Date night is not shallow it adds so much to the family lasting! You are what holds the family together. If you don’t tend a nurture the relationship the family falls. The wold needs good families. Thank you for what you add to this world!❤️
Hi Josh and Carolyn, I use to do Home Health care and I took care of a lady that was 98 in 1989, so yeah she's gone, but what a wealth of information. She told me about 6 month to one year of pantry food way back in the 80's. So I have been doing that since. Yes, there were times where it did get thin, but, it was replenished. And during this COVID, I was fine, I had plenty.
2 days of cold meals....brilliant! 12 friends in Idaho ordered pigs from a farmer in MN who was going to have to shoot them and bury them because big processors closed. Instead our pigs are being processed by smaller butchers then we are making cannonball run to meet the farmer halfway. It may be a drop in the bucket but it is helping these guys to save their farms.
Decentralised infrastructure is great/worth supporting. On the other hand there wouldn't be much need to close down anything if people used their heads, had good government reactions or listened to Taiwan.
I wouldn't eat pigs. Meat is not safe. It will be coming out over the next few weeks probably, or they may never tell us (because they're currently lying about it), but covid19 can be caught by pigs and transmitted to humans. Meat eating caused this pandemic. It has caused a lot of other plagues as well...swine flu, bird flu, Ebola, influenza type a,b and c, etc. It is all caused by the same processes of the meat industry.
Caroline, after so many precious children, & so much physical labor on the farm, your skin & hair are just so lovely & youthful. We love the cooking, homeschooling etc, what do you do for your self care? You look 25.
I thought she looked very young as well, all that natural healthy food and good living..I also live well prepared also, the only thing that’s affected us is the only chicken or pork we can get (Chinese controlled supply chain) the pork all comes from one umbrella brand and all chicken has a rubber texture, I’ve stopped bothering with hair cuts
Fast Forward to Sept 2022. Many of us are waking up and are prepping for what is coming. I'm dehydrating around the clock, clearing my freezers and canning, buying bulk food and supplies.. I'm learning alot from homesteaders and prepper channels. God Bless
Training yourself to eat in season. This is the first year I told my children we would not be buying fruit out of season. When our apple tree produced this year we made all of it into applesauce. Then from a friend who has many many trees I purchased 6 cases of apples ad 2 cases of pears for only $15 a case when they were in season. I sliced and dehydrated all if them. We are still eating then. My kids have been perfectly content through the winter and I feel much better as I look at the price of apples through the winter. This was a next step for us in our journey and one that pays financially and for a good stocked pantry. Always grateful for your knowledge and level headed way of instructing and helping others!
My Grandfathers winery had subsistence rotation crops for "downtime" work for Aspergus to winter Cabage and it thought me a lot about food preservation.
Eating food that is locally grown and in season is called a macrobiotic diet. There's more to it than just that, but local and in season eating is the basis for it. It's a very healthy way to live.
One fast and easy way to learn to buy ahead is to not start with pantry items, but other items you need to use all the time. I started last year by purchasing the largest sized All free and Clear pods from our local Sam's Club, marking the lid, and seeing how long it took to use it up, while comparing cost savings to just buying smaller amounts at my local grocery store. (The savings on this one item per laundry load is at least half.) I did this with other items as well, buying the largest size available as a single item, cost comparing, and seeing how long it took to use up. By December of last year I was ready and between Sam's Club and Walmart, where the prices in my area are the best, I bought a year's supply of laundry soap, fabric softener, dishwashing detergent, dish soap, bar soap, shampoo, deodorant, and toothpaste. I've made note of the amounts in a Word file and will tweak future bulk purchases as needed as I move forward. I know we will use these items. I know they will not "go bad," before we can use them up. They are items I now never have to think about when creating my shopping list. I saved a lot of money and when things hit this March I knew that we would not run out of these basics. I have enough right now to last out the calendar year with no replenishment if so needed and/or can share them with family if needed. It's a good feeling.
We live in an apartment and are far from being homesteaders (even though it’s my ultimate dream.) I love love love watching your channel, dreaming of my future, and learning everything I can NOW and work on the things that I can. (Some gardening at my parents house and lots of good kitchen skills). Would be thrilled to see a video about skills you can work on if you live in an apartment!
Emily Rodriguez: I've posted info above and I'm currently in an apt and getting some medical treatments finished up. I have a gentleman's closet where I built shelves and end of the living room I built more shelves too. 66" wide x 23" deep and 8 ft ceiling. I put a couple of curtains in front that I bought at IKEA, so people dont see it when I open the front door.
I am in an efficiency though it takes alot of space i bought a 10 tray dehydrator at st Vincent's a thrift store as i run out of space i will powdering what i dry, it can be added to canned, frozen food for nutrition and flavoring. Powdering dehydrated fruits and vegetables dramatically decreases the space you use. A small personal sized blender is all i need to powder. I got the cart before the horse. I didnt know oxygen could spoil my dehydrated stuff so now investing in vacum packing supplies. There are diy hand break pump set ups with vacum chambers, electric vacum bag sealers that can also seal jars, and there is a rechargable gand held vacum pump, food saver us one brand that makes one of those. Then you need oxygen absorber packets they are one time use. Also going to start a garden tower . As space gets more cramped i am getting rid of non edible things. I have even found instructions for powdering eggs.
Another youtuber/blogger has a saying that I have implemented when grocery shopping that helped to slowly build up my pantry. Whenever you are buying pantry staples think "1 for now, 2 for later." I don't always buy 2 extra but even one extra is better than no extra. And whenever something I use regularly is a really good deal, I try to buy enough for 3-6 months (because hopefully by that time, there is another good deal)!
I follow some low key preppers they are very down to earth. Anyway one always says 3 is 2 and 1 is none referring to food and supplies like knives and rope etc
I started buying from the local farmers and ranchers last year and my pressure canner hasn't been on the shelf since I started. My pantry is stocked. I'm canning almost every day. Now planting my own garden to.
A piece of advice I also have is to lower your food variation. A lot of people turn their noses up at me, but it doesn't have to be bland. I know it's nice to sit on pinterest and find dozens of new recipes to try but you can't bulk stock up on every item you could ever eat. I save a lot of variation for preserving. For instance, I currently have about 6 variations of kraut made, along side various other ferments. I'm feeding a bunch of coworkers right now during this pandemic. Almost everyday is some kind of bowl with a rice/bean/kraut/canned protein combo. With 3 or 4 bean types, rice types, kraut types, and meat types the combos are endless. I managed to find some avocados. They are a bulk buy but they added a new flavor for the week and a special treat without breaking the bank and ruining a stock pile.
