Fond memories for me raising two boys with Giant appetites- they are 6’3” and and 6’5”!! We camped for over 20 years and I prepared,cooked all the food for our camping trips🥰💁🏻❣️
Hi Chelsea ❤ We have a new grandson born 6/6/2023. Joe Anthony 6# 12 oz 21.5 inches. He was a little early by 3 weeks …. Finally gained back his birth weight and doing really well. We are all smitten with him💙 How are you❤and your family doing? Enjoy your vacation!!!
Agree making snacks and food during a trip is a lifesaver what the stores charge for snacks is outrageous. Safe travels and enjoy your trip. Garden looks wonderful.
All of this done in one day! I'm sure it comes from years of raising children and knowing their food likes and dislikes. Your daughter makes better muffins than I do! Always love a garden tour. Hope you have/had a nice trip!
Fantastic reminder that we can save while traveling just by packing coolers. Your daughter makes prettier muffins than i do! Well done! I'm just gardening away. I may be getting to take out my kayak for the first time this weekend, so excited! Camping trip planned for a weekend soon. Enjoying family time too. I'm singing the praises of our Lord for the abundance of produce! God bless each of you!
My Uncle Tab, had a chevy truck and we would load that u. But he would leave enough room up my the window. Then we would lay our sleeping bags out for us 4 kids. My Aunt would fill a cooler for us with juices, home made granola, veggie sticks, fruit and all kinds of stuff. Then we'd get the reminder from my Uncle 'Don't drink to much we're not stopping.'. He was always about the destination and us kids were about the trip itself. I am 65 now and road trips take a lot more planning even than when we were kids. But so fun!
We had the smoke from Canada over Missouri today. The good news is that it kept the temperature in the low 80’s. Tomorrow is supposed to be 102 Fahrenheit (38.8 C).
I use cottage cheese in my lasagna too, and and my recipe from the 70's called for one egg to be stirred into each tub before spreading over the noodles. I think it thickens it up to be more like the texture of ricotta. Cottage cheese is half the price of ricotta, and easy to find in any grocery store. I have broccoli and lettuce envy! The slugs have destroyed our scarlet runner beans, the leaf lettuce and done serious damage to the broccoli and kale. I go out every morning (and sometimes at night) and hunt them down. Its been very wet here after a dry spring, and the slugs are making up for lost time!
If your Lavender grows like mine, it will need its own tub before to long. I agree about the snacks, I do the same for my husband and I on our road trips, our kids use to get them too, but they are grown and have their own kids.
Howdy Chelsea..@littlemountainranch... Did you travel to the Modern Homesteading Conference in Coeur d'Alene ID this last weekend..??? If you were there.. I'm so so sorry I missed you. Love your videos, information, your enthusiasm for living this wholesome life and how you share it with so many! Hope to meet you in person some day!!!
I am with you. We are flying to Hawaii this week. I typically make sandwiches & pack snacks for grandkids. When we land we go to Costco b/f we go to condo. 😊
Hope you had a nice trip with your family! Packing meals for the trip is so smart, I absolutely hate trying to figure out what to do for dinner in a strange place! Since you asked what's going on in our lives, I'll mention that I recently started raising chickens for the first time. I got them as day old chicks and now they're two weeks old and still unbelievably cute :)
We finally got rain on Sunday, with 80 mile winds and hail, but rain! I have 2 weeks off from work, so I'm doing a lot of canning. Cleaning out the freezer.
I like to bring my dehydrated rice & dehydrated black beans when traveling on the road. I boil my water in the morning for coffee & my dehydrated lunch thst I put in a thermos. It hydrates and stays hot til lunch time. Saves me having to go out to lunch when driving. Love the trail mix idea !
Thoroughly enjoyed your video! It is always a great idea to prepare and take your own food. Makes for a more cozy atmosphere when you stop roadside to take a break. I use to love planning & packing for a camp/road trip❗️😊🦋 my sons are grown, married and Fathers now, so the memories are close to my Heart💜. Have a wonderful, wonderful time~~☮️🕉️
My elderberries look just like yours. The polar vortex here in Texas 1 1/2 years ago really set them back and the drought and 100 plus degrees this summer is taking such a toll.
