Once had a boyfriend who asked one of our guests if he really thinks yoghurts are so smart to know dates on top of them👍🤣. It was only 2 days OVER expiration date.
@@Sabbathissaturday I have. They get crucified by their audience when they do it, so they never make the same mistake twice. That's why there aren't many videos of preppers doing something that dumb.
He still thinks you have too much food in the house AFTER covid caused to much disruption? You should be applauded for making sure your family has everything they need. Especially after all that chaos. 👍Good job.
Don't forget to add as S-hook at the end of one of your metal shelves to hang a pair of scissors on for that packaged plastic wrap around can goods, etc.
I’m so proud of you for not tossing good food just because of the date. Thank you so much for getting the word out which saves money and doesn’t cause unnecessary landfill or waste good resources in the production. You’re the best!
Omg I just declutter my pantry and half of my food got expired like 3 or like a month ago and I have all the food and a huge box ready to put them in the garbage , I will check the products again and keep them Thankyou, Thankyou! 🙏🏻
@Gaby Weast If you’re afraid of the food I beg you to take it to a food pantry. They will use it and they NEED it. It’s not bad unless you smell spoilage and they know what to look for. No waste! 🧡
Between our hurricanes and then our super freeze in Texas I’m so thankful for extra food storage! Thank you for teaching people how important it is to have. Crazy world we live in!
We have a room very much like this and our kids call it "Mom and Pops." They will be here to pick up the babies, as I watch the babies while they're working, and they may say, "Can I shop at Mom and Pops?" It is so much easier than taking babies to the grocery store on the way home, especially during this pandemic. Besides, if we can help them out, all the better...
I teared up reading this! That's EXACTLY what I envision doing once we have grandbabies...in 30 yrs...our daughter is only 7! 😳🤪...But I can pray and plan in the interim! 🙏🏽 God bless you Meemaw. We need your matriarchal spirit 😊
When I volunteered at the local food bank we used large coloured dots on cases so that at a glance you know what year it expired. Quick and easy we put them on cases and boxes and trays we had a colour code at the sided of the shelves so everyone followed the same code, this was planned for five years.
K new viewer here...when you said the neighbours kid said “I don’t like that kind” and you’re response “we’ll go home and get a snack and come on back”🤣🤣💀 I subscribed right there!
I find after I organize my pantry I just keep going back and opening the door and feel a sense of calm come over me. I would of laughed at anyone who did that when I was young. Now it’s me. So sad
It's one less thing that I have to stress out about. No matter what happens (short of a house fire or disastrous earthquake) I know that I can feed the family.
The shoebox containers work great to store items for stocking stuffers. I have one with each person's name on it, and as I find inexpensive or free items I put them in the box for who would like and/or use the item. By Christmas I usually have plenty for stockings.
Thanks for the inspo! I watched three minutes of the video - paused - went and cleaned my pantry - and came back to watch the rest! EDIT: Next day - I cannot help but to just go into my pantry and look around it makes me so happy to just SEE everything organized!
Thank you so much for your encouragement to tackle projects even 15 minutes at a time. I can get so overwhelmed with my clutter, and I needed this video. I don't have a beautiful storage space like that, and literally have food in nooks and crannies all over the house. I think grouping things together by category might help me remember better where things are stored. Now, off to Costco.
I do that too. I also write first, next last or one, two three in the same color so my boys and husband know what to eat from in sequence if I'm not home and it's their turn to cook. I have a set of colorful sharpie pens in a magnetic pocket.
For things that are the size of canned goods, we use a three tiered shelf from Walmart. You can see at a glance without the shuffling. Don't know if they make bigger three tiered shelving or not. At a glance you can see what you are out of. Nice job organizing
I really enjoy watching your hauls and organization. This is the goal one day in the future to be this organized. My pantry is no where near this large but I'm working on it
One of the most satisfying things I’ve don’t in the last couple months was organizing my food storage pantry. I actually learned a ton about what I am prepared for.
I use shoe boxes for packets of mixes like for gravy, dressing, chili, flavorings, powdered cheese and cream based mixes, leftover fast food packets of croutons, nuts, sauces, etc. I also have one or two filled with the little boxes of jello so I always have a treat that's easy to make for the kids that doesn't involve baking anything.
I could watch you organising all day Kimmy.. You are so motivating. Can I make a video request? Will you do an organise and tour of your working pantry also. Take care. Caz from Northern Ireland
Holy schmoley girl. I’ll bet your back, neck, and arms were killing you! This was ALOT of work. I find this organized room calming and secure. Great work!
And I love the fact that not only are you in your apron (sorry don't know your first name), but your also in your slippers too. Comfy, relaxed and just living your best life clearly. Amen sister, I'm with you, slippers always @ home!!
My husband built another wooden storage shelf on Saturday so we had more room for all the storage I'm putting in. We completely cleaned out and rearranged our food storage area, took us all day! Like you, I feel so strongly about this. Now is the time to prepare. 🙏
My master bedroom walk in closet has become my food storage room. I have 18-5 gallon buckets filled. Getting ready to buy more home depot shelves to set up in my room for all the canned goods I buy. I'm going to sew brown sheets to velcrow and place it all around the shelves so I can get my closet back, lol!
I have probably watched this video 6 or 7 times. I have been creating my "pantry" for the last year or so. When my son came to visit and said "Geesh Mom, it's like being at Walmart". I was so freaking happy!!!!! I now write the exp date with marker on everything so that when I rotate my inventory it's easy to see. I notice right away when something gets used.....what's that empty spot???? LOL
I have started using a sharpie and marking expiration dates on the front of the cans and containers facing out so I know which should be used first without looking at each can etc
Great video Kimmie! I love how much detail you went into. And doing most in real time. Much more helpful than just speeding through without talking. Thanks! ❤
I have a shelf similar to yours in your food room. I put an "S" hook in the holes on the side and I leave a pair of scissors hanging there to get stubborn plastic packages open. :)
I love love love me some grilled cheese sandwiches, however, I don't care for tomato soup. Instead, I heat up a jar of Prego garden fresh spaghetti sauce and I dip my sandwich in it. My family thought I was crazy until I recently served it during our recent snow storm. THEY LOVED IT! It's much heartier than just a bowl of soup.
