How I started. FEMA recommends 72 hr food and water storage. I did that. Pain-free. Then I made it 10 days. Really, what's the difference between 3 days and 10 days? Then I started buying sales and getting larger quantities of solid shelf-stable items. I found it easier to purchase and store a years worth of beans. Then a years worth of rice. A years worth of flour. A whole bunch of pasta. I have a basic long term basement pantry. This year I'm going to be dehydrating vegetables. I do one batch a week and when the garden starts producing, maybe more.
A year ago I was in a serious car accident. Food storage was such a blessing. Because I was out of commission my family had to take over my responsibilities plus I was out of work. Food was not stressful during what was a stressful time because we were prepared. It’s so worth it.
I'm glad you are doing better. Having food storage/a working pantry has saved me several times over the years during illness and personal finances down times too.
There are no secrets in food storage, but there are many important and non important suggestions and you have many important suggestions. And thank you very much. It’s always an educational session watching The Provident Prepper. My wife and I are in our 70s and our appetites are much less than they were a few years ago. She would cook the entire box of spaghetti, one or two lbs which ever we had and one or two lbs of ground beef. For the two of us. She will eat leftovers once. Me, on the other hand, will eat leftovers until they are gone or gone bad. Many times food got thrown out. In our world of possibilities that had to change. I’ve seen many videos of rice or beans poured in a 5 gallon bucket and the top put on the bucket and stored. Also, I’ve seen rice and beans stored in Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers. To me there seems be a better way. Why open and expose all the five gallons at once? If you are feeding a large family that may be fine, but there are 2 of us. Sooooo, I store bulk items in food saver bags enough for two meals each. Some foods like grits, oatmeal, powered foods are stored in vacuum sealed jars. This way no food will be wasted and not all foods will be exposed. Also, if for some reason one bag is damaged or exposed not all food is affected. Storing this way does take more time, but I think it may be worth the time. Hey I’m retired. I have nothing but time. Not a whole lot left and there appears to be no reason to plan for 30 years of storage. If there is a secrete to preparing keep it a secret and JUST DO IT. You don’t need a spouse’s approval, just do it. Also, do the best you can. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just excellent will work. God bless.
@Patriot Pop I do the same! If I lack power, it will also be easier not to deal with leftovers, so I make small sized meal-in-a-jar type meals (just add water). I'd rather use my abundant time and the currently available utilities to process my preps now, so I have less to deal with when I am relying on them. I was glad to see your comment because so much of the focus is on prepping for multiple people (understandably), but it's nice to get tips like yours for those of us in similar situations.
@@jeanniewahine5443 I finally realized I needed to can my foods in pint or half-pint or even smaller canning jars. I am not feeding a large family so opening a jar should not result in the food going bad if there is no refrigeration. Uses more lids but works better for me.
@@kevinrehberg8758 Good suggestion! I use Tattler lids (and regular lids by ForJars). I use my already used lids for vacuum sealing dry goods in jars, so that's another way to get some more value out of them, if you have a vacuum sealer.
I found out from Big Family Homestead that since baking powder doesn't store forever like baking soda, buy Cream of Tarter. It last forever when stored by itself. Mix 1 part baking soda and 2 parts Cream of Tarter and you have baking powder. Once you mix them together it's just like the baking powder you buy in the store, it only last for 6 months. If for some reason we can no longer buy a can of baking powder at the store and we have plenty Cream of Tarter and baking soda in our storage stored separately, we will always have baking powder. I have used this mixture making my homemade cakes, it works great!
My secret is bi-annually or annually at the latest, I go through and do inventory of my food storage. I dust/clean, take stock of what I have, rotate if something inadvertently got pushed behind, bring items upstairs if they need to be used soon, consider anything new I might want to add or try. Get a shopping list of needed items. I'm bad at keeping a running daily checklist but this seems to work for me. Oh, and check that canning jars are still properly sealed...I've caught a few that unsealed over time.
I do the same thing. I also mark the bb date on the top of canned food so it's easy to put back on the shelf with the oldest in front. I usually do Feb and August (right before the harvest comes in so I know what I need to can.)
Jenny, I don't like Spam either or thought I didn't until this morning. My DH fixed bacon Spam for breakfast. He sliced it as thin as possible and fried it like bacon, really crispy. It was so good. Now we're planning on adding it to our food storage. Try it, you might like it if you like bacon. I love bacon.
I like spam but I've heard that frying it makes it more palatable for some. I saw a recipe for Hawaiian Fried Rice on TV that had diced, fried spam... they commented that it totally changed the spam to something good.
If you're concerned about the salt in Spam you can boil it before using. I watched a utube vid on how to do it. I think it gets boiled twice and has to be sliced to work.
My greatest tip to get started: *First of all, focus on getting 1 year's worth of legumes and grains of your choice* . These 2 form a complete protein and will prevent starvation, and they are literally the first step on your food storage, because they are extremely inexpensive, produced in abundance, last a long time and is the foundation of a diet. After this, you could add whatever you want to the list.
The leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints instructed: "Church members can begin their home storage by storing the basic foods that would be required to keep them alive if they did not have anything else to eat. Depending on where members live, those basics might include water, wheat or other grains, legumes, salt, honey or sugar, powdered milk, and cooking oil. When members have stored enough of these essentials to meet the needs of their family for one year, they may decide to add other items that they are accustomed to using day to day." (The First Presidency letter, January 20, 2002)
Rice has doubled in price here I Canaduh since I started hard core prepping over three years ago. So too has the beans. That's not going to stop me though. I told myself long ago that as long as it's on the shelf to buy, I'm buying. Have a great one.
My mom and grandmother used bay leaves, so I throw one when I am packaging for good measure, I know I don’t need it. Bay leaf story, my mom used to throw one in the spaghetti sauce. At dinner, whoever got the bay leaf had to do the dishes.
I LOVE The idea of burying unusable freezers for root cellars! I now have two of those on my property, and was thinking about how they would be great for keeping rodents out of my food stores! My question is, how do you get into the freezers once they’re buried? Would love to see your plans for them! Thank you!😍
Good post, thanks! I liked the idea of storing storage supplies (i.e., canning lids... ugh). I have aluminum foil, plastic wrap, parchment paper and wax paper in my storage. And, don't forget about cleaning supplies. Dish sponges, scouring pads, soaps. I witnessed a lot shortages in cleaning products over the last two years. An important idea is to practice with your preps. Learn how to be innovative with your resources.
My biggest secret for food storage: My kids spent all their money with day to day living and did not have an interest in storing. So,I purchased food and other emergency items for all events: birthday, Christmas, Father's/Mother's day. They now see what I could see years ago They are grateful and are now buying a bit to store when they can.
I am not a prepper. But I do think food shortages are coming. I have stocked way up the past two months, planted a garden and purchased a water bath canning kit, so I can can my fruits and tomatoes. Now I just have to learn how to can. Thank goodness for You Tube how-to videos. Great video!
Make 1 tsp. baking powder with more shelf stable 1/2 tsp cream of tartar, 1/4 tsp. baking soda and 1/4 tsp cornstarch. Or use 2:1 ratio of cream of tartar to baking soda only. It was nice to hear from all of you with your storage tips.
I have just started trying to check one part of my food storage every day. That way I am not overwhelmed with too much to do in one day, and if I miss a day here or there, I don't sweat it, because the food doesn't go bad.
What lovely ladies your friends are❤️. I think they are well versed and are a huge blessing! Thanks for being willing to join Kylene and help us get better prepared ❤️. I added in my food store binder a label for each of my items I rebottle like beans, rice, lentils, oatmeal,…. I cut out the nutritional information and the directions and paste them on a sheet of paper. And/or I roll it up and vac seal it right in the jar. I keep that binder with my food stores. I also add recipes for that ingredient after the info sheet. That way anyone can look at the storage manual and utilize the resources available. I also increased my storage of freezer paper and ziplock bags and added them to my already healthy stock of preserving supplies. For exactly the reason you pointed out, those random blessings! I just had the opportunity to put up 23 lbs of meat that was on a fantastic sale 👍🏻 I could definitely enjoy working along side all of you ladies and learning from your experience!!! Really great advice and great content!
I’m new to the concept of “food storage” in terms of what to keep for one year of survival. I always have kept a fairly well stocked pantry but nothing like I’m doing now. My freezers are filled so I don’t have space to do the freeze and thaw method right now. I’m planning to do freeze/thaw once we’ve gone through some of what’s in there. I feel like having freezers stocked is really important right now and once we’ve eaten through some of it and have space then i can start rotation in the freezers. In normal times I would deplete my frozen food and be mostly empty by August due to hurricane season and power outages and then replenish in October but I don’t feel comfortable doing that right now. I do have emergency backup power to preserve the frozen and refrigerated food. I would like to add that I recently bought something called Pump N Seal which is a good way to vacuum seal and reseal jars using a simple manual pump. I’ve been dehydrating my own potato slices and I used pump and seal to vaccum pack them in half gallon jars. Super helpful video and I’m so grateful to have access to UA-cam to learn about these emergency preparedness tips and tricks. Great video!!
I don't have room in my freezers to do the freeze the bug thing for my flours and pancake mixes... so, I've been just putting them in food vacumn sealer bags and vacumn sealing them before putting them in storage rotation.
This was one of my favorite videos you have put out. I don't have a secret but I have started buying beef and chicken locally. This Sept I will get another cow for the freezer. I will also get whole chickens the same month. I sell jams and jellies at our farmer's market so I buy my produce there as much as possible. Plus, we have developed a strong group of preppers....5 couples...we help each other as much as possible. Yesterday I picked up 50# of sugar for one gal because she didn't have time. Community is so important. Finally, I learned to pressure can last year and I am having a blast. It's so satisfying to see all that food on our shelves. Tomorrow I'll be canning cowboy beans w hamburger.
Do a search on UA-cam for the words "Shelf stable pantry recipes collaboration" and you'll find the videos with links to download and print out the recipes plus the binder cover sheet :-)
Books on how to do different survival techniques and printed out recipes this is all fantastic. As a society we have gotten so dependent on the Internet but when it’s not there where are we going to get our knowledge from?
