I'm gonna make today is a family favorite and we have such hot
temperatures here that I really enjoy using the crock-pot because it doesn't
have any heat in my home the only way that I can cook on my oven and stove is
using propane that means a fire and it gets so hot in the kitchen so in the
summer months you find me using the crock-pot so today we're gonna make some
hashbrowns and some ham this is a casserole that I put together a long
time ago and it is a family favorite so what I do is I get the hashbrowns and
they're $0.99 now of course you can make your own but I'm cleaning out my
freezers and I found these two packages of hash browns so we're gonna put the
hash browns in the crock pot and I'll show you in a minute to that we're gonna
add 2 slices of maple ham we don't eat a lot of ham but everyone said well we
will eat some and this ham is our favorite and it's 99 cents of slice so
we're gonna go up so we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna cube this ham so
once this ham is cubed then I'll show you what I put with it
and now we're going to put it in the crock pot so the crock pot has two
packages of hash brown potatoes and we're going to add the ham to that so so
far I have four dollars into this meal it's gonna cost me about six dollars
when we're finished my freezer and I had one of these of carrots now these were
spiral carrots and I thought you know what why don't we put the carrots in
here for something a little different and it's to use up stuff that was in my
freezer so we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna use up these carrots
so it's scalloped potatoes carrots and ham to that we're gonna add one can of
cream of mushroom soup and one can of my cheese now you can use shredded cheese
if you have that this is such a simple recipe but it's a family favorite and we
enjoy having it a couple of times through the summer then we'll go ahead
and give it a stir we're gonna go ahead and put this in for about love for six
hours or high for about four so I'm gonna put it on high for about four
hours and I'll show you what it looks like when it's finished so now this
gives me all day where I can work on outside chores so let's get started on
the rest of our day so a very close friend of mine got me this five-gallon
bucket of coconut oil and she wanted me to have it to have in my pantry and so
what I'm doing today is outside in the hot Sun I'm going ahead and I'm taking
the coconut oil and I put it into my kettle
as the coconut oil melts then I'm going to be able to pour it easily into my
pint jars so what I'm doing is I'm going to pour it into pint jars with wide
mouth lids and then what I'm going to do after that is I'm going to vacuum seal
it and so this is going to last me oh four years so what do we use coconut oil
well we use coconut oil for cooking we also use it for health reasons it's
great to put on cuts and bruises and actually we'll take out infection I also
use coconut oil when I make my soap coconut oil is great for your hair it's
great for dry skin it's great for just about anything you can imagine and
cooking you can use this as a healthy fat so this is what I'm working on today
and we're gonna go ahead we're gonna jar it up
and do it on the Saturday so I've been taken off from YouTube I've been doing a
lot of work and I totally reorganized my pantry it feels so good to have one day
a week where I can just do some jobs all day long and not have to worry about
filming it so I want to share with you my pantry I took I took the curtains
down and I wiped down all the walls and one thing you have to be really careful
about with pantries and having a pantry is you have to keep it clean so you want
to keep it bug free you want to get all the spiderwebs off of it you want to
make sure your surfaces are clean because with your food it's like a
little grocery store and so we want to keep it clean and fresh and dusted I'm
going to show you today the end of my coconut oil video I have on this rack
all the coconut oil it gave me 21 quarts of coconut oil see
how beautiful it looks it all has silicified and so it is nice
and ready to put in my pantry I'm gonna keep the rings on this simply because I
have so many rings and it doesn't matter for this oftentimes people would keep
the rings off and most of the time my rings are off of my canned goods because
rings can get very rusty but I am going to be starting to put some rings on some
of my food things like this or my lemon juice or things that of that nature so
these got really pretty I'm really excited about it and we're going to
label them and I'm gonna have these for many years to come so if you got some
coconut oil some shortening any kind of oil like that
you can go ahead and you can do what I do and it will last you forever this is
feeling so this is just like store-bought and sometimes you can get
things a lot cheaper if you buy them in bulk break them down into small glass
containers like this now they all seal the only reason why they sealed was
because the oil was warm from the Sun but
put the lids in hot boiling water for one minute
and that's what made them all seal I'm very thankful that they sealed it's
great so it was what you would call open canning you could do that for certain
fats and certain things like this that seal and I hope you give it a try this
is another very unusual video that has to do about canning but it's not really
canning so I hope you give it a try I also found that I have some shortening
I'm going to do the same thing with my shortening and make sure though you
label your items so you know exactly what's in them lunch is ready and
although I never had carrots in it before I think it is delicious the
carriage just added a little bit more nutrients to it so this is my bowl and
I'll give it a taste test and we'll see is it as good as it looks
spending the day doing a lot of work outside having a meal that cooks for
itself sure is nice so you can see the ham and the carrots and the potatoes
hmm that was really good I love having the carrots in here you could probably
put some green beans instead or some peas it's really really good mmm that is
a great combination I hope you give it a try it's so simple and easy and it's
very frugal as well it sure is nice having food that you don't have to stand
in the kitchen and cook yourself take you everyone we'll see you guys tomorrow
it sure is nice having a meal that cooks work it sure is nice having a meal that
cooks for itself it's very nutritious as well and it's
cheap nothing like a cheap meal Monday and you
don't have to spend hours in the kitchen take care everyone we'll see you guys
tomorrow yum yum