Nice voice, steady pace of speech, no irritating music, all-round great presentation! I'm subscribing! Oh, and nice neat pantry. Thanks for your time and effort.
I like to low key videos too.. when it’s over produced it doesn’t feel real. I just grab my camera and go. What you see is what you get. I like reality!! Not holywood videos. Ty!!
You can keep dry beans in the bags and store them for years and years. However, the older they get, you will find they will not cook but I have found that if you add 1/2 to 1 teaspoon baking soda, your beans will cook just like fresh ones. Great Gramma Martin
you add the baking soda to the dry beans when you store them? i like the method of putting dry beans in a vacuumed seal mason jar without oxygen absorbers because it's so easy. so you're saying if i add baking soda to the jar and shake it up and then store it...no matter how old they get they will cook better?
A good suggestion for buying lots of mason jars cheap: look for people selling their wedding decorations! I'm getting over 80 mason jars (lots of them quart jars) for 50 dollars! These people just want to get rid of those "decorations" and mason jars are all the rage in weddings right now, so I've Been scouring online ads for them!
I have always saved glass jars that fit the canning lids and reuse them, spaghetti sauce, local honey and coconut oil jars and glass mayo jars around where I live can be reused. We buy this stuff any way as I am in the prep stages of going off grid, so it is basically free and helping to reduce the garbage I throw out. Win , win.
Good advice Starry Hilder. My folks grew up in the Depression of the 1930's in an area that was reliant upon farming, mining and logging for income. In the fall of 1929 my Grandfather and his brothers had over a million board feet of lumber waiting to be shipped, and paid for, when the depression hit and the orders were cancelled. Because of that they went broke. My Grandfather worked until the end of the Second World War to pay off the company debts, but he accomplished it. So, I learned from childhood, both from my grandparents and parents experiences that you have to work hard, set aside and never forget; eat up, wear out or reuse.
thebayareapimp I would assume they go to a Doctor...? Going off grid just means they are not hooked up to city sewer and electric. Usually does not mean they are not part of the world.
Our bugout place has been in continuous family use for 6 generations. One of the joys of that place is the things you find. A bag of rice with a bought date of March 1st, 1970. We cooked some of it up and it was still good.
still learning about this lifestyle so forgive me for silly questions, but does a bugout off the grid place have electricity? generator? What are the basic requirements?
@@cbreeze123 No electricity, no generator. All lighting is by oil lamps, candles. Cooling is via seasonal cold storage. Otherwise food is preserved via canning and or salting. Which is a great way to also attract moose and deer to the area (and by extension, wolves). And Bri Marie, there are no silly questions.
My lady you just come from heaven. Thank you very much for your help. I'm going crazy about my of grid preparing pantry. You're helping me a lot with it. I will do everything as you're doing. About the can goods expiration date won't be scared no more. Still have to go on a lot. God bless you.
SH, your videos are very generously insightful! From someone not quite prepared for the worst just yet, I'd like to give you a very grateful THANK YOU! Your pantry tutorial was filled with great tips and information!
A G Well thank you so so much! I wish I had more time ...I always have ore to say but dont want to loose peoples interest. Maybe I will do a part two!! Remember...just take your time but do it...thats the key. Be smart..look for sales..and dont be stingy with your money when it comes to buying BULK! You will save alot on the end even if you end up spending alot up front!!:))
What great information and you have a wealth of info. My husband and I are in our mid 50's and want to live off grid. Maybe not as off grid as you do but we are heading that way. I'm not sure as we approach our 60's we can do as much as you do but we are going to give it a try. My husband is working himself to death and its time to give him a break. I'm sure we will need to work some, but hoping to cut that back as much as we can afford to. Things in our country are really pointing us to get off the grid as fast as we can. Hugs and Thank you for inspiring us to take the plunge. God bless you!
I would suggest taking the rings off of all of your canned jars. If one if them comes unsealed, you may never know it and it could reseal unknowingly with poisoned food. Almost all canning old timers and new canners agree.
