My pantry tour 2022 

You are supposed to pull the tab a little to release the seal on a weck jar.

Never apologize. You have what’s called a working pantry. You are doing what others only dream of. Good job sister

Dont you apologize you've been working hard and your pantry is awesome. We're supposed to use what we put up and that's what you're doing! Thanks as always for sharing with us. xoxox

To open the Weck jars the easiest way to do it is to pull out the gasket between at the lip of the gasket.

Absolutely awesome pantry! Thank you for sharing all of your hard work and creative ideas! My grandmother (born in 1893) used to say: "Use it up... wear it out... make it do... or do without." and "Waste not... want not" That has served our family well over the years and we are so blessed for her wisdom. Your channel is a breath of fresh air for me... bringing back to light what was just everyday life when I was young. Blessings on your day Kiddo!😊🌻🍁🍂🌼🐛

I did my first waterbathed chicken, 3 hrs. Looks great!!! I watched you episode in the pantry of your friend, out salt, pepper. And garlic. Kept adding boiling water to waterbath. Never stopped boiling!! Felt pretty good. Many thanks!🥰💖 love your videos. God bless.

I use castle soap for body wash and shampoo I put a little apricot oil in my shampoo

You have done a fabulous job! Your kids will always have these wonderful memories of what "real food" tastes like💪

You can use the cherry tomatoes in your sauces. They make a wonderful pizza sauce, add them to your spaghetti sauce, or a bolognese sauce.

Thanks for sharing your pantry and talking about! I'm a quilter, so I love watching videos talking not just about technique but thoughts on why they choose to do things a certain way. Same with gardening and food processing. You can actually learn new things this way as well!

I absolutely love your channel it’s makes me want to keep canning

Thank you so much for sharing with us! You are an inspiration! One day I hope to have a pantry of canned goods like yours! Blessings to you and your family!

Make it make Short for: Make it make do with whatever you have to do so 🤗😉

beautiful canned bbq goods. I made potato salad with my potatoes. Turns out really good.

I have a 45 day supply of food for me and my fur babies. I use it daily. I help others when I can. So it's never enough and I continue to can. I work full time. I do the prep work and can when I'm off.

I get it! I feel like I have been canning so much and then when I see my pantry shelves I know it won't last. I'll just have to try managing my harvest season better next year. Thanks for sharing!

You are so right our Puerto Rican food is not spicy. Love your pantry. I also feel the same there is always more you want to can. Have a great day my sister in Christ. A wave 👋 from another Puerto Rican.

I'm still in the middle of your fun video, but you can make a lovely stroganoff with your cream of mushroom soup and your canned beef. Cut the meat into smaller pieces (or buzz it up a little in a blender/chopper), and put the mushroom soup and meat in a pot, adding whatever herbs and seasonings you like. Heat through and serve over cooked noodles, baked potatoes, or rice. That would be quick and yummy!

Please can you do a video on the Chili

I understand that you are explaining about some things you expect to get advice or comments on, like your shelves or that you wanted to have more to show us. I don't want Instagram snippets of a perfect anything. I am here to see the reality of what real canning, homemaking, etc. looks like and how you are doing it. This is what it looks like! Please don't apologize for your reality, that is what I'm loving about you and what you share. Thank you ❤️

Just a tip…to thicken sauce I use my dehydrated potato powder or I have beef gelatin I use. I had two bags of cheese nacho chips which needed to be used up….so I powdered it in my blender then dried it in my oven and used it in chili, on top of Mac and cheese and stirred it into melted butter and poured over potatoes. I’m having to go thru all my boxes in the food storage and transfer them into totes, jars, and food buckets because somewhere a mouse is living and made a pile of rice…..BUT I can’t find where the rice came from since I don’t store rice just in the bags. I have traps everywhere….no mouse has shown up. This is so disheartening since I just put up a large of amount of prep and now have to go back and redo. This is in my sewing room and it’s frustrating…..I’m taking scrap pieces of material and using them for wood burner fire starters, the rest of yardage I’m putting into totes and putting them up in my art studio in my barn……lots of up and down….😟 I use to have a Mennonite prep book that used oven canning for dry goods…have you done any of this? They did homemade noodles with dehydrated eggs in some, herbs in others….