Super quick recipe for French onion soup. Brown 1# ground beef. Add a couple tablespoons of flour. Stir until incorporated. Stir in one can French onion soup. Heat through. Serve on hamburger buns. We called them spoon burgers growing up. I now make them for my grandkids.
Just found your channel. Good video. A couple of suggestions: cardboard and paper containers - break down & put in a bin in the pantry for your fireplace, fire pit, or to take if you camp. If not, share with someone who does before putting them in the recycle bin. Store food goods with liquids below dry goods, & the tomato-based goods lowest. Wal-Mart has pet food bins that can hold up to 50 lb bags to keep them bug free, dry & away from cleaning supplies. You can either pour the food in or just set the open bag in it. Hope these are helpful.
My food room needs some TLC also. Going to need to tackle it soon. I save my ice cream buckets for taking chicken n' dumplings, soups and other meals to the sick and to our missionaries. Came in handy last week when we took 2 roast dinners to our 5 Elders. ❤ our missionaries.
I have watched this video countless times. However, I never tire of you and that beer bottle when you say, "These kids are driving me crazy!" Too funny.😂
Or a large family 😂 if you dont have one you dont know my mum is one of ten kids and they all had at least 2 kids each and those kids have all started having kids and all have 2 or more as well usually more like 3 or 4 so when i say that food is more a basic supply vs an insane amount like it may look im telling you from experience. When you do the math on how much a growing kid eats especially or hardworking not still growing adults who have at least 3 meals a day AND snacks and then times it by 7 youll find thats a lot to look at. To give perspective its like those diet related shows that have to shock people into being healthy by putting how much of a food item they eat in a year in a giant mountain and it ends up being like a room full of ONE thing. Be thankful humans unlike a lo of ither animals are pretty efficient with food since most animals have to eat their bodyweight nearly every day.
That is a great point! I could only find a few pieces of expensive beef beginning of pandemic. No T.P for 5 weeks. No chicken and bought my first whipes 7weeks ago..now I but more of this and that. Be prepared.👍🏻💪🏻🙏🏻
It's not as much as you think when you are feeding a family. She will go through that in a few months. Would be different if it were just for 1 or 2 people.
Are the shelves tied back to the wall? You should really keep the heavy cans on the bottom shelves and lighter things like the pasta higher up, particularly if you’re pulling all the cans forward to the shelf edge.
Canned food is good indefinitely for years and years and years. Like they say, smell it, look at it, taste it. If the Can is not bulging or rusted it will still be good it just loses some of its nutrients
I JUST did this very thing over the weekend! It feels so good to have it done but I am not quite as young as you so I am feeling it today. ( BUT, it is a “good hurt”! 🤣🤣🤣) Stay well Kimmie!
Don't know if someone has already mentioned this but there are slow cooker recipes for applesauce. I use my wrinkled apples, the ones know one wants to eat. Add a couple of drops of cinnamon oil, its delicious🤗
Kimmy, you are a true inspiration! Thank you for this very insightful video. My husband built some shelves for me and I can finally start building a 6-12 months pantry. We’ve had about a months supply before, but now I can really start- thank you for the inspiration and your tricks! God bless you and your family! ✨
Great video! I too categorize and keep like things together. I got tired of trying to look at the tiny expiration dates so I use a marker and write in BIG numbers the month/year on the individual can label or box. I quickly write the dates on my new groceries and its so much easier to shuffle stuff around and keep items from expiring. Hope this helps someone.
I hope you read this! I'm 59 and have had about 6 years of sick parent, then a lot of her things came to my house. 3 years ago I started prepping. 2 years ago breast cancer. I am finally feeling good but low energy. My home, inside and out is so cluttered and out of control that I'm going to try " Swedish death cleaning". My dilemma is the balance between decluttering, simplifying and prepping. I sew and a little crocheting. I can and dehydrate food. I hope to garden next year. Had to take a break from that for health reasons. Still no energy. Lol My concern is finding the balance. If you have any thoughts or ideas I would love to see a video on that.
This is excellent. For the haul bags, I put them all inside one bag and keep them in the car. I can't count the times I've run in for just a few things that turned into a haul and I was without my bags! - I store the heaviest stuff on the bottom to keep the shelf stable (and to save my back lol) and the plastic and paper products, snacks, crackers, pasta toward the top. I recently discovered your channel and find you to be very motivating. Thank you!
Thank you so much for the motivation! I am actually working on our food storage right now, so this is perfect timing. We just got a big metal cabinet for our basement to hold our food storage and I can't wait to organize it. I have a teenie tiny pantry in my kitchen, so I needed the room. We also just got our first thrive order using your link and we are so impressed with the quality! Looking forward to stocking up a little bit each month to grow our stockpile. Such a blessing to know that we have what we need on hand just in case...
You are so wonderful, and such an inspiration! I'm trying to build up our tiny long-term storage ... little by little ... it's tough, especially during this time, but it is so exciting each time I add something new :)
it's so nice to see someone just buying can stuff on sale. not having to can it ourselves! i am just buying up stuff myself. i have canning jars but i'm using them for dry storage. you could mark the box trays with the dates if they don't already have them on them. thanks for not trashing food. you're so right about BEST BY dates!! I ordered more shelving today but I love your heavy duty shelves. They seem to hold a lot of weight!! you could also label the shelves if you wanted with a label maker so everyone will put things where they go besides you :) have a great day!!! such a great video!
absolutely love how you are working your food storage room. Fantastic catorgy organization, I also incorporate a lot of stewed tomatoes into soups stews and chili 😀 as a child I used to organize my Mothers cabinets in her kitchen like a grocery stock person 🤦♀️
Thank you for putting the newer cereal on the bottom and then adding the older. I can’t tell you how many videos I watch where they open and dump the new stuff on top of what is there. Pasta’s too. I aspire to have a food room one day!! Great video.
