I've decided that your channel should be required for all people at least for a year during their lives - mostly high school/college age people as well as those just journeying out into the world on their own for the first time. Home economics isn't taught in schools anymore. Even the classes call "life skills" teach mostly about dollar management without venturing into the areas of a basic stocked pantry or cupboard. I think you should have been chosen for Time's Person of the Year. Period.
By Dollar management you mean how to get credit, right? I know no schools teaching to live on less than you earn and save up for what you want. They teach how to have a good credit score!
I discovered your videos while recovering from two knee replacements (separated by 4mo) since taking a hiatus from van life travel the last 4 years. Bought a small (800+ square foot) home to use as a home base in 2023 as will be 75 in a week. As a nomad I lived in 72 sq ft so was used to buying only things with multiple uses which made sense for being prepared. Now have stocked shelves to the rafters, created a spreadsheet to keep track of inventory, using the dots to keep track of dates, plus other tips gleaned from you. Still have about another month to go to complete it. One thing I have added to my meal plan is printed recipes as well as recipes I saved from my own, mom/grandma. All from scratch! I use this to stock up on ingredients. I’m binge watching canning, dehydrating, growing and cooking from scratch! Just last month took a chicken and broccoli noodle casserole over to a struggling family of nine along with a salad, garlic bread and a chocolate cake for dessert which fed them for two days. Figured out the cost, $8! I have had to live on SS only and even with the crazy inflation feel rich and prosperous! Thank you!
One tip that has helped me is I make sure I have everything I need if I get a cold/flu. I have a tote with tissues, basic day & night OTC meds, cough drops, crackers, jello, canned chicken soup or broth, lemon lime soda, etc. There is nothing worse than having to go to the store, or wait until someone can go to the store for you, when you don't feel well. Taped a list to the side of the bin with contents and use/best buy dates to make it easy to rotate items when needed.
I have found that making up different meals in jars with what I stock to be very helpful. These jars contain dehydrated and freeze dried ingredients, and all I need to add is either water or broth. Any seasonings needed are already in the jar. I only recently started doing this, and it has been a game changer. If I'm sick and want some soup, I just empty the contents of a jar into a pot of water and simmer until done. This also works great when I don't feel like cooking.
I've always been a homecooked meal type person so I have always had a pretty decent pantry but when 2020 hit and people started acting so nuts over the shut downs, I knew I needed to up my game. I used to LOVE grocery shopping but 2020 made it unenjoyable. I became more intentional with my pantry stocking in 2021, the inflation hadn't hit yet and people were so hyper focused on getting "normal" back so I put my nose to the grind and started putting away food, canning, learning about proper storage and putting my skills to work. I'm still using up stock from 2021 and 2022. When inflation hit, I wasn't feeling the hurt like so many others because prepping your pantry really pays off! It was so much easier to stock up in 2021 when pricing wasn't so crazy and every time I grocery shop now, I am just so thankful I got ahead of the inflation. Maintaining a well stocked pantry saves so much time and money! I can't recommend it enough to everyone I know.
Lately my December push has been to build in a supply of certain items that I think may skyrocket with tariffs (random food items, toiletries, etc.) I realized I’ve also moved to a lot of from-scratch food items and b/c I can and prep we have what we need. Was so excited to look at my husband’s breakfast plate the other day and three of the four things on it were made by me. That’s a feeling of real freedom! Preparedness is a journey and I’m enjoying the learning curve with Leisa and this great community! ❤
My husband is finally becoming aware of food pantry, storage, eating leftovers. We are more mindful of labeling, eating, freezing, canning. When he asks i need this or that, i have that in the pantry. Im loving it.
Today my husband said you know what would be good in the broth. He started naming jars in the pantry lol. I said yeah that sounds awesome. I think the fight is over. He’s come on board. We only get mere necessities from the store.
What got me back into canning after a many year break was my bestie started canning pints of low carb soup as her lunches. I decided I wanted to do that too for all of us and homemade lunches immediately removed $200 from our grocery budget and we were healthier. Next was figuring out popcorn, noob baked goods and canning fruit/juice/salsa/pickles for snacks instead of store bought junk. That removed another $300. Adjusting my mindset and planning to can and repackage prepped freezer bags of ingredients for dinners came last but was a life changer. Another $500+ from the budget. Having everything (for 8 of us) on hand and ready gives us no excuse but to eat affordable healthy food, purchased on sale. It is the same amount of work all at once, ahead of time, instead of spreading the work out by struggling everyday to figure out food while everyone is impatient and hangry. I’m not a big planner but for $1000/mo I am 😂
I am feeling extreme stress, I only was able to work 2 days last week, got 31 hrs this week but told no work next week, I am hitting my pantry more and more and not able to put back when I get paid, I am feeling something bad this way is coming and we are already feeling the pinch. Thank you Lord for the roof over my head , food in my stomach, clothes on my back please help those who don’t have these as through you Lord I have abundance Amen
Some food pantries even have brand new clothes and things you can get for free or dirt cheap. I had to go that route when widowed waiting on disability. Got a funeral suit for free in my size. Bad years. 15 funerals in 5 years. That was a church and even got 4 small pizzas a month and fresh produce we could take. Another one was where we got a cart and allowed 50 pounds a person. Sometimes meat and often an extra like a bag of potatoes. Once a 60 pound box of raisins.😂I haven't had a raisin since and was bagging them up to give to others as I saw them.
Freezing eggs is a wonderful thing to do my wife did it during Covid when there was a shortage of eggs she bought a case and frozen at least half of them specially if you like scrambled eggs, put them in a bowl scramble them put them in a little bag and freeze them Then they take up no space in your freezer? if you want a sunny side chicken egg add a little salt or sugar to it by myself do not care for the texture so we found scrambling to be the best option. Love your program. A lot of good information. A lot of common sense people need to think and learn a new skill at this time. Learn how to do something that you’ve never done before because you never know when it might come in handy.
Huge advocate of meal planning. It reduces the chance of something sitting too long in inventory. For long term items, like toiletries, I mark the opening date with a Sharpie to get an idea of how long a bottle lasts. Even shampoo can go bad if you don't use it in a few years, so there is a real limit to how much you should stock.
Sprouting beans and lentils from one’s pantry is easy and really nutritious. It’s also a good way for diabetics to consume them without spiking their blood sugar. Love your channel!
Our local grocery outlet puts out boxes of produce that’s almost not sellable or when it’s the last in the display and they are switching to a new product. I have unimaginable access to healthy free food and it can be overwhelming getting everything frozen, cooked, canned or eaten before it’s too far gone!! I’ve even got my dogs to enjoy eating salad to make sure everything is eaten 😂 (lettuce with cheese and a little sour cream & olive oil) Using the strategies from your channel helps me maximize the food available to me and get the most benefits! I even compost the produce I can’t use fast enough and I harvest ALL the seeds so I can grow even more free food in the future! Thanks for all your ideas!!
Thank you for all your advice... At the store today 18 eggs $9 Upstate NY...prices are crazy!!! With your help my goal has been stock 1 month long term each and every month... bulk purchases and sales and price checking other stores have allowed me to amass 4-6 months long term in the last 3 months...lastly smiling when the cashier says 36 jars of spaghetti sauce wow you must have a big family...not so much but it's $3+ on sale for .99c today ..😊
If everyone did this there would be no worries , I have a years worth of food glad I canned, dehydrated, and bought what I couldn’t grow or raise so I could cab it because now my hours have been cut and hubby and I are relying on my pantry more and more. Never throw out left overs we eat them or chickens and dog enjoy a tidbit.
