Funny! Have a few family members that love their sweets... when they visit... must have desserts around, then take the rest home as I eat very little sweets.
I find if you hid it in your preps you won’t see it so you will forget about it lol 😂 so I have a few packs of hersey bars I hid from myself only my husband knows where they are
Thanks for speaking up AP! My wife and I will be 60 next year. We've been married for 41 years. We remember the days that you kept food as long as you wanted it. There were no expiration or best by dates. You simply opened the container and if it was good you ate it if not you tossed it. We were not stressed out by expiration dates or best by dates are best used by dates or any of that other stuff. My adult children who have their children of their own now live by expiration dates. They throw away anything that's near or past its date of expiration, best use by or whatever other gimmick they have stamped on the container. I am no nutritionist, doctor, lawyer or anything like that. But I can tell if food in a container is good and when it's not. I am not afraid to eat food W A Y past its posted date.
You can always put a smile on a kids face with a sweet treat. Just don't tell the little ones where you keep the candy jar..... or cookie jar for that matter.....
@TRUST ME IM A DOCTOR after thinking about it you are right. We all sat and.watched in horror what happened in your country.. Also I have heard other stories like yours from other survivors of your civil war. I don't know how to plan for what is probably going to happen here. It is way too cold where I live to go hide in the forest..plus I'm not a young man anymore. Thank you for the wake up call. I will continue to try to develop a plan, but That is hard nor knowing what will exactly happen. I do live in a very rural area so cities will be the first place they will have to control. If you have more ideas I would love to hear them at( earnfan8@gmail.com). Thank You, Pat
@Scott Vaughn yep. But this ant will keep on keeping on. Sad thing is even in good times they have come to " raid my stash" of different kinds of foods to keep from going to the grocery stores. So i will be cutting them off now. If they can't figure this shit out maybe they need to get hungry. Maybe that will get thru their thick skulls
I have 30 member of my family within 20 miles and they do come over to learn prepping BUT they bearly have enough food stored for one month. They still feel that I am over reacting to what is happening...now I am making sure my kids are okay with preps and forget the others that is all I can do.
Please pray about it! I had nearly given up myself with my brother and his fiance. My mom and I have been trying since January. We have been steadily praying all along and lo and behold I got a text from my brother's fiance the other night about where to purchase freeze dried food! If you can get them to watch anything, send them a link to the episode Israeli News Live just did with Adam from Marfoogle News. Don't lose heart yet!
Yesterday my 5lb bag of Brach's hard candy arrived! On Amazon it was less than $8. Butterscotch, Starbrite mints, cinnamon and one or two others. Yep...sometimes you just need a little sweet to carry your spirits when you're a bit blue. We figure the butterscotch and mints could also double as sweetener for a cup of tea. Thanks AP!
My dad, who passed in ‘91, used to read a comic strip in the funny papers, called Freddy -he was always eating “atomic belly busters! Thanks for the memories and making me smile!
I too have had great success in vaccum packing chocolate chips and nuts in canning jars. It is important to keep them in the dark or they turn white and of course heat will melt chocolate. You can always place the jars in a paper bag or box in order to keep them.in the dark. Also if you have cake or muffin mixes for a long time and you make one and it doesn't rise, don't throw out the rest of the boxes, just add baking powder when using them next time. In times of high stress, comfort foods really help calm the body.]
You are brilliant! I never thought about putting jars in paper bags to protect them from light! I'm guessing wrapping in foil would work, too? And adding baking powder...I'm slapping myself. Thanks for the wonderful ideas.
Pie filing is something I’ve been stocking. Can really help the sweet tooth and thinking of my kids too. If stuff bad out there, something to bring a smile. If stuff is crazy bad , I can easily make tortillas, put some pie filling in one, fold it, grill it in a pan. Sprinkle with powered sugar and cinnamon. Little dessert. Quick, easy. If you have bread can use that, take off crust and pinch the bread together around the filling. Can throw right on the grill outside.
