck. He has a microwave, toaster over, air fryer and a small refrigerator on his truck. He is prepared for cooking anything on his truck. He barely spends any money out on the road except to pay for a shower when needed. Till next time be safe, have fun and Happy New Year 🎈🎊🎆 Betty
That is awesome! That's how you do it! An air fryer too?! That's a great idea!
You could add a can of diced pineapple to this salsa for a fruitier taste. Looks tasty!
That's a good idea! Thank you!
It amazed me what you did to preserve your food bank items & I am sure that Salsa will turn out awesome .
Thank you Rhonda!!
Your plants are doing soooo good👏
I know!! I'm so happy for them!! I love house plants so much!
I am watching your subscribers numbers go up with probably as much enthusiasm as you Carolina! Love your videos. Jody
Thanks Jody!!
Happy early new year. Looking forward to seeing you in 2023.
Ripe bananas- peel, cut and freeze. Then blend or process frozen bananas until you have ice cream!!
Your so amazing and creative. Pepper Jack and dark chocolate yummy. My hubby calls me a cheese and chocolate freak I tell him get it right I'm a foodie lol. Have a blessed and happy new year. :)
Love that! Hope you have a great new year as well!
Oh my goodness! Your plants look so different! Nice job!
Thanks so much! 😊
Flour starts out yellow after milling and with exposure to the environment turns white over time as it ages and becomes a better and better baking product. Bleaching speeds up that time.
Oh good to know! Thank you!
Watching before bed, way past my bedtime....
Mine too..I'm getting home late and posting this and hitting they hay...
I do the same thing with bagels. I batch cook muffins for hubby breakfast and freeze them too. Jiffy is awesome! Your lime was the wrong way. It should be skin side up. That chili was a great gift! Have a Happy New Year!🎉
That's a great idea! Thanks for the correction on the lime...I seem to do that every time! Haha
Banana chips slice them dry them in your dehydrator . Nice snack :)
Great idea!
That is SO nice to have a friend that can do the babysitting switch with you! Date night is special, and important to do! Oooohhh…. Yea the older I get, the more I love dark chocolate! Love the blender…. NICE! That food processor attachment will be so handy for you! Nothing wrong with a smooth salsa!! Good idea about freezing the cilantro, bet you could sprinkle some on the chilli bake… or maybe parsley would be better? If you get your hands on another bag of herbs you could dehydrate!
Yes that's true to dehydrate them! Hope you had a great Christmas my friend!
I got a dehydrator for my birthday combo Christmas gift this year. And was given 4 restaurants size bags of cilantro. I dehydrated it all. I yield 4 mayonnaise jars filled.
@@johnettehaines6291 thats fantastic!!! 😀
You can make monkey butter with the bananas. There are plenty of recipes that you can choose from but essentially it is a pineapple banana jam.
Oh good thinking!
Food Banks provide a much needed resource! Thank you for sharing valuable info. You're great!
You are so welcome!
When l open expired cans, l taste before l use them because l used one without tasting n ruined whole recipe. Hope you had a great time at your steak dinner. Love your channel!
Thank you! You too! That's a good idea to taste first!
Nice haul. I see you’ve gone bananas 😜♥️
Carolina
Great haul. Your food from the food bank looks so good. Glad you get a variety each week.. yes salsa so good. Happy new year
Thank you Maurina! Happy new year to you and yours!
Costco muffins 1/3 is a serving. So the kids can share 1 muffin.
Hope you had a nice time eating out! It is a real treat. Hope you and your family have a good and safe New Years. Can't believe 2022 is almost over🥳. Take Care
Happy new year! We had a great time!
Here in the UK you can only go to a food bank if you are on some sort of benefits.
Separate and pk cilantro in sm freezer bags and throw in freezer.you can use them in soups later so it doesn't go to waste.thats what I do
Great haul. You could do banana chocolate chip cookies.. The banana works as a natural sugar. If you ever get extra bagels, no matter the flavor, take & slice them thin and put them in your dehydrator. Love bagel chips.
Oh those are great ideas! Thank you!
Sending love and blessings from Washington State 💋
Hi, new subscriber here! I’m Mo from U.K. Just found your channel. Really enjoyed video. I don’t use food bank myself, but I’m very conscious of not wasting food. I live alone and often pockets of food contain more than enough for just me, so finding out how to preserve food is great. Thank you for sharing. Happy new year x
Hey Mo! Welcome to the family! I'm happy to have another preserver as a sub! If you ever have any ideas or anything, don't hesitate to let me know! I love hearing what other's do! Thank you!