I just had a few tips that has helped me with traveling and getting ready in my house for when I get home. I clean my house, do laundry with getting everything ready for when getting back home and the food in the pantry too. Keep it fully ready. Also make some food to put in the freezer for when you get home. I have been doing this for a few trips and made me feel really good when I got home, and I didn't have to hurry to the grocery store until quite a few days. Thanks for sharing you're fun life and teaches us as well, I really appreciate you're family life and everything you share and have a blessed day!
I love gardening. Here in south Texas the heat is taking over the garden. The tomatoes are done but still getting a few Armenian cucumbers. Orkra, sweet potatoes, watermelon and peppers are doing good. I own a skin care company so I am in my shop most of the day making products.We are getting our deck ready for a 12x20 gazebo on order. We bought 3 HoseLink hoses to save my shoulders. Still need to set those up. My husband and I are 73 and great grandparents but thankfully we can work circles around those much younger.
You could probably lengthen your season if you invested in some shade cloth. I bought some 60% shade cloth this year to put over my lettuce and broccoli and still have broccoli to harvest. I live in a pretty hot climate too. I am planning to buy some 30% shade cloth for my hot weather veggies.
I’ve been binge watching homesteading videos , for the last couple months while I’m going through chemo. Yours are some of my favorites Thank you!! Not only have I learned a ton (even though I’m an old school farm kid too) as well as keep some of my cabin fever and boredom staved off. Thanks for making this super hard thing I’m wrestling with much easier and doable!!
Please send some of that rain and cooler weather down here to Texas. We are on water restrictions and the heat and humidity takes your breath away. Every day this week will be around 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
My news is that we bought a property! Just over 5 acres and we move in a few weeks. Woohoooo! (I'm going to have a lot of questions. lol) Hope you have a fun holiday with your family!
We have a large family... our last trip I spent a boatload of time doing the exact same thing. We didn't eat out once!! It is a lot of work. You are so right, to eat out, with a family, is just sooo costly.
loved this we are taking a trip soon and I hope to use some of these ideas especially the trailmix because it is great for the road. I love how to talked about being outdoors did your heart good. We have a large family too with 8 kids ages 16-7 years old and I love watching others and seeing "normal" things to me and the reassurance that I am not alone in this adventure. God Bless
We have 5 children and although most are not at home with us anymore as they are all in their 20's, I sure do remember getting ready for road trips and vacations! Lots of work but you're right, so worth it. We used to pack drinks and snacks for everyone, and if we were going to be away tried to stay in motels with kitchenettes. This wasn't always possible, and the times when we weren't able to definitely were more expensive. I didn't make meals ahead but we still saved money buying food from the grocery store and cooking our own meals. Hope you enjoy your trip. Safe travels.❤
I am getting dental surgery tomorrow and I am sooooo nervous. I wish I was one of those people that were just matter of fact about these things but I am not. I just watch the clock dreading each minute that gets closer. I am such a wuss! I hope your family has fun on your trip!
Can I go on vacation with u all, lol 😂. I need one!!!! My daughter is getting married on Augusta 31st! I will have some time off then and hope to enjoy her and her wedding!!! ❤. I am making a peach blueberry cobbler your recipe for her desserts for the wedding!!!
Hope you and your family had amazing trip, it is smart to park for trips anymore. We are leaving on Friday for the camper in the Smokey mountains. We are taking everything we need for every meal to cook on the black stone and grill. It’s too expensive to eat out anymore. It’s just myself, and my son and his family this trip. But still for four people to eat out one meal is like close to 90.00 per meal at dinner or more. So what I save on one night pay for the groceries the entire trip. The garden looks beautiful.
Hi friend, we live on the Minnesota/South Dakota border, so dry and hot so far this summer. Having many day’s when the Canadian smoke is very visible here. Safe travels. Love your videos!!
The weather was crazy last week it felt like winter again. I’ve commented before I am in 100 mile and our big news is we finally finished our 10x20 green house and got it all planted. We are already harvesting some radishes and lettuce even though I recently learned lettuce is not great in the greenhouse. I am beginner so it’s an experimental year I will learn as I go!
We always pack snacks when we travel. I’m glad to hear someone else say that eating out sometimes gives you an upset stomach. I love to eat at home. It’s over 100 degrees here in Oklahoma. Safe travels!
