Hey Kelly, I just found your channel, and that pantry stockpile is mind-blowing, so I had to subscribe! We're a small family of three, living in south FL in only 1400sf in the city, so very limited storage, but I'm doing what I can to keep us in food security. I had no idea you can buy cream cheese powder (dehydrated), might have to look into that, thanks!
I'm so glad you stopped by and I'm happy to hear others are doing what they can to put something away. Every thing we can put away helps and puts us ahead of the crowd. Blessings. 🙏
Everything that @betterlivingonabudget said. It’s only my husband and I but we are striving for food security as well. Your pantry is amazing! New subscriber here. So glad I found your channel.
@@debbiealvarado4200 I'm so glad you are here. Thank you for your kind words. My pantry is about 4 years in the making but we all start out small with just a few extra items here and there as time allows when things are on sale or buy one get one free. I am sure you will be there in no time.💕
You are so kind to say that. That means the world to me. This video was from a year ago. I have updated the pantry a bit with 4 new organization videos. I hope to get a full 2024 walk through tour video up soon. Blessings. 🙏
I appreciate your feedback. I think you got lucky finding one of my videos where i don't ramble for a bit before I get to the point because that is often the case for me.😂 I am working on a pantry overhaul and have uploaded parts 1-8 so far. I hope to do a more updated pantry tour of 2024 by the end of February. Blessings. 🙏
Very insightful. We're older, always was one step ahead foodwise, but never beyond. This last year we went beyond, and are slowly building up for ourselves and the family, (when they run short.) For what we are all gonna be effected by in 2023. Thank you for sharing, it will make a difference in our homefront!
I'm so glad you are putting stuff away. I rather be a year or two early than 5 minutes late when it comes to preparing for the future. If I need to live off my macaroni n cheese because nothing ended up happening, I will be ok with that. I'm grateful to be locked into prices from several years ago because these prices today are crazy.
Nice video! I find it interesting what other people store, and how. I have an extensive pantry myself, I can, freeze dry , dehydrate, garden and raise our own meat. I enjoy videos of food hauls with prices and general locations to see what people across the country are paying.
That's great you are able to be self sufficient. We just got our freeze dryer yet. We live in South Texas so our gardens are hit or miss. We do what we can to wean off of dependency on others. Blessings. 🙏
@@kellispreppingkitchen Midwest ohio here. Yes, depending on a store to take care of us is a downside of our nation right now. We get most our feed from a granary, stopped buying from farm stores as much. I have to get crumble from rural king b/c they don't like the mash from granary ugh...it's now 14.29 a 50lb bag.
Like you I did stock potatoes in all the ways as well. But we also grow our own. So if I need to help family or neighbor I can. I can't go crazy with it but I could help someone in a pinch. I have stocked similarly as well. But it didn't happen overnight. I have slowly worked on my pantry for years. In about 2018 my intuition kept telling me to increase my small pantry. So I have worked on mine for quite a while. I don't use any of the long term buckets. We keep a garden and have chickens and rabbits.
That is my goal, to not only be able to provide for my family, but to assist with any neighbors in our community if needed. I agree with you on my intuition telling me to keep going. It's such a relief knowing the food in there are at prices from a few years ago. I can't believe how expensive everything is now. Blessings. 🙏
A snake?!! Jeesh, I freak out if I see a slug out in the yard. Dunno what I'd do if a snake slithered on by. Luckily in UK, the only snakes I'm likely to see are our politicians. Love your pantry, fabulous.
Thank you for sharing your pantry. I love the tours . I can see you did a lot of work and should be proud. LOL, I also love checking out what others have in their food carts. You can tell so much about them.
I have watched a lot of videos on prepper pantries and this is by far one of the best. Such a variety of things. Love it, love it. Well done for the hard work you’ve put into it.
I know you did this 3 weeks ago but I'm just now seeing it. Your pantry doesn't look cluttered at all to me. You organized and stored it all perfectly! Thanks for sharing. I just got two more shelves yesterday so again, working my stock around. I did a bit last night but no where near done.
On your glass jars take some socks and cut them down to fit over the jars it will give them protection from breaking....It works trust me...Buy some cheap socks from Walmart...
Your pantry is very impressive. You have covered so much and shown me things that I did not know existed, like certain food pouches. I will definitely be looking at pouches from now on. I like your storage ideas with smaller plastic boxes from dollar tree. In short you have opened my eyes to other food storage possibilities. I look forward to your other ideas and posts. Thank you
Thank you so much for your video, you did a great job and are truly blessed to have suc an abundance of food. Where did you find the Natural Earthy Choice Bean Bowls, I'd never heard of that brand before. Thank you
Thank you for your kind words. I believe that we got those bowls at Walmart. They also seem to sell them on Amazon or Sprouts. It may vary depending on the area you live in.🥰
Good morning Kelli ❤ your pantry looks similar to mine although mine is in my basement. I use a lot of the food grade 5 gallon buckets and the plastic tubs. Right now costco has the tubs on sale.