My wife. Spun wool with a pencil in her home ec class also dyed it with natural plants. She did weave wall hangings with the finished dyed wool. Kitting was my mother’s domain!
I know this is 2 y back and I'm grateful I can watch. Here in NW there is now way regular folk could ever have a small homestead. My nephew suggested I move where he is in SE part of country. I've decided I will. As I'm an herbalist still learning plus I want to grow large garden pit back foods and share. Thank you
Thank you so much. I had never thought of six months or more of stocking a pantry. I will need to make my schedule of space and containers so that I have that in place for the the dry foods and where to put my cans and canning foods.
Great info, as always, and I would like to share the plan I used to be more prepared. I made categories (protein, carbs, fats, hygiene, for instance) and listed items under them. Each trip, I bought something from one category to put away. When budget allowed, or item was inexpensive, I bought more than one. I rotated through the categories each trip to balance my pantry. I customized it for what we used, and my simple plan kept me on track and really added up!
In Australia, it's not a common thing to have a well stocked pantry filled with canned/preserved goods, bulk items, and people who do this are usually thought of as a little crazy, including my eldest daughter. But with all of the lockdown due to the pandemic, she apologised for thinking that way as she can now see the wisdom in me stockpiling. I want to extend my canned goods, I have 2 large freezers full to the brim and I want to put a lot of that into jars in case the power grid goes haywire. I find it very hard to get Ball jars as they are expensive so I have had to resort to reusing pasta sauce jars (carefully checking lids). I have a 10 drawer dehydrator which is going flat out as much as I can. We live in suburbia, so anything more than 6 - 12 chickens is inpossible, so we are transforming our front yard into raised vege beds - you cant eat grass lol. I have converted the back bedroom into a walk-in pantry. I love watching your videos each time and I have learnt a lot from them. Keep up the great work. Blessings from Australia Cheers Kerry xxxxx
Youre right, being prepared is kind if taboo here isnt it. Ive always had decent stock in my pantry and freezers, ive started canning in the last year and we grow what we can, weve been gardening for about 7 years now, and being only 30, we get a lot of ridicule from our peers and siblings. I dont understand why Aussies arent on board 🤷🏻♀️ but it did feel nice gifting those friends fresh breads, homemade pastas, home baked goods, canned sauces and stocks, and toilet paper when they couldnt get any. Heres to hoping it will help adjust their thinking, if only slightly 🤞🏻
Hi Kerry - you can buy new lids for many jars at bulk food stores. Which State are you in? If SA i can give some tips. My local one sells lids for the jars they stock but also the tall passata jars - good for sauce. Ball jars are sometimes reasonably priced on Amazon USA with a prime eligible seller, thats where i bought all of mine. About AU$17 a dozen
One way I keep stocked up is to buy when on sale around holidays like ham’s or Turkeys at Thanksgiving, Easter, New Years, and Christmas or corned beef around Saint Patrick’s Day, sweet potatoes and cranberries around the holiday where they are always on sale. Hot dogs and hamburgers The Fourth of July, Labor Day and Memorial Day. Or just whenever the store has a big sale.
I've posted notes about how to put away rice and beans into dry storage. I've wondered if I can do that with granola?? Or flour and sugar? I've got quite a few bags that I put into doubled zip lock bags but I want it to last longer and their dates are like 18 months to 2 years out which I want to write on the mason jars.
I’ve been building my pantry room (I have a whole room yay!) for a couple years but I’m sure there’s a few things I’m lacking, hopefully it won’t be much! I don’t have a garden this year and I’m brand new to canning but I have plenty of dry food backup as well as some commercial long term storage meals, at least 6-9 months worth..and a couple freezers full of beef and venison. My daughter taught herself to spin fiber in the same way you’re teaching all of us food preservation etc, YT is a wonderful resource!! Bless you for being here sharing all your knowledge 🙏❤️🙏
We moved in our new home a couple months ago and still renovating but I just got six baby chickens that hopefully will give us plenty of delish eggs soon. Can’t wait to make this home a true working homestead. I agree with you guys! Always had at least 3 plus months worth of food and supplies in my home in town. Here I have a full basement and I’m sure I’ll fill it with more things. My friends thought I was crazy for cooking, canning, dehydrating and buying in bulk but they don’t think that anymore! I think this pandemic made a lot of people change their minds about food preservation and stockpiling.
Would love a tour of your bulk food storage. The buckets of grains etc & how you organize & rotate them. Trying to build up a stock & love to learn from experienced folks who have been at it a long time. Thanks for sharing.
Great info! I have only been pantry building for about 6 months and I have very close to 4 months worth of foods in the pantry. It truly is a process to get things built up for sure. I will be growing some of my own foods this year in raised beds as I live in the city and do not have much room, but at least its something! You guys are great! Be safe be well.
finally!! thank you so much, I've looked for years online on HOW to learn to stock up. not just what to stock. the process of going from weekly shopping and running out of food before the week's up to having a preserve like you have for my fam of 5. I'm so thankful to God for your video. I'm so relieved 😌
I was wondering if you could have dried goods without canning? I love this video so full of informational, I cook and shop for my family of Eight and I need all the help I can get to save money, we all are about your guys ages and older my parents with disabilities or high blood pressure, diabetes and I have muscular Skelton disorder , arthritis plus nerve damage in my back, so I don't like travel to town , 50 miles away is hard, I'm watching everything about your gardening to, that's my stress reliever love it, don't ever stop teaching us, thank you 😇
I have to admit that I have a ton of fun stocking our pantry. At the moment, it's way more than a hobby or a thing I think about occasionally....I think about it quite often now. The way our stock works is that we have a walk in pantry where we keep things in boxes, cans, and bags....and home-canned foods....and food grade buckets of bulk items (and those items are currently growing). We have 3 freezers and a bit of basement space for the home-canned food overflow and winter squash. I am also beginning to buy other things in bulk that are non-edible....epsom salts, for example. Thank you for your great tips on stocking up! God bless. :)
I am thankful for your ministry by sharing your skill sets, very informative and helpful! My question is kind of on the other end of the topic. Could you make a video on how you handle household garbage?