YES, please. Leaving the rings is very dangerous , That might prevent you from noticing that you had a bad jar and you would eat the contents.....you would be sick or dead. Get the Ball Jar Cookbook. It is all about safety the right way and better stored foods. jas
Victor Funk Ahh thank you so much!! We just believe in giving good solid information that WE have experienced ourselves. No hype..just real..talking the talk and walking th walk stuff. So glad you can SEE that! Thanks again and God Bless
Great video! I like that you dispell a lot of the hype stuff, like yuppie, I mean expiration dates! Awesome presentation of what to get (canning jar hording) and resource points...bakeries for food grade containers. I think the canned goods is a good prep to stock until you are acutally off grid and have a garden producing more than you can eat so it can be canned. Thanks for sharing your knowledge....really enjoyed it!
Keith Rayeski Wow thanks fro the great feedback! I try very hard to get as much as i can think of into my videos. Sometimes I ill miss points..or mis speak a word or to..but I think overall people get the point!! I love feedback for it helps me create new videos so I can keep improving and sharing!! Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for taking the ti me to tell me that!!!
I have taken can goods that are at it just past expiration date and dehydrated them. Then I put in jar and vacum seal. it's the cans I'm afraid if. They will breakdown before the food. when I go camping I grab a jar of beans, or chili and use them. No waste that way.
I've just come across your channel and watched your video on off grid clothes washing and this one, and can't tell you how thankful am to have found your channel. Your videos are to the point, and your positive yet tell it like it is mannerism and helpful hints, especially from someone who has been doing this for some time, surely are appreciated. God Bless you and yours, and thank you a million for sharing all this good solid information on youtube. Gretchen
thundercloud47 Im always so so excited when someone finds our channel and it is helpful for them! When we first moved off the gird although we were pretty self sufficient to begin with, there were some times when we were living and learning as wee went. I wish i could have seen a video or to on some of the stuff I had to discover on my own ..So that why we do the videos..to help people out..and of course to Spread The Good News!! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you continue to get alot out of the videos!!!
I found a can of cream corn from 2009 hidden in the very back of my cabinet under some plastic bags tonight. I was like what the hell lets see what it taste like and wouldn't ya know it tasted great! No discoloration, funny smells or anything.
+My Damn Channel SEEEEEE....those expiration dates are indeed just suggestions..of course the quality of the food may suffer..but it is still edible and good and SAFE!
Wonderfully stocked pantry. A few things to consider - the shelves should have a good sized lip on the outside that can prevent jars and boxes from sliding off during a possible earth quake or really bad storms. I have learned having some kind of padding/thick paper between glass on the jars helps prevent breakage of the jars. Also discovered the mylar bags are not rodent proof and yes, the rodents seem to be able to detect food inside these bags and easily chisel into them. Other than that, I do very much like the mylar - they come in many sizes and are great to keep wools and natural fabric safe from the moths that destroy them. Use an oxypack in the wool/cotton/linen storage items, too. Honey, locally, NOT store bought which often is cut with water and therefore grows bacterias, stores for many, many years. It will thicken and turn sugar-like in granules, but easily resumes it's liquid state if warmed. Real honey, uncut, doesn't grow bacteria or anything else and is a wonderful medicinal.
You guys may already have some of this in your pantry, but just in case you don't something I keep on hand is Knorr loose bouillon. It comes in a number of flavors I tend to go mostly with chicken and beef. Around here you can get chicken in 35.3 Oz. jugs. You find it in the Mexican section at moist stores though the best price is usually at Wally-World.
I had to watch this video twice because it is packed with so much information.. Yard sale season is just beginning here . I just scored some jars and boxes of un opened lids Saturday. We have to keep our eyes open for these jars!!! Also I wanted to let anyone that lives near or in Pa about the B&B outlet stores. They sell out dated, nearly outdated and slightly damaged can good and other products. You can get some good deals there. Thanks for sharing such great info!!!
