Prepper Pantry Tour - My Latest Organization Strategy to Create More Space
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- Creating enough space to store food can be a bit challenging. Thanks to some inspiration from a friend, I overhauled my kitchen pantry. I'm so glad that I did. When I finished, I had significantly more space and everything was organized. I love the improvements.
In this video, I take you on a genuinely embarrassing tour of my disorganized pantry. The finished pantry has plenty of room for a "stock up" trip to the grocery store.
I purchased these organizers for my pantry from Amazon and am happy with them.
Over the Door Pantry Organizer amzn.to/3zJbkrA
Adjustable Wall Mount Spice Rack amzn.to/41aFrDY
Gamma seal bucket lids amzn.to/41aFrDY
Wooden step stool (I bought mine at Ikea) amzn.to/3zLTl3P
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I purchased these organizers for my pantry from Amazon and am happy with them.
Over the Door Pantry Organizer amzn.to/3zJbkrA
Adjustable Wall Mount Spice Rack amzn.to/41aFrDY
Gamma seal bucket lids amzn.to/41aFrDY
Wooden step stool (I bought mine at Ikea) amzn.to/3zLTl3P
Visit TheProvidentPrepper.org to learn more!
3 Months Supply of Food: Amazing Peace of Mind
theprovidentprepper.org/3-months-supply-of-food-amazing-peace-of-mind/
Ingenious Places to Store Your Emergency Food Supply
theprovidentprepper.org/ingenious-places-to-store-your-emergency-food-supply/
How to know when food storage is too old
theprovidentprepper.org/food-storage-how-old-is-too-old/
Best practices for storing food
theprovidentprepper.org/8-food-storage-enemies-and-how-to-slay-them/
Why food storage is critically important and how to get started
theprovidentprepper.org/hunger-insurance-dont-get-caught-without-it/
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You used the same link for the adjustable wall mount rack as for the Gamma lids.
I always love seeing other people's food storage and pantries.
Good, work, but quite a different approach than we took! We have an inconspicuous pantry for normal use and a separate cellar for our preppings. That cellar is about 12 by 12 feet. When you open the door, you only see something like a book closet, filled with plastic stuff. This is to hide the real cellar. You have to push the closet inside the cellar (it has wheels) and then you can enter the cellar. The cellar is filled with the cheepest possible wooden racks that I could find (when we ever need to eat our supplies, I can use the racks as fire wood). Not just the walls but also the middle of the cellar is filled with three rows of racks. The cellar is filled for 90 percent with canned food, since canned food can be eaten without preparation and contains it's own liquid. Mostly canned bread, canned beans, canned rice, canned pasta, canned soup, canned vegetables. The other 5 percent are buckets filled with uncooked rice and uncooked pasta. The reason that there is relatively little uncooked stuff, is that when SHTF, you might not have fuel or clean water available to cook you meals. I put all the cans in cardboard boxes (each containing six cans) - so that when we might have to leave our house (which we try to avoid at all costs), we can load the boxes as fast as possible into a trailer. In total there is a supply to sustain two people for two years - or eight people for 6 months.
One tip that I am proud of is using the hanging shoe bag in my pantry. It hangs on the door and I store my small packaged mixes and drink mixes in each section. It saved me a ton of space. It was a cheap find at Walmart .
Same here. One in kitchen pantry and I also have one for often used otc drugs/ band aids another for various daily vitamins. Bets the heck out of digging through drawer or bins.
That’s such a good idea! Thank you! 👍🇺🇸
As my kids moved out I put heavy duty shelving along one wall. I store all of my appliances and extra canned items, TP, paper towels, etc. in there. Once I pull from there to replace the pantry, I add it to my shopping list.