Hello Rachael! I need to check out the deal at Costco on food grade buckets. Thank you for the heads up. You are so lucky to have a basement. We don't have too many of those here in Texas.
@@kellispreppingkitchen Kelli I was referring to the ones similar to yours with the boxes of food in them. You can get 3 large for $15.99 or 3 or 4 small for $9.99
since your stuff in the basement , have you ever had issues with bugs?? I started several months ago , with prepping and been told to spread out Bay Leafs for bugs , etcc. I was wondering if it's safe to have a 5 gallon bucket for Pasta and asborters to put into it. Thank you for your help.
@@debbiec6216 Hi Debbie! I have never got any bugs in my prepping food. I have got bugs in my boxed food like hamburger helper in the kitchen before though. I have all sorts of things in 5 gallon buckets. I do have bay leaves here and there. I have a cat to keep rodents away.
Hi Kelli! I wanted to re watch all your pantry videos over. I tried the canned sliced potatoes fried up, I tried the whole potatoes that I cut up into a stew, today we ran out of fresh potatoes and I gad a Herb and garlic mashed potatos degydrated in the box… the next one we are going to try is the scalloped potatoe in the box. I must say all where handy and delicious,but mostly I was happy to have them all on hand when we ran out of fresh! I picked up some cans of beans and one is a three bean mix, I have no idea what to do with it lol, I was hoping you might have a recipe for them? ❤
Hey sweet friend! I have a can of 3 bean salad that I don't know what to do with either!🤣 I wonder what a cold bean salad with some dressing would be like? I have a new garlic vinegarette dressing thar may be good or what about a cold pasta salad/bean salad mixture? Otherwise, maybe it would be good in a casserole dish. I can't remember what the 3 beans are: green bean, kidney bean? and something else? I will brainstorm and if I come up with something I will do a video on it. I'm so glad all your canned potato recipes worked out. I now have a new appreciation for them I didn't have before. I hope you are doing well 🥰
I remember the three bean salad from years ago in a tin already has the sauce included in them! They are so good, i would put it in the fridge to chill. I cant find them here but i did find a Plain three bean mixture.i suppose I could add it to a homemade chili? Or use cumin dusted on the beans and add to mexican salad .How Jen does it has a reciepe I recommend to try, southwestern salad with cilantro lime grilled chicken and dressing recipe. The black beans she will rinse and add garlic powder and cumin to dust the beans and that make a really nice flavour! You can skip the chicken and make some wraps with this mixture for you girls, the taco lime chips we like to eat with our salad. Hope you can give ut a try and let me know what you think? I hope your power is back on and the sun is shining in your part of the world!❤️🥰🪴
Thank you so much. I would be happy to answer any questions on particular items you are interested in. I have acquired a lot of things from different places😊 Blessings. ❤️
I like how you stock items by category - I never thought of doing it like that, and it would make it much easier to find specific items. I was wondering what you have stored for drinking - bottles of water, bottles of tea, tea bags, coffee, etc.
Hi Susan! Thank you for your kind words. I will try to do a video next on my drinks and drink mixes. At our coffee bar station we have assorted teas, flavor packets for water bottles, hot chocolate, Nesquick, Ovaltine, Carnation as well as powders that when water is added make different juices.
You are lucky! most of the shelves we have my husband made with wood we got for free from my cousins work. and it is all 3 feet long. I would love to have taller shelves! But luckily I have a lot of shelves and a fairly big area.
This is so wonderful!!!!! I like how you are prepared for a bad situation. But I want to know how can I start this with a limited income? When I go to the grocery store I only have money for food at the time. And most time after I pay my bills I don’t have money for the rest of the month.
@@Tilas8 I completely understand. When I started my pantry, I was big into couponing. I would also look for buy one get one free items and put the "free" one aside. We also have a discount store in our area where shelf stable foods cost pennies on the dollar. I used to do a $5.00 challenge where I would take $5 a week that I may have spent on a burger or coffee and I would go to the dollar tree and get a few things like a bag of dry beans and a bag of rice. I also plan weekly menus around what is on sake at the grocery store that week. It's definitely not an overnight process. It is very slow and steady. You may want to check your local area for churches or food pantries that help supplement groceries to people on a fixed income. I hope this helps.
Hello from Oregon, My family are spud farmer's in Klamath falls Oregon. Do to the Dam fight to save Oregon water. The old Govener Brown gave the go to destroy Oregon water. This water takes care if all our Eastern farmers such as carrots, potatoes, wheat, garlic, asparagus, mint, beans, corn, animal feed, and live stock, ect without that water all farms will go under and the town's. Creator lake doesn't go that way it feeds Medford Oregon. But this is a massive problem on food. These field's do Tillamook, Amy's, Reese's, Harry & David, you got the idea these are Oregon plants as we lost a massive plant as flour, potatoes and snack's Burnt down and clothing factory. Thousands now with out job's. So yes even us are worried by extream. We don't know what our government is doing but I can be Broke with our home store that we can eat even if nothing bad goes on then not having anything if the stores empty in one day. By the way our store's are there's not enough to supply even a month of our town people. They will go hungry. If staples stop. Our stores are low
Oregon holds a special place in my heart. Such a beautiful state. I have been a few times before the pandemic. I'm so sorry for all the struggles your state is facing.