Donna Stroud AWESOME ! glad toy found the info helpful! I try to think of as much as possible to help people. All part of that living and learning, AND thanks for reminding us about the garage sale season!! Start looking cause jars arent getting any cheaper! And good info for people in PA near you! Thanks and God Bless
Store bought cans of food can last for ever, but the canning companies stray a layer of chemicals into the cans before they put the food in them and once you get about 5 years past the expiration date, those chemicals and the chemicals from the can itself start to leach into the food. That's not too good for you. So, if you have to have them, only eat them when your supply of homemade is gone or if it's an emergency. You will stay healthier that why. Cool videos! I admire what you've done! Good job!!!
gippywhite You make a good good point. I know that tomatoes store bought are the worse! That is canned tomatoes..lined with some type of chemical....its horrible...We bought a whole bunch we we first started off..didnt do our research...now the cans sit in the pantry for doomsday!!haha..thanks for bringing that up
Maybe it's so the acid in the tomatoes won't eat through the cans? I don't know. It sucks that they do that. I heard they spray stuff plastic and glass bottles so the contents will not stick to the sides as you dump it out, too. Bleh! Anyway, do you have any videos for canning if you don't have a pressure cooker? I've seen a few videos that showed people canning in things like lobster pots, but none of them give details on it. Thanks for the reply! Have a great day!!!
Starry, I love your pantry. I can see and appreciate all the long hours of work it has taken you to achieve such a wonderful pantry. Thank you for passing on the lessons you have learned.
Living in a northern wilderness for many years, its a root cellar that's your pantry. Usually underground or dug into a hillside to maintain a constant temperature. Its nice to have wheels of cheese, dried fish and meat, root veggies, cabbages etc. We used to go to Chinese restaurants in the city, and scrounge for restaurant sized jars and large storage tins to bring home and use. When in wolverine and bear country, pays to have a metal footlocker to store your meat, cheese, and butter in. I had friends who dipped their eggs in wax to keep for months.
Canned tomato products in metal do not last forever. We just had to throw some away only a few years past the expiration. Some had eaten into the can and the food tasted metallic. Also brown rice only has a six month storage life before it starts to go rancid. We keep our white rice for long-term desperation storage-we will only eat it if we have to. The brown rice is kept in the freezer to prevent it becoming rancid and used almost daily.
living off grid for most of my life either boat or cabin... you have some really great ideas and I'm still learning to live luxury without a lot of stuff.
I"m just getting in to canning store bought vegetables. I tell my brother that I just bought another pack of jars and he kinda rolls his eyes and says how many do you need? LOL.. Compared to full time canners, i've got a starter pack! LOL.
Thank you Starry! You literally saved me a lot of money!I was.listening to this video as i going thru my pantry, and i was checking dates on my store canned goods and had a pile out of date. When you said tge date wasnt important and they were still fine, i put those puppies back on the shelf.Thank You!
Thanx for the wonderful information... I'm planning to live off grid some day and hoping to gather as much important information before moving on ... Looks like I found the right channel to subscribe...
Thank you Starry for that video. I've slowly but surly started mine. My husband doesn't under stand why I'm stalking it now. He just doesn't want to haul all this up to where we end up. He thinks we are going to be growing things right away and canning it. He doesn't realized it takes time for a garden to produce. We are lucky to have Costco, Sam Club and Honeyville farm near by. We need to take advantage of it why we have these resources.
Rosie.. I know sometimes our spouses may not get on board right away, and he does make a valid point about hauling it..BUT remind him as I do in my video.. prices only GO up, so you buy when you can. you don't wait. AND when you do move you don't want to start from scratch. What if the garden doesn't produce well the first year, to much rain, not enough sun? You must be prepared. What if your husband doesn't get some deer meat to can when you first move out there because he doesn't know the hunting area and its a little more harder then he thinks? No meat then! AND Yes the bulk foods you can always buy after you move, but if THERES an outstanding sale you know..don't pass it by! It ma y never happen again! I lived this and learned from experience. Pray about your own situation and do what you feel is right for both of you. find a good compromise, stock up only on good sale items, wait on the bulk..find that middle ground because it only benefits BOTH OF YOU:))))) God Bless
Tractor Supply stores have white bucket containers made with food grade #2 plastic. They used to charge $2 a bucket a few years ago. I used them in my pantry and they worked great.