Wow!!! So much useful info here and a lot of food for thought. Our family of 8 spends about $200 a week on groceries and I am so ready for something different. I want to be a good steward of the income my husband brings in. Thanks for sharing this info!
Hi from the Uk. I'm reasonably stocked up and I live on my own, but I do miss going to church. Im not a regular attender but I do want to be in church for good hymn singing session and to give thanks to the Lord. Stay safe folks
I learned about water glassing from you and wrote an article about egg preservation for a newsletter for my town (which I am an editor for). Thanks for the knowledge!
I started growing and preserving my family’s food over 40 years ago and raising and butchering our own meats and poultry. We started all those years ago by each January going through the previous years grocery receipts, picking items like ketchup, barbecue sauce, pickled jalapeño slices, pepperoncini, that we wouldn’t be buying any longer but we would be growing and preserving enough for a year. Now after all of those years and each year eliminating more and more items from having to buy them has been a great way to help our budget in buying bulk items that we can’t raise in our climate. We added 2 orchards, perennial vegetables, berries, grapes and nut trees,herbs and medicinals back then also that provides so much extra to fill the pantry. Our gardens have increased by massive amounts while decreasing our food costs by an amazing amount by saving our seeds each year and filling our pantry with items we used to have to buy. We always grow and preserve the foods that we know we will eat. We do try something new each year. Once we started doing all of that we would buy wheat, sugars, salt etc by 50 lb bags locally without shipping and only a 14 mile round trip which saved even more therefore being able to purchase more bulk items more often. Of course this wouldn’t be so easy for a person that had never canned before but for some one like myself I grew up canning. I was 11 when I pressure canned my first green beans on the farm. I thought it might help someone
Very good advice. I have been watching your videos for a couple years and have a good full pantry with many items you have turned me onto. Keep up the good work!
Because of your clear videos, I have ordered a pressure canner to preserve beans carrots and home made soups, so that I don’t have to put them in the freezer,, I hope I succeed..
It is August 10, 2020 as I have stumbled on to your channel. You think you were tired of COVID in April. Here it is August and things are no better, ugh. Proud of you two. Your love and respect for each other is wonderful. I am so jealous. Wish I had what you two have! We are at a different stage of our life. Just sent our baby off of four for his senior year in college. We have had kids around for close to 40 years! This transition depresses me. A quiet, empty house... I am loving preppers and homesteaders. Love the simple life on the farm. Look forward to your videos. Kudos!
I'll admit that I started our with the last step, but it was very small scale. I grew a small garden and learned canning in order to not lose the harvest, at first I only canned tomatoes, then pickled things and finally I learned pressure canning and now fermenting etc. I love your advice in this video though bc I learned some of this the hard way and it made for a really rough time. Also being prepared and thinking ahead is so important unexpected things happen all the time. If I'd been more prepared when my dad died it wouldn't have taken me nearly 3 years to recover.
I've been researching the process of building up my pantry, and your video has the best and most helpful information that I have found so far. Thank you!
I love the ideas here. I definitely agree with supporting our local farmers, especially now. I just need to figure out how to find them so I can do that. I have started seeing someone sell produce at a stand so I will start there.
In Utah we have the classified ads online from KSL. I believe out of Utah, Craig's list is in most states. Check there. I found a man with laying chickens at the IFA store yesterday, he was buying chicken feed. Lucky me
date night is so important, not shallow at all. relationships are hard and they need time. i made a special dinner and we spent time in the backyard alone. the older kids understanding it was our time.
Thank you for such a great discussion! We have been doing this for years, but you offered some extra tips that gave us something to think about. Always happy to learn something new!
Thank you guys love your channel full of enthusiasm, great ideas and advice. I have been preserving and growing our own food for many years too. In Australia we mostly use Fowlers jars for our preserving of My mother and her mother has bottled their produce from their summer gardens.
Nice tips. Love the banter between you guys. One way I decided to take the step between stocking extra and real bulk purchasing was when I got my buckets and gamma seals and my foodsaver. It made such a difference. My transitioning was so much easier after that. A good tip for new people I always use is to save one thing as much as you can... for example get all the types of pastas you use in a reasonable amount of time... say 3 to 6 months. We use orzo rigatoni spaghetti fettucini lasagna pasta shells (lg and sm) maccaroni. So if I stock up 3 to 5 of each we have more than enough for the time being and I can go on to another category like baking staples. Same thing. Flour baking powder and soda cornstarch salt sugar brown sugar etc. Works very well. Just rotate categories. Keep the vids coming. Namaste ;)
I've noticed in general that people seem to have a much calmer attitude than during Y2K although it could be because the former had a couple years of hysteria beforehand and this time we only had a couple weeks.I so enjoy your videos and your gentle talks.
Just found your channel - I'm a city girl through and through but craving more of a simple life on some land the older I get. Looks like I'll get some great advice here if that daydream ever becomes reality. Also, you two are an adorable couple!
Very good advice I've canned for years but I buy fresh produce when it's on sale while waiting on my own garden to come in.. I'm growing green beans but when I find them on sale 88 cents a pound I buy them and can them while I'm waiting for mine to grow that way if for some reason mine do not grow well or produce enough I still have my pantry stocked up. Anna In Ohio.
Something else to consider is how much effort the produce will take to grow, harvest, and preserve. For example, onions grow like crazy here and they really don't require a ton of effort to harvest and preserve, just pull them up when you'll have a few days of good, dry weather, cut the tops off, and throw them in breathable bags. Same with garlic. Wheat and oats, on the other hand, need hulling and that requires either a lot of energy on your part or expensive machinery. Gotta decide how much time and effort you really have to devote to your individual crops before you invest in their seeds
Carolyn I definitely don't think it is shallow to say that your missing date night. Those sorts of things are an important part of maintaining good, healthy relationships and especially when your family is all at home all of the time usually, you probably don't get the chance to just have some alone time with Josh that other couples might have. I think it's really nice to see that you guys take the time to care for your relationship, just like you take the time to look after the kids, the farm, schooling etc. and even with everything that's going on it's definitely okay to miss it.
Very blessed for sure, homesteading families - but it is a choice, for whatever reason...going back to your roots, living with nature or sticking it to the 'man' - the choice to feed your family from what you can harvest / forage and grow is living the blessed life!
