STOP watching Crappy Stockpile, Inflation Meal Prep videos. Do THIS instead. Sorry YouTubers🤐 

Is the cost of food rising? Yes! But you have many more options than buying tons of food with money you may not have. Shop with knowledge, not fear, using the tips our grandma’s knew! Links to recipes and products is in the description box! xoxo Cassandra

Thank you! I'm so tired of the fear mongering on the food prep channels. They have a lot of great points but the panicking needs to stop. I do what I can and let faith handle the rest. Have a great day y'all.

Another way to freeze eggs is to use silicone cup cake liners. Each liner holds two scrambled eggs. After freezing thoroughly, remove the “pucks” from the silicone lined muffin pan and place into a freezer bag.

THANK YOU, love this approach. Too many people panicking out there about food "shortages" and not understanding that the real problem for those of us in the U.S. is going to be learning to cook and shop in a very strategic, budget-friendly way. There's a misunderstanding of the problem and people are jumping to the wrong solution. Thanks for all these practical resources.

Most channels would have made a dozen videos out of this much information. Well done. Love your energy

My son with autism heard you say peanut butter and he started watching the video with me and he hit the like button! He likes to make his own peanut butter in our Vitamix blender. Great video again!!

Honey, you are amazing! Just a tip on less waste with the eggs. Pour into silicone muffin tins, freeze, pop out and put in a bag. 1 bag, individually frozen eggs. 😊 So glad I found your channel. You are a gem.

I had to double check this was all the same video - the amount of value you packed in! 🤯 This is the kind of content the world needs, informative, motivating and entertaining! Thanks so much!

My local grocery store discounts meat, eggs, dairy and produce when it gets close to its Best Buy date. I love stocking up and freezing or canning those items to save even more. I am also a huge fan of reusable items. I just got several reusable canning lids for my birthday! Now I don’t have to worry about shortages on metal lids. Thank you for sharing your tips Cassandra :)

I am so happy to find someone with similar philosophy on food! I broke my leg this year and couldn’t work. I canned everything from my garden and from the farm where I buy seasonal produce and mystery boxes. Then I taught myself to pressure can. That’s how I found you; searching for ideas on how to use my canned food. I made a wonderful black bean salad by mixing home canned beans and homegrown and canned peach salsa! I was reading a recipe and realized everything I needed was in these two jars I had on the shelf! I want complete control over the source and ingredients in my food. I also found that shopping at Mexican grocers and small independent grocers can provide meats and produce at better prices and quality. I just got whole chickens for 99 cents a pound in 2022! I bought 3 cut them up canned a bunch and froze the trimmings and bones for the next stock day. To see such a young vibrant woman practicing and passing on these amazing old style home ec skills makes me very happy. You also encourage me bc sometimes I feel very alone in my desire to live this way and seeing someone 20 years younger doing these things it’s a blessing. Your new subscriber from Wisconsin.

Omg!!!!!! I can not believe I stumbled upon your channel and I’m not trying to be biased but I’m so happy I am able to see someone who looks like me who is knowledgeable about being sufficient during an inflation and also knowledgeable about gardening. I apologize if I offend anyone but this is my truth. ❤😊

I just found your channel, and I’m definitely enjoying your content ☺️ I love that this video wasn’t the doom and gloom of so many others. Yours was a breath of fresh air 💕

I just had to comment that I love your content! It helps me look at my kitchen from a different perspective. Thanks for all you do!

Thank you. I’m so tired of the fear mongering. My heart and mind can’t take it. Fear doesn’t help, but your video is informative and empowering, which is just what I needed

I HAD to come on here and tell you that this is one the best videos I've seen someone do in a long time. You are keeping it simple and showing practical ways for people to be better stewards of their space, food and time. I LOVE it. While I have a large piece of property where we grow a lot of food, I use all of these tips. The biggest one is that I'm trying to be more zero waste in the kitchen. Teaching that one tip to home cooks is priceless. I make the best stocks for soup and cooking out of scraps. Any time I have chicken bones and scrap veggies, I save them to make stock. Canning it or freezing it (what I used to do before I learned how to pressure can) saves so much money and is so healthy. I just bought 3 roasts to cut up for stews and had almost 2 pounds of scraps left over. I'm learning to make broth and then fat to cook with from it. ZERO waste, 100% taste! You inspired me to go buy some (gently used) scrap cooking books to up my game. Thank you!

