Why We Store Food (a Chat With Johanna Fugal)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ม.ค. 2017
- Introducing my friend and neighbor Johanna Fugal! Please welcome her.
This is a friendly, chatty discussion of the advantages of having food storage. It isn't what I intended to put up first , but I went and got sick this week! (Of course, right?) I looked at this and thought how lucky I am to have Johanna in my life, so I'm going to share her!!!
Feel free to add your own thoughts or even link up your own blog posts or videos below. This is all intended with the most generous of spirits, for all of us to help each other. More coming soon.
PS. Yes, I do think Johanna is working on having her own YT channel but she doesn't yet. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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You guys left out my #1 reason for food storage - preserving everything that I grow. I LOVE that I can turn what would otherwise be wasted space in my suburban yard into actual food in jars, ready on my shelves when I need it. It's January and I can feed my family tomatoes that I grew in July. No need to have them trucked in from South America, and since I grew them I know they ate duck and chicken poop instead of chemical fertilizers. Looking forward to this series! :)
Exactly!
Plus... Winter! Having food put away for winter is a big motivator.
Kimberly Leatherman . yes! that is why I do it too. the satisfaction of serving family and guests with my own apple sauce or (particularly excellent) rhubarb chutney is emence. I usually can't keep back an "I grew and made that" 😆
A well stocked pantry = peace of mind.
Julee James I hear you when I see some videos of very sparse Pantry shelves or fridges I almost have an anxiety attack
I am not a homesteader, or a prepper, at least not yet a prepper, but I was raised in the hills of Arkansas, and was taught to have a good food storage, just as you say, buying on sale, I enjoy being able to go to my cabinets, and make any meal I want.. I also cook in large quantities and freeze,example soup, main dishes, veggies. then just have to thaw and warm on the stove. I am aware that most on this site are off grid and don't use a micro-wave and even a freezer, but even a city person can have good food storage, especially in snow storms or tornadoes..... enjoyed your videos
Excellent kickoff to this series!
Two things I took away from this are that 1) small batches at a time are good until you KNOW what you are doing, and 2) diversity in your food storage\security\pantry will cover a whole host of situations.
The hubs lost his job the Friday before Christmas, i still work i am away from my home a minimum 10 hours a day so having my food storage has been awesome. My canned chicken and a jar of my bone broth and homemade dumplings redefines fast food. Its been a really good week for dinner. Last night i even made a treat spice cake with pecans and a half jar of my chunky apple butter baked in was really good.
oh that sounds great...See being prepared does help...Hope your husband finds work soon..
Jo sorry for you and your hubby hope he finds work again.
imsoinstagram Thank it was for Medical reason he is a diabetic and he's loosing his eye sight his job involved driving on airport run way. So they let him go. Its all a bit of a mess. We will be ok hes got a big honey do list now. lol
+jo niftythriftynotquitefifty👍💚
Nice to meet you Johanna! Thanks for sharing Esther. Be well, dear ones.
Great job! I am going to love this year.
Nice job ladies. Looking forward to round 2. 😊.
I've just started drying some foods and creating dried pasta sauce for example. There is great satisfaction having food put aside. Once you have embraced this life-style you will not be satisfied with shopping at a whim. I order from a company that is out of Oregon and it delivers once per month in our area and its been such a joy to be able to buy in bulk.
I love canning and preserving my home grown food, urban foraged fruit (mostly mulberries here in the midwest) and some meats. I work outside the home and have a family that appreciates my homemade meals. i use my canned foods as "fast food" too. I enjoy a cold winter day to can bulk food like chili beans...heats up a cold kitchen, i have fun, save money and I have a head start on home made chilli con carne ...seasoned to my liking... for a busy day after work. I live in a 1906 home that happens to have a basement root cellar, the only part of my happy messy home that is always neat and orderly. its interesting to see the pantry shelves lined with jars full of food in October and then as the seasons change and we eat from the pantry, the shelves are more full with empty glass jars until the next fall. very cyclical, satisfying and connected to nature. Thanks for sharing! I am encouraged to try more on my urban homestead.
