EMERGENCY FOOD STORAGE AND PREP // DOLLAR TREE MEALS
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Awesome 👍 I donate food to food banks too. After losing my job almost 3 years ago, it’s a cause very close to my heart. (I have a job now, it’s just easy to forget how close you are to the bottom of life sometimes) and it serves to remind me 🙂
Lucy I'm so glad things are going well for you again, and thank you for your generosity! :)
I am happy to hear youre doing better and able to help others now...much ♡ to you and your family
Great ideas! You could also add a bottle of water to the soup one in case the emergency is a natural disaster and your water becomes contaminated. I love that you give back with the proceeds from your channel. Thank you for sharing (your ideas and your profits 👍)
Generous of you to offer your monthly income from UA-cam to a charity helping those in need. Great ideas here, but one note as some without power may have no water; or the recipes would depend on bottled water storage. I’m in NE Ohio and years ago, a tornado-like storm came through and we were without power for almost 2 weeks. Had to clean the fridge/freezer out. We cooked meats over a man made campfire - ate some, but gave much to neighbors. That felt so good to do this! God bless.
When you mentioned "more is not more", keep in mind that if you don't have power, you don't have refrigeration. While a larger package is usually a better value, if you can't properly store the remainder, it will be wasted. I love that you are doing this and donating your proceeds to important causes!
Yes this what happened to us this earlier ice and snow and rain and freeze storm which caused no electric, no water and much damage in so surrounding places. It took many weeks to get help and many changes were made and done to our apartment complex as well as surrounding areas…
I subscribed after the Walmart shelf stable meals video,the chicken soup was clever and I made it and it was delicious!
I love this! I can’t wait to try the refried bean soup thickener trick next time I make tortilla soup!
Love this kind of video. In my hometown, we have a “blessing box” that’s open to the public to use and we’re able to place shelf-stable items in the box so that anyone in need can help themselves. I am going to use a few of these ideas to put MEAL blessings in the box with cards on how to prepare; something I’d never thought of until this video. Thank you for the inspiration ❤️
Great idea, Heather! Thanks for doing that. :)
It works great in chili also to thicken it.
I can remember when I was younger hurricane fredric devastated the town I lived in Bayou La Batre. Food came in for everyone from all over. My mom took those boxed Au Gratin potatoes and put canned ham in them. It was very good and very filling....that or we were just very hungry...lol. But to this day use them for a pork chop casserole.
I actually like those bo potatoes, too, Mary. My mom used those when I was growing up, they were quick and easy to throw together with a meal!
I have added ham to them for years. Some corn and a salad make a perfect meal.
A can of mushrooms, instant rice, cream of chicken or mushrooms and a can of chicken heated in a pot makes a nice little meal. Rice a roni (any flavor) with chopped tomatoes, corn and peas makes another meal.
Just a thought. When you label your bags with the paper saying what it is for, you may want to put below that the expiration dates of the products within. That way it is just a quick glance every once in a while to verify your food is still good or how close expiration it may be so it may be replaced with fresher and original used.
Good idea!
Thanks for the inspiration to do this! I live in Slidell, LA and evacuated for hurricane Ida. Even after we came home, we were without power for another couple days (7 days without power). This is a great idea because you never know when you’ll need it and you give great inexpensive options. I finally get to go grocery shopping tomorrow to replenish my fridge / freezer after losing everything 😔 Salvation Army and other places in the community helped us by giving free, hot meals before we could get a few items to put back in our fridge.
We lost our home in a flood, the Salvation Army was so very helpful during that time. We received a lot of relief from several sources right away afterward, but the Salvation Army continued to help for several months after. They had trucks that drove through the neighborhood daily with meals and water. It helped so much with the cleanup and rebuild to know that we were going to get to eat a good meal that day.
cream of mushroom soup, minute rice, some canned veggies and canned chicken. All in one pot cooking. I have researched WW2 and depression era recipes to stretch the budget out more and make do with what I have. Hormel makes a canned roast beef with gravy that is awesome over egg noodles and I can get 3-4 servings out of one can with noodles, possibly more when stretched with veggies.