Love this! The fear porn over food shortages and prices is so annoying. I've had to unsubscribe from a lot of people. I see the prices rising every time I shop for my family, but God promised us a way of escape for those who believe in Him so I continue on with my day. Thank you for sharing that tip about freezing eggs. I had no idea! Also, I tried to search your blog, but I couldn't find a recipe on how you make that multigrain bread you showed. I'd love to start making my own.

Man! I'm so happy that 6 months ago I decided to take advantage of all the meat sales due to hearing about future price hikes. We even bought a pressure canner, an extra deep freezer (second hand) and a food saver. We spent most of the summer finding sales and vacuum packing meal sized portions. We canned and froze whatever our small garden produced. Now our shelves and freezers are brimming with food that I didn't have to pay an arm and a leg for. We are using the no food wasted method as well.... we've often used it previously because my father was a great depression child and so kind of taught me some things, oh and early in my marriage I bought the 2 "Penny Pincher" books by Amy Dacysyn (or however you spell her name lol).

Great tips! I just put in a reserve for the “Cooking with Scraps” book with my library. With ever rising food prices, eliminating food waste is one of our primary money saving strategies.

In this video you hit two things I want to learn to do canning and making bread. I know I’ve been told to just jump in and give it a try. I may just learn this summer. My mom switched from napkins to clothes back around 08 after she got laid off. She had fabric at home so she made her own and still does.

It cracks me up when you keep saying "unthaw." I think you just mean "thaw." Love your channel! I've been a canner and homesteader for years, but I still learn a thing or two from you on nearly every video. God bless!

Cassandra! It’s always so nice to see you. You make me laugh & I love your feisty sense of humor. You were missed. 💐No pressure though.. I get it …work gets in the way. I hope you got exactly what you wanted in the new position. As I’ve said before your content is worth the wait-you give us so much of your knowledge, encouragement and inspiration that it lingers for awhile. So take the time you need. We are grateful for all you do! Yes, Grandma’s new best. A lot of what you say and do resonates with me and get me motivated!! Thank you & be well my friend!!

I found your channel!!! Girl, you are an old soul! What I see you doing is what I saw my Aunts, grandmother and mom do.., spend money wisely, they either grew small gardens, bought in season, used “scraps” and canned or dried to preserve. I love your channel, no panic, just common sense that saves money, stops waste with the perk of having a little stockpile when needed.

Excellent video. I completely agree, and a lot of well-intentioned videos make the whole idea of canning and stockpiling seem completely inaccessible for a lot of people. I particularly liked how you pointed out that gathering your materials and resources for canning and freezing is something that takes time, it’s very reassuring for people on a limited budget. Brilliant content, I’ve just subscribed.

I seriously LOOOOOVE your channel. I never cease to learn something and I so appreciate your COMPLETELY real common sense approach to not just feeding a family but doing it well. Keep up the great work, sweet girl WE ARE HUNGRY FOR THIS CONTENT

I had no idea I could freeze eggs raw. I’m a single gal, post Bariatric surgery, and can’t use up fresh eggs before they go bad. Portioning them out to freeze will be such a game changer for me. Especially for baking. I’m binge watching your channel and learning so much. Thank you for sharing what you’ve learned! ❤

Cass, you are ROCKIN’ Proverbs 31:10-31! 🤩 Awesome advice. I’m going to need those cookbooks for sure. Also, I was watching this while getting ready for bed. Nearly snorted coconut oil because I was oil pulling when the chicken feet segment came up and I started laughing. Verrrrry dangerous! 😅😂🤣 🪥🦷

Hi Cassandra! Thank you so very much for this! I value your videos and praise God for Him giving you the wisdom to share what you do! Many blessings to you & yours! ❤️