Have fun be safe. I hope you are not getting any of that forest fires smoke.. We sure are. Didn't know what was going on for 3-4 days so today, we with bad breathing and our age wore masks doing yard work.
We just returned from a camping trip and kayaking during some smoky days in Central Ontario. I pre shred cheese, cook bacon and ground beef ahead of time, pack eggs from our chickens and take lettuces from the garden. Planning ahead makes the trip so much more enjoyable.
A time saver: If you have a casserole dish as long as your pasta, put them in the dish and pour boiling water from your tea kettle over them and in about 20-25 minutes they’ll be Al dente and ready to form your lasagna. I’ve been doing this the last couple years instead of waiting for boiling water on the stovetop. You can add a little olive oil in your water or spray them with cooking spray if you get any sticking.
We had rather dense Canadian smoke yesterday here in the Chicago area. It's Totally acceptable however, as we are NOT also threatened by the cause: Fire!
This reminds me of when my boys were young and we went camping on the weekends. I would cook for three days and have it all ready to go Friday afternoon. Good times… And I had pretty healthy kids …well worth the work.!!
We also stay in places with kitchens and bring food. Either easy to cook, home canned, or frozen with the cooler but I'm getting away from so much cooler stuff because if we stay in multiple places we have to unload it all and some of the airbnbs don't have much freezer space if they're a primary residence.
Hi! Love your vlogs. I hope you know how blessed you are to have such a big family. They are a joy, even on a bad day. We are in the dog days of summer here and it is very humid and hot. Brewing sun teas and adding herbs to make them yummy. Enjoy your trip and can’t wait for the next chapter of your vlog.
I make big batches of trail mix which I keep in a jar for us to snack on. SO much cheaper, like you said. I’m lucky to have an Amish bulk food store where I pick up all my supplies. I also make different kinds of granola bars which I cut into squares & keep in treat jars. So nice for a quick treat.
This brings back memories. Our family growing up always brought snacks and food on vacation, and I continued it with my children. Nothing like road snacks. We generally stayed in hotels. My dad was in India in the army for 3 years and always said that was enough of tents. We had cereal, etc for breakfast, sandwiches and fruit for lunch and generally went out for dinner. Hotels didn't have refrigerators in those days, so we always had a cooler that we had to refill.
My husband and our family just moved into our dream house! With 27 acres! As excited as I am to get exploring and settled in I am so exhausted from moving all week! Love your videos!
In Chicago we're getting smoke from the Canadas fires. We are praying for your fire fighters to stay safe and a quick end to the fires. May God bless Canada and all who live there (including animals) 😇
When my kids were teens the only eating out was at an all you can eat buffet. I figured that they ate more than the price of the buffet. What great healthy meals and snacks.
My gosh you were superwoman today! Wanted to tell you I went out to a friends farm and we picked sand plums yesterday. Cooked them down and made jelly last night. Sand plum jelly is the best and most sought out in the Midwest. Not available in any stores. It’s a homemade find! For me it’s the fondest memory of mine. When I smell those plums boiling on the stove I’m with grandma in the kitchen!(happy tears) Have you ever seen them?
Wow, i missed this video. So, i had to watch it after your latest one and its insane how much the high tunnel has grown since then! That's crazy...lol. Now i see what you're talking about. But, i know one thing...im definitely making me some of those bean burritos you had there. They looked absolutely delicious! Which i love anything Mexican, its definitely my weakness. Now I've never made lasagna before with cottage cheese and i love that stuff. I probably eat a pint of it all by myself with just salt and pepper every week. So, im definitely gonna try that next time. Even though I've really only made lasagna probably 3 times in my life and i used eggplant instead of noodles the very last time. It was really good. That bulls heart/blood tomato was small then considering of how huge it was in the latest video. And we love a good tomato sandwich. Have you ever added a tiny bit of mustard to your tomato sandwich before. Its really good! But, you only need a tiny bit and of course the mayonaise...lol😊
A electric cooler that you can plug in in the car is so handy. Always have one with me. And I can also use it as an extra fridge on holiday because it also has a normal plug to go into the wall.
The peonies, Chelsea... be still my heart. So beautiful~!
The white peony is stunning
Fond memories for me raising two boys with Giant appetites- they are 6’3” and and 6’5”!! We camped for over 20 years and I prepared,cooked all the food for our camping trips🥰💁🏻❣️
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Wow good for you!