I agree. Whenever I have something to do in my apartment that I don't want to do and have been putting off I just go the one of your videos and like clockwork I just start doing what I was putting off and it feels so good when I am finished. Next thing to tackle is the pantry. You inspire me, Kim. You are full of purpose and I like that.
I love these videos, I find them so relaxing, it must be my need to organise hahaha. Certainly after lockdowns and such and terrible weather many places have experienced, not to mention the rising cost of everything; power, petrol, groceries etc etc, there's a lot to be said for stocking up and having a goodly supply of things when you need them. Thanks for posting.
I am facing this tomorrow. Dreading and looking forward to it all at the same time. Mom Life! Love your VLOG's Kimmie. Stay strong, stay faithful and stay true! You bless me with every video.
I love this. I'm taking notes, literally in my notebook🤣 and I am starting to organise my pantry storage today! Im so excited. Inventory started last night. Lists, lists, lists!!! ❤
I wonder if writing the expiration dates in black marker on the side you have facing out would make it easier for you? Also I totally agree that expired food, especially canned food, lasts way longer than the best before. I cringe seeing other TH-camrs throwing out dry goods just because they have reached that date. Herbs especially last sooooo long, the older they are the less potent, just use more. They will never go 'bad'
My daughter moved back after 20 plus years away. Her silverware is in a vase. Her china, pots and pans are way back under the counters. Luckily we had a guest bedroom with empty closet and dresser. She got rid of 50 to 75 percent of her stuff. The rest is in hassocks. Tina
Working on a big minimizing project and will be moving in the next few months. I enjoyed watching you organize I wrote down several great ideas. Thank you, Jamie
If I see something that is expiring soon or just expired, I make sure to find a recipe to use them up right away. I know you say some things last years longer but I just can't do it. I'm very picky with date. My boyfriend thinks I buy too much but, heck, when things are on sale such as a great deal I stock up. To me, that's being smart with your money. I hate to buy anything full price if I can help it. :-) I love how big your pantry is!!! It is totally like being in a grocery store. I must have a little ocd. I have to have everything totally organized and faced perfect. You did a great job! Lots of work.
Tuna Fish, Miracle Whip, and chopped Apples. Everyone I have ever introduced it to doesn't think they will like it....and then they try it and say the LOVE it. Give it a shot.
Hey Kimmy, fabulous job on organizing you food storage room, it looks great!! Thank you for the tip on the “Best Buy date” I didn’t realize how long after the cans were good for!!! I love your organization!!! Sending hugs! 🎉💪❤️
Did no that in imperial war museum uk they have canned food still from second 1 and second world war still in useable no holes dints or anything else on them they opened one a couple years ago all the food inside was tested in a laboratory to see if it was ok to eat still came back from test said it was fine to eat wow when l found l was very impressed with this information
Sooooo good to see how you organise your food storage! I'm slowly building my food storage in the home we moved into last year. You've given me lots of ideas. Thanks!🥰 Blessings from South Australia💕🐨
I use a black sharpie to mark my cases and boxes. It makes it much easier to see and keep track of best by dates. I don't have to pull each item forward to check dates. The dates are nice and big and can be seen from the front of the shelf.
You need to get a Costco 3 step step ladder! Take it from a senior whose only 4’9”-you need a bigger step ladder! They have a nice big platform on top to stand on so your feet and legs don’t get tired. I’m having to9 graduate to a 5 or 6 footer because we are moving and my pantry ceilings are 10” and shelves to the top. Wish I could find one like my little lightweight Costco. It folds flat and you can store it anywhere. Also, my advice would be to clear out one shelf to the kitchen counter to have a place to set those heavy cans /bulky boxes while you check dates etc. then you just work your way around and you will always have a spare shelf to hold things while you’re juggling. (I had many dented cans and broken jars until I figured this out!) Thanks for sharing your knowledge and taking the time to share with us.
For your French onion soup- look up the recipe for stick of butter rice. It’s now a staple in our pantry. My son will make it and eat it by itself! It’s yummy. I now keep several cans of French onion soup on hand at all times.
Our food storage room gets messy so fast. I’m always shocked at how crazy it can get. We have 10 in our household so many hands get involved. They can always find what they want. But can’t seem to remember where yo put things back! But so worth it though. My adult son went out in the Texas ice store to our storage room... he called me on his phone.... says. “ since I’m at the grocery store what flavor ice cream do you want... plus do I need to bring a case of anything in! lol those smaller storage containers I use for things like mix packets... I’m glad you show can goods storage. So many... myself included thing storage as home canned. But honestly I prefer a good mix of home canned and store bought. Gives me more size options. And since I live in the city I’m limited in my garden space. But many of my storage groups have newbies to storage etc worry about building up since gardening takes time... so they are always asking about ways to store store bought. This was a really informative well done video for them. I’ve done it for years. But I’m always watching for new ideas. You can teach an old dog new tricks! Lol I use a pressure curtain bar and add shower curtain hooks... then hang all the never ending lunch bags etc.
Hi its my first time seeing your video thanks for sharing this OMG!! I love your food storage 😀 our daughter moved out 2 yrs ago and that's my EXTRA storage room 😁 our they said wow mom it looks like a mini store 😊 there's some places that take food that's close to expiration dates expiring to help families. God bless us all and be safe ❤
You are so blessed to have such a large storage space! That’s almost bigger than my kids room! Lol. We have our storage in the garage. I worry about the cans in the heat of the summer. Update on Kally & Felix would be fantastic!
Tote those things up in organized similar usage put them in closets no one needs extra shelves. They need out of playing , bunches like salts & chemical are hazards to kids, get dirty, bug potential - rodent, have fumes. So tote them up by most used together.
