got some of these and they're little straw mats they're supposed to keep the
nesting boxes really warm and it's also supposed to keep them fresh I was able
to get this online flock fresh and it also has some straw in it so now let's
get the chicken house all cleaned up because obviously they're using those
nesting boxes that I made so let's get everything cleaned up and get things
just perfect for them hey I'm making a meal that cost me $1 for the whole meal
I got some of this ham once again at the food pantry throw away I don't know what
it is it's end pieces it looks to me like it could have been Canadian bacon I
don't know but it's really good I have my own green beans from my garden
so we're gonna have ham green beans and potatoes and the only thing it's gonna
cost me is $0.99 and that is for the beef broth I could use chicken broth and
have it totally free but I wanted to use some beef broth as you see I get
potatoes and these are potatoes that we're going to be thrown away so they
donated them to this Community Food Bank that people can come no matter what your
income level is it's food that was going to be thrown away so I'm going to need
the skins on these potatoes but I am gonna cut some parts off
the potatoes are not very nice but hey they're perfect for me
I'll take them any day now I did pre wash these potatoes one thing about the
crock-pot is you can make a meal in a matter of minutes and it just has to
cook all day long one thing about having a crock-pot is you don't really have to
watch your food you can just put it in and let it go all day here's a green
spot you don't ever want to eat anything green on a potato that can actually make
you sick if you eat enough of it now I'm putting a lot of potatoes in here
because that's gonna be the main part of this meal because it's not much him and
this is how I'm able to stretch my food I realize there's a lot of people who
have the resources that I do but there's a lot of people who had never heard of
this and so what I get is in our County which is a large County at the end of
the month all of the food that was left in the food pantries that was expired or
just about ready to spoil a truck comes and picks up that food and the truck
then comes to one central location that's for anybody who wants it it's not
an income-based thing we can come and we can pick through it and see if there's
anything that we would like to have before the farmer comes and takes the
food the truck that comes to pick up this stuff is actually a Mennonite
farmer who saw all of the food waste and decided he wanted to do something about
it he wanted to make a difference with this food waste and so he opened it up
to the general public like me who we can go and we can take what we like now a
lot of people don't come to these because a lot of people don't want to
get food that looks like it's beyond its best date by but I tell you one thing
it's been a to me and when I need their still
probably a third of a tractor-trailer left and that goes then to the farmer
sometimes there's not much of a meth and other times there's a lot of food left
now we're going to use some of my dehydrated onions to finish this meal I
keep my dehydrated onions in a bag like this and now we're just gonna go ahead
and sprinkle the dehydrated onions and a little bit of celery using dried goods
really helps extend your food also when you're cooking it in a crock pot like
this it doesn't matter because it's gonna all just disintegrate and just
have a really good it's gonna give you the flavor that you need of having an
onion so I'm actually gonna finish this up because there's only a little bit of
this left my friends it's all of this food with $1 because I had to buy the
beef broth now we're gonna put this in the crock-pot and it's gonna take about
six hours on medium and now we have a meal and now I can go about the rest of
my day and you shouldn't your honor outside because it's so much easier to
heat this for some projects that I'm working on I have some water heated
inside the house that's for my dishes but I'm gonna heat this big container
I'm gonna heat this big kettle of water up so I have it for the rest of the day
and this will stay hot for me for lunch and supper and all all throughout the
day which I love heating the water at the fire it really just helps and this
also is teaching you that if you ever would be in a downgrade situation and
you do live partly in the country how you can heat your water so this is how
you would heat your water you would gather sticks and gather things that you
find outside you make yourself a makeshift little stove and this is how
you heat your water I like sharing with you alternative ways of doing things so
that way if life ever came to the point where you needed to know how to do this
you can remember this is how you do it
right while the water heats up and then laundry is finished I'm gonna go inside
and I'm gonna do a little more work then we'll come back out we'll see how the
water is going in and I'll hang up the wash all in a day my friend all in a day
all right we got the fire going really good you will be surprised how fast I
can boil this water and it doesn't take many sticks at all it's quite amazing so
this is the most efficient way to boil your water because you're not using any
resources other than sticks that I find up in all of my trees so these are
sticks that fallen so this was free of heating of your water and so this is
really something that a lot of people know how to do but a lot of people don't
it's so simple and fundamental water shelter and fire I bet you're wondering
by now how in the world do I have time for YouTube well I try to have all of my
housework done by 12 o'clock so twelve o'clock I have my housework done then I
have from 12:00 to 8:00 it's when I do my YouTube I answer my questions I give
the comments this is how I have my life set up I always go to bed really early
but I'm always up really early so I go to bed early and I get up early so while
this looks like a lot of work honestly you can get things done so quick if you
have your whole life streamlined and you know what you're doing I've done this
for so many years now it's become second nature to me but by noon I always try to
have my household work done my housework comes first so my housework always comes
first and after that is when I work on YouTube you know if I had children at
home it would be a lot harder but because my children are all married and
they have lives of their own I get to spend every week with my children and
otters live only a few miles from me and my son lives a little further since he
got married but I get to spend so much time with my family but during the day
like this is when I do my work and as you know I'm having my Christmas
over the weekend so yes baby all right so I love this washtub it's been a real
blessing to me and we're gonna hang up some wash now soon my waters boiled soon
the laundry's done come come any all of you then I have to
edit this video then I have to upload the video oh by the time you see it it's
always 24 hours later so when you're watching your video the video I taped
was 24 hours before that's how I can put up a video every single day I find it so
interesting a lot of people when it gets towards 5 and 6 and 7 o'clock at night
they're ready to go out in town and go out to eat I'm getting ready for bed
whoo we've always been this way
tonight everybody sleep tight don't let the bedbugs bite
there's nobody out it's a beautiful evening I know I'm kind of strange I
know but I love the evenings and I love the early mornings just think it's very
peaceful and I really love it when it snows ah
it's so quiet and peaceful when we have a snow