How To Start A Prepper Pantry - The Easiest Way
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- In this video, I go into detail on putting away two weeks of food and supplies for two people in your prepper pantry.
I cover many different options of food with a total of 14 days of breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. Lunches include soup and a side dish, dinners are a protein, vegetable, side dish, and even a desert.
You'll know how to plan the preps in your prepper pantry after you watch this video, as well as understand the amount of food it actually takes.
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Brian Hawkins
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This is such a great way to get started. Thinking in small quantities with meal planning.
Thanks, I hope it helps a few people. 🙂
Exactly how you do it.
When I started out years ago, I was all over the map. I was storing random items based on price and convenience and that was costing more money for fewer meals.
I made it way more complicated than it was but I tend to do that on a lot of things. Right now it's Bitcoin but I'm working through it.
I started my pantry years ago. With one small cabinet and a large box. That was what I had. Just have to - START. And then be determined to grow it. You will never regret doing it.
I agree, starting is more important than trying to get everything perfect from day one. It's like saving money, that first $100 is tougher than the next thousand.
It helps to see it laid out and specific to each day! I've been trying to build up our supplies, thank you for giving me a guide to plan with. Thanks
Glad to help. 🙂
Thanks for the detail of showing your 2 week plan. Very helpful!
@@lei27603 Thanks. I'm glad it helped.
One thing I do, which I got made fun of for years bc I felt guilty throwing them away bc it’s wasteful, is saving condiment packets. Once I started my pantry it’s very helpful for bagged emergency meals or a go bag. It’s free condiments to use in an emergency or in a recipe at home.
I have a large tin of them and they go in all of my food kits. They're also great for parties and trips.
free is my kind of price
I always kept the largest Big Gulp cap in the door of my fridge and kept my packets in there. Called it my emergency stash.
It's also great for sack lunches! or road trips.
I started a pantry because of storms here. Our power would be out for 2 wks. And before going grocery shopping. I would take out anything I thought I could spare and add it to my pantry supplies. It soon started adding up. I went from 2 wks to almost 2 months. In no time. Which sure came in handy. Because my husband got hurt on a job and was then out of work for 2 months. My pantry and freezer saved us. And had 2 small children. It was a life saver!! We only made through because of the things I canned froze and stored in the pantry. And mentally easier when not worried about how you will feed your family.
Wow, I'd love to quote your story at some point when I'm trying to explain the benefits of being prepared. I could leave your name out if you like but still need your permission.
Most of my cooking is from scratch. So I.would add flour sugar yeast and cornmeal. To make breads and biscuits cookies and cakes. Helps with small kids. And cuts way down on shopping runs. This video is excellent to help some one get started. 2 weeks is excellent start and doable. Doing this saved us several times through our lives. So I never had to do panic buying.
Thanks Judie, cooking from scratch is a valuable skill for preppers. One that a lot of people overlook.
Instant oats can be used if your low on flour.
This is the first time I've watched your channel. I've been prepping for years, and I think this was a great idea for new preppers. I especially enjoyed your sense of humor. New subscriber.
Thanks Georgette, I appreciate that. 😀
I still have around 700 pounds of rice since 2011....in mylar, in 5 gallon buckets.
That's a lot of rice.
How much did you start with?
@@brendaelrod5151 Rice and beans are pretty cheap but it's not something we use very often here at my home. So I stored a couple buckets worth of each for long-term storage and then I keep some in the pantry to use. Other than that, I don't want to get too carried away. It is a great way to get started with a little food security. It's important to know how to cook and prepare meals with it though.
@@NextStepSurvival thank you for answering. I’ve also been storing a lot of rice due to the fact that I’m Filipino and rice is part of our daily meals. I have also been canning a lot of meats. I keep thinking about grid down situations and want to store the majority of my stock shelf stable. I hope you have a great day 😊
For storms we fill the bathtubs with water. But I also purchased 2 garbage cans with lids. Be for storms I clean the cans and fill with water. Then put on lids. Make sure there are no drainage holes in the bottom or wheels to let out the water. That is 60 gal of water. Can be used for dish washing or clothes washing. Another option is a smaller kids swimming pool. Fill it so kids will have something to keep busy and cool in summer. And get a bath. Stress reliever as well. Kids feel your stress. And pool gives Parents a little break. Also little backyard picnics help.
I love that idea! As long as water is plentiful, just difficult to bring indoors, letting kids get clean while playing is brilliant. 👏 Thank you. Your water preps before a storm is smart as well.
This was the best video I've seen on how to start and organize a proper pantry :)
Thank you Lara 😊
Thank you 😊💕💛😊 Also try BBQ sauces for the meats. Have a wonderful weekend!
Yep, I canned my own last fall. 👍
You put this into a nice perspective. Won't take a lot of room for two for two people.
Yep, and it doesn't even need a bookshelf either. I just did that to display everything for the video.