❤looks great! SPRING CLEANING ❤. It feels so amazing when you’re finished. It’s amazing how much stuff you have tucked away in your working pantry! My favorite space saving tip for my working pantry, I try to store as much as I can in square, straight sided containers. Like the ones you have your pea flour in. I use jars too (a lot😂) but square optimizes space better than round. Straight sides not tapered too! Look at how much space is lost in the gaps 😂 on tapered containers. And I’m a fan of putting my stuff in containers. Store packaging is designed often times to give you the perception that you are getting more than you actually are, anyone who has ever enjoyed a potato chip knows EXACTLY what I’m talking about 😂😡. I’m not a fan of storing air. I also put peel and stick floor tiles on my shelves. Super easy clean up! More durable than shelf paper. Lastly, if you don’t use it, loose it! Pass it on to someone in need of what you don’t use.
Thanks for being willing to share cleaning day with us!
Excellent timing. Was about to overhaul my setup.
Since I'm a single empty nester, when my washing machine died, I opted to hand wash laundry and bought a 2ft deep 5ft wide shelving unit for that area. I'm in the tropics, so washing laundry outside is doable year round.
Urban Prepper had a fantastic video of how he dated and color coded with easy to see stickers...changed my prepping immensely 🎉❤
Boy Howdy, was that ever nice to see and get inspired! Thank You.
Great video. I have a small house and struggle with letting stuff go, organizing, wanting to be a minimalist but a prepper but not a hoarder! Lol. Recently converted a closet in laundry room which is right by the kitchen into a pantry.
Kylene, I love your content. Thank you for teaching us!
Thanks for watching!
It always amazes me how much can fit in a relatively small space with good use of shelving and vertical height.
I have a shoe organizer, the one with pouches, hanging over my pantry door. Perfect for packets and extra spices
Space is actually a valuable resource with us. We just finished filling our second 10x20 building. By the time they deliver the building and I have power and hvac put in its a small fortune. Soon, I will have a bedroom opening up when my oldest grandson and his wife buy their first home, and guess what I'm doing with it. We prep long term (5+ years) for 15 people. Thankfully everyone contributes but I provide the land and space.
I've been working on this for over 20 years.
Hello. I am a beginner and by that I mean I just bought a bag of rice of beans and have not yet purchased any containers or bags to put them in yet. I really could use some guidance when it comes to prep. I was wondering if you would be willing to exchange emails with me or any other form of contact other than this chat? I understand if you cannot. Thank you for your time.
@Kristin Campbell if you are referring to me just search my name (channel) if not the provident preppers are great people with great content and I have learned a lot from them.
@WE ARE THE RESISTANCE I found your channel thank you!
@Kristin Campbell I should have a email in the description but I will check to make sure later.
I have a door rack for my spices as well. I put all of my spices in the glass spice bottles, which I reuse. The only big jars I keep are peppercorns and Kosher salt. Dehydrated veg like onions, peppers, etc, fruits and nuts are kept in mason jars in the same area. It’s been wonderful to have spices alphabetized and cuts so much time when cooking. One tip is I keep several spices as backup of the jars I go through quickly (cumin, garlic, oregano, etc). I identify those with a piece of masking tape on the top with a D for duplicate. I don’t use those until the first bottle is gone. Then I take the used bottle, run it through the dishwasher and refill from my longer term pantry bucket of spices. Then I bring it back and label it with the D label. That ensures I never run out of these spices while in the middle of cooking. This system works well for me. My biggest issue is the wide variety of staples I have. I store them in mason jars, but I’m finding I need to reduce the number of varieties. For example, do I need rolled oats, steel cut oats and oat bran? No. I’m picking one then not allowing myself to be tempted by sales. Just the varieties of rice and beans can overwhelm.
One thing I noticed with your door rack is you don’t have a back to the shelves. This probably won’t be a problem for you because you’re storing larger containers. I found some of my spice bottles would slip behind. I ended up getting some webbing (maybe 1.5”) from the fabric store and some stick on velcro. I ran a web band behind the door shelves. It helps hold the bottles in if I stuff the bins too full. My shelves aren’t screwed to my door bottom, only hanging by the top hooks.