Same here. I buy as many cans of pie filling as I can. I plan to put it over pancakes or waffles, toast, added to oatmeal. Even add some to a peanut butter sandwich
You can make your cake without eggs, oil, water or whatever else the box calls for. Just mix in a can of pie filling. It won't come out as fluffy, but it will be dense and sticky and sweet. Try cherry for chocolate and white cake, apple for white cake and don't forget pumpkin with white cake or spice cake or whatever takes your fancy. Bake at 350F for 20 - 30 minutes depending on your oven 'til a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out mostly clean. =^..^=
You are correct! I'm such a meat, bread, potato girl that sweets has been put on the back burner. I'm going to have to increase my sweets stash🤗. Thank you for sharing👍🏾
This video is an answer to prayer. I wouldn’t want to live in a world without chocolate. 😀 I would appreciate if you did a how to video since I am new to prepping as you store a variety of sweets. AP is my favorite you tuber. Thanks for all you do to help others be safe and prepared.
❤ I buy chocolates after any holiday, and enjoy it any time I like a little piece. Hard candy comes in handy when a really dry throat gives you a hard time, so I keep a little in my purse and some in a jar. ❤ Watch any grumpy little kid when you give them a little chocolate, makes their day. 😎 I always make sure we drink water after anything sweet, so it does not stick to our teeth. That becomes a healthy habit. 😎 Nothing wrong with chocolate blooming, looking kinda white on the surface. Use it as chocolate chips, or make a hot chocolate from scratch.
Thanks AP. I keep hoping that my hubby doesn't find my candy stash again. There won't be any left. LOL He found my chocolate chip stash last year and I had to replace it. I now keep it behind my baking supplies. He's not likely to find it there since he doesn't do any baking. Much Love
I opened and ate a bowl of special K cereal that I had hid in my closet trying to protect it from roommate and forgot about it. It was best by date October 2017. It was just fine no odd taste and just as crunchy. That has been 6 hours ago and I’m still well. No special packaging just hiding in dark closet.
Today I opened a mylar bag of individually-wrapped miniature Kit Kats in regular, dark chocolate and white chocolate that I had put away in April 2018, exactly six years ago. Packed with an O2 absorber and stored in a basement, they all tasted fresh yet. That's the longest I've run the test so far.
Thats how i buy mine. Valentine heart candy would be great for a birthday or special holiday!!!!!💞💞💞💞😸😸😸😸 and cinnamon toast with butter n sugar sprinkled!!!!!
@@coloradopackratprepper Hiya, left message for you on another channel, not sure if was magic Prepper or ice age farmer. Hope you got it. Glad to see you in the comment, i know then you're ok. Or should I say bearing up? Take care, stay safe. Xx
@@lynnettemurphy8243 yes it did notify me!!!- i hav not met up with my new buddy since last wed. and i hope hes ok!!!! Dont want nothing to happen to him!!!!! Im "bearing" up well!!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏💞💞💞💞😸😸😸😸
We're going the other way here AP, getting off sugar altogether. I will use honey and fruit/berries of course. I feel like crap eating sugar. So do the kids so we dont have candy around. When the wild blackberries, blueberries etc come in, thats our candy shop 🌻
I had a bag of the organic SM raisins and a few years later found little worms feeding on the raisins. From then on I store them in vac sealed jars, along with most other foods to keep out humidity. For comfort foods, I'm well stocked up on sugar and flour and can bake cakes and such. Candy survival rate in our house is pretty poor.
I'm with you, AP. Have to store candy! 👍😀 We mainly have chocolate and hard Christmas candy that I bought on sale after Christmas. We love something sweet after dinner. Made banana bread yesterday using Augason whole egg powder and flour with a best buy date of 2013, that I keep in the fridge. Delicious! 😋 Blessings to you my friend. 💙
Great video. I picked up a lot of stuff for us back in February. Sweets was a low point in our cupboards. I'm not a big sweets guy since my wife sells so many baked goods. But it keeps the family happy. My daughter calls raisins "cookies"
Well, after Halloween sales isn't too far away. I too am guilty of pilfering certain items from my pantry! Lol. Seems we need lots of comfort during these lousy times!😂
for M&Ms I just vacuum pack them and had to open a jar the other day for my grandson that was from 2008 and they tasted just like they were new, I have other types of candy that I have done the same with, I do cookies when they are on sale, I do cheese crackers also and cheese puffs, I also do coco puffs, frosted flakes, also the chocolate for cooking, yrs ago I worked for Food Lion and the best by date is just to let the store know its time to order more thats it, by date is for the freshness of it, but does not mean it is bad, but baby milk and the likes will not be good are milk but canned food never go by , (use by date) on
@@The_Healing_Facilitator Many people don't bother with O2 absorbers when vacuum sealing jars. I think those M&Ms will be great many years from now. Cheers!