Where do you find i would love to get some
I think these are great ideas even for people on a limited budget. There are some many people that still go without . These ideas would be great for people with several children to feed and at not cost much. Keep up the great humanitarian work you and your family do. I give whenever I can on my limited budget. Net year I am turning my garden into a helping garden for the food pantry in our town. I am limiting my planting to tomatoes, peppers, green beans and cucumbers so I can grow a lot more of these items to use for ourselves and give as much as possible to the pantry. I am excited to see rows and rows of these veggies growing and taking boxes and boxes to the pantry. Have a great day.
I come from the South Carolina coast line and every year during hurricane season we usually lose electricity (or worse). When your freezer and fridge are struggling to stay cold from lack of electric, you pretty much leave the doors closed to preserve the cold and eat out of the pantry while you wait for your power to be restored or your entire freezer full of food to thaw out while in the freezer which ever comes first. So, since non-spoiling pantry meal ideas are on my mind, and you have shared so many delicious sounding pantry meals with me, I just wanted to give you one of my absolute favs with so many different variations that its my go to when the electric goes out yearly. It does require some water which I keep in storage and I cook it over a propane camping stove when the electric is out, but sometimes you just need a nice hot, hearty meal when there's a hurricane bearing down on you dumping tons of cold water in the form of rain that's attacking you LITERALLY from any angle you can imagine. I call it my ALL IN POTATOES because its such a simple and delicious pantry meal.
· Pkt of (Au Gratin/Scalloped) potatoes
· Can of cream of (celery/mushroom/chicken) soup to substitute water with in potatoes
· Can or jar of Mushroom/asparagus
· One protein. Choose from:
· Canned chicken/turkey/tuna
·Or Vienna Sausages/cut summer sausage/frozen Sausage
· Or beef
· Cajun/Chili powder to flavor
· Salt & pepper to flavor
Just combine all ingredients in a boiling pan with the cooking potatoes. To save on water usage you can just pour all your fluids from the cans or jars of food in to cook the potatoes in. Add the delicate veggies at very end to heat so that you avoid serious decomposition issues with the asparagus. Stir and serve. It is cheap, pantry stable, easy to cook, super filling and so so yummy 😋
The thing I love the best about it is that you can adjust the size of the meal for the number of people by using less of the potato packet and buying individual size canned servings.
You’re Amazing! Let’s all watch without skipping and leave comments!
I buy the Jambalaya rice often and add a can of corn that has tomatoes and okra with a can of black beans and fire roasted tomatoes. This makes a lot of servings. This can be served with canned Mackerel on the side.
I’ve never had canned mackerel. Do you serve it as is or do you add other items to it?
@@Smooshes786 I eat it as is like I eat tuna. When I was young my Dad would mash it up add 1 egg and crushed saltine crackers mix it up and make fish patties then fry them. Now whenever I see Mackerel it brings back memories of my Dad.
@@racheladams5299 thank you so much. I will look for it.
When I was driving my son to college (in another town)😉 I used a pouch of microwavable (sp?), a can of the tomato/okra/corn, and a drained can of black beans, for a great vegan/vegetarian meal for two. Canned ham would have worked in it too! I didn't even have to warm this, it was good by itself.
I love the idea of a "to go tote" with meal ideas. I never thought of having a tote of meals. I have a pantry of food for whatever but what if we needed to "go". This is a great idea. Thank you!
Hi Mindy, I loved this video. You have great ideas! One suggestion would be to date the meal packs…..use the oldest dated meal packs first. My husband and I grew up and live in Central and Coastal North Carolina….hurricanes! We are all to familiar with power outages so we have always planned for that possibly. Having a wall which depends on power, we have 3 weeks of water storage, a grill with 2 full gas tanks and a small generator. We are fortunate to have natural gas for stove in a rural community. I understand this may seem extreme for some viewers buts it’s the reality we have lived in our entire lives. Blessings
Hey Mindy, you do a really great job in taking current events and applying them to your videos. I like how so many of your videos start with a message about food insecurity and possible ways to solve those problems. Plus all of your recipes that I have tried are really good too!
I watch your videos and this one is great. So much going on these days, food storage always makes sense. I love the idea of going through and assembling all the ingredients for a recipe in one bag. I'm going to through all my stuff and do the same thing. That's much more convenient than looking and searching and trying to think of something on the spot.
