Hubby is a cattle farmer and you wouldn’t believe how long our waitlist is. We’ve had same customers for many, many years. Anyone who supports your local farmers, we appreciate you!

Recently I got sick with cancer and need time off of work I have been using the stocked pantry and it has saved me in this time of need

I lived in a big city during lockdown. There was a two hour wait time to enter groceries stores. Quality of food was poor. Ended up turning entire backyard in a mini farm. Family of four eating fast food cost $60. I cook from scratch now. Thanks for great advice.

My dog's food has gotten way too expensive. I have found that, if I buy ingredients on sale, I can make healthier food for less. I bought chicken legs for 99¢, frozen mixed vegetables for 99¢, oatmeal for $3.29 for a big container, I boiled the chicken in 6 cups of water, deboned it and put the meat, gristle & skin in the blender and blended it. I used the water, which was now stock, to cook the oatmeal and frozen vegetables. Then, I added the chicken, put it in snack size bags and froze it. For less than $4.00 I made enough food for 3 weeks. I still have enough of everything to make 2 more batches.

I absolutely agree with what you’re saying but I’m so burned out. So tired and frustrated. Food preservation and stocking has become an almost full time job.

As a local small homesteader who sells veggies, eggs, beef, and pork, I REALLY appreciate your mention to support your local farmer. Thank you! We are working hard to keep having food available for our small communities.

I pulled a lb of butter out of the freezer from 11-18-22, I had wrote the price on it for some reason. It was $1.89. I looked up butter from the same store today it is $ 4.19 a lb. I'm not 100% if it was on sale when I got it last year but even so that's a huge price difference.

My granddaughter text me the other day asking me if I had an extra bread machine. I haven't had one in years, so I sent her the link to the Amish white bread recipe I use. She made it and her and her boyfriend ate it up very quickly as they loved it! I also ordered her a cookbook from the 70s called Make a Mix Cookery so she could learn to make different mixes and not buy the crappy boxed stuff and save a ton of money.

I live on a tight budget and have a single income. I try to take $20 a week and purchase supplies for my stock pile. It might be paper products one week and cans of veggies the next. I am a bit jealous of your pantry but will get there one of these days. I have found a lot of security in having a pantry with supplies that will help me thru bad times. Thank you for your straight forward talk, I enjoy your way of explaining the whys and how to's of creating a usable pantry!! Thank you!!

I noticed the layout in stores changing a year ago. The aisles are shorter and wider apart. One large store removed 5 aisles. And.. chips took up an entire row. Water took an entire row. Soda and entire row. Sports drinks an entire row. Paper products an entire row. The store had much less real food.

I couldn't get canned peaches at Kroger or Walmart for months. I got a 1/2 bushel of peaches at the Amish store for $28.50. I got: 22 pints of sliced peaches, 8 jelly jars of preserves and 9 jars of peach scrap jelly with vanilla beans. Plus we ate some fresh. I think we rocked that $28.50! I look forward to your videos!!

I've been taking my freedom back from this system one vegetable at a time by learning how to grow it and preserve it myself.

Agreed, local farmers need us and we need them.

I had no clue that peaches were that high! My son works for farmers. I got 2 bushels of Red Haven peaches (cling free) for $0! I had no clue how lucky I was! Same with 110# of sweet cherries and 2 bushels of apples soon. I’m one lucky Gramma. Thank you Leisa. You always give us the info we need. Always. So lucky our neighbors are black angus farmers. Hubs does a few “jobs” for him and in January we got a whole beef as repayment 😳 I had no clue. I don’t look at the prices, I don’t need to buy it. I’m so sad for others less fortunate than us. We raised our own chickens. We bartered some of that beef for pork!

Stocking up is very important but we need to start relearning how we cooked and fed families 90 years ago. Even back in the 70s.

I just lost my job! Massive layoff. Makes me more motivated!

My garden, being the worst in decades, makes me realize I can’t even be sure I can depend on a garden. Bought next years seeds already. Thinking positive. Good video Leisa…thanks

I hope you were watching when this happened Leisa!!!! 100,000 Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Dehydrating foods is a good too.

I am a lunch lady. We have kept flour in the freezer for 2 plus yrs at school. No issues. It is a 50/50 blend.

Great video. Im in the UK and i have 6 years of food in my basement. I have corned beef, tuna, salmon, beans, soups & hotdogs. Get prepped guys, do it sooner rather than later. 🙏

Oh my, you are sooooo close to 100,000 subscribers🥳🥳🥳!!!!! C'mon people, let's get her there!

