The way you’re thinking about your pasta is exactly how I do it. I pour into a bucket that I keep in my storage pantry what I buy from azure and keep glass gallon jars in my kitchen for frequent use. Works wonderful!
Back in the day, I turned one day a week into a big cook day which translated into 52 weeks' worth of big cook days minus 5 to 10. Most of the big cook days involved some sort of food preservation. I was petty good at multi-tasking and keeping up with the dishes used in my small kitchen.
My husband and I go in on a whole cow with my sister in law and her husband every year. Our part comes to about $1800. That equivilates to approximately 400 pounds of beef. This will feed my family of 5, plus my mother in law for a year. Understandably, this is a sizable investment that we finance with our tax return. We are also fortunate to have a generator, so worse case scenario, we are not in danger of losing our investment to grid failures. My advice to anybody wanting to achieve food stability is to go in with family, friends, etc. and pool your resources. If you buy local, the quality and price are so much better than what you can get in the grocery store. We are paying around $4.50 per pound, and that includes steaks, roasts, hamburger etc. Spread out over a year, it is so much more affordable. Not to mention, I get soup bones, the heart, tongue, and liver for free. We don't eat the organ meat, but my dogs love it!
I love the For Jars hand-held vacuum sealer. For me it works better than the more common brand (also not available during the big C), plus it does rely on the grid.
Buy what you use, use what you buy. Yup. Great advice! We got caught out buying things we don't use at the beginning, but we learned. :) Edit: Also, how quickly or slowly you go through things was a learning experience. Paying attention saves lots of "too much stuff" syndrome.
I just did a grocery haul/preparedness haul as well & finally bought a few 5 gallon food grade buckets with screw lids! I was pretty happy about my buckets! Next I'm making homemade laundry detergent! Great haul! I'm trying to be intentional when buying products too! 🦋
@faithandarrowhomestead Update: Hope you are doing well! You wanted to know about my diy laundry detergent. I just uploaded the video now that the hurricane passed through Louisiana yesterday! Thank God my family and I are okay! The detergent smells fresh and leaves a clean scent in my laundry room. I just love that I know what's in my detergent because I made it! 🦋
If you keep your larder rotated and want an easy way to figure out actual usage, mark the date purchased on the front of the containers with perma markers. Another way is to (also) put the date opened on the front in perma marker. For 5 gallon buckets, add this information on tape adhered to the bucket. (I completely empty, wash, and dry my containers before adding products to them despite the size.)
I’m just getting to see this video, Jaylea. Spent yesterday canning tomatoes. Continuing to put up more today. This has been a productive month for my shelves! I have been in practice to buy turkey in November when they are on sale for Thanksgiving. It’s a fam fave to have turkey canned as well as chicken and ground meats. We aren’t really red meat people. It started as a health issue with my dad DECADES ago and now is just habit. I, myself, am holding off on bulk purchases of freezer foods until we get a decent freezer and a generator that can support it. My next house will have an automatic generator. That’s for sure. But I don’t believe I will be in this house beyond the next 5-10 years. But as long as I have my momma and she wants to be here we will be here.
Looking forward to viewing you pressure can chili and sloppy Joe video. I’m new to canning-only do water bath now, but I see pressure canning in my future. Baby steps. Blessings.
Something I keep around are pancake mixes. I know they're not really healthy but I'll make some up when I'm out of bread for sandwiches or to have with my meal. You can easily make some up in a pan even over an open fire or a camp stove.
Look at the basic, 4 ingredient Irish Soda bread. Its a quick bread thats baked in a round loaf. It can nenused forsandwiches, it can be dressed up with additional savory ingredients, dressed up with additional sweet ingredients, and also made into rolls.
Almanzo Wilder and his brother Royal lived on buckwheat pancakes during a severe blizzard in the book series The Long Winter that his wife Laura Ingalls wrote about. The whole town almost starved .