My husband planning to make too im just too much excited. But I don't know when we gonna start. I like your canning storage. We stock little food from the market but the best is canning. Thanks for sharing
@@lawrencerutkowski1205 brown rice has a higher oil content than white rice - the oils go rancid (making the rice unusable) far, far sooner than white rice even when properly stored and sealed
we live in the city but are trying to live limited. your ideas are awesome. when i lived on the farm we dehydrated a lot of foods and fruits as well as did a lot of canning.
Thanks for the great vid and ty for the info on the food grade buckets and the fact that you could find them at your local grocery store..I have some friends who work at my local store so I will see if they would part with some of them.My pantry is very full with prepping stuf but I always need more .Thanks again..and I just suscribed to your channel ..Keep the Good news rolling and God bless you :)
***** Well awesome you sound like you are well on your way and ahead of the game!! You will be thankful in the long wrong..which you probably already know!! Do you live off grid yet or are you planning on it? I say even if your not off grid start homesteading with what you have. Its so freeing and fun!! Thanks for your wonderful comments and God Bless you to!!
We store our dry rice and beans in Mylar bags, but we mix diatomaceous earth to absorb moisture and kill insects. On top of that we put them in food grade containers.
We went off the grid but we had to go back on to help my mom relocate and get off drugs and alcohol. We purchased a house but we live very modestly. We are from 29 palms California and live a desert life style, Hard to grow things but we have chickens. Saw your video we are impressed.
+Chuck Miller Glad you liked the videos~~ And God Bless you for helping your mom thru her addiction! Must have been so hard! Im glad you are here joining us!
Nice setup. Good to see you are prepared. I try to get more people to work on preparedness because something will happen, whether it is a personal event, a local one, or a national/world wide event.
We do antiques and attend a lot of estate auctions , We have found huge supplies of canning jars ,all sizes and types and have been as cheap as 5 to 10 cents each , or less , when buying plastic tubs full , just another resource and you never know what will come up at auctions, like garden supplies, sewing,tools etc.
I have my pantry full of home canned goods. I can't imagine having to go to a grocery store and buy food. But then I have been living this way my entire life. I am enjoying seeing young people get back to the basics.
Iola Rocksel YES! I dont know how old you are but my husband always says he wishes he was born when his grandparents were born..he seems to fit in better with their way of life of philosophy. I work as a nurse and I see all age groups...and love talking to the older people who have not just a wealth of information...BUT stil have good solid morals and ethics. Something I dont see to often in the younger folk which is so sad. Thanks for watching and commenting!! WE need to get back to BASICs!
I really did get alot out of this video. Sometimes I feel like I'm spinning my wheels when trying to stock up. We are preppers who still live in our house. We haven't even gotten our solar set up yet. We'll get there, especially with the great info from folks like you. Thanks for posting. Good stuff.
Your tutorial are wonderful.thank you for the time it to make them.i watch them over and over.i especially like the one of the little homestead.dogs they're so cute
One thing to consider is to place bags in freezer for 10 days before placing them in storage. Anything that s raw/uncooked may contain buggies/buggie eggs. If not frozen, they can wake up and start eating the rice, meal, etc then when you need the food, you have bugs and bug feces in the bag.....ugh!
I would also move food products out of your Master Pantry on a regular basis to your kitchen so that you can make sure your eating the food and not having to throw anything out
Saw a great video where a guy cut the bottom out of those 5 pound buckets, filled with soil & grew potatoes with then. You left the bucket up & it's easier to pull the potatoes out of the soil.
Awesome pantry, We've noticed the price of the canning jars going up too. We have found a few good deals on craigslist but mostly just grab a dozen or two when we can. Thanks for sharing. ATB, Steve..