We started making our own bread when the cost went up to about 4.49+ and up and the cheaper, look at the ingredients, it does not even have the texture of bread once you bite into it. I make a large loaf for about .50 cents. I save about $45.00 a month just in bread alone.

One more thing, when we cull our birds, we grind them up whole, organs and all, and add a few things, veggies, fruits etc. And that is our cat and dog food for the winter. We replenish our birds each spring, for egg layers, and the random roosters are broth. Its a cycle, but it works well since the birds free range all spring, summer and fall and the feed price is very low. Just winter feed. And of course the eggs they lay in abundance pay for that. So, just some ideas to consider.

My big box store is $3.98 a pound for 90/10 ground beef. I recommend getting a big box store credit card and use it. Use it and pay it off monthly. The rebates go straight to the store and I use them to buy meat. Three months ago I got an entire case of pork loins for “free”. I’m saving my rebates now for a “free” case of ground beef.

You’re not alone in being a glutton for punishment. News, doom and gloom, and rabbit holes… I’m right there with you, sister 🤗

Thank you Liesa, for not pimping companies like Better Help or Temu. It matters.

Freezers are great BUT think about what’s going to happen to all your food when the power is lost. May I suggest you can what’s in your freezer to make it shelf stable. Pressure canning meat is so easy. Look for jars and lids now

Never let a crisis go to waste..... I love your message...keep it up...we are in for a long haul..Thank you for your message.

Our little garden had its best tomato year to date-it has been so nice saving just those few dollars. Same with zucchini and cucumbers. Obviously not so much food to sustain us but even this bit has had a measurable impact on our grocery bill this summer.

The good thing about making your own butter is you get a twofer, you get butter as well as buttermilk.

Can you sometimes do a video on butter powder? How to use it, store it once open etc. please please please!

My husband farms and raised cattle. We have extensive family around us that farm and raise livestock as well so we are fortunate to have our own source of meat and grain. The most common response we get from first time direct buyers is that it isn’t the same as what they’re used to getting from the grocery stores. The meat cuts aren’t as big, they have more color and much stronger flavor. It’s crazy how many people are put off by that. We don’t direct sell crops, but I know there is a big difference in quality there as well. I have to remind myself as to the extent of how processed and synthetic the typical American diet is. Most people aren’t familiar with what real, natural food is.

My cats and dogs will all eat scambled eggs so they get them sometimes, especially if we're overrun or I have some mineral-oiled ones put back that need to be used. Gives them a variety of nutrients while keeping the pet food bill down!

I just found your channel, praise God! My husband and I have a homestead in Nebraska and cattle, corn, and wheat is a huge issue here. Drought, feed cost, and labor. Be prepared for price increases and scarcity. This year we doubled up on our garden in preparation for what is quickly approaching. Hate to be doom and gloom, however the reality is that many people will be without. God bless you for you channel. We have subscribed.

I live in the country and have 20 outdoor ferrel cats. Yes I have to feed them. I have started shopping meat sales. If meats is under $2 a lb I purchase a lot of it, cook it and freeze dry it along with beans and eggs on sale. Mix it together and mix with a small amount of dry cat food. The cats will feast, just add water. When they get extra meat we have a wonderful growl fest.

Hi Leisa Last week was a major disaster for us. We were burgled. Presumably looking for cash and jewellery, some of the first of which they found, but the latter we lost years ago to previous thefts and never replaced. Presumably because we didn't have enough of those, they turned on my pantry. Every jar we had was thrown and smashed, the Mylar bags the ripped with a knife and the contents thrown in top of the broken jars. We lost a two year production of canned and stored food. Even replacing the jars will now cost at least £1000, over a month's pension for me. Our place is usually very secure but we have scaffolding round it and we left a tiny window upstairs open. Only a kid could have got in. Well, the dog and cat food is OK! So the dog now stays home if we are both going out. He would have been the final deterrent as he sounds ferocious. I took the week off to mourn my pantry, but need to get back to it now.

