This is how I was raised. We rarely ever went to the store & never ate out. It was a wonderful childhood & your children will have fond memories of the life you have created for them. God Bless.
Yes this was the way I was raised also - never ate out either -- never seen a cereal box on our table either ♥️ homemade everything ♥️ and yes I had a wonderful childhood also - building a fire outside to heat up water for bathing - washing- canning - ringer washer - and as soon as I could reach the close line my job was to hang out the clothes and gather back in
I have been participating in this challenge from the beginning. I was going to do a huge grocery hall on the last day of December but following your advice I refrained. Now my fridge is getting more and more sparse. And I am emptying my canning jars daily. I am so proud of myself and my husband. I had him pick up sliced cheese for his lunches last night. But I don’t feel bad about having him do that because normally I would have had him pick up a whole list of things. I love this challenge, it is my first year participating.
When I was a girl we could hardly wait for summer to have fresh tomatoes and corn and beans. The rest of the year we ate canned veg and fruit. And then in the fifties frozen food became available….if you had a freezer. 😊 And we survived and thrived.
I grew up on a farm eating seasonally. I have a degree in home economics I got in Germany many years ago, so what you were talking about wasn’t new to me, but you worded is so well! It was a joy to watch someone on TH-cam who actually knew what they were talking about. It is clear you do a lot of research and thank you for encouraging others to do the same.
Perspective is everything - thanks for the in-depth look at what I need to know. Found so many new sites from this challenge and thanks for doing this! At 75, I need to learn a new way of preparing my food and this helps so much. I love to garden (tiny garden) and preserve (can, dehydrate, etc.) and since my daughter shares her family meals with me, it is not necessary, just wanting to learn and share with her, also. I'm following this challenge to learn new ways of using the food I've preserved and what else I can grow to help out. I love the idea of sharing some of my garden with another family! Finding many holes in my stocking and errors on ways to stock up. Too much of one thing and not enough of another - so much to learn but this challenge is so informative AND fun!
Hi Mary, I just want to encourage you on your way, and recommend keeping a notebook of your gardening and preserving. It's so useful when the same season comes round next year and you wish you could remember what you did last time, and it's also a lovely experience to look back over a whole year's worth of notes and see everything you've accomplished, and use it to plan the next year!
@@sabineottala3588 great recommendation - as a retired CPA, I still LOVE keeping records! But the satisfaction of reviewing old records to see what I had accomplished is a huge encouragement. Thanks for your reply as my memory keeps getting less and less, I do need to (not just to enjoy) keep those records.
I have been doing the pantry challenge along with you. I didn’t realize how much food I had in my pantry and freezers. I was thinking that because I was eating home canned fruits and vegetables I wasn’t eating very nutritious. You have given me a different perspective on “vegetables “ from the grocery store. Thank you so much for that. I have a sprouter and am going to start some today as well as salad greens for my greenhouse. Thank you from an Oregon coast subscriber. 💖
Thank you for sharing a little of what you eat. My son is very sick with Crohn's disease and my heart is breaking for him . If you can add him to your prayers Thank you
We were brought up this way. My dad would stop at the farmers market and mom would have everything put up the next day. Her canned goods were beautiful, tasty, and healthy. We had a large family and I know that helped the food budget. My mom canned, my grandmothers canned and my great grandmothers canned. It was a way to have healthy food year-round.
You covered this so gracefully!! ❤️ People haven't been so kind in the comments lately but you responded with grace, knowing they don't know about how food really gets onto our tables. I so respect you. Also, been meaning to make sprouts again- my son will literally bring his own money to the farmers market to buy sprouts and happily munch on them on the way out. They are so expensive there but so easy to grow!! Also... he's six and just happy to have his own money he can "treat" himself with once in awhile lol. Another fresh thing we have right now is basil! I overwintered a plant from this summer in the house and it's doing great! So we got some fresh basil on pizza the other night. It's not nearly enough for pesto or anything but that's a big enough win here. Other than that... Not much you can get "fresh" in MN in the winter. We're grateful for our winter CSA to keep going for another month or so as well (almost all of that is storage crops but I'm glad to support a great farm that stores them better than me!).
If anyone is interested, One yard revolution is a great channel documenting growing year around in a northern climate. I haven’t seen anything new from him in a long time, but his old videos are priceless in teaching these principles.
Good discussion. One of my daughters has that mind set that raw is the same as fresh, I think I'll send her this video. Also I'm having a lot of fun with this challenge, almost two weeks and going stong.
A good discussion, my daughter and I enjoy these kind of logic conversations about walking through what a seasonal diet looks like and why for where we are. We like to talk about items that are inherently long distance ( coffee or cane sugar for instance) it’s nice to hear your perspective.