I applaude you for thinking ahead. My plan is to have 3 months of food on my shelves at anytime, especially by November. Let's face it. There are going to upset people regardless of which way the election goes. Last time, the disruptions lasted around 3 months. As for water and electricity. Buy rechargeable batteries. Less trash. More usage. Get a small generator. I have one that can be recharged with a "briefcase" solar panel. You can always build your system from there. It will not run large appliances but will recharge batteries and run small appliances, like a sewing machine and other things. Get a small camping stove, the type that can heat a tent/greenhouse/chicken run, etc. Start "dumpster diving" for old windows to harness solar power. All will work now, but give you more security in the future. Keep stocking up on those items that you eat. Can to make things shelf stable. Buy unenambled cast iron that can be used on any surface and under almost any condition. I just need to provide for myself, but I also have family and friends that I would like to be able to help. Meat and vegetables are great, but think fruit also. You talked about bartering. A jar of jelly can be just as important as a battery. Think outside the box. Humans can be very fickle creatures. They will crave and trade their souls for insignificant things. Fruit and its by-products are actually very important from a dietary standpoint. They prevent some really nasty diseases. Do not forget to stock seeds... any that you can get that are not hybrids. Heading a few plants for neat, cheese, milk can make a difference. This also applies to natural disasters. Meteor strikes, volcanoes erupting, earthquakes, hurricanes, inflation....you name it. I am not afraid. I am just giving myself a chance.
I really need to figure out the generator issue. We keep loosing power. Infrastructure is now so bad all over the u s a. I just bought half a cow, if I had to I would pressure can as much as I could and have an amazing cook out . The power outages are causing so much freezer burn.
I admire you so much for following what you believe is God’s will for you. Too many times, regrettably a lot of people are too chicken to do just that!! And yes girl!!! ! Butter makes everything better!!!! Lol! Do you know how long can you keep butter in the freezer?
You got a lot of great things! You are so right to be prepared. Azure is from Oregon where I live and I’ve never placed an order! I need to though. Good for you, listening to the Lord. I too am listening and feel the same as you. We are just doing a little bit here and there to get ahead. We are also trying to get out of debt, so the less food, I have to buy, because I already canned stuff, helps our budget. Our pantry has sustained us, through Covid, sickness and deaths in our family as well as loss of work. I have canning goals, and other food things I want to learn like you! I want to make sourdough, can meals in jars, can meat (which I’ve never done). I hope you do videos on salt curing meat when you learn how! I love all your videos!
It sounds like we’re in the same boat! We’re trying to pay off our debt and put a little aside here and there. The debt piece doesn’t get talked about enough. It’s another way to be prepared.
You’ve been an inspiration to me. I really enjoy your videos. Just in the past month we’ve purchased our first food storage buckets and Mylar bags with dry foods to fill them. I’ve started my sourdough and got a used grain mill. I have a master list going and we will continue to chip away at it. I too have felt it put on my heart to prepare before the election. Thank you for your content!
We bought regular grocery store salted butter in 2022 at $2 and then $1 per pound in earlier months of 2022 by the case. It went from the back room to the truck bed to the freezer. By the time we bought it at $1/ lb it was right on the sell by date. Weve been using it more sparingly this 2024 to make it last but it is still fine.
@@faithandarrowhomesteadif you have a harbor freight neat you, you can purchase their 5gal buckets for less than $5 and they are food grade. Also gamma lids are sold at tractor supply stores as well.
Nice haul; I hope you don’t mind me asking a couple of questions. First, does the coconut oil have a strong flavor? Second, were your soft wheat berries clean? I bought a 25 lb bag last year and it was so filled with stems and trash I vowed never to buy it again. I’ve never had that problem with any other wheat berries from Azure and really need to add more soft, so fingers crossed, yours looked good. Thanks for your help.
No this one doesn’t have a strong flavor and all the wheat berries I’ve ever gotten from Azure have been clean except one bag had a lot of weed seed in it and to be honest I just ground it right up with the wheat berries and didn’t worry about it.
Think of a big bag of medium to medium fine grind cornmeal as well. Buy a small container of grits (white cornmeal of a less fine grind) to see if you like them. If so consider a big bag of grits too.