I Keep only my opened spice/herb bottles in my working panty. I keep my backup/duplicate bottles in my long term pantry (which is a much cooler temp so they will retain their flavors until ready to use. Also, I agree that alphabetizing is a must.
Wow! It's amazing how much you had stored in that small room. I use an over the door shoe organizer for my envelope mixes and ramen packs. I also like having bins in my pantry. I can easily pull out the bin to see the items. The biggest challenge is stuff getting lost in the back of the shelves. Still working on that.
Me too! Obviously I read the comments after I posted.
I love doing what you did…..showing ruthlessness towards my stuff. But, it’s not easy to do physically, emotionally or financially… Hard lessons learned sometimes. I love orderly home but with the abundance most of us have, the challenge is real. Recently we went through our LDS #10 cans to find more homes for them. I went to the storage center and bought 50 $1 boxes. Hubby boxed it all up and found strategic homes for it all. We put 12 behind our living room sofa (against a wall), covered it in a huge blanket, and decorated the top with lamps, etc, as if it was a console table. Nobody would ever, ever know! Diet changes are hard….but, I figure the things we really prefer not to eat when everything collapses we can give or swap. I don’t think I could have been as brave as you and given so much away. Kudos!
I put a decorative shelf just off the kitchen to put my ready made canned meals on and canned foods I need to eat sooner. If I see them, I'll be more apt to use them. It freed up space in my food storage space.
My storage problem is always clothing items and shoes saved from 10 to 25 years ago. These clothes either do not fit anymore or are hopelessly outdated. My New Year’s resolution for 2023 is to purge my closets of anything I have not worn or used within the last 12 months. Just to have some unused space in my closets where air can circulate freely will be a real stress reliever.
Oh, I know what you mean. My husband and I have recently lost so much weight that all of our clothes don't fit us anymore (I've lost 30 kilos since December - I look ridiculous in my old clothes now...). We are now gradually sorting out (we have to buy new clothes first, but it is not possible to do everything at once financially, money is not infinite, unfortunately), what is still in really good condition we donate to our local social department store, but a lot of things are no longer good enough for it. Instead of throwing these items of clothing away, I cut up those whose fabrics can be used as cleaning rags, "emergency toilet paper" or similar. I remove buttons from shirts and keep them, as do the drawstrings from hoodies and jogging pants. There's a lot coming together! I collect the pieces of fabric I collect in a specially reserved box. I would also like to someday (actually for a long time, but there was never any time or energy left) start learning to sew, then these collected pieces of fabric will definitely come in handy for me to practice with instead of having to buy fabric especially for practice. I think I've gotten pretty stingy in a way, but actually I think it's good.
Organization always inspires me. Store what you use. Use what you store. Your smart.
Thanks for sharing. I moved into an RV about 2 years ago and got rid of lots if "stuff". We have since moved back into a house and I am working on both my everyday and LT food storage. I too cook from scratch. I'm in the south, so no basement. I have somethings in our shed that don't need climate control, other things in closets and under our bed! Still a work in progress. I love to see how others do their storage. I may not be able to do the same thing, but every idea helps! Once again thanks for sharing!