That salsa! I want to grab a bag of chips and come see you. I love the way you use what you get to make other things.
Come on over! Haha
Your creativity is infectious and enthusiasm wears me out!
Haha! Thank you !
What I like to do with bananas in to peal, break in 3rds or 4ths and throw in a gallon ziplock back and freeze. If they stick together just tap the bag on the counter and they break apart. You can use in smoothies or banana bread or whatever you like :)
Great idea! Thank you!
The problem with me going to a food bank is when I went, I had to stand at the side and go through the box they gave me and read all the labels. I'm so allergic to so many things like the cilantro, and pineapple and the list goes on, that they had to look for food I could have. I felt so bad because of it. I didn't have a choice though it was either that or go to the hospital. After a while they knew what I could and couldn't have so they had mine ready. Oh people didn't like that I got things they didn't get!! They voiced that very loud!! 🤣🤣🤣 it wasn't much longer I got where I couldn't see to drive. So I've been home since.
We’re you allergic or just fussy? I ask because… you seemed to find it funny that others didn’t get what you got. Or did you just word your post really badly?
@@jantune I'm allergic, very badly, I almost died the last time I had any at all. I don't think it's funny to feel like you're not welcome to go any longer because people don't understand that a food allergy is so dangerous. Yes I tried to blow it off a little. But being made an outsider it's funny.
I wish I had such a wonderful food bank near me.
really nice haul and great preservation proud of you.
Thank you so much 😀
Great job! The best part was that you found a way that you can afford to date your husband. Strong marriages are a lot of hard work. Breaks are really important.
Absolutely! It was a nice break too! We don't get them too often!
To use the mango salsa, I fix grilled chicken and broccoli.😊😊 It’s so good!
Oh thats a good idea!
Sue here: really enjoy your personality and ideas. New subscriber!!! 🧡
Aw thank you Sue! Welcome to the family!
Yay! Love me some Salsa!!! You're so cute mama give us some salsa dancing and when you said "you thick" to your ginger bread muffin....you had me cracking up!! 😆 🤣 😂 I'm a foodie too, try to eat both healthy and all food groups too. I eat what I want but of course portion control. I love your channel, ever since I subscribed I always watch your new video's. I hope you have some much needed fun with your hubby after all that you do for your family. You're awesome! Thank you for sharing❤️ God bless you all😊
Aw thank you so much! I'm happy to have you apart of my family!
Great haul ❤
🎉fantastic ❤and happy new year from down under🇦🇺 🎉 🤤
Happy new year!! Thank you!
We used to use the food pantry,they give you a lot of food😊
They do!! They are so wonderful and it really helps so many families!
Nice blender! We got an air dryer, nice Christmas!
Oh score!! I love my air fryer too!
My family are truckers , my cousin and her husband buy food for truck cause they stay out for a month at a time or longer, they save money not eating out constantly.
Banana pancakes, waffles, smoothies, cake, bread, cookies and jam.
I hope you have a wonderful evening tonight!
I get muffins at Costco and I'm the only one that eats them so I put them in freezer bags and freeze them and when I want one I just up in the freezer bag take one out let it thaw and then enjoy. Otherwise most of them would go bad!
You are too funny with that gingerbread man. Poor little guy lost a leg straight away.
Good haul you got. I do not qualify for that kind of food bank but I can do the mobile ones as they do not have any restrictions.
That is a neat immersion blender. Not ever seen one that is a good processor too!
Thank you! He was a tasty gingerbread man...haha!
Wonderful video.
Thank you very much!
A trick to get the air out of bag's.. just lower the bag into water, the pressure will force all the air out!
Oh I've never heard of that! Thanks!
Love this learning how to make new things
Freeze for banana smoothie mixed with other yums like pineapple, apple.
Good thinking Sandy!
Hi. Carmen who uses her daughters youtube due to password issue. Have you thought of making a banana curd? I used to only make "lemom curd" but have found so many other types of curds. They are flavorful and simply delicious. I use it in between cake layers fillings in cupcakes, tarts, on toast, instead of "cinnamon" in cinnamon rolls and center of sandwich cookie, jam thumbprint cookies it can be used in many othe ways. Until next time much love 💖💖
Great idea! I need to give banana curd a try! Thank you!
Freeze cilantro in ice cube trays with water and use whenever you want.
Good thinking!
Thumbs up on those plants great job
If you have sourdough starter the unbleached works so much better in it. I never had much luck with the bleached.
