I love having the extra refrigerator out here so this is where I store all of my
canned cheese now like I said it would be shelf stable but I'm a little leery
about cheese and I do can my own butter and it's amazing
how much of a blessing it is to have a pantry even if you have a small home
it's really nice and just to be able to walk in here come up with a meal I can
come up with a ground beef meal a cooked chicken meal I can come up with a pork
meal I can come up with a meal that's vegetarian in a matter of moments and so
I'm doing a lot of cooking with things in my pantry and so they're kind of hard
to make a video on it because I just throw some stuff together but I want to
do more with that and also a lot of people asked about might be hydrating
they said there's so many videos on how to dehydrate but so few videos on how to
make the food it's so easy I understand why people don't really make videos
using it because like this is chives so I will put this on top of a baked potato
these are tomatoes I will throw these on top of a pizza or I'll put these on top
of the lasagna noodles so I think a lot of people think of what's just so simple
they don't need to do a video on it but I am going to do more videos I want
just the practicality of having these dehydrated foods the things that I
hydrate I D hydrate for a snack like bananas and strawberries and Kiwis and
peaches and then sometimes I would dehydrate herbs which all go into
seasoning which you see in a lot of my videos use hardly any salt here I think
our dry ingredients is something that we do every single day and I just want to
share with you once again and having a pantry do what you can you know you
don't have to have it large pantry this pantry it took me about six years so
this is a six-year pantry that I have here and my food is always rotated its
rotated every two to three years in other words the older food is always in
the front and the newer food is in the back I tend to grow harvests and
dehydrate the same foods and so I pretty much have a small list of foods I
dehydrate a smaller foods I can but I have so much of it so it's just the
fundamental vegetables and meat and some dried herbs and things like
that so while it looks extensive it's really not that much when you come to
think about it the actual different kinds of vegetables and the different
kinds of meats I am a prepper so let me show you a little bit here this is
molasses that I actually used a bottle capper which I have a video on it
these are chia seeds that I got and so we have lots of things tinkers I know a
lot of you are asking about tinctures and I am going to work on a video for
you because I use tinctures for everything everything you can imagine I
use it for so a lot of these things are just things that I found or things that
people give me and then I learn to preserve it and so that's what it is
these are rose hips what do you use rose hips for well I infuse this in oil and I
make a beautiful salve it's really good for your skin also it's a great tea if
you drink tea I think having books is really important because if you have a
book you know books tell you how to do things and I really want to encourage
you to have a small library because knowledge is wealth and so by learning
these things in books yes having ebooks are fine but I really
encourage you to have the hardcopy books because then you can go back to it so
much easier and hard to copy books or something that is priceless because the
knowledge that you gain from it and having it in your hands in case that you
would never have the Internet in ization is the key I'm so thankful that I was
able to get out here and my caning garage and organize all of my jars
because now when I have my empties they have a place to go and organize is
really important in every aspect of your life not just with food and I was just
with your clothing but with your life in general because the more organized you
are then that stress that you're going to have to deal with and being out here
this was stressful because it was such a mess we'll say there's a fine line
between hoarding and having everything you need you know I really don't throw
much anything away simply because I don't have trash service and plus I try
to use everything that I can and so in here is pretty much everything you
to have a homestead I pretty much have everything and that's what it was like
in the Depression era you know people didn't throw things away they reuse
things and so that's really important to me and make sure you have a place and
for everything and everything in its place that can make your life so much
better and organizing and just having things that you need but knowing what
you had so many times what people do is they don't know they have something they
go and buy it again then buy it again and buy it again and if you were
organized you could look and say okay I have two of these I don't need these and
I have all of these and I have this this way you know what you have so I strongly
suggest you take one room at a time you have one box for things that you want to
give away one box for throw away and one box that you keep go through your whole
house that way for me clothing I could never donate because when I'm done with
my clothing they're so bad that even the thrift store won't take them so I either
make them into rags or throw them away but so having organization is a real key
in your life and I hope that you enjoy these videos where I share with you how
to be organized and I share with you you know different things that you can do to
make your life easier you know I'm starting to work on all different facets
