How and Why I Buy Bulk Food | Organizing My Bulk Food
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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Who ever gave her thumbs down is absolutely nuts. She is the best meal prepper, homesteader I have ever found on YT. Plus she cooks like my Nana used to. Because of this young lady here, I've been able to meal prep and start my own gardening and canning my fruits of love. That's what I call my fruits and veggies that I grow myself. Thank you so much, you are an inspiration to me. Much love to you and your four legged babies. ❤😋😀
Totally agree with you. I love she doesn’t edit out her mistakes either. We all have them
My husband gets on to me. He says I have “hoarding ways😂”. #1 thing I always have lots of is butter. I hate to be out of butter!!! When you said butter I had to 😆 laugh
So says my husband about my ever growing garden and glass jars, lol. But he eats quite well :-)
I have powder butter just in case and for the office
My husband did the same until one day in the beginning of the pandemic I sent him to Costco to just kitty food and he was the only one without multiple filled carts and saw empty shelves.
I live alone and I'm the same about butter. Whener I catch it on sale for under 2$/lb. I will buy as many as the sale will let me. Right now I have 11 lbs. Of butter frozen in my deep freeze and 1 in the fridge. Lol. My mom never takes advantage of the sales.
What is powdered butter and where do you get it?
I like your three "supervisors" as you were pouring into the buckets. 😍👍
Three suggestions:
- for folks planning to buy Delta lids, they are available in packs of multiple colors. If you don’t like to label your buckets, you can remember the oats are in the bucket with the red lid, etc.
- consider using one-piece lids for mason jars you use for dry storage. They’re so much easier to use than the two-piece lids.
- consider covering the windows in your food storage room. Light will damage food especially if it’s stored in clear jars.
Wow Dorothy! Thank you!
@@AcreHomestead I use plastic lids from Parmesan cheese and peanut butter on my pint jars for storing spices and small amounts of things.
@@poodlegirl55 which peanut butter?
I use duke's mayo caps for the quart jars. They fit better than the white lids that mason makes.
@@nancyfahey7518 I use Aldi organic peanut butter. But I think any 16-18 oz peanut butter lids work.
@@poodlegirl55 thanks, I'll try that.
Watch your babies lick there tongues is adorable. Wow didn't know about your adorable third baby is priceless 😍
So fun to re-watche these vids from your old Homestead. Love you Becky!❤❤
You are so quickly becoming my FAVE! I tell my husband that you're my spirit animal 😅 so please don't be offended when I say that you should use up the old items first, without putting new on top (like when refilling flour bins). When I was a lot younger, I worked in a large kitchen and they drilled the acronym FIFO into my head (First In First Out). Food rotation is important!
Thanks for another great video. Definitely pantry goals for me 💚
We live out in the country. I too shop at Azure Standard. Love everything they have. And I use the same gamma lids and do long term storage for all of my essentials. I do freeze all of my grains and rice for a week before I put them into buckets to prevent weevils. We are prepared to have enough food to last several years. I just found your channel. Great Job!
Freezing is ideal. No bugs, ever. No eggs. No larvae. Freeze at least 4 days
. The eggs are stubborn 😂
I've heard that freezing can backfire because it adds moisture, so when you freeze and then dump in a bucket, you've got moisture that can cause mold. Have you encountered this? Thanks.
@@jamiemueller1881 That might be. But I freeze the bags in the freezer... then I take them out after a week. I then open the bag and leave it open with utulity fan on during the day. Then I close it up and the next day I pour it into mylat bag that goes into the bucket. I have done this same procedure for many years. I have never had any problem with moisture. I order many pounds of flours and oats and grains and I have never had bugs. It works great. You can also put 2000 cc of oxygen absorbers in the mylar bag and seal it up.