Thank you for sharing your pantry with us!! You do a great job and are an inspiration to me!! God bless you! 👵❤

I look at my pantry and feel as though it’s not enough all the time. I also have a hard time using my stash. 😝

Your pantry is beautiful! I wish I had thought of canning cherry tomatoes, maybe put a cut up chicken in a 9x13 pour cherry tomatoes over, sprinkle with garlic powder and italian seasoning (the dry pizza seasoning from sharp shopper is so good)-cover and bake. I watched Survivor Lilly make "italian tomato sauce" and she canned it in a pan of water in the oven...blew my mind lol. I love learning new ways to can also. 🙂

Makes think of my Happy Place in my home up North of Wisconsin !!! Had over 800 jars to go through before coming down to Illinois!!! The jars were empty but they were all good ones for others to use!!! Kept full ones and BIGGER jars in good condition !!! Meat I would can plain then some with a slice of onion then some with garlic and then some with garlic and onion slices in it !!! I had a lot of vegs green beans yellow ones and mixed beans canned !!! Peaches in quart jars and pickled beets also !!! Did apple sauce that one yr and it was still good for 3 yrs later !!! Miss my big garden and growing blueberries raspberries strawberries !!! 21 plants of rhubarb was by the beets carrots dill yellow & green beans in a row!!! I used to sell the rhubarb to a grocery store it was great !!! Got 9 plants down here now !!!

something that has been helping me to feel.. fulfilled so to say in my “small” to me pantry is a I have a calendar page printed out. Each date with a meal/instructions on it. And then per freezer or pantry labeled with a number to match the calendar. Including sauces/seasoning packs, sticks of butter- it’s all set. I have the pantry items in a tote for this. The items are labeled for each day in its own gallon baggie. and in the freezer a box that has gallon baggies labeled for each calendar day. That way I don’t accidentally use it. Knowing we have 31 days worth of food is how I found comfort that the work paid off and IS enough 😊 I consider that fresh might not be available so I have frozen veggies divided up accordingly (things I don’t have canned, canned items are on the shelf labeled with a number to prevent breaking) in the frozen gallon bags. As well as things that don’t include eggs in case it’s not available, the meal will still be complete. Hope this helps somebody! It’s a little extra work but it’s what helped me feel secure

You’re fabulous!! I’ve learned so much, watching your channel… sending you health, happy and loving blessings…

I have felt the same way at times, however... We spent a week just eating out of our pantry while not putting anything in. We didn't even make a dent in our supplies! We always feel we need 'more' but we just might have 'enough'. Thanks for being a creator! I am just a consumer... I don't have the skills, personality, desire to do what you do. THANKS!

"I feel like it's not enough. " Always. Always. Be at peace. Trust God.

I think it all looks great. Do not apologize. Your videos have been so informative and inspiring. Canning has become an on going thing for me too. Thank you.

You talk about the Amish a lot so I wondered if you were in PA…me too! Great job, lovely pantry.

We're just so appreciative of sharing your wisdom and hard work with us! Don't worry about how your kitchen looks like. That's the kitchen of every busy homemaker! Praying that the Lord bless you and protect you, your family, and all your hard work.

Great stuff, thanks for the tour. Do take extra care of yourself, it doesn't take much to get run down... but it's a Big Hill then to get back up. 😊

I do so enjoy watching your videos. You need to stop being so critical of yourself. Life is chaotic and unorganized. Planning is good, but I personally find that Life will kick your Plannings butt. Adaptability makes you more successful and your LEARNING as you go is building valuable skills that can never be taken away. Keep up the great work. Also, I have found that having my vacuum sealer is one of the best ways for extended shelf life for frozen meats and vegetables. It also allows for vacuum sealing mason jars.

I live in Europe, and my grandparents used to say that they used to preserve food by drying, smoking, salting, not canning, they ate very seasonally, because here luckily you can grow crops all year round, but even so, this tradition has long since been lost. For some time, for convenience, and now with the current situation, food preservation is once again very important, due to the high production costs and for those who do not have their own land. the good thing about the internet is that it provides global information, but we always have to adapt to our country's reality, pressure canner is rare and expensive, while water bath canner electric is more common, and available second-hand with many recipes on youtube channels in German, now i'm starting to build my pantry. Thank you for sharing.

Just wanted to let you know I have just got finish d canning about 35# of "Susie's potatoes" this week!! So beautiful! Haven't tried them yet but am loving the "Amish" way of canning! Been canning all weekend, chili, soup, cherries, red hot candy apples and potatoes! All water-bath method! Have a pressure canner but am loving the Amish way, keep up the recipes and ideas! Lovin your channel girl!!

LOL yes, everytime I shop and get great sales, I tell my husband everything while we're putting all the groceries away. I loved this video. Thank you! 🙂

I wanted to let you know the potatoes are wonderful mashed they taste like baked potatoes the first jar I made were sticky because I heated them up in the broth I canned them the second time I drained the liquid rinsed them and added Enough water so they didn’t stick out my lid on until they are hot drained that put them back in the stove to get all the liquid out they are so good this way thanks Elizabeth

I ground cornmeal fresh from the field.

