PREPPER PANTRY/FOOD STORAGE/WORKING PANTRY TOUR 

don't worry about other people and what they say.... you keep up the good work .... eat from you stock pile and like I said below, rotate your newer items into your stock, so you won't have to worry about expiration dates...👍👍👍👍

it's good that you are eating off your stash.... rotating things is good.... looks like you have a nice stash.... I think building up to 6-9 mths of food is good (not sure how many is in your family) but I think you're doing great.... thanks

Every bit counts. Keep up the good work.

I keep a good supply of bungee cords and cable ties in various lengths, it's surprising how useful they are.

Keystone canned beef and chicken is good just seasoning it up the way you would normally

Also try making your own Mayo. It is easy and fun. And you can season to taste. I make mine 1 pint jar at a time. And a simple bread recipe. You can gather yeast in the store a few packets at a time. I place them all in a Zip Lock bag and keep it in my freezer. So it doesn't get old. The journey to making your home more self sufficient is a whole education in itself. But very rewarding. Makes you able to MGyver ( so to speak) up so many things. Just like learning new hacks for storage or making things more efficient. Once you get into it. You will never be without or your family. Good for you!! I know women here that due to higher prices are now making their own breads and mayo along with so many more that have gone back to planting the gardens they kept in the past... In an uncertain world the more piece of mind you can have the better. Be it storms. Or shortages going on or sickness in the area. They are easier to deal with when you know you have supplies in place to help yourself and the family through it.

I love your pantry! Great job. You have a nice variety to choose from to feed your family. As for the powdered milk, I don't know if you have tried it but you can make your own powdered coffee creamer using it. Just a little tip I'm throwing out to you. 😁 Congratulations on getting a deer!!! My grandchildren love mac & cheese. Like you, they prefer the squeeze cheese type. I started buying the Velveeta squeeze packets at Dollar Tree. I cook up some elbow macaroni and add the cheese. Thank you so much for the tour. It definitely gave me some ideas on what to look for the next time I am in the store. Great deal on the batteries!!

Great pantry! I started a small pantry about 4 years after we married. And slowly grew it with things found on sale. And I can't tell you how many times that small pantry saved us through the years. Then 2018 I just felt an urgency to increase my pantry. My husband built a nice pantry shelf for me a floor to ceiling cabinet like a big bookshelf very sturdy. And worked to fill it. When that was done. I still didn't feel it was enough because then I worried for family. Because by then we were about 8 months into COVID. And I purchased the same shelf unit you have. And filling a pantry out like that does take time. And trying to save money. I started by choosing our 5 most used vegetables and 5 most used carbs ( pasta/rice/potatoes). Once I kind of got that. Then worked on canned meats. Then added breakfast items. Now when I started my small pantry was back in the middle 70's. A pantry saves so much. Time gas worry through the years in life's ups and downs. Your doing great. I have similarly stocked for us. And yes we have Jesus candles too. 😆

If you like beans stock up on the ones you do like! Beans and rice are a complete protein and you have a lot of rice! Rice is also very filling and so your supply would go a long way! With the keystone meat you are doing very well! I think you are going in the right direction and What I always do is look for areas I need to grow in and keep a running list there so you can take it with you when you shop ! That helps me enormously and I try to do the going through and gathering like things and basically ordering those things and doing an inventory before my big shops. If you or your husband get paid weekly then keeping in mind the five payday months helps a lot. I plan for times I will have extra money or lower bills and use that extra money to stock up. It really helps! Keep it up and I like your channel!

Good job! I know it's difficult to squeeze extra items into a tight budget but in an emergency you will be very glad you have them! Keep at it. The world's gone crazy.

There's something so satisfying about watching organizing in fast speed lol. Don't get rid of the Gossner Farms Milk! If its "best by" date is August 2022, I promise you it's still good! (Well depending on when you see this comment). I have drank it 8 plus months past the Best By and it was completely fine. I don't know if the Dollar Tree is discontinuing it, but I can't find it in my Dollar Tree anymore, or online :(

You could stack those bins of batteries and miscellaneous somewhere and get the canned food on the shelves. You need WAY MORE water.

Several canners and pantry keepers. Will use their items All through January and some through February. And do not buy from the store. Just use the older items from their canning or pantry. Helps to keep all your goods more up to date. And by doing that it also lets you know where you may have gaps in your preps. And also tastes change as a family grows. So you can change your purchases along with family needs. I do this for December and January. It helps to free up some money for Christmas and holidays. And in January when all the bills are due for insurances, land taxes, etc. That helped me through the years.

Thanks for taking us on your pantry tour. You're doing very well. A lot better than most. And don't ever feel ashamed about taking care of your family. Preparing was the way of life for generations. We're the oddballs because of the 24/7 grocery stores we got used to. But now it's changing back. So keep up the good work. Don't know if you've heard of her, but "Alaska Granny" has a great channel. She's very calm, keeps it real and has loads of practical, affordable prepping advice. ☺

I think you have a great pantry!

Great pantry! Good job on having some security for your family if something happens.