I have a larger space... (basement) and I have 6 shelf stainless steel shelves from sams club that hold a lot of weight... I set the narrow ends against the wall... and I come out 2 shelves and have 4 rows... that way when I date the cans I put in from one side and take out from the other side to keep rotated... and I have shelf access for each group... 1 shelf for meats and canned meals like stew chow Mein ect... the next shelf set for canned fruits and veggies... the next for baking items and spices another for boxed meals and rice and beans and 2 for fd items and #10 cans ect... then on the other side of the basement I have more shelved that contain non food items... like med supplies and vitamins and one a few foot away for my oil lamp collection and lamp oil and candles ... it just makes it so much easier to rotate when you can put in from one side and take out on the other so you use the FIFO method... and on the end of the row on the shelf... I hang the over the door show pouches that have like 24 pouches for "shoes"... but I use them for items like my canning lids and canning items... another is for snacks and things that are not suited for longterm storage... and another has some fd things like bags for the vac sealer and o2 orbs and some mylar bags ect
Basically, you 'Clutter Cleared', which is a great feeling spiritually. Who likes that subconscious niggling that something is messy? I feel that way right now, because the weather broke and we are having an unusually dry spring here in upstate NY. Actually, we had a mild winter, and there were days in February (!!!) that I could get in the garden and spread out the mass of strawberries that I can't deal with when I'm canning tomatoes, beans, etc. So my house suffers and I do that thing where I'm eating dinner at 8:30 and start to berate myself with, "Well, you didn't vacuum today," and I have to stop and think, "I didn't even sit down for lunch. I was going 90 mph all day in the lovely sunshine. We got the tractor and big rototiller out and fluffed up our second little garden where some OP seeds to save go. I picked rock. I planted in the hoop house." I do have space up high and I'm building more shelves. A 5' ladder and my step stool are my friends! Thanks for another great video Kylene!
An unused fireplace can be used for storage, especially flammables such as cooking fuels and lamp oil. Place a fire extinguisher nearby.
One thing you might do is to contact cement some pieces of kitchen countertop laminate (you can buy it in 2 x 4 foot pieces at a home center) to the tops of the shelves in your pantry. I did that, and now I can put any wet item on the shelf and the moisture won't affect the surface (like it can with paint). Also, spills can be wiped up easily and there will be no staining of the surface.
Great organization tools for a working pantry. 😊
Thank you for showing the dirt! It makes me feel like I’m not alone. ;)
I have severe autoimmune issues too, so I understand the recuperating time needed for sure. It is so rewarding when we get those big projects done but a "time out" for a while afterwards is part of the plan.
We turned a coat closet into the main floor pantry because it's close to the kitchen in our smaller home. It now has an over the door rack that adds a lot of storage area. Fortunately, we have an unfinished basement so there's a room down there for our larger prepper pantry area. Hubby has shelves in that room and food organized by expiration years, so we replenish upstairs pantry when we need to and restock the large pantry when there are sales. All that is good, but we have been running into problems using some things up before the best buy date for our family of three, so I need to meal plan better to include those items more and not buy so many with the same dates. We've learned a lot in the last few years and your videos have been a tremendous help, so we thank you for all you share on this journey!! 💞🙏
I'm so happy youre sounding so much happier and focused, my friend! "She's baaaa-aaack!" The pantry is a sweet space too. I have a small room behind my kitchen that I'm looking to tidy into a food/preps storage area too. Thanks for the encouragement.
As part of a recent kitchen remodeling, we closed off a doorway. I had my cabinetmaker design a spice cabinet, to fit in the entire area of the old door frame, with matching doors to my other new cabinets (it is almost ceiling to floor.) The same thing could easily be done in between to wall studs.
That sounds awesome!
Our main bedroom has a large walk-in closet with a twelve-foot ceiling. There was a lot of wasted storage space on/above the wide shelf that runs along three sides of the closet above the upper clothes hanging racks. So, we removed the things that were on that shelf and stacked boxes of Mt. House meal pouches, lightweight buckets of freeze-dried food and some #10 cans on that shelf. The seldom used Brighton and Dooney & Burke handbags that had been stored on that shelf and not used since one of us retired from office work were donated to a local charity that helps outfit poor women for job interviews.
Great job! Looks awesome!
Terrific. Your pantry looks ergonomically a joy to have near your kitchen with all your immediate needs quick to get. Glad you have recovered from that daunting task. It is spring and I also have caught the organize bug, wish I had a genie. Keep up the good work Kylene, another super video. You are a great example for us. Happy trails!
I definitely find my purchase have changed since 3 of 4 children moved out! I now tend to prep for my personal liking bit still always pick up extras on sale for my kids!!
Lol they are gonna getting some macaroni noodles and dry cheese grifts for Christmas!