I reuse my lids for storing dry goods that does not involve heat. Please don’t dry can, providing you’re referring to heating up food in jars and placing in the oven. It’s not a safe method.
Be careful with your salt honey, an adult should have no more than 6g or one teaspoon per day. Our kidneys are pretty good at retaining salt too. Too much salt causes strokes and high blood pressure. Yes eat salt that is good for you, but not too much.
I don’t eat any processed food at all so I’m actually at a higher risk of not getting enough salt. I have to be intentional about adding it to my diet because I’m not getting it anywhere else. Thank you and don’t worry, I’m careful!
NO!! NOW Is "Too Late to "Stock Up"!! Should of Been "Prepping and Stockpiling" Years Ago. With Prices the way they are Now, you are going to be spending Three Times the Amount for Food and Other Necessities. FOOLISH People who wait Too Long.
"NOW" is never too late. NOW is the perfect time because that is all we have. What are you suggesting folks do? Throw their hands up in the air and not do anything because they didn't do it sooner. Just because you've been stocking up for years doesn't mean that everyone has the time or means to do it and to be honest, before 2020 most people who stock up now never stocked up before. You say "foolish people who wait too long." I say foolish people who tell others it too late.
What a pointless and nasty comment. Ideally, people would have backstock of major items and necessities. Some people can't afford that, don't have space for it, just got out of their parent's house, or just plain didn't know to do so. Having something and starting when you can is better than having nothing. Shame on you.
The way you’re thinking about your pasta is exactly how I do it. I pour into a bucket that I keep in my storage pantry what I buy from azure and keep glass gallon jars in my kitchen for frequent use. Works wonderful!
Oh perfect! Thank you for sharing that’s how you do it and it works for you. I’m excited to implement that in my pantry.
You are a very wise lady!
Back in the day, I turned one day a week into a big cook day which translated into 52 weeks' worth of big cook days minus 5 to 10. Most of the big cook days involved some sort of food preservation. I was petty good at multi-tasking and keeping up with the dishes used in my small kitchen.
Oh what a great idea!
I just bought 1/4 of a beef. Will be canning at least half of it. So good to have it shelf stable.
Amazing!! I love this!
Best way when you have lots of meat. I too pressure can 90% of my meats, and freeze the rest
My husband and I go in on a whole cow with my sister in law and her husband every year. Our part comes to about $1800. That equivilates to approximately 400 pounds of beef. This will feed my family of 5, plus my mother in law for a year. Understandably, this is a sizable investment that we finance with our tax return. We are also fortunate to have a generator, so worse case scenario, we are not in danger of losing our investment to grid failures. My advice to anybody wanting to achieve food stability is to go in with family, friends, etc. and pool your resources. If you buy local, the quality and price are so much better than what you can get in the grocery store. We are paying around $4.50 per pound, and that includes steaks, roasts, hamburger etc. Spread out over a year, it is so much more affordable. Not to mention, I get soup bones, the heart, tongue, and liver for free. We don't eat the organ meat, but my dogs love it!
Amazing!! Thank you for sharing!
That’s what we do too. It’s an expensive if you don’t budget for it on a yearly basis.
I love the For Jars hand-held vacuum sealer. For me it works better than the more common brand (also not available during the big C), plus it does rely on the grid.
Correction. It does not rely on the grid.
Ooh I will check it out!
You’re making great progress toward your goal!
Happy Monday Jaylea and I hope you have a blessed week. 🤗
Cindy! Always so good to hear from you! I hope you have a blessed week as well ❤️
Buy what you use, use what you buy. Yup. Great advice! We got caught out buying things we don't use at the beginning, but we learned. :)
Edit: Also, how quickly or slowly you go through things was a learning experience. Paying attention saves lots of "too much stuff" syndrome.
I just did a grocery haul/preparedness haul as well & finally bought a few 5 gallon food grade buckets with screw lids! I was pretty happy about my buckets! Next I'm making homemade laundry detergent! Great haul! I'm trying to be intentional when buying products too! 🦋
Yes great job!! Let me know how the laundry detergent goes.