Hi Chelsea ❤
We have a new grandson born 6/6/2023.
Joe Anthony 6# 12 oz 21.5 inches. He was a little early by 3 weeks …. Finally gained back his birth weight and doing really well. We are all smitten with him💙
How are you❤and your family doing?
Enjoy your vacation!!!
Hello internet folk! Congratulations on the baby. 💙 this channel has the best people
Congratulations!
Congrats on the grandson🎉
Congratulations, Grammy. It's the best feeling . Makes your heart so full.
That’s why I love your video’s, you make us feel like we are sitting in the room having a conversation with you 👍👍👍
Keeping my for Grandbabies for two weeks Baking cooking and swimming and lots of hands to help Oma in garden 🥰
Hello from Tennessee. I’m recovering from rotator cuff surgery. Have a safe trip.
Agree making snacks and food during a trip is a lifesaver what the stores charge for snacks is outrageous. Safe travels and enjoy your trip. Garden looks wonderful.
All of this done in one day! I'm sure it comes from years of raising children and knowing their food likes and dislikes. Your daughter makes better muffins than I do! Always love a garden tour. Hope you have/had a nice trip!
I remember my two teenage boys, almost ate me out of house and home. And they don't gain any weight. Thats the kicker! 😁
Fantastic reminder that we can save while traveling just by packing coolers. Your daughter makes prettier muffins than i do! Well done!
I'm just gardening away. I may be getting to take out my kayak for the first time this weekend, so excited! Camping trip planned for a weekend soon. Enjoying family time too. I'm singing the praises of our Lord for the abundance of produce! God bless each of you!
When we travel I make egg or tuna salad for sandwiches instead of buying cold meat. Less expensive. Safe travels.
Sister you can flatten out your Amazon boxes and spread down the garden paths to kill the weeds. 😊😊😊
My Uncle Tab, had a chevy truck and we would load that u. But he would leave enough room up my the window. Then we would lay our sleeping bags out for us 4 kids. My Aunt would fill a cooler for us with juices, home made granola, veggie sticks, fruit and all kinds of stuff. Then we'd get the reminder from my Uncle 'Don't drink to much we're not stopping.'. He was always about the destination and us kids were about the trip itself. I am 65 now and road trips take a lot more planning even than when we were kids. But so fun!
I love that!
We had the smoke from Canada over Missouri today. The good news is that it kept the temperature in the low 80’s. Tomorrow is supposed to be 102 Fahrenheit (38.8 C).
I use cottage cheese in my lasagna too, and and my recipe from the 70's called for one egg to be stirred into each tub before spreading over the noodles. I think it thickens it up to be more like the texture of ricotta. Cottage cheese is half the price of ricotta, and easy to find in any grocery store.
I have broccoli and lettuce envy! The slugs have destroyed our scarlet runner beans, the leaf lettuce and done serious damage to the broccoli and kale. I go out every morning (and sometimes at night) and hunt them down. Its been very wet here after a dry spring, and the slugs are making up for lost time!
I have a road trip coming up, 23 hr drive! You've inspired me to pack food instead of all the stops and expense - thanks!
Have a fantastic time ,where ever ur going ,
Food looks great ,enjoy all ur hard work ,
Buying food out does put a hole in your wallet for sure ,
If your Lavender grows like mine, it will need its own tub before to long. I agree about the snacks, I do the same for my husband and I on our road trips, our kids use to get them too, but they are grown and have their own kids.
I always add a egg and some spinach to cottage cheese for lasanga .
The mind boggles! You are a real grafter! I am well impressed. Happy travels!
Howdy Chelsea..@littlemountainranch... Did you travel to the Modern Homesteading Conference in Coeur d'Alene ID this last weekend..???
If you were there.. I'm so so sorry I missed you.
Love your videos, information, your enthusiasm for living this wholesome life and how you share it with so many!
Hope to meet you in person some day!!!
Those peony are gorgeous!
What a terrific canning day! ❤👍 Thank you for the knowledge. 🙏🏻
I am with you. We are flying to Hawaii this week. I typically make sandwiches & pack snacks for grandkids. When we land we go to Costco b/f we go to condo. 😊
Hope you had a nice trip with your family! Packing meals for the trip is so smart, I absolutely hate trying to figure out what to do for dinner in a strange place! Since you asked what's going on in our lives, I'll mention that I recently started raising chickens for the first time. I got them as day old chicks and now they're two weeks old and still unbelievably cute :)
Chelsea, you are bloody amazing. I wish I was your child. I could learn so much from you & eat the best food! Good luck on your trip.