What you have said not to do I did. I started with the garden with raised beds that were divided into 4by4 foot sections On one side of the garden were 4x8 beds and the other side was 4x12 ft beds. Then what I did was figure 26 weeks of quarts size meals. Lamb, Beef, Chicken and Pork stews. The next thing I did was plant all the ingredients that I needed to make the meals. One 4x8 bed was my herbs bed. One 4x12 bed was veggies to eat fresh. This worked out fine for my husband and myself. The next thing I did buy chicks for the future. After that in September we bought all the things we didn't grow in bulk. That year I put up 350 jars and we bought a 7.5 cf freezer for the meat we got from our neighbors for fresh eating. It was a lot of work but the satisfaction was amazing that when we got 3 feet of snow that winter several times we had everything we needed and I was working a full time job 56 miles each way. My husband was so amazed at my determination and skills that I read from and library that still helps me today. So now I teach others like you. Blessing and health and well being to your friends and family.
If I may suggest something for the more urban viewers here See if you have a local restaurant supply. Not pots and pans, the food they used to supply restaurants with. The quality of esp the produce is excellent, we have found the prices head-slapping good compared to the grocery store, and they need your business. So a win-win for all Almost as good as a farmer relationship or, maybe just as good. And the cheese! Oh my, the cheese. Think if your favorite cheese and divide the price per lb. by at least half Another local business you can support 🙂
GREAT video on getting started. Sharing it with my kids. Ditto on a previous comment. I would like something pertaining to your kitchen waste as well. I’ve often heard Carolyn reference the compost bucket and the chicken bucket while working in the kitchen. Could you give examples of what you consider for each? As always THANKS FOR THE FANTASTIC information on self reliance and resiliency. Hugs!
or just watch the starting seeds indoors video just to see if homesteading family does it different Women used to knit while fellowshipping. Canned corn IS great. I will stock up on that too. I'm looking for ideas to have a varied diet without the toxic preservative, herbicide, pesticide contamination.
Stephanie... I have a question regarding eggs. I freeze eggs out if the shell for cooking in mixes. However, have you ever taken scrambled eggs, not cooked, and froze them. If yes, do they taste good and still have the texture of fresh scrambled eggs? I know you would need to defrost first. I would like to do this because I suspect we will have shortages thanks
@@m.b.g.2235 Not Stephanie, but what I do is take a 14 slot ice cube tray, scramble 14 eggs, pour into the tray so it is filled, and freeze. I then pop them out and store in a ziplock bag. The yolk does not get tough that way. I use in baking, making scrambled eggs, and even in home made mayo. Gets me through that no egg winter lull.
@@maggielittle4410 thank you so much for the information. I am trying to learn how to preserve so many things just in case. I hope you don't mind answering another question. I freeze all my flour, rice, pancake mix, beans before packaging in mylar bags. I know that kills any critter eggs, larva. Is it necessary to do the same for pasta? Thanks
@@maggielittle4410 .. agreed. I have froze pasta with no issues and I am careful with pantry moths. I have several of the bait tents and I use bay leaves often. As you can suspect I hate critters.
I am so glad that I found this channel. It is awesome. With this Covid thing you really stop taking everything for granted. The reasons given here to have 6 months worth of food are not extremist at all, they really do make sense. I love your red blouse by the way.
We have a local butcher drop off order, and our local dairy is hopefully soon offering delivery. Ordering paper products online. Farmers markets and sprouts for veggies and most other food. I’m on my second season container gardening but the heat came fast in Az. Hoping to get a decent harvest. I’m not growing much yet but trying to learn. Thinking of trying container fruit trees. I did freeze some eggs from the hens I help care for.
I think tonight is the last of the cold nights in lower Michigan. Some of the starters are going outside for a few hours per day. I have 44 trays of seeds and starters. I'm getting lots of used canning jars from a friend in about a month. I will be planting soon.
Date night is not shallow it adds so much to the family lasting! You are what holds the family together. If you don’t tend a nurture the relationship the family falls. The wold needs good families. Thank you for what you add to this world!❤️
Hi Josh and Carolyn, I use to do Home Health care and I took care of a lady that was 98 in 1989, so yeah she's gone, but what a wealth of information. She told me about 6 month to one year of pantry food way back in the 80's. So I have been doing that since. Yes, there were times where it did get thin, but, it was replenished. And during this COVID, I was fine, I had plenty.
You two are a beautiful couple... So calm & respectful of each other. How inspiring... #relationshipgoals
2 days of cold meals....brilliant!
12 friends in Idaho ordered pigs from a farmer in MN who was going to have to shoot them and bury them because big processors closed. Instead our pigs are being processed by smaller butchers then we are making cannonball run to meet the farmer halfway. It may be a drop in the bucket but it is helping these guys to save their farms.
Stephanie Corporandy that’s awesome! Thats what we need more people doing! If I hear of an opportunity like that here in AZ I will jump on it!
Decentralised infrastructure is great/worth supporting.
On the other hand there wouldn't be much need to close down anything if people used their heads, had good government reactions or listened to Taiwan.
However, most people wouldn’t allow the close monitoring that Taiwan does with its citizens to keep things open.
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Temperatur checks? If that's the limit of your consetions I am happy you look into keeping your distance from society.
I wouldn't eat pigs. Meat is not safe. It will be coming out over the next few weeks probably, or they may never tell us (because they're currently lying about it), but covid19 can be caught by pigs and transmitted to humans. Meat eating caused this pandemic. It has caused a lot of other plagues as well...swine flu, bird flu, Ebola, influenza type a,b and c, etc. It is all caused by the same processes of the meat industry.
Caroline, after so many precious children, & so much physical labor on the farm, your skin & hair are just so lovely & youthful. We love the cooking, homeschooling etc, what do you do for your self care? You look 25.
This is only the second video I have watched from these guys, and in the first one I saw, I thought she must be one of the kids!
The first video that is what I thought that she was 26-28
I thought she looked very young as well, all that natural healthy food and good living..I also live well prepared also, the only thing that’s affected us is the only chicken or pork we can get (Chinese controlled supply chain) the pork all comes from one umbrella brand and all chicken has a rubber texture, I’ve stopped bothering with hair cuts
“A living pantry” I LOVE THAT ❤️
Fast Forward to Sept 2022. Many of us are waking up and are prepping for what is coming. I'm dehydrating around the clock, clearing my freezers and canning, buying bulk food and supplies.. I'm learning alot from homesteaders and prepper channels. God Bless
Training yourself to eat in season. This is the first year I told my children we would not be buying fruit out of season. When our apple tree produced this year we made all of it into applesauce. Then from a friend who has many many trees I purchased 6 cases of apples ad 2 cases of pears for only $15 a case when they were in season. I sliced and dehydrated all if them. We are still eating then. My kids have been perfectly content through the winter and I feel much better as I look at the price of apples through the winter. This was a next step for us in our journey and one that pays financially and for a good stocked pantry.