Thank you for your video. It wasn't that long ago we stashed $100 for when butter went on sale for $3lb. Those days are long over. Butter here in Canaduh is $7 plus a pound regular price so when it went on sale for $4.50lb I went right away to the store(s) to get some before it was sold out. The first store had limited product with a ten pound "limit" per "household". This is new eh? It used to be "per customer". Me and Mum could get 20 lb that way and they all know that Me and Mum are in one household because she's been hanging off my arm for years because of her "All The Timers". I'm her full time caregiver and it shames me that I'm all she has but that's my reality. Now in the big city I'd lie and tell them we are two households. I'd lie for butter but that doesn't work around here where everyone knows everyone's business. I can't fart but they all wipe their bum, ... Oh well, gives them something to talk about I'm sure. Besides, I'm not into lying because the truth stands on its own, whereas a lie requires the constant expenditure of my time and energy to exist and I'm too lazy to be maintaining lies. .... except for butter, I'd lie for butter. True story. In the big towns I just make multiple visits until I have the amount I want and call it done. No lying needed. I was going to go to the Grain Elevator for a half ton of whole Wheat and 500 lbs of Oats but the truck got snowed in and I'm not paying to have it blown out. Snow melts for free given time. Prepping is not the answer. But it's going to help for sure. Our dilemma? We can only deny our redemption, our salvation. You see, the paradigm shift from the childish win/lose mentality to a mature and wise Win/Win, and the model change from "for profit", to "not for profit", only expose us as "corrupted" and only losers are corrupted, therefore we can not accept such an unacceptable truth and we deny our Soul-U-Shun. This is also too simple a solution. People would only believe that they are being played for suckers if it was a diabolically genius "con game" being played and not meaningless and childish games of win/lose and the lies and corruption of "eternal growth and profit" here where nothing grows forever and profit is the lie. We lived in a world of abundance not profit. Profit is the concept used to concentrate the abundance of the world into the hands and control of the few, the elite, the entitled, and those great winners in a perverted world of win/lose. "Profit" requires the constant expenditure of your precious time, energy, and belief to exist. Right Santa? The hoarded abundance of the world is then used to control and direct a population of brainwashed for profit" economic slaves who only understand, worship, and practice the self inflicted retardation of "win/lose" to structure their every affair as civilized, sane, wise, and honorable. There's a voice within us all that speaks to us when we want to hear it. Or allow it credence, that is. People who have not "heard" or refuse to see the obvious failure of humanity are destined for the non-viable. This is natural and organic. Kinda a human fail safe. Anyway, there is so much more to the Ways of the Win/Win. I can't get into it all now. So I'll leave you with a taste of "The Economics of Time". A community owned "not for profit" worth and value of our time and energy based in "time" alone, backed by the abundance, and built on a foundation of truth and reality. Just a teaser eh? OK, I've trained myself to pay attention to what grabs my attention and I found myself interested in you. Forgive me please but there must be something or I wouldn't bother trying. I plant the seeds of Win/Win in the dismal and depleted soil of the win/lose because I know that failed human filth makes the greatest fertilizer. Just don't be great fertilizer eh? The seeds of Win/Win are given freely and unconditionally. Do with them what you will. That alone makes the seeds and myself "suspect" in the minds of the corrupted, and I laugh and laugh. May the abundance of the world always be manifest in your life. And good luck.

This is the most informative and realistic channel for saving money on food. Thank you for sharing and teaching this old gal😀

I am so thankful I started dehydrating and canning a few years ago. Makes me much less anxious about what is happening in the world right now. I gotta start getting into ferments now.

This is the first time I've ever seen one of your videos and I thought it was great! I love your energy and your approach. Great job presenting all of those wonderful ideas.

I buy whole chickens and season them well inside and out. I like a mix of lemon pepper and cajun seasoning. Then I put it in my crockpot, set it on low and cook it while I sleep. The next am, I take it out and cool a bit, and pop in fridge till supper time. use it for tacos, chx salad, chix alfredo, or a salad topper.

Whoa!!!!@ 1st Visit and I am blown away!! Where have been!! OMG!! I thought I was the only person who used baskets in her freezer, people thought I was nuts until I showed them!! Praise Most High, you are a genius 🙌 🙏 Thank you for your chalked filled information videos!!! God Bless you!!!

Binge watching YOU this weekend to educate myself! Wish I had found you years ago!!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge- and for your gift to kids through your career. I have been married 30+ years to a high school administrator so I know you ARE busy! Thank your husband for his service!

Yes and you can grow hydroponic food vertically inside with grow lights😊

I always say food is not expensive you're eating habits are! I'm a person who eats her one meal a day healthy no carbs no sweets. I eat Keto but I do cheat. Don't buy those chips those snacks those sweets. This girl's got it right.

We have been working toward zero waste for years. Leftover veggies go in a large zipper bag for soup. Ends of all veggies and onion skins make amazing broths. Saving all bones will make great stock. Great ideas for quick breakfast and lunch ideas! Thank you!!! I love you videos.

I am loving your videos. Thank you so much for all your information. And, by the way, your relationship with your dad shines through! It warms my soul. I sip my coffee and binge watch.

Ive moved down to southern texas from the midwest and after being here a year im still utterly confused by their produce seasons. The apples are expensive in the summer but also the fall, same with watermelon cucumbers corn etc. Theyre just all expensive all year round its maddening and saving money down here has been a huge challenge for me because sales cycles and seasonal prices seem to not exist in south texas lol btw just subscribed!