Looks great! I'm in the midst of updating my inventory and looking for additional space. You have given me great ideas! Thank you!👍
Love the "new and improved" pantry !
Wow! A freshly organized pantry and a new camera?!? Your video is so clear!
Wow! Your “in process” look is my kitchen’s everyday look. Where do you get your energy, Kylene? As a fellow autoimmune sufferer, I only have so much energy before I hit that fatigue wall and have to stop mid-project.
I suffer multiple autoimmune disorders, I understand completely. Do what you can and tell yourself it is ok. You are making an effort to make a difference. I always feel good about working hard to accomplish a project.It takes longer for me than some ,but the accomplishment is all that much sweeter.
♥️👍🇺🇸
Well done!
Great pantry.
You are such an inspiration! I just started doing this and got totally sidetracked. Lots of work. I am reinspired😊
Love your ideas!!
Thank you for sharing your ideas.
Beautiful pantry. Truly jealous, which is a good thing. You've given me inspiration to tackle my nightmare.❤
Love your space w have our kitchen cabinets .. some of our food storage long term is in our closest because we currently don’t have a pantry! Thanks for the inspo
Nice job. Much more functional!
Your kitchen is beautiful. We have honey colored hickory in ours. Great pantry, by the way.
Good job!!!
Yes! I am slowly moving from a bunch of people to the two of us. bought IKEA wooden lazy Susans for my corners. Huge! My shelves are narrow so I don’t lose things.
Look great!
I have been working on getting more storage into our 2 pantries over the years. The latest modification has been to add drawers, with labels, so I don't have to stack cans, etc. also moved most of my appliances to the bottom shelve that can be pulled out so as to not have to listen to my knees popping when I used to have to get down on the when I needed something.
The last time I emptied the pantry to inventory and clean it I painted it with the whitest high-gloss paint I could find which brightened it up.
Looks good
"It's going to take me hours!?!" That would take me a week! OMG I can't believe how much stuff you had in that closet. What you didn't mention and I liked seeing was all the notes on the door jamb - I assume the kid's growth chart. I jus' gotta ask - what do ya do with split pea flour? For my tip - I have fallen in love with the macrame bags you can buy off Etsy to store onions, potatoes and garlic. I hang the bags from the vertical shelf support. They look interesting and is so much easier than bending over and digging into a dark bin (which is what I used to do.) Thanks for sharing!
I have 4 of the over the door shoe racks with 32 slots full of everything from meds to cleaning products to condiments. Organized? I definitely need to reorganize my Prepper room. I live in a small 2 bedroom apartment. Stuff put everywhere, under bed, sofa, closets and Prepper room. At 65 with issues it will take awhile but it will get done. Next project is getting my tomatoes and peppers started for the deck.
Thanks for the inspiring video.
looks so GREAT>. way to go Jones's
I love your pantry. My little pantry is so tiny. It is only a tiny closet that is 24 x 14 inches
I am glad I am not the only one who has the same circa year/red label dehydrated apple slices. Opened one last year because the can got bent badly in a move and you know what, they were still good!
Haha! I was relating to the cans with the old labels too.
Hi Kylene, We don't have a pantry in our kitchen (pantrys were no a thing when we built our home) so organizing our available cupboards and drawers was critical. We could only fit 7 of the #10 cans on our 2 available shelves and not much else. Something had to change. So we bought some 1 gallon food grade plastic containers with screw on lids that are lined with a gasket from Walmart. The contents of a #10 can just fit! Then I could stand 6 of them across 1 shelf which was better...but I kept at it and finalluy found that I could fit 12 of them on that same shelf if I tipped them on their side and double stacked them. I put the labels on the top of the lid. I just made sure the things we use the most are on the top. It's worked great! I also found that I could reorganize one of my drawers using different sized OXO containers. This allows my wheat berries, flour, bread flour, sugar, pancake mix, brown rice, brown sugar, and lesser used grains to be there when I want to use them. I do have bulk storage with gamma lids elsewhere like you do. But these 2 areas now allow me to have what i need and use on a daily basis right where I need them. I just refill from my bulk storage as needed. This works for us since there's only 2 of us at home.