Yay! More Johanna! .... I also like to keep extra food on hand so that I can give it away. There have been many times over the years that there was a last minute food drive or we got a call that a family had no food and I was able to put together something to take to them without having to go to the store. When one of my sisters was newly wed and didn't have much I would have her come and "shop" my pantry to make up for what they couldn't cover. We go grocery shopping once a week typically but when we were all sick last month we were easily able to skip a week and just use what we had on hand. We ran out of a few things (fresh fruit and milk) but it wasn't anything terrible. For us food storage gives us a safety net (food is important, you need it to live), the ability to give, it's more budget friendly over the long run with buying bulk like Johanna said, it's easy to make a big meal quickly if you have last minute guests, if you get snowed in etc you don't have to worry about getting to the store AND if you all get sick you can have food and soup etc so you don't have to go out and share your germs. You ladies are awesome! And I feel like I haven't seen you in forever.......
Great Job.. I would love to see a video on organization. I have a hoarding mindset I'm trying to break. Any tips or ideas on storage and reducing would be great! Love you guys!
Maranda Quinn I'd love to see that too; I have a TINY space but need to do food storage because of allergies.
I love these videos. We live on 3 acres and have seven children whom we homeschool. While we are not off-grid, we've adopted a much more meaningful, simplistic lifestyle. I am personally a strong believer in preparedness, not due to the fear of a massive economic collapse, or natural disaster, but due to the much more likely scenario; a PERSONAL disaster.
While much of the world scoffs at the idea of a social collapse, which is entirely possible, a PERSONAL collapse isn't only a possibility, it is LIKELY to happen at some point.
This could include: a job loss, a hard pregnancy where mom is laid up, an injury, a sick child, 2 weeks of the flu, cancer, etc. etc. Even if you escape a personal collapse, you will encounter someone who is going through one. Having an abundance means you can minister to and bless those going through hard times.
Making sure my (large) family has enough food and supplies (soaps, detergents, toilet paper, on hand to last a good 3 weeks to a month is a priority to me- even if our closest grocery store is just 2 minutes away.
Thanks for all you do, Esther.
Ps. One of my boys is named "Milo." It isn't a very common name here, so I smile when I hear you say it.
Well said!!!
Don't forget death of a spouse (awe, in looking back I see "personal disaster" :0)). While my husbands death was not a sudden thing, we both thought it would not be so imminent. I lost him in July this year. We had always been somewhat prepared, but now I see our "holes". I am managing with help from my son....I watch his children and in turn he helps me out. We still have food and such, but it will be tight. I love gardening, and such, and will put up my bounty like in all the years before. I just want you all to be aware of this. Love this Esther and Johanna!
I am so sorry for your loss. Yes, any death in the family would certainly qualify as a disaster! I pray you find peace, comfort and provision.
TY M Diaz. It has been a difficult and hard 6 months. But, my dh and I have 4 beautiful grandaughters under the age of 5 that keep me busy. It is the times that I am alone and not busy.....that is when the memories of him tug at my heart and mind. God Bless!
quilterinthewoods62 I'm so sorry for your loss
Canning is very empowering. I no longer live in our cabin but do know how it feels to have a 16 mile trip into town. I worked four days a week and didn't home school so we had trips but once you're home that's it, if your out milk you wait for the next trip lol! Cannot wait to see the next installment in this series Esther.
Don't know if anyone mentioned this ... but just the same as buying/storing what you like to eat ... PLANT what you like to eat!
Great point!
You young ladies look healthy and wholesome
Hello ladies great job I say! Its sometimes the little things like your talking about that people just do not have awareness about! I personally think Its a great way to educate and from what I listened too you both kinda learned as you went. Great work keep It up..! :-)
I am so excited about this new series. Thank you for doing this.