@@faithandarrowhomestead Thank you! I will be making & filming my homemade laundry detergent powder this week, hopefully! 🦋
@faithandarrowhomestead Update: Hope you are doing well! You wanted to know about my diy laundry detergent. I just uploaded the video now that the hurricane passed through Louisiana yesterday! Thank God my family and I are okay! The detergent smells fresh and leaves a clean scent in my laundry room. I just love that I know what's in my detergent because I made it! 🦋
Lots of great tips. I'm alone, but 2x year, I bulk haul for items I don't raise or get locally (barter or buy). That you for sharing.😊
If you keep your larder rotated and want an easy way to figure out actual usage, mark the date purchased on the front of the containers with perma markers. Another way is to (also) put the date opened on the front in perma marker. For 5 gallon buckets, add this information on tape adhered to the bucket. (I completely empty, wash, and dry my containers before adding products to them despite the size.)
I use Redmans real salt. Love it!
I’m just getting to see this video, Jaylea. Spent yesterday canning tomatoes. Continuing to put up more today. This has been a productive month for my shelves!
I have been in practice to buy turkey in November when they are on sale for Thanksgiving. It’s a fam fave to have turkey canned as well as chicken and ground meats. We aren’t really red meat people. It started as a health issue with my dad DECADES ago and now is just habit.
I, myself, am holding off on bulk purchases of freezer foods until we get a decent freezer and a generator that can support it. My next house will have an automatic generator. That’s for sure. But I don’t believe I will be in this house beyond the next 5-10 years. But as long as I have my momma and she wants to be here we will be here.
Amazing Kate! I’m glad you’re making such good progress. I’m feeling the same way about the generator.
Looking forward to viewing you pressure can chili and sloppy Joe video. I’m new to canning-only do water bath now, but I see pressure canning in my future. Baby steps.
Blessings.
Did you catch my most recent pressure canning video?
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I love Azure Standard. I’ve been shopping with them for a while now.
Another place to shop is Lehman Amish Store they deliver to drop off spots near you also. ❤
Yes I’m familiar with Lehmans although I haven’t ordered. I will check it out again! Thanks :)
Something I keep around are pancake mixes. I know they're not really healthy but I'll make some up when I'm out of bread for sandwiches or to have with my meal. You can easily make some up in a pan even over an open fire or a camp stove.
Look at the basic, 4 ingredient Irish Soda bread. Its a quick bread thats baked in a round loaf. It can nenused forsandwiches, it can be dressed up with additional savory ingredients, dressed up with additional sweet ingredients, and also made into rolls.
@@terryhenderson424
I love Irish soda bread! I make it a few times a year! Delicious!
Almanzo Wilder and his brother Royal lived on buckwheat pancakes during a severe blizzard in the book series The Long Winter that his wife Laura Ingalls wrote about. The whole town almost starved .
Costco currently has a sale going on through next week with $200 off their solar power stations! We got an amazing price on a Jackery bundle!
Oh that’s good to know!! We have a Costco, I will check it out.
Smart lady you are my dear! 🥰 I really need to go through our pantry and make an azure order! It's been a while!
Love the elbow noodle idea!!!! I'm copying that. Gamma seal lids are the bomb!
Yes try and stock up on a few things! I’m thinking we may see some supply interruptions in the future.
I applaude you for thinking ahead. My plan is to have 3 months of food on my shelves at anytime, especially by November. Let's face it. There are going to upset people regardless of which way the election goes. Last time, the disruptions lasted around 3 months.
As for water and electricity. Buy rechargeable batteries. Less trash. More usage. Get a small generator. I have one that can be recharged with a "briefcase" solar panel. You can always build your system from there. It will not run large appliances but will recharge batteries and run small appliances, like a sewing machine and other things. Get a small camping stove, the type that can heat a tent/greenhouse/chicken run, etc. Start "dumpster diving" for old windows to harness solar power. All will work now, but give you more security in the future. Keep stocking up on those items that you eat. Can to make things shelf stable. Buy unenambled cast iron that can be used on any surface and under almost any condition. I just need to provide for myself, but I also have family and friends that I would like to be able to help. Meat and vegetables are great, but think fruit also. You talked about bartering. A jar of jelly can be just as important as a battery. Think outside the box. Humans can be very fickle creatures. They will crave and trade their souls for insignificant things. Fruit and its by-products are actually very important from a dietary standpoint. They prevent some really nasty diseases.