I keep all chips in the freezer they will last forever as long as you have electricity. I also keep all crackers in the fridge. I ate some saltine crackers that were more than two years old and they tasted like I just bought them.
I put on container for storage, along with ingredients and calorie count. PLUS as a backup, copy in small 3 ring notebook, incase original gets damaged an helpful for different food intolerance.
Enjoyed the video! This is not a secret but a tip: watch Wendy DeWitt's free "Sensible Food Storage" old (posted 8-13 years ago) multi-part seminar on UA-cam. IMO, it's very helpful in planning out what foods to store to be sure you'll be able to make actual meals your family will eat instead of just storing a jumble of different ingredients that may or may not end up being useful :-)
Been absorbing as much info every DAY as I can. SAHM 21 yrs age 44. First time ANYWHERE I have seen or heard that u can REUSE canning lids for DRY goods so thank you! Listened to you w heat index 101 degrees working on new garden in C. FL.
Thank you so much for this video. It was fun to watch and a lot of great ideas! Thank you for the information on ordering from the Church. Priceless!!!
What if your paycheck is lost in the mail? What if this year is when the 100 years flood comes? Or What if we get snowed in for a week? Stuff happens. That is why I have food, water, extra warm socks, and a bag of chips "put by.
Hi ladies!! Great tips so much appreciated, and Jenny I have the same t-shirt! You must be a horse lover too! (: Prayers for your husband for a quick recovery!
I reuse the jars I have gotten from the grocery store making my own potatoes cutting them up and pushing them into the jar and canning it up so they can sit on the Shelf
I will eat it if I'm hungry enough! My food preps are foods that I do not usually eat--boxed foods, canned veggies, potatoes (flakes or any kind), pre packaged meals in bags, rice, beans, and flour I try not to have (try hard). This is a problem because I am storing all these foods and wish to have at least 6mo-a year for 3 people, therefore I need it to be shelf stable for a very long time since I don't rotate them out. I hope I'm putting away these foods to last. Any advice to help my situation? I greatly appreciate it. And so glad I found your channel! Thank you😊
Always encourage everyone to keep a 1 years rotation of what they currently eat because first you don't want to be worrying about the stress of changing your diet during a crisis, and secondly because a Year's worth of food will give you a year to plant and harvest a crop. I would also highly encourage you to consider using hand warmers instead of oxygen absorbers. Hand warmers do the same thing that oxygen absorbers do however when you open your package after long-term storage you will be able to verify the seal integrity stayed intact because the hand warmer will reactivate. When buying storage totes for food storage, be sure you get one that has a foam seal around the edge. This will keep bugs out, and reduce oxygen getting in. Get a FoodSaver with a vacuum attachment. Mylar is really kind of overrated, if you use these other techniques.
@@stephaniecorporandy7018 yes. The hand warmers consume all the oxygen in the container, and then they go dormant. Once you open the container again and new oxygen is introduced, the hand warmers will reactivate.
Thank you so much for this post, I just now discovered your channel and have shared it my communities facebook group and family. Keep it up your doing great!
Honestly I don't store a lot of food in my home. I do store small mylar bags of food so they are portable. When shtf I'm not staying in my home and I'm definitely not carrying 10-5 gallon buckets of food into the forest.
Great video! Thank you. I absolutely agree to have a few things stocked up for a job loss, sickness, bad weather, sky high prices, and such. The only thing we all better have tons of for the end of the world is Character!
I started going through my cabinets and food shelves and so many cans and packages and box foods like dry potatoes, can meats, one meal box dinners, boxes and packages of cakes and corn breads, can fruits and vegetables, Evaporated and condensed milk, tomato sauces in cans and jars, etc., and all have a 1-2 year best buy date, Many already past that date! What do I do with all of this, as I live alone and I have a lot of storage for emergencies but the year flies by so fast and everything seems to hit their use by dates way before I need them!
My thought for the day that helps us is to have everyone help some with the cooking. That way my recipes don't die with me. My kids have been favorites on missions and at college because they can cook. We're introducing Africa to my apple pie filling on waffles! So i would say involve everone in what you store and how to prepare it. (Even if it means you have spam for one of them).
@@teridavis5367 I chop 2 large apples, (about 2 cups) put in a saucepan over medium heat. Add 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 Tb. Water, 1tsp. Cinnamon, a dash of ginger and a dash of nutmeg. Cook it stirring occasionally until the juice comes out of the apples and forms a syrup. You may want to add a bit more sugar depending on the sweetness of the apples, until it tastes how you like. If it is thin you can thicken with a little cornstarch and water mixed. Really that's it. Just pour over pancakes or waffles. I've also bottled it in bigger batches to save for later. If you don't have nutmeg, some allspice works well. It's also fun to substitute some maple syrup for the water. Hope you like it!
Hi Terri, if you do a search on UA-cam for the phrase "Shelf stable pantry recipes collaboration," you'll find videos with links to download and print out the recipes plus the binder cover sheet :-)
Could I ask you to explain the buried freezer in a video? I understand the concept, but is this a working freezer, or one that you are letting the earth maintain temperature? Is the freezer accessible from your basement?
