For the new prepper- I learned that Best Buy Dates are just that. You can store for years longer. That made life easier for me when I first started. Spaghetti sauce- in a jar tastes much better than older tomatoe sauce in cans. Where ever you use canned tomato sauce, you can spaghetti sauce. Chili, casseroles, Spanish rice and ofcourse Italian dishes. Start with your favorite recipes- buy enough for a month, then 3mths etc. When I buy chili ingredients, I buy enough for 3 meals. Once you meet your goal, always replace what you use. Rotate your peanut butter, nuts, flour, oils, dressings, oatmeal. They will go bad. Build up your hygiene products. Enough toothpaste, soaps etc for a 3ths, then 6 mths. Same with cleaning products and First aid * Bleach and Hydrogen peroxide will go bad. Thanks for sharing your pantry and info with us!
I bought some of those cafeteria trays from Amazon that I use to stack stuff on. They make a sturdy surface to stack different levels and they have that little lip on the edge.
In the box of things you need to use quickly find recipes that uses 1 or more ingredients. Make the recipe then freeze. You get freezer meals and get to use your items before they spoil.
I love watching videos that show how other people organize their pantries! I get so many great tips from the people in our community. Thank you for watching and commenting!
You can just keep regular sugar and molasses and make brown sugar. Mix one cup of white sugar with one tablespoon of molasses. You can add less or more molasses if you need light or dark brown sugar. It also helps your prep space because you would be able to use that bin for something else. That is all that brown sugar is. You are doing great! Keep up the good work!
Love your pantry tour! I love how you show even the imperfect parts that you still need to work on. I have a tip for those cereals you said you might need to throw away. I JUST cleaned out my kitchen pantry and found lots of open, partially eaten cereals that got "lost" and were stale! I did feed some to our chickens and ducks but if they weren't too far gone, I poured the cereal onto a cookie sheet and put it in a 250° oven for a bit to crisp them up. Then I used them in a rice Krispy treat type bar with the butter/ marshmallow base- you can really use and kind of cereal in those! They came out good considering what they started with! It also used up some partial bags of marshmallows left over from camping/smores season!
Thank you! With kids, especially teen boys, my pantry gets ransacked often lol That is a great idea for the cereal! I need to make a new system with the cereal so that we don't have as much waste.
write the BB or expiring date on the side (front) and top of the products. I use a black sharpie to write on the items. I do it when I bring the items home from the store, i have been doing it for years. So all of my pantries have dates on them. I never let things expire anymore, because I can see when it expires everytime i look at my shelves. Has done wonders for me.
We use a sharpie to write the date of purchase and don't worry about best by date. So staring Dec. We write 12 / 22 on top and or on front. More is better, larger is better. It works good.
Lots of can last so much longer than the Best Buy date. As long as the can isn’t dented or bulging the food is still good in those cans. Home canned food can be nutritionally good for at least 10 years. As long as the seal isn’t broken it’s still good even after 10 years. The nutrition may start to degrade by then but it’s still edible. But that’s a great job using those foods first. That’s what rotation is all about.
The only time I feel really nervous about canned goods is when they have a pop-top. I remember reading somewhere that they don't last as long as regular cans. Thanks for taking the time to comment! :) I appreciate the encouragement!
You all will learn that using pickles crunch is that and I do alot of pickles even hot spicy mix yum . Would never leave out a teaspoon of crunch. I even caned up hot pickles green tomatoes.yum.
I also pickled onions for the first time this year. We just opened a jar this weekend and it was so good! I like to use them on top of stir-fry dishes and on tuna fish sandwiches.
@@RaisingHouseandHome i wouldnt worry to much about the can food dates Expiring they still last a very long time in the cans. Ive had can foods two and three years old i open up and cook. As long as the cans arent dented there good. Ive done that for years.
Some of my spaghetti sauce that was going to expire. I put it in freezer bags and made freezer meals with them my boxes of macaroni and cheese with the powder I put in mylar bags.All canned foods in the freezer box foods and mylar bags
The CDC said recently (I called ) that you can keep food beyond the expiration date all you do is check it for smell/ taste if good keep it or eat it .
