yes I'm sitting on the floor because I'm watching The Waltons while I work on all
of these bananas so I'm hoping I can get all the bananas dried at the same time
so I like to do things in a very unconventional way and sitting on the
floor and watching the Waltons is the perfect day to cut up all of these
bananas oh my goodness but it has to be done today yesterday I got to see my
mother and father so I was going all day and when the produce needs taken care of
you got to do it especially when you get it like I do
for those of you who missed yesterday's video I'm just share with you really
quick what all I got that was retrieved that was gonna go actually to farm
animals and the food was great they just had nowhere else to go with it and I'm
going to be documenting the next couple days where all this food is going it was
actually two carloads of food and I'm spending the next three days working on
all that because I have an extremely busy weekend coming up which I'll share
with you next week but we're gonna show with you every single step of the way
what I've done with all of this food and I think that you're going to be really
impressed and I think you're gonna be really happy to see what I've done with
food that would normally be wasted so let's get started in today's video and
I'll share with you day number two in working with my food that I got free so
this is what I'm doing cut up the bananas and then I'm gonna get the
dehydrator is going I have three dehydrators and two of them I've got a
yard sale and one of them was given to me for a product review the very first
one of the very first videos I ever did so I gotta get started see you guys a
little bit bye
so I'm still working on all of these bananas now this bag of bananas are too
far gone for me to dehydrate so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna mash them up and
we're gonna freeze these in court bags and this is going to be for banana bread
so most of the my bananas are good enough to dehydrate and chips but if
they're a little bit too far gone a little too black we're gonna go ahead
and use that for bread so I'm gonna put my last tray on the dehydrator and I'm
gonna show you what I'm gonna do with all the peelings so all of these
peelings I'm going to burry where my roses are roses love banana peelings
there are two hangers of bananas that are just too soft
those two hangers out of the whole case are going to go to my chickens but all
these peelings are going to get buried where my rose bushes are so what I'm
gonna do is I'm going to dig a hole right here and in three weeks you will
see all new growth
being a double patch of the gym these are the strawberries that I got from the
food bank and I'll show you what looks like we're all done I'm not going into
the whole detail I had to make strawberry jam I have like five videos
on it but I will share with you a video in above me right now of how I make my
strawberry jam so I'm gonna go ahead and we're gonna work this and we're going to
crush these strawberries if I have to I will use my immerser blender but I think
we'll be right with just this old-fashioned potato masher take a look
at that this was Fanny's potato masher the strawberries are taken care of
all of this is strawberry jam and strawberry syrup so all of these jars
are done this is all of the strawberries whoa it's been crazy I have to get it
all done before the weekend because I have other plans for the weekend happy
to announce that the wax beans are done the strawberries are done now we're
gonna work on the bananas so all this food it's amazing it's just amazing what
would have been thrown away you know in this day and age don't throw it out
don't waste it because you never know what tomorrow is
gonna bring and you never know you just never know when there would be a food
shortage I look at all this produce and I think wow there is so much food did
you know in the United States alone we spoil and waste 50% of all the food
that's harvested you know that's something that's very hard to comprehend
and I know that they talk about food shortages but right now there is a
plenty of food so don't waste it because we don't know what tomorrow will bring
so I'm gonna go ahead we're gonna put all this food in here and someday this
foods gonna bless other people maybe not just me or my husband or my family but
I've worked diligently to not have food wasted food that it sent into the
landfill actually produces methane gas and methane gas is known to cause
greenhouse effect it's known to cause a lot of gases and
atmosphere and so the spoiling of food is actually really really toxic to our
environment why threw food away that's good find ways to use it the older
generations I don't need to be telling this to because you all have learned and
grew up with not wasting food but the Millennials today they throw things away
and it's so sad because they live in a world of Plenty the Millennials don't
know what it's like to have to scrounge and have to save for food
they've throw things away because they live in a throwaway world so any of you
Millennials out there I would really encourage you just the seek a life that
is not wasteful and not throw away just getting really full and I'm really
thankful for this and I know a lot of people that start contacting the grocery
stores and asking for things that before it gets thrown away there are a lot of
grocery stores that are starting to establish new laws and new rules things
in life were passionate a lot of people are passionate about animals and the
safety of animals a lot of people are passionate about having a minimalistic
lifestyle about not having clutter we have all kinds of passions in our life
and my passion is reclaiming food I've always been that way and I always
thought what a wonderful way it would be if I could find food that would be
thrown away who are dumpster divers and then since I am somewhat like a dumpster
diver because the food that I didn't take home would have been given to the
pigs because it was the last stop of this food from the beginning this food
was donated from grocery stores then it went to a food bank and then afterwards
it went to this community produce truck time I got it this food had to be
processed that same day it was still very good but you would have to process
it and that's what I did and I realized that it's just such an
amazing fun thing that I'm doing and I'm really thankful it has really blessed my
family good organic food that went to people in need and by the time everybody
in need got what they wanted I was left to glean
the rest so I want to give a special shout out to all of those companies who
actually are seeing all the extra food and instead of wasting it and spending
money to throw it away in a landfill to actually produce toxic gases I'm
thankful that they are taking it and giving it to the people I really want to
thank you for doing that because it's blessed me in tangible ways I'm probably
one of the only ones that are canny all of this and that's great for me waste
not want not the grocery store bought all this food
it would have cost me a lot of money but instead of that I saved my money and I
use the food that would ultimately rot in a field somewhere I can't wait to
share with you more of all this food because I have half of it done I'm gonna
be doing Tomatoes and we're going to work on the bananas and it's gonna be a
work in progress and I'm glad that you guys like these videos I'm really
thankful and humbled by it because I think it is interesting I love watching
these kind of videos because it's fascinating for me to see all kinds of
boxes and boxes of food that is slowly deteriorating and see somebody turn it
into something that's amazing the food I have in my canned jars beats
any kind of food that you could buy in the grocery store hands down it's still
so much fresher than anything you would buy at the grocery store and it makes my
heart glad ok everybody I can't wait to see you guys on Wednesday Wednesday's
video is in a very special video a very humbling video for me it marks a
one-year anniversary in my life and I can't wait to share it with all of you
and uplifting and encouraging miracle that happened one year ago on Wednesday
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