I turned my garage into a very large pantry! I put window block era up and added an box air conditioner. This summer was first to go through and it kept at 70 all summer long. I didn’t notice much in way of any increase in my electric bill. This was a game changer for me
Hello Kimmy, I can't say I'm new to your Chanel. Cause ever since I saw you cooking or decluttering or grocery hauls, something then just got me hooked on your videos. I like everything about you & your family. (The Good; Bad & The Ugly - because that's life for all of us on this planet. Don't you think. Anyways, My name is Elsa R. And I am a Young 61 year Old Grandma. I live out in California. I have just 1 Adult Daughter & she gave me a 1 Granddaughter, who's an Adult now, too. But they tend to eat out more than eat at home. Your shows inspirer me to declutter my bedroom & 1 of 2 Attic's. So I want to Thank you for that. I like your use of shopping at Dollar Tree or Walmart or even Target to buy my containers for everything I need for a cheaper price. To help with my cleaning. :-). Your the Best!!!! Sincerely, Elsa R. (Before the movie "Frozen" came to movies theater's. ( Ha, Ha). I do hope you get this/my Text. :-). Bye for now...
It’s always such a good feeling of accomplishment when you clean out and organize. FYI the Pioneer Woman has a good applesauce recipe that I use a lot, it’s very easy.
It’s funny. I do much the same in my long term pantry, (just less since we don’t have kids home now). I also don’t use many canned soups since we have low sodium requirements, and I use tomato paste instead of sauces (less room and I can vary the type of sauce ,(thicker, thinner, even soup). I think you use an intuitive and logical approach. Nice job. Lots of work good for you.
You did a great job on organizing your pantry. One suggestion (and I saw it on another video)would be to not store cleaning items under food , since the fumes can rise and affect the food above them. It suggested storing them on a top shelf.
I keep a couple of Sharpies in my food storage room and write the month/year "best buy" date in big numbers right on the box, case lot carton, jar or can before I put it away. Makes it a lot easier to keep track of, and the numbers haven't had a chance to fade. But I only pay attention to that to make sure I use the oldest first, and don't worry about any of it really being "expired." The only canned or jarred things I've ever had go bad were tomato products like diced tomatoes and tomato sauce -- but only six to eight years after their "best buy" date when they developed just a hint of a metallic taste, and canned fruits at about five years after "best buy" date, when they got dark and mushy. And ketchup darkens and doesn't taste quite as good at about six to eight years past "best buy." Soups, canned veggies, tuna, chili, mayo, I've used up to 10 years after the "best buy" date with no noticeable effect on taste or texture. I think manufacturers put the "best buy" date mostly because they have no way to know how people are going to store their products. If they are going to keep them in a muggy hot garage in South Texas with lots of uncovered windows, that's going to be very different from my dry, dark basement that is around 55 degrees most of the year and never gets over 70.
I'm laughing because I watched your video to procrastinate on my university zoom lectures, but now I feel motivated to get after them. Who knew food storage organization could be so motivating! lol
Great video! Just watch out with dog food so close to cleaning products. Believe it or not, the cleaning smell can transfer through paper bags and platstic. I learned the hard way! Blessings, Paige
I have to say this is one of my favourite videos. I keep coming back to watch it when I'm organising my pantry. Any chance you would do some more videos like this? Big hugs xxx
I use two cans of French onion soup and two cans of beef consume' in the instant pot with the roast to make french dip sandwiches. When I make a roast in the crock pot I use a can of cream of mushroom and 1 envelope of onion soup mix along with the roast and veggies.
looks great! anytime I do this I use a permanent marker and write the expiration dates larger on the items so I can see them without having to take stuff out or play the finding game 😆🤣
Finally someone on TH-cam who mentions the best by dates and not throws everything in the trash, which is over it 🥳🥳
I had no idea. So thankful to hear this! Thank you for sharing!!
Once had a boyfriend who asked one of our guests if he really thinks yoghurts are so smart to know dates on top of them👍🤣.
It was only 2 days OVER expiration date.
I’ve never seen a prepper throw away anything by the Best Buy date.
@@Sabbathissaturday I have. They get crucified by their audience when they do it, so they never make the same mistake twice. That's why there aren't many videos of preppers doing something that dumb.
My husband thought we have too much in our pantry. I can't wait to show him this video.
He still thinks you have too much food in the house AFTER covid caused to much disruption? You should be applauded for making sure your family has everything they need. Especially after all that chaos. 👍Good job.
Lollll..
I gave up on my pantry its a lost cause
Haha.."If there's things you don't care about...just give it to the neighbor kids!"🤣🤣 I love it! I'm using that one😃
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Don't forget to add as S-hook at the end of one of your metal shelves to hang a pair of scissors on for that packaged plastic wrap around can goods, etc.
Good idea!
Or aprons or inventory list or just white board or recipe binder etc
Also extra sharpies to date on way in: plus a 2 extra hand can openers
Good idea !!
Brilliant!
I’m so proud of you for not tossing good food just because of the date. Thank you so much for getting the word out which saves money and doesn’t cause unnecessary landfill or waste good resources in the production. You’re the best!
Omg I just declutter my pantry and half of my food got expired like 3 or like a month ago and I have all the food and a huge box ready to put them in the garbage , I will check the products again and keep them Thankyou, Thankyou! 🙏🏻
@@GabyWeast AAAQQa
@Gaby Weast If you’re afraid of the food I beg you to take it to a food pantry. They will use it and they NEED it. It’s not bad unless you smell spoilage and they know what to look for. No waste! 🧡
@@marypayne9347 I will Thankyou ❤️
Between our hurricanes and then our super freeze in Texas I’m so thankful for extra food storage! Thank you for teaching people how important it is to have. Crazy world we live in!
Are you kidding it's not nowadays Grandma can so much that when she died there was still almost a Year's worth canning in there
As a manager of a high school kitchen I’m so happy to see you rotating your food & paying attention to the best by dates! Loving your channel!
We have a room very much like this and our kids call it "Mom and Pops." They will be here to pick up the babies, as I watch the babies while they're working, and they may say, "Can I shop at Mom and Pops?" It is so much easier than taking babies to the grocery store on the way home, especially during this pandemic. Besides, if we can help them out, all the better...
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You are a great mom! To be helping your children out in that way.
