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The peace of mind knowing I have a pantry is priceless.

People can find all types of excuses to not start preparing for emergencies, but my question has always been "How can we not prepare?" I went into a store just 2 months ago and there were many empty shelves and empty spaces in the coolers. There was meat but the prices were prohibitive, at least for my budget. I stick to the budget as much as possible but I did splurge for buckets and lids this month. So that means I cut back some other area of shopping. We are doing what needs to be done especially since we are predicted to see a very cold snap with heavy snow in the mid-west. If nothing else matters to you, have enough food, water, warm clothes and a way to cook in case the worst situations happens. We definitely need to be ready for the shortages that are happening and will continue to do so. Get ready people and do not forget about your pets.

Pro Tip for everyone to get started, use digital coupons to compare prices AND start with non perishables first to get practice in stocking your home grocery 😊

We are 2 people only with 2 rescue dogs and 2 rescue cats. We are living in a cyclone prone area in Queensland, Australia, but we both grew up in Europe. At school in Switzerland I have learnt about having an emergency pantry, and I always have one. In Australia so far I went through 2 floodings and 1 cyclone. The emergency pantry always has helped me out when the power was cut for days. For the dogs I am canning beef, pork, chicken and turkey mince and I can mix it with veggies, eggs, cheese, brown rice and more. Being prepared is always a good thing.

I love having my pantry and I love the security of having the prepper pantry!

I have two refrigerator freezers and one chest freezer. I took everything out and wrote down in a three ring note book what freezer has what . I also don't want to put my stash in my garage but I have three walk in closets and have bins placed in there. As I buy more stash I have the older items in the lower number bins and all the bins contents is also in the notebook so I look in the note book for an item I want and start in the lower number bin. Everything I have is not in view, other than water which is stored in the garage. I have paper products in large 6 foot cabinets from the floor to ceiling , They cover both walls of my garage. I also have a large pantry in the kitchen for every day use. You have a very large prep and I know you worked hard to accomplish all . You gave me some ideas.. jarred cheese.. I have cheese in the freezer but in he long run it is better to have some in the jars. Just discovered Martha Holmes and tried the seasoned butter beans. I bought many varieties . I freeze my pasta and then store it.. So far I have 35 boxes of pasta. And over 100 jars of Prego sauce. It is strange to see how many items you have that I have but many items I do not have... bakery products for one. Thanks for posting. I thoroughly enjoyed watching.

I love it. The problem is people living in apartments don’t have the luxury to do this, just no room sadly. I do love seeing people have this it’s really important. Great 👍 job.

I am a preper. And yes we are buying up alot of long term dryed goods and canned goods. And 2 freezers full of vegestables. And meat as we can afford it.

You are so right. We are working towards getting a 6 month food supply. The biggest issue is space but we are getting there! So glad I found your channel! Amazing!!

I've stored all salt's in half gallon jars just cut the label off and tape on jars. I also have to half gallon jar of baking powder and four of cornmeal. Those are a very important need to let get hard or leave in a box. As we're Mormon and store ten year's to feed7 as we have been doing it for long term. Family is life with out it is hard but everyone has to be doing there part on the same as we can't take care of other's that isn't to be helping take care us. That's not hunting skills or fishing anyone can do that. But store all you can it's a busy time with getting gardens done. At the end of a garden throw it all in a jar bit tomatoes but everything else and make it sweet pickles with hot peppers. Yum

That’s impressive! you’re right it’s something to really think about to have all that food on hand in case something happens. It’s just another form of a savings account. I don’t even have a regular pantry let alone a long term storage room LOL we just have a cupboard that we put food in. I hate not having a pantry but if I had the room I would totally do this!

Thank you for showing us your real pantry, rather than a displayed pantry. Your family is fortunate to have you as part of their family. Looks very nice.