My local Aldi has grass-fed butter for $2.19. I bought the limit

I recently found ground beef on sale for $1.58/lb, and was able to get about 45 lbs. for $71.55. Yesterday, a local meat market had chicken for $1.10/lb, so I was THANKFULLY able to afford to get 86 lbs for about $95. Recently, even the deals at the local meat market have been 40lb of chicken for 80 and ground beef went up to 50 lbs for !50!, I got 131 lbs of protein for just over the recent price for the beef package I used to get! It's a crazy busy canning weekend! Watching you during a short break for sanity...lol

The Dollar Tree has 12 oz bags (Great Northern, Red, Lentils) and 1 pound bags of beans (Pinto) for $1.25 each. 2 pound bags of brown and white rice also sell for $1.25 each. This may be a good option for some who can't afford to buy in bulk or want to just pay in cash locally. We have beans and rice, oats, wheat berries, popcorn, flour, etcetera stocked up, but, I also stock up on these beans and rice to feed our backyard chickens. We don't buy feed from the feed store for them anymore because the price just keep increasing. No food goes to waste in our house! All the extra food goes to the chickens or gets composted to feed our garden. Our chickens also get greens, garden weeds, fruit, and veggies from the garden. We also give our hens free choice of crushed oyster shells. I soak their beans overnight and pressure cook them the next day just like I do for us. This is how we fed them back in the day and they were fine. They look happy and healthy. We still buy dog food for our 2 pups, but, if push comes to shove, they will eat whatever we eat.

I appreciate your kindness and humility when sharing your knowledge.

I keep saying KZfaq needs a love button. Thanks for sharing.

I had to come listen to this video again. It gives me encouragement. I can't buy the freeze dried but it encourages me to do what I can.

I save the bacon grease that fries off the bacon in the morning. I use coffee filter to strain it into the jar.

I’m dairy free and coconut oil is a critical pantry item for me personally so definitely check items that are specific to your dietary needs

The grocery store by me currently has chuck roast on sale for $2.97/lb-great deal, yet ground beef is over $5/lb right now in my area, so we bought 6 of the largest pkgs we could get and are going to be grinding it ourselves tomorrow. Also just found a local group for local beef and pork, and am planning on getting some of that as soon as possible. That is our ultimate goal, to only buy locally raised.

They've also replaced deep shelves with shallow ones.

Thank you Leisa for sharing this video. Doing what we can. Yesterday after 10 hours of working. I added another 4 hours canning beef and chicken. Went to bed at 1:00. I like to beat myself up every now and then to get the “things “ done when I can. Have a blessed one all and keep keepin’ on. ❤

My pantry and my freezers give me a great deal of peace. Knowing my family will be fed is a wonderful thing

I get wheatberries and ground flour from Sunrise Flour Mill. They are in Minnesota, grow their wheat in the US. They grow heritage wheat.

I have stocked up on my oils and fats this summer. I canned so much ground beef that I also saved the fat and made tallow. Also learned to render lard this summer. It was one of the major holes in my pantry now I'm good for at least a year.

Hi Lisa, I appreciate the honesty and knowledge on the farming issues. Here in Canada, things are just as bad. I do find the cost of food is more here than in the USA. All the comments you made ate true. I have been canning/prepping for a few years. The cost rising is crazy. I tend to buy and buy when things are on sale. We have 145 acres, with cows and chickens, and my garden. We sell our hay for an income. Fuel prices and the long hard working hours of the farmer is exhausting. I love what I do and will continue to produce whatever I can to help prepare for who knows what. Thank you!

I found your channel by accident. This is the best accident ever! I really enjoy watching your channel. I am a canner in the U.K. I know there aren’t many of us but I think it’s growing. I bought my presto canner last year and that was the best investment I ever made apart for the steam canner I also bought earlier last year.

When I buy legs and thighs to can chicken I strip the skin before boiling the chicken and cook it for schmaltz (chicken fat) and store that, make broth from the bones so I get mileage out of that chicken.

You’re right, we are farmers and the cost of water fertilizer labor any of the hired stuff for harvesting almonds all of it everything’s up and the crop amounts are down so right now the price of almonds isn’t too bad because they had a great last year but this year it’s probably gonna be lean. So just a warning if you guys like almonds, almond flour, etc. watch for sales.

You mentioned being a coffee lover. So am I! I am not a fan of tea, but have discovered that if I add a really nice spiced tea blend to my coffee grinds, I get a really delicious "dirty coffee" that also helps me stretch my coffee somewhat further.

Blessings Lisa from Chicago. I'm still canning, vacuum sealing, dehydrating all of my weekly farmwers market hauls. If you can't grow food, support those that do. Yea Green City market and Uptown farmers market.🎉🎉🎉

142 qt tomatoes juice, 9 qts spaghetti sauce, and tomorrow I’ll can up probably 10 pints of ketchup and still have more tomatoes in garden! So happy to have that much tomatoes! I planted bunching onions for first time Omni have been using freeze drying onion great full for all the onions too.

Just put in my 1/4 beef order from a local farm. Quality, grass fed and local. It’ll be our beef allotment for the year for our fam of 6. Big upfront cost but golly I’ll feel better having it no the freezer!