I had a decent amount of food stored in my basement, but somewhere there was a break along the waterline, and our basement flooded to the depth of 8 inches, and I lost everything that was on the floor, or stacked on the floor. Even my 3 gallon pails with flour went over on their side with all that water, and it seeped in, ruining it all. It just makes me sick. And all my home canned food that took so much time and energy? The tops are rapidly rusting on there while I try to get everything cleaned up and dried out. It also fried my large chest freezer! So, it was/is, a bad scenario all the way around. And I lost my husband in November! Am doing a LOT of praying!
Another fantastic video. Just a great general overview with great advice and tips. Thought your best advice for prepping for everyone is to reduce the stress in that time of crisis ratherthan fighting with panicked hoards last minute. Just avoid it. Must say in the battle of the Prepper sexes, you and many other ladies are kicking it. Keep it up. Great channel and can't say enough what a great reference library your playlist is.
On one of your videos, you mentioned Steelpak mylar bags. Also that you put corn I them to retain some moisture. What other items would you recommend putting in them and why? Thank you. 😊
I am constantly making food for groups of people in my community. Can i Please have YOUR fried rice recipe??? Love your ideas but would also love to know how YOU make family friendly meals so i can use them for our "build your community" program, which is held every week.
First time watching you channel. So great! I really need recipe ideas for cooking from pantry staples items only. I tried to find some ideas online but they usually also incorporate fresh ingredients. I'm just thinking ahead if fresh ingredients become hard to come by.
I might have missed it in the comments below, but is there anyway that your friend could share her shelf stable Shrimp Scampi recipe? That would be amazing!
Great tips & ideas! I save my pickle, salsa jars with lids that have a seal to store dry goods, using my jar sealer attachment from my vacuum sealer, works well & no cost. I can't use the plastic bottles to store because of some slight dampness issues and sometimes it does transfer to what I'm storing. I also started marking multiple containers 1/2, 2/3, 3/3 this makes it easy not to repeat or over buy items I can't remember what's on hand.
Place what you can in jars and vacuum sealer it. Extra place in vacuum sealer bag and seal. Some day the army can go door to door and check your home are you ready for that? If you don't think they can come into your home and remove your wrong so have an emergency ready. Don't open door's at all for now on. Let them leave a note.
How I started. FEMA recommends 72 hr food and water storage. I did that. Pain-free. Then I made it 10 days. Really, what's the difference between 3 days and 10 days? Then I started buying sales and getting larger quantities of solid shelf-stable items. I found it easier to purchase and store a years worth of beans. Then a years worth of rice. A years worth of flour. A whole bunch of pasta. I have a basic long term basement pantry. This year I'm going to be dehydrating vegetables. I do one batch a week and when the garden starts producing, maybe more.
Great job, Kevin.
That’s great advice ❤️
Excellent!! I did the same and now I’m finally moving on to trying to dehydrate using my oven then canning. I’m scared lol but I’ll try.
A year ago I was in a serious car accident. Food storage was such a blessing. Because I was out of commission my family had to take over my responsibilities plus I was out of work. Food was not stressful during what was a stressful time because we were prepared. It’s so worth it.
Amen 🙏!
I'm glad you are doing better. Having food storage/a working pantry has saved me several times over the years during illness and personal finances down times too.
There are no secrets in food storage, but there are many important and non important suggestions and you have many important suggestions. And thank you very much. It’s always an educational session watching The Provident Prepper.
My wife and I are in our 70s and our appetites are much less than they were a few years ago. She would cook the entire box of spaghetti, one or two lbs which ever we had and one or two lbs of ground beef. For the two of us. She will eat leftovers once. Me, on the other hand, will eat leftovers until they are gone or gone bad. Many times food got thrown out. In our world of possibilities that had to change. I’ve seen many videos of rice or beans poured in a 5 gallon bucket and the top put on the bucket and stored. Also, I’ve seen rice and beans stored in Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers. To me there seems be a better way. Why open and expose all the five gallons at once? If you are feeding a large family that may be fine, but there are 2 of us. Sooooo, I store bulk items in food saver bags enough for two meals each. Some foods like grits, oatmeal, powered foods are stored in vacuum sealed jars. This way no food will be wasted and not all foods will be exposed. Also, if for some reason one bag is damaged or exposed not all food is affected.
Storing this way does take more time, but I think it may be worth the time. Hey I’m retired. I have nothing but time. Not a whole lot left and there appears to be no reason to plan for 30 years of storage.
If there is a secrete to preparing keep it a secret and JUST DO IT. You don’t need a spouse’s approval, just do it. Also, do the best you can. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just excellent will work.
God bless.
@Patriot Pop I do the same! If I lack power, it will also be easier not to deal with leftovers, so I make small sized meal-in-a-jar type meals (just add water). I'd rather use my abundant time and the currently available utilities to process my preps now, so I have less to deal with when I am relying on them. I was glad to see your comment because so much of the focus is on prepping for multiple people (understandably), but it's nice to get tips like yours for those of us in similar situations.
@@jeanniewahine5443 I finally realized I needed to can my foods in pint or half-pint or even smaller canning jars. I am not feeding a large family so opening a jar should not result in the food going bad if there is no refrigeration. Uses more lids but works better for me.
Love this !