Make sure your turning your stock. Use your dry goods as cereal they go bad and crackers. They're ingredients there doing make the food yuck. But put the best buy date old one in front but eat them or you will be tossing money and that's not what you want. I don't see a massive dehydrated foods area. You will love when you learn it. Having thing like dehydrated cabbage to toss in chicken stew or Roman noddles. I found I need to half gallon of parsley. Yep summer coming.
I'm rotating stock and we have some dehydrated foods in a closet with all of our vegetables. It's in the kitchen. I forgot to include that in the pantry tour. We are also freeze drying everything lately but those are being sealed up and put in storage bins. Thanks for the suggestions.
Hello. It's to stop any weevil bugs from hatching and infesting your grains like rice or oatmeal or your flour. If you freeze these things for at least 3 days, it should kill thr bugs.
I like your little dollar tree bins for the small seasoning. I just keep mine in the little cardboard box they are in at the store. Also keep my tuna packets in their original boxes. I was thinking of wrapping them in sticky liner paper to look nicer and deter roaches as I know they like cardboard.
Hi Livi Lou. I will definitely work on a video covering expiration dates. Until then, I have a short video I did where I talked about expiration dates. I will see if I can add it here.
This is just a 2 minute video but I will try to make a more extensive video in the near future. ❤️ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lRr-vYKnLcM.html
If you do a garden and can up food. I'm stocking up on pineapple juice. I did my first ever pineapple zucchini. Learn it because it will wow you I then dehydrated it and made candy with tablespoon of powdered sugar and one tablespoon of corn starch shack and put the dehydrated zucchini shack. So yum. But we're planting lot's of zucchini this coming summer.
I am new to your channel ,but get some Bay Leaves and toss them around in your pantry or any place that will solve your mice and insect problem like roaches. Please try it Bay Leaves have been my answer for three years when it was told to me while standing in Ollie's.
thanks for mentioning about Bay Leaves and bugs. That's one thing we don't want at this house. WE had termites in the bedroom because when it rained, it rained through the bricks on the home. My spouse spent a couple of weeks fixing the issue, the rain and brick is what caused it . We are replacing bricks, and he will tuckpoint it and fix the issue. The inside of home in one bedroom took the drywall off and fixed it from the inside, it's a process, but it will get done. Sad part I told my spouse, anybody in my subdivision could end up with this and NOT even know they have the issue. I was deep cleaning the bedroom and started taking down the curtains to clean the windows and shades, and that's when I found the issue. So that's why I am very concerned when it comes to bugs and other insects, etc. plus, he has poison to put around the foundation of the ( outside ) entire home. I am sorry for the long conversation.
Hello. This particular place was called 99 Ranch and it is in Houston, TX. I believe you can order online and some of their products we have been able to find on Amazon.😊
@@kellispreppingkitchen it was couple years ago and now I wonder if it was Big Lots. I remember thinking it was better than I thought it would be. Not much else.
Hi Robin. I haven't come across anything that old. I try to rotate through products to avoid them being that old but it depends on what the product is. Foods with oils in them like nuts, crackers, etc will go bad but canned foods will last for years and years. As long as the cans are not dented or bloated they should be okay. Canned foods with high acid like pineapples or tomatoes won't last as long and will go rancid so I would try to stay within the expiration time line on those things.💕
Pantry needs major renovation. Have a metal rack for all breakfast foods; coffee, jelly, oatmeal, grits, granola, pop tarts, etc. Next rack for all baking items - baking powder baking soda, cornstartch gravies, bread crumbs, mixes, etc. A third rack for potatoes, pastas, and rrice items. Two racks for condiments; mustard, mayo ketchup, bbq sauces, salad dressings, pickles, olives, etc. One rack for all kinds of soups, canned meats. Last rack for all canned veggies and fruits. Put all your long term items in closets hidden away. Use plastic tubs underneath your metal racks for cereals, salt etc.
Unless everything that you are showing in your video has no salt add , Salt substitutes, and low sodium people with high blood pressure like me can't have any of that you are showing
Our pantry is just a snapshot of what we eat. We eat a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables as well as meat from our freezer. Although we eat some from our pantry, it's not all at once but it's comforting to know it's there if we had no choice. You can have a pantry filled with foods that are suitable for your needs and your family's needs. Salt is a preservative that keeps these products shelf stable for years. You can rinse off the canned meat and vegetables or add other ingredients to dilute some of the salt out of each serving.
these videos make me laugh buy buy buy what happen to growing your own food and spices hunting fishing gathering making your own flour grits oatmeal our food supply last about a year
Not all of us have the same access to resources. Some people live in small apartments in the city. We all do what we can. We live in South Texas where a small percentage of anything we plant survives the extreme climate. That is great that you have the means to do those things. I think as long as people are doing what they can to put something away, they are doing better than doing nothing at all.