You are a wonder woman. Be safe on your travels.😘
Everything looks deelish...lol. Have a safe trip, and lots of fun!
We finally got rain on Sunday, with 80 mile winds and hail, but rain! I have 2 weeks off from work, so I'm doing a lot of canning. Cleaning out the freezer.
I like to bring my dehydrated rice & dehydrated black beans when traveling on the road. I boil my water in the morning for coffee & my dehydrated lunch thst I put in a thermos. It hydrates and stays hot til lunch time. Saves me having to go out to lunch when driving.
Love the trail mix idea !
High predicated to be 106 degrees here in mid-Missouri today. Thank goodness we aren’t getting the Canadian smoke. Safe travels!
Thoroughly enjoyed your video! It is always a great idea to prepare and take your own food. Makes for a more cozy atmosphere when you stop roadside to take a break. I use to love planning & packing for a camp/road trip❗️😊🦋 my sons are grown, married and Fathers now, so the memories are close to my Heart💜. Have a wonderful, wonderful time~~☮️🕉️
My elderberries look just like yours. The polar vortex here in Texas 1 1/2 years ago really set them back and the drought and 100 plus degrees this summer is taking such a toll.
Prayers for saf travel and relax
I just had a few tips that has helped me with traveling and getting ready in my house for when I get home. I clean my house, do laundry with getting everything ready for when getting back home and the food in the pantry too. Keep it fully ready. Also make some food to put in the freezer for when you get home. I have been doing this for a few trips and made me feel really good when I got home, and I didn't have to hurry to the grocery store until quite a few days. Thanks for sharing you're fun life and teaches us as well, I really appreciate you're family life and everything you share and have a blessed day!
The clean house thing is something I do, too. Nothing better than coming back home to it tidy!
Thanks I appreciate it for answering me back and have a blessed day!
Here in nothen sweden we finaly got some rain. It has been very dry with forest fires at some places. The garden will be so happy with al this rain.
You are amazing and smiling the whole time! Have a great trip!
Thank you for choosing to do the harder things that are great for you and your family!!!
This was so nice.
I love gardening. Here in south Texas the heat is taking over the garden. The tomatoes are done but still getting a few Armenian cucumbers. Orkra, sweet potatoes, watermelon and peppers are doing good. I own a skin care company so I am in my shop most of the day making products.We are getting our deck ready for a 12x20 gazebo on order. We bought 3 HoseLink hoses to save my shoulders. Still need to set those up. My husband and I are 73 and great grandparents but thankfully we can work circles around those much younger.
You could probably lengthen your season if you invested in some shade cloth. I bought some 60% shade cloth this year to put over my lettuce and broccoli and still have broccoli to harvest. I live in a pretty hot climate too. I am planning to buy some 30% shade cloth for my hot weather veggies.
I’ve been binge watching homesteading videos , for the last couple months while I’m going through chemo. Yours are some of my favorites Thank you!! Not only have I learned a ton (even though I’m an old school farm kid too) as well as keep some of my cabin fever and boredom staved off. Thanks for making this super hard thing I’m wrestling with much easier and doable!!
Hugs, friend. That’s a hard battle you’re waging and if I can help at all, I’m honoured to do it. ♥️
New in my life is.... I bought a homestead! I have been on the land for one year and its been so much learning. Thanks for the help!
Yay!!!!!
Please send some of that rain and cooler weather down here to Texas. We are on water restrictions and the heat and humidity takes your breath away. Every day this week will be around 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
My news is that we bought a property! Just over 5 acres and we move in a few weeks. Woohoooo! (I'm going to have a lot of questions. lol) Hope you have a fun holiday with your family!
We have a large family... our last trip I spent a boatload of time doing the exact same thing. We didn't eat out once!! It is a lot of work. You are so right, to eat out, with a family, is just sooo costly.