@@terrymanning5132 You can use the re-usable lids put out by Tattler which is cheaper in the long run 10-15 times vs. single use metal lids
@@kevinrehberg8758 Good suggestion! I use Tattler lids (and regular lids by ForJars). I use my already used lids for vacuum sealing dry goods in jars, so that's another way to get some more value out of them, if you have a vacuum sealer.
I found out from Big Family Homestead that since baking powder doesn't store forever like baking soda, buy Cream of Tarter. It last forever when stored by itself. Mix 1 part baking soda and 2 parts Cream of Tarter and you have baking powder. Once you mix them together it's just like the baking powder you buy in the store, it only last for 6 months. If for some reason we can no longer buy a can of baking powder at the store and we have plenty Cream of Tarter and baking soda in our storage stored separately, we will always have baking powder. I have used this mixture making my homemade cakes, it works great!
Also use it when I make sugar cookies. It works great.
My secret is bi-annually or annually at the latest, I go through and do inventory of my food storage. I dust/clean, take stock of what I have, rotate if something inadvertently got pushed behind, bring items upstairs if they need to be used soon, consider anything new I might want to add or try. Get a shopping list of needed items. I'm bad at keeping a running daily checklist but this seems to work for me. Oh, and check that canning jars are still properly sealed...I've caught a few that unsealed over time.
I do the same thing. I also mark the bb date on the top of canned food so it's easy to put back on the shelf with the oldest in front. I usually do Feb and August (right before the harvest comes in so I know what I need to can.)
Jenny, I don't like Spam either or thought I didn't until this morning. My DH fixed bacon Spam for breakfast. He sliced it as thin as possible and fried it like bacon, really crispy. It was so good. Now we're planning on adding it to our food storage. Try it, you might like it if you like bacon. I love bacon.
I like spam but I've heard that frying it makes it more palatable for some. I saw a recipe for Hawaiian Fried Rice on TV that had diced, fried spam... they commented that it totally changed the spam to something good.
Spam is less processed than hot dogs. So if someone is ok eating hotdogs, eating spam would be leveling up.
@@witsonsmom729 sliced and fried is how I eat it.
It’s great in stir fries too! The Chinese use it a lot 😀
If you're concerned about the salt in Spam you can boil it before using. I watched a utube vid on how to do it. I think it gets boiled twice and has to be sliced to work.
My greatest tip to get started: *First of all, focus on getting 1 year's worth of legumes and grains of your choice* . These 2 form a complete protein and will prevent starvation, and they are literally the first step on your food storage, because they are extremely inexpensive, produced in abundance, last a long time and is the foundation of a diet. After this, you could add whatever you want to the list.
The leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints instructed:
"Church members can begin their home storage by storing the basic foods that would be required to keep them alive if they did not have anything else to eat. Depending on where members live, those basics might include water, wheat or other grains, legumes, salt, honey or sugar, powdered milk, and cooking oil. When members have stored enough of these essentials to meet the needs of their family for one year, they may decide to add other items that they are accustomed to using day to day."
(The First Presidency letter, January 20, 2002)
Rice has doubled in price here I Canaduh since I started hard core prepping over three years ago. So too has the beans.
That's not going to stop me though. I told myself long ago that as long as it's on the shelf to buy, I'm buying.
Have a great one.
Prepping = Life Insurance. Water, Food, Security, Medical, Finances, Shelter, etc.
My mom and grandmother used bay leaves, so I throw one when I am packaging for good measure, I know I don’t need it. Bay leaf story, my mom used to throw one in the spaghetti sauce. At dinner, whoever got the bay leaf had to do the dishes.
Bay leaf=doing dishes... love it!!😁
Think I’d just eat the bay leaf! 😂
I LOVE The idea of burying unusable freezers for root cellars! I now have two of those on my property, and was thinking about how they would be great for keeping rodents out of my food stores! My question is, how do you get into the freezers once they’re buried? Would love to see your plans for them! Thank you!😍
I loved this Gal Pal video!!
It would be great to see you all do this on a regular basis!💕
Hey! I don’t know about anyone else but I want to know Katrina’s shelf stable recipe for shrimp scampi!!! 😃
I agree
Same here!
Good post, thanks! I liked the idea of storing storage supplies (i.e., canning lids... ugh). I have aluminum foil, plastic wrap, parchment paper and wax paper in my storage. And, don't forget about cleaning supplies. Dish sponges, scouring pads, soaps. I witnessed a lot shortages in cleaning products over the last two years. An important idea is to practice with your preps. Learn how to be innovative with your resources.
Remember Led bulbs, Furnace filters
You can get re-usable electro-static furnace filters that you clean with a garden hose. They work good for me.
My biggest secret for food storage: My kids spent all their money with day to day living and did not have an interest in storing. So,I purchased food and other emergency items for all events: birthday, Christmas, Father's/Mother's day. They now see what I could see years ago They are grateful and are now buying a bit to store when they can.
I do the same thing. They are finally clueing in. Lol
I am not a prepper. But I do think food shortages are coming. I have stocked way up the past two months, planted a garden and purchased a water bath canning kit, so I can can my fruits and tomatoes. Now I just have to learn how to can. Thank goodness for You Tube how-to videos. Great video!