Made 16 bean and ham today 🤣 easily one of my favorites to have stockpiled.
Same with ham and split pea, and red beans and rice.
Mine too. And it's super easy. I've even made it over an open fire after soaking it in river water. You know, just because. 😁
Have you tried/found the 12 bean Cajun soup mix? The regular is good but the Cajun version is what I grew up with.
You're exactly right. 💯 We love the cajun style.
@@NextStepSurvival that is a necessary skill. People have chuckled about me using my little high-altitude climbing stove in car campgrounds when others are using an open fire, electric stove, etc.
They can chuckle, and survive. I'll keep learning, and thrive. 🤷🏼♀️
And it's fun. Right? I enjoy new ways to cook different things. I plan to make off-grid bread on a future video.
You REALLY need to check servings on the dry beans and rice. You could feed an army for a MONTH.
We eat a lot. 😉 I do tend to overdue some of my preps.
@@NextStepSurvival a pound bag of beans would last a week per person. With a pound of rice. You had at least 10 pounds of rice. Planning on feeding a football team? you got plenty. However I would get more if their are dibiatic in the house to replace a meal daily with beans and rice is great to regulate blood sugar and cholesterol as well as high blood pressure.
I am not new to prepping - but I feel like I can always learn something. Oh yeah why didn't I think of that kind of thing. TFS 😊
Exactly why I watch a ton of prepping videos myself Laura, I usually pick up a thing or two. 🙂
Supper looks like you shop at my dollar general! Giggling, I get that all the time. Same brands. Hand over the spam! you can try that in a hamburger helper, it works well just dice it and heat up when cooking the noodles. If you want it browned fry it in different pan then add when you add sauce.
Wow, great idea. Spam in hamburger helper. I need to do more cooking from prep videos and add that one to it, along with the split peas and spam.
@@NextStepSurvival my kids got seconds. Mac and cheese with a can of peas and carrots and a can of diced spam was a favorite.
Your Campbells chunky soup like the steak & potato over some cooked white rice, and the pot roast over white rice is really good. Dont forget beans over rice would make for some really good meals.
Yep, there are lot of meal extenders like that. 👍
I JUST SUBSCRIBED TO YOUR CHANNEL ENJOYING WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS, IM SO OVERWHELMED AT HOW WELL YOU ARE STOCKED
Thanks, I'll probably be recording an updated pantry tour soon for 2021.
LOL i love you …. You are saying stuff that i cant say due to my job. I’m not allowed to have any political outward thoughts. You were talking about deserts.. one thing that would be easy is a can of pineapple and a box of Angel food cake mix.. just mix them and bake them together and you have a light treat. Only other thing you need is cooking spray.
Yep, desserts are fun. I think a video on SHTF desserts would be a good idea.
old fashion grits, cheese eggs, turkey bacon , wheat toast, greens, corn bread,popcorn to pop organic,, hominy,spaghetti and meat sauce, red beans and rice, salmon croquettes, salmon and rice, soups,corn beef hash. i do not eat pork. bake mac , and cheese, fruits, potatoes,couscous, chips, schweppes ginger ale,nuts, hummus, cream cheese, crackers, salads, kiwi, avocado, juices, sardines, beef chilli, coffee, pickles, relish, mayo coffee, icecream
vinegar,, butter, sugar,spices,
Appreciate the vid. I thought I was stroking out until I realized your autofocus was moving in and out!
Yeah, sorry, I need more room and a better camera.
I love Meijer 10 for 10! Great video. Definitely subscribed to your channel
Thanks Jennifer, a lot of my preps came from those 10 for 10s.
@@NextStepSurvival you can not beat that price especially getting the 11th for free
I would add hot chocolate, tea or coffee. Dollar tree has all 3 .
Your video is the best I’ve seen for newbie preppers. Thanks for your hard work!! One caution though. I noticed the EVOLVE bleach you had near your water storage. If you check their website, they say that it is NOT for water purification or human consumption. It should only be used for cleaning purposes.
Thanks for that, I'll check it out.
That’s a good looking pantry. Thanks for taking the time to share. Are you not concerned about the possibility of a few mice getting in and destroying half of your food? I’ve seen it happen to friends too many times. While simply storing your boxes of food on the shelves looks nice, it puts the food at risk for damage from rodents and water leaks. 55 gallon steel drums or something strong might help protect your food. Just a thought.
Thanks Richard, great point but it's tough to rotate food when it's deep inside drums. I've been lucky so far, I've been using the shelving racks for years without a single rodent or bug incident. I've had a few mice over the years but nothing has climbed the racks yet. It's always a risk though. Same with bugs. Either can ruin your day.