@@janarinehart6888 How do you freeze the 25lbs oats bag? Do you put the oats into small bags? How long will the oats be still good to use? I want to buy the 25 lbs organic oats, it should last me 4 years and I m wondering if the oats will still be good for 4 years…
@@MayaKanaKa Hi! I clear out a shelf in my freezer and place the entire bag in the freezer. I leave it for 5 days. Then I bring it out, open the top and let it sit for several hours to let it come to room tempurature and make sure there is no moisture in the oats. Then I take out the amount that I will need. I do it in 2-3 cups. I then vaccuum seal the oats in a vaccuum seal bag. You can also use mason jars. I have been doing this for many years. I have never lost any grains doing this. They will stay in that bag fresh as new.
I just found your channel and I have been wanting to make a change in mine and my husband's routine. We have conflicting schedules so I am never able to cook at night and your freezer meal videos have inspired me to start trying! We have 4 dogs and no children so seeing that you are in relatively the same boat it makes me want to go forward with this project even more! My dive into the world of "meal prepping" or "freezer storage" started with the run of the mill videos where the creators always had big families with children. I understand that is why it worked for them but seeing how it is only you and your husband and you are doing it this way makes me feel very encouraged!!! Thank you so much for documenting your life and showing the way for wanna-be homemakers like myself!!
I'm the same: dh and myself, three cats, no children. I've pondered how much food storage and whatnot just two people need. :-)
@@ellieandrew2121 We are childfree with two cats here, and we love being able to help out others if someone loses their job, house burns down, etc. This is just one of the few reasons why we have "excess".
Have a suggestion for you to consider. Split the room into two, and since you also use the space for growing keep the window side for buckets and growing stuff. Then get plenty of heavy duty sets of blackout curtains to section off your pretty canned goods. Voila! Problem solved.
Love this thank you!!
Love this idea 💡
Yes please get your storage in the dark and cool. You have done so much work and expense to allow it to be ruined.
I cut the colorful labels off the bags to label my bins and jars
That’s what I do too because I also want the nutritional information on my jars as well ☺️
I use a sharpie to label buckets. I erase the names with nail polish remover if I need to change the name. Much easier for me and I actually label them.
It would be nice to have a stenciled name on the side. Big enough for these old eyes.
Awesome suggestion! I'll propose start doing that.
Your storage room with all of that space and shelves are awesome. You probably know this but I just thought I would tell you anyway if you are going to put canning in there with glass jars you need to block the sunlight out of those big beautiful windows because that will damage your canned goods.
Thanks! You are 100% right. I need to cover up those windows.
Three advantages to sun-blocking window treatments in your pantry room: Cooler rooms extend the life of both dry goods and home-canned foods. Ditto for UV exposure as it’s not just heat that causes degradation. Also privacy and safety. You may love and voluntarily feed your neighbors in emergency situations, but there are always those who will take forcibly and feel justified.
Just found your channel and am enjoying catching up with your videos! I am going to make your baked oatmeal breakfast dish! But onto today’s topic…
My pantry room serves a variety of functions, so I protect my home canned foods with black construction paper sleeves around the jars or to top the new open-top jar boxes. I have also hung nice light-blocking curtains across the front of the double closet converted to shelf storage and in front of the back wall of shelving units. What surprised me most with these curtain walls was how much it cut down on dust on my jars! Plus, when I do have the window blinds open, my foods are hidden from outside view.
Love your videos. You're a very clever lady with boundless energy.
Noticed you used 2 buckets to fill with the white flower. Here's a hack to make sure you use the oldest flour up first: Fill the empty bucket about 2/3 full. Then dump the older flour in on top. Then fill the other now empty second bucket. Obviously use the first bucket first. 😘
Thank you!
I wish that I was HALF as organized as you!!
If you are going to store long-term food storage in a room with big windows and want to use it as a pantry, you need to IMMEDIATELY hang up blackout curtains. A pantry with canning jars should be dark 99.5% of the time. the other 0.05% when you turn on the light to retrieve something. The sun coming through those windows will "cook" or warm your canning jars and food storage daily. PLEASE put up blackout curtains. Another tip, purchase mylar bags for your buckets. Good luck!