I’m having a good time sorting through my pantry and freezers, “discovering” lost or forgotten items, and incorporating them into our meals. We are also focused on not eating out, so this has been a great opportunity for us to be more mindful of what and how we are eating in general. Thanks for your ideas!!
I wish I could live like this. It was my dream when I retired to live on a homestead. However, divorce happened after 41 years. And I will never retire and live off the land. But, I'm happy to watch people live my dream for me. Can't wait for Sunday to see how you and the family ate this week.
Great video! I love food and anthropology and thinking about how humans have eaten historically. I totally agree with all of your points. And fed is best, period.
For people who, for whatever reason, don't grow a garden I think you can feel confident buying frozen veg and canned too. Many of these veggies are in a can or flash frozen within hours of being picked. Good video as usual :)
Yes!! Paul.. 🤔 Paul Gautschi (I believe this is how its spelled) he has many TH-cam videos called Back to Eden.. and he explains this as well. We have been using his technique for gardening the past year and haven't ever had a better harvest! Thank you for this Jessica! We are loving the three rivers challenge and my viewers seem to be loving it as well!! So much fun!
That’s a great explanation fresh vs raw and the nutrient content. I wish people understood more about how the supermarkets keep their food and how ‘old’ some of the ‘fresh’ food really is. I’m looking forward to Sundays video- I’ve been joining in this years challenge over on insta. Making fresh bread every day and finishing up the last of the ‘fresh’ produce, lettuce, carrots and cucumbers this week, so next week will need much more planning, but I’m excited to use our freezer and stock cupboard/pantry. xx
Having a good time with this challange. We are finding new ways to use what we have. It is also giving us ideas of new things to grow this year and what we need much less of.
I agree with you! They were not shipping items in the dead of winter for most of history of mankind! The items you have stored in your cold pantry are wonderful for consuming! Your canned goods are amazing as well. Growing lettuces or greens when you can in your area is good as well. I do agree that some of the shipped goods in winter to our stores don’t even taste like real food!! I don’t believe the nutrition is there either. I am in awe of how non-wasteful you live; using everything possible! The chickens benefit too. I learn from you too. Blessings and keep videos coming. It encourages me to be a better person for my family!
Sarah, at Living Traditions Homestead, mentioned your challenge. I'm doing it - don't have a TH-cam channel or Instagram account - but I'm doing it! I sort of did it in December because Covid knocked me down for three weeks or more, and that went well. December 31 I bought about $15 worth of groceries to restock, so I'm pretty well set for the challenge. Who knows, I might try to go longer!
Great information. I bet you made a lot of people stop and think about their grocery store food. I started our winter sprouts the last week in December. We go through about a quart jar a week. I only put a tablespoon of sprouts in a quart jar. I could never have 3! I did use a half-gallon jar one time for more. It worked great, but the 2 of us couldn't eat it fast enough. I like to set a canning ring in the bottom of my draining bowl to keep the sprouting jar from sitting in the stinky drained seed water. I also make sure to rinse the seeds 2 times daily. My favorite way to eat the sprouts is in a bowl with a little salt. It tastes so much like radish that the salt makes it the same as eating a fresh radish from the garden. Blessing for a wonderful weekend. After tomorrow we may have 10" of fresh snow & 35-40 mph winds. That won't be fun to deal with. I think I'll be hunkering in for the next couple of days. 💚🌞
This all makes so much sense. God knew what we needed when he created the seasons. Thanks for the sprout tutorial, I hope to try that soon! God bless you and your family. 💓
Love the knowledge that you share with us. It is my first year of the pantry challenge, and am learning so much from your videos and coming up with improvised recipe that my husband loves and are now adding to out meal plans. We havent gone to the store yet, feels a little wierd yet so satisfying that what we have is being used up, and am searching sites for more old fashioned recipes. Last night I used a bone broth cube that I froze to add flavor to my veggie stir fry & rice and was such a great addition. Thank you so much for sharing your knowlege, family and wisdom with us. God bless.
Good Morning Jessica! Your videos are such a blessing to me. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I guess I am lucky to live in Coastal Virginia (most years) my broccoli and cauliflower were just taken out by temps in the mid 20's. But the spinach and lettuce did much better under a few layer of frost covers.
Thank you so much. I'm so glad I found the "Canuary" all the great recipes are giving me new ideas - new at canning, so am excited with all this. Never too old (68) to learn new things, methods, etc. Love it all so far. Pat
Always dropping truth! Thanks for addressing this incredibly common misconception about fresh versus raw produce at the grocery store. I'm so grateful for you and your channels.