Always grateful for your knowledge and level headed way of instructing and helping others!
My Grandfathers winery had subsistence rotation crops for "downtime" work for Aspergus to winter Cabage and it thought me a lot about food preservation.
Eating food that is locally grown and in season is called a macrobiotic diet. There's more to it than just that, but local and in season eating is the basis for it. It's a very healthy way to live.
I miss Church .. we normally drive 2 hours each way to see our church family ... and online is just not the same ...
I know how you feel but I truly believe God chose the exact time we would be born
One fast and easy way to learn to buy ahead is to not start with pantry items, but other items you need to use all the time. I started last year by purchasing the largest sized All free and Clear pods from our local Sam's Club, marking the lid, and seeing how long it took to use it up, while comparing cost savings to just buying smaller amounts at my local grocery store. (The savings on this one item per laundry load is at least half.) I did this with other items as well, buying the largest size available as a single item, cost comparing, and seeing how long it took to use up.
By December of last year I was ready and between Sam's Club and Walmart, where the prices in my area are the best, I bought a year's supply of laundry soap, fabric softener, dishwashing detergent, dish soap, bar soap, shampoo, deodorant, and toothpaste. I've made note of the amounts in a Word file and will tweak future bulk purchases as needed as I move forward.
I know we will use these items. I know they will not "go bad," before we can use them up. They are items I now never have to think about when creating my shopping list. I saved a lot of money and when things hit this March I knew that we would not run out of these basics. I have enough right now to last out the calendar year with no replenishment if so needed and/or can share them with family if needed. It's a good feeling.
We live in an apartment and are far from being homesteaders (even though it’s my ultimate dream.) I love love love watching your channel, dreaming of my future, and learning everything I can NOW and work on the things that I can. (Some gardening at my parents house and lots of good kitchen skills). Would be thrilled to see a video about skills you can work on if you live in an apartment!
Emily Rodriguez: I've posted info above and I'm currently in an apt and getting some medical treatments finished up. I have a gentleman's closet where I built shelves and end of the living room I built more shelves too. 66" wide x 23" deep and 8 ft ceiling. I put a couple of curtains in front that I bought at IKEA, so people dont see it when I open the front door.
I am in an efficiency though it takes alot of space i bought a 10 tray dehydrator at st Vincent's a thrift store as i run out of space i will powdering what i dry, it can be added to canned, frozen food for nutrition and flavoring. Powdering dehydrated fruits and vegetables dramatically decreases the space you use. A small personal sized blender is all i need to powder. I got the cart before the horse. I didnt know oxygen could spoil my dehydrated stuff so now investing in vacum packing supplies. There are diy hand break pump set ups with vacum chambers, electric vacum bag sealers that can also seal jars, and there is a rechargable gand held vacum pump, food saver us one brand that makes one of those. Then you need oxygen absorber packets they are one time use. Also going to start a garden tower . As space gets more cramped i am getting rid of non edible things. I have even found instructions for powdering eggs.
Good tips. I agree about supporting local farmers. The world needs more farmers! Thanks for sharing!
Another youtuber/blogger has a saying that I have implemented when grocery shopping that helped to slowly build up my pantry. Whenever you are buying pantry staples think "1 for now, 2 for later." I don't always buy 2 extra but even one extra is better than no extra. And whenever something I use regularly is a really good deal, I try to buy enough for 3-6 months (because hopefully by that time, there is another good deal)!
I follow some low key preppers they are very down to earth. Anyway one always says 3 is 2 and 1 is none referring to food and supplies like knives and rope etc
Bought things every time I went to the store I just bought 10 extra dollars in food to help stock like beans rice pasta stuff like that
I've seen pasta made out of red lentils and I thought that's an awesome way to make pasta that has a natural protein built in it.
Don't forget to pick up a gallon or two of water for cooking! :)
I started buying from the local farmers and ranchers last year and my pressure canner hasn't been on the shelf since I started.
My pantry is stocked. I'm canning almost every day. Now planting my own garden to.
A piece of advice I also have is to lower your food variation. A lot of people turn their noses up at me, but it doesn't have to be bland. I know it's nice to sit on pinterest and find dozens of new recipes to try but you can't bulk stock up on every item you could ever eat. I save a lot of variation for preserving. For instance, I currently have about 6 variations of kraut made, along side various other ferments. I'm feeding a bunch of coworkers right now during this pandemic. Almost everyday is some kind of bowl with a rice/bean/kraut/canned protein combo. With 3 or 4 bean types, rice types, kraut types, and meat types the combos are endless. I managed to find some avocados. They are a bulk buy but they added a new flavor for the week and a special treat without breaking the bank and ruining a stock pile.
My wife. Spun wool with a pencil in her home ec class also dyed it with natural plants. She did weave wall hangings with the finished dyed wool. Kitting was my mother’s domain!
I know this is 2 y back and I'm grateful I can watch.
Here in NW there is now way regular folk could ever have a small homestead.
My nephew suggested I move where he is in SE part of country. I've decided I will.
As I'm an herbalist still learning plus I want to grow large garden pit back foods and share.
Thank you
When I'm feeling stressed I go sit beside the bee hives and watch the ladies work. Simply electric!
Thank you so much. I had never thought of six months or more of stocking a pantry. I will need to make my schedule of space and containers so that I have that in place for the the dry foods and where to put my cans and canning foods.
Great info, as always, and I would like to share the plan I used to be more prepared. I made categories (protein, carbs, fats, hygiene, for instance) and listed items under them. Each trip, I bought something from one category to put away. When budget allowed, or item was inexpensive, I bought more than one. I rotated through the categories each trip to balance my pantry. I customized it for what we used, and my simple plan kept me on track and really added up!
In Australia, it's not a common thing to have a well stocked pantry filled with canned/preserved goods, bulk items, and people who do this are usually thought of as a little crazy, including my eldest daughter. But with all of the lockdown due to the pandemic, she apologised for thinking that way as she can now see the wisdom in me stockpiling.