This is a great idea to have meal ingredients ready like that! Also, it's important to have a manual can opener for times when there's no electricity. Not everybody has one.
Mindy, thank you for the ideas. I live in North Queensland, Australia in cyclone territory. These “meals” would definitely do the job of filling bellies when you only have access to a camp gas burner. We have just started spring here, but summer will be here soon, so your timing is perfect. Blessings to you & your family for being so generous to others….what wonderful stewards you are 🙏🏻🥰
I love the idea of putting emergency meal packages together for storage, and bless you for donating the proceeds of this video to disaster relief!!! A great shelf-stable protein item is turkey sausages and pepperoni. Aldi sells several different kinds for $3-$5 and the 'use by' dates are always several months out. I love buying the slim turkey sausages and slicing them up in pasta salads, but they'd also be wonderful in that jumbalaya dish!
Just remember that those have to be refrigerated once the package is opened.
As a mom of a college student I love these ideas. My son is a full time student and also works an almost full time job with UPS and so when he gets home late he needs quick ideas for dinner. Most of these are quick meals. Adding some of this stuff to his Christmas gifts this year (he's getting a nice set of pots and pans). He enjoys cooking so that's not a big deal to him. And can I just say you changed my life with the recipe for grown up spaghetti o's. I know the canned ones are horrible for you, but they are a comfort food for me and knowing I can make it myself very easy changed my life!!!
This is great! I was just telling my daughter yesterday about your first video. We live in far North Idaho so this is an every day thing in the winter it seems, lol! But my husband and I were having a conversation about what happens when moms get sick and husbands don’t know how to cook… I think this is also a great idea for that specific purpose or just once in a while when mom needs a break and husband wants to help out. Thank you so much for doing these videos Mindy, we all appreciate it so much and we love your heart for others!💗
I think I'm going to try your pasta tonight with a twist...I'm roasting garden veggies as we speak (mostly tomatoes) going to let it cook down all afternoon...but going to try and let the pasta cook in the sauce, and add se heavy cream and parm cheese to the mix
Thanks for the tip about refried beans in the soup. I never thought of using it as a thickener in a soup that already had beans.
It's not as good as say a cornstarch slurry, but I find it does make the soup a little creamier and thicker.
My kids really like the red sauce and white sauce mixed together with pasta.
Potato soup from a box of au gratin potatoes. Hmm... I love how you are able to think outside of the box.
@Melissa Peltier it was intended a little. 😉
@Melissa Peltier Mindy is so creative with items we tend to think only one way with... it's one of the many reasons I watch.
This is so relevant to what's going on right now! I feel so BLESSED that I live somewhere where I don't have to worry about hurricanes! What a great way to prep for disaster kits!
We are on the Gulf Coast so we keep an eye on storms. So thankful we missed Ida, but our thoughts and prayers are with them. We have a gas stove so these will be helpful!
Love this series... More? Yes please!
Your presentation methods are always easy to watch and follow along, soothing almost. I have difficulty creating recipes on my own so your suggestions spark ideas and are so very welcome! We will be adding these to our hurricane boxes!
We love the dollar tree jambalaya rice box! We normally add Kalbasa sausage and chicken to it, but for an emergency meal I bet can chicken works too.
I don't remember from Dollar Tree, but Aldi has shelf-stable chorizo in the canned meat/baking goods/soups aisle.
Absolutely love this kind of vlog, very beneficial with the fires hurricanes going on now days. We went through this in the North ridge earth quake in L.A. We were without power for over a week. We used the freezer stuff first then our earth quake food. Please incorporate this kind of vlog often. Thank you ❤ Also what goes into a eath quake box . If you need ideas I have plenty of suggestions 😂
So nice to see some people donating to the needy
Love shelf stable cooking videos! Thank you.
I do boondocking which is a problem for refrigerating food. These are great suggestions for me. It prolongs the time between the grocery store. I am 45 minutes away from a Dollar type store so I do it using SaveMart or Walmart especially when items are on sale. Thanks so very much. I appreciate your donation to Salvation Army for the disaster relief.
I never thought of putting together meal ingredients in a bag. Thank you!! Great idea to make it fast and easy.
I love this series, thank you! My boyfriend goes on hiking and camping trips each year with friends where they often hike 5-10 miles to their campsite and these recipes will be great for them! And quite a step up from eating just chili for days!
