Create a Long-term Meal Plan for Food Self-sufficiency On Your Homestead - Groceries for a year!
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- This video will teach you how to create a long-term meal plan so that you can grow and raise all of your own food and ultimately become food self-sufficient on your homestead! Grocery shop for a year! This will be a breeze after you follow this tutorial. Then you can spend more time where you want to be... in your garden and with your family!
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This has to be the best meal plan video I've watched. I've never seen someone lay it out this way. I'm horrible at sticking to meal plans...especially weekly ones. This seems extremely doable and flexible. Thank you! 💚
Thank you!! I’m so glad you found it helpful!
Finally! A homestead woman that's as particular and logical as me! Thank you for sharing your insights. I've been wondering how to better plan out my meals and this makes a lot of sense.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
This is where freezer meals come in handy❤
Yes! I need to make more freezer meals!
*mind blown* I’ve never heard of a meal plan set up like this & I LOVE IT! I can’t wait to give this a try ☺️ I’ve always struggled with sticking to “theme nights” meal planning so perhaps going by the rotating protein will be easier to stick to
Yes! It’s been a game changer for us. Hopefully it works for you too!
great tips for being organized and planning ahead. just found you. thanks!
Thank you! So glad it was helpful!
My best friend had eight children, She would have LOVED this! Very good meal planning approach. I like the protein columns. We are two households on our working farm. My husband cooks dinner at the main farm at noon. I have to watch that he doesn't come home to the same protein! So having a running list for both houses would come in handy. Yes I have tried to do that on a small scale in the past, but we shut the farm down to the public in March 2020 and have been scrambling ever since to run it with just three people! Add to that that we are all over 70! So far so good :-) ~ Diane
I love that you guys are still farming. What an inspiration! 👏
OMG I just found your channel and it's amazing! This video is everything, your attention to details is superb doing this is gonna make my life so much easier! Thank you so much!
You are absolutely amazing!! 👏 😊
Thank you, that's so sweet.❤️
So I've been delaying setting up our home inventory because it's just too nerdy but this video has renewed my spirit 😍 I installed a software application called Grocy on a server of mine, and it lets you do exactly this--keep a household inventory of every item you own. It also tracks prices and estimates the cost of your next grocery haul. Using it in conjunction with your meal planning process should be spectacular!! I thought planning a month's worth of meals was too much, but THREE?? A YEAR?! HALLELUJAH, I love it!!!
Yes! Well, actually using my method it’s 4 meal plans, but still… very manageable! You got this! 🙌
Those are great suggestions--it makes being self-sufficient look doable when you break it down the way you did!
This was fantastic! Thank you!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
This is Genius!! Thank you so much for sharing!!
I needed this!! I'm so happy to have found you!! Thank you for sharing 😊
So glad it was helpful!
Great video, it explains the method so clear and concisely!
Thank you! Glad it was helpful!
I love this as a base . Thank you . I hope to print these papers out . Thanks for providing them for us
Glad you found it helpful!
I'm definitely going to try this. I'm so bored with our current dinners so hoping this will give me a chance to change things up and not feel like we are eating the same thing all the time. Thank you for this!
This is brilliant.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
This video is stellar!! I've been trying to figure out how to do this for my family for a while. I must admit I have a difficult family of picky eaters who also happen to be disorganized and a bit lazy. However, over the last 4 years we have become a criminally fast food dependent lot. I've been laid low by illness/surgery and my husband has a childhood trauma from eating left overs.
Getting this organized in a step by step manner is an answer to my frustration. Thank you!
Great job! So many great ideas to try. This will make life so much easier. Thank you.
I'm so glad you found it helpful Joan!
Your video was so amazing. You have such great organization skills. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
You are awesome!!! Thank you so so much for sharing this. I was clueless. Newbie homesteader here and trying to learn everything.
I’m so glad you found this helpful!
I joined Azure a couple months ago. I Love it! I am so happy I found you, you are absolutely amazing and helpful to listen to watch! Thank you 😀
Awesome! Thank you so much. ❤️
Love it! Thank you!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Ok those were awesome tips!! I already do monthly meal planning....so maybe I'll try this version!!
Perfect! Glad you found it helpful!
Thank you so much for making this video. It is by far the best I have seen dealing with meal planning, it is just what I have been looking for. I too am wanting to ditch the grocery store and start ordering from Azure Standard, but was a little overwhelmed. So glad I found your channel.
Yay! So glad I could help!
Just found your channel. Love this!
Thank you for taking the time to let me know! ❤️
this is great! thank you!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video!
Thank you!
I love this idea! But I also love your blouse ❤ Where did you get it? Lovely!
Thank you! Target, but many years ago. 😉
I need to Really figure this out!
It’s a game changer!
I am doing something similar. I set up a weekly rotation of....Pasta base, vege based soup, Beef based, bean soup or baked beans with sides, chicken based, pizza or seafood, and chili with tons of peppers and onions. By having a soup every other day I also have a healthy lunch the following day for the children without much meal prep. By incorporating beans every week I will go through my bean storage. Pasta is easy to store everything long term as well and one can store a variety of sauces for them.