😂Aw, the mom and pop store, that’s awesome. ❤️
I teared up reading this! That's EXACTLY what I envision doing once we have grandbabies...in 30 yrs...our daughter is only 7! 😳🤪...But I can pray and plan in the interim! 🙏🏽 God bless you Meemaw. We need your matriarchal spirit 😊
But they need to start their own so their children will learn how to prep like mom and pops
When I volunteered at the local food bank we used large coloured dots on cases so that at a glance you know what year it expired. Quick and easy we put them on cases and boxes and trays we had a colour code at the sided of the shelves so everyone followed the same code, this was planned for five years.
I just took a marker and dated all mine on front or top or both
oooh love that idea, going to do that with the stickers
K new viewer here...when you said the neighbours kid said “I don’t like that kind” and you’re response “we’ll go home and get a snack and come on back”🤣🤣💀 I subscribed right there!
😂 my son is grown.....but when he was young, yep, had to love those picky neighbor kids😂
SAME!!!
Same!! 🤣🤣
Amen!!
A REAL MOM! 😂
I find after I organize my pantry I just keep going back and opening the door and feel a sense of calm come over me. I would of laughed at anyone who did that when I was young. Now it’s me. So sad
I know. It's my happy place!
It’s me too🙋🏻♀️
It's one less thing that I have to stress out about. No matter what happens (short of a house fire or disastrous earthquake) I know that I can feed the family.
I agree with you lady’s . Feels awesome 🤩 ty so happy 😁. In joy ! . Sharon
Not sad, awesomeness! What a huge sress reliever. You did good!
The shoebox containers work great to store items for stocking stuffers. I have one with each person's name on it, and as I find inexpensive or free items I put them in the box for who would like and/or use the item. By Christmas I usually have plenty for stockings.
Fantastic idea
I love the stocking stuffers idea! I was thinking Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes.🙂
Thanks for the inspo! I watched three minutes of the video - paused - went and cleaned my pantry - and came back to watch the rest! EDIT: Next day - I cannot help but to just go into my pantry and look around it makes me so happy to just SEE everything organized!
That’s awesome!
Thank you so much for your encouragement to tackle projects even 15 minutes at a time. I can get so overwhelmed with my clutter, and I needed this video. I don't have a beautiful storage space like that, and literally have food in nooks and crannies all over the house. I think grouping things together by category might help me remember better where things are stored. Now, off to Costco.
That's what I do. I read that somewhere about the 15 minutes out of an hour.
Lol your not alone
Use a fat black sharpie on the outsides of food boxes to label the expiration dates. That way you won’t have to pull it off the shelf to see! 😉
I do that too. I also write first, next last or one, two three in the same color so my boys and husband know what to eat from in sequence if I'm not home and it's their turn to cook. I have a set of colorful sharpie pens in a magnetic pocket.
That's what I do or ill never remember
For things that are the size of canned goods, we use a three tiered shelf from Walmart. You can see at a glance without the shuffling. Don't know if they make bigger three tiered shelving or not. At a glance you can see what you are out of. Nice job organizing
"These kids are driving me crazy!!"🤣🤣🤣 I laughed at that (and also related 😂)
I do something like that, BUT WITH CHOCOLATE 😂
@@natalievalenzuela6034 Chocolate is a woman's best secret friend.
I really enjoy watching your hauls and organization. This is the goal one day in the future to be this organized. My pantry is no where near this large but I'm working on it
One of the most satisfying things I’ve don’t in the last couple months was organizing my food storage pantry. I actually learned a ton about what I am prepared for.
I use shoe boxes for packets of mixes like for gravy, dressing, chili, flavorings, powdered cheese and cream based mixes, leftover fast food packets of croutons, nuts, sauces, etc. I also have one or two filled with the little boxes of jello so I always have a treat that's easy to make for the kids that doesn't involve baking anything.
I could watch you organising all day Kimmy.. You are so motivating. Can I make a video request? Will you do an organise and tour of your working pantry also. Take care. Caz from Northern Ireland
Would love that. Especially after a grocery haul.
Holy schmoley girl. I’ll bet your back, neck, and arms were killing you! This was ALOT of work. I find this organized room calming and secure. Great work!
And I love the fact that not only are you in your apron (sorry don't know your first name), but your also in your slippers too. Comfy, relaxed and just living your best life clearly. Amen sister, I'm with you, slippers always @ home!!
One of my favorite kinds of videos and this one was especially good.
My husband built another wooden storage shelf on Saturday so we had more room for all the storage I'm putting in. We completely cleaned out and rearranged our food storage area, took us all day! Like you, I feel so strongly about this. Now is the time to prepare. 🙏
My master bedroom walk in closet has become my food storage room. I have 18-5 gallon buckets filled. Getting ready to buy more home depot shelves to set up in my room for all the canned goods I buy. I'm going to sew brown sheets to velcrow and place it all around the shelves so I can get my closet back, lol!
I have probably watched this video 6 or 7 times. I have been creating my "pantry" for the last year or so. When my son came to visit and said "Geesh Mom, it's like being at Walmart". I was so freaking happy!!!!! I now write the exp date with marker on everything so that when I rotate my inventory it's easy to see. I notice right away when something gets used.....what's that empty spot???? LOL
I've been using a sharpie to write the dates on products for easy reading, too!
I have started using a sharpie and marking expiration dates on the front of the cans and containers facing out so I know which should be used first without looking at each can etc
Great idea 💡 iam trying that ty Mona 😀 Sharon
Me too. They print the expiration date so tiny. I write it giant.
Same.
I do the same with a peace of tape because it is to tiny to see when you are in a rush
So smart! Thanks, Mona!
Great video Kimmie! I love how much detail you went into. And doing most in real time. Much more helpful than just speeding through without talking. Thanks! ❤
You are relatable but yet so professional with your advice and you are such an inspiration!!!!
This looks so nice! And wow, what a work out!! Who needs a gym when you have all those cases to lift?!!!
I have a shelf similar to yours in your food room. I put an "S" hook in the holes on the side and I leave a pair of scissors hanging there to get stubborn plastic packages open. :)
I love love love me some grilled cheese sandwiches, however, I don't care for tomato soup. Instead, I heat up a jar of Prego garden fresh spaghetti sauce and I dip my sandwich in it. My family thought I was crazy until I recently served it during our recent snow storm. THEY LOVED IT! It's much heartier than just a bowl of soup.
