Great video. Yes, cook from scratch. I learned from my grandma. She made egg noddles and pasta from scratch every week. Bacon grease was kept in a jar and used most of the time instead of oils. Her gardens were big. She preserved foods from the garden for the year. Late july, she would be planting a second batch of potatoes, sweat potatoes, carrots, beets, green beans, turnips, peas, corn and more greens. She always planted a lot of butternut squash, blue hubbard, peanut pumpkin, cheese pumpkins, acorn squash, pinto beans, navy beans, black beans, lima beans and black eyes peas, (these beans wete dried on the plants and then shelled for the year) brussel sprouts, garlic, onions because it kept long and were the veggies through winter. She canned a lot of her food too. She reused all her jars from the stores that had lug lids, over and over. I learned to compost just about everything. She kept veggie scrap jars in the freezer to make soup with. The chicken carcasses she made broth with. Then the bones were dried in the oven and ground up as bone powder for the gardens. Same with chicken egg shells. She rinsed and saved them, crushed and powdered to put in the garden. Banana skins were never tossed out, that was composted or put in water for fertilizer for her plants indoors and outside. She had a beauyiful rose garden. Those rose petals, she made jam from them and made the best donuts with the jam. Her jam was also spread on jer home made breads. My grandfather took me hunting and fishing. Learned everything about that from him. Venison jerky and pickled fish. They made wine at home in giant glass jars with sugar and fruit. Had it ready for thanksgiving, christmas and new year. They had chickens for eggs and told me to never name the chickens, they were not pets. They provided eggs and kept the bugs down. When there were too many roosters, they were sent to freezer camp. They weren't rich, but there was always plenty of food. They were kids during the GD, and learned the hard way as kids to grow food, never waste food, always mend clothes, and fix anything that breaks. IF it cant be fixed save parts to fix something else. Save nails and screws. Grandma saved aluminum foil to reuse it. It was NEVER one and done. Today, people are so wasteful and so much plastic. I save all glass jars because I will fill them with freeze dried foods and spices.
This woman has shared some pretty good content over the years. Unfortunately, her average views on videos are under 1,000. This video has hit 7,000 views in only 9 days simply because of fear stricken people. Her channel isn't based on fear, nor does she give those kind of vibes, so do her a favor and watch another one if her videos after watching this one to help her channel grow.
I cook up alot of bacon, put the grease in a bowl in the refrigerator to solidify then portion into vacuum bags seal and put it in the freezer. I have alot of bacon grease stored.
Yes- grateful for you mentioning this. It takes many backbreaking hours of gardening to get the caloric value of a little fat. My gardens are for nutrients, not calories. Also, if you happen to live rural it's not too hard to find a fat back to render down into lard.
My father was born during the GP, he used to talk about entire winters without meat (they lived on 50 lb bags of potatoes, he called it 'potato winter'). Some of my earliest memories are visiting my grandmother in the 1960s, she still lived as though the GP never ended, Grnadma had a coal stove (she didn't have coal, she burned trash in the stove) and cooked what we called 'dishwater soup'. Dishwater soup was a couple gallons of water, one whole peeled potato, one whole peeled onion and one whole beet. If you were lucky you got the potato in your bowl. I also remember the house was always dark with one phone which was a party line (some people may remember those).
The only good thing imparted to me at a very young age f from my step dad were his stories about being a teen during the GD. I never wasted food my entire life and I’m 68 now. We turn off/unplug electronics and lights not used, and I have an outdoor clothes drying rack.
I just want to thank you for stating the truth about sugar and salt being "staples", and how the media is portraying these as toxic ingredients, when in fact, these are required by the human body... in moderation. Clarified butter, also a great thing because it can store so well. Thanks for the video.
My biggest mistake was to purchase tons of food, but not store them in mylar. The bugs were heartbreaking! I appreciate how you explain buying wheat berries over flour. I wish i listened better whan i started this current panrty in 2019. This us a great channel to reach people my children's and grand children's age- who are further removed from the depression. Thank you
@@estherstone4860 It also depends upon the type of wheat!! Spring or winter, red or white, bread flour or pasta types. It pays to know your baking styles!!
Unlike my grandmother who grew and canned everything, I grew up a city girl and didn't grow anything. So for years I've been buying canned goods, freeze-dried and dehydrated foods and staples like salt, sugar, honey, maple syrup, dry milk, ghee, etc. It's the best I can do.
Great video of having the staples in our pantries that our grandparents and great grandparents had during the Great Depression. Thank you for sharing. I have had to stock up on my staples that I use in making homemade bread.
Awesome video, thanks for sharing! Hubby and I do buy our meat from a local farmer (tastes so much better than store bought). There are some Amish stores about an hour from us where our little lake place is and next time we're there, I'm going to stock up on the essentials. Their prices are so much lower than at the regular stores. Thanks for getting me to think about these things.
My parents lived through the great depression. I can tell you for a fact that if you are not growing at least half of your own food then you are screwed. City folks did not fair well. My family were lucky because they lived in the backwoods of Arkansas. There was always something to eat. I must tell you not to try to eat a crow because my grandma boil one for three days and it was still so tough that they gave it to the dogs. Pigeons are good to eat because the breasts are tender and the bones make good broth.