I can 1,00 jars of food each year for me is so I have control what we are eating ,and also money saved ,we really do not rely on the Grocery store ,It is how I was brought up Amish Background :)
Loved this chat when my parents were alive my husband and I and our 4 children would go get their winter wood and then we'd share a meal. For me there is nothing more satisfying then canned food on the shelf and our wood shed full. Cant wait for the next
I really enjoyed this video, girls! Good suggestion on only doing things that you want to eat!! I've been dehydrating, fermenting, and canning for the past few months, and am looking forward to doing more. It makes me feel good! Looking forward to more of your videos together!!
We just started the last two years learning to can/preserve our food...Grant bought me a dehydrator for Christmas and I am excited to learn about how to use it...I now make all our bread...what a thrill to know I can...and know what is in my food...
Love the earlier experimenting stages of food processing and storage....there is so much to learn and do...never ending adventure.
SO happy for learning more about food storage! I come to this from a very different place from most of you: I have severe allergies, and almost everything pre-prepared in stores is unsafe. These allergies were brand new, started early last winter... and let me tell you living through my first winter where a) fresh food costs skyrocketed and b) a lot was simply not available... was brutal. So this summer I canned some fruit, and dehydrated a TON to make meals so that I could travel. I still have some of those left, which is great because then it means I can keep dehydrated meals in my car. That gives me a TON of freedom, because of friends, family, colleagues suddenly decide to invite me over, I am not tied to going home to eat. But also - if my car breaks down, if there's a crazy highway accident and I'm stuck for a long time, or if I have a reaction and I'm stuck in hospital... I have safe food near by.
Wow great session Ladies! I can a lot of stuff from the garden. So any info is always welcome! My Dad got me started canning and drying food for storage when he told me that his family dried figs on the sheet metal chicken coop roof when he was growing up during the Depression! Then he spoke about how they would pile potatoes in a hill and cover with dirt and pine straw to preserve them!
Looking forward to 2017 and especially hope that Johanna gets up on her own channel!
Does pine straw mean pine needles?
Judy G yes! In south Georgia they had pine straw, or pine needles.
When you live 20 miles from any store you quickly learn to have things on hand. My goal is to have 6 months of everything. That would include toilet paper, paper towels, tooth paste etc...it is a work in progress. Also, seeds, jars, lids and all that goes with a garden should be thought out well.
this is great!! She is adorable! Thank you for bringing her on
Johanna is adorable! so happy you girls have started this series,,,I loved it,
I find food storage very satisfying too, I love the whole process, the growing, the sorting, harvesting, the jars and containers and going to my pantry and not a store when I want to create a yummy meal, bread, cookies, etc. very fun. It's a great skill too.
Yay! I'm a newbie canner, so I'm hoping to learn a lot, especially when it comes to meat, which I've only done once. I'm hoping it will help me when I have a bad memory and forget an ingredient so I say 'let's just go out' because that's a very big temptation to my husband and myself, and we both want to stop that nonsense. I love basically everything you do, so I'm more than a little excited. :)
I'm so glad I found this channel since I've been dabbling in food storage and slowly getting into canning again!! I really need help in the planning stages so...on I go to your next video. Thank you!!
Thank you for addressing the road bumps - I'm in Florida and the temps are challenging year-round to food stores.
It's amazing to see this common part of everyday life just two generations ago seem so foreign to us now. My great aunts and grandmother stored food without a thought. I just wish I had paid better attention to their wisdom.
Grateful for your contributions!
Practice Hospitality me too I wish when I was younger to have paid attention to my grandma but she passed away when I was fourteen and my mother never learned to can or cook anything. so I've been teaching myself from scratch as my mom passed away when I was 21
Jenn in Kanata Bless your soul! What a beautiful way to honor them in gaining new knowledge to continue their legacy of love.
Nice to meet you Joanna! I hope to see more of you both here and eventually on your own channel. I am really looking forward to this series and cant wait for the next episode. Be well both of you
I really enjoyed this "chat" . I have no intention of going off grid or even moving out of the sub burbs, I do however LOVE being prepared!! I call my pantry my fast food! I love being able to shop the sales and buy in bulk. We have a combined home with my sister, her girls, my Mother and my husband. The girls, who are all over 19, help me and we have a blast!! Ha ha ha, most of the time. With my work schedule it is nice to come home and in 15 minutes a great dinner is ready! And I know everything that has gone into it!