This is the first video of yours that I have seen it just popped into my suggested videos. Anywho you said you aren't a "hardcore" prepper so what I'm saying you might already know or maybe you don't have a clue at all......... Rice, pasta, hot chocolate, mashed potatoes Ramen all things like that have weevil eggs in them so PLEASE put these items into a freezer for 48hours to kill off anything that could hatch. Please keep in mind weevils don't read expiration dates so they don't wait until after the expiration date to hatch. I just threw away about 18 lbs of flour left in my 25lb bag that still had almost 11 months left on before the "best buy" date and there was weevils all in my flour!! UGH the last thing you want to do is go to use your food and find extra moving protein crawling in your food!! I have repurposed two of my square plastic laundry soap containers. I cleaned them out well and put a small cap full of bleach in them and filled with water. I put one under my kitchen sink to use for hand washing if there is no water and another in the bathroom to pull out to wash hands if needed. The general rule is 1 gallon of water per person per day. I personally am not ok with my drinking/cooking water being used to wash hands or bathe with. Best wishes to you and your family. Ok I came back because your comment about people saying that peppers are crazy or Hoarding..... WELL let me tell you lololololol I was a single mom myself and was watching the news like the rest of the world in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. There was a young mother who had a week old newborn and she had been evacuated quickly to the stadium in the chaos that ensued after the hurricane. She said she had no more formula and no more diapers. She said her newborn wasn't crying in hunger anymore. I am CONVINCED that newborn lost his precious life in the horrible aftermath of the hurricane since it was days after this interview that help finally arrived!! I made the decision right then and there I would NEVER trust the well being of myself and my child to anyone but myself. Fast forward many many years and I will soon be the grandma to my 4th grad baby. My oldest granddaughter is going to by 9 soon. I no longer have a monthly cycle but after I watched a documentary of women in another country having hysterectomies in record numbers due to not having access to CLEAN sanitary napkins!! I purchase 1 package a month. The price has gone up almost $2 per package since I've been buying them. If you were to walk into my store room and see 14 packages you could easily assume that I've been hoarding however it's been S L O W L Y purchased ONE at a time over the course of the past 2 years. (I don't get them every month)

I also bought 1 gallon water jugs from the Dollar general. About 5 of them. Liked them because they have a lid on top and a pour spout in the lid. They are used for my rice or dry beans. Because then I can pour out what I need from the jug. And they have a carry handle on the side. Keeps from having so many of the bags that can when stacked slide off the shelf and break open on the floor. And easy to spot what I need. I filled 3 jugs with dry beans and one with rice and one with instant potatoes.

Nice work! I’d say you definitely have more than 2 week’s worth of food there. Probably closer to 2 months. You’re doing great! I’m doing a pantry challenge organization project this month too.

Everything looks great, it's definitely a journey and your doing better than most.

I stock up in case of emergency. i put everything in glass jars so bugs an critters dont tear into them.keystone meats are really good.pork,chicken,turkey,beef an ground beef.

You have a really good assortment. It looks like 2-3 months of food. Feels good doesnt it? I am constantly reorganizing my shelves, as I add and use items. I would like to see your rice and beans in a container, like a tuperware or soda bottle, something to keep air out. But you did really good. Thanks.

It is a lot. It's a great start. You be proud of what you've done. Ty for sharing.

Thank you for your video. You're a month or two ahead of the herd, ... just stay there eh? Since the BBD is already written on the products I store, I write the date I stored the product on my items. Right? I don't write a made up "Best Before Date" on my home canned meats and products, I write the year I canned them. Wow, ... Just wait till you discover the joys of five gallon plastic buckets. Not to mention Mylar bags and Oxygen Absorbers. I see buckets of Rice, Beans, and Skim Milk powder in your future. Better get at it fast while you still can afford to. Pitter patter, best get at er. And I hate to mention it, but you'll need a lot more coffee too. Back when I started hoarding, No name instant Coffee was $2.79 for 200 grams, a big jar eh? I'd buy ten jars at a time for $27.90 and do that every couple of months. It adds up fast that way. Now of course, it costs closer to $40 or more for the same ten jars of instant coffee. Unopened and stored in a cool, dark, and dry place, the stuff never goes bad. Your baking and comfort food section needs attention. Cornstarch never goes bad and it is the base of all your future puddings! A few cans of Cocoa goes a long way too and never goes bad either. I filled my baking section with Raisins, Dates, Prunes, and all the old timey dried fruits. All vacuum packed and in Buckets. I don't do nuts except Peanut Butter and that stuff keeps good for ages unopened and in a cool, dark, and dry storage. This is my fifth year of hoarding so you can see that I'm not one of those crazy Doomsday Preppers either. I started hoarding with a total income of $375 a month, .... think about that and tell me that I deprive people. Now my total income id $475 a month and I think I'm getting another raise, ... Inflation don't you know. As far as I know, I'm not depriving anyone of their food. I quit drinking, smoking, cable TV, my car, going to movies, eating out, .... and I deprive people? It's my fault the ignorant will starve? So it's my fault they are ignorant too? There was lots of foods to be had when I was buying and I'm sorry if there isn't lots now but you can't blame me for that. Blame the privately owned "for profit" supply chain that you support and maintain as legitimate. It's bad enough the food I paid $10 for two years ago now costs me $20 Now that you are almost awake or is that aware? Of the fact that you are responsible for feeding your children, not the supply chain, you had better get at it. OR! You can be with the vast majority of people who will sit in stunned incomprehension wondering "What went wrong"? Where's the abundance of the world? as you listen to your wide eyed pot bellied children whimper to be fed. But it can't happen here, ... right? So when you finally commit to feeding your family in the future, hit the Grain Elevator for your bulk Grains like Wheat berries and whole Oats. If there's no Grain Elevators, try your local Feed Mill for livestock. They always have whole grains in bulk. Don't forget your sprouts, one pound of seed makes five to seven pounds of fresh living food in six to seven days. I'd talk to the in-laws about some chickens too. Anywho, sorry for the lecture, but you're almost there, ... bite the bullet and to hell what people think, they don't have to feed your kids, you do. Good luck.