I love your pantry!! I preserve a lot but mostly buy my veggies also. 💛

I love Pantry tours! Yesterday we went to our best friends and toured her Pantry. I am a geek about that 🥰 It showcases, all the hard work and beauty of the real food. feel exactly as you. I’ve been canning everyday for 6 weeks and look at my shelves and think “that’s all?” Thank you for sharing!

This is just something I use with my homemade laundry detergent for odors. We've heated with wood, so clothes will sometimes have a smokey odor. Also, we have a farm, so there are DEFINITELY odors abounding some days! 😅 I simply add 1/2 cup vinegar to the wash along with the detergent. No more smells! Vinegar is also a cost effective alternative to fabric softener. Just wanted to share my little tip. LOVE your videos and your sweet spirit.

You made me giggle when you said the kids can't open the weck jars, 😂 nothing wrong with that and I totally understand the "looking at the jars and they give me pure happiness". I am the same way, sometimes I go into my pantry and just look at it all. It, the pantry is MY pride and joy, and I am proud of myself. I am proud of what you do too and thank you for your channel, I love it!!♥️

blend up the cherry tomatoes and make your tomatoe soup with them.

I put together a beef stew in 5 minutes yesterday. Loving my canned meats also. I have canned so many different products that I normally don’t do that I have run out of space to store it. Still have more that I want to can. We are good on food stuff for almost 2 years. Feeling really good about that. My family appreciates having food to eat no matter what it is.

Thank you for taking the time to put up this video. I enjoyed seeing your pantry and how you use your canned products. Blessings

Your pantry is beautiful. And don’t feel bad about not growing your food this year. You have an awesome community near you with access to some of the freshest produce. Health issues didn’t allow me to can much or grow much either, but I’m still trying to can, freeze, store something every day. And OMG, I’m so glad you showed your pie filling. I still need to make some.

Your pantry is beautiful!! I love that your freezer is right there in the same area. Hope you’re well!

Seeing what you have in your pantry is giving me ideas for mine. I am new to canning and did not know what kind of items to can behind pie fillings and tomatoes. So thank you for sharing. p.s. I had to laugh a when you said you could not keep your chicken broth in stock. Thats the dad jock for the day.

I’m with you, my pretty jars put such a smile on my face. My pantry makes me proud. Ha. I can chili all year long, always need to have that on hand. My recipe for cowboy candy calls for red pepper flakes, I’ve never added it, jalapeños are spicy enough. I don’t know of anyone (no matter how stocked) that looks at their pantry and says “yup, all done!” There’s always something I wished I made, want to make, or want more of.

I love your content. You do so much for your family, you’re so inspiring.

LISTEN UP, KID. YOU ARE DOING GREAT! PAT YOURSELF ON THE BACK! What fun videos you are creating and so inspirational, informative, practical, LOGICAL. I've been binge-watching AND TAKING NOTES. Did I say FUN!? 😁 Thanks so very much!

Sofrito is amazing. This is why I look at canning videos and prepping channels because I never would have thought about canning sofrito. It is so high in the Mexican market and I could make it so cheaply. Don't worry about you storage area. I enjoy your channel.

Awesome pantry. You’ve put in a lot of work. Well worth it ❤

The pantry looks fantastic! I’m in the same boat….I think I have canned a ton only to find I want/need so much more to feel confident that we’re food secure. You can add a cup of white vinegar to your laundry detergent to cut smells. The acid in vinegar helps to neutralize smells, especially pet mishaps. The cherry tomatoes can be used in the same way you use your diced tomatoes. They will cook down in chili or other soups or stews.

I freeze my broth in ziplock bags now because I use it up so fast. Thank you for the pantry tour. You gave me some ideas

I’m so happy to hear you say everything can be water bath canned ! I have yet to pressure can and I’m gonna try your recipes! I mean people were canning long before pressure canners! Keep it up Skippy! ❤️ from Kristy in Missouri zone 6b, met in Hannibal 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Great job, Leilani! How about starting a pantry challenge? We used to do that on a freezer group. You had to use what you had for a whole month with only perishables like salad, milk, bread, etc. from the store. It’s a great way to see what you need to fill in.

You are an awesome woman! Great pantry and that is what it's supposed to be like if you can all year! My mother only canned in the summer and it took all summer into the fall. It takes sooo many more jars when everything goes on the shelf at the same time. Also takes a lot more shelf space. I like canning year round so I am not so tied to the house in the summer. I also shop meat sales and love to can that as well. I think canned meat is my very favorite thing to have on hand. Knowing it didn't cost much makes it even better! Your channel is a real gem and I always get excited when you post something new! Blessings to you and your family. Thank you for all you share with us!