How about grilled cheese with stew tomatoes
Salsa’s good too.
In my family we love just plain old ketchup to dip sandwich in!
Super quick recipe for French onion soup. Brown 1# ground beef. Add a couple tablespoons of flour. Stir until incorporated. Stir in one can French onion soup. Heat through. Serve on hamburger buns. We called them spoon burgers growing up. I now make them for my grandkids.
That sounds so good, I'm not gonna lie.
Just found your channel. Good video. A couple of suggestions: cardboard and paper containers - break down & put in a bin in the pantry for your fireplace, fire pit, or to take if you camp. If not, share with someone who does before putting them in the recycle bin. Store food goods with liquids below dry goods, & the tomato-based goods lowest. Wal-Mart has pet food bins that can hold up to 50 lb bags to keep them bug free, dry & away from cleaning supplies. You can either pour the food in or just set the open bag in it. Hope these are helpful.
My food room needs some TLC also. Going to need to tackle it soon. I save my ice cream buckets for taking chicken n' dumplings, soups and other meals to the sick and to our missionaries. Came in handy last week when we took 2 roast dinners to our 5 Elders. ❤ our missionaries.
I have watched this video countless times. However, I never tire of you and that beer bottle when you say, "These kids are driving me crazy!" Too funny.😂
Dang...you could feed a small nation with the “Food Storage” area.
Or a large family 😂 if you dont have one you dont know my mum is one of ten kids and they all had at least 2 kids each and those kids have all started having kids and all have 2 or more as well usually more like 3 or 4 so when i say that food is more a basic supply vs an insane amount like it may look im telling you from experience.
When you do the math on how much a growing kid eats especially or hardworking not still growing adults who have at least 3 meals a day AND snacks and then times it by 7 youll find thats a lot to look at.
To give perspective its like those diet related shows that have to shock people into being healthy by putting how much of a food item they eat in a year in a giant mountain and it ends up being like a room full of ONE thing.
Be thankful humans unlike a lo of ither animals are pretty efficient with food since most animals have to eat their bodyweight nearly every day.
That is a great point! I could only find a few pieces of expensive beef beginning of pandemic. No T.P for 5 weeks. No chicken and bought my first whipes 7weeks ago..now I but more of this and that. Be prepared.👍🏻💪🏻🙏🏻
It's not as much as you think when you are feeding a family. She will go through that in a few months. Would be different if it were just for 1 or 2 people.
When you have a family of 6 you save a lot of money buy shopping sales in bulk.
Thats alot of food wow i give her credit i could never keep track of all that food i buy some ahead but not too much
Are the shelves tied back to the wall? You should really keep the heavy cans on the bottom shelves and lighter things like the pasta higher up, particularly if you’re pulling all the cans forward to the shelf edge.
Canned food is good indefinitely for years and years and years. Like they say, smell it, look at it, taste it. If the Can is not bulging or rusted it will still be good it just loses some of its nutrients
A good pantry sort is so satisfying whether it’s mine or someone else’s! It’s therapeutic. I can feel the “ahhhhh” in the video. 😆
Hi Kimmy!! Love the size of your pantry it’s almost like a store.☺️
I JUST did this very thing over the weekend! It feels so good to have it done but I am not quite as young as you so I am feeling it today. ( BUT, it is a “good hurt”! 🤣🤣🤣)
Stay well Kimmie!
Don't know if someone has already mentioned this but there are slow cooker recipes for applesauce. I use my wrinkled apples, the ones know one wants to eat. Add a couple of drops of cinnamon oil, its delicious🤗
My family loves when I add butter, garlic powder and parmesan cheese to can green beans!
Looking at the end result makes me want to sit in a chair in the room and just admire it all!!! Great job!
Thank you so much!
Kimmy, you are a true inspiration! Thank you for this very insightful video. My husband built some shelves for me and I can finally start building a 6-12 months pantry. We’ve had about a months supply before, but now I can really start- thank you for the inspiration and your tricks! God bless you and your family! ✨
Great video! I too categorize and keep like things together. I got tired of trying to look at the tiny expiration dates so I use a marker and write in BIG numbers the month/year on the individual can label or box. I quickly write the dates on my new groceries and its so much easier to shuffle stuff around and keep items from expiring. Hope this helps someone.
I do that too Regina.
I hope you read this!
I'm 59 and have had about 6 years of sick parent, then a lot of her things came to my house. 3 years ago I started prepping. 2 years ago breast cancer. I am finally feeling good but low energy. My home, inside and out is so cluttered and out of control that I'm going to try " Swedish death cleaning". My dilemma is the balance between decluttering, simplifying and prepping. I sew and a little crocheting. I can and dehydrate food. I hope to garden next year. Had to take a break from that for health reasons. Still no energy. Lol
My concern is finding the balance. If you have any thoughts or ideas I would love to see a video on that.
I pick a day or hours on calendar to do each thing to get me back on track.
Looks great, you should get a sign that says Kimmy's Grocery Store
Keep coming back to this video when I need motivation. Thankyou
This is excellent. For the haul bags, I put them all inside one bag and keep them in the car. I can't count the times I've run in for just a few things that turned into a haul and I was without my bags! - I store the heaviest stuff on the bottom to keep the shelf stable (and to save my back lol) and the plastic and paper products, snacks, crackers, pasta toward the top. I recently discovered your channel and find you to be very motivating. Thank you!
Ps my family loves the fact that you give out of your food storage! We love to give ❤
Thank you so much for the motivation! I am actually working on our food storage right now, so this is perfect timing. We just got a big metal cabinet for our basement to hold our food storage and I can't wait to organize it. I have a teenie tiny pantry in my kitchen, so I needed the room. We also just got our first thrive order using your link and we are so impressed with the quality! Looking forward to stocking up a little bit each month to grow our stockpile. Such a blessing to know that we have what we need on hand just in case...
