good morning everyone this is tony from her homestead skills and today what i have
done is amassed a few items that are readily available in every store today i have some rice
some chickpeas or beans some oatmeal cans of milk soup some canned meats spam corned beef and tuna
some salt some oil some peanut butter these are all items that are available on the shelf today
they're still there and they can be purchased and they can be stashed away in your pantry
without you having to do any extra work to build up your pantry supply all you have to do is go
to the store pick up whatever you can afford to pick up of extra and put it someplace whether you
find a nook and cranny under your bed now the reason i say this is that i have had
a lot of responses to my warning from a farmer video from people who cannot afford to buy
extra food don't have the space don't have any specialized equipment to process food okay so
you don't need a dehydrator certainly you can do up many things if you have a dehydrator you
don't need a can or certainly you can can all your own vegetables and and meats if you have a canner
but you don't need one you can still buy all these things they're still available on the shelf
so if you neither have the skill nor the desire to learn the skill there are still ways that you can
protect yourself get a little bit of food security okay i also understand that there's
a lot of people on very low incomes and they do have food banks and actually i was driving by
some place and noticed a food bank when i didn't know it existed there and i was tempted to stop in
just to see what they're like i've never been to one believe me i have been in the position where
there was only that evening's meal and who knew what we were going to eat tomorrow but i still had
not even considered attempt going into a food bank because i wasn't aware that they existed in those
days so but today everyone knows they exist they are available and believe you me i would go to one
and i would help myself to whatever they offered me should the need arise now you want to do that
if you're very low income and you can't buy some of these items certainly go to the food bank get
a little extra and start putting even a little bit of these things away now i can assure you i also
today i buy as much as i can on sale this bottle of oil these days is regularly about nine
dollars which just blows me away i have always bought that on sale for about 4.99 and in this
day and age it's closer to 5.99 you know 5.75 whatever so i pick up as much as i can of that
when it's on sale i'll pick up four or five bottles okay another one of the
food items i forgot to mention obviously is pasta and pasta is very inexpensive
and once again i buy the pasta when it's on sale and this 900 gram bag
can range anywhere from two to three dollars a bag and when it's on sale i can pick it up before
i used to be able to pick it up for a dollar piece and now they're a dollar and a quarter
but i still the last time i saw it at a dollar and a quarter bag i picked up as many as i can
i do make a lot of fresh pasta myself but always have dry pastas back up now
with pasta you can add a few beans so if you don't like rice and beans
pasta and beans will also give you the nutritional value that you need
there are a ways and means and you can do pasta salads with tuna so there are many many ways to
make a meal nutritious and not terribly expensive i know a lot of you have seen me make
meatballs and meatballs are probably one of the least expensive meals i can put together
because i well for one i use pork and for the second thing i can all my own
tomato sauce now you can still buy tomato sauce i believe at a reasonable cost in
the store but i don't know i haven't bought tomato sauce from the store for
ever i've never bought it so but even with that i believe that you can still
put together a very inexpensive meal with meatballs pasta and and it's a good hearty meal
i think the issue in some cases is inertia or accustomed to doing things a certain way
and uh until there's that wake-up call and i've been hearing a lot of people say that yes they
this particular video and a few others has been a serious wake-up call good i'm glad to hear it um
it really does not take much to start a pantry as i said everything can be
purchased from the store and should you wish to develop further skills to
can your own foods it can be done it doesn't have to be done you don't have to spend a lot of money
all at once you can buy a little bit here and there the issue is getting started and once you
start you'll find it's pretty easy you'll go to that little stash and it's just like saving
a couple of dollars every week when you save a couple of dollars every week you get excited
about doing it and you i find it's very easy to save a few dollars every week the initial
issue is or the issue is the initial attempt to start to save the initial attempt to start
your pantry that's all it takes is let's start one put a few things away find a box that you can
put under your bed if you need to find a little cubby hole in a closet if you need to there is
always a place a cabinet that you can store some of these in your bottom kitchen cupboards maybe
throw away some of these old pots that you don't use and stash it that particular drawer with food
a bucket from lowe's or home depot buy a lid buy the bucket and fill it up
and close your lid and find a place to stash that i use uh milk crates but i use the milk crates to
hold pint jars so but they can be used just as easily to hold cans of food so a plain cardboard
box will do the job as well so as i say if you can find a little spot to store something in
it's good to get your little pantry started and you'll feel better about having something there
so anyway this is 20 from her homestead skills i hope i have helped somebody perhaps take that
first step that they haven't done before and start their pantries anyway have a good day bye for now