That's a good point!
For bananas- freezer smoothie bags, banana bread, muffins, pancakes, overnight oats
Great ideas!! Thank you!
Happy new year to you and family. Love your channel!
Thank you so much!
Use for bacon: BLT pizza. Bake pizza crust covered with mozzarella and crumbled bacon, after cooked spread mayonaise on cheese, add a layer of shredded lettuce, sprinkle with bacon and tomato
Sounds great! I need to try that for sure!! Thank you!!!
Am in UK we have pudding you might like it's called Manchester tart all it is sweet pastry with jam inside sweet pastry then sliced bananas then custard with double cream on the top but you don't put that on until custard has set top is dry and wobbly then put double cream on top think you call it miracle whip
That does sound really good! Thank you for sharing that!
There’s a recipe I pulled from Pinterest for banana cookies that only uses a couple ingredients. I can’t find my recipe but if you’re not big on super sweet, these cookies are delicious☺️
A few cans of drained corn would be good in the salsa. 😊
Oh I like it!
Salsa yes!! If the first plant is diffenbachia is also known as dumb caine is not a good idea in a house hold with small children and pets. Keep it on a high shelf.
Oh I had no idea! I'll look into that! Thank you very much for telling me!
Throw bananas in the freezer peel and all. The peel will turn black eventually but just run under warm water to loosen the peel and inside you have a perfect banana
Thank you!
OKAY YOU MAKE ME LAUGH ITS GREAT....JUST KEEP BEING YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BLESSINGS JEN FROM OHIO HOPE THE DAY NIGHT WENT GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks so much!!
Wow
My Hubby is A Trucker, I pre-cook meals for him to take on the road
That's a great idea! I bet he appreciates that and it saves a lot of money!
@@mamabairds Yes Ma'am it saves alot of money and healthier too
Oh noes! I would need to dehydrate the cilantro and store it with my spices. That little bag would be so lost in my freezer that the archeologists would have to dig it out.
That's a good idea! Can I dehydrate now, even though I froze them...probably not.
@@mamabairds With other vegetables, I would say yes but probably not with greens and leafy herbs.
After all bills Jan 2wehad 23.00i will be going to food banks all month
You are so good showing us how to use item. Thanks
I’m a disabled woman that just got out of an abusive 30 year old marriage. I sure wish we had a food bank.
I'm sorry for your struggles! I am happy to hear you got out of that! Do you know for sure there is no food bank around you?
@@mamabairds I’ve googled and called different places that had emergency service during the pandemic I’ve not had any luck. I live in a small country town of 11,000 I’ve been her my entire life pretty sure there is not
@AMAZING RELAXING I’m thankful everyday that I’m alive, I have four beautiful grandchildren. A wonderful son and daughter-in-law. I have God by my side every day and got me out of a horrible situation. I have peace in my life now. I’m not afraid to close my eyes. When he left he took every financial security we had. I battled for three years. At the end I was tired and ready to just move on. I’m free but I had never had to worry about insurance or groceries or how to pay my electric bill. Long story short I’ll take my struggles today over the struggles of 30 years of abuse any day.
It takes courage to do what you have. I am so proud of you. To help you save money use coupons paper as well as digital. Use rebate form and sites. Buy what is on sale when you can and plan your meals around that. I had a good husband and used to coupon he was firefighter. Lost him in 2012. I went from having almost anything l wanted to not being able to work and pay my bills. I am not ashamed to say l to use a food pantry from time to time. I have MS. So at times it is hard to stand in lines waiting. But l get help when l need it. Keep asking around call a few schools, churches and Salvation Army, AARP also can help older people with food as well as other items needed.
@@shirley1824 I worked my entire life until at 37 I had quadruple heart bypass. Caused by a disease I have pcod. Which also causes diabetes, hair loss and low metabolism. I also have a disease that causes growth of cyst on my spinal cord. I live in pain daily. I’m not trying to have a pitty party. My ex husband carried insurance on me after I had open heart surgery and my other diseases I was born with but they get worse as I get older. After the divorce I lost everything as far as insurance, income security. That’s the reason I held on as long as I could. I’m much happier no matter what I deal with now. It’s just scary when you loose your stability but I know longer worry about getting beaten or held at gun point. I can go to bed at night and sleep I have peace and I thank God and my family every day for it. ❤️I’m one of the lucky ones I made it out. Some don’t. 🥲
Make a lot of banana bread cupcakes,,,and loves of banana bread freeze them for lunches for your hubbys lunches or mil on the road