You’re not kidding! Had cough drops glue to the wrappers and a bag of marshmallows ready for the dehydrator that stuck together in one clump! And, bugs wiill get into opened raisin boxes unless stored in sealed containers once opened. Lucky that chocolate hasn’t melted so far.
@Jewel Clark Anything would fat in it would not ber good for longterm storage since it eventually will go rancid, but it would definitely extend ther shelflife. I vacuum dinner snacks for use within a couple of years, keeps it from going stale. I would probably use a glass jar and not a vacuum bag, since they might get squished when the air is removed.😊
Thanks AP. I have cake and muffin mixes put away but no candy yet. Great idea I'll work on after Halloween!😉 If those are malted robin eggs you have there, they'd stand no chance with me! Lol...I love them and whoppers. Since the warmer weather I slowed down on canning except occasionally putting up a batch of meat during the middle of the night when it's cooler. Living in the PNW it's never as hot as some areas but I can't take anything over 75 degrees. I water my little gardens before midnight and weed 15 min. at 5 a. m. Works for me! I planted Christmas spuds, peas, greens, radishes, etc this morning and beans in a bucket, beets in the ground and a part of my raised bed. We'll see what we get! Chocolate chip cookies! Lucky man. God bless all and be safe. 👵🌲😊🌷🍃...don't forget to visit the night skies for meteor showers, etc...most splendid!🌠🌠🌠
Buying candy after the holidays is something I always do. Vacum seal in bags almost all of it. I also have Russel Stover sugar free in vacum seal bags. Cant live without chocolate
I eat one half batch of old fashion fudge that takes 1 cup of sugar I eat it in half hour and I dont get sick and I've done it all my life . Never been to Doctor in 68 years but I do have friends that are Doctors.
Just a couple of days ago, feeling burned out on storing more practical food items, I purchased some treats to store. Nesquik to help make powdered milk more palatable, Goya Maria cookies, etc. It lightened my mood putting them by, and I'm sure it will also when we break them out to enjoy!
Finally! A truly essential food prep!! This is a strange coincidence since I have no candy in the house, and the chocolate monkey on my back is acting up. I just put a peanut butter cookie brownie mix in the oven and sat down to read this. :) You made me realize that I have NO sweets prepped. I have a half dozen or so mixes in my cupboard, but that's it!
Take raisins, dried cherries and dried cranberries (or whatever combination of these you like) and add enough to a canning jar to half-fill the jar. Now add enough brandy or bourbon or rum to fill the jar. Press out any air bubbles. Put on the lid and ring and tighten. Set aside in a dark, cool pantry for at least a week before using. Will keep for years. When making a cake or dessert bread, use a slotted spoon to take out some of the steeped fruit. Dice the fruit if you want smaller pieces and stir the fruit into the batter and bake. Most of the liquor will cook off, but you will have tender, flavorful fruit bits in your cake or dessert bread. You can also replace some of the liquid used in your cake batter with some of the liquor used to steep the fruit. This steeped fruit is especially good when baked in a spice cake or a carrot cake. Add some chopped walnuts or pecans or sliced almonds to the batter and some ground cinnamon and you will have a non-traditional fruit cake that people will actually want to eat.
Yum! That juice can be added to a cup of tea as an elixir to relieve cold and flue symptoms. The antioxidants an minerals in the fruit are extracted into the liquor giving it medicinal properties. Great idea!
Once again thank you. We are chocoholics, so I need to add chocolates, and other sweets we like. Also we need to add nuts, cashews, walnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, yumm.
Lynnette Murphy oh yes! It’s super simple. I never measure the ingredients because I cook it down until it becomes a solidly thick taffy. Molasses Yellow mustard Apple cider vinegar You mix them together in a saucepan until thick and gooey and cool it on parchment paper before it sticks in the pan. Maybe use a little oil or butter on the paper so it peels off easily. Add as much or as little apple cider vinegar and mustard as you wish to taste. I like mine tangy 🤓 please let me know if you like it or if is disgusting 😂🥰
@@danakarloz5845 Thanks for the recipe Dana. I'm away from home now so I'll try it at weekend & let you know how it goes. Take care, stay safe. Best wishes to you & yours from Ireland. Xx
@@danakarloz5845 Hiya Dana. I made up the recipe for the taffy. I didn't mind not having measurements but I think I may have used too much mustard. I'm going to try it again in few days. My friend said to tell you're a genius for coming up with recipe. He scoffed fair bit of it. I'll let you know how I get on with next batch. Hope you're doing well. Best wishes to you & yours from Ireland. Take care & stay safe.