I love your detailed approach to ditching the grocery store. I am ditching Walmart for Aldi and Azure😁 and also hoping to can most of our beans and veges during this next season. Healthy is my goal for this next year.
Love it! Sounds like we have similar goals. I definitely could use some more ways to use up my bean supply. We don’t go through them very fast.
Super informative thank you
Your welcome!
I shared your video on my canning group on Facebook, so hopefully sending you more subscribers! 🙏😆 They were asking about how much food to store for a year.
Perfect! Thank you so much for sharing!
Your videos are wonderful! Thank you! Where can I find the spread sheet for the inventory?
That is an absolutely beautiful dress that looks great on you! Oh, thank you for your video but your dress had my attention, lol!
Thank you, that’s so nice of you!
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Super thankful to have found you. I have so many questions. How do I change our family's eating habits, we are walmart junkies too and I so want changes to take place in our family. We live in central Alabama. I have started teaching myself to grow the past 4 years, or this will be my fourth spring garden. I have never preserved any of it. I have had many trials and errors but this year we may actually be able to eat and save some of our food, if I can get my husband and kids to try. How do you make kids try when their dad wont try certain foods?
First of all, I'm so sorry I'm just seeing your comment! Apparently I don't see all of the comments on my phone and need to look on my computer. Anyway... I think the best thing we have done is take it one meal at a time. Breakfast was the easiest. I literally sat down with my family and we discussed what healthy options they would eat. I wouldn't focus on forcing anyone to start eating certain things. Instead come up with some healthy options that everyone is on board with. Then, after you get in the habit of a "real food" breakfast, tackle lunch. Check out my video on breakfast idea for more tips. Also, I have noticed that my kids will eat more fruits and vegetables if they get to help grow them. Maybe helping in the garden would help! Hope this helps, but feel free to reach out to me on Instagram as well!
Do you have a video of how you plan your meals into the meal bins?
I show it briefly in this video: ua-cam.com/video/E4oKa1Eq1-s/v-deo.html
Fabulous information! Thank you so very much for a thorough tutorial. I cannot seem to find the inventory sheet. What have I missed?
It is no longer available except in my homesteading membership. Sorry for the inconvenience. I'll make a note in the description!
this is super helpful, thank you! Question, I assume you switch out recipes in blocks when you want to try something new or find a new favorite. This doesn't throw off your long term planning too much? How do you recommend switching out and trying new things in the rotation?
So sorry for not responding earlier! Yes, when I want to try something new, I just do! No need to change the plan, there may just be some meals that we don't make that month. The idea behind the meal plan is simply to have enough on hand to make enough meals to last us. I never feel bound by it if I want to mix things up.
I just found you and I love your style. You are such a down to earth, pragmatic, get it done woman. Thank you for sharing this. I love this idea and aim to try it. The video says that the inventory "is in the description below, in the blogpost" but I don't see it. What am I missing? TIA
Thank you! I'm so glad you found me! Sorry... I need to update the description. I removed that when I redid my inventory spreadsheet and now it's only going to be available in my membership.
I'm a new subscriber! Do you just use one column for your weekly meals or do you pick and choose when you do meal planning? Do you grocery shop weekly? Meal plan weekly? Thank you!
I have everything on hand for two weeks at a time, and shop every other week for perishables. I shop every 3 months for nonperishables. This way, I can pick and choose from the first two columns of my meal plan, and then from the last two columns, as I have everything I need on hand! Hope this helps!
That refrigerator! Love! Name brand please?
Thank you! It’s a Frigidaire Professional all fridge and freezer set.
@@TheFromScratchFarmhouse I am looking to buy a fridge just like yours for our large family as we are building a new house and wondered where did you buy it at? I'm googling. Thanks for all you share! Lovely house too!
Hi! Where can I find the pantry inventory link/pdf that you talk about towards the end of the video? I can't seem to find it!
There is an error that comes up for the inventory sheet. Would it be somewhere else?
Hmm... everything looks good on my end... Please send an email to staci@thefromscratchfarmhouse.com and I will help you get that figured out! It should open in Google sheets.
The link for the blog post? I searched the website also and I keep getting error. I sent an email. Thank you!
Oh, I'm so sorry! I'm offering an (improved) inventory spreadsheet on another video, so when your comment came up it didn't register that you referring to this link. I redid my website and that blog post isn't moved over yet. It will be soon! In the meantime, you can get that Household Inventory spreadsheet by filling out the giveaway form on my latest Azure Standard video. You get it as a freebie for signing up for the giveaway, but even if you don't want to enter you can still get the download! Just go to the description of this video: ua-cam.com/video/f0nrnSqLRWw/v-deo.html
@@TheFromScratchFarmhouse Understandable, thank you for responding!