$3.49, 12 Large Eggs in South Florida. Winter is our dry season here, but also good for growing so many things. A rain barrel really helps. Sadly, my small City does Not Allow Chickens! I'm thinking about some ducks, (quieter), or "giant quail"
Left overs can be the most fun. My work best and i both have picky kids. Twice a week we bring in random kid left overs and have either salads or rice bowls from them. No waste and double the variety of combinations. We call them dump lunches. Lol
I am dehydrating/powdering Kale and Collards today. One reason I dehydrate is to make one fresh meal then dehydrate the balance. I used to eat first then dry, but now I set aside enough for one meal and immediately dehydrate the balance at peak. Zero waste. Without buying extra to store, I am amazed how much I get for my pantry because my 2 stores sell packages instead of singles. I don't throw it away, and don't eat leftovers as often. My vegetable powders are rich additions. I add powder to a new jar, pour the prior powder on top, then wash the empty jar, keeping it fresh.
I don't believe in wasting anything, if I can help it, so I love the challenge of turning leftovers into deliscious meals. Sometimes my creations are just ok but sometimes they are some of the best food I have ever eaten. I just made one of the tastiest soups I have ever eaten, yesterday. It was one of those end of the week throw the collection of leftovers in a soup pot, spice it up, and cook. Many people would never put combonations like this togethet but it works. Remember all of these were leftovers sitting in my fridge: pinto beans and ham, cajun chicken and vegetables, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, hamburger vegetable soup, black beans, corn, and a partial can of leftover chipotles in adobo sauce. I could not duplicate this if I tried but my family requested for me to make it again.
You always have wise advice. Even this old lady picks up a tip occasionally. Hang in there. We are having an ice storm tonight. We are always prepared.
I absolutely love your channel. I have watched many videos about stocking a pantry, but your videos are the most informative. Your approach to this makes the most sense. Stock that you eat, eat what you stock! So many others tell you what you should stock regardless if you eat it or not. Thank you so much for making these videos. I have been doing this for about five years now, but I still find new information.
I had to refill my stock in the little pantry. But we are eating great meals. Next month, canning lids and canning more meats will happen. Birthdays, Christmas, and propane always empty the bank in December. No mater how hard I try to get ahead. All my children were born in December, even though I wanted none in the winter. And about half the grandkids, too. It makes for a lot of together time and great meals so I guess it's all good.
@SuttonsDaze it is the bright side. With everyone working overtime and the grandkids' extracurricular activities, it's hard to see each other. So we make birthdays and holidays extra special events bcuz it doesn't happen often.
I don't usually have leftovers that aren't planned. But I do occasionally have food orphans that turn up in odd combos. Three pierogi with scrambled eggs and the last two sausages from a pack for lunch. An onion that needs to be used becomes oven baked onion rings as a side for chicken soup. The last English muffin becomes a grilled bun for a turkey patty topped with mozz cheese and a dab of pasta sauce. Sometimes the weird stuff turns out the best, lol.
we used to make little pizzas from old english muffins, pizza sauce, any left over meat, mozz cheese,onion put under the broiler. easy, and quick, the kids love having their own pizza
@@carolhinman8431 Ooo that's a good idea, I didn't think of English muffin pizzas. They would be a fun lunch for my elderly dad. Thank you! I've got 3 muffins handy, they're gonna get the treatment for lunch tomorrow.
So much practical advice in this video. ❤ Two ways to store eggs: of course, fresh UNWASHED farm eggs keep quite well for weeks and weeks just on the counter. Longer in frig. Ive had them go a couple of months, just do the float test for any you are unsure of. Freeze them. I have used ice cube trays, and one large egg will fill 2 cubes- yolk in one, white in the other. Once frozen, into ziplck bags. You can also scramble them first and then freeze, but I like them separate because then you use them if your recipe calls for whit es or yolks. Thwy cook and taste like fresh. Make pasta. Noodles are easy, use up lots of eggs, and store nicely in jars, vacuum sealed for longest shelf life. Who doesnt like homemade noodles?
Blessings Lisa from Chicago. As a person fighting diabetes I stock substitutes for starch. I dehydrate black radishes,kohlrabi,lauki, and mushrooms. I use shemeji,bamoo and chestnut mushrooms in place of pasta. We don't hve to eat rice,potatoes or pasta. We just have to learn, what we can eat instead.❤❤ Teach lady, teach.😊
Hubby early on grabbed those 3-day emergency packs to have on hand. Then he tasked me to learn to do more … I found you and began my canning journey (and also found Darcy and do some dehydrating too). Whenever folks see me stocking and give the eye roll for my extended pantry, the best way they understand is always to explain raising prices and taking advantage of bulk sales today to ward off tomorrow’s prices.
I thought I was done canning because I ran out of jars, well just bought more. Thank you for your breakfast burritos ideas. I am gathering ingredients to make some. With the cost of eggs rising this will be great to have. Thank you very much for your helpful information. .
Buy on sale! But what you eat/consume... when you have the extra money that you have saved..buy bulk if you can!... if you see that you are not going thru it and it's getting out of date...don't throw it away..donate or gift it to someone. ..I have a well stocked kitchen and pantry...but it's just 2 of us... I would rather give it away than waste it!
My father, 94, was recently in the hospital. The nutritionist explained to me that food waste from patients has become a huge problem. The care giver of that person has permission to eat what the patient does not eat to hold down waste. Once a day I was going home for 1 hour to prepare my meals in an insulated tote. Eating what my Dad would not eat made my home prepare less. This is not a selfish act. This is literally helping hospitals maintain cost and waste. The only meal they brought that was not huge was lunch.
Build conviemce into your pantry inventory rather than buy it. Boxes, bags, packets, and all the rest are grab-n-go items. Prep your own grab-n-go convience by mixing the dry ingredients one recipie per container; I seem to like mixing 6 containers of the same thing at a time. A secure lid is essential but your container isn't going to be canned so it can be pretty much any container. For inflation fighting purposes, listen to the peppers, the canners, batch cooking types, and the like then use your freezer. Yes, you do risk a power outage if you don't can. Use those canning recipies then freeze to make things like salsa, enchillda sauce, apple sauce, and so much more. Do things like buying the #10, 108 ounce, 27 servings of 4oz each, can of Musscleman's apple sauce for $7.49 over a 9 count Motts 4oz servings, 36 ounces, for $9.99. Open, portion, and freeze what won't hold in the fridge. Canned tomatoes will freeze as will a number of other things.
I’ve been binging your videos since I found your channel a few days ago. I got a freeze dryer a few months back and am now just learning to can. Been stocking up on as many staples as I can as well. It’s been stressful thinking about the future but preparing is very comforting. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
Oh I just love your videos, DEAR YOU HAVE A MILLION DOLLARS IN DEHYDRATED FOODS , I’ve try to purchase these items,they are out of reach in prices to even try to can, the jars are outrageous, I’m trying everything, now I have a huge charge card bill., there is two of us and living below the poverty level, just horrible….
I greatly appreciate your attempt to educate the public about practical and wise ways of educating people on how to feed our families in times of stress. You have helped me become a bit wiser and helped me become less stressed. I come from a very thrifty family. You have helped me modernized my techniques. You have helped to reinforce the thrifty techniques that I had already been practicing, while teaching more techniques. I urge people to listen to you and learn of their own free will. I am against forcing these techniques on unwilling people. If we are to remain free to live , as we see fit. Life will hopefully make them wiser.