I think this is the only time I have subscribed to someone after watch half of one video. But girl, I adore you already!

Cassandra! Girl thank you sooo much. I feel so guilty throwing stems and every single thing you threw in that stock, in the trash. I watch numerous videos learning holistic ways to use food for healing or therapeutic uses, but I needed this! Thanks for recommending the books also.

Cassandra, as always your content is on point and very well delivered! Many of the suggestions you made I've been doing. You gave me food for thought using the disposable storage items. I appreciate all you do. Again, thanks for sharing and look forward to seeing what's new with you soon!

I'm so happy I discovered you!! I enjoy watching you and learn so much!!! ❤

Thank you! Love your content. I definitely need to learn to use more scraps. I've just always thrown them away but you're right, I can save more by being less wasteful than going out and buying more food.

Every time I watch one of your videos I get inspired . Not the kind of inspired where you say to yourself "I should try that" while watching it but then forget about it later - I mean actually inspired and taking action. I already started started making some home remedies like the fire cider, and elderberry syrup after watching your home apothecary video and after this video, I'm going to need a lot more space in my freezer lol. I live alone so it's less satisfying to just cook for me but I guess I need to take care of myself too :) and I'll know how to do all this once I actually do have someone to cook for :). Anyway, thanks for brightening up my days with a new hobby and with your lovely/down to earth personality. I love that you don't try to put up a fake image of perfection and that you share your life hacks for when you're lazy/busy. Honestly, it makes you more relatable, thus more helpful, and inspirational. You make me feel like maybe, if I work at it, I can do it too. Anyway, this turned out to be a bit of a letter huh lol. Bottom line - I appreciate what you do and based on other comments I'm simply one of many. Thanks!

So happy I came across your channel! I've always approached my home this way (learned from my grandmother) waste not want not. Cooking from scratch, repurposing everything. LOVE IT! Thank you for making me feel normal 🥰

Yes yes yes! Thank you for the VERY timely video! And for already answering questions I had about your freezers! I would LOVE either a written schedule of how often you’re doing various batches or maybe even videos of some of your seasonal tasks? I feel like I get thrown off of my timing for a lot of different tasks to make sure that I get the most out of my produce, either purchased or home grown. Or… maybe a glance at how you keep track of your inventory? You’re the best! Thank you for such inspiring videos.

I always learn so much from you! Just a few months ago, I started saving my vegetable scraps to make broth. I learned a lot about not wasting food, when I worked with a French chef many years ago! But I just got busy, and now am back into canning and preserving and eating healthier! You can save a lot of money by shopping sales and buying wholesome ingredients! I try to stay away from prepackaged and frozen meals with all the preservatives and they usually cost more anyway!

I just came across your channel and love it! Thank you for all your doing.

I am enjoying your channel. I just about went broke last summer trying to stock up on grocery items. I finally realized those women who could do that had extra money to accomplish this feat. Meg, on Holler Homstead, mentioned that she didn't try to stock up. She ran a frugal kitchen. My mom ran a frugal kitchen, so do you. That makes much more sense than having a grocery store in the basement.

Just found your channel and this is the first segment I have watched. Very refreshing. Being raised by depression era parent who grew up with very little, I innately learned many of the tips you suggested. I plant to go back and watch older segments and future ones. I base mush of what it taught as opposed to many channels who become to prepper hysteric. Those last very little time on my favorites. Looking forward to enjoying your channel in the future . Joy Giles

Yes!! Lol.... I know 2 books I will be adding to my library. 📚 Thanks for the motivation & inspiration.

I’m loving all your ideas!! Keep them coming . Great job

When you like a channel enough to let the ads roll. THANK YOU. As always.

Great tips Cassandra! If your swiffer should ever kick the bucket, the OXO spray mop is pretty great. It has washable pads, and you can mix whatever cleaner you want to use in the spray bottle which would work great with your oils.

Great ideas here! Thanks for all the effort you put into making these videos and sharing your knowledge with us.

You're a gem of information! I'm a Plant Therapy fan as well. This came up in my recommended videos and I'm so glad it did.

I just found your channel and LOVE this message! I unfortunately have had to unsubscribe or stop watching some of the other channels that have fell into “must panic everyone” mode all in what I believe is for views and likes to make money. I love how to videos that provide information for being prepared for what life has to throw at us. Living I’m S. Florida I have to prepare for hurricane season every year, so I have begun to incorporate my hurricane prep into preparing for life’s unexpected moments anytime of the year, therefore eliminating the panic mode that so many want us to be in.