Where to get gamma lids & Mylar bags? Thanks:)
I just added links in the description of the video :)
Thanks for the tips!!
Love, love, love an organised pantry.
It is so helpful to know what size bucket holds what size of bulk bag!
Yes!
You are gracious in showing your pantry items……myself I’m trying to keep mine hidden as much as I can…….if there is shortages people become desperate and they could seek you out……if you have a basement I’d be putting your items down there …cooler and out of view,,,,
I remember my grandpa hid their cow and he sat on his back porch with a gun to protect his garden and his live stock….
During this past shortage local farmers had animals stolen, barns broken into and equipment taken. Especially gas cans….people to lazy to prep but have no problem taking from others.
The pink salt has such great flavor ♥️♥️♥️
Ma’am this will change my life thank you so much am learning every day on how to save money and be better prepared for life.
Your dogs are so cute! Such good helpers!
LOL!! I am the same way with the pet peeve! Idk what it is, but omg it felt so cozy seeing everything get a home lol ♥
Thanks! It feels good to get stuff put away in its home :)
I have spoken to many and the consensus is that the things that you constantly ran out of in childhood seems be the things you never let yourself run out of in adulthood! Hahaha For me it was paper products, as in tp, tissues and napkins! So I wasn’t panicking when tp got scarce. I guess I should thank my Mama for that phobia of mine! Hahaha
I love that you don’t just talk and talk and talk, but you do and do and do. I appreciate that you edit and fast forward through repetitive stuff, but we still get to see what we need to see! These are great!!!!
Most people don't have built-ins in their pantry. I have a walk-in pantry that also has a closet and I have the same shelves that you were gifted that I purchased from Northern tool in your neck of the woods. I have three of those and the baker's rack I have a deep freeze and I just had an upright freezer delivered Thursday December 30th 2021. The upright is going to make me very very happy because sitting in a wheelchair I can't get down into the deep freeze so I need my caregiver to do it and it doesn't work so well that way. Now I can keep in the deep freeze what I want to and keeping me upright things I use often.
I love your helpers!🐕
Becky... I really wish you would put a curtain on that window facing your neighbor's house. (I know that suggestion is more about me than you 😂) You are a such a joy to watch. So glad I found your channel!!!!
Thanks for the tip!
Hey Becky, Just a little hint...store your empty canning jars upside down on clean paper and the inside will stay cleaner for easier washing! :) and you can take a wire clothes hanger, unwind one side slide all of your canning rings onto it and rewind. Now you can hand them up. Space saver :)
I love your videos, seeing you process things one at a time makes me a lot less nervous about becoming a home owner
Since starting to watch your videos over a year ago, I've started making my partner the oatmeal bake every week. He now requests it when I forget! He's not an easy man to please, food-wise, so this was a real winner.
Your fur babies are so sweet
I’m just as mesmerized by the fur babies as I am with your organization lol
Bought 35+ kgs of flour this week, working on adding half a (grassfed) cow to the freezer from a local farm! 😍 Lumber will arrive shortly for 30 raised beds and I’m sooooooooo excited!
Oooof! How much that lumber must have set you back right now, i can't believe how much a 2x4 runs. We just milled so much with our Alaskan mill that my husband is fabricating a huge mill on an RV frame.
@@MK-ti2oo Not too bad here in Norway actually! Prices up about 30%. 1 2x4 (5 feet) just under 12 us dollars... We are used to everything being expensive here, this is a socialist country 😣 We sold some crypto, I convinced husband that we need a garden more than crypto! Now we are collecting canning jars, driving all around to buy cheap used ones as the new ones cost A LOT. Almost 17 dollars per piece for the medium sized ones!
@@babar86 holy moly, that's insane for jars. It was bad here in the US for jars last year but a bit better this year. Lumber is about the same as you're paying, all the lumber yards here in Northern California are literally over flowing though, it's crazy
@@babar86 Would you mind share how you store 35 lbs flour? I m still learning…Thanks.