We buy large(er) quantities of great priced items and as a result have less variety but more quantity. Our latest big haul was $3.99/:24.x oz cans of Martinson's coffee grounds. We have to take care of sugar, starch, and salt and in looking back at the shelves we have more basic-ish foods. We began the inflation fighting larder with $20/ week and then we added $50 "stock uo" money/ pay; much easier as we were eating primarily out of our great priced larder. This said, we locked in the regular price of some items we truly use to include Baby Ray's Originsl BBQ sauce, tp, shampoo, and cream rinse. - Note those priorities: coffee, BBQ sauce, and tp!
I canned 14 pints of ugly turkey and 11 quarts of stock. At $0.69, there wasn’t any cheaper protein available. I have also found that my Ball lids that I canned with a couple of years ago, have rusted on the inside. It passed the tap test, but the underside was definitely rusty I had to throw out several quarts of navy bean soup. Better safe than sorry.
Heres a little tip for health and wealth - Because of high milk prices I'm planning to grow more white seeded beans. Apparently, they contain not only protein but also calcium and the calcium is more bioavailable to the body than dairy calcium.
I didn’t know beans had calcium in them. So examples of white seeded beans would be pinto and great northern beans? Thank you for sharing this information, I learned something new today! 😊
@EverydayisFriday-bw7bt yes. Any white seeded bean and you're welcome. I just learned it day before yesterday. I duck duck go'd veggies with high amounts of calcium.
All I have for long-term pantry storage is a large 40-gallon bin with a lid. I have already started stocking it with food that has a long shelf life and some other essentials in emergency situations. But I'm not sure how to organize it for easy access. The way it is now, I have to dig through things to see what I have.
Recently did an inventory of my pantry and storage areas. Wow. Pressure canned seperately potatoes, green beans, carrots, pinto beans, chicken and veggie soup, turkey and veggie soup, leftover turkey, ugly chicken, ugly pork and a little beef that was found on sale. Also vacuum sealed some pastas and other dry goods. Also purchased tin can veggies, meats, and a few meal in a can items when stocking up. Paper goods and essentials have been added to the shelves, too. And plenty of jugs of water stored just in case. For secondary fuel to eat or warm the buns, I've got Coleman fuel for stoves/lanterns/heater as well as propane for similar equipment. There's a bit of engineered gas for the generator. And OMG don't let me forget the woodpile and charcoal for cooking in my cast iron camp dutch ovens. I've had fun stacking useful stuff. Have been called a pile it (pilot) a few times.
I've started my pantry after watching your videos and began canning last year. It's a learning experience! There's some things I've stored that i don't use often but those things are long term storage that i would eat more if SHTF. I started with canning and freezing and freeze drying basic ingredients that i use in cooking. I've gotten to the place where I'm conformable with those items and have ventured into want items instead of need items. Organizing has been an on going trial and error effort lol but besides needing more shelves my next step is getting an inventory on paper instead of in my head lol. Thank you for all your tips!
Lisa, I watch you all the time. Not only do I can and prep, but you also have my hair! I lasted 6 months and started cutting. I couldn't handle it anymore. You're looking beautiful!
Those meals in a bucket would be ok in an emergency, but not a good long-term food option. As for the freeze dried foods, I prefer to get the single food stuff and measure the various ingredients into a jelly jar or vacuum seal bag. Either one can be vacuum sealed, and making my own increases the nutritional value and flavor. In a jelly jar, I can just add boiling water and put the lid on it. Single serving, the lid on it makes it less likely that someone can smell it.
Thank you so much for another excellent post. Also, Thank You so much for sticking to the subject and not making your personal political opinion part of the post. It gets so tiring watching so many woman with a heading of homesteading or pantry and imposing their personal political thoughts, which most are tiresome and ignorant. You are an excellent Teacher.
Also, if you want to freeze bread, but you don’t like how the bread gets the taste from the freezer take your bread out of the bag wrap a couple of slices and wax paper and put it back in the bag and continue to the bag is full. I did this during Covid and bread lasted in my freezer for months without losing taste or texture Takes a little time but well worth it. I kept an average of 4 to 6 loaf of bread in the freezer freezer not because I was afraid to go out because of Covid because I just couldn’t stand being around people yelling and screaming in line because they couldn’t get into the store. We also froze whole milk in the freezer.
All common sense. When you do this you have such peace. I don’t worry! One thing I do as soon as I buy canned or boxed foods is write the sell by/ use buy date in magic market big enough to read from a few feet away! So much easier to rotate when it’s easy to read!
I’ve learned the hard way to stock what you eat. I’m currently on a very low spend year, trying to eat things that seemed like a good idea at the time. If you don’t know how to use bugler or teff or millet now…don’t stock it, hoping you will figure it out. I say this as I eat a can of macarel for yet another breakfast (because I can shove it in me if I get to have a cup of coffee with cream and sugar, as a treat. 😂)
I don't honestly understand those who don't eat leftovers!! my husband takes them for wrok the next day (no take out or vending machines!) my kids fight over who get the leftovers for lunch the next day lol. if I make enough we repurpose the leftovers for the next day. example, one day we make a crockpot of meatballs and spaghetti sauce over pasta, the next day we use leftover meatballs for meat ball subs. yummy! or bake a chicken , have chicken and mashed potatoes, the next day leftover chicken is chicken pot pie, chicken fried rice or chicken tortilla soup. its not that hard
We're good here. BTW, Wally World dropped the price of 20 lb. pintos....just a smidge. Still under $20. If you like beans, as I do, you can get away with using less meat in your meal. Pastas, oats, beans, white rice, etc., all in mylar with oxygen absorbers. Getting ready to can up all the meat in the freezer. Also, have plenty of cooked individual meals in the other freezer. Still have shopping to do.
Leftovers also make life easier. Less cooking, easy to eat when you come home from work tired and you always have something for lunch which saves a lot of money.
As someone who has fed a large family on poverty wages for years, a few suggestions. Even if you're omni learn to cook beans, and try different types, if you hate pintos get a few other varieties, find something your family enjoys, even relatively 'expensive' beans are often cheaper than the cheapest meats especially when you factor that a dried lb of beans is a whole lot more food cooked, chicken doesn't expand in the pot, in fact with plumping practices that lb of chicken roasted becomes less food than you paid for!, we prefer Mayacoba and Garbanzos here, they are great for dip making. Also you can often use beans to cycle in less desirable meat products, our local food bank hands out canned ham often, its essentially inedible as is, just to salty, but diced up and added to a pot of beans (we do 2 lb pots) at the start of the cooking process and it gives near perfect seasoning! saved ham bones, chicken skins, etc. can all be used in similar ways, more food from your food! Also food cycles, I grew up on this, not just taco Tuesday, Sunday roast, but knowing you roast a whole chicken tonight, you debone large bits for sandwiches and a pasta dish tomorrow, smaller scraps become a casserole the next day, and the bones you've been saving become broth and soup the day after that. You've saved cause you used the whole bird and gotten 5 meals. This can be applied to many foods giving you a bulk food advantage, my taco beans and rice often become soup or dip and bigger cuts of meat are cheaper by the lb, and often less dr.ed. Also bonus with those bones after broth, chuck them in an instant pot (or similar) and pressure cook for 4 to 8 ours with sufficient water!, until they start disintegrating and either dry them for bone meal or burry them in your compost to similar effect, you'll have denatured the protein so they shouldn't draw pest and give calcium to the garden, you get the idea. Start finding ways to get more food from the food you get. My grandmother was a Great Depression baby and considered needing trash service a personal failing, while a healthy balance should be found and its only worth saving thing for projects you actually do, it can be useful to consider how you can get one more use from everything you buy!