I stumbled upon your page and I LOVE you already! I love your energy and advice.

I recently bought a little homestead, this video was so instructional! Thank you so much!!!

This is my first time here and I must thank you for the blessings that you shared. You pulled so many very useful tips it was like I had watched 4 or 5 videos, but it was all in one. Thank you very much. Blessings to you.

Awesome! You hit the nail on the head, great video.😊

You are such an inspiration, thank you for this video. I was on that journey but kept getting derailed. I’d really like to get back. Thank you for such great content!!

Absolutely love this video & you are so right!! Thank you for an encouraging and hopeful take on preparing and planning for uncertain times. We can do the best we can & trust the rest to God ❤ I love your quick & easy meal recommendations

Love the swiffer hack!!!

C, you produce gorgeous, fun, inspiring videos. I'm doing whatever I can to see your subscriber list grow! Thank you for all the wonderful recipes and tips.

New to the channel, just had to order both of those no waste books. This is an area that I've been working on and need to up my game. Loving your content. Be safe and stay well, Catherine

Oooh I don’t have time to watch this video right now, But I’m ABSOLUTELY going to make time to binge your channel. THANK YOU!! You seem very positive and upbeat and hey let’s do this kinda gal. Can’t wait to watch more tonight.

Thank you! You're an inspiration!

Love love love this!!! I have not seen enough of this topic on YT.

The chicken feet part made me laugh… Our local Walmart market was selling them for a while. I never bought them, though, but I have heard they’re great for broth. I was glad to learn you can freeze eggs-thank you for that. This video was so motivating-thank you!

This video is my favorite so far, and I absolutely love all your videos!

Where has this girl been all my life? Love her! Great videos.😘🙏😊

Gonna tell it like it is: you 100% surprised me and I am totally bummed out at the moment. Literally watched ONE video a few days and subscribed. Today I’m prepping all the parts of my carrot harvest for frozen, canned, dehydrated and fresh use so threw up youtube subscriptions to keep me company at the sink… and THIS one popped up first. 😩 Dang it girl you have SO much info that I had to pause it, finish what I am doing with another video, and then come BACK to rewatch … with a tea and pen in hand. ( Lesson learned. Always watch YOUR videos sitting down so I can take copious notes! ) See you again in a couple hours! 😂❤🤩

I cannot watch you without grinning. You are such a joy.

You are awesome! Great content and your energy on camera is contagious.

I just found your channel & love everything I’ve watched so far! Thank you for all the great content & your positive and fun attitude!

Wow, didnt even get through the whole video yet and i think your awesome! Im so excited to learn what you got going on over there. I am lovin’ your vibe and your energy! Im hooked! Cookin with scraps? Yes please, waste not want not! I am all ears! Thank you for your content and positivity.

I love seeing your progression. I'm so happy for you Farm Girl. 🙂

Oh my gosh. This is my first time watching your channel and I’m hooked. So glad your video popped up on my feed. ❤ I’ll be bingeing your channel today.

You are a breath of fresh air!

I love love love this video!!! Thank you for sharing this!

You always have such an upbeat outlook and great tips, have a wonderful rest of your week!

Your content is soooo good! So informational, upbeat, and much more original than a lot of other channels out there. I subscribed after watching one video!! So glad I found you.

I am LOVING you!!! You are so delightful!

Thank you for all this info!! So informative and helpful. Your dad was funny. ❤ Loved the video.

I love this! So many ideas I have to try!

You’re a genius ❤love this conscious approach!

I am glad I found your channel. So much money . thank you!!!

Always a joy watching your videos💖💖

You are my absolute favorite channel! I love love everything you present. 🤗

You’ll be accompanying me through my chores today. First video I’ve watched, quick scroll through your video library and I know your channel already fits my lifestyle.

Oh my goodness I love you so much!!!! Love hearing what you have to say....just found you a week ago and am watching all your videos!

I absolutely love, love your personality!!!! And your videos too😊

Just found your channel! You make sense...period! I will be binging so I hope you have a lot in the video vault!

You are a wonderful educator! Thank you for sharing so much and I love your passion! You are truly a wise and generous soul. God bless you!💜

Intelligent woman! God bless you and may you have all peace in him

Just discovered your channel. Wow, what a lot of great tips! I've been canning for years and love the idea of processing food we grow or get at good prices from other places, but I haven't been good about using the "scraps". Thanks for the great ideas.

Thank you for your videos! Love your sweet personality and great tips ❤️❤️❤️

Excellent and encouraging advice! You are doing a great job!!