In the city too! I love me some metropolis, and also being intentional about food :) thanks for sharing
really enjoyed this!!
I bought your book...can't wait to read, now I just need to find the time to read it!
Thanks for sharing. Awesome tips.
I had done much of what you are talking about 40 years ago. I had no white sugar, white flour or white rice in my home because of some nutritional needs of some older children we had adopted. It took me two years to learn this way of feeding my family. We had a lot of stored food. We lived in a large city suburb. I was in a serious car wreck and my precious mother in law inherited the care of an adopted 12, 9 and homegrown busy 18 month old. There was nothing she could could prepare in my home to eat and keep up with my household. I told my husband to take her to the store and buy what she needed. like bisquit. You having some easier food is a good idea. I was on crutches for two years and still have health problems. I am hoping to find some things I can do watching this. thank you
I love to prepare and store food that my family will enjoy. This is my second year of canning. I agree that small sessions are the best for beginners. I found out the hard way that starch is my enemy when preparing a year's worth of apples. Great advice on this forum and looking forward to seeing you here next time.
This is not the end but only the beginning. I have many other things prepared in my cabinet that turned out great. Today's lunch menu will be home canned vegetable soup.
Nice video, should be good series. We do food storage and I agree it is a very peaceful feeling to know you have food and don't have to rush into town to get something.
I am really enjoying this month skill. I have been slowly been building my food storage. To have variety i bought my bulk item a little at a time. Now i can focus on 1 or 2 items per shopping trip. I also feel more secure having a food storage. Thank you so much for all the advice ladies awesome job
Totally relate on the "What if the snowplow doesn't come?" Lack of a plowed road has resulted in some pretty interesting meals this winter. Working on my food storage skills has been a priority. Just got a dehydrator and have been playing with it. Dehydrated food takes up so much less space! I watched a lot of videos on the YT channel "Our Half Acre Homestead" to learn canning and dehydrating.
Great discussion. You invited us to share so I'd like to join in.
We move in three weeks to our property. We are leaving city life to country living with land. Leaving a life style and embracing another. We've been practicing food storage for a few years now. Learning what we like. Don't like. Love that you discussed that. It is a thing I had to learn!
We got laughed at in the city. Teased. We learned to expect it and not defend ourselves. We offered that our worst case scenario is that we eat and drink our investment.
I learned about dehydrating food. I tried every veg and fruit I liked. After a year I felt that this trial was successful and moved from a $35 unit to an Excalibur 9 tray I found on sale from the company. Score.
I invested in a food saver machine to store food for extended life. All my dehydrated foods are sealed in mason jars. Meats in freezer are protected from freezer burn and last twice as long. It was an investment I gladly made.
We will not be off grid but will plan for loss of power. Do you have plans to discuss a generator for emergency? We had a well put in. 175 ft deep. It requires a pump. So the generator, big water storage above ground...maybe barrels or 300 gallon bladders will be a future purchase so we can fire up the generator and pump them full when (not if...) needed. Would love to hear your thoughts...
Safety plans...we have this on our list to do. We have 3 acres of woods and a good amount of acres in meadows. Fire, weather, disaster is on our minds.
Another great video I can here in Seattle and have gotten to the end out of storage
We lived off our food storage for almost a year due to job loss. It's wonderful to not have that huge stress in times of economic trouble. Once a year we live completely off of it for a couple weeks to double check areas of weakness.
I store food! most of what you say resonates with me. the why I do it, is part self satisfaction, and the other part is to be self sufficient in the times of crisis. knowing that food wont be a worry is very important to me, knowing what is in it and how it was prepared is important. I cant always explain why I feel a need to can everything and have excess of items. but I chalk it up to my dna says so! thanks for the series and both of your outlooks on the subject.
Outstanding points made Johanna....We have the same concerns.
I love this video! I do my own food storage for the all of the same reasons!