We are lucky here in Central Texas, Austin. The fall once it gets cool and winter provide us so many garden fresh veggies either from our garden or the SFC Farmers Market. The summers are as brutal for us as winters for you. We have all types of lettuces, greens, carrots, radishes, beets, turnips, herbs, multiplier onions, the we are enjoying. Joy Giles
We love integrating fresh seasonal eating into our meal plans. We are also huge advocates of canning and preservation. Thanks for all your encouragement!
I worry about people using up their pantry items up due to your challenge. Its great to post a pantry meal to share ideas but use yor oldest items. We may not have choices soon if things get continually crazy. Please use this time to prepare even more. Admire your determination, courage, and values.💖
It is so encouraging to hear this perspective. I am so excited, this challenge has helped me use up pantry items, for sure, but this bigger idea of eating seasonally is worth more research on my part and I am ready to dig in to that idea. Thank you for your videos!!
I’ve been enjoying this challenge! My freezer and pantry were overflowing so this was a great opportunity to use things up before we start growing again.
I have been joining you on this challenge and it has provided me great insight into our family's eating habits. I has made us purposeful in our meal planning. Thank you for continuing to bless us all with your perspective. We appreciate you!
I’m doing a frozen meat and vegetable challenge. I need to clean out my freezers before I lose it to freezer burn. I do have lots of canned meats and veggies as well though I’m not including that in the challenge since it lasts years.
All really excellent points. I would guess (and have read) that food picked and frozen or otherwise preserved on the same day is actually higher in nutrients than produce from the grocery store in winter. Another option is to look for local farmers who have greenhouses where you can source some of your food. (When not doing the pantry challenge of course). Also, you know what is on your food...so much of the produce in the grocery store is laden with chemicals and pesticides. The other thing that people need to think about is their animal protein source. You are using far superior animal protein in your own home-raised animals - or in the case of your pig, locally farm-raised animal. Aside from the horrors of factory farming and the terrible suffering the animals endure, they are not fed well and are often pumped with hormones and antibiotics and pesticide-laden foods, not to mention the stress hormones of having endured life and slaughter on a factory farm, which humans ingest as well....in addition to the environmental effects of factory farming. And then the fact that all your food is from scratch. I would say your family's nutrition is far superior than most.
Thank you for putting this information out there and presenting it in a well thought out argument. I couldn't agree more! Can't wait to take part next year!
First time doing the challenge and I’m enjoying it. I’m trying new recipes to use what I have. I didn’t grocery shop prior to the challenge. Halfway thru and it’s going great. I did give myself a $20 budget for the month. Small but so far I haven’t needed to use it. Fantastic info and information.
JESSICA! You are such an inspiration, thank you so much for sharing! This is our first year with the #Threeriverschallenge and we have tried so many new and different recipes and we are LOVING it ♥️. Great topic.
I love all the informations you are teaching us! I'm a public teacher myself and my goal is to teach "real life values " to my daughter so she can make her own decisions growing up. In my heart I will have given her the tools for her to make a advised choice. Thank you so much for being you! Marie
Great video. Thanks for explaining difference between fresh and raw. When I do sprouts, I don't do any more than 1.5 TBLS of that mix per jar. Less chance for mold. I just have 2 jars going at a time, if I need that much sprouts. 😁
Absolutely loved this. I’ve questioned the nutrition of preserved foods (store or home) and I really thank you for sharing this. It is so true, and things I know but tend to think too myopically about, I suppose. You’re a soothing wealth of knowledge.
I love hearing your perspective. We buy a local winter share where we get potatoes, carrots, rutabaga, garlic, beets etc once every two weeks. It is affordable and it forces us to eat seasonally December - March. It has changed our perspective of what is fresh produce. So much healthier than eating tomatoes in January in Massachusetts.
As usual, excellent video. Very in depth and lovingly said too. Great point about cautioning with sprouts getting mould, here we definitely have to be mindful of that. I only grow in winter now. 💜💜
Love how you explained it. Not many people know canning preserves nutrient. Only fruit we eat mostly are apples we already have from fall and oranges which are in season right now in California
Thank you for this great video. It really puts things into perspective. We didn't have a homestead growing up but half of our backyard was garden veggies and herbs (the other half was flowers for my mother). We would harvest and freeze our veggies and we would also go smelt fishing and put a few bushels in the freezer as well. I live in apartment currently and grow a few things on the balcony but I'm looking to branch out this spring with a few new additions. I loved your sprout growing tutorial, too!
I did not plan to doing the pantry challenge. But we are participating for the next 2 months. I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little nervous 😓. Thank you for all the meal ideas.