Great ideas for hurricanes that we get down in Florida.
Thank you Mindy, I have been working on this myself but have the added problem of only being one person and am figuring out how to make these single serving. I meal per bag so there are no leftovers and then doing enough food in the bag for one whole day.
Thank you for sharing! Really good ideas! Definitely going to start an emergency meal box in my pantry!
I really enjoy your budget videos. Some of the things you purchased are cheaper at grocery stores too. But you gave good ideas for people to work with. Thank you for your generous donation to people in need !
Wonderful that you tithe/donate your proceeds from this channel to charity! Thank you for sharing that information with us. It's a good reminder to me to be generous.
Not only wonderful ideas for emergencies . But you act of kindness and love brought tears to my eyes. Thank you.
The way she makes so many helpful videos and donates the revenue is so amazing. Go Mindy!!
Love the idea of storing all the recipe ingredients in on bag, ideal for donating and for keeping for emergencies.
One thing to consider is adding the expiration dates of the individual items on the outer ziplock so that things are kept fresh and usable, I try to rotate my stock so that everything gets used up before it goes bad.
Loving these videos they are helpful for many situations of life. Thanks for all you do
Thanks, Karla, glad you like them!
@@SeeMindyMom Your creative suggestions are great--Like a few others here, I'd love to see a 'no cook' meal plan since our disasters are earthquakes, and with natural gas leaks, open flames aren't safe, so meals would be uncooked, cold meals (and I see that was the same problem others mentioned here too). Could you trouble shoot that scenario for us?
I really appreciate that you not only give ideas, but you actually cook them! It just proves that you actually eat these ideas and I think it’s great!
Thank you for posting ♥️
This is good for earthquake kits! We have a camping BBQ that uses those cans to heat up so we can warm up canned and boxed items. Harder for us due to allergies/Celiac but soups, beans, canned tuna, etc works and we can make a meal.
Great idea!
We have allergies and celiac too. We figured out that amazon has a couple small companies that sell gf and df soup mixes.
Thank you very much Mindy...I could watch you all day!!
It is very nice of you to help with disaster relief.
As if I couldn't like you more!! You're awesome and your channel is so much fun, thank you for sharing
You could also give them in blessing boxes for people in need.
Great looking meals that I think I will be putting in my emergency box. Thank you Mindy
Every time I watch you I am amazed how creative you are with your meals. I love one pot meals, so these ideas will be great for me and my husband.
Love your ideas! Thank you for giving!
I'm in Florida and I'm watching Hurricane Sam right now. This couldn't have come at a better time.
Thank you so much Mindy for mentioning us and donating. As a survivor of Hurricane Ida, we are still having issues but we are strong and will rebuild.
After hurricane Katrina we lived on canned black beans and tomatoes mixed together and tuna fish out of the can. We always keep a lot of canned beans during hurricane season!
Anther awesome video! I love these ones because I always struggle with meal planning from dry pantry items, thanks for posting another one! ❤️
If by chance you have room in a freezer you can keep ice blocks in it and a large cooler. When you lose power for extended time you can quickly move some perishables in there and then KEEP YOUR FRIDGE AND FREEZER CLOSED. This will keep your leftovers cold for a while too. Thanks for these great ideas!
We live in MI and lose power frequently. In summer when we do this we stash the cooler in the root cellar. In winter we put it in the snow bank
Another thing... keep an eye on the expiration dates. We hope we never have to use our emergency preps, but we also don't want to waste. We'll want to make sure we pull items out and use or donate them before they "expire".
This is something we think about with our hurricane seasons in FL. It's smart to rotate and re-create your emergency boxes when the season is over to avoid expired foods.
Thanks, Haley. I'm pretty particular about using things up and minimizing waste, so I'm aware. :)
Love you! Thanks for the great ideas and your kind, giving spirit. We could all use more of that these days! 😁
Thank you for such great easy ideas❣️and for your generous heart ❤️
Thank you. Those meals will help my budget and help for winter planning
I love your meal ideas. You have helped me get thru some days where I didn't know what to cook and I only had canned foods to use thank you so much
I love 💕 the idea of putting all the ingredients in a zip lock bags. I have not thought about doing that before. I love 💕 that you went to DT and showed what to buy and how to make the items. I enjoyed this video.