Ester Emery and Johanna Fugal, I can see a "Recipe Sharing Blog or Vlog" in your future!!
After 12 years of in the country I'm still learning about food storage. One success I had this year was using an abundance of zucchini to make many many jars of tasty relish for burgers and hotdogs. I balk at buying the cheapest relish at our big grocery store because it is made in India. About as far away from local food as you can get 😊 So now I've got this nice stockpile of yummy relish, and you can bet I'll be doing more this year!
Thanks for the topic and your POVs.
Food storage is my favorite aspect of homesteading. We just moved from TX to WA and are so broke after the move that we are living on our food storage almost fully. I prepared our food storage for about 1.5 years, not knowing we were going to move, and I'm very interested to see how long it's going to last us. It's not well rounded (I'm finding out now), so once summer comes and the markets/orchards open in WA I'll have new experiences canning farm fresh food as that was not readily available in my part of TX.
Looking forward to next week!
I, too moved from TX to WA. What part of TX? What part of WA? I am from Austin, and I moved to the North Olympic Peninsula.
Kirsten Whitworth Go figure! From Dallas to Okanogan Valley. Looking for property in the highlands.
It's just too hot in Texas in the summers now. :)
Kirsten Whitworth For sure and we were tired of only having 2 seasons and no local food.
What did you find missing, what do you have? I am in north tx now...
Great video!
I collect recipes for frugal meals using foods I have stored particularly pasta, rice and beans. Also, lots of different sauces, herbs and spices to enhance beans & rice or pasta to avoid food fatigue. I have refrigeration and a freezer so I often shop only once a month. Its great knowing I have a variety of meals available without shopping. I drive 50 miles round trip to shop so this saves on gas. When we have s snow, ice or another weather event, I don't run to the store. I go to the basement to my pantry and freezer. BTW cookbooks published before 1960 are the best choice for from scratch cooking. I especially like the Betty Crocker, Better Homes and Gardens and Joy of Cooking from 1940's and 1950's.
I live in the city and I have a small food storage because I don't like to go to the grocery store every day!
she's awesome
Thank you :) I've tried canning peaches but they fermented, I don't know what I did wrong. I was excited when you said what the topic for January was.
Great video
OMG...rabbit fetuses! I LOL'd. I just used bread crumbs I dried out and stored in 2012 in a Foodsaver bag. Tasted new! We just save all the ends of bread, let them get stale in a paper bag or dry out in oven on 200 (if you live somewhere damp.) Mash into crumbs in a food processor. (off grid you have the kids mash with hammers in a pilow case I guess.)
I like to make a huge batch of bone broth every time I make it. It usually gets broken down like so: Fill a couple-few ice cube trays, so when I need just a bit, or I am having a meal of broth and over-heat it and burn my mouth, they're there. (They also just keep well that way). I put about half the batch in two-quart mason jars and refrigerate it, cuz I, personally, use it up fast enough.
I put the other half either in tupperware/mason jars and freeze for when making a 24-hour batch of broth isn't NOW enough :), OR I make a soup. Veggies on their way out in the fridge are great for this! Then, I divvy up the finished soup into meal-sized containers and freeze. Of course, the broth and the soup can be canned, also. I've lived without refrigeration more than once, but don't happen to currently.
I really agree with the sentiment of satisfaction and wholeness that comes from even just having a few prepared, heat-and-eat backup plans in the freezer, as well as larger-scale versions of this (cuz life happens).
I have many food sensitivities and don't eat out almost ever. Can't afford to, anyway. I HAVE to prepare everything I eat; no choice. So, having, as Esther describes, something READY to take out of my purse and put in my face WHILE I'm on the way to the grocery store is of paramount import. Some days I'm too sick to bother and need a hot, soothing bowl of soup on the fly.
Whatever. If you've lived through scarcity of any kind, ever, I can't see how you WOULDN'T try to have a pad in yer cupboard.
I think food storage is also returning to the natural rhythm of the earth. There is a time to sow and a time to reap (and store.) It just doesn't seem very sustainable to eat strawberries shipped from one end of the earth to another so you can eat them in October. Thanks for the video.