When Sam's Club carried meals in a bucket, I did look through the list of items that were in the buckets. More than half the items in the bucket would NOT eat in the first place. So...I feel that a person is throwing their money away when they buy these types of buckets of food.
I have learned how to make things like "tuna cakes" from canned tuna (See Steak & Butter Gal) with other shelf stable ingredients and makes me actually want to store some tuna. The cheap-slop tuna is a no-go for me, but I watch for quality, line caught tuna like Wild Planet, and while definitely more costly, is something I will actually eat.
If I don't can them I dehydrate them so if I have anything that I've gotten from the food pantry that needs to be taken care of alternative jam or something
How I stock my pantry 🤔… - Always watching for meat at “tolerable” price (don’t see many good prices). - Have pretty well stopped adding carb foods to pantry unless I grow them.
Thank You so much. Am finally getting organized. I love left overs. Give me a pan and left overs I can make a feast. One storage closet is for newest items I keep them separate from older items. My house is one big pantry. Thanks !did a you are a jewel.
A pot roast we'll just eat 2 days in a row. I'm not a restaurant.😂Some gets frozen like chili. I've been at this near 5 years with food and before that other stuff when 2015 was a wakeup call and stocked on other things. A little at a time builds up. Each month something somewhat major. Maybe cast iron, next was a propane burner, portable toilet, security cams, water filter, radios, etc. Then pressure canners, jars, expanding garden, adding fruits, some freeze dried. Had a zero percent credit card for one year and that was the wood stove. Best thing ever and quiet with a one floor house. Frozen outside and roasting in here for a lot less than natural gas and electric for the furnace at only 62 degrees. Get my wood in spring to season even further. Maples behind me when they fall I claim so some free wood. If I see a tree trimmer I can get a little wood that way. Can't split or saw the huge 2 ft logs. Splitter was half off on Amazon woot. Big chainsaws are too heavy to manage.
it is alleged something different but cooking and sewing are taught sun our schools it i absolutely agree food preservation and gardening need to be taught.
Hey friends, I know this is a random question, but are there any canned goods you PREFER in the generic than in the name brand?? Ive been really shocked at prices.
@cynthia216 I saw that you live in Canada and my mother has been wishing to celebrate his 90th birthday there which is coming soon, I really don’t know much about Canada and neither do I have friends over there, can you brief me about Canada and how’s the weather over there if it’s safe for a 90years old lady.
@Philhawkins24 It's been warmer than usual here any snow we've gotten has been washed away by rain.A few stubborn pikes remain but having said that keep in mind that Canadian winters can be unpredictable,it would be milder on the East Coast and West Coast but the prairies are something to steer clear of during winter.Summer is awesome but humid,like really humid.I hope this helps.Feel free to ask anything about Canada.🇨🇦🙋♀️
Lisa, I started watching your videos. I would have to say about 4 to 5 months ago. Hard watching your videos and I've decided what you are talking about from day to day these days. I'm very proud of you for giving everybody ideas and pushing people to have a pantry of all kinds of food supplies and other things as well. You've done very well in every videos that I've watched of yours lately and every time I listen to you Lisa, you have good things to say about this economy and about a pantry and what to mostly have in the pantry as well. That's why I've decided to stay with you and try to be a long time subscriber of yours down the road because you are making sense in everything that you say in your videos. And Lisa, I'm very proud of you for doing that. There's not a lot of people that are doing that on TH-cam videos that I can see if they're going to give things to talk about in their videos about the economy and what we should have in our pantries they don't do it as well as you do it as good as you do. Lisa again Lisa. I'm very proud of you and congratulations on what you put on your videos. Keep up the good work Lisa 😁😁💚💙❗❗❗ The person that put up the comment. His name is MARK WILSON.
Also I learned a sad thing, those plastic lids for mason jars are not especially pest proof over time.... just a heads up to all my mason jar storage peeps
Once a month I will go through the refrigerator and can up anything I can but it's in there have any extra fruit if I have any extra vegetables I will can them meet in there I can get it to cheese butter whatever it is in there I can I haven't can the cream cheese yet
Grapeseed oil is healthy because it is rich in omega-6 fatty acids and vitamin E. The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of vitamin E and omega-6 fatty acids can help protect against free radical damage to slow aging, help prevent certain chronic conditions, and improve skin health. Grapeseed oil and olive oil provide a similar set of nutrients, and both contain the same number of calories and amount of total fat per serving. However, while olive oil is rich in monounsaturated fats, grapeseed oil provides a higher amount of polyunsaturated fats and vitamin E
I've decided that your channel should be required for all people at least for a year during their lives - mostly high school/college age people as well as those just journeying out into the world on their own for the first time. Home economics isn't taught in schools anymore. Even the classes call "life skills" teach mostly about dollar management without venturing into the areas of a basic stocked pantry or cupboard. I think you should have been chosen for Time's Person of the Year. Period.
Thank you for the kind words and for sharing your thoughts. That's exactly what I strive for.
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By Dollar management you mean how to get credit, right? I know no schools teaching to live on less than you earn and save up for what you want. They teach how to have a good credit score!
I discovered your videos while recovering from two knee replacements (separated by 4mo) since taking a hiatus from van life travel the last 4 years. Bought a small (800+ square foot) home to use as a home base in 2023 as will be 75 in a week.
As a nomad I lived in 72 sq ft so was used to buying only things with multiple uses which made sense for being prepared.
Now have stocked shelves to the rafters, created a spreadsheet to keep track of inventory, using the dots to keep track of dates, plus other tips gleaned from you. Still have about another month to go to complete it.
One thing I have added to my meal plan is printed recipes as well as recipes I saved from my own, mom/grandma. All from scratch! I use this to stock up on ingredients. I’m binge watching canning, dehydrating, growing and cooking from scratch! Just last month took a chicken and broccoli noodle casserole over to a struggling family of nine along with a salad, garlic bread and a chocolate cake for dessert which fed them for two days. Figured out the cost, $8! I have had to live on SS only and even with the crazy inflation feel rich and prosperous! Thank you!
I’m so glad that you’ve found a way to make your home a haven!
Small homes are great! Mine is 720sqft. More yard than house helps greatly! Best wishes to you for your new rooted life style!🎉
@@patriciatinkey2677 hello Patricia how are you, can I ask you a question
One tip that has helped me is I make sure I have everything I need if I get a cold/flu. I have a tote with tissues, basic day & night OTC meds, cough drops, crackers, jello, canned chicken soup or broth, lemon lime soda, etc. There is nothing worse than having to go to the store, or wait until someone can go to the store for you, when you don't feel well. Taped a list to the side of the bin with contents and use/best buy dates to make it easy to rotate items when needed.
That is a brilliant idea! I live 25 miles from my closest relatives. That would make it easier in a health crisis.
I have found that making up different meals in jars with what I stock to be very helpful. These jars contain dehydrated and freeze dried ingredients, and all I need to add is either water or broth. Any seasonings needed are already in the jar. I only recently started doing this, and it has been a game changer. If I'm sick and want some soup, I just empty the contents of a jar into a pot of water and simmer until done. This also works great when I don't feel like cooking.
This is a great idea! Thank you for sharing.
@@marygrott8095 I love "lazy" cooking, whether sick or healthy! That prep time is so worth it. Very smart. 😊
That’s a great idea to having everything in a tote. I need to gather everything and make one for my son.
