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everyone and welcome to Tuesday's video and as you seen in the title it is about
prepping and about the food prices rising and the shortage of food because
of flooding in the out west and did you know that diesel fuel hit three dollars
and fifty cents what does all of this mean for us I went to the local discount
grocery store with the same amount of money I have every month and what I
found was I wasn't able to get the food that I normally get prices have jacked
up almost double in some cases olive oil is so expensive and other items that I
normally buy for my homestead I even found a very unusual thing that is
happening you know when you see an item and it has two prices they usually put
the second price is marked down but this time it was marked up countless times I
was going through the aisles to not only see one price but two prices and the
second price was higher than the price before what is that telling us that
telling us that there is going to be more expensive food what do we do about
it here on my channel I like to share with you all kinds of ideas I was a
prepper before I even knew what prepping was this was something that was in my
heritage the Amish the Mennonites we all stocked food it's not as much of a
mainstream thing anymore even with the Amish in the Mennonites they seem to not
stockpile like they used to but for me I enjoy finding food cheap and I preserve
it between dehydrating it between canning it and I do have a few foods
that are frozen but most of it as you see behind me is canned or dried I have
extensive pantries this one is my main one you can't even see the whole room
because the camera has a hard time picking it all up but I will show you at
the end of this video I also have a unheated pantry as well
what you don't see is all of the food that I have that is stored in mylar bags
why do I do all of this you know I do all of this because I feel that it is my
duty as a woman a mother and a grandma to prepare for times that may get hard
does that mean that it will get hard no I do not know the future but I do know
that there is an importance about being prepared not getting overboard and being
a one then fear mongers you won't hear that on my channel from time to time
again people say they can't afford it Tessie we're on Social Security we can't
afford it but you can you can't afford it
if it's something that is a priority to you one dollar extra
you can spend I've had people say well they don't have a dollar extra if you
don't have a dollar extra then you are less than zero point zero point zero one
percent everybody can have one dollar and they can use that towards their food
prep a candy bar a coffee all of these things you can't sacrifice for food
prepping a lot of people go to food banks when you go to a food bank instead
of picking up the ice cream or the candy bars or whatever that is not essential
pick up an extra pound of beans pick up an extra pound of rice pick up something
like that I am one of the lowest income people that you will find especially in
my area but I have found ways that I can't have a food storage does that mean
I have to dumpster dive maybe a little does that mean that I will go and forage
for free food out in the fields I've done that already I've done I went and
gleaned off of commercial fields when they were finished and I picked up
tomatoes and I picked up things like that and I canned it
I put ads in the in our paper saying hey you got any extra produce and I will go
and I will pick it I've even gone into people's gardens and picked it when they
said they were finished with and didn't want to bother any more you
would be surprised how many people have a garden and decide to go on a vacation
and they don't end up picking what they planted a lot of times they will ask me
if I want to come and pick it I've done that for years and you can find some
food on sale which I'm going to demonstrate to you today but you have to
be vigilant you have to go and you have to find the leader loss so what is the
leader loss a lot of the grocery stores will pick an item or two that is way
below their price of what they received it but it's in tantalizing to get you
into the store and when you get into the store you end up buying more and that's
what they want not me I go in there and I only pick up what their leader loss is
I only pick it up and I walk outside the store with bargains that you would not
believe but I don't just buy one of it so if they have pasta on sale three for
a dollar I will buy ten of them and then I have enough to last me a long time I
never pay regular price on food so I'm going to show you a little bit about my
pantries then I'm going to show you what I do to find a bargain it's something
that you have to have a desire in your heart to do it but so many of you are
you're emailing me you're commenting me and telling me that you're starting to
have a food pantry especially if you're on Social Security it's so important for
you to have a food pantry because as the price of living goes up your social
security is not going up in the rate that the food and the cost of living is
but if you have these things now and pick the items that are on sale now you
will soon have a full pantry it took me about two years a year I started seeing
a big difference and in two years it was amazing I stock up more than what I eat
but my pantry is a living pantry that means I
come in every single day four or five times a day pick things out to eat I
rotate everything I don't just put everything in here and lock the door
I eat what I have and when I find a sale then I go and stock up more right now I
don't have any pineapples because I haven't seen us say on pineapples but
when I do I will buy enough for a year or two years sometimes I go to the
grocery store and I was spent half of my grocery money on one item and that one
item will last me for over a year in fact it'll last me two years I do that
and after a while you aren't missing anything because you have so much I
could talk forever in a day on pantry living and having a pantry and stockpile
but food prices are going up I'm seeing it everybody's commenting about it we're
in the East maybe on the west coast it's not that way you guys on the west coast
have an advantage because you're growing season is longer than ours you can have
fresh fruit I can't have that I can't have the fresh fruit locally like you do
but then we have other things that you guys may not have our cabbages can be
really cheap at certain times of the year
find out what food is cheap at different times of the year so let's get started
and I'll show you what I have point I like to use fruit pectin for my jellies
I paid 50 cents for them
when you find things get it the dollar tree right now in my area has great
northern beans for a dollar you don't see this every time when you see it get
a bunch of them because if you can get something for a dollar a pound or less
you're getting a good deal and that doesn't mean just these and rice I
actually got some chicken for 49 cents a pound and I'm going to stock up and I'm
going to can it I'm gonna swing my camera around and I'll show you
something else I got really really cheap I got this chicken a year ago for 29
cents a pound 29 cents a pound for chicken i canned it it was a lot of work
but I did it and now have it so so what you see is the circular paper for this
week at Carnes now there's eggs for one dollar but I
have my own chickens usually on the circular the first page is where you're
going to see more of a bargain scroll down and see what we find
okay that's not so good of a deal that's not so good of a deal but wait wait a
minute what do we see
so what is this here Wow drumsticks 49 cents a pound if you buy ten pounds for
under five dollars ten pounds of meat that's a great deal not only is that a
great deal you also can can the meat but you can
make broth with it and you can make bone broth and guess what I got 30 pounds of
it this is how you save your money whatever stores you go to now when I
went in I went I went strictly to this store got the chicken and walked out of
the store I didn't buy other things I didn't go and buy the expensive items
the ten dollar New York strip steaks I didn't buy any of that I only went in
and bought the chicken I hope this video helps you and I hope you learned
something from it you know times could be getting hard the weather and the
flooding there's not going to be as much food here that is local and the trucking
industry is having a lot more expenses and that's gonna be pushed on to the
consumer take care everyone we'll see you guys tomorrow
from Fanny's diary and we are on April the 2nd 1943 and Fanny writes the man
from Harrisburg came and he assembled the furnace my house cleaned the sewing
room
so here you have me sitting at my computer so how can a computer be really
good for prepping how can a computer help you save a lot
of money I'm gonna show you out here in my area is three major grocery store
chains we have giant food wise markets and then we have corns and our corns is
where I can get meat really cheap and it's butchered and it is a deli and
carbs is really cheap and it's fresh meat so it's local and it's fresh it's
not prepackaged so I'm gonna show you how I find a bargain every single week
and how I take advantage of that