I panicked because we got to low during hunting season I drove everywhere and stores were out or didn't carry because of the off season. So yes..I learn from mistakes..now I am back to buying in bulk for my jars and looking at goodwill!!
my mom throws stuff out the day of expiration date and when I lived with her it drove me nuts.. if it smells ok and tastes ok and there's no mold - then there's no problem. We were given noses and tastebuds for a reason!! lol.
I LOVE and envy your pantry! Beautiful! Thanks for the tips and tricks. I love the Auguson Farms buckets... Over the past 5 years I have been buying my oats and wheat berries in 5 gallon buckets (walmart, winco)... it's like buying oats and getting a free bucket! I have over 40 buckets so far! And the are ALL the same shape and size which amounts to a very organized pantry.
Love this. I have dehydrated fruit and veg but really have difficulty in making palatable meals with them. Would you like to share recipes to make meals with the canned beans and dried fruit/veg? Please?
I prepped just like this for 6 years and then had to move and seriously down size. What I learned after testing much of the food: beans, pasta and rice dont cook right when O2 absorbers and mylar are used, home dehydrated stuff ALL went bad, plastic water containers shrink and collapse over time, home canned items were 100% perfect, freeze dried products were 100% perfect. 95% of my preps were discolored/stale/bad and were thrown away.
In my country we don't use to buy so big stuff of canned food. We use to store in jar using to boil the jar to put under vacuum the content, or we use topping with olive oil in order to avoid any contact with air. Or, depeding what we have to store, we use alcohol
Great videos, but I have to tell you that in my experience, even if properly stored with oxygen absorbers in food grade containers, rice, flower, and anything with natural oils in it turns rancid over time. Metal canned goods can last ten to twenty years, but I dont use anything past ten years. Yours videos are very good and helpful. i just wanted to clarify that point!
kevin lawrence Thanks for letting us know. Lehmans have alot of col stuff but I personally have to watch the prices. I go to Walmart for most of my lids or buy at my local grocery store. Prices are very well in line with no shipping. BUT good to know the options!
I just subscribed to your channel. I have been watching some of your videos. So informative. Really enjoying them. Keep up the great work. And may God continue to bless you.
Well, here in Texas its both hot & humid so guess my food storage is limited. I'm not looking to be totally off grid & I do have stores close by. I'm just trying to get my place as off grid as possible. I'm only connected by electricity so its not horrible. Thanks for the information & glad you found a system of living that works for you.
Hi, I have a pantry too. But I have no well or river nearby, so when SHTF, I will have to do with rainwater that I collect from my roof in several rain barrels (for me and my family). If we want to drink and keep ourself, our clothes, our dishes and our house clean, we will need at least 3 gallons per person per day. In a dry period that lasts weeks, we may run out of water. And when SHTF, my wood pile may rapidly become small too. And that is the reason why I mostly buy canned food. Canned food does not need to be cooked, contains moisture and is edible straight out of the can (if we have to). Dried food on the other hand requires a lot of water; first to hydrate it and next to cook it.And it takes a lot of energy to cook it. That said, I also buy dried food but I will only use it when there is plenty of water. Nice video, by the way.
I really enjoy your video's. My wife and I really enjoyed the (GOD above the clouds). Your information is interesting and entertaining. I hope you keep up the good work, GOD bless you guys, JC
Ahh God Bless you both for your kind words. Love sharing and helping AND always looking to the feed the Word of God to people so that to can blessed! :)) Thanks again!
1:38 You said "do do"! Hahaha -- oh yes, I *am* that immature and I *did* just go there. Seriously though, good video, lots of nice info. Much appreciated.
Scotty Hunter HAHA!! I just replayed that and had to laugh at myself too!! I do do..oh oh!!! Too funny! Glad you like the videos! Never know what people find helpful or not.so just try our best to go thru t hings that we have learned...thanks for the nice comment! God Bless
Starry Hilder I definitely appreciate the videos showing what works, what doesn't, and the different ways to approach the unique challenges. I've been wanting to do this myself for quite some time and just recently moved into a financial position to start searching for some land to buy. It's not going to be as much of a change for me as it was for some, as I'm living without a lot of normal luxuries many take for granted now (full-time RV'er and past vandweller), but I'm looking forward to being at least a little more self sufficient and just get off my ass and have a reason to get outside and be productive.