I want to extend my canned goods, I have 2 large freezers full to the brim and I want to put a lot of that into jars in case the power grid goes haywire. I find it very hard to get Ball jars as they are expensive so I have had to resort to reusing pasta sauce jars (carefully checking lids). I have a 10 drawer dehydrator which is going flat out as much as I can.
We live in suburbia, so anything more than 6 - 12 chickens is inpossible, so we are transforming our front yard into raised vege beds - you cant eat grass lol. I have converted the back bedroom into a walk-in pantry.
I love watching your videos each time and I have learnt a lot from them. Keep up the great work.
Blessings from Australia
Cheers Kerry xxxxx
You are amazing! I want to be like you.
Youre right, being prepared is kind if taboo here isnt it. Ive always had decent stock in my pantry and freezers, ive started canning in the last year and we grow what we can, weve been gardening for about 7 years now, and being only 30, we get a lot of ridicule from our peers and siblings. I dont understand why Aussies arent on board 🤷🏻♀️ but it did feel nice gifting those friends fresh breads, homemade pastas, home baked goods, canned sauces and stocks, and toilet paper when they couldnt get any. Heres to hoping it will help adjust their thinking, if only slightly 🤞🏻
You can eat grass, it's perfectly useless/causing constipation.
Hi Kerry - you can buy new lids for many jars at bulk food stores. Which State are you in? If SA i can give some tips. My local one sells lids for the jars they stock but also the tall passata jars - good for sauce.
Ball jars are sometimes reasonably priced on Amazon USA with a prime eligible seller, thats where i bought all of mine. About AU$17 a dozen
@@msjp81 Victoria. The exchange rate is the killer and postage. I could get them via Ozfarmer but same problem - price.
One way I keep stocked up is to buy when on sale around holidays like ham’s or Turkeys at Thanksgiving, Easter, New Years, and Christmas or corned beef around Saint Patrick’s Day, sweet potatoes and cranberries around the holiday where they are always on sale. Hot dogs and hamburgers The Fourth of July, Labor Day and Memorial Day. Or just whenever the store has a big sale.
I've posted notes about how to put away rice and beans into dry storage. I've wondered if I can do that with granola?? Or flour and sugar? I've got quite a few bags that I put into doubled zip lock bags but I want it to last longer and their dates are like 18 months to 2 years out which I want to write on the mason jars.
I’ve been building my pantry room (I have a whole room yay!) for a couple years but I’m sure there’s a few things I’m lacking, hopefully it won’t be much! I don’t have a garden this year and I’m brand new to canning but I have plenty of dry food backup as well as some commercial long term storage meals, at least 6-9 months worth..and a couple freezers full of beef and venison. My daughter taught herself to spin fiber in the same way you’re teaching all of us food preservation etc, YT is a wonderful resource!! Bless you for being here sharing all your knowledge 🙏❤️🙏
We moved in our new home a couple months ago and still renovating but I just got six baby chickens that hopefully will give us plenty of delish eggs soon. Can’t wait to make this home a true working homestead. I agree with you guys! Always had at least 3 plus months worth of food and supplies in my home in town. Here I have a full basement and I’m sure I’ll fill it with more things. My friends thought I was crazy for cooking, canning, dehydrating and buying in bulk but they don’t think that anymore! I think this pandemic made a lot of people change their minds about food preservation and stockpiling.
Would love a tour of your bulk food storage. The buckets of grains etc & how you organize & rotate them. Trying to build up a stock & love to learn from experienced folks who have been at it a long time. Thanks for sharing.
Great info! I have only been pantry building for about 6 months and I have very close to 4 months worth of foods in the pantry. It truly is a process to get things built up for sure. I will be growing some of my own foods this year in raised beds as I live in the city and do not have much room, but at least its something! You guys are great! Be safe be well.
You work so we’ll as a team AND come across as laid back.........great job !
finally!! thank you so much, I've looked for years online on HOW to learn to stock up. not just what to stock. the process of going from weekly shopping and running out of food before the week's up to having a preserve like you have for my fam of 5. I'm so thankful to God for your video. I'm so relieved 😌
I really love watching y'all flow together. It's lovely. Thank you for this wonderful information.
You two have such wonderful, helpful information !!
Thank you so much and God Bless!! ❤️
This is super helpful. Could you do more videos like this? !! Thank you for sharing.
I was wondering if you could have dried goods without canning? I love this video so full of informational, I cook and shop for my family of Eight and I need all the help I can get to save money, we all are about your guys ages and older my parents with disabilities or high blood pressure, diabetes and I have muscular Skelton disorder , arthritis plus nerve damage in my back, so I don't like travel to town , 50 miles away is hard, I'm watching everything about your gardening to, that's my stress reliever love it, don't ever stop teaching us, thank you 😇
Love your channel. Learning so much about all things pantry, cooking and home life. KEEP IT UP.
I have to admit that I have a ton of fun stocking our pantry. At the moment, it's way more than a hobby or a thing I think about occasionally....I think about it quite often now. The way our stock works is that we have a walk in pantry where we keep things in boxes, cans, and bags....and home-canned foods....and food grade buckets of bulk items (and those items are currently growing). We have 3 freezers and a bit of basement space for the home-canned food overflow and winter squash. I am also beginning to buy other things in bulk that are non-edible....epsom salts, for example. Thank you for your great tips on stocking up! God bless. :)
I am thankful for your ministry by sharing your skill sets, very informative and helpful!
My question is kind of on the other end of the topic.
Could you make a video on how you handle household garbage?
They mentioned going "low waste" by avoiding many packaged/single use products
I can not say just how much I love the two of you. I hope you keep your videos up for a long time to come!!
Wow!!! So much useful info here and a lot of food for thought. Our family of 8 spends about $200 a week on groceries and I am so ready for something different. I want to be a good steward of the income my husband brings in. Thanks for sharing this info!
Hi from the Uk. I'm reasonably stocked up and I live on my own, but I do miss going to church. Im not a regular attender but I do want to be in church for good hymn singing session and to give thanks to the Lord. Stay safe folks
I learned about water glassing from you and wrote an article about egg preservation for a newsletter for my town (which I am an editor for). Thanks for the knowledge!