I store food for security reasons AND I just love to can. When I can get milk or butter for real cheap, I buy a bunch and can it. When there's a good sale on cheese, I cut it into smaller portions, wax them and store them in a cool place.
Another non-apocalyptic reason for food storage is sickness. Could be a major event like cancer, but all of us will get colds & flu. Right now I have a bad cold, and we're having lots of snow/ice. So even though Safeway and Walmart etc. are less than two miles away, I do *NOT* feel like going to the store! My husband picked up some perishable items for us, but even without that we definitely wouldn't have starved.
Hay can you tell Johanna aka ant Johanna that where looking forward to visiting her house this summer.
I LOVE my Johanna! And Esther thanks for being so good to Johanna +5! I miss her and everyone dearly and you helped me out with being so homesick for my sister. I love hearing your advice and also Johanna's. I've always said, if I am half the woman Johanna is, I'll be set. She also looks at everything is such a round about unique manner that really helps in every situation! Thanks for the great advice. I have a question. I have a ton, I mean a ton of boxes of meat and we've become vegetarian. What are you best ideas or how to get it to the right people that will use it?
What are your thoughts about not hoarding, trusting the Lord with the future,etc.? I store food some, but wonder sometimes where the balance is. At what point am I just living out of fear or even out of self-indulgence?
This is a great question! I need to give it some thought and will try to address it well.
I feel that the Lord has given all this knowledge to be able to take care of ourselves. If we ignore it and don't put in the effort and act on the knowledge we have then we haven't done our part. God uses US to help others. He uses our hands (and sometimes pantries) to bless others. I think aiming for at least a basic 3 month supply of food is a great place to start.
Jett Wrenn I found this collection of verses helpful. www.epm.org/resources/2010/Mar/8/scriptures-consider-preparing-future/
The Lord/ God gave me the smarts and resources to enjoy living....it'd be a waste to not use them and pass on my living lessons (experiences) to my family and friends.
FEAR is as useless as Doubt...I don't plant these seeds in my preperations and garden of good living.
SELF INDULGENCE = indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
Once my basics are covered , and I am stable in self living....all extra's go to my family...cause i am no good to anyone , if I don't care for myself first.
Johanna how did you can a whole rabbit with the bone I am confused at how big these jars are cuz the rabbits that I see in the grocery store arlong and meaty they are a bit skinnier than the chicken. just curious
You guy's...😥 food of the month club? Its a year! Old...😭
Esther' You just droped All of your subscribers! An just Left us hanging! 😥
No matter the reason!
It only takes a moment to say something! I'm truly just sad...
Good topic thank you..Question what is the difference between a homesteader and a Prepper?
God Bless
Brenda w some people say homesteading is the ultimate prep.
My understanding is that in general preppers buy stuff and stock it up, where homesteaders produce as much as possible on their own property: gardens, animals, etc.
+everybunny homestead 👍 thank you I'm trying to figure out if I'm a Prepper or homesteader ..We don't have animals but eat meat..I grow all our vegetables and and can grow all our own herbs..Buy from butcher meat and pressure can lol so what am I ? thank you God Bless
+Judy G Thank you so much..guess I'm alittle both I also make my own soap and laundry soap and dishwasher tablets..so there you have it..lol God Bless
Brenda - To me, homesteading is a mind set to be more self sufficient. There are many different "levels" of homesteading, if you'd like to get technical, but only we can push ourselves to the next level. For me, the next level will be farming.
What is *CSA vegetables* and *dinosaur chicken*?
The CSA stands for community supported agriculture. It's a farm where you buy in for a share of what the farm grows and it allows you to really live off the land even if you don't have any land. Dinosaur chicken is chicken meat that has been pressed into the shape of a dinosaur and then breaded that way. It's very processed, very salty. Kids like it, but it's not very healthy. Very much the opposite of getting fresh food right from the farm.
Esther, do you have a email address that you receive mail from your subscribers?