Do not forget to stock seeds... any that you can get that are not hybrids. Heading a few plants for neat, cheese, milk can make a difference.
This also applies to natural disasters. Meteor strikes, volcanoes erupting, earthquakes, hurricanes, inflation....you name it.
I am not afraid. I am just giving myself a chance.
God bless you and your husband and your upcoming new baby that God is creating.
Thank you 🥹 And thanks for watching and commenting on so many of my videos! That helps my channel a lot.
never seen a 16 wheeler I have seen azurestandard hear good things about them thanks for the link.
Haha is it 18 wheeler? I realized in the moment I might have misspoken. Whoops!!
Definitely a thumbs up for Azure Std. and Redmonds Salt products. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
I really need to figure out the generator issue. We keep loosing power. Infrastructure is now so bad all over the u s a. I just bought half a cow, if I had to I would pressure can as much as I could and have an amazing cook out . The power outages are causing so much freezer burn.
I admire you so much for following what you believe is God’s will for you. Too many times, regrettably a lot of people are too chicken to do just that!!
And yes girl!!! ! Butter makes everything better!!!! Lol! Do you know how long can you keep butter in the freezer?
I am not sure myself...but one thing you.can do is to.take all the bitter you buy and make.ghee...it's longer shelf stable and very tasty
You got a lot of great things! You are so right to be prepared. Azure is from Oregon where I live and I’ve never placed an order! I need to though. Good for you, listening to the Lord. I too am listening and feel the same as you. We are just doing a little bit here and there to get ahead. We are also trying to get out of debt, so the less food, I have to buy, because I already canned stuff, helps our budget. Our pantry has sustained us, through Covid, sickness and deaths in our family as well as loss of work. I have canning goals, and other food things I want to learn like you! I want to make sourdough, can meals in jars, can meat (which I’ve never done). I hope you do videos on salt curing meat when you learn how! I love all your videos!
It sounds like we’re in the same boat! We’re trying to pay off our debt and put a little aside here and there. The debt piece doesn’t get talked about enough. It’s another way to be prepared.
❤️
Awesome haul🌸💖🌸
Water is very important if no electricity
Toiletries ie shampoo shower gel, toothpaste . deodorant are some of the things I have started getting some extra
Yes I have been meaning to put together a video about non-food preps.
You’ve been an inspiration to me. I really enjoy your videos. Just in the past month we’ve purchased our first food storage buckets and Mylar bags with dry foods to fill them. I’ve started my sourdough and got a used grain mill. I have a master list going and we will continue to chip away at it. I too have felt it put on my heart to prepare before the election. Thank you for your content!
Amazing! That’s great progress!
🌼Hi Jaylea!🌼
Great haul! 🤗
I’m so happy with your progress! Keep it up!💞💞
I just bought my jasmine rice!!🤗
You are in my prayers🙏🏼🧸💞
Blessings 💜💜💜
Thank you, Elsa! Have you tried that type of rice before??
@@faithandarrowhomestead Yes, I have delicious rice! I also buy Basmati rice
Great idea to buy dairy each time! Enjoyed the video.
Thank you!
We bought regular grocery store salted butter in 2022 at $2 and then $1 per pound in earlier months of 2022 by the case. It went from the back room to the truck bed to the freezer. By the time we bought it at $1/ lb it was right on the sell by date. Weve been using it more sparingly this 2024 to make it last but it is still fine.
Curious what everyone’s if we have a power outage? I know here lately in Tennessee we’ve had a lot of small outages and bad Internet connection.
Will you do a video showing how you can the meat?
Here’s this one and I have others I want to film as well!