If you have the means. You can vacuum seal a lot of your dry goods and packaged goods. They will last forever! There are many utube channels on this method.

1 suggestion and 1 request. Suggestion, if you have a Costco near you that is an excellent way to stock up at good prices. Request, I'd love to see a video on the tips and tricks you use to get FREE items from Walgreens. :) opps, I went to your page and see you have some CVS and Walgreens, I'll watch those! I enjoyed your video.

All your random items are always useful. They save having to make the little emergency trips to town to pick up. Sickness seems to pop up late at night or weekends when stores may be closed. So don't discount them. I have found that Harbor freight will have good battery operated small lanterns for emergencies as well. And large packs of batteries fairly inexpensive too. It can save a lot. It is not hoarding. Farm families have done these things for generations. Don't stress what anyone else thinks about it!!

Love to see stockpile hauls ! Thank you for this . I started stockpiling at the 1st of the year and I have accumulated 3 months worth of food . Thanks to videos like yours that give me inspiration 🤗💕

Best advice I have heard or read is , prep what you eat and eat what you prep. That way you don't spend money on items you may never eat, and if you date and organize your items by best buy dates, you should be using the ones that "expire" first. I suggest those cans of beef, you use one to make some kind of meal and see if in fact your family likes it or will eat it... if you really don't like it, I know they are expensive, you could put that money into other items you will eat.

Beef pot pie would be great with that canned b eef

New to your channel, thank you for sharing.

Great job stocking up

I used that same milk 2 years out of date and it tasted the same as a new one. Just shake it up and use like normal milk.

I always date and rotate. However if something gets missed I put in a use first box and try to plan meals around my expired food. I also write on the can the content in case the label gets ruined. You're doing a great job!

Keep up the good work

you can freeze butter and cheese also

I write the expiration dates on the front of the can

Great job!!!!

I would think the gelatin might not expire but the instant pudding has milk solids in it and though you could use past the expiration date some I think they do expire

I’m doing the same thing

They say peanut butter doesn’t last too long past the expiration because of the oil In it. I’m not a stickler on exp dates. But oils will go rancid

Good video, can you add a link to the shelf you have? I bought a couple that look the same, they were easy enough for a lady to assemble and hold a ton of stuff. Your viewers might appreciate being able to be able to buy a shelf like yours and fill it slowly by buying a bag or 2 of extras each shopping trip. Many of us ladies are more interested in this that the men, so being able to put a shelf up and fill it is an exciting project. I asked for the shelves for my Christmas gift. I find it as rewarding as any hobby!

I use buckets for my food. I have a bucket of nothing but rice, a bucket of nothing but pinto beans, a bucket of nothing but, instant rice, a bucket of nothing but pasta, out of sight out of mind. I have a whole wall of water. If you are prepping you have a long way to go. Where is your emergency food and spices?

Get your dryer goods in airtight containers and put some Bay leaves in each one to keep bugs out. It would be a shame to lose your food to weevils. I buy mylar bags from Amazon and clear cereal containers from Sam's to put everything in so I can see all of my dry goods. Check your food the minute you get home, dry pet food too. It is not uncommon to bring home contaminated food from the store.

You should have bought some containers to store all of that food in and get rid of those boxes.

You need at least 2 more shelves

I'm pretty sure 20% of al the Great Value stuff Walmart sells ends up in a prepper pantry.

My wife always tells me to stop wasting money on buying canned foods and I always tell her if something happens or doomsday’s coming you will thank me

what type of shelf is that?

wife and I just eat canned chicken from wally dated 2009aug no problem dates are for suckers toss and spend more

That's it. I'm gonna get a white woman. Adding her to my preps.

Hahahah panty!!!

Hun, I'm not trying to be mean, but why is this a thing now? It's not safe for people to air everything. I know a lot of people are doing it, but it isn't safe. Be careful of how trickery works. It's nobody's business.

6 cans aint nothing. You had a PALLET or a Flat of veggies? Now a Pallet IS a pepper stock up.