@@MayaKanaKa Not sure if I have the perfect answer, but I put it in 4 kg plastic bags inside plastic containers with lids and then put it in my pantry (which is cold and dark). 35 kg is about 77 lbs of flour :)
I put bay leaves in with my rice or any grain and flour and sugar to keep the bugs out of my 5-gallon buckets
Great idea!
Does this create any taste to the flour or whatever your storing?
@@joannar9121 it does not. Been doing this for years with no issue.
18:07 : I spotted how you store your canning lids in the corner of your cupboard! Why haven’t I thought of that? Mine are in a basket with the rings and it’s so messy. That is much cleaner. Great idea
By the way. You can take off the labels from the paper bags from Azure and stick them on your containers. I have been doing it when I put it away.
Oh my gosh I love this idea!
I always do this. Try to have the batch id from the manufacturer as well, yo unever know if there's a recall or whatever, good info to have.
That’s what I do too!
I love your videos. We are soul sisters in food storage, gardening, and homesteading! Your videos are great. :)
Freeze rice to kill bugs before long term storage🇨🇦
Brilliant ,loved going along with u ,
So jealous really need organize myself better
You amaze me with your organization! I absolutely am in love with your cabinets! They are to simply die for!! Ty for sharing this video
Lol thanks so much! My husband says I need to show inside my corner cabinets because they aren’t organized at all. They are my catch all....
OMG your puppies are soooo cute!!!
Get a grain mill (Nutrimill). Wheat and popcorn store forever, grind your own as you need it.
I’m so glad to see you just dumped the bags. No stressing over bugs. I’m in my 50’s and have yet to see one. By the way., you’re cute as a button. Great video.
Everytime you open a bag, your puppies come to check it out! I love dogs!
I just cut out the writing from the bag and put it inside the bucket, that helps if the label falls off the outside.
Nosy pups! 😆
I love watching your videos and you are such an inspiration to me and I’m 57 years old (never too old to start a new chapter). I will soon be quitting my job so that I can begin homesteading on our property in SW Ga. and I will do the meal planning bc I will be busy. Thank you for sharing your life with us!
becky you so inspire me to keep on gardeing ....i love your videos
At almost 55 you have way more organization than I ever did. ❤️❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks :) I don't always feel organized.
I struggled with the first few Gamma lids until I tried this…leave the 2 pieces of the lid together, place it on the top of the bucket, and sit on it! This requires a non-ladylike sit-more of a plop-sit😊; it usually takes about 3 snaps (sits) before it is completely on.
Becky cover your windows to preserve your food. Blackout material is thick and can actually just be made into curtains themselves. Its white- so it reflects indoor light.
Oh my I love all 3 of your fur babies they are gorgeous
thank you!!
Awesome video as always ♥️ I buy in bulk as well. In the long run it saves you money and time.
I would suggest putting the new flour on the bottom of the bucket. If you keep adding new flour to your bucket the flour on the bottom never gets used. I just dump what’s left in the bucket into a bowl then add the new stuff and top it off with the old.
That's a great idea!
Why are you favorite channel ever
Seriously I love your content
I love your dogs!
I love your energy. People need to know what your doing is important, especially in today’s society. I’m glad and appreciative that your parents taught you things and your responsible. I like that you think ahead and are responsible for your family. I’m proud of the things you are doing.
Mum used to put raw garlic (unpeeled) in our rice bucket and it made the rice past so much longer.
Your dogs are so cute!!
I know I'm very late to this video, but when I pour things into my 5 gallon buckets, I place a folded up, super cheap shower curtain under them. Just try to fold it up into a square. Saves too much mess on my floors, and I can just fold up the curtain and pour any spillage back into the bucket.
For labeling we use painters tape and marker.