Like you, we do our own snacks and prep meals for a trip.
loved this we are taking a trip soon and I hope to use some of these ideas especially the trailmix because it is great for the road. I love how to talked about being outdoors did your heart good. We have a large family too with 8 kids ages 16-7 years old and I love watching others and seeing "normal" things to me and the reassurance that I am not alone in this adventure. God Bless
Great ideas! Thanks for sharing!😊
We have 5 children and although most are not at home with us anymore as they are all in their 20's, I sure do remember getting ready for road trips and vacations! Lots of work but you're right, so worth it. We used to pack drinks and snacks for everyone, and if we were going to be away tried to stay in motels with kitchenettes. This wasn't always possible, and the times when we weren't able to definitely were more expensive. I didn't make meals ahead but we still saved money buying food from the grocery store and cooking our own meals. Hope you enjoy your trip. Safe travels.❤
Hope you have an enjoyable trip!
This video brings back memories of packing for family trips.
I loved this video. Smart to take your own food. You make everything look so easy. You are amazing Chelsea. Ty
I am getting dental surgery tomorrow and I am sooooo nervous. I wish I was one of those people that were just matter of fact about these things but I am not. I just watch the clock dreading each minute that gets closer. I am such a wuss! I hope your family has fun on your trip!
I am busy with my 3 sister's garden area, I have never grown this way but it's pretty cool. Plus the never ending weeding and watering.💦
made turkey burger black bean chili with tomatoes fresh from my friend's garden. it is delicious. made some corn bread tonight.
Garden looks fantastic, the food does too.
Enjoy your time away. You all deserve a break.
Can I go on vacation with u all, lol 😂. I need one!!!! My daughter is getting married on Augusta 31st! I will have some time off then and hope to enjoy her and her wedding!!! ❤. I am making a peach blueberry cobbler your recipe for her desserts for the wedding!!!
Thank you for the ideas!
Hope you and your family had amazing trip, it is smart to park for trips anymore. We are leaving on Friday for the camper in the Smokey mountains. We are taking everything we need for every meal to cook on the black stone and grill. It’s too expensive to eat out anymore. It’s just myself, and my son and his family this trip. But still for four people to eat out one meal is like close to 90.00 per meal at dinner or more. So what I save on one night pay for the groceries the entire trip. The garden looks beautiful.
Waiting on hardcover cookbook!!❤
Hi friend, we live on the Minnesota/South Dakota border, so dry and hot so far this summer. Having many day’s when the Canadian smoke is very visible here. Safe travels. Love your videos!!
YUMMY!
The weather was crazy last week it felt like winter again. I’ve commented before I am in 100 mile and our big news is we finally finished our 10x20 green house and got it all planted. We are already harvesting some radishes and lettuce even though I recently learned lettuce is not great in the greenhouse. I am beginner so it’s an experimental year I will learn as I go!
Lovely indeed! Happy gardening season and God bless.
I grow lettuce in knock off Aerogarden hydroponic system in my house. I bought them at Aldi when they went on sale.
Replant just before cooler weather. It'll love growing in the greenhouse later.
Thank you Chelsea!
And your garden is coming along nicely, excited to see what it will be like when you return~!
We always pack snacks when we travel. I’m glad to hear someone else say that eating out sometimes gives you an upset stomach. I love to eat at home. It’s over 100 degrees here in Oklahoma. Safe travels!
Loved the food ideas as you prepared for your trip! Great way to save money as you travel! 💰
Wow, lots of work! We are only 4 and fast food is almost $80. Absolutely crazy! Garden looks great Chelsea! Beautiful!🤗💜🤗
Have fun be safe. I hope you are not getting any of that forest fires smoke.. We sure are. Didn't know what was going on for 3-4 days so today, we with bad breathing and our age wore masks doing yard work.
We just returned from a camping trip and kayaking during some smoky days in Central Ontario. I pre shred cheese, cook bacon and ground beef ahead of time, pack eggs from our chickens and take lettuces from the garden. Planning ahead makes the trip so much more enjoyable.
We did the same when we moved. So much healthier too.
A time saver: If you have a casserole dish as long as your pasta, put them in the dish and pour boiling water from your tea kettle over them and in about 20-25 minutes they’ll be Al dente and ready to form your lasagna. I’ve been doing this the last couple years instead of waiting for boiling water on the stovetop. You can add a little olive oil in your water or spray them with cooking spray if you get any sticking.
What a great idea!