Wow full time rver! Must say if we didnt have the homestead..this would be my second choice! But i must admit..having the homestead is nice...things are cheaper when you can do stuff like grow your own food..have free electricity..free water..chickens..ect. Maybe part time rver would be best ! Where do you think you might put down roots?:))
Starry Hilder I'll probably stay around the area I'm familiar, which is Missouri. But I'd love to head to Idaho or Oregon. I guess it just depends where I find *the* land which really strikes my fancy! As long as I have no land restrictions, I'm satisfied.
I've had a food pantry for 40 years, learned from my grama, it is advised not to keep any food, packaged, boxed or bagged directly on a floor surface. Bricks are good for this....air circulation is important.
Auctions are a good place to buy canning jars. You can get every jar for a couple bucks. Old people's estate auctions are the best for that kind of thing.
nice job. beans and rice are the basics for everything food. they go with all meats, fish, vegetables. I would assume you get most of your nutrition from your garden but one concern is if garden is limited due to weather, insects, etc how would you keep your nutrition up.?? looking forward to this summer garden videos. battling insects.
YES your right about the garden being limited in nutritional value (lacking protein) and at the mercy of the weather! THAT why we can can can! If you don't have the means to can then like Kris said in the other post, buy canned goods, or long-term storage cans, but get that pantry loaded up! Rice has good protein. People don't realize how complex a protein rice is..the red rice black and also quinoa to! And cheap! And l ike I said BEANS! low fat good protein. Stock what you like but please have some of those basics for your health maintaince !! More to come and thanks for your insight!!
Starry Hilder, I love your pantry and also the amount of food you have on hand.. Well done.. !! I just have one comment about those mylar bags. I had something similar and thicker, but for all intense purposes it was practically the same. I used also oxygen absorbers. I stored grains, oats, etc etc. After about 10 years I checked the food in the mylar bags and the beans discoloured and when cooked tasted awful as well as the oats.... I ended up throwing all my food storage away... Since seeing your video I feel inspired to start again. Just one question about glass canning dry beans, lentils, quinoa, oats etc etc. Have you tried dry canning them in just regular mason jars with or without oxygen abosorbers? If you have how long will they last in the glass jars?? Thanks.
Depends on your area and how you store them. In a house in the desert, about 3 years. Dry can things with a high moisture content or high oil content, then they won't react with the Mylar. Get some of these food safe buckets, sanitize and seal beans, grains and oats with oxygen absorbers. Works great!
elkhound25 Thank you so much! You are right, jars are invaluable!! I actually have a little more food storage around the house, but the pantry is looking pretty good! Don't you feel its like a life insurance policy??:)
Starry Hilder yes its like an insurance policy only better.its there in your hands for daily life.if we look at our homesteads like a living thing a home could be our body core with kitchen and pantry being its heart and lungs as we get out from home in gardens,food forest etc they represent the living limbs.the pantry is also like the treasure chest of the goods we produce on those limbs.its for us to care for and manage and not a stranger who is clueless to its care and our daily and long term needs....sorry to ramble on so.
Sam Stevens Well welcome to our channel. I keep advocating, off grid or on grid WE ALL need to prepare and become more self reliant. Lower our grocery bills, buy things in bulk, invest back in yourself and your home. Start a backyard garden, compost your food scrapes for compost later that's free. Preppers, SHTF or just homesteading on the grid...whatever...we need to keep sharing info to help each other out! Thanks and God Bless
Starry Hilder I already have a good start on the growing my own. Ive been doing that for years plants seem to love me. Only have a small patio garden but I do ok and when I have a glut I freeze it. Im not got in to canning yet, but I do hope to. Bless you