Thank you for providing the video tour. Your set up is spectacular! You have really done a fantastic job. Now I need to revisit my pantry! Have a great day! Fun Fact: For those who have the canned beans in their food storage/pantry and have a hard time knowing what to do with them, try baking/roasting them in your oven. They are crunchy like corn nuts/croutons (but won't break your teeth) I make them once a week and use them on salads, in soups and sometimes I just eat them as a snack. They are high in protein and fiber and way healthier than chips/cookies. I use Ranch seasoning and buffalo seasoning but you can use any flavoring you choose. (Ranch, Cajun, Buffalo, Herb & Garlic etc.) The recipe is quick and simple and can be used on canned beans such as: Garbanzo Beans (also called Chickpeas) Black Beans White Beans (also called Great Northern) Pinto Beans I am sure you can use other beans, however, these are the only ones I have made. *Recipe: ~Open the can and gently place the beans in a colander and rinse well. ~Gently place the beans on a paper towel to air dry making sure not to crush them. ~Once dry, place ½ teaspoon of veggie oil in a mixing bowl. ~Gently fold in the beans and coat them well with the oil. (If you need more oil add a ¼ teaspoon at a time so you don't get too much oil) ~Add a ½ packet of Ranch Dip mix to the beans and gently fold the beans until they are coated (less or more Ranch depending on your preference. I started with 1 teaspoon at a time) ~Gently place the beans on a cookie sheet and place in the oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Watch the beans carefully and stir them around gently about 15 minutes into the baking process. It is helpful to place aluminum foil or baking sheets in your pan for easier clean up but not necessary. ~After 30 minutes you can test the beans. If they are not crispy enough for you, put them back in the over for 5 minutes. Repeat the process till the beans are the consistency you prefer. ~Store them in a mason jar or airtight container. I store mine in the fridge for a most part but have left them on the counter as well. I have not seen any issues storing them either way. If you live where it is humid it would be best advised to store them in the fridge. Happy Cooking Ya'll! Hope you enjoy the snack.

You are so organized! I loved your video and subscribed! I am working slowly on keeping things ahead, but at times it really is not so easy. I want to one day have mine like yours!! That’s my dream!!

Really nice variety and a great stock up 👍

phew! I wish I had the room for storage like this. I have decent storage for just me.

Beautiful organization!

I agree about the potstickers from Trader Joe's. They're excellent!

With food items not in containers, you have to watch out so you don't attract insects or mice.

Enjoyed your pantry video. 👍 Thanks for sharing

Love this! I’m just starting this at age 40, better late than never lol thanks for sharing! Glad I found your channel!

A larger jump starter for a car has a air compressor a light a cigarette style plug in and now they are adding a USB-C port for charging phones or even fans. Small items that may be needed for a power outage. If a solar generator may be out of your price range at the time. Check the box for C port. Not all of them have them.

We make 2 major butcher purchases a year. We cleaned out our freezer last weekend and will make our 2nd butcher trip this weekend. Can't wait!

My mom Addie grew up with cooks we always ❤ had a large pantry.

I love instant potatoes. I used them for Sheppard pies and had extra and ate my extra potatoes. I am always stocked. Its on a small scale but its there. I get paid once a month so that is how i shop. And i get paid just before Christmas and then its a long time until next pay check in January. So i am prepared

Hi. I’m new to your channel. Love your food supply. (Looks just like my house) I’ve been prepping also for the better part of 10 years. It’s wonderful.

I am new to your channel but find this video very interesting. I too have a large food and supply storage so I plan to keep watching. Thank you!

Wow what a great pantry. Thanks for sharing.

You have a wonderful food storage.

I do have food storage but not nearly as much as yours or as otganized. I love yours its very nice.

Hello, you are definitely set up as far as food is considered, I'd highly recommend also having 50 gallons of water and a way to cook your food independent of power/gas. I teach survival and homesteading classes and you'd be surprised how stupid you feel when the power goes out and you're left with tons of unusable ingredients! Subscribed with both this account and my personal account.