I started growing and preserving my family’s food over 40 years ago and raising and butchering our own meats and poultry. We started all those years ago by each January going through the previous years grocery receipts, picking items like ketchup, barbecue sauce, pickled jalapeño slices, pepperoncini, that we wouldn’t be buying any longer but we would be growing and preserving enough for a year. Now after all of those years and each year eliminating more and more items from having to buy them has been a great way to help our budget in buying bulk items that we can’t raise in our climate. We added 2 orchards, perennial vegetables, berries, grapes and nut trees,herbs and medicinals back then also that provides so much extra to fill the pantry. Our gardens have increased by massive amounts while decreasing our food costs by an amazing amount by saving our seeds each year and filling our pantry with items we used to have to buy. We always grow and preserve the foods that we know we will eat. We do try something new each year. Once we started doing all of that we would buy wheat, sugars, salt etc by 50 lb bags locally without shipping and only a 14 mile round trip which saved even more therefore being able to purchase more bulk items more often. Of course this wouldn’t be so easy for a person that had never canned before but for some one like myself I grew up canning. I was 11 when I pressure canned my first green beans on the farm. I thought it might help someone
Very good advice. I have been watching your videos for a couple years and have a good full pantry with many items you have turned me onto. Keep up the good work!
My daughter taught herself to spin in the same way you’re teaching all of us food preservation etc, YT is a wonderful resource!!
I love learning from you guys, I would love to see your actual pantry and area you can and preserve in.
Very good advice....beans, rice and pasta....I have that. Had that before the virus. Since added a crazy amount since January.
I look forward to adding your knowledge to mine to help my family. Thank you for all you do.
Because of your clear videos, I have ordered a pressure canner to preserve beans carrots and home made soups, so that I don’t have to put them in the freezer,, I hope I succeed..
Debbie- go to the National Center for Home Food Preservation website (nchfp.uga.edu) and you can’t go wrong.
Rich Nardiello Many thanks Rich, I most definitely will.
It is August 10, 2020 as I have stumbled on to your channel. You think you were tired of COVID in April. Here it is August and things are no better, ugh. Proud of you two. Your love and respect for each other is wonderful. I am so jealous. Wish I had what you two have! We are at a different stage of our life. Just sent our baby off of four for his senior year in college. We have had kids around for close to 40 years! This transition depresses me. A quiet, empty house... I am loving preppers and homesteaders. Love the simple life on the farm. Look forward to your videos. Kudos!
I'll admit that I started our with the last step, but it was very small scale. I grew a small garden and learned canning in order to not lose the harvest, at first I only canned tomatoes, then pickled things and finally I learned pressure canning and now fermenting etc. I love your advice in this video though bc I learned some of this the hard way and it made for a really rough time. Also being prepared and thinking ahead is so important unexpected things happen all the time. If I'd been more prepared when my dad died it wouldn't have taken me nearly 3 years to recover.
I've been researching the process of building up my pantry, and your video has the best and most helpful information that I have found so far. Thank you!
I love the ideas here. I definitely agree with supporting our local farmers, especially now. I just need to figure out how to find them so I can do that. I have started seeing someone sell produce at a stand so I will start there.
In Utah we have the classified ads online from KSL. I believe out of Utah, Craig's list is in most states. Check there. I found a man with laying chickens at the IFA store yesterday, he was buying chicken feed. Lucky me
The extension service! ♡♡♡
I always look forwards to the pantry chat so much
Loved this video we all need to have food in our pantry! I learned a lot!!
It’s not that scary doing the canning anymore.Thanks to you beautiful people👍
date night is so important, not shallow at all. relationships are hard and they need time. i made a special dinner and we spent time in the backyard alone. the older kids understanding it was our time.
Thank you for such a great discussion! We have been doing this for years, but you offered some extra tips that gave us something to think about. Always happy to learn something new!
Love to see people going back to old ways with a new age attitude
Great advice you two. Love your videos, keep'em coming. Carolyn i absolutely love you! 💞💞💞God bless you and your family.
Thank you guys love your channel full of enthusiasm, great ideas and advice. I have been preserving and growing our own food for many years too. In Australia we mostly use Fowlers jars for our preserving of My mother and her mother has bottled their produce from their summer gardens.
Nice tips. Love the banter between you guys. One way I decided to take the step between stocking extra and real bulk purchasing was when I got my buckets and gamma seals and my foodsaver. It made such a difference. My transitioning was so much easier after that. A good tip for new people I always use is to save one thing as much as you can... for example get all the types of pastas you use in a reasonable amount of time... say 3 to 6 months. We use orzo rigatoni spaghetti fettucini lasagna pasta shells (lg and sm) maccaroni. So if I stock up 3 to 5 of each we have more than enough for the time being and I can go on to another category like baking staples. Same thing. Flour baking powder and soda cornstarch salt sugar brown sugar etc. Works very well. Just rotate categories. Keep the vids coming. Namaste ;)
I loved every idea here!! Such a good video for times like these. Thanks! 💛
I've noticed in general that people seem to have a much calmer attitude than during Y2K although it could be because the former had a couple years of hysteria beforehand and this time we only had a couple weeks.I so enjoy your videos and your gentle talks.
Great tips Carolyn and Josh. Thank you. BTW: Congratulations on the new baby in gestation.May God bless you both and your family, richly.
I started my stocking 3 months before the virus but I'm still prepping I'm gardening and canning slowly
I really like the skip-to feature. You guys are wonderful!
So so incredibly helpful!! Thanks so much y’all! Blessings- Liz
Fellowship very important to me.
Just found your channel - I'm a city girl through and through but craving more of a simple life on some land the older I get. Looks like I'll get some great advice here if that daydream ever becomes reality. Also, you two are an adorable couple!
Yay! I'm so exited about the pigs! That's something that has been of great interest to me. Thanks for another great Pantry Chat :)
Truly enjoy your channel. Always learn a lot from you. Thank you for sharing.😊😊
Very good advice I've canned for years but I buy fresh produce when it's on sale while waiting on my own garden to come in.. I'm growing green beans but when I find them on sale 88 cents a pound I buy them and can them while I'm waiting for mine to grow that way if for some reason mine do not grow well or produce enough I still have my pantry stocked up. Anna In Ohio.
Something else to consider is how much effort the produce will take to grow, harvest, and preserve. For example, onions grow like crazy here and they really don't require a ton of effort to harvest and preserve, just pull them up when you'll have a few days of good, dry weather, cut the tops off, and throw them in breathable bags. Same with garlic.