I am glad that they are letting people know that food is safe after the "best by" date! My grandmother had cans that were 4-5 years beyond the dates and they were fine! Thank you for the information and taking the time to comment.
My house was built in the 1900s. And my basement scares me out is a large one but when I go down into it when ener I do. Lol... It had maybe a 5by 5 concrete peice of flooring and the rest in just ground. I have a fearful feeling that if I do use it for storage it won't have little nicer ink it...I am deathly scared of mice...
We had a house that was built in the 1800's and I never went into the basement! Just looking at the top of the stairs was enough for me to say no thank you haha. I have heard of people making dining rooms or spare bedrooms into storage areas, even under the bed!
we do this every sunday we go thru and pull anything about to expire then thats what i use for that weeks meals so we never have expired food sitting here
That is a great idea! I need to be better about shopping my shelves and freezer to make a grocery list. I used to go shopping only twice a month and made a month menu plan vs weekly. I need to get back to that. It saved us a lot of money back then.
You might like to try the powdered peanut butter for longer term storage. It is good well past the use date. Walmart has the best tasting and is much cheaper than the other dry brands. It’s not sweetened but you can add a little bit of honey. Mixing with warm water seems to work best for me. I use it for health reasons. 1.5 g of fat and 50 calories per 2 Tablespoons of dry compared to 14g of fat per Tablespoon for regular peanut butter. I enjoy your channel. I raised 6 sons as a single mother. They were all in sports so had ravenous appetites!! I learned long ago how to prepare good, healthy, homemade meals cheaply. It will benefit me now as a senior on social security.
I will have to check it out! I didn't know that Walmart carried powdered peanut butter. I have some in my long-term storage, but had not thought of using it daily. I have three sons and wow nothing beats a teen boy's appetite haha!
Thank you for your video. As I like to say, "You're miles ahead of the herd". I'd not toss the peanut butter right away. I just watched Admiral Preparedness open a jar of peanut butter with a BBD of 2013 and it was as good as the day it was stashed. Kept unopened in a cool dark place and the stuff lasts way longer than it's supposed to. Imagine that. If your preps are not dusty, ... you haven't been prepping long enough! AGGHHH!!!!! Or you have an OCD cleaning compulsion, ... just saying. And there's nothing wrong with an OCD cleaning compulsion either, ... just saying. Oh yeah, ... I just stopped into the local grocery and a small 2 lb bag of beans was priced at $6.49. I almost pooped my pants. I was given a huge box of coffee pods a while that was worth about $40 at the time so I emptied the pods to get about $4 worth of coffee. What a freaking scam. But what a "profitable" scam eh? Keep prepping and good luck!
I can't believe the cost of beans or really all the staples today. It used to be those were a safe bet for nutritious affordable meals. Now it seems nothing is safe from inflation :( I worry for all of us. I am so glad that we got rid of the K machine. We got these K-cups on sale a long time ago and have been trying to use them up. It is a huge expense! I combat the dust often and the cobwebs lol Spiders love my storage area.
When my peanut butter gets close to Date we make Peanut butter cookies, Energy Ball or a peanut butter cake. All of these recipes use alot of peanut butter.
Random idea for you: put your canning rings on the coat hooks. I've actually been looking for a rack with just nobs out like that, so that I can have a good place for my canning rings. You already have that set up :)
That is an awesome idea! I have them in baggies on another shelf with canning supplies. I will do a video showing the non-food storage in the other area of my basement soon. I will see how many rings I can fit on each peg. I also want to try the hanging onions on the hooks next year when I grow them. I was lucky to find this shelf years ago at a yard sale for $2! I just about jumped out of the door before my husband stopped the van when I saw it haha! It is hard to find things like that for big families.
Beautiful grocery store! To me, Anything In glass is better! I've been working on a "whole glass kitchen" for a couple of years. Remember you can reuse spaghetti sauce jars for tomatoes as long as they have the 'pop up' in middle. I know people who also pressure can in those jars! Im still leary but "if push comes to shove"...Nice preps sweetheart!💕💓💕
I agree! I try to get things in glass whenever I can. It is getting harder though! The soy sauce used to come in glass and olive oil used to as well. I have to keep changing brands to follow the glass bottles. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!