Thank you so much for posting this video! I needed this to gain a better perspective on nutrition as I will be starting my canning/preserving journey this growing season. Love your channel!
Very well said! So far my pantry challenge is going well for a first time. I am on Keto so I hope to go as long as I can with what I have. I really see the value in this. Love your videos. God Bless you and family.
Absolutely! I have a degree in nutrition science and frozen veggies retain quite a lot of nutrients! I pack my freezer with kale and chard before the season is over and enjoy it all winter. Hoping to experiment with a cold frame/polytunnel for winter greens...we are pretty much in the same boat with our climate next door to you in Indiana!
I wish I could give this video more thumbs up or a gold star or something. We'll done! I know you have mentioned in the past, but I will add here, that when you can veg the nutrients lost to the preserving process are still in the water so you can recoup those nutrients by using that water ie in soups and sauces.
I have to have fresh salad ingredients. I love lettuce and greens. That fresh cold crunch is my favorite. If I lived in an area like yours ( I'm originally from the north east but now live in the south west) I would have an indoor hydroponic garden for those ingredients. Thanks for the explanation. I really enjoyed seeing the sprouting of the seeds. Have a good day ! 🥰❄☃☔🌞🏜✝💗🥰❄☃☔🌞🏜✝💗🥰❄☃☔🌞🏜✝💗
Thank you for this video. I have lived in remote areas for the. Past almost thirty years. We live up in northern BC so growing food during the winter has not been possible. We only normally go to the grocery store every couple months, so eating. Frozen or canned is what we do. Yes at times I would like a salad but you get use to it. Thank you for this video, it is great
I do miss strawberries and blueberries during the winter, but they are so expensive. I eat a lot of them during the summer. My mom makes the best applesauce and cans it that I eat during the winter time along with canned pears, and peaches. I bought a pressure canner to do my own canning this summer and I’m excited to try it. Previously I have just froze everything, but my freezer is quickly running out of space.
we leave our sprouts in the dark the first few days until the little leaves grow then we put it in light. Keeping them in the dark to avoid bad bacteria or whatnot. Also I just use my regular cooking lentils to make sprouts
I was raised eating more seasonal foods & homemade fresh ground wheat for bread etc. This is what we try to do here in Whitehorse Yukon. It is impossible to get "fresh" produce here in the winter. Frozen is definitely more nutritious. I also make my own greens powder through the summer to use through the winter. It adds a nutritional boost & we even mix it with water in the morning
I so agree ! When you go to supermarkets and see apples in the winter or spring, then they have been stored for months. Consumers have really mostly lost the reflex to think "How strange - tomatoes in january" because so few people, proportionally, garden.
I am interested in your homemade mayonnaise recipe! We would love to start making more homemade/healthy options for food. Thank you so much for your channel. I have learned so much. Great work!
I've been eating my homegrown spaghetti squash (I froze ) with my homegrown canned pasts sauce this week. Haven't shopped since Dec 21 and we are doing fine.
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This is how I was raised. We rarely ever went to the store & never ate out. It was a wonderful childhood & your children will have fond memories of the life you have created for them. God Bless.
Amen 🙏🙏🕊Janie D
Yes this was the way I was raised also - never ate out either -- never seen a cereal box on our table either ♥️ homemade everything ♥️ and yes I had a wonderful childhood also - building a fire outside to heat up water for bathing - washing- canning - ringer washer - and as soon as I could reach the close line my job was to hang out the clothes and gather back in
I have been participating in this challenge from the beginning. I was going to do a huge grocery hall on the last day of December but following your advice I refrained. Now my fridge is getting more and more sparse. And I am emptying my canning jars daily. I am so proud of myself and my husband. I had him pick up sliced cheese for his lunches last night. But I don’t feel bad about having him do that because normally I would have had him pick up a whole list of things. I love this challenge, it is my first year participating.
When I was a girl we could hardly wait for summer to have fresh tomatoes and corn and beans. The rest of the year we ate canned veg and fruit. And then in the fifties frozen food became available….if you had a freezer. 😊 And we survived and thrived.
I feel this is why God gave us pines in the winter. They never loose all their needles and steeped is a great vitamin c source 😀💜 It's also "fresh!"😜
I grew up on a farm eating seasonally. I have a degree in home economics I got in Germany many years ago, so what you were talking about wasn’t new to me, but you worded is so well! It was a joy to watch someone on TH-cam who actually knew what they were talking about. It is clear you do a lot of research and thank you for encouraging others to do the same.