Love your videos! I'm a new subscriber and live videos like this. I've gotten store bought emergency food but now working on mylar and some jar items. Thanks!
After Halloween is a great time to buy tons of discounted candies. I bought 50 bags last year all dry canned in jars. I leave them in the individual wrapped wrapper. I also have chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips, and white chocolate chips in jars. Raisins, dates, dried berries and fruit in jars. If they get hard just place in microwave with 1/2 teaspoon water for one minute and steam them. They are perfect Like fresh purchase. Trail mix is another thing I have Jared up. No bake cookies, and rice crispy treats work well also. Marshmallows expand when vacuum sealed but go back to shape when unsealed. Have fun with it! Hugs
I hav all kinds of chips from especially after christmas. Bought about 75 bags of vanilla "Frozen" blue n white chips last year for 10 to 25 cents a bag. Now in mylar 5gal bucket!!!! 💞💞💞💞😸😸😸😸 and "Frozen" blue marshmellows 25cents a bag!!!!!
You will see a lot less discounts this year. Hershey has already announced that it won't be using halloween themed wrappers this year. That way leftover candy won't have to go on sale at a reduced rate.
@@ritamiller6008 yes mine have been good for 3 years. I need to make more. Lol keeping one jar each for trying for the 5 year plan. I experiment a lot.
Voodoo Queen Herbalism awesome! I’m assuming I just add extra water when I make it to account for the egg & shortening---haven’t been brave enough to try them yet lol
Best by date is when, according to manufacturers, the product will start losing quality. But, the product is not spoiled it just may not perform the best, i.e. rise and such.
@@bettypierce5323 As a general rule, Best By dates are NOT expiration dates. It simply means the period of time the processor has decided their product is of the best quality. How long the product is usable beyond that date depends on the product and its storage conditions. In the case of baking mixes, it may also mean the shelf life of the leavening agents. Baking powder has about 6 months shelf life after the container has been opened. Heat and humidity are factors that can reduce that life. FWIW, I had a can of green peas for lunch yesterday (7/27/20) that had an Best By date of Feb 2013. That definitely wasn't an expiration date. I enjoyed my lunch. BTW, I live in the SE USA. Heat index today was 107F.
I've noticed over the years expiration dates have been lowered. Many suspect so people will go out and buy more, the longer it Last...less likely you ethier use it up or throw it away and buy more. Possibly law suit issues too.
The raisins and cake mixes will get meal moths in them if not repackaged. The moths are already in the product, maybe if vacuum packed/ frozen they would be fine.
I too keep and reuse plastic and glass jars. No need to buy expensive containers. I especially love Lipton plastic green tea jugs. They are thicker with good handles.
@@shivakat2297 I always save jars with the seals for jams,jellies sauces& pickles& relishes. But I never pressure can with them. Only the pint hot fudge& caramels ice cream toppings. I reuse the sauce jars for 10-15 years and old peanut butter jars and glass juices jars. For ketchup.
Just and addition to ensure it will rise I add a tablespoon of baking powder when mixing. I am struggling to get baking powder or soda here in my area! Hope folks realize you are only trying to help. Those that don’t well you just have to remember you can’t get through to everyone. Your doing a good job!
Totally with you on this one! I have a small bucket in my closet stash full of hard candies, chocolate, even some Twinkies. It's marked, "Yummy Bucket"
Yum! I have a sweet tooth and keeping a stash was high on my list for shtf. $ tree has one gallon plastic jugs a I filled two of them with a mix of hard candies. I figure one piece a day will do it for me so I have enough for a long term event. I also have the breakfast biscuits from the $ tree. They come 2 in a pack wrapped in mylar with 8-10 in a box (4-5). They are whole grain and have protein, vitamins and minerals. They are a good treat with coffee or tea and they have a far out best buy date (2 years!). I have a jug full of those too and eat them and buy them often so rotation isn't a problem...lol. IMO a must have.
I've vacusealed chocolate bars very successfully for years, long before I ever started thinking about prepping! I've been using the Hershey's chocolates for all my candy making, which used to be quite extensive. It's also some of my favorites for nibbling. I'll be adding a oxygen absorber into my packs, and jars in the future.