I'm not sure if your thoughts on tomato products in aluminum cans are right or not but my question is, do you keep a garden with canning your tomato products? I'm planning a huge garden next year with lots of tomatoes. I'm a long time canner.
I have never been able to grow tomatoes for some reason! I just don't have the green thumb for it. I gave up a few years ago as it was costing me quite a bit and I wasn't getting anything in return for my investment. It was cheaper for me to purchase the pasta sauce and store it.
@@RaisingHouseandHome I completely understand the frustration in having difficulty growing a certain vegetable. Mine is Brussels sprouts. I'm trying again in the spring. Home grown tomatoes are such a joy to eat. I'm growing 2 varieties in the spring. One paste and the other a beefsteak variety. Have you reached out to your local department of agriculture? Explain what happens and what it looks like. It might be something as easy as amending your soil. Good luck!
So we already went into a no use of water in Oregon in our city being it was unsafe to drink so how will you work your foods with no water for a month? We are still on a no eat or drink tell the lines get cleaned out. We are very lucky we have been ready for this and our daughter has a well and brings us water do you have people to help or people that need to understand Wells can also go dry.
My husband and I have been talking about this recently. We are working on some rain barrels, and he is building another shelf in the basement for other water storage.
I use the rice a Roni and stuffed a whole chicken with it I use the wild rice like the pasta sauce turned my living room into a pantry I am stock for any emergency especially when I had the virus and go out for a whole month in the summer of July.👍👍👍👍👏☘️😋😇💃🥰
It is really nice to have a large stock in the house for any type of emergency that might happen, especially when we are sick! Thank you for watching and commenting!
It is a hard angle to show because it is in a slim hallway/breezeway area. Where I am standing to take the wider video shot is on the stairs leading up to our house. There isn't much space to take a wider shot. There is also a large beam a few feet in front of the spaghetti jar shelf which blocks the view from the larger basement room. I am like a squirrel hoarding nuts in every nook and cranny! lol
All of the bins and crates were from Walmart! :) I think the white bins that have a little handle and a shelf in the back are called pantry bins. They were around $5 when I bought them, but with inflation they could be higher. Thanks for watching and commenting!
We have had mice before because our whole yard is a field lol We have cats now that took care of that for us, and I find that keeping the food organized and the pouches in the plastic bins deters them from hiding out or disturbing the food. My laundry room is in the basement and these shelves are at the bottom of the stairs, so I see them several times a day. I think it helps to keep critters at bay.
I check every few months to see if there are any foods that are expiring soon. We also buy foods that we use regularly so we rotate by putting the items that expire soon closer to the front of the shelves and items that are newer go in the back of the shelves. Lots of foods stay good long after their expiration dates too!
My ocpd is killing me right now. I need some contact paper, masking tape, extra cardboard, soda pop boxes, thumb tacks, and yarn *STAT*...I got this...🤔
For the new prepper- I learned that Best Buy Dates are just that. You can store for years longer. That made life easier for me when I first started.
Spaghetti sauce- in a jar tastes much better than older tomatoe sauce in cans. Where ever you use canned tomato sauce, you can spaghetti sauce. Chili, casseroles, Spanish rice and ofcourse Italian dishes.
Start with your favorite recipes- buy enough for a month, then 3mths etc.
When I buy chili ingredients, I buy enough for 3 meals.
Once you meet your goal, always replace what you use.
Rotate your peanut butter, nuts, flour, oils, dressings, oatmeal. They will go bad.
Build up your hygiene products. Enough toothpaste, soaps etc for a 3ths, then 6 mths.
Same with cleaning products and First aid * Bleach and Hydrogen peroxide will go bad.
Thanks for sharing your pantry and info with us!
I bought some of those cafeteria trays from Amazon that I use to stack stuff on. They make a sturdy surface to stack different levels and they have that little lip on the edge.
Thats a really great idea to put the almost expired cans together in a special bin- ive never seen that done before.
It really helps me to be more organized and not have so much food waste.