Wheat and oats, on the other hand, need hulling and that requires either a lot of energy on your part or expensive machinery. Gotta decide how much time and effort you really have to devote to your individual crops before you invest in their seeds
Girl, I miss date night too! We now have movie night and walking mornings as our dates 😉😊👍🏽❤️
19:06 start of steps.
Thanks!
Carolyn I definitely don't think it is shallow to say that your missing date night. Those sorts of things are an important part of maintaining good, healthy relationships and especially when your family is all at home all of the time usually, you probably don't get the chance to just have some alone time with Josh that other couples might have. I think it's really nice to see that you guys take the time to care for your relationship, just like you take the time to look after the kids, the farm, schooling etc. and even with everything that's going on it's definitely okay to miss it.
Hi where have you guys been? I haven't seen anything from you guys in awhile
Good to have you back🤗
Last week Carolyn had a WONDERFUL herbal garden video & the benefits of growing ur own medicine. I LOVED that video it's probably one of my favorites.
I sure get a good feeling watching your videos, as it is also kind and not rude. Must be the Holy Spirit guiding you....
Very blessed for sure, homesteading families - but it is a choice, for whatever reason...going back to your roots, living with nature or sticking it to the 'man' - the choice to feed your family from what you can harvest / forage and grow is living the blessed life!
What you have said not to do I did. I started with the garden with raised beds that were divided into 4by4 foot sections On one side of the garden were 4x8 beds and the other side was 4x12 ft beds. Then what I did was figure 26 weeks of quarts size meals. Lamb, Beef, Chicken and Pork stews. The next thing I did was plant all the ingredients that I needed to make the meals. One 4x8 bed was my herbs bed. One 4x12 bed was veggies to eat fresh. This worked out fine for my husband and myself. The next thing I did buy chicks for the future. After that in September we bought all the things we didn't grow in bulk. That year I put up 350 jars and we bought a 7.5 cf freezer for the meat we got from our neighbors for fresh eating. It was a lot of work but the satisfaction was amazing that when we got 3 feet of snow that winter several times we had everything we needed and I was working a full time job 56 miles each way. My husband was so amazed at my determination and skills that I read from and library that still helps me today. So now I teach others like you. Blessing and health and well being to your friends and family.
You are so beautiful, sweet people! Thank you for your useful content! It is gold!
If I may suggest something for the more urban viewers here
See if you have a local restaurant supply. Not pots and pans, the food they used to supply restaurants with. The quality of esp the produce is excellent, we have found the prices head-slapping good compared to the grocery store, and they need your business. So a win-win for all
Almost as good as a farmer relationship or, maybe just as good.
And the cheese! Oh my, the cheese. Think if your favorite cheese and divide the price per lb. by at least half
Another local business you can support 🙂
GREAT video on getting started. Sharing it with my kids. Ditto on a previous comment. I would like something pertaining to your kitchen waste as well. I’ve often heard Carolyn reference the compost bucket and the chicken bucket while working in the kitchen. Could you give examples of what you consider for each? As always THANKS FOR THE FANTASTIC information on self reliance and resiliency. Hugs!
Your mugs are beautiful!! Would love to know where you got them. Thank you for all of your guidance♥️
Always enjoy watching the videos thank you.
I cook traditional Japanese food and yes, I do eat rice almost every single day.
Thanks for sharing such valuable information!!
or just watch the starting seeds indoors video just to see if homesteading family does it different
Women used to knit while fellowshipping.
Canned corn IS great. I will stock up on that too.
I'm looking for ideas to have a varied diet without the toxic preservative, herbicide, pesticide contamination.
Excellent food storage advice. Thanks. I have beans and rice. Now the next step. 🙂
I like your show your right to the point
I'm in Illinois and our chickens are not only supplying eggs for us but also for our daughter and her family.
Stephanie... I have a question regarding eggs. I freeze eggs out if the shell for cooking in mixes. However, have you ever taken scrambled eggs, not cooked, and froze them. If yes, do they taste good and still have the texture of fresh scrambled eggs? I know you would need to defrost first. I would like to do this because I suspect we will have shortages thanks
@@m.b.g.2235 Not Stephanie, but what I do is take a 14 slot ice cube tray, scramble 14 eggs, pour into the tray so it is filled, and freeze. I then pop them out and store in a ziplock bag. The yolk does not get tough that way. I use in baking, making scrambled eggs, and even in home made mayo. Gets me through that no egg winter lull.
@@maggielittle4410 thank you so much for the information. I am trying to learn how to preserve so many things just in case. I hope you don't mind answering another question. I freeze all my flour, rice, pancake mix, beans before packaging in mylar bags. I know that kills any critter eggs, larva. Is it necessary to do the same for pasta? Thanks
@@m.b.g.2235 I don't know if it is necessary, but I don't think it would hurt. Better safe than sorry.
@@maggielittle4410 .. agreed. I have froze pasta with no issues and I am careful with pantry moths. I have several of the bait tents and I use bay leaves often. As you can suspect I hate critters.
I am so glad that I found this channel. It is awesome. With this Covid thing you really stop taking everything for granted. The reasons given here to have 6 months worth of food are not extremist at all, they really do make sense. I love your red blouse by the way.
We have a local butcher drop off order, and our local dairy is hopefully soon offering delivery. Ordering paper products online. Farmers markets and sprouts for veggies and most other food. I’m on my second season container gardening but the heat came fast in Az. Hoping to get a decent harvest. I’m not growing much yet but trying to learn. Thinking of trying container fruit trees. I did freeze some eggs from the hens I help care for.
Buy double or triple if it’s half price, then your getting ahead.
I mostly only buy my snack things now if it’s half price saved me heaps
Love, love, love your channel. ❤️just bought our farmhouse teas using your link in one of the videos. ❤️
Thank you so much for all the great tips.
You guys are sooo encouraging!
I think tonight is the last of the cold nights in lower Michigan. Some of the starters are going outside for a few hours per day. I have 44 trays of seeds and starters. I'm getting lots of used canning jars from a friend in about a month. I will be planting soon.
Also sales ..I buy in case lots if it is something I will be using anyway. I also utilize the gleaners for good stuff......got a great price on honey.
Gotland is wonderful to spin!
You guys are a blessing 🙌 🙏