Redrose homestead has great canning videos. She’s amazing and is a professor so she explains they whys, the good and the bad. Very good information.
Doing all that ^^^ makes you a “Prepper”.
JSimp guess what- you're a prepper now! 🤣
Yes, she is absolutely brilliant and offers so much information.
Make 1 tsp. baking powder with more shelf stable 1/2 tsp cream of tartar, 1/4 tsp. baking soda and 1/4 tsp cornstarch. Or use 2:1 ratio of cream of tartar to baking soda only. It was nice to hear from all of you with your storage tips.
A belly full is a belly full. Barter and looking out for others may be necessary. Great sharing ladies. Thanks
Have the lady on the left on more she has good creative ideas.
Yes!!
I definitely like having Recipes printed out
Can't wait to see the chef video!!
I have just started trying to check one part of my food storage every day. That way I am not overwhelmed with too much to do in one day, and if I miss a day here or there, I don't sweat it, because the food doesn't go bad.
What lovely ladies your friends are❤️. I think they are well versed and are a huge blessing! Thanks for being willing to join Kylene and help us get better prepared ❤️. I added in my food store binder a label for each of my items I rebottle like beans, rice, lentils, oatmeal,…. I cut out the nutritional information and the directions and paste them on a sheet of paper. And/or I roll it up and vac seal it right in the jar. I keep that binder with my food stores. I also add recipes for that ingredient after the info sheet. That way anyone can look at the storage manual and utilize the resources available. I also increased my storage of freezer paper and ziplock bags and added them to my already healthy stock of preserving supplies. For exactly the reason you pointed out, those random blessings! I just had the opportunity to put up 23 lbs of meat that was on a fantastic sale 👍🏻 I could definitely enjoy working along side all of you ladies and learning from your experience!!! Really great advice and great content!
I’d love to have your shelf stable recipes.
I’m new to the concept of “food storage” in terms of what to keep for one year of survival. I always have kept a fairly well stocked pantry but nothing like I’m doing now. My freezers are filled so I don’t have space to do the freeze and thaw method right now. I’m planning to do freeze/thaw once we’ve gone through some of what’s in there. I feel like having freezers stocked is really important right now and once we’ve eaten through some of it and have space then i can start rotation in the freezers. In normal times I would deplete my frozen food and be mostly empty by August due to hurricane season and power outages and then replenish in October but I don’t feel comfortable doing that right now. I do have emergency backup power to preserve the frozen and refrigerated food. I would like to add that I recently bought something called Pump N Seal which is a good way to vacuum seal and reseal jars using a simple manual pump. I’ve been dehydrating my own potato slices and I used pump and seal to vaccum pack them in half gallon jars. Super helpful video and I’m so grateful to have access to UA-cam to learn about these emergency preparedness tips and tricks. Great video!!
I don't have room in my freezers to do the freeze the bug thing for my flours and pancake mixes... so, I've been just putting them in food vacumn sealer bags and vacumn sealing them before putting them in storage rotation.
This is a very important channel. Thank you all so much!
This was one of my favorite videos you have put out. I don't have a secret but I have started buying beef and chicken locally. This Sept I will get another cow for the freezer. I will also get whole chickens the same month. I sell jams and jellies at our farmer's market so I buy my produce there as much as possible. Plus, we have developed a strong group of preppers....5 couples...we help each other as much as possible. Yesterday I picked up 50# of sugar for one gal because she didn't have time. Community is so important. Finally, I learned to pressure can last year and I am having a blast. It's so satisfying to see all that food on our shelves. Tomorrow I'll be canning cowboy beans w hamburger.
You can make baking powder with 2 tsp cream of tartar and 1 tsp baking soda, both of which are shelf stable almost indefinitely if stored properly.
Would love a copy of the shelf stable recipes!
Do a search on UA-cam for the words "Shelf stable pantry recipes collaboration" and you'll find the videos with links to download and print out the recipes plus the binder cover sheet :-)
@@marygallagher3428 thank you
@@orange2sweet673 You're welcome Wendy :-)
It’s pepper potpourri whose hosting it
Me too!!
Books on how to do different survival techniques and printed out recipes this is all fantastic. As a society we have gotten so dependent on the Internet but when it’s not there where are we going to get our knowledge from?
I keep all chips in the freezer they will last forever as long as you have electricity. I also keep all crackers in the fridge. I ate some saltine crackers that were more than two years old and they tasted like I just bought them.
I save all glass jar add bay leaves in each jar
It works rice with bay leaves
I put on container for storage, along with ingredients and calorie count. PLUS as a backup, copy in small 3 ring notebook, incase original gets damaged an helpful for different food intolerance.
Enjoyed the video! This is not a secret but a tip: watch Wendy DeWitt's free "Sensible Food Storage" old (posted 8-13 years ago) multi-part seminar on UA-cam. IMO, it's very helpful in planning out what foods to store to be sure you'll be able to make actual meals your family will eat instead of just storing a jumble of different ingredients that may or may not end up being useful :-)
I loved that video. It was very practical and introduced me to jar sealing and what tools I might like to put on my to be purchased list.
That was a great teaching videos!