That’s what I do too! Create meals around those supplies for the month.
In the box of things you need to use quickly find recipes that uses 1 or more ingredients. Make the recipe then freeze. You get freezer meals and get to use your items before they spoil.
Time saving- mark your best buy dates with a permanent marker on front and top of everything.
You have a great pantry!
I love seeing others pantries and getting ideas! Thank you so much for sharing! I love sharing my pantry as well! So excited to find your channel!!
I love watching videos that show how other people organize their pantries! I get so many great tips from the people in our community. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Just found your channel, great information 👍
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and Welcome!
You can just keep regular sugar and molasses and make brown sugar. Mix one cup of white sugar with one tablespoon of molasses. You can add less or more molasses if you need light or dark brown sugar. It also helps your prep space because you would be able to use that bin for something else. That is all that brown sugar is. You are doing great! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for the tip! We love molasses! I should add this to my inventory. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
@@RaisingHouseandHome you are quite welcome!
Nice looking pantry stock from a fellow Mainah!!!
Love your pantry tour! I love how you show even the imperfect parts that you still need to work on. I have a tip for those cereals you said you might need to throw away. I JUST cleaned out my kitchen pantry and found lots of open, partially eaten cereals that got "lost" and were stale! I did feed some to our chickens and ducks but if they weren't too far gone, I poured the cereal onto a cookie sheet and put it in a 250° oven for a bit to crisp them up. Then I used them in a rice Krispy treat type bar with the butter/ marshmallow base- you can really use and kind of cereal in those! They came out good considering what they started with! It also used up some partial bags of marshmallows left over from camping/smores season!
Thank you! With kids, especially teen boys, my pantry gets ransacked often lol That is a great idea for the cereal! I need to make a new system with the cereal so that we don't have as much waste.
write the BB or expiring date on the side (front) and top of the products. I use a black sharpie to write on the items. I do it when I bring the items home from the store, i have been doing it for years. So all of my pantries have dates on them. I never let things expire anymore, because I can see when it expires everytime i look at my shelves. Has done wonders for me.
Thanks for the great tip! I think my Grandmother used to do this as well!
Mice problem in the basement- I use traps in the cellar, but the poison method worked great! No more critters
We use a sharpie to write the date of purchase and don't worry about best by date. So staring Dec. We write 12 / 22 on top and or on front. More is better, larger is better. It works good.
My grandmother did the same thing!
Good advice on gathering the about to expire items in one place to be used immediately 👍🏼
It also makes it easier for when my older kids want to grab something quick to heat up. :) Thanks for commenting!
Lots of can last so much longer than the Best Buy date. As long as the can isn’t dented or bulging the food is still good in those cans. Home canned food can be nutritionally good for at least 10 years. As long as the seal isn’t broken it’s still good even after 10 years. The nutrition may start to degrade by then but it’s still edible. But that’s a great job using those foods first. That’s what rotation is all about.
The only time I feel really nervous about canned goods is when they have a pop-top. I remember reading somewhere that they don't last as long as regular cans. Thanks for taking the time to comment! :) I appreciate the encouragement!
Hey!! Good job!! Use what you have for shelving!!
Thanks! I wish my house was all "pinterest pretty", but I just use what we have and make it work for us!
You all will learn that using pickles crunch is that and I do alot of pickles even hot spicy mix yum . Would never leave out a teaspoon of crunch. I even caned up hot pickles green tomatoes.yum.
I also pickled onions for the first time this year. We just opened a jar this weekend and it was so good! I like to use them on top of stir-fry dishes and on tuna fish sandwiches.
I've been thinking of doing an extended pantry in the basement and this was very educational. Thanks!
You are so welcome!
Looks like you like pasta as much as i do ! I love the Video !
Pasta is so easy to make a meal with! The kids love it too. Hubby not so much lol Thanks for commenting :)
@@RaisingHouseandHome i wouldnt worry to much about the can food dates Expiring they still last a very long time in the cans. Ive had can foods two and three years old i open up and cook. As long as the cans arent dented there good. Ive done that for years.
The big shelf where you have juice and oils. I would hand my garlic braids and onions.