Perspective is everything - thanks for the in-depth look at what I need to know. Found so many new sites from this challenge and thanks for doing this! At 75, I need to learn a new way of preparing my food and this helps so much. I love to garden (tiny garden) and preserve (can, dehydrate, etc.) and since my daughter shares her family meals with me, it is not necessary, just wanting to learn and share with her, also. I'm following this challenge to learn new ways of using the food I've preserved and what else I can grow to help out. I love the idea of sharing some of my garden with another family! Finding many holes in my stocking and errors on ways to stock up. Too much of one thing and not enough of another - so much to learn but this challenge is so informative AND fun!
Hi Mary, I just want to encourage you on your way, and recommend keeping a notebook of your gardening and preserving. It's so useful when the same season comes round next year and you wish you could remember what you did last time, and it's also a lovely experience to look back over a whole year's worth of notes and see everything you've accomplished, and use it to plan the next year!
@@sabineottala3588 great recommendation - as a retired CPA, I still LOVE keeping records! But the satisfaction of reviewing old records to see what I had accomplished is a huge encouragement. Thanks for your reply as my memory keeps getting less and less, I do need to (not just to enjoy) keep those records.
I have been doing the pantry challenge along with you. I didn’t realize how much food I had in my pantry and freezers. I was thinking that because I was eating home canned fruits and vegetables I wasn’t eating very nutritious. You have given me a different perspective on “vegetables “ from the grocery store. Thank you so much for that. I have a sprouter and am going to start some today as well as salad greens for my greenhouse. Thank you from an Oregon coast subscriber. 💖
Thank you for sharing a little of what you eat. My son is very sick with Crohn's disease and my heart is breaking for him . If you can add him to your prayers Thank you
We were brought up this way. My dad would stop at the farmers market and mom would have everything put up the next day. Her canned goods were beautiful, tasty, and healthy. We had a large family and I know that helped the food budget. My mom canned, my grandmothers canned and my great grandmothers canned. It was a way to have healthy food year-round.
I LOVE this "fresh" message. Thanks for the paradigm shift!
You covered this so gracefully!! ❤️ People haven't been so kind in the comments lately but you responded with grace, knowing they don't know about how food really gets onto our tables. I so respect you.
Also, been meaning to make sprouts again- my son will literally bring his own money to the farmers market to buy sprouts and happily munch on them on the way out. They are so expensive there but so easy to grow!! Also... he's six and just happy to have his own money he can "treat" himself with once in awhile lol.
Another fresh thing we have right now is basil! I overwintered a plant from this summer in the house and it's doing great! So we got some fresh basil on pizza the other night. It's not nearly enough for pesto or anything but that's a big enough win here. Other than that... Not much you can get "fresh" in MN in the winter. We're grateful for our winter CSA to keep going for another month or so as well (almost all of that is storage crops but I'm glad to support a great farm that stores them better than me!).
If anyone is interested, One yard revolution is a great channel documenting growing year around in a northern climate. I haven’t seen anything new from him in a long time, but his old videos are priceless in teaching these principles.
Good discussion. One of my daughters has that mind set that raw is the same as fresh, I think I'll send her this video. Also I'm having a lot of fun with this challenge, almost two weeks and going stong.
You explained all of that incredibly well! You have such a gift with words and teaching ❤️
A good discussion, my daughter and I enjoy these kind of logic conversations about walking through what a seasonal diet looks like and why for where we are. We like to talk about items that are inherently long distance ( coffee or cane sugar for instance) it’s nice to hear your perspective.
I’m having a good time sorting through my pantry and freezers, “discovering” lost or forgotten items, and incorporating them into our meals. We are also focused on not eating out, so this has been a great opportunity for us to be more mindful of what and how we are eating in general. Thanks for your ideas!!
I wish I could live like this. It was my dream when I retired to live on a homestead. However, divorce happened after 41 years. And I will never retire and live off the land. But, I'm happy to watch people live my dream for me. Can't wait for Sunday to see how you and the family ate this week.
Great video! I love food and anthropology and thinking about how humans have eaten historically. I totally agree with all of your points. And fed is best, period.
For people who, for whatever reason, don't grow a garden I think you can feel confident buying frozen veg and canned too. Many of these veggies are in a can or flash frozen within hours of being picked. Good video as usual :)
Yes!! Paul.. 🤔 Paul Gautschi (I believe this is how its spelled) he has many TH-cam videos called Back to Eden.. and he explains this as well. We have been using his technique for gardening the past year and haven't ever had a better harvest! Thank you for this Jessica! We are loving the three rivers challenge and my viewers seem to be loving it as well!! So much fun!