I've always been a homecooked meal type person so I have always had a pretty decent pantry but when 2020 hit and people started acting so nuts over the shut downs, I knew I needed to up my game. I used to LOVE grocery shopping but 2020 made it unenjoyable. I became more intentional with my pantry stocking in 2021, the inflation hadn't hit yet and people were so hyper focused on getting "normal" back so I put my nose to the grind and started putting away food, canning, learning about proper storage and putting my skills to work. I'm still using up stock from 2021 and 2022. When inflation hit, I wasn't feeling the hurt like so many others because prepping your pantry really pays off! It was so much easier to stock up in 2021 when pricing wasn't so crazy and every time I grocery shop now, I am just so thankful I got ahead of the inflation. Maintaining a well stocked pantry saves so much time and money! I can't recommend it enough to everyone I know.
@@SupermodelKara Hello Kara how are you
Lately my December push has been to build in a supply of certain items that I think may skyrocket with tariffs (random food items, toiletries, etc.) I realized I’ve also moved to a lot of from-scratch food items and b/c I can and prep we have what we need. Was so excited to look at my husband’s breakfast plate the other day and three of the four things on it were made by me. That’s a feeling of real freedom! Preparedness is a journey and I’m enjoying the learning curve with Leisa and this great community! ❤
My husband is finally becoming aware of food pantry, storage, eating leftovers. We are more mindful of labeling, eating, freezing, canning. When he asks i need this or that, i have that in the pantry. Im loving it.
It’s wonderful to see the whole family on board!
Today my husband said you know what would be good in the broth. He started naming jars in the pantry lol. I said yeah that sounds awesome. I think the fight is over. He’s come on board. We only get mere necessities from the store.
What got me back into canning after a many year break was my bestie started canning pints of low carb soup as her lunches. I decided I wanted to do that too for all of us and homemade lunches immediately removed $200 from our grocery budget and we were healthier. Next was figuring out popcorn, noob baked goods and canning fruit/juice/salsa/pickles for snacks instead of store bought junk. That removed another $300. Adjusting my mindset and planning to can and repackage prepped freezer bags of ingredients for dinners came last but was a life changer. Another $500+ from the budget. Having everything (for 8 of us) on hand and ready gives us no excuse but to eat affordable healthy food, purchased on sale. It is the same amount of work all at once, ahead of time, instead of spreading the work out by struggling everyday to figure out food while everyone is impatient and hangry. I’m not a big planner but for $1000/mo I am 😂
You are so wise. Thanks for sharing
@@teresahill3570 its really such a good comment for a post like this, can I ask you a question Teresa?
@ sure 😊
I am feeling extreme stress, I only was able to work 2 days last week, got 31 hrs this week but told no work next week, I am hitting my pantry more and more and not able to put back when I get paid, I am feeling something bad this way is coming and we are already feeling the pinch. Thank you Lord for the roof over my head , food in my stomach, clothes on my back please help those who don’t have these as through you Lord I have abundance Amen
Breath, check into your local food pantries
Get a food pantry to help you. They want to help people.
Some food pantries even have brand new clothes and things you can get for free or dirt cheap. I had to go that route when widowed waiting on disability. Got a funeral suit for free in my size. Bad years. 15 funerals in 5 years. That was a church and even got 4 small pizzas a month and fresh produce we could take. Another one was where we got a cart and allowed 50 pounds a person. Sometimes meat and often an extra like a bag of potatoes. Once a 60 pound box of raisins.😂I haven't had a raisin since and was bagging them up to give to others as I saw them.
Prayers for hours and comfort
Hello Danielle good day, can I ask you a question about your comment on this post.
Freezing eggs is a wonderful thing to do my wife did it during Covid when there was a shortage of eggs she bought a case and frozen at least half of them specially if you like scrambled eggs, put them in a bowl scramble them put them in a little bag and freeze them Then they take up no space in your freezer? if you want a sunny side chicken egg add a little salt or sugar to it by myself do not care for the texture so we found scrambling to be the best option. Love your program. A lot of good information. A lot of common sense people need to think and learn a new skill at this time. Learn how to do something that you’ve never done before because you never know when it might come in handy.
Huge advocate of meal planning. It reduces the chance of something sitting too long in inventory. For long term items, like toiletries, I mark the opening date with a Sharpie to get an idea of how long a bottle lasts. Even shampoo can go bad if you don't use it in a few years, so there is a real limit to how much you should stock.
Sprouting beans and lentils from one’s pantry is easy and really nutritious. It’s also a good way for diabetics to consume them without spiking their blood sugar. Love your channel!
Our local grocery outlet puts out boxes of produce that’s almost not sellable or when it’s the last in the display and they are switching to a new product. I have unimaginable access to healthy free food and it can be overwhelming getting everything frozen, cooked, canned or eaten before it’s too far gone!! I’ve even got my dogs to enjoy eating salad to make sure everything is eaten 😂 (lettuce with cheese and a little sour cream & olive oil) Using the strategies from your channel helps me maximize the food available to me and get the most benefits! I even compost the produce I can’t use fast enough and I harvest ALL the seeds so I can grow even more free food in the future! Thanks for all your ideas!!
@@Jennifermcintyre Good comment
Thank you for all your advice... At the store today 18 eggs $9 Upstate NY...prices are crazy!!! With your help my goal has been stock 1 month long term each and every month... bulk purchases and sales and price checking other stores have allowed me to amass 4-6 months long term in the last 3 months...lastly smiling when the cashier says 36 jars of spaghetti sauce wow you must have a big family...not so much but it's $3+ on sale for .99c today ..😊
Ohio paid 3.99 England’s best 12
You’re doing great! Keep up the good work!
If everyone did this there would be no worries , I have a years worth of food glad I canned, dehydrated, and bought what I couldn’t grow or raise so I could cab it because now my hours have been cut and hubby and I are relying on my pantry more and more. Never throw out left overs we eat them or chickens and dog enjoy a tidbit.
Wow that's an outrageous price for eggs! I think eggs are still about $3 per dozen here in So Oregon.
$3.49, 12 Large Eggs in South Florida. Winter is our dry season here, but also good for growing so many things. A rain barrel really helps. Sadly, my small City does Not Allow Chickens! I'm thinking about some ducks, (quieter), or "giant quail"
Left overs can be the most fun. My work best and i both have picky kids. Twice a week we bring in random kid left overs and have either salads or rice bowls from them. No waste and double the variety of combinations. We call them dump lunches. Lol
Cool idea!🖖
I am dehydrating/powdering Kale and Collards today. One reason I dehydrate is to make one fresh meal then dehydrate the balance. I used to eat first then dry, but now I set aside enough for one meal and immediately dehydrate the balance at peak. Zero waste. Without buying extra to store, I am amazed how much I get for my pantry because my 2 stores sell packages instead of singles. I don't throw it away, and don't eat leftovers as often. My vegetable powders are rich additions.
I add powder to a new jar, pour the prior powder on top, then wash the empty jar, keeping it fresh.
@@RebeccaTreeseed Hello Janet
I don't believe in wasting anything, if I can help it, so I love the challenge of turning leftovers into deliscious meals. Sometimes my creations are just ok but sometimes they are some of the best food I have ever eaten. I just made one of the tastiest soups I have ever eaten, yesterday. It was one of those end of the week throw the collection of leftovers in a soup pot, spice it up, and cook. Many people would never put combonations like this togethet but it works. Remember all of these were leftovers sitting in my fridge: pinto beans and ham, cajun chicken and vegetables, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, hamburger vegetable soup, black beans, corn, and a partial can of leftover chipotles in adobo sauce. I could not duplicate this if I tried but my family requested for me to make it again.