I like this video. Thanks. I've always liked beans, but once I started cooking dried beans I now LOVE beans. They are so tender and flavorful when made from scratch! I keep flour in Mylar bags for one year before I open it up and use it. One year old flour is still great!
Good one. Fats are the tough one to store. So far lard and coconut oil seem to do the best, although tallow is pretty good. Butter is a spice... chuckle.
Thank you for this video. I don't comment much on a lot of groups anymore and I follow even fewer. Sadly there are a lot of educated beyond their intelligence 'experts', that only want to make money by telling me I'm doing things wrong, if I'm not doing it their way. If I've made soap for decades, it works great, it's easy to make and I love it, I'm really not too worried they think I need correcting and need to learn to do it the right way. If I've canned something a certain way for over 50 years, telling me I'm stupid just means I'm not watching her channel any more ☹ I'm tired of telling people they need to learn to do things and holding the recent lock down that crippled our country in front of them as an example only to have it brushed off as a one time thing that couldn't ever happen again. I was born in 1951, my grandmother that helped raise me was a young adult in WW1; she prepared us for another great depression. My mother in law's family passed down stories of when the Tambora volcano made a year without a summer in the very spot I live now; she preached have 2 year's worth of stuff. Learn the basics.
I gotta rebuild my meats and meat fats to keep in the freezer bevcause I lost all I had wgen my last fridge crapped out. I donot have a grain mill but I do have some whole wheat and other grains in my stash. on my little deck I can grow herbs and some greens which I dehyudrate for long term storage. raw honey is also part of my long term storage along with sugars and salts
I have dairy sensitive, gluten sensitivity, i have hyper tension, Heart diease, diabetes arthritis and fibromyalisia so it is hard to store flours, sugar, salt. I do know i need those things for when the economy collapses. I do need to find out how long these thi gs last. Please if you don't have health problems PLEASE take care of your self. It had been found out that animal fat causes diabetes but of course when you have the diease you need to lower your carbs and sugar. Please look up people who have a good graps of eating healthfully and please take care of your mental health also. Look all this up Tha k you for maki g this video, because I need to start over, because as one person commented i didn't have mylar bags to store the rice, beans and other stuff
We bought bottle calves this spring. 3 to grow out for meat and one heifer calf to grow out to be a dairy cow. We also bought a 16 month old heifer to go ahead and breed. We also have dairy goats and over 100 chickens, ducks and geese. Plus around 40 meat turkeys. We can or freeze dry everything! I grew up in the city and so did my husband but I have always been drawn to farming.
Cooking from scratch is as easy or hard as you make it. Easy is important to me so i make bread and banana bread in my breadmaker, rice in rice cooker and beans and stew in the instant pot. Hamburgers are easy too.
I noticed in your video about protein that you mentioned Quinoa. It does have a green taste to it if it isn't rinsed bofore it's cooked. It doesn't have a strong taste.
@@RoguePreparedness Fair enough! We don't have to like everything. I can't stand French Dressing. The sweet tomato taste just hits me wrong. I can understand if the texture makes you dislike quinoa. Great video! You put a lot of good information into it. Thank you!
This is excellent information could you kindly go 2024 edition of this should of preparing for a recession? With the recent market crash I wanna make sure that I'm Protecting my family in the midst of the economic downturn. I also want to make sure that we make the right moves because in recession prices go down but so does the ability to make money
To cook, look up a video on building a rocket stove from a few bricks. Have manual coffee grinder, crank radio, solar phone chargers. Get some 100-hr candles or look up videos on making little room heaters from clay pots & tea lights. There’s a lot of info about being without electricity.
luckily I can still find decent meat prices here if i shop for deals. Still way up compared to a few years ago, but not as seems to be in a lot of other states. Not sure why.
I was watching Angry Prepper last night. He said you were short as shit but you'd be quick to put 2 in someone's chest !!! Hahahaha... Context was if youre a lady and not prepared stay indoors at night. Just made me laugh the way he said it and bc I subscribe to your channel.
@@anniegetyrgun8741 if you have your beef processed locally when purchased locally, you can also find a butcher that does not use nitrates. Bacon tastes awesome.
You may literally need to learn to hunt for meat. And, it's absolutely impossible to produce everything you need for yourself. The key is to build community and barter.
Look that you can do in a depression Yes!!!!!! But when you are in a war what you want to do????? Your have no energy even gas ore oil!!!when you are lucky you have a wood stove but when not then you have no choice to cook then I don't need Reis Nudles or something else!!!!!!!! The only what will help you then in canfood or little other things what you have!!!!!! Maybe you should thinking about that as well
I think the point was processed sugars are bad, sugars that are whole, like an apple, are fine as you get the fibre and bits and minerals too, so the sugar is treated differently. It’s how much you eat too, white starchy foods, cakes and biscuits/cookies, adding sugar to your drinks is not so good. I go by the 80/20 rule, try to eat as healthy as I can, but you still need some sweetness in your life. Just don’t eat it in isolation.