That’s a great explanation fresh vs raw and the nutrient content. I wish people understood more about how the supermarkets keep their food and how ‘old’ some of the ‘fresh’ food really is.
I’m looking forward to Sundays video- I’ve been joining in this years challenge over on insta. Making fresh bread every day and finishing up the last of the ‘fresh’ produce, lettuce, carrots and cucumbers this week, so next week will need much more planning, but I’m excited to use our freezer and stock cupboard/pantry. xx
Wise woman!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Having a good time with this challange. We are finding new ways to use what we have. It is also giving us ideas of new things to grow this year and what we need much less of.
Such great info, thank you for explaining the difference between fresh and raw produce and Nutrient dense foods.
Thanks for starting this challenge! I am having fun participating, and following along with you and some of the others.
I agree with you! They were not shipping items in the dead of winter for most of history of mankind! The items you have stored in your cold pantry are wonderful for consuming! Your canned goods are amazing as well. Growing lettuces or greens when you can in your area is good as well. I do agree that some of the shipped goods in winter to our stores don’t even taste like real food!! I don’t believe the nutrition is there either. I am in awe of how non-wasteful you live; using everything possible! The chickens benefit too. I learn from you too. Blessings and keep videos coming. It encourages me to be a better person for my family!
Sarah, at Living Traditions Homestead, mentioned your challenge. I'm doing it - don't have a TH-cam channel or Instagram account - but I'm doing it! I sort of did it in December because Covid knocked me down for three weeks or more, and that went well. December 31 I bought about $15 worth of groceries to restock, so I'm pretty well set for the challenge. Who knows, I might try to go longer!
Great information. I bet you made a lot of people stop and think about their grocery store food. I started our winter sprouts the last week in December. We go through about a quart jar a week. I only put a tablespoon of sprouts in a quart jar. I could never have 3! I did use a half-gallon jar one time for more. It worked great, but the 2 of us couldn't eat it fast enough. I like to set a canning ring in the bottom of my draining bowl to keep the sprouting jar from sitting in the stinky drained seed water. I also make sure to rinse the seeds 2 times daily. My favorite way to eat the sprouts is in a bowl with a little salt. It tastes so much like radish that the salt makes it the same as eating a fresh radish from the garden. Blessing for a wonderful weekend. After tomorrow we may have 10" of fresh snow & 35-40 mph winds. That won't be fun to deal with. I think I'll be hunkering in for the next couple of days. 💚🌞
That sounds wonderful. I think I will try a half gallon as we have a lot of kiddos. I think they would like them on their tacos each week.
I'm so enjoying this challenge. I've learned so much about myself in these short 13 days. Thank you for continuing to offer support and guidance.
Excellent points I had never thought of before. Thank you!!
This all makes so much sense. God knew what we needed when he created the seasons. Thanks for the sprout tutorial, I hope to try that soon! God bless you and your family. 💓
Perfect timing….just got my sprout seeds yesterday
Love the knowledge that you share with us. It is my first year of the pantry challenge, and am learning so much from your videos and coming up with improvised recipe that my husband loves and are now adding to out meal plans. We havent gone to the store yet, feels a little wierd yet so satisfying that what we have is being used up, and am searching sites for more old fashioned recipes. Last night I used a bone broth cube that I froze to add flavor to my veggie stir fry & rice and was such a great addition. Thank you so much for sharing your knowlege, family and wisdom with us. God bless.
Good Morning Jessica! Your videos are such a blessing to me. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I guess I am lucky to live in Coastal Virginia (most years) my broccoli and cauliflower were just taken out by temps in the mid 20's. But the spinach and lettuce did much better under a few layer of frost covers.
Thank you so much. I'm so glad I found the "Canuary" all the great recipes are giving me new ideas - new at canning, so am excited with all this. Never too old (68) to learn new things, methods, etc. Love it all so far. Pat
Always dropping truth! Thanks for addressing this incredibly common misconception about fresh versus raw produce at the grocery store. I'm so grateful for you and your channels.
We are lucky here in Central Texas, Austin. The fall once it gets cool and winter provide us so many garden fresh veggies either from our garden or the SFC Farmers Market. The summers are as brutal for us as winters for you. We have all types of lettuces, greens, carrots, radishes, beets, turnips, herbs, multiplier onions, the we are enjoying. Joy Giles
Thanks for for the food education. Fresh. Is a relative term with different meanings to different people evidentially.
Living in Ontario, Canada I am very thankful I have a full pantry of home preserved foods to eat from. So very thankful for your videos.
We love integrating fresh seasonal eating into our meal plans. We are also huge advocates of canning and preservation. Thanks for all your encouragement!