I found a cake mix from 2017 and it was still good, but usually that doesn’t happen

Thank you for sharing! It makes thinking about our food storage less overwhelming, seeing what others are doing. 😊 What really gets me, is breaking down the bulk purchases into smaller portions, hoping I’m doing things right so it doesn’t end up being an all around waste, especially since there are multiple scenarios we might have to prepare for. One example; I vacuum sealed freeze dried apple chips and now see the inside of the package looks like a white powder is on the apples and am not sure if they are safe to eat so probably will throw them out. Another example, I never use Crisco but I bought some thinking it was a good long term, shelf stable cooking oil alternative and I found it went rancid a year before it’s best by date (I can make a candle out of it now just surprised it didn’t last as I thought), that gets me nervous that I’m not making good selections for the pantry….😢 it’s a learning curve. Thanks again.

You can freeze packets of yeast. I put them in a freezer bag for storage in my freezer.

I’m so glad I found your channel! I’m an Instagram girl more than RU-vid but we’re doing very similar things so I’ll come over here more often to get inspiration from your “Food Insurance”. 😊

New subscriber. I enjoyed the video and my fave was the snack part 🤣 I am making my list for when I go to the store off this video and a couple more. I am looking forward to more videos

Your canned goods look exactly like ours ❤

I just started converting my spare room as my stock took over my bedroom cupboard, i will kee stocking im not eating bugs for anyone

I really enjoyed this thanks for sharing.

I wish I had a pantry wall like you have! I have to repackage all of my pasta as I buy it because of bugs and they move between boxes fast! I’m in Florida though. Great supply of spices and drink mixes that last pretty much forever 😊

We add ingredients to Bear Creek Soups. They are good.

I think you win the prize for the most spices! 😁

I have 3 children growing all my food will gone… I use have pantry that full with detergent and other stuff.

Very nice pantry, Thanks for sharing!

New to you're channel, my pantry and freezers are like yours..👍❤️🇺🇸😀

soo huge pantry just like grocery store. thank you for sharing

Looks like you are doing great! Just an FYI - I noticed your spices were in the window area. They will last longer (flavor) being in a dark area. Just a suggestion.

Love ur shelves/organization!! 🔥👏🏾🔥

Thank you. I am working on this. I now have some new Ideas.

So glad I found your channel!

I used a cake mix that was 5 years old. My husband said It was the best cake he ever had. Then I told him how old it was.

I love ur boxed pantry dated boxes...trick/tip

Super nice tour... goals I subscribed

Un consejo,toda la sal échalas en sus propias container pero en un tanquetas con tapa por favor,sino se te pondrá muy dura y aunque si puedas usarla será muy difícil después se te hará como una piedra.

Hello! Brand new and I am excited to find your channel Natalie! I love pantry and freezer tours!

Hi so glad to find your channel. Beautiful pantry and stock. New sub here. I love Biscuit. I have a yellow lab “Christi”. Looks so much like your cute lil girl. Thank you ❤

So corn beef hash is so good you can feed five people on it when you peel potatoes boil tell you can just get a knife to go in light then cool and cut into tiny square and do the same with corn beef and fry up them make egg's pice of bread and say yum. But a cream and chunks of chicken like a taste of a chef came in your kitchen make up some rice you have so much of and make a two meal dinner. Don't over cook your rice to mush. Then take the chicken a la king sauce and put over both. But any rice meals with not soy sauce let me know.

Good evening Natalie! This is my first time here! Your pantry looks pretty similar to mine!

Eggs are super high ..I found 5 dozen for $12 at COSTCO 👍🥚

NEVER put an oxygen absorber into sugar, you will get a solid brick of sugar instead.

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Wow

you spend a lot of money in your pantry..that's good

Wish I had that kind of space 😭😭😭

Liked your video!! I subscribed. May God bless you & yours!