Don't forget personal hygine and cleaning products too.
You always have wise advice. Even this old lady picks up a tip occasionally. Hang in there. We are having an ice storm tonight. We are always prepared.
I absolutely love your channel. I have watched many videos about stocking a pantry, but your videos are the most informative. Your approach to this makes the most sense. Stock that you eat, eat what you stock! So many others tell you what you should stock regardless if you eat it or not. Thank you so much for making these videos. I have been doing this for about five years now, but I still find new information.
I am constantly inventorying everything all the time. It has become easier.
I had to refill my stock in the little pantry. But we are eating great meals. Next month, canning lids and canning more meats will happen. Birthdays, Christmas, and propane always empty the bank in December. No mater how hard I try to get ahead. All my children were born in December, even though I wanted none in the winter. And about half the grandkids, too. It makes for a lot of together time and great meals so I guess it's all good.
I love the way you’re looking at the bright side!
@SuttonsDaze it is the bright side. With everyone working overtime and the grandkids' extracurricular activities, it's hard to see each other. So we make birthdays and holidays extra special events bcuz it doesn't happen often.
I don't usually have leftovers that aren't planned. But I do occasionally have food orphans that turn up in odd combos. Three pierogi with scrambled eggs and the last two sausages from a pack for lunch. An onion that needs to be used becomes oven baked onion rings as a side for chicken soup. The last English muffin becomes a grilled bun for a turkey patty topped with mozz cheese and a dab of pasta sauce. Sometimes the weird stuff turns out the best, lol.
we used to make little pizzas from old english muffins, pizza sauce, any left over meat, mozz cheese,onion put under the broiler. easy, and quick, the kids love having their own pizza
@@carolhinman8431 Ooo that's a good idea, I didn't think of English muffin pizzas. They would be a fun lunch for my elderly dad. Thank you! I've got 3 muffins handy, they're gonna get the treatment for lunch tomorrow.
So much practical advice in this video. ❤
Two ways to store eggs: of course, fresh UNWASHED farm eggs keep quite well for weeks and weeks just on the counter. Longer in frig. Ive had them go a couple of months, just do the float test for any you are unsure of.
Freeze them. I have used ice cube trays, and one large egg will fill 2 cubes- yolk in one, white in the other. Once frozen, into ziplck bags. You can also scramble them first and then freeze, but I like them separate because then you use them if your recipe calls for whit es or yolks. Thwy cook and taste like fresh.
Make pasta. Noodles are easy, use up lots of eggs, and store nicely in jars, vacuum sealed for longest shelf life. Who doesnt like homemade noodles?
I continue to feel grateful for your calm, complete approach to making sound decisions in trying times!
Thank you! That's how I feel about it. I do my best to stay calm, and I hope you can too!
I agree! She takes some of the helpless feeling away from this out of wacky world!
EXCELLENT HOW WE SURVIVE WARS VICTORY GARDENS ETC. CHOICE STAY HEALTHY FOOD IS MEDICINE
Canned pot roast this week. Easy to take a pint, add dehydrated onions and carrots and green beans. Full meal.Yum.
Blessings Lisa from Chicago. As a person fighting diabetes I stock substitutes for starch. I dehydrate black radishes,kohlrabi,lauki, and mushrooms. I use shemeji,bamoo and chestnut mushrooms in place of pasta. We don't hve to eat rice,potatoes or pasta. We just have to learn, what we can eat instead.❤❤ Teach lady, teach.😊
Hubby early on grabbed those 3-day emergency packs to have on hand. Then he tasked me to learn to do more … I found you and began my canning journey (and also found Darcy and do some dehydrating too). Whenever folks see me stocking and give the eye roll for my extended pantry, the best way they understand is always to explain raising prices and taking advantage of bulk sales today to ward off tomorrow’s prices.
I thought I was done canning because I ran out of jars, well just bought more. Thank you for your breakfast burritos ideas. I am gathering ingredients to make some. With the cost of eggs rising this will be great to have. Thank you very much for your helpful information.
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Buy on sale! But what you eat/consume... when you have the extra money that you have saved..buy bulk if you can!... if you see that you are not going thru it and it's getting out of date...don't throw it away..donate or gift it to someone. ..I have a well stocked kitchen and pantry...but it's just 2 of us... I would rather give it away than waste it!
My father, 94, was recently in the hospital. The nutritionist explained to me that food waste from patients has become a huge problem. The care giver of that person has permission to eat what the patient does not eat to hold down waste. Once a day I was going home for 1 hour to prepare my meals in an insulated tote. Eating what my Dad would not eat made my home prepare less. This is not a selfish act. This is literally helping hospitals maintain cost and waste. The only meal they brought that was not huge was lunch.
Build conviemce into your pantry inventory rather than buy it. Boxes, bags, packets, and all the rest are grab-n-go items. Prep your own grab-n-go convience by mixing the dry ingredients one recipie per container; I seem to like mixing 6 containers of the same thing at a time. A secure lid is essential but your container isn't going to be canned so it can be pretty much any container.
For inflation fighting purposes, listen to the peppers, the canners, batch cooking types, and the like then use your freezer. Yes, you do risk a power outage if you don't can. Use those canning recipies then freeze to make things like salsa, enchillda sauce, apple sauce, and so much more.
Do things like buying the #10, 108 ounce, 27 servings of 4oz each, can of Musscleman's apple sauce for $7.49 over a 9 count Motts 4oz servings, 36 ounces, for $9.99. Open, portion, and freeze what won't hold in the fridge. Canned tomatoes will freeze as will a number of other things.
I’ve got those same brand of vanilla beans near those lamps. It makes the best vanilla flavor too
I’ve been binging your videos since I found your channel a few days ago. I got a freeze dryer a few months back and am now just learning to can. Been stocking up on as many staples as I can as well. It’s been stressful thinking about the future but preparing is very comforting. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
you will love your freeze dryer, have had ours a little over a year, it runs almost 24/7 its amazing how much food you can do in a year
@@carolhinman8431 I’m loving it already!! The amount of whole meals I’m already able to store is insane
Oh I just love your videos, DEAR YOU HAVE A MILLION DOLLARS IN DEHYDRATED FOODS , I’ve try to purchase these items,they are out of reach in prices to even try to can, the jars are outrageous, I’m trying everything, now I have a huge charge card bill., there is two of us and living below the poverty level, just horrible….
This has taken me years, dont even try to compete. Stock for you and yours.
TY much for continuing ur videos while ur recouping. 🙏for complete healing & no complications & wellness for u. Merry Christmas 🙏❤️
I greatly appreciate your attempt to educate the public about practical and wise ways of educating people on how to feed our families in times of stress. You have helped me become a bit wiser and helped me become less stressed. I come from a very thrifty family. You have helped me modernized my techniques. You have helped to reinforce the thrifty techniques that I had already been practicing, while teaching more techniques. I urge people to listen to you and learn of their own free will. I am against forcing these techniques on unwilling people. If we are to remain free to live , as we see fit. Life will hopefully make them wiser.
We love leftovers. I always cook enough for at least one more meal
We buy large(er) quantities of great priced items and as a result have less variety but more quantity. Our latest big haul was $3.99/:24.x oz cans of Martinson's coffee grounds. We have to take care of sugar, starch, and salt and in looking back at the shelves we have more basic-ish foods. We began the inflation fighting larder with $20/ week and then we added $50 "stock uo" money/ pay; much easier as we were eating primarily out of our great priced larder. This said, we locked in the regular price of some items we truly use to include Baby Ray's Originsl BBQ sauce, tp, shampoo, and cream rinse. - Note those priorities: coffee, BBQ sauce, and tp!