You're right on - late hubby & I have not died or suffered ill consequences from consuming expired products - especially those laden with sugar - jams, cake mixes, cookies etc. Perhaps it's our frugality, but we can't stand the thought of throwing out any consumables (like these) when so much of the world suffers from hunger - people & animals alike. Never forget the helpless animals.
Yes, agree to keep sweets around, ingredients for cake, pie fillings, brownies, cookies, even rice krispies sealed up, dehydated marsmallows and butter or ghee to make rice krispie treats...list goes on...I mainly do that for family members with a sweet tooth...I’m good with fruit...just canned up cherries and peaches and thinking about pineapple for an upside cake. Nice to have on hand and will provide calories and be a treat if you can’t buy them later. Raisins can be soaked in warm water to soften before using in baking. You can freeze ripe bananas in their skins...skins will turn black, but bananas can be used in baking or put into a smoothie, or mashed up for baby food.
Great tips! Thanks! Don't foget you can freeze butter and you can crack and mix eggs and freeze them raw. Butter freezes indefinitely and eggs hold up well 8-12 months.
Thank you so much for this information. It was a food item that I didn't think would store well. You have shown me several ways to store for long term. I like the chocolate bars in a food saver bag. I hope you will do a video on opening them. I assumed that if you kept items in their original packaging they would go bad because if any air trapped inside the package. You showed me wrong when you opened up the hazelnut candy. You have been I so helpful to me when it comes to items to purchase and how to preserve. A QUESTION FOR ANY VIEWER. I slightly freeze meats that, if processed in a food saver bag, would have the juices come out of the packaging. Several times I have had to redo because it didn't seal. What I would like to do is put the item, i. e. Hamburger, chicken, other types of meat, in the food saver bag, not sealed, and place in freezer for a few hours and then seal for long term freezing. Will the food saver bag seal if it is frozen? It would save me lots of work if I could do this. I just don't know if the bag would work. Thanks.
The bag will seal if the meat is frozen, just make sure there are no sharp edges on the meat so that it won't poke thru the plastic; you can place your un-frozen meat in the bag and then place a piece of a paper towel along the top of the bag and the paper towel will capture the moisture, also you can wrap your meat in butcher paper or parchment paper prior to vacuum sealing it and that has always worked well for me. I hope this helps.
@@AlaskaPrepper .. thanks, very helpful. I hadn't thought of wrapping in some clear wrap, freeze and then process in food saver bag. We have a new butcher who processes our deer meat every year. I noticed that after I take off the white freezer paper, he has wrapped the meat in plastic wrap. I thought it was a good idea, I don't know why I didn't think of it. Thanks again, Marcia
Great video and great idea...going to look for some at discount store and after holidays! Self-control is key because I tend to go to chocolate and sweets when stressed and depressed! 🍩🍰🍪
My grandson finds all the treats I put away. Lol 😂 I think it’s a great idea to dry can sweets. I have coffee put aside and tea. Those are my comfort foods. I also have pie filling that I caned. Applesauce and cranberry sauce put away.
Thank you for another positive, upbeat, and informative video. I never thought about storing candy. I’m about to start though. AP, could you please put up the video that you did with the cheese blocks that you used wax to preserve? Thanks you so much for all you do. I have learned so much from watching your videos.
I want to Thank you for your Toilet Paper suggestion from one of your videos. It's the Scotts TP from Amazon. I was able to buy a case of 80rolls for $40ish. That was a great buy. I compared Scotts to Costco Kirkland brand and Scotts has more sheets per rolls and the savings. A 30pk Kirkland in Sacramento CA is 24.95. So big savings on buying scotts case. TY Bro.
I'm so glad to see candy preps! Not something I have thought of at all yet I always have candy on my grocery list! Always have some sort of candy on hand. It's a part of life! 😋
Thank you, Alaska Prepper! This is why I like watching your channel...you’re a fellow foodie! ❤️ Also, I’m glad to know the cake mixes are good after the expiration date. I try to always have some on hand for my kid’s birthdays.... but only bought one year’s worth. Now I will buy more :)
I need to replenish my candy supply. I go back and forth with craving sweets and salty. My last sweet craving I ate all my sweets lol. No self control!
Rudy, what happens if people eat way too much sweets and get cavities as a result, that could become a problem!! I love anything chocolate and I resist eating a whole bag of any sweets or even chips all in one sitting! There are people out there who can't do this, they will continue eating until the bag or jar is empty!!! Love all your videos Rudy!!!