I found this video because I'm in need of restocking my pantry. And I feel great reassurance knowing that I have a pantry full of food. HOWEVER I will tell you that I'm in need of restocking a very full pantry because we ended up with pantry moth infestation. Never in my entire life have I had these until now (thank goodness) but apparently several people have. And essentially they chew through cardboard and even inner plastic bags. Several colleagues who've had these before said they were dang impossible to get rid of because if you leave anything with a moth/larvae/eggs then they will reinfest and stat the cycle all over. So, regretfully, we decided to chuck everything except glass/bottled/canned goods which we rinsed in hot water and placed outside for a few days. So I guess I'm just curious if you've considered this possibility and what you might do to prevent that? IN the future I guess freezing certain products for 24hrs. would kill anything possibly being brought in. We also had a tough issue like this when our full freezer went out. So it's been a year. I love being prepared but it HURTS to prepare and save all that food...only for spoilation to occur :(

Your pantry is fabulous! I don’t have a freeze dryer, but would love to get one. I enjoyed your video and just subbed. Hugs❤️

Hahaha be careful what you say in the presence of your appliances and cars. You should not tell that freezer it's old and ugly @ 21:14. It's now more than likely to give up the ghost or start playing up on you. Same with cars. We had a car for over ten years and one day we were driving in it and our son said "Oh bout time you got a new car isn't it?" We made him be quiet but it was no good.. literally three weeks later it was in an accident and written off. Keep all rude remarks about your appliances and cars to yourself or at least not in their hearing hahaha. ;)

good job, thats impressive

I love artichokes

This year we had to buy a small freezer also love discount food items we buy a lot of discount bread and bakery

Awesome. You could put a rack down the middle if you need to. Learn from me…our freezer died about a month ago. We lost roughly 1,000 $ worth of meat. Keep a check on your freezer daily..

Great storage

Very nice pantry. You are doing great. New to your channel.💚

Great video and tour!

more healthy options ..... and low sugar.... and filling foods. oats is excellent

Your ready for a year. Your goal should go up to 2 years. My goal is for more 25 year storage.

Great job!❤️🙏

great great haul love it😀

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my dog is a Bizquitz too.

Watch for bugs if not in air proof containers

I’m not going to lie. Your pasta made me nervous. Do you ever put any pasta in jars or Mylar? I had pantry moths once and never want them again.

When stocking up on salt... don't forget to store at least some Iodized salt. Iodine is really important for a healthy body.

Wow you have a lot of awesome stuff but I've never heard of free drying milk and eggs how do you do that do you have a video for that

One I didn't see was chicken a la king yum on top of rice, potatoes. You don't have dehydrated foods you just air puff food? So do you have all your cook books on air puff foods? I have to say to people if things go so wrong you won't have computer or phone that's why people are going back to land line phones and. So please get books to cook your needs and start one on your favorite with cheap school note book.

Prepping I don't mind. Is their a point where to much is to much? Just keeping it rotated is hard. But I recently just went trur surgery. months to recover. My family was clueless how to rotate or use some of it. A lot we had to donate because the date was way past expired. So frustrating I feel like I lost so much money!!!so now I'm really hesitant to stock to much.

Great video really impressive. Do you do any more prepping style stuff?

Good video! I’m curious if you also supplement this with weekly or less often trips for fresh foods? Thanks!

How do you keep bugs out of thing? You buy one mix with bugs and it could really do some damage watching from northern central West Virginia

Hi new subscriber love the vlog

How big of a pantry to get a 6 month more food reserve? I am curious on the dimensions and layout. I don't see having a surplus as beneficial if it can be easily organized as its just an invitation for infestation. Does anyone have some dimensions for their pantry?

I started canning my pinto beans …

What type/ brand of shelves are are using to hold up that much? I have been through 2 sets, they all break.

Love this. Where did you get those cabinets in the 3:30 part of the video? I need those

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Beautiful working panty! Where did you get your shelves from? I need heavy duty ones like that.

Great storage . You had mentioned the water bottles are not for long term water storage . What do you use for long term water storage to keep it good longer like not in plastic containers ect? Are those large barells good for long term ? Curious on what you guys do .

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