Enjoying this video while enjoying some spicy pickled okra I canned from our garden this year!! Thank you Skipper for some great ideas that I will use in my pantry especially the cowboy candy, not sure how I missed that video

I love it that you can water bath everything. I have a porcelain top stove and hate to get the camp stove out to pressure can. I have already broken one stove top canning so I bought an electric water bath canner that I love! I can plug it up out on the porch and keep the heat out of the house! Love it!

Wow!! Great pantry! So neat and clean and organised!

Great video!

I love this video. It helps normalize a real home. An imperfect (but lovely) home. 😊

Thank you so much for the pantry tour! (That jar of red peppers is SO GORGEOUS!! 😍) You've given me some new ideas. Although I've been making jams and pickles since I was a kid, this is my first year actually canning and it's so exciting! Also, with inflation and the world in general feeling so insecure, it feels really good to be able to provide my family at least some food security. It takes time to build the pantry up and "fine tune" and videos like yours are so helpful. God bless you and your family!

Thanks for the pantry tour! I enjoyed seeing what you have canned all together in one place, and how you plan to use it. I make my own laundry soap, the dry kind. But I use Fels Naptha instead of Zote. You might try that change to see if you like it better. I have read from someone who tested both that the Fels Naptha works a lot better. I have never had a problem with smells. For stains, I spray with Shout and for my husband’s extra greasy clothes I add Oxyclean to the wash. I heard you give the disclaimer about the bowing shelves. They look like they are in danger of breaking, and then you would lose most of what you have canned. That would be so sad. You could just cut a board in lengths and put them vertically in the middle of each shelf as an emergency measure, just to save your lovely food. Oh, and I love how clean your basement is! PS: Yesterday I pressure canned pumpkin pie mix, with strained pumpkin, brown sugar and spices. It’s pretty thick and I’m a little nervous about it, but I think it will be fine because sugar inhibits botulism(it’s basically pumpkin butter). I will add the eggs and milk when I make the pies. I canned it at about 13 lbs pressure for 65 minutes, which is the time recommended in a canning book from the 80s, I think.

So excited to see a new video pop up. You’ve really motivated me to get back into canning. And now stocking a pantry. Grocery store is too expensive. Thank you for sharing the experiments, successes and not so perfect times. It’s authentic. It helps us not give up if something doesn’t turn out! Love your channel

Thank you for sharing!!

Your pantry is amazing! Thanks for sharing 💜

OK, REGARDING THE CHERRY TOMATOES, just toss them in a soup/broth. I remember when my mother made a quick soup she just threw in whole/halved tomatoes into the broth pot with the celery/carrots/onions/parsley...it tinted the broth a bit and added a fnice light flavour. Just use them up that way.

Weck jars are my favorite! I wish I was wealthy and could change out all my canning jars..😂 To me they’re just pretty. ❤

Hi! Jody here from Indiana. Richard my man. I LOVE your channel! I spoke with my mother and aunt. Have never canned. My man and I bought 5 acres and a house, so big garden in the plan. I will waterbath EVERYTHING! Thanks for your bravery stepping out and letting us newbies know.

I'm so happy that I found this channel, thank you for doing what you do 😊❤️

A tip for opening the weck jars is to pull the orange tongue straight out, so it stretched a little, it breaks the seal, making it easier to pop the lid off.

Wonderful video! Very inspiring. Love watching all of your videos. Makes me truly reassess what I have on my shelves and what I would like to have. I do know that next year I have to double if not triple my tomato planting. Love having anything tomato on the shelves.

I totally get you on the Weck jars. So gorgeous, they totally bring me joy!

Show us the recipe for chili thank you

Such a fun video. I love to see what others like to keep on their pantry shelves. I had to chuckle at your cowboy candy story. That's a staple in our pain try but without the added red pepper flakes ;-) So with your sauerkraut do you ferment first? I just can't get the right taste on my canned sauerkraut. I also canned tomato soup for the first time. So tasty your pantry is inspiring. Thank you for taking the time to do the walk thru.

Hello. I saw you live show on Instagram and enjoyed it and learned so much. I am so excited to find your channel. I am so looking forward to learn more about canning and food preservation.

Thank you for sharing! Always looking for more ideas for organizing my pantry and new things to try 😊. I have yet to venture into weck jars or the reusable lids, but they are both definitely something I want to try. I do use the old wire top jars a lot and love them. Keep up the good work!

Today I canned 8 pints applesauce. I’m debating whether to do apple butter with the other half of the apples. Used my Carey electronic canner, I love it.