I hope to do this next year with items from my garden!
Some of my spaghetti sauce that was going to expire. I put it in freezer bags and made freezer meals with them my boxes of macaroni and cheese with the powder I put in mylar bags.All canned foods in the freezer box foods and mylar bags
You can dry herbs on the shelf pegs you reporposed
The CDC said recently (I called ) that you can keep food beyond the expiration date all you do is check it for smell/ taste if good keep it or eat it .
I am glad that they are letting people know that food is safe after the "best by" date! My grandmother had cans that were 4-5 years beyond the dates and they were fine! Thank you for the information and taking the time to comment.
My house was built in the 1900s. And my basement scares me out is a large one but when I go down into it when ener I do. Lol... It had maybe a 5by 5 concrete peice of flooring and the rest in just ground. I have a fearful feeling that if I do use it for storage it won't have little nicer ink it...I am deathly scared of mice...
We had a house that was built in the 1800's and I never went into the basement! Just looking at the top of the stairs was enough for me to say no thank you haha. I have heard of people making dining rooms or spare bedrooms into storage areas, even under the bed!
we do this every sunday we go thru and pull anything about to expire then thats what i use for that weeks meals so we never have expired food sitting here
That is a great idea! I need to be better about shopping my shelves and freezer to make a grocery list. I used to go shopping only twice a month and made a month menu plan vs weekly. I need to get back to that. It saved us a lot of money back then.
You might like to try the powdered peanut butter for longer term storage. It is good well past the use date. Walmart has the best tasting and is much cheaper than the other dry brands. It’s not sweetened but you can add a little bit of honey. Mixing with warm water seems to work best for me. I use it for health reasons. 1.5 g of fat and 50 calories per 2 Tablespoons of dry compared to 14g of fat per Tablespoon for regular peanut butter. I enjoy your channel. I raised 6 sons as a single mother. They were all in sports so had ravenous appetites!! I learned long ago how to prepare good, healthy, homemade meals cheaply. It will benefit me now as a senior on social security.
I will have to check it out! I didn't know that Walmart carried powdered peanut butter. I have some in my long-term storage, but had not thought of using it daily. I have three sons and wow nothing beats a teen boy's appetite haha!
Well done!
Thank you! :)
That's how much spaghetti sauce I should have in my house!!
I would stock more if I had the room! lol
Thank you for your video.
As I like to say, "You're miles ahead of the herd".
I'd not toss the peanut butter right away. I just watched Admiral Preparedness open a jar of peanut butter with a BBD of 2013 and it was as good as the day it was stashed. Kept unopened in a cool dark place and the stuff lasts way longer than it's supposed to.
Imagine that.
If your preps are not dusty, ... you haven't been prepping long enough! AGGHHH!!!!! Or you have an OCD cleaning compulsion, ... just saying. And there's nothing wrong with an OCD cleaning compulsion either, ... just saying.
Oh yeah, ... I just stopped into the local grocery and a small 2 lb bag of beans was priced at $6.49. I almost pooped my pants.
I was given a huge box of coffee pods a while that was worth about $40 at the time so I emptied the pods to get about $4 worth of coffee. What a freaking scam. But what a "profitable" scam eh?
Keep prepping and good luck!
I can't believe the cost of beans or really all the staples today. It used to be those were a safe bet for nutritious affordable meals. Now it seems nothing is safe from inflation :( I worry for all of us. I am so glad that we got rid of the K machine. We got these K-cups on sale a long time ago and have been trying to use them up. It is a huge expense! I combat the dust often and the cobwebs lol Spiders love my storage area.
When my peanut butter gets close to Date we make Peanut butter cookies, Energy Ball or a peanut butter cake. All of these recipes use alot of peanut butter.
Good idea! And I imagine these all could be frozen too, that way you prolong the peanut butter's life. Thanks for commenting!
Random idea for you: put your canning rings on the coat hooks. I've actually been looking for a rack with just nobs out like that, so that I can have a good place for my canning rings. You already have that set up :)
That is an awesome idea! I have them in baggies on another shelf with canning supplies. I will do a video showing the non-food storage in the other area of my basement soon. I will see how many rings I can fit on each peg. I also want to try the hanging onions on the hooks next year when I grow them. I was lucky to find this shelf years ago at a yard sale for $2! I just about jumped out of the door before my husband stopped the van when I saw it haha! It is hard to find things like that for big families.