I canned 14 pints of ugly turkey and 11 quarts of stock. At $0.69, there wasn’t any cheaper protein available.
I have also found that my Ball lids that I canned with a couple of years ago, have rusted on the inside. It passed the tap test, but the underside was definitely rusty I had to throw out several quarts of navy bean soup. Better safe than sorry.
@@MissJean63 Hello there how are you, can I ask you a question
Heres a little tip for health and wealth - Because of high milk prices I'm planning to grow more white seeded beans. Apparently, they contain not only protein but also calcium and the calcium is more bioavailable to the body than dairy calcium.
I didn’t know beans had calcium in them. So examples of white seeded beans would be pinto and great northern beans? Thank you for sharing this information, I learned something new today! 😊
@EverydayisFriday-bw7bt yes. Any white seeded bean and you're welcome. I just learned it day before yesterday. I duck duck go'd veggies with high amounts of calcium.
All I have for long-term pantry storage is a large 40-gallon bin with a lid. I have already started stocking it with food that has a long shelf life and some other essentials in emergency situations. But I'm not sure how to organize it for easy access. The way it is now, I have to dig through things to see what I have.
@@YorkieUniverse1 Hello there how are you, can I ask you a question
Rice beans lentils
Repeat
Of course seasonings, fats, (canned) meat if desired, frozen veg for bulk, cooked tortillas
Boom a feast! For days
Recently did an inventory of my pantry and storage areas. Wow. Pressure canned seperately potatoes, green beans, carrots, pinto beans, chicken and veggie soup, turkey and veggie soup, leftover turkey, ugly chicken, ugly pork and a little beef that was found on sale. Also vacuum sealed some pastas and other dry goods. Also purchased tin can veggies, meats, and a few meal in a can items when stocking up. Paper goods and essentials have been added to the shelves, too. And plenty of jugs of water stored just in case. For secondary fuel to eat or warm the buns, I've got Coleman fuel for stoves/lanterns/heater as well as propane for similar equipment. There's a bit of engineered gas for the generator. And OMG don't let me forget the woodpile and charcoal for cooking in my cast iron camp dutch ovens. I've had fun stacking useful stuff. Have been called a pile it (pilot) a few times.
I've started my pantry after watching your videos and began canning last year. It's a learning experience! There's some things I've stored that i don't use often but those things are long term storage that i would eat more if SHTF. I started with canning and freezing and freeze drying basic ingredients that i use in cooking. I've gotten to the place where I'm conformable with those items and have ventured into want items instead of need items. Organizing has been an on going trial and error effort lol but besides needing more shelves my next step is getting an inventory on paper instead of in my head lol. Thank you for all your tips!
You are doing great! Keep up the good work!
Lisa, I watch you all the time. Not only do I can and prep, but you also have my hair! I lasted 6 months and started cutting. I couldn't handle it anymore. You're looking beautiful!
Those meals in a bucket would be ok in an emergency, but not a good long-term food option. As for the freeze dried foods, I prefer to get the single food stuff and measure the various ingredients into a jelly jar or vacuum seal bag. Either one can be vacuum sealed, and making my own increases the nutritional value and flavor. In a jelly jar, I can just add boiling water and put the lid on it. Single serving, the lid on it makes it less likely that someone can smell it.
Thank you so much for another excellent post. Also, Thank You so much for sticking to the subject and not making your personal political opinion part of the post. It gets so tiring watching so many woman with a heading of homesteading or pantry and imposing their personal political thoughts, which most are tiresome and ignorant. You are an excellent Teacher.
I appreciate your comment. I try to keep my focus on practical tips.
Aye aye Captain I'm on it , LOL , THANK YOU LEISA 😂
Also, if you want to freeze bread, but you don’t like how the bread gets the taste from the freezer take your bread out of the bag wrap a couple of slices and wax paper and put it back in the bag and continue to the bag is full. I did this during Covid and bread lasted in my freezer for months without losing taste or texture Takes a little time but well worth it. I kept an average of 4 to 6 loaf of bread in the freezer freezer not because I was afraid to go out because of Covid because I just couldn’t stand being around people yelling and screaming in line because they couldn’t get into the store. We also froze whole milk in the freezer.
All common sense. When you do this you have such peace. I don’t worry! One thing I do as soon as I buy canned or boxed foods is write the sell by/ use buy date in magic market big enough to read from a few feet away! So much easier to rotate when it’s easy to read!
@@Junzar56 hello how are you, thank you so much for the wise comment
I’ve learned the hard way to stock what you eat. I’m currently on a very low spend year, trying to eat things that seemed like a good idea at the time. If you don’t know how to use bugler or teff or millet now…don’t stock it, hoping you will figure it out. I say this as I eat a can of macarel for yet another breakfast (because I can shove it in me if I get to have a cup of coffee with cream and sugar, as a treat. 😂)
I don't honestly understand those who don't eat leftovers!! my husband takes them for wrok the next day (no take out or vending machines!) my kids fight over who get the leftovers for lunch the next day lol. if I make enough we repurpose the leftovers for the next day. example, one day we make a crockpot of meatballs and spaghetti sauce over pasta, the next day we use leftover meatballs for meat ball subs. yummy! or bake a chicken , have chicken and mashed potatoes, the next day leftover chicken is chicken pot pie, chicken fried rice or chicken tortilla soup. its not that hard
How do you freeze eggs....? *goes to look it up* This would have saved me so much money over the years!!
I like to freeze eggs. I scramble what we will use for one meal and put them i freezer bags. Make sure to date. Good luck!
A year ago, a half ham was on sale for .89/lb. This year on sale for 2.99/lb. In one year!!!
I have always been a stocker, over 45 years, even I have learned from you.
We're good here. BTW, Wally World dropped the price of 20 lb. pintos....just a smidge. Still under $20. If you like beans, as I do, you can get away with using less meat in your meal. Pastas, oats, beans, white rice, etc., all in mylar with oxygen absorbers. Getting ready to can up all the meat in the freezer. Also, have plenty of cooked individual meals in the other freezer. Still have shopping to do.
I try at least twice a week to PLAN for leftovers
Leftovers also make life easier. Less cooking, easy to eat when you come home from work tired and you always have something for lunch which saves a lot of money.
As someone who has fed a large family on poverty wages for years, a few suggestions. Even if you're omni learn to cook beans, and try different types, if you hate pintos get a few other varieties, find something your family enjoys, even relatively 'expensive' beans are often cheaper than the cheapest meats especially when you factor that a dried lb of beans is a whole lot more food cooked, chicken doesn't expand in the pot, in fact with plumping practices that lb of chicken roasted becomes less food than you paid for!, we prefer Mayacoba and Garbanzos here, they are great for dip making. Also you can often use beans to cycle in less desirable meat products, our local food bank hands out canned ham often, its essentially inedible as is, just to salty, but diced up and added to a pot of beans (we do 2 lb pots) at the start of the cooking process and it gives near perfect seasoning! saved ham bones, chicken skins, etc. can all be used in similar ways, more food from your food! Also food cycles, I grew up on this, not just taco Tuesday, Sunday roast, but knowing you roast a whole chicken tonight, you debone large bits for sandwiches and a pasta dish tomorrow, smaller scraps become a casserole the next day, and the bones you've been saving become broth and soup the day after that. You've saved cause you used the whole bird and gotten 5 meals. This can be applied to many foods giving you a bulk food advantage, my taco beans and rice often become soup or dip and bigger cuts of meat are cheaper by the lb, and often less dr.ed. Also bonus with those bones after broth, chuck them in an instant pot (or similar) and pressure cook for 4 to 8 ours with sufficient water!, until they start disintegrating and either dry them for bone meal or burry them in your compost to similar effect, you'll have denatured the protein so they shouldn't draw pest and give calcium to the garden, you get the idea. Start finding ways to get more food from the food you get. My grandmother was a Great Depression baby and considered needing trash service a personal failing, while a healthy balance should be found and its only worth saving thing for projects you actually do, it can be useful to consider how you can get one more use from everything you buy!