of my life and so I'm working on freezers you saw me work out here and
you're gonna see a lot more that coming up because I'm really trying to go
through everything that I own as a prepper we tend to have a lot of things
and so we look at things and say okay I can reuse this I love these jars I can
use them and so we have to find a place for everything because what happens we
say we want these things but then we don't know where we're gonna go with
them and so it's important to find space and to use it as best as you can and
every little space that you have find a way that you can use it and that's what
I did out in this canning garage in times before when I would have one
random canning lid ring I would just throw it in it to a drawer well now I
have a place where everything goes in garage
I'm keeping it cleaned up there is all of my soap that is
I can't wait till it's done and I love having some boxes so I just put the box
right down there and everything has its place it makes your life so much easier
my friends so much easier let's go with the pluses and the minuses of everything
freezing food freezing food is the easiest because all you have to do is
plant your vegetables put them in a bag and throw them in the freezer but
freezing your things can get frostbite in other words your things can get
really dried out freezing what happens if your electric goes out what happens
if we all have to be off the grid freezing you're gonna have all your food
spoil many people have gone through hurricanes know that they know within
two three days their food is spoiled now we're gonna go with canning canning is
amazing candy you can take your food once you process your food it doesn't
cost you anything look at this it doesn't cost me anything to store it I'm
not paying electricity I'm not paying anything to store it once it's processed
canning is long-term canning is great but canning then you need canning jars
you need a pressure canner and you need to have the willpower and the strength
to be able to do it a lot of people are older they just can't handle bulky big
jars and they can't handle that and I understand that and you have dehydrating
you get the best worlds of canning the best roads are freezing and you can
dehydrate it it's lightweight it doesn't take much strength to do it and it's fun
but it does take an electricity quite a bit of it if you do a lot of it it takes
electricity to dry your food but once again once you dry your food take a look
it doesn't cost you anything to store it but dry food you have to do something
with it in other words you have to cook it you you have to cook it put it in
soups then kidding it's already made I could be this right out of the jar if I
wanted to but of course I would heat it up this is vegetable soup so there is
your plus and there is your minuses for everything
so what I like to do is everything I like to can I like to freeze and I like
to be hydrate and that way I have a full pantry that is a pantry where it's
rotating always another thing I want to say is you rotate your food I don't just
put this food away and lock the door we eat from this so it's a grocery store so
if I need something at the grocery store I come here instead of going out to the
grocery store so I don't have to go when there's a snowstorm I don't have to go
and when this happens or when that happens I'm here and my goal is to have
everything that I ever needed all at once right here in my own home and have
maybe a year's worth of it that is my goal and that's something I enjoy doing
not everybody enjoys processing food not everybody enjoys being a foodie but you
know what even if you're a family of one you can do it on a really small scale
why would you do it because it gives you satisfaction it helps you motivate you
to do something and also I take a lot of pride in all of this I do I take a lot
of pride by looking through this and showing people when my grandchildren
come they just go and all over everything they love it they think this
is so unique and I really enjoy having it I really enjoy doing it and I feel
like I'm using my time wisely because I'm putting all of my efforts into
something instead of doing nothing so I hope you enjoyed this little talk on
pantry life on freezing dehydrating and canning and organizations now you can
see me fairly well but that's because behind you is a door and so I will have
that curtain drawn and turn out the light that's over here and it gets very
dark in here you're number one you're number one killer of your pantry is
suddenly you don't want to have any sunlight you want to keep it as dark as
you can a lot of people are turning their spare bedrooms into small pantries
and you know what a lot of people are having a lot of fun doing it they feel a
sense of satisfaction and pride and to be honest with you the food that is out
of the these pantries are a lot better than any
food that you're gonna buy in the grocery store or at a restaurant it's so
much fresher and it's amazing now I do leave the rings on this cheese so this
will ask me for about six to eight months five up more like six months
depends on how hard I use it all right everything has a place everything is put
away and it makes you just feel good about your day
hi everyone I hope you enjoyed this video and if you like my homemakers
manuals I have a lot of them in this series while this fear was filmed at the
end of the summer of 2019 I thought it would inspire you a little bit of the
things you're going to see this spring the home state comes a life at this time
of year and I can't wait to share with you but here's the videos of my home
makers guide and manuals I think you enjoy them