Beautiful grocery store! To me, Anything In glass is better! I've been working on a "whole glass kitchen" for a couple of years. Remember you can reuse spaghetti sauce jars for tomatoes as long as they have the 'pop up' in middle. I know people who also pressure can in those jars! Im still leary but "if push comes to shove"...Nice preps sweetheart!💕💓💕
I agree! I try to get things in glass whenever I can. It is getting harder though! The soy sauce used to come in glass and olive oil used to as well. I have to keep changing brands to follow the glass bottles. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!
I'm not sure if your thoughts on tomato products in aluminum cans are right or not but my question is, do you keep a garden with canning your tomato products? I'm planning a huge garden next year with lots of tomatoes. I'm a long time canner.
I have never been able to grow tomatoes for some reason! I just don't have the green thumb for it. I gave up a few years ago as it was costing me quite a bit and I wasn't getting anything in return for my investment. It was cheaper for me to purchase the pasta sauce and store it.
@@RaisingHouseandHome I completely understand the frustration in having difficulty growing a certain vegetable. Mine is Brussels sprouts. I'm trying again in the spring. Home grown tomatoes are such a joy to eat. I'm growing 2 varieties in the spring. One paste and the other a beefsteak variety. Have you reached out to your local department of agriculture? Explain what happens and what it looks like. It might be something as easy as amending your soil. Good luck!
So we already went into a no use of water in Oregon in our city being it was unsafe to drink so how will you work your foods with no water for a month? We are still on a no eat or drink tell the lines get cleaned out. We are very lucky we have been ready for this and our daughter has a well and brings us water do you have people to help or people that need to understand Wells can also go dry.
My husband and I have been talking about this recently. We are working on some rain barrels, and he is building another shelf in the basement for other water storage.
I use the rice a Roni and stuffed a whole chicken with it I use the wild rice like the pasta sauce turned my living room into a pantry I am stock for any emergency especially when I had the virus and go out for a whole month in the summer of July.👍👍👍👍👏☘️😋😇💃🥰
It is really nice to have a large stock in the house for any type of emergency that might happen, especially when we are sick! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Watch how you show your food areas, don't want people knowing what you have
I would have liked to see the pantry room as a whole too, not just the very close ups of the shelves. Did I miss it ? Thanks
It is a hard angle to show because it is in a slim hallway/breezeway area. Where I am standing to take the wider video shot is on the stairs leading up to our house. There isn't much space to take a wider shot. There is also a large beam a few feet in front of the spaghetti jar shelf which blocks the view from the larger basement room. I am like a squirrel hoarding nuts in every nook and cranny! lol
@@RaisingHouseandHome good job
Write the dates on tops or front BIG with a. Sharpie, definitely easier to see dates.
where can i pickup those bins love them
All of the bins and crates were from Walmart! :) I think the white bins that have a little handle and a shelf in the back are called pantry bins. They were around $5 when I bought them, but with inflation they could be higher. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Have you ever had any issues with mice?
We have had mice before because our whole yard is a field lol We have cats now that took care of that for us, and I find that keeping the food organized and the pouches in the plastic bins deters them from hiding out or disturbing the food. My laundry room is in the basement and these shelves are at the bottom of the stairs, so I see them several times a day. I think it helps to keep critters at bay.
How do you avoid expiration dates
I check every few months to see if there are any foods that are expiring soon. We also buy foods that we use regularly so we rotate by putting the items that expire soon closer to the front of the shelves and items that are newer go in the back of the shelves. Lots of foods stay good long after their expiration dates too!
My ocpd is killing me right now. I need some contact paper, masking tape, extra cardboard, soda pop boxes, thumb tacks, and yarn *STAT*...I got this...🤔
You got this!
No basements in southern Louisiana.
My in-laws live in Florida and they don't have a basement either :( I really love having the extra space. I would miss mine.