I loved this! I have been wanting to do this for a really long time. I am really loving your channel. I would love to get the recipe of the baked oat bars you make for your husband. 💜💜
Sometimes those bulk foods already come with pest in them inside the grain, so storing with O2 absorbers in mylar bags could starve those critters of oxygen and prevent their proliferation.
I just love watching cook and organize. I wish I was so organized like you.
Thanks so much!! Trust me there are area I haven't shown on YT b/c they are... Well lets say NOT organized lol
This was a great video. You have so much energy! I noticed that you store your jars without the lids on. I hate taking the time to clean spider webs and gross stuff out of my Jars when it comes time for canning, so I turn a clean, used canning lid upside-down (so the gummie stuff doesn't stick to the jar) and put the ring on to store clean empty Jars. Saves a lot of time during canning season. 😊
I think you're amazing, the way you do all these things in bulk and cook up enormous numbers of meals in catering sizes in just a few hours sometimes! I am so pleased I subscribed, because this is one of the most interesting channels I've seen in a while. Good luck to you! I hope your husband understands how lucky he is that you have got this when it comes to feeding your family and that you take such a clever and resourceful approach to it all.
PS. Gotta love those pooches! They want to see what you're getting up to!
Thanks
On Amazon they have these pet food containers with wheels that work great for flour and sugar. They hold 50 pounds and are easy to move around. Run around 25.00 each.
Wow great to know! thank you
I wish I had the energy for this lifestyle. I don't have the need for bulk since I only care for myself... I just live through these homestead channels.
I have been watching some of your videos And I MUST say you are a kind,working hard good soul many blessing to you thank you for what you do
Rings take up a lot of space. Get a coat hanger and unwind the twists at the top and roughly form into a circle. Thread your rings on the circle, hang from the wire racks. Easy to access, but out of the way.
You’re poor dogs look so hopeful that they’ll get a scrap of food. 😢🥰😋
Last year before the pandemic hit I randomly talked to a coworker who told me that she might survive 2-3 days with the food in her house. I was shocked even though it’s just my husband and me plus my dad whom I cook for 2x per week for 4 days. I inherited food storage from my mum. We did not go shopping for the first 1,5 months of lockdown which was really nice. Then we craved fresh produce. 😉
Light bulb moment- print all the words on 1 label. Brilliant! I stopped using a label maker because I was frustrated with the waste blank labels at both sides of the actual typing. Thanks so much for the idea!
Thank you! This is so helpful. I love your videos!
I love your dogs. I have a border collie
I love those buckets. Pretty handy.
Awesome video!! I’ve started this and it has made me so happy !! I love seeing all my bins full and knowing I’m stocked up especially since fall and winter are around the corner. Thank you for all your tips!
You are fantastic! You need to put some of this in to a book. I have learned so much from you.
I love my Gama lids too. I get them at Tractor Supply Store. They will last for years !! I am a member of Azure and highly recommend them.
Oh my goodness. We must be related. I do the same things you do with pantry items, plus canning all the foods I can. I started doing meals made ahead in jars, I used to keep everything separate. Love watching and learning from you!!
Thank you, I appreciated your informative video and bulk buys. I especially love seeing your dogs! :)
I love my pups!! Thanks
Your dogs are the cutest. I’m just concerned about them having contact with your food. Love your Channel.
Thank you so much! We eat their hair every day so I don't really worry about it but I know that's no for everyone :)
@@AcreHomestead LOL as an owner of 3 dogs as well I totally relate!
Just discovered your channel yesterday and been watching around 20 videos now...you are such a wonder woman❤
I just found your channel and I'm loving it! I love freezer cooking, I just have a hard time finding easy recipes and you have some really great ones, so thank you! You're so amazing with work, large gardening and meal prep. How did you get started in your homesteading? Keep up the good work!
I want to learn freezer cooking SO bad!
I love baked oats. I don’t tend to eat them when it’s hot outside. Today is actually cooler summer day and is making me hungry for some. Will be baking it as soon as I finish this video.