Fast Forward Oct '22 - we are expecting a crazy winter. I started watching your channel about 6mths ago and I have learned so much. Thank You
i would love to have the recipes in Debbie's cookbook or maybe a link to the play list that she used if there is one.
I would as well! She said to look for it, but I have looked and can’t find it. Pls post a link 😃
Pepper potpourri is hosting the collaboration
Been absorbing as much info every DAY as I can. SAHM 21 yrs age 44. First time ANYWHERE I have seen or heard that u can REUSE canning lids for DRY goods so thank you! Listened to you w heat index 101 degrees working on new garden in C. FL.
Thank you so much for this video. It was fun to watch and a lot of great ideas! Thank you for the information on ordering from the Church. Priceless!!!
If you don’t have a video already on how to do the root cellar with the freezer could you please do one or link us to the one you have.
PLEASE DO A VIDEO OF THE FREEZERS YOU ARE BURYING. Would love to know more.
Love the book idea, going to start one now. Thank you
I love the idea of co-owning a freeze dryer thank you so much
What if your paycheck is lost in the mail?
What if this year is when the 100 years flood comes? Or What if we get snowed in for a week?
Stuff happens. That is why I have food, water, extra warm socks, and a bag of chips "put by.
Also when I go to the food pantry if any kind of fruit has been given out I tried to preserve that also
Great video ladies, thank you!
Gee, the tip on freeze drying peaches! Wow!
Hi ladies!! Great tips so much appreciated, and Jenny I have the same t-shirt! You must be a horse lover too! (: Prayers for your husband for a quick recovery!
Thanks ladies, that was very informative.
I've stored rice for the last 2 years plus with only bay leaves and it's actually kept well. But I also have bought mylar bags and will use those too
I reuse the jars I have gotten from the grocery store making my own potatoes cutting them up and pushing them into the jar and canning it up so they can sit on the Shelf
Don't they turn black
You ladies are looking good and teaching essential information...💯👍
Love this
I will eat it if I'm hungry enough! My food preps are foods that I do not usually eat--boxed foods, canned veggies, potatoes (flakes or any kind), pre packaged meals in bags, rice, beans, and flour I try not to have (try hard). This is a problem because I am storing all these foods and wish to have at least 6mo-a year for 3 people, therefore I need it to be shelf stable for a very long time since I don't rotate them out. I hope I'm putting away these foods to last. Any advice to help my situation? I greatly appreciate it. And so glad I found your channel! Thank you😊
Always encourage everyone to keep a 1 years rotation of what they currently eat because first you don't want to be worrying about the stress of changing your diet during a crisis, and secondly because a Year's worth of food will give you a year to plant and harvest a crop.
I would also highly encourage you to consider using hand warmers instead of oxygen absorbers. Hand warmers do the same thing that oxygen absorbers do however when you open your package after long-term storage you will be able to verify the seal integrity stayed intact because the hand warmer will reactivate.
When buying storage totes for food storage, be sure you get one that has a foam seal around the edge. This will keep bugs out, and reduce oxygen getting in.
Get a FoodSaver with a vacuum attachment. Mylar is really kind of overrated, if you use these other techniques.
So, do the hand warmers pull the oxygen out of the jar.
@@stephaniecorporandy7018 yes. The hand warmers consume all the oxygen in the container, and then they go dormant. Once you open the container again and new oxygen is introduced, the hand warmers will reactivate.
@@charlesscarbrough9144 thank you for a new hack!
Thank you so much for this post, I just now discovered your channel and have shared it my communities facebook group and family. Keep it up your doing great!
Honestly I don't store a lot of food in my home. I do store small mylar bags of food so they are portable. When shtf I'm not staying in my home and I'm definitely not carrying 10-5 gallon buckets of food into the forest.
Great video! Thank you. I absolutely agree to have a few things stocked up for a job loss, sickness, bad weather, sky high prices, and such. The only thing we all better have tons of for the end of the world is Character!
I started going through my cabinets and food shelves and so many cans and packages and box foods like dry potatoes, can meats, one meal box dinners, boxes and packages of cakes and corn breads, can fruits and vegetables, Evaporated and condensed milk, tomato sauces in cans and jars, etc., and all have a 1-2 year best buy date, Many already past that date! What do I do with all of this, as I live alone and I have a lot of storage for emergencies but the year flies by so fast and everything seems to hit their use by dates way before I need them!
Best on UA-cam - a thorough and easy to understand guide for food prep. Absolutely crucial today 👍😊
Do you have a video on making your buried freezers on what and how to do
I also have a french fry cutter
DE is often in flour when you buy it.
Have you got a video up on burying your freezer and how you set it up?
My thought for the day that helps us is to have everyone help some with the cooking. That way my recipes don't die with me. My kids have been favorites on missions and at college because they can cook. We're introducing Africa to my apple pie filling on waffles! So i would say involve everone in what you store and how to prepare it. (Even if it means you have spam for one of them).
Bruce, I would love your recipe for Apple Pie Filling! If you are willing to give it out!