I worry about people using up their pantry items up due to your challenge. Its great to post a pantry meal to share ideas but use yor oldest items. We may not have choices soon if things get continually crazy. Please use this time to prepare even more. Admire your determination, courage, and values.💖
This is good preparation - learning how to live on less. I did a whole video on this topic.
It is so encouraging to hear this perspective. I am so excited, this challenge has helped me use up pantry items, for sure, but this bigger idea of eating seasonally is worth more research on my part and I am ready to dig in to that idea. Thank you for your videos!!
Thank you for sharing. I respect and agree with your thoughts.
I’ve been enjoying this challenge! My freezer and pantry were overflowing so this was a great opportunity to use things up before we start growing again.
Amen! Thank you. What’s in the jar is also free of extra sodium and random preservatives; hands down healthier.
I was thinking yesterday how I need to get my sprouting seeds going. So glad you made this video.
Very well spoken. Thank you. I keep procrastinating on doing sprouts and I need to get started on them.
Great information Jessica, thank you
I have been joining you on this challenge and it has provided me great insight into our family's eating habits. I has made us purposeful in our meal planning. Thank you for continuing to bless us all with your perspective. We appreciate you!
Simple concept, you did a good job explaining. You can tell your truly a teacher. 😉
Thank you for clarifying the difference between fresh and raw foods. and seasonal eating! The sprouts are something I may be trying soon.
I’m doing a frozen meat and vegetable challenge. I need to clean out my freezers before I lose it to freezer burn. I do have lots of canned meats and veggies as well though I’m not including that in the challenge since it lasts years.
All really excellent points. I would guess (and have read) that food picked and frozen or otherwise preserved on the same day is actually higher in nutrients than produce from the grocery store in winter. Another option is to look for local farmers who have greenhouses where you can source some of your food. (When not doing the pantry challenge of course). Also, you know what is on your food...so much of the produce in the grocery store is laden with chemicals and pesticides. The other thing that people need to think about is their animal protein source. You are using far superior animal protein in your own home-raised animals - or in the case of your pig, locally farm-raised animal. Aside from the horrors of factory farming and the terrible suffering the animals endure, they are not fed well and are often pumped with hormones and antibiotics and pesticide-laden foods, not to mention the stress hormones of having endured life and slaughter on a factory farm, which humans ingest as well....in addition to the environmental effects of factory farming. And then the fact that all your food is from scratch. I would say your family's nutrition is far superior than most.
Thank you for putting this information out there and presenting it in a well thought out argument. I couldn't agree more! Can't wait to take part next year!
First time doing the challenge and I’m enjoying it. I’m trying new recipes to use what I have. I didn’t grocery shop prior to the challenge. Halfway thru and it’s going great. I did give myself a $20 budget for the month. Small but so far I haven’t needed to use it. Fantastic info and information.
JESSICA! You are such an inspiration, thank you so much for sharing! This is our first year with the #Threeriverschallenge and we have tried so many new and different recipes and we are LOVING it ♥️. Great topic.
I love all the informations you are teaching us! I'm a public teacher myself and my goal is to teach "real life values " to my daughter so she can make her own decisions growing up. In my heart I will have given her the tools for her to make a advised choice. Thank you so much for being you! Marie
Great video. Thanks for explaining difference between fresh and raw. When I do sprouts, I don't do any more than 1.5 TBLS of that mix per jar. Less chance for mold. I just have 2 jars going at a time, if I need that much sprouts. 😁
Thank you I learn so much from you!
Absolutely loved this. I’ve questioned the nutrition of preserved foods (store or home) and I really thank you for sharing this. It is so true, and things I know but tend to think too myopically about, I suppose. You’re a soothing wealth of knowledge.
Absolutely love this topic and you explained it very well!
I love hearing your perspective. We buy a local winter share where we get potatoes, carrots, rutabaga, garlic, beets etc once every two weeks. It is affordable and it forces us to eat seasonally December - March. It has changed our perspective of what is fresh produce. So much healthier than eating tomatoes in January in Massachusetts.
Very helpful! Thanks Jessica ❤️
My mom was not into cooking, though we did eat fairly wholesome because she was thrifty. I love cooking and I really love your channel.
As usual, excellent video. Very in depth and lovingly said too. Great point about cautioning with sprouts getting mould, here we definitely have to be mindful of that. I only grow in winter now. 💜💜
Love how you explained it. Not many people know canning preserves nutrient. Only fruit we eat mostly are apples we already have from fall and oranges which are in season right now in California
This is a great video. I've been preaching this for years. 👍🙂
Thank you for this great video. It really puts things into perspective. We didn't have a homestead growing up but half of our backyard was garden veggies and herbs (the other half was flowers for my mother). We would harvest and freeze our veggies and we would also go smelt fishing and put a few bushels in the freezer as well. I live in apartment currently and grow a few things on the balcony but I'm looking to branch out this spring with a few new additions. I loved your sprout growing tutorial, too!