Oh my gosh! I just found out that Azure Standard now has a delivery location near me!! I have no place to put everything I’m gonna get, but I am SO EXCITED!! haha
I have used Gamma lids for close to 20 years now. Best thing invented to reuse food buckets from food service operations. I have also found three sizes of square containers with the lids at a pet shop some 17 years ago. They are food grade and make storage far more efficient.
Interesting, bulk larder just for two individuals.
We make homemade noodles and pack them in metal tins but I use silica gel desiccant packs to keep the moisture level very low to avoid spoilage. Having worked in hotel and resturant industry I have developed the habit of labeling on everything purchase date as well as expirey dates on everything and once a month rotating stock. Wonder if gamma makes a wider assortment of colors, it would be great to color code various items.
That’s awesome! My hubby thought I was crazy for doing buckets a few years ago, but i love it. I used square based food safe buckets (fit better in my space) from ULine and green painter’s tape with permanent marker to label (cheaper and you can write in bigger font). I also include on painter’s tape my personalized instructions for things like rice:water ratio on all the different kinds of rice i buy. You have amazing energy, I think i lost my energy after i had kids.
Love that idea! Thank
If you put the lid on the bickets after filling and tap tap the buckets on the floor, it will settle the contents and can fit quite a bit more in, just keep tapping it in between filling up etc.
Loved seeing your doggies and how they followed your every move! Miss our German Shepherd, she was like that too. ❤️
We lost a German Shepherd last year :( It's so hard. Pups are the best!
They may have stuck their noise in some of the buckets but I edited that out lol My husband would have freaked out lol and I figured not dog people would not like that either lol
@@AcreHomestead oh man I’m sorry about your GSD too. They’re awesome dogs. And lol that’s funny about sticking their noses in the buckets 😂😂
It was nice to see your official package inspectors helping out. My dogs, especially my Border Collie, love to thoroughly sniff every new package I bring into my house. I'm just about to get started with bulk buying, storing and canning. I recently had to change jobs and now work remotely from home. I was able to trade in a forty mile round tip commute for a zero mile round trip commute. :-) With the forty mile commute I was in the habit of stopping at a store between work and home fairly frequently and just buying a few things at a time. With my new routine, bulk buying will be a better approach. And if it saves money in the long run it's a win/win. That's especially true since the nearest grocery store to me is a small town grocery store with a smaller selection and larger prices.
Find or build some wood crates that hold either 12 pints or 12 quarts. Those can make accessing either empty or full jars simple as the boxes do deteriorate and die. You can label the front of the crates so you know what is in the flat crate. It saves your back and your arms. Also, KEEP YOUR ORIGINAL LABELS. I clear tape them to the outside of the bucket. This is in case of food recalls, and also DATE YOUR BUCKETS and containers, so you use the older products first. You need to get a Food Saver and the jar sealer to vacuum seal your jars of items you're keeping long term, like those raisins. It keeps them fresher and things out of them.
I was hoping u would put a link for buckets & gamma lids:( thank you for lovely video, you are a great teacher!
Opps Sorry about that! I just added it :)
You get a big work out just moving the bags & buckets around... bless you for showing how to do things in bulk
I was saying, “don’t do it “ just before you poured the new white flour over the old flour. May I suggest that you work with two buckets? The old flour at the bottom won’t be rotated and could go rancid, taking the new flour with it. Or, store the flour in the unopened bag until you empty (and wash out) the bucket. (Suggestion offered with affection and help, not judgment or criticism). BTW, I am loving your channel. Your energy is contagious! Loving it all 💕
The puppies ❤️😍🥰
Wow, you are so organized. Love watching you.
I would advise to put some blinds on your windows as light can shorten the shelf life of canned goods. We turned our back bedroom into a walk in pantry and we put reflective coating on the windows, cutting the direct light by half.
You are doing a wonderful job and yes it takes time to put together long term food storage.
Cheers from Australia
You should get a grain mill so that you can buy whole grains. They stay fresh a lot longer. Fresh ground cornmeal is amazing!!