You are so right in the "best by". I learned that at culinary school, most products are more than OK after the "best by" date 😊👍
You are so wonderful, and such an inspiration! I'm trying to build up our tiny long-term storage ... little by little ... it's tough, especially during this time, but it is so exciting each time I add something new :)
it's so nice to see someone just buying can stuff on sale. not having to can it ourselves! i am just buying up stuff myself. i have canning jars but i'm using them for dry storage. you could mark the box trays with the dates if they don't already have them on them. thanks for not trashing food. you're so right about BEST BY dates!! I ordered more shelving today but I love your heavy duty shelves. They seem to hold a lot of weight!! you could also label the shelves if you wanted with a label maker so everyone will put things where they go besides you :) have a great day!!! such a great video!
Yes using mason jars too for dry storage keeps all kinds of creatures out!!
absolutely love how you are working your food storage room. Fantastic catorgy organization, I also incorporate a lot of stewed tomatoes into soups stews and chili 😀
as a child I used to organize my Mothers cabinets in her kitchen like a grocery stock person 🤦♀️
Thank you for putting the newer cereal on the bottom and then adding the older. I can’t tell you how many videos I watch where they open and dump the new stuff on top of what is there. Pasta’s too. I aspire to have a food room one day!! Great video.
Wow, that looks great!!! I think I would just go in there, sit on the floor, and enjoy the beautiful order lol! Love a good organizing project!!
I agree. Whenever I have something to do in my apartment that I don't want to do and have been putting off I just go the one of your videos and like clockwork I just start doing what I was putting off and it feels so good when I am finished. Next thing to tackle is the pantry. You inspire me, Kim. You are full of purpose and I like that.
I loved loved loved loved LOVED every second of this. Thank you so much Kim for this video, it was super satisfying and motivating. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you!
I love these videos, I find them so relaxing, it must be my need to organise hahaha. Certainly after lockdowns and such and terrible weather many places have experienced, not to mention the rising cost of everything; power, petrol, groceries etc etc, there's a lot to be said for stocking up and having a goodly supply of things when you need them. Thanks for posting.
"fans in the corner - why? I don't know." Soooooooooooo funny.
I am facing this tomorrow. Dreading and looking forward to it all at the same time. Mom Life! Love your VLOG's Kimmie. Stay strong, stay faithful and stay true! You bless me with every video.
Thank you so much!!
I love this. I'm taking notes, literally in my notebook🤣 and I am starting to organise my pantry storage today! Im so excited. Inventory started last night. Lists, lists, lists!!! ❤
You did an AWESOME reorganization job! Some don’t care about the dates but I do
And you do!!’ Yeah! Looks great!!
I wonder if writing the expiration dates in black marker on the side you have facing out would make it easier for you?
Also I totally agree that expired food, especially canned food, lasts way longer than the best before. I cringe seeing other TH-camrs throwing out dry goods just because they have reached that date.
Herbs especially last sooooo long, the older they are the less potent, just use more. They will never go 'bad'
Great video! I can’t wait to organize my food pantry. You gave me so much inspiration! Thank you!! 🥰
Brilliant idea on the shoe bins for the knives, forks and spoons. I will do that too! Hugs Kimmy❤️
My daughter moved back after 20 plus years away. Her silverware is in a vase. Her china, pots and pans are way back under the counters. Luckily we had a guest
bedroom with empty closet and dresser. She got rid of 50 to 75 percent of her stuff. The rest is in hassocks. Tina
Working on a big minimizing project and will be moving in the next few months. I enjoyed watching you organize I wrote down several great ideas. Thank you, Jamie
If I see something that is expiring soon or just expired, I make sure to find a recipe to use them up right away. I know you say some things last years longer but I just can't do it. I'm very picky with date. My boyfriend thinks I buy too much but, heck, when things are on sale such as a great deal I stock up. To me, that's being smart with your money. I hate to buy anything full price if I can help it. :-) I love how big your pantry is!!! It is totally like being in a grocery store. I must have a little ocd. I have to have everything totally organized and faced perfect. You did a great job! Lots of work.
If it expires pass a month I dump it .
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Tuna Fish, Miracle Whip, and chopped Apples. Everyone I have ever introduced it to doesn't think they will like it....and then they try it and say the LOVE it. Give it a shot.
Hey Kimmy, fabulous job on organizing you food storage room, it looks great!! Thank you for the tip on the “Best Buy date” I didn’t realize how long after the cans were good for!!! I love your organization!!! Sending hugs! 🎉💪❤️
Did no that in imperial war museum uk they have canned food still from second 1 and second world war still in useable no holes dints or anything else on them they opened one a couple years ago all the food inside was tested in a laboratory to see if it was ok to eat still came back from test said it was fine to eat wow when l found l was very impressed with this information
Sooooo good to see how you organise your food storage! I'm slowly building my food storage in the home we moved into last year. You've given me lots of ideas. Thanks!🥰 Blessings from South Australia💕🐨
I use a black sharpie to mark my cases and boxes. It makes it much easier to see and keep track of best by dates. I don't have to pull each item forward to check dates. The dates are nice and big and can be seen from the front of the shelf.
You need to get a Costco 3 step step ladder! Take it from a senior whose only 4’9”-you need a bigger step ladder! They have a nice big platform on top to stand on so your feet and legs don’t get tired. I’m having to9 graduate to a 5 or 6 footer because we are moving and my pantry ceilings are 10” and shelves to the top. Wish I could find one like my little lightweight Costco. It folds flat and you can store it anywhere. Also, my advice would be to clear out one shelf to the kitchen counter to have a place to set those heavy cans /bulky boxes while you check dates etc. then you just work your way around and you will always have a spare shelf to hold things while you’re juggling. (I had many dented cans and broken jars until I figured this out!) Thanks for sharing your knowledge and taking the time to share with us.
Thanks from Puerto Rico...I am organizing my pantry too, and starting to organize my long term grocery....
For your French onion soup- look up the recipe for stick of butter rice. It’s now a staple in our pantry. My son will make it and eat it by itself! It’s yummy. I now keep several cans of French onion soup on hand at all times.