Do you have a link to a picture? I’m not good at mentally seeing this and could really use the visual!
@@laurasonnier I sent the pictures to Kylene since I couldn't find a way to attach them to my comment.
I could not afford over the door shelving, like you got. But, I could afford an over the door SHOE holder. It works wonderful for all of my bottled sauces. I'm not sure we could fit a fridge in our pantry, it's so small and so we made the sacrifice of giving up our spare bedroom to make a pantry. I just got done doing what you did...UGH, took me 3 days and stuff is still piled up waiting on the new shelves to arrive.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Great video!
you guys did an amazing job now you can come over and do mine lol space is just running out lol
Well moving forced me to do some reorganization. I now have way less freezer space. On my to do list is a small freezer to add space again.
We have a very small kitchen so we have a 6 ft plastic shelf unit in the basement near the freezer. It's very organized using three step spice racks for all our canned goods and clear plastic shoeboxes for pudding, jello, rice pasta or potato packets. We just shop off these shelves a couple of times a week and take that food upstairs to cook. It's our freezer that needs organizational help. I would welcome anyone's ideas on that. We have a chest freezer and it's always hard to find what you're looking for.
Dividers have helped a lot. Also, reusable grocery bages keep like items together.
I need to do this again. I have a lot of foods in my pantry that i don't use anymore. I wish I could get them to someone who can use them but they are pretty old and past the best buy date so a lot of people won't use them thinking they are expired and bad. But I need to get my pantry cleaned out. I don't have a basement or garage so this is it so it has to be organized.
@@TheProvidentPrepper Our food bank doesn't seem interested. But I need to get things cleared out so I may open the canned goods and put them into my compost pile then they don't go to waste.
I think i am dreaming! You are cooking like me !❤❤❤❤
@@TheProvidentPrepper May e i should start writhing my recipies ! My d'agiter is asking me do it for 2 years now
I went through everything as I was making dried meal pouches. I accidentally knocked a can of Augason Farms freeze dried food off the shelf. I realized that it did not rattle. It was unopened and sealed. So I opened it and it was a moldy clump. I ended up checking everything. The Augason Farms grains had bug infestations. I purchased them during 2022.
Buying food from the big survival food companies is a risk and I lost.
How do you keep your flour good in the 5 gallon bucket? I had two full and they both went bad. Had to throw it all out… I was so sad.
I love the pantry!!!
I built FIFO rack for a closet in my storage room it holds over 800 cans
I think I have to get into my pantry at least once a month. With 5 kids (4 are boys) I have to constantly reorganize,,,they are always hungry...lol
Ok... let's get a tour of the rest of the place...lol. starting with MY room. 😉
Great ideas! Thanks! Can you tell me what kind of Hash Browns are in your hash brown bucket? I’m trying to find a good way to store hash browns long term. I tried freeze drying then but the store night hash browns contain oil, so they went rancid after a year. Thanks!
I have a love seat in the living room against the wall, I can hide 50 number 10 cans stacked behind it and no one is the wiser. I will admit that I have sacrificed my sewing and weaving room, the extra bedroom, to being a pantry with heavy duty steel racks. and the walk in closet is full as well. I need to totally redo that whole thing and reclaim some personal space, or I will go insane. I need a place to go hide and do my thing without people bugging me.
Looks fantastic. Jealous of your upstairs pantry!! Do you have a basement? Just curious.
@5:14 where did you find the black lentils? ive been looking for them at a decent price for years now.
I wish I had organizational skills
Where's the can food?
Milk crates under my materess and box springs
Oh my thats a lot of stuff for a small room
Where did you get the door shelves? ❤
You mention PETE plastic for food storage. How about HDPE plastic containers?