I did not plan to doing the pantry challenge. But we are participating for the next 2 months. I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little nervous 😓. Thank you for all the meal ideas.
Thank you so much for posting this video! I needed this to gain a better perspective on nutrition as I will be starting my canning/preserving journey this growing season. Love your channel!
Great video. Thank you for all the great points you made.
Wow Jessica I love this idea of growing sprouts!! That would be great for us up here in Canada!! 😊
I genuinely can’t imagine someone looking at the way you feed you’re family and thinking that’s not the ideal healthy option
Very well said! So far my pantry challenge is going well for a first time. I am on Keto so I hope to go as long as I can with what I have. I really see the value in this. Love your videos. God Bless you and family.
Absolutely! I have a degree in nutrition science and frozen veggies retain quite a lot of nutrients! I pack my freezer with kale and chard before the season is over and enjoy it all winter. Hoping to experiment with a cold frame/polytunnel for winter greens...we are pretty much in the same boat with our climate next door to you in Indiana!
We just started sprouting lentils to add freshness to our food. My kids love them!
I think you guys eat great. This was a good discussion on people's point of view on what they consider fresh.
I wish I could give this video more thumbs up or a gold star or something. We'll done! I know you have mentioned in the past, but I will add here, that when you can veg the nutrients lost to the preserving process are still in the water so you can recoup those nutrients by using that water ie in soups and sauces.
I have to have fresh salad ingredients. I love lettuce and greens. That fresh cold crunch is my favorite. If I lived in an area like yours ( I'm originally from the north east but now live in the south west) I would have an indoor hydroponic garden for those ingredients. Thanks for the explanation. I really enjoyed seeing the sprouting of the seeds. Have a good day ! 🥰❄☃☔🌞🏜✝💗🥰❄☃☔🌞🏜✝💗🥰❄☃☔🌞🏜✝💗
Thank you for this video. I have lived in remote areas for the. Past almost thirty years. We live up in northern BC so growing food during the winter has not been possible. We only normally go to the grocery store every couple months, so eating. Frozen or canned is what we do. Yes at times I would like a salad but you get use to it. Thank you for this video, it is great
I do miss strawberries and blueberries during the winter, but they are so expensive. I eat a lot of them during the summer. My mom makes the best applesauce and cans it that I eat during the winter time along with canned pears, and peaches. I bought a pressure canner to do my own canning this summer and I’m excited to try it. Previously I have just froze everything, but my freezer is quickly running out of space.
I love listening to you! Very interesting topic and you explained it so well, thank you for sharing this ❤️👏
we leave our sprouts in the dark the first few days until the little leaves grow then we put it in light. Keeping them in the dark to avoid bad bacteria or whatnot. Also I just use my regular cooking lentils to make sprouts
Meanwhile the people giving you grief about “fresh” food are commenting on this while they sit in a drive-through 🤣
I was raised eating more seasonal foods & homemade fresh ground wheat for bread etc. This is what we try to do here in Whitehorse Yukon. It is impossible to get "fresh" produce here in the winter. Frozen is definitely more nutritious. I also make my own greens powder through the summer to use through the winter. It adds a nutritional boost & we even mix it with water in the morning
I’m from Ohio and this is so true, I lived 3 miles from Lake Erie and you can’t grow anything. I agree 100% with this.
I'm enjoying the pantry experience. Just started Jan 10th
Many many words of wisdom.. BLESSINGS 💞
Love your videos. So practical and helpful. Thank you
I so agree ! When you go to supermarkets and see apples in the winter or spring, then they have been stored for months. Consumers have really mostly lost the reflex to think "How strange - tomatoes in january" because so few people, proportionally, garden.
Thank u that was very helpful for me & I live in California
Thank you.
Thanks for sharing and God’s blessings for you and all your family
In Alaska none of our produce is "fresh" except in summer!
Excellent points. Thank you so much.
Your are absolutely right ♥️
I am interested in your homemade mayonnaise recipe! We would love to start making more homemade/healthy options for food. Thank you so much for your channel. I have learned so much. Great work!
In winter in Maine frozen veg and fruits are best.
I've been eating my homegrown spaghetti squash (I froze ) with my homegrown canned pasts sauce this week. Haven't shopped since Dec 21 and we are doing fine.
🌹 thank you for sharing🌹