I live in North Texas and the ice storm earlier this year was very eye opening - we had ZERO running water for 6 1/2 days and no power for several days, not even what they called rolling power outages. My home is all electric too. So the snow and ice actually gave us water to flush toilets, and we filled up several buckets and a bathtub with fresh water before we lost it completely. I definitely need to put together some meals in case these conditions happen again. It was very scary to not have water at all. Any ideas you have for no water and no power meals would be very appreciated. Thank you for doing this series. I am really learning a lot and love your ideas !
Our home is all electric as well and we have well water so we always fill our bathtubs with water as well if we know there is a storm coming. For water we use a service called diamond springs. We have a water cooler and then diamond springs brings us once a month the amount of 5 gallon bottles that we need. We will then always have water. My mom started getting this service after we had that huge ice storm here in Virginia when I was a teenager.
@@rebekahseay472 great idea ! Thank you !
@@lisaharr1477 Your very welcome. ☺️☺️
@@rebekahseay472 😃
If I remember correctly, FEMA recommends storing water in the amount of two gallons per person per day, for at least two weeks. So that would be 28 gallons per person. Even if we don't need it for preparing meals, we always need to have water for drinking, washing, etc.
Love that. We remember hurricane Harvey too well not that long ago
Great ideas! Thanks for the inspiration Mindy❤
Love this series and your generosity! The ideas are wonderful. Will be using these to put meal kits together for our monthly church food donations and for our own hurricane preparedness. I live in Florida...Hurricane central! Blessing to you and yours and thank you.
Thanks for donating. You’re a good woman!! (I always try to watch to the end of the video and engage in the comments somehow. I’ve heard that helps the video)
It does help, thank you, Suzanne!
Love your ideas and suggestions! Thank you.
God bless you for your beautiful heart. There are so many families out there that are in need.
Thank you for your generosity
Great ideas, Mindy! I love how you come up with quick and easy meals using ingredients that I think most of us have. ❤👍
Love these ideas! Thank you.
How wonderful and thoughtful of you and your husband to donate to the salvation Army disaster relief. Awesome video.
Great suggestions for meals...and Thank You for donating to these causes.
That is so nice of you donating your proceeds from this channel to the relief fund. Great video.
Thank you for giving to The Salvation Army! I work as a Program Cook for Salvation Army. I cook breakfast and lunch at the Hospitality House Shelter in Tucson AZ. I/we appreciate your help!! Love your videos
We homeschool and that pasta idea is a Great one for lunches! Fast, easy and not a sammie!!!
Those are wonderful ideas. Nice to see Dollar Tree used since sometimes in certain areas it is the only easily accessible store.
Great video! I'm always challenging myself with new pantry stable meals so this was great! ☺️
Great ideas! Thanks. Love watching.
So glad! Thank you!
That’s so great that you give back from your channel!!!
Thank you very much.
Thank you for your tips!
Love these ideas! Went to Dollar Tree the other day to get some items from your prior video. Thanks for all of the ideas.,
We add a can of Rotel to the jambalaya mix. I have also added Spam diced up.
Live in Oklahoma. In October 2020, there was an ice storm. We were without power for 9 days. Have a gas stove. We were able to cook and have a little heat. The power outage was so widespread that we couldn't get ice to put in an ice chest for several days.
I’d love if you did more Dollar Tree ones like this. Super helpful!
Always love your ideas. I’m like you in that I can grab a few things I have around and make up a meal idea on the fly:)
We just had a tornado hit out town and we lost power for 24 hours. Luckily we have a gas stove and we're able to make some oatmeal and canned soup! This video is great!
Oh gosh, that’s so scary and I’m sorry to hear that. I lived through a bad tornado when I was 16. Hope you guys are safe and well!
@@SeeMindyMom Thank you so much!! Thankfully we were all okay!!
I haven’t tried retried beans as a thickener. I might need to try that recipe. 😃
Loved this one! Looking for more use it up so it doesn’t go bad creative ideas. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for all that you share with us and the world. You are an amazing person!
Thank you for the kind words. We're no better than anybody else, just trying to do the best we can. :)
love these videos but love them even more since you guys are giving back ❤️❤️❤️