Question: I do not can. I like you do store freeze dried food in canning jars for use in the next few years vs. Mylar for longer term. I do tend to vacuum seal with an O2 absorber in the jars with the FD food. I generally leave the rings on the jar -- and I think you may have. I think with canning it is a no-no. Is it not good with FD food. PS. I do check lid is dimpled down for at least 48 hours before going into storage.
Split pea flour? Grind your own? What do you use it for?
Instead of 5 gallon buckets we use the pet food containers with gamma lids. They have an angled opening so you don’t have to take them off a shelf to get into them. I hope someone knows what I’m describing. 😂
Vittles vault? (Silly name, but a really neat product ) Looks like a cube but with an angled spout that has a gamma lid.
@@TheProvidentPrepper yes, they are quite a bit more expensive than a 5 gallon bucket. But some of them hold more than 5 gallons. We do have some buckets too, but I like the pet food ones for items we use more frequently and for my mom who can’t lift a full bucket to open it up.
Can I store dry dog food long term in mylar bags?
I've watched all your videos on vac sealing in glass jars and I know about freeze / thaw methods. Question: do I have to do that with rice or beans? Can't I just vac seal in glass? Thanks.
If there are bug eggs in them, they will hatch. That's why some freeze them first. I don't, but I use oxygen absorbers to remove oxygen. Bugs can't live without oxygen, and if you can vac seal the jar too, it would be even better.
Where did you get the over the door rack and spice racks? Do you have links?
@@TheProvidentPrepper thank you!
@@TheProvidentPrepper oh! Great price too! Is it sturdy?
Do you have any ideas for canning jar storage (not ones with food in them)? My home was built in 1905 and has lots of storage issues. I do have a shed but I worry about the seals on the lids during extreme temperatures, that it might make them brittle or overly thin causing them not to seal when needed (or come unsealed). Is that a valid worry or should I just put them in the shed?
Could you put the jars in the shed and the flats/lids in a container in the house under a bed maybe?
@@Lulu-he9dp That's a good idea. I have our beds up on top of the #10 can storage, so I'd need a different place for the flats, but I think I could figure that out. I've been hesitant to take the plastic off of the new cases, but I think I need to get over it. I wish the jars were still packed in full boxes where the lids were not sealed onto the jars.
@@TheProvidentPrepper Yes, empty canning jars, some old some new. Filling them with water is a great idea. I'll do that. Thank you!
Just be sure to keep jars with water in where they won’t freeze! Learn from my mistake!
Help! I’m terrible at rotating my food. Any suggestions?
I had this problem for a long time too!
Now I have a large wall shelf next to the cellar door, on which I put all the food supplies (of course only those that don't need to be refrigerated), also some cleaning and body care products that have a use-by date that have to be used up in the next 6 months.
I then put these goods on our "must buy again" list. When I plan our weekly menu, I always look at this shelf first and create the menu in such a way that it is based on what is on the shelf and has to be consumed; I take what I can use up to the apartment and put it in our pantry.
Whenever I put new goods on the storage shelves, I check the products that are already there to see when they will reach the best-before date.
Sometimes I just "visit" the storage shelves, check if everything is in order, look for best-before dates, be happy with what we have and think about new recipe options.
How do you have hashbrowns in a bucket Kylene??
We found a group buy of hashbrowns in 25 pound bags several years ago. They were amazing. Haven't seen any since then.
Really? That’s great, however, when there’s an shtf event, you’ll have everyone remembering you as “the crazy lady that stores loads of food”… remember, OPSEC, tell no one 👍👍👍
Lol. They live in Utah, a high percentage of their neighbors also have food stored. Also, that’s just their kitchen pantry.
It’s along the same lines as showing people what’s in your fridge.
I assure you that they understand not telling everyone about what all they have. They are also well capable of defending themselves against marauders.
@@TheProvidentPrepper ok great point, I see where you’re coming from. I’ve only ever seen the worst in humanity when it comes to hunger. Take care… great channel 👍👍👍
You should have scrubbed and painted while it was empty.
Is funny because is people starving in the streets , and you are prepping for what ?