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@@faithandarrowhomestead Thank you for the reply. I just found this one and have started it. Thanks!
Hi Jaylea, how much are those buckets. Thanks. Love your video ❤
Sheila on Azure’s website right now the 5 gal is $14.64 and the lid is $17.60. The 2 gal is $6.33 and the lid is $6.25.
@@faithandarrowhomesteadif you have a harbor freight neat you, you can purchase their 5gal buckets for less than $5 and they are food grade. Also gamma lids are sold at tractor supply stores as well.
I had no idea you could freeze cheese!
I’ve heard people say you can’t but I never have a problem freezing it.
@@faithandarrowhomestead
My mom used to freeze cheese and it’s fine.Becky from Acre Homestead also freezes cheese!
Iam new to your channel thank you
Welcome, I’m glad you’re here!
Nice haul; I hope you don’t mind me asking a couple of questions. First, does the coconut oil have a strong flavor? Second, were your soft wheat berries clean? I bought a 25 lb bag last year and it was so filled with stems and trash I vowed never to buy it again. I’ve never had that problem with any other wheat berries from Azure and really need to add more soft, so fingers crossed, yours looked good. Thanks for your help.
No this one doesn’t have a strong flavor and all the wheat berries I’ve ever gotten from Azure have been clean except one bag had a lot of weed seed in it and to be honest I just ground it right up with the wheat berries and didn’t worry about it.
What size jar is the coconut oil you showed? And is it the virgin or regular
That is the 64oz glass option and it is virgin.
Unless you are cooking salt free, or working out with sweat for hours, no one needs extra salt in water.
Think of a big bag of medium to medium fine grind cornmeal as well. Buy a small container of grits (white cornmeal of a less fine grind) to see if you like them. If so consider a big bag of grits too.
What are used lids re purposed for after pressure canning? Maybe dry canning? Would that be safe?
I reuse my lids for storing dry goods that does not involve heat. Please don’t dry can, providing you’re referring to heating up food in jars and placing in the oven. It’s not a safe method.
Hello I have a question dose Azure standard accept food stamps if so how much is the membership?
Thank you. Where do u buy your food grade bucket’s?
Walmart carries them near paint department
I get mine from Azure Standard along with the gamma lids.
Harbor freight carries food grade 5 gallon buckets and Tractor Supply sells the gamma lids.
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Be careful with your salt honey, an adult should have no more than 6g or one teaspoon per day. Our kidneys are pretty good at retaining salt too. Too much salt causes strokes and high blood pressure. Yes eat salt that is good for you, but not too much.
I don’t eat any processed food at all so I’m actually at a higher risk of not getting enough salt. I have to be intentional about adding it to my diet because I’m not getting it anywhere else. Thank you and don’t worry, I’m careful!
Electric goes out, get canning that meat.
So how do you get with Azure????
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Slow down your speech please
You can sow down the playback speed in the video settings
WHY would you be intentionally trying to get pregnant, knowing how unstable everything is right now ⁉️🤔
Why wouldn’t I?
NO!! NOW Is "Too Late to "Stock Up"!! Should of Been "Prepping and Stockpiling" Years Ago. With Prices the way they are Now, you are going to be spending Three Times the Amount for Food and Other Necessities. FOOLISH People who wait Too Long.
Well, that’s not fair. You don’t know what you don’t know. Better late than never since we can’t go back in time.
"NOW" is never too late. NOW is the perfect time because that is all we have. What are you suggesting folks do? Throw their hands up in the air and not do anything because they didn't do it sooner. Just because you've been stocking up for years doesn't mean that everyone has the time or means to do it and to be honest, before 2020 most people who stock up now never stocked up before. You say "foolish people who wait too long." I say foolish people who tell others it too late.
What a pointless and nasty comment. Ideally, people would have backstock of major items and necessities. Some people can't afford that, don't have space for it, just got out of their parent's house, or just plain didn't know to do so. Having something and starting when you can is better than having nothing. Shame on you.
Imagine what prices will be in another 5-10 years? If you buy now it's still a hedge against inflation in the future. Your argument makes no sense.