The see through part in the tomato juice jars is the liquid from the seed pockets in the tomatoes. I use an electric juicer and it removes the skin and seeds and they don't have the separation. When i did the whole tomato cook down for ketchup it took 3 days and I had to run it through the hand crank juicer after the tomatoes got soft. Ive done the sauce after running through the electric juicer raw and then cooked for 36 hours until it was plain tomato sauce. Now I can use it anything to make other products. I appreciate your videos and time to get them on here, thank you.

For cherry tomatoes, do eggs in purgatory. Sauté some onions and sausage in a skillet. Add a couple pints of tomatoes. Get it hot and bubbly then crack eggs into the mix and let them cook. Think of it as pouched eggs. Scoop some of the mixture with an egg into a serving bowl and add a piece of toast on the side. It’s a wonderful breakfast. If you want a budget meal, skip the sausage

You just need to pull on the tongue to open those pretty jars. I use the 100 year old Crown jars and glass lids in Canada and those are much harder to open..... so beautiful! The rubber seals don’t have the tongue on it but available everyone in Canada!!! Love your videos!

That was really interesting. I loved the intro. I felt I was a little mouse in the corner watching your world. Great video!

Wow those wreck jars are really pretty! I made cowboy candy first time this year. Had my son go get a jar to add to our chili as a topper (so good). He informed me we only have 1 jar left. Lol I left out the cayenne pepper so it wouldn’t be hot and added 3 habaneros I had from my garden. Only savings was that I really chopped them tiny. Plan on making more soon.

Thank you for your videos. I canned meat for the first time yesterday and followed your valuable tips and tricks. Until now I only had a pressure cooker. Now I have a small canner and I feel a lot more confident that I will get a favourable result.

You crack me up because I admire my jars too after I make things LOL I'm glad to know I'm not the only one 🤓

My husband and I enjoy Italian green beans and it would be a great use of the canned cherry tomatoes. We use fresh in it but I think I’ll start canning ours now and using that way. Just cook down some onions then add the tomatoes and a couple cloves of minced garlic cook until they break down and can be smashed and add fresh green beans add any spices you like salt, pepper, and any herbs, and cook until tender.

Your tomato juice also looks like mine.

For the Weck jars, just pull gently on the little tab on the rubber thingy - that will break the seal easily.

Beautiful setup . I would love to have a basement..love my can milk been doing for a long time Blessings ❤️

so good!! This was awesome! You have inspired me to do a video now too. I have been in the same mental space as you with regards to "I'll wait until I have this put up" or "I'll wait until I have this organized" lol when we full well know that will never happen because our pantry's are an ever evolving thing! :)

Never use a knife to open Weck. Just pull at the rubber lid. Hold the glass and gently pull the rubber flap.. You will hear a " tssj" and the vacuum is broken. And you can take the glass lid of. And you can re use the rubber ring until its dried out and crackly.

I have been canning my sofrito for a few years and it’s the one thing that gets used and I need it 😊. I make a year worth. It’s a lot of work but it’s so worth it. I did once have an issue with the ají dulce. It was a spicy one. I found out when I touched my face after I was done cutting it up. My face was messed up but my sofrito was saved 😆 thank you for sharing the pantry tour, it definitely inspires. ❤

Thank you for sharing! I feel like so many RU-vidrs have big beautiful houses and lots of fancy equipment and that's fine, but I relate to you so much more because I also buy 1 dollar shampoo and keep an eye on sales and stock up whenever I can because my budget doesn't always allow me otherwise. I hope your doing well and I hope that people don't leave negative comments anymore because you deserve better than that.

you can still use those peppers in making salsa remember that salsa is very forgiving with any kind of pepper that you use and you can make a salsa any as much he or it's less Heat that you want I'm 👄 talking about Pica Heat the kind of hate that you would tell a baby no no Pica 🔥 hot. so remember you can still use that salsa I mean that sauce you made of peppers in some form of salsa and you can make it as hot as you want or is not I do that all the time especially in a shrimp cocktail or some fish what do you call that raw fish and you'll put lemon on it all the work left me you know what I mean golly I'm trying to remember I got it at the tip of my tongue sushi sushi there it is. if you like it. God bless you Mama I love your videos they inspire me don't give up on yourself you got it Mama you got it girl God is with you remember that you are blessed.

Every bit adds up. Keep up the great work!

I really enjoyed your pantry tour. Thank you so much for sharing! ❤️

Nice!! Now I kniw of another Boricua that enjoys canning!! Awesome. GOD BLESS YOU/DIOS TE BENDIGA!!!!