@@NextStepSurvival I completely agree. It's hard to find that balance between "ideal safe storage" and ease of rotation. I had a friend go to the beach for two weeks and when he returned, a few mice had somehow gotten in and had eaten into half of his dry goods and a few water bottles. It was a huge mess and he lost about half of his inventory. Even simple plastic 5 gallon buckets are good to resist water leaks and most rodents. I have a cache in a storage unit that I hadn't looked at in over a year. The other day, I noticed quite a few chew marks on the plastic from mice but none got through. Given enough time and determination they eventually would. I use the steel drums more for mylar bags of rice, etc. that's not rotated as often. Thanks again for all of your great videos. We really appreciate your hard work and information.
Rats bit thru my water bottles ate my dogfood and made nests from paper towels and toilet paper. It will happen. At least get rat glue traps and I do suggest at least totes and buckets.
Thanks Donna, I use all of that. I actually have a funny story about glue traps that I'll probably share eventually.
Rats don't like peppermint.
A lot of trees were cut down near me and mice got into my car on the car port. I bought peppermint flavoring and put half of the little bottle and finished with water and sprayed my car including the trunk.
I did this twice just to make sure they were gone. I now do this the first of the month to be on the safe side.
It's good to prep for any possible scenario,... hyper inflation being at the top of my list. I think we're already seeing that.
Absolutely. I agree 💯
Nice ideas.💖💖💖💖👍💖💖💖💖👏💯🤗🍀🌏
Where’s the best place to buy shelves/bakers racks, I ended up getting a 5 shelving heavy duty rack that you might find in a garage, $36.00 from Menards
I bought mine from Walmart, Amazon and Target over the years. I just added a rack when I needed on. Anything that works for you will work. Many preppers don't have a single rack. It's just what works best for you.
They renamed aunt jemima Pearl Milling 👍
Thanks, I'm glad they didn't stop making it.
I use the Wendy Dewitt program. I make a meal plan for for 7 days x it by 52 weeks.
There's a name I haven't heard in awhile. It's basically the same plan, the same math just another way of stating it. 7 different meals of 26 each equals six months (52 equals a year). I generally break mine down to seven different proteins and then add in a starch and vegetable to each plus a breakfast and lunch.
Great video thanks! I recently posted a video on the same topic (at the top of my channel page). I share 5 tips to kickstart your prepper pantry & 3 beginner mistakes that could have been avoided. Happy prepping!
Nice video and thanks for sharing it. I subbed and look forward to more. 🙂
I'd stretch that canned meat out with gravy over rice or noodles.
Exactly, we think a lot alike. The beans too. I have a lot of all three in mylar and call it food extenders. 🙂
Males need to note that the cook( usually a female) put COMPLEATE MEALS TOGETHER
They dont pull out meat for a week and stack it together. They pull out 1 protein a vegetable or two a fruit, dairy and a bread starch( like noodles) and everything is together so their is no hunting for items.
Also snacks aregrouped together with what their used with the peanut butter and jelly needs a box of crackers or a shelf stable bread, ( a box mix would do) also a random shelf of canned vegetables is a little odd unless its all the same thing. Most families will have a single vegetable served with specifically meal. Like green beans is always served with spaghetti.
Using more single serving foods is more useful in a power outage. And you showed nothing on ways to cook the food. Canned goods can be heat and serve. ALL BREAKFAST YOU SHOWED REQUIRE COOKING. ( dollar general has sausage gravey in a can. Can be eaten cold and yummy) i like salmon in small cans boneless and skinless. Can be eaten cold. If your not gonna show an easy method of cooking in a power out WHY ARE YOU SHOWING FOOD THAT REQUIRES COOKING . Dry beans and rice require cooking. ( Smaller beans like lentils, black eye peas take less time and water to cook than pintos or chic peas)and in emergency canned beans are better even if more expensive. No cooking required only a can opener and a spoon.
Im in public housing and in the last 15 years my power goes out regularly.
I love that you have thought things through for your situation. That's important.
This was a video on starting a pantry. Not a blackout cook kit. Look around my channel, and you will find videos on cooking from the pantry.
Every SHTF event doesn't mean no electricity or water, but we prep for those. I try to show options. If someone prefers green beans with pasta, they can store those.
I wouldn't assume that 'most' people prefer a particular meal plan over another. Just as I wouldn't assume the female does the cooking. My idea of a working pantry doesn't assume there's no electricity, water, or gas, and it doesn't group everything into ready to eat meals. We rotate these pantry items into our daily lives and have built it up as we went. Today, we have well over a year's supply of food. But you do what works best for you. There's no one solution for all. The important thing is that you're planning for potential emergencies.
Your shelves are a mess, everything just crammed in. Although, you made good choices in food products.
LOL You understand that I just loaded those shelves up to show how to start with a 2 week supply, don't you? You think that's my pantry?
If there are woman in the house, feminine products. DO 4 BO...
💯 Absolutely. Great point.
Muslim, so no pork.
Thw beauty of the personal prepper pantry. We stock it for ourselves and family. No one gets to decide for us. Way better than expensive packages.