We had rather dense Canadian smoke yesterday here in the Chicago area. It's Totally acceptable however, as we are NOT also threatened by the cause: Fire!
This reminds me of when my boys were young and we went camping on the weekends. I would cook for three days and have it all ready to go Friday afternoon. Good times… And I had pretty healthy kids …well worth the work.!!
We also stay in places with kitchens and bring food. Either easy to cook, home canned, or frozen with the cooler but I'm getting away from so much cooler stuff because if we stay in multiple places we have to unload it all and some of the airbnbs don't have much freezer space if they're a primary residence.
Have a safe trip and enjoy!!
Hi!
Love your vlogs. I hope you know how blessed you are to have such a big family. They are a joy, even on a bad day.
We are in the dog days of summer here and it is very humid and hot. Brewing sun teas and adding herbs to make them yummy.
Enjoy your trip and can’t wait for the next chapter of your vlog.
I make big batches of trail mix which I keep in a jar for us to snack on. SO much cheaper, like you said. I’m lucky to have an Amish bulk food store where I pick up all my supplies. I also make different kinds of granola bars which I cut into squares & keep in treat jars. So nice for a quick treat.
Lucky!
Enjoy your vacation. All the food looks wonderful. I'll be making those muffins with bananas in the freezer.
This brings back memories. Our family growing up always brought snacks and food on vacation, and I continued it with my children. Nothing like road snacks. We generally stayed in hotels. My dad was in India in the army for 3 years and always said that was enough of tents. We had cereal, etc for breakfast, sandwiches and fruit for lunch and generally went out for dinner. Hotels didn't have refrigerators in those days, so we always had a cooler that we had to refill.
Have fun!
My husband and our family just moved into our dream house! With 27 acres! As excited as I am to get exploring and settled in I am so exhausted from moving all week! Love your videos!
In Chicago we're getting smoke from the Canadas fires. We are praying for your fire fighters to stay safe and a quick end to the fires. May God bless Canada and all who live there (including animals) 😇
Have a great trip!
When my kids were teens the only eating out was at an all you can eat buffet. I figured that they ate more than the price of the buffet. What great healthy meals and snacks.
Vaya con dios sweet family. For next time breakfast tacos super easy keeps well.
My gosh you were superwoman today! Wanted to tell you I went out to a friends farm and we picked sand plums yesterday. Cooked them down and made jelly last night. Sand plum jelly is the best and most sought out in the Midwest. Not available in any stores. It’s a homemade find! For me it’s the fondest memory of mine. When I smell those plums boiling on the stove I’m with grandma in the kitchen!(happy tears)
Have you ever seen them?
Wow, i missed this video. So, i had to watch it after your latest one and its insane how much the high tunnel has grown since then! That's crazy...lol. Now i see what you're talking about. But, i know one thing...im definitely making me some of those bean burritos you had there. They looked absolutely delicious! Which i love anything Mexican, its definitely my weakness. Now I've never made lasagna before with cottage cheese and i love that stuff. I probably eat a pint of it all by myself with just salt and pepper every week. So, im definitely gonna try that next time. Even though I've really only made lasagna probably 3 times in my life and i used eggplant instead of noodles the very last time. It was really good. That bulls heart/blood tomato was small then considering of how huge it was in the latest video. And we love a good tomato sandwich. Have you ever added a tiny bit of mustard to your tomato sandwich before. Its really good! But, you only need a tiny bit and of course the mayonaise...lol😊
This is great. So many good ideas, and so practical.
Faithful fan-now age 79but you remind me so much of growing up on small Homestead in Nova Scotia
Love love love your videos! Always so inspired after watching them.
Thank you so much!!
I might be buying a cabin and fixing it up
Have fun
Enjoy your trip.
Time very well spent! Not only saved a ton of money but also way better nutritionally than about anything you're going to get out to eat.
A electric cooler that you can plug in in the car is so handy. Always have one with me. And I can also use it as an extra fridge on holiday because it also has a normal plug to go into the wall.
Great prep work Chelsea! We’ve been in a drought too. Got almost an inch over the weekend- things are perking up.
Safe travels and Godspeed 🌺
Safe travels . ❤
Wonderful vlog; thanks for sharing! Have a wonderful trip & enjoy some relaxation! Blessings to all 🤗💗🇨🇦
Wow Chelsea you will need a holiday after all that work.