Our food storage room gets messy so fast. I’m always shocked at how crazy it can get. We have 10 in our household so many hands get involved. They can always find what they want. But can’t seem to remember where yo put things back! But so worth it though. My adult son went out in the Texas ice store to our storage room... he called me on his phone.... says. “ since I’m at the grocery store what flavor ice cream do you want... plus do I need to bring a case of anything in! lol those smaller storage containers I use for things like mix packets... I’m glad you show can goods storage. So many... myself included thing storage as home canned. But honestly I prefer a good mix of home canned and store bought. Gives me more size options. And since I live in the city I’m limited in my garden space. But many of my storage groups have newbies to storage etc worry about building up since gardening takes time... so they are always asking about ways to store store bought. This was a really informative well done video for them. I’ve done it for years. But I’m always watching for new ideas. You can teach an old dog new tricks! Lol
I use a pressure curtain bar and add shower curtain hooks... then hang all the never ending lunch bags etc.
Hi its my first time seeing your video thanks for sharing this OMG!! I love your food storage 😀 our daughter moved out 2 yrs ago and that's my EXTRA storage room 😁 our they said wow mom it looks like a mini store 😊 there's some places that take food that's close to expiration dates expiring to help families.
God bless us all and be safe ❤
You are so blessed to have such a large storage space! That’s almost bigger than my kids room! Lol.
We have our storage in the garage. I worry about the cans in the heat of the summer.
Update on Kally & Felix would be fantastic!
Tote those things up in organized similar usage put them in closets no one needs extra shelves. They need out of playing , bunches like salts & chemical are hazards to kids, get dirty, bug potential - rodent, have fumes. So tote them up by most used together.
I turned my garage into a very large pantry! I put window block era up and added an box air conditioner. This summer was first to go through and it kept at 70 all summer long. I didn’t notice much in way of any increase in my electric bill. This was a game changer for me
Hello Kimmy, I can't say I'm new to your Chanel. Cause ever since I saw you cooking or decluttering or grocery hauls, something then just got me hooked on your videos. I like everything about you & your family. (The Good; Bad & The Ugly - because that's life for all of us on this planet. Don't you think. Anyways, My name is Elsa R. And I am a Young 61 year Old Grandma. I live out in California. I have just 1 Adult Daughter & she gave me a 1 Granddaughter, who's an Adult now, too. But they tend to eat out more than eat at home. Your shows inspirer me to declutter my bedroom & 1 of 2 Attic's. So I want to Thank you for that. I like your use of shopping at Dollar Tree or Walmart or even Target to buy my containers for everything I need for a cheaper price. To help with my cleaning. :-). Your the Best!!!! Sincerely, Elsa R. (Before the movie "Frozen" came to movies theater's. ( Ha, Ha). I do hope you get this/my Text. :-). Bye for now...
It’s always such a good feeling of accomplishment when you clean out and organize. FYI the Pioneer Woman has a good applesauce recipe that I use a lot, it’s very easy.
This made my Virgo heart so happy!
It’s funny. I do much the same in my long term pantry, (just less since we don’t have kids home now). I also don’t use many canned soups since we have low sodium requirements, and I use tomato paste instead of sauces (less room and I can vary the type of
sauce ,(thicker, thinner, even soup). I think you use an intuitive and logical approach. Nice job. Lots of work good for you.
You did a great job on organizing your pantry. One suggestion (and I saw it on another video)would be to not store cleaning items under food , since the fumes can rise and affect the food above them. It suggested storing them on a top shelf.
I keep a couple of Sharpies in my food storage room and write the month/year "best buy" date in big numbers right on the box, case lot carton, jar or can before I put it away. Makes it a lot easier to keep track of, and the numbers haven't had a chance to fade. But I only pay attention to that to make sure I use the oldest first, and don't worry about any of it really being "expired."
The only canned or jarred things I've ever had go bad were tomato products like diced tomatoes and tomato sauce -- but only six to eight years after their "best buy" date when they developed just a hint of a metallic taste, and canned fruits at about five years after "best buy" date, when they got dark and mushy. And ketchup darkens and doesn't taste quite as good at about six to eight years past "best buy." Soups, canned veggies, tuna, chili, mayo, I've used up to 10 years after the "best buy" date with no noticeable effect on taste or texture.
I think manufacturers put the "best buy" date mostly because they have no way to know how people are going to store their products. If they are going to keep them in a muggy hot garage in South Texas with lots of uncovered windows, that's going to be very different from my dry, dark basement that is around 55 degrees most of the year and never gets over 70.
I'm laughing because I watched your video to procrastinate on my university zoom lectures, but now I feel motivated to get after them. Who knew food storage organization could be so motivating! lol
That’s awesome!
Great video! Just watch out with dog food so close to cleaning products. Believe it or not, the cleaning smell can transfer through paper bags and platstic. I learned the hard way! Blessings, Paige
Great tip!
Looks great! Nothing like an organized pantry and freezer/refrigerator.
I enjoy the French cut green beans in shepherd’s pie. You’re GREAT at organizing....and at explaining the whys. Good job.
I have to say this is one of my favourite videos. I keep coming back to watch it when I'm organising my pantry. Any chance you would do some more videos like this?
Big hugs xxx
Looks great my friend! I just organized and decluttered all my food shelves the other day! Now I can find things 😂😂
I use shoe bins from the Dollar Store to hold gravy packets and seasoning packets. We have so many and it's an easy way to use them.
I use two cans of French onion soup and two cans of beef consume' in the instant pot with the roast to make french dip sandwiches. When I make a roast in the crock pot I use a can of cream of mushroom and 1 envelope of onion soup mix along with the roast and veggies.
Find recipies on-line to make your own onion soup mix, cream of soup base.
Thanks for the motivation. I did a *little* food storage organizing while I watched (and that's better than none!).
looks great! anytime I do this I use a permanent marker and write the expiration dates larger on the items so I can see them without having to take stuff out or play the finding game 😆🤣
OMG what a nice HUGE pantry,! My eyes are green!!