@@teridavis5367 I chop 2 large apples, (about 2 cups) put in a saucepan over medium heat. Add 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 Tb. Water, 1tsp. Cinnamon, a dash of ginger and a dash of nutmeg. Cook it stirring occasionally until the juice comes out of the apples and forms a syrup. You may want to add a bit more sugar depending on the sweetness of the apples, until it tastes how you like. If it is thin you can thicken with a little cornstarch and water mixed. Really that's it. Just pour over pancakes or waffles. I've also bottled it in bigger batches to save for later.
If you don't have nutmeg, some allspice works well. It's also fun to substitute some maple syrup for the water.
Hope you like it!
Great video! And very nice guests! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
A freezer drier here in Canada is about $8000 -$32000 dam they cost more then my car but wow would I had love to have one thous❤
🥚cellent, as always 👍
Do you have a copy of the shelf stable recipes she has in video?
Agree, would love more info.
Hi Terri, if you do a search on UA-cam for the phrase "Shelf stable pantry recipes collaboration," you'll find videos with links to download and print out the recipes plus the binder cover sheet :-)
Always remember if you get a good deal on something, it may not suit your palate but you can use it for feed for your animals!
I wish I found your channel years ago
I'm better storing than figuring out what to cook
Could I ask you to explain the buried freezer in a video? I understand the concept, but is this a working freezer, or one that you are letting the earth maintain temperature? Is the freezer accessible from your basement?
I had a decent amount of food stored in my basement, but somewhere there was a break along the waterline, and our basement flooded to the depth of 8 inches, and I lost everything that was on the floor, or stacked on the floor. Even my 3 gallon pails with flour went over on their side with all that water, and it seeped in, ruining it all. It just makes me sick. And all my home canned food that took so much time and energy? The tops are rapidly rusting on there while I try to get everything cleaned up and dried out. It also fried my large chest freezer! So, it was/is, a bad scenario all the way around. And I lost my husband in November! Am doing a LOT of praying!
I’m praying you can find rest and peace in the Lord sister, I’m so sorry to hear that all happened to you!!!
Good video and tips , thanks for sharing , God bless !
We use diatomaceous earth in our chickens dust bath.
Another fantastic video. Just a great general overview with great advice and tips. Thought your best advice for prepping for everyone is to reduce the stress in that time of crisis ratherthan fighting with panicked hoards last minute. Just avoid it. Must say in the battle of the Prepper sexes, you and many other ladies are kicking it. Keep it up. Great channel and can't say enough what a great reference library your playlist is.
On one of your videos, you mentioned Steelpak mylar bags. Also that you put corn I them to retain some moisture. What other items would you recommend putting in them and why? Thank you. 😊
Lol, I’ve accidentally bought that gross salmon before for my salmon pattties and I had to throw it away it was so gross
I really needed to hear this. Thank you.
"Prepped Potpourri" started the shelf stable recipe collaboration so everyone can check her channel to see participating channels and get the recipes.
"Prepper Potpourri" but yes, her channel is awesome :D
@@KellyS_77 LOL thanks, I did mean to type Prepper
Can you explain how the freezer in the ground works?
I am constantly making food for groups of people in my community. Can i Please have YOUR fried rice recipe??? Love your ideas but would also love to know how YOU make family friendly meals so i can use them for our "build your community" program, which is held every week.
I love your videos I’ve learnt so much about prepping from you guys ❤️
Great video! Thank you
excellent tips...🥰
I only screwed the tops on the jars and put them away
Inspiring video. Thank you ladies.
Could you share the link to the shelf-stable recipes that your friend printed in her notebook?
First time watching you channel. So great! I really need recipe ideas for cooking from pantry staples items only. I tried to find some ideas online but they usually also incorporate fresh ingredients. I'm just thinking ahead if fresh ingredients become hard to come by.
If by chance 1/2 of what you store spoils 1/2 is better than nothing when you need it ! Jump in and learn as you go.
You need lids . Bottles you can get , rings last forever . It's all about lids
Looking forward to that cooking video
I might have missed it in the comments below, but is there anyway that your friend could share her shelf stable Shrimp Scampi recipe? That would be amazing!
Making french fries and canning those up also
An elbow surgery and you couldn't leave him alone!!! Lol😅😅😅
Great video!
Is there a video on your ‘bury a freezer’ cold storage? 🤞🏻
I’ve heard you guys mention purchasing from the LDS storage foods more than once.
Do you have a link or more info on getting in touch with them?
Can you use the oxygen absorber with dried noodles? Also how long can you store regular flour for?
Yes and if you store flour in Mylar, cool and dark storage you are good for 20 years
Great tips & ideas! I save my pickle, salsa jars with lids that have a seal to store dry goods, using my jar sealer attachment from my vacuum sealer, works well & no cost. I can't use the plastic bottles to store because of some slight dampness issues and sometimes it does transfer to what I'm storing. I also started marking multiple containers 1/2, 2/3, 3/3 this makes it easy not to repeat or over buy items I can't remember what's on hand.
I preserve food I can get through food stamps
Place what you can in jars and vacuum sealer it. Extra place in vacuum sealer bag and seal. Some day the army can go door to door and check your home are you ready for that? If you don't think they can come into your home and remove your wrong so have an emergency ready. Don't open door's at all for now on. Let them leave a note.