Solavvore oven. Dried onions, mushrooms, etc. Salt, batteries, seeds...spices. soap,
I do everything you said on this show.
My husband says "Never store anything you would rather starve than eat." 😂
I love leftovers my big challenge to myself is how can I remake this leftover but I love cooking ❤❤❤
Thank you, ma'am❤
Best wishes
💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿 thank you
Thank you Leisa ✝️❤️
I have a will stocked pantry ❤
When Sam's Club carried meals in a bucket, I did look through the list of items that were in the buckets. More than half the items in the bucket would NOT eat in the first place. So...I feel that a person is throwing their money away when they buy these types of buckets of food.
I have learned how to make things like "tuna cakes" from canned tuna (See Steak & Butter Gal) with other shelf stable ingredients and makes me actually want to store some tuna. The cheap-slop tuna is a no-go for me, but I watch for quality, line caught tuna like Wild Planet, and while definitely more costly, is something I will actually eat.
If I don't can them I dehydrate them so if I have anything that I've gotten from the food pantry that needs to be taken care of alternative jam or something
with only a 2.5% raise with a increase in medicare, i am going to have to cut back to 2 maybe 1 meal aday.
How I stock my pantry 🤔…
- Always watching for meat at “tolerable” price (don’t see many good prices).
- Have pretty well stopped adding carb foods to pantry unless I grow them.
Many leftovers are better than when freshly cooked 😂
Thank You so much. Am finally getting organized. I love left overs. Give me a pan and left overs I can make a feast. One storage closet is for newest items I keep them separate from older items. My house is one big pantry. Thanks !did a you are a jewel.
I’m so glad that you’re getting organized.
I hit Dollar General and saved $20 using the coupons and the sales. I got the grand kids their cereal 4/$8
Thanks for sharing this vital information...from the Ozarks
Glad it was helpful!
A pot roast we'll just eat 2 days in a row. I'm not a restaurant.😂Some gets frozen like chili.
I've been at this near 5 years with food and before that other stuff when 2015 was a wakeup call and stocked on other things. A little at a time builds up. Each month something somewhat major. Maybe cast iron, next was a propane burner, portable toilet, security cams, water filter, radios, etc. Then pressure canners, jars, expanding garden, adding fruits, some freeze dried. Had a zero percent credit card for one year and that was the wood stove. Best thing ever and quiet with a one floor house. Frozen outside and roasting in here for a lot less than natural gas and electric for the furnace at only 62 degrees. Get my wood in spring to season even further. Maples behind me when they fall I claim so some free wood. If I see a tree trimmer I can get a little wood that way. Can't split or saw the huge 2 ft logs. Splitter was half off on Amazon woot. Big chainsaws are too heavy to manage.
Thanks!
it is alleged something different but cooking and sewing are taught sun our schools it i absolutely agree food preservation and gardening need to be taught.
Thank you Leisa for today's video. I always come away with renewed motivation!😊
I'm so glad I could help!
Hey friends, I know this is a random question, but are there any canned goods you PREFER in the generic than in the name brand?? Ive been really shocked at prices.
Where did you get the canned goods storage?
Any recommendation for an inventory program (free)?
Pen, paper, write it down, add it up
@ That’s our current method.
What is that Kontraktion behind you that has ?glass domes🤗🤔👍
I saw that too. Lamp of some sort???
Probably the lamp?
@ thank you for so much educational entertainment👍🙏🇺🇸
We eat a lot of potatoes I buy them 50 lbs at a time. Rice not so much. Give me a potato any day of the week.
Quick question about your storage unit behind you. Are the can dividers part of the unit or something available individually? Keep up the good work!
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Never throw away i give to animals even if you cook first
I don't have enough room to store all that.I have a tiny apartment and live by myself at 65.🇨🇦🤷♀️
Hello Cynthia how are you, can I ask you a question
@Philhawkins24 Sure
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@cynthia216 I saw that you live in Canada and my mother has been wishing to celebrate his 90th birthday there which is coming soon, I really don’t know much about Canada and neither do I have friends over there, can you brief me about Canada and how’s the weather over there if it’s safe for a 90years old lady.
@Philhawkins24 It's been warmer than usual here any snow we've gotten has been washed away by rain.A few stubborn pikes remain but having said that keep in mind that Canadian winters can be unpredictable,it would be milder on the East Coast and West Coast but the prairies are something to steer clear of during winter.Summer is awesome but humid,like really humid.I hope this helps.Feel free to ask anything about Canada.🇨🇦🙋♀️
Lisa. I'm addicted to your show. I love it! I'm in Muskogee Oklahoma.
a lot of like minded folks in Okla
Thank you again for such great reminders and advice. You rock!
You are so welcome!
Are you bringing back Canuary? I sure hope so.
So every little bit adds up I don't have anything I have what I put in a jar that I put back it's not a lot but every little bit adds up
Great video . Thank you
You’re welcome!
Lisa, I started watching your videos. I would have to say about 4 to 5 months ago. Hard watching your videos and I've decided what you are talking about from day to day these days. I'm very proud of you for giving everybody ideas and pushing people to have a pantry of all kinds of food supplies and other things as well. You've done very well in every videos that I've watched of yours lately and every time I listen to you Lisa, you have good things to say about this economy and about a pantry and what to mostly have in the pantry as well. That's why I've decided to stay with you and try to be a long time subscriber of yours down the road because you are making sense in everything that you say in your videos. And Lisa, I'm very proud of you for doing that. There's not a lot of people that are doing that on TH-cam videos that I can see if they're going to give things to talk about in their videos about the economy and what we should have in our pantries they don't do it as well as you do it as good as you do. Lisa again Lisa. I'm very proud of you and congratulations on what you put on your videos. Keep up the good work Lisa 😁😁💚💙❗❗❗ The person that put up the comment. His name is MARK WILSON.
Thank you 😊
Also I learned a sad thing, those plastic lids for mason jars are not especially pest proof over time.... just a heads up to all my mason jar storage peeps
I agree with the carbs however, I also think 90% of what you have stored is carbs… my freeze dried beef and eggs are in buckets.. lol 🤪
Once a month I will go through the refrigerator and can up anything I can but it's in there have any extra fruit if I have any extra vegetables I will can them meet in there I can get it to cheese butter whatever it is in there I can I haven't can the cream cheese yet
We're does grape seed oil fall into place with olive oil?
Grapeseed oil is healthy because it is rich in omega-6 fatty acids and vitamin E. The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of vitamin E and omega-6 fatty acids can help protect against free radical damage to slow aging, help prevent certain chronic conditions, and improve skin health. Grapeseed oil and olive oil provide a similar set of nutrients, and both contain the same number of calories and amount of total fat per serving. However, while olive oil is rich in monounsaturated fats, grapeseed oil provides a higher amount of polyunsaturated fats and vitamin E
Great advice. You help me to stay on track in my preps and keep my knowledge bank growing. Thank you.
I’m so glad I could help.