Really good advice. - I don't own a car, only a bicycle. (Dane living in small Denmark). But this means I cannot normally go out of town to local farmers; instead, I only buy organic. Not much meat and poultry, but of good quality which I prepare with lots of seasonal veggies. And I stock up on stuff which is long lasting. Lately, I bought about 30 cans of sardines at a very good price and quality. Plus other long lasting food items, and then I found several KZfaq videos showing different recipies with sardines.

We live about 15 miles from a creamery, I stock up on butter for 1 year. Last year I paid $32.00 for a case and this year I paid $52.00 for a case, I'm glad we get a whole pig yearly and I can use the lard to supplement the butter

I had heard last week a farmer in Ontario paid 2800.00 each for 500 pound stocker calves to feed for winter. With that info I went straight away and purchased a meat order for each of my girls and their families. My two daughters were tardy in making their meat order and the hamburger went up 1 dollar a pound in one week. Tomatoes have been over in Ontario for almost a month since a blight has hit everywhere and tomatoes turned to garbage overnight.

My daughter gets WIC as a breastfeeding momma..she got an email yesterday...that fruits & veggies would be affected because of the possibility of government shut down...even though she really didn't need them, she got every dime she could.. because next month isn't guaranteed.

I just went into my freezer and pressured canned the meats that were coming up to the 6th -8th month mark. It was all stuff that was on super sales.

Congratulations on 100K, Leisa. You rock! Thank you for all you do for us. God bless you & Phil. 🥰🇺🇲🦋

I stocked up on forjars lids last year. They had a really nice sale and I'm very happy with the products. There must be a lot of people watching you that aren't subscribed. I can't believe you aren't at a million by now. I have heard your channel being talked about everywhere. Sorry, im guilty of watching and hadn't subscribed right now. So anyone watching and not hit that subscribed button yet..dont be like me. This is a great channel. I've learned so much throughout the past couple of years without doing my part.

My husband just today asked why was I grinding my own wheat flour instead of just buying flour 😢😂😂 I tried to explain to home how much healthier it is over store bought.

lol, as im in the basement tonight, the mouse (pac man) is mowing into my wall, tonight, grrrrrr, gonna set up 3-4 mousetraps, in the am! with peanut butter, some one is busy ! gonna put an end to it in next 10-40 hours, hes going down:)

Whooo-hooooo!!!! 100,000K!!🥳 Well deserved Leisa, well deserved 🎉

Beef stocks have contracted every month for the last twelve months. Definitely no relief coming anytime soon. Also, sorry for the multiple comments-this video just has so much good stuff in it!😆

Believe it or not ive been trying to stock foods that both us and our dogs can eat....chicken, beef, veggies, fruits. Thrive life is a good option and Azure frozen veg and fruits. Great for stocking up

I own a pet food store. Lots of the foods have went up 50% per lb in 18 months. That's with not doing any price increase at a store level. That's just based on manufacturers prices. we also get shorted on orders weekly.

Going back a few videos, I watched you canning sweet potatoes. I canned 13 pints today for the first time. Waiting on the last two to seal. Not looking good for sealing so I will eat those in the next few days. I just gave your site to a new canner friend of mine. You are probably the easiest to follow, especially for a new person. I appreciate your help. OH, I feel a lot better about stacking my jars now. Thanks!

Im sure many people are already doing this but ive found that going to my local grocery store about 2 hours after they open and buying marked down meat, vegetables and fruits can save a lot of $$. I can only do this on weekends because of my job but i process everything the day i buy it. Last sunday i bought a weeks worth of fresh veggies and 8# of bananas as well as 32 meals of chicken, pork and beef for $52.Its either frozen or canned as soon as i came home from church. Keep your eyes open for deals wherever you can find them. Im going again today to see what i can get!

Here in Suwannee county Florida over 5 million chickens died due to Hurricane Idalia. We have many commercial farms here and a lot of them lost their crops due to the hurricane. This may effect future costs. It was worse even in Taylor county.

I bought a set of 12 tuna single serve tuna last month for $16.99. I thought I’d buy more for stocking up. The price is now $39.00 for the brand I’ve been buying. The local apple orchards lost 90% of their crop due to the weather. I had to buy canned applesauce.

Coffee, I'm learning to appreciate instant. It lasts forever especially if you buy it in a glass jar or a mylar bag. Some brands actually sell it in mylar bags here in the UK. I think the trick to instant is to try a few different brands until you find one that you actually like. (My favorites are Taster Choice and Nescafe) Beef is pretty much out of our budget here in England. We can afford ground beef about once a week, but unless it's on sale/offer or I find it in the reduced/clearance section, we don't buy actual cuts of beef. It doesn't help that a lot the beef here is aged which makes it even more expensive. I'm keeping my eyes out, I'd love to get some beef into jars to put in my pantry.

I appreciate your practical dose of realism. Much better than some preppers who sell fear EVERY DAY saying “This is it!! The sky will fall in 2 days, so run out and get these 25 things NOW!!”

Q I bought 2 lb of whole barley I bought 2 lb dark red kidney beans 🫘 Yes...they were both hard to find and expensive! I recommend ❤ wheat berries. Buy a wheat grinder and grind 💪 your own flour. Stay blessed and keep up the great work prepping 🙏. Q ❤

I am constantly filling our pantry and because of your videos I am watching and looking for ways to save money. Our local farmers are the best. Thank you for sharing.

Very good information in preparing and stocking up. I am so glad you also included the topic on finding healthier farm raised foods. I am a new chicken farmer, and don't understand why people still want to buy eggs in the store not knowing how them poor chickens live. Thank you for telling viewers to Support your Local farmers! We need all the help we can get out here! Blessing to you!

I’ve done so many of the things you suggest for all of my adult life (over 50 years now), but I have gotten a great deal from your videos, too. I had never ground my own wheat, until I saw a video where you were talking about it, which prompted me to buy over 200 pounds of wheat and a grain mill. My pantry has tripled in the last 3 years, and I have rediscovered my love for canning. I am lucky to live in an area of NW Illinois, where I have been able for most of that time to live near a local butcher. I had a conversation with the owner of the one who is only a few blocks from me, and he tells me that he sources his meat from local farmers, which makes me very happy. (My Dad and my Grandfather were farmers.) It is so easy to order a ¼ or ½ a beef. He even offers monthly bundles. We grow most of our own tomato products, too. There are some things that I don’t (or can’t) produce, but that is ok, too. I am very fortunate to have the abundance that I have, but you have played a big part in making me aware of what is going on with our food supplies, and I thank you for it very much. ❤️

I toss my Sourdough recipe in the bread machine on dough/pasta setting. I reset it three times to get the right amount of kneading and rising times then bake in oven as usual. 😊

YES on all accounts of what you are saying!! I moved back to Sweden to be closer to my kids when/if things "go south". Originally from the US but, have lived here, there and everywhere before my kids were born and, after they'd moved out... Anyhow, I'd like to push the benefits of animal fats even further... Animal fats and especially lard has so many uses, other than just for food. Making something more resistant to water, boots, jacket, tarps, etc... Greasing moving parts such as hinges, machinery and more. Protecting metal/iron tools and other things outside against rust. There are so many things you can use pig lard for. But yes, food is the main reason I'm stocking up on it. However, there are many even us preppers that don't know that solid animal fats such as lard, tallow and other fats that turn solid when at room temperature, including our old bacon grease, is renewable... Or, better said, washed if smelling off, rancid miss colored etc. All you need is a large cooking heavy bottom pan/pot, water and a means to boil your water/fat. How to... empty/pour your not so good or nice fat into a pan, add water about 3 times the amount of fat and bring to a boil. No need to stir since the fat will always float on top of the water. Just make sure your pot doesn't boil over... Once you've let your fat/water boil for about 5 minutes, which also melts the fat , turn off the heat and let it fully cool down. I usually do this during the winter if needed, since I can put the whole pot out on my back porch and the cold temperature out there will cool down the water/fat faster and also make the "fat lid" harder. When your fat layer has solidified, remove the whole "cake" from your pot, turn it over and scrape off whatever residue if any, that hasn't sunk to the bottom of the water/pot. Pour out the water and wash the pot, put your solid fat cake back in the pot and fill with clean water again, repeat above procedure until fat is nice, white and sweet smelling once again. I do this also with the cans of bacon grease I tend to collect/save. I take that brownish smelly gunk and boil the daylights out of it, until it's pure, white and doesn't even smell like bacon anymore... Once you've determined that your fat is clean, put only the fat cake into a clean pot and slowly bring it to a simmer. Not boil... Keep an eye on it and you will see tiny bubbles rising from the bottom of the pot. That is the water bubbling off/out of the washed fat. Make sure to only simmer and watch. Stirrig is ok but, I prefer just watching it so not to disturb the bubbles and thinking it's done. Once it has stopped bubbling, remove the pan from the heat right away and pour into clean, dry and hot caning jar/container. Put on lid, ring and let sit. If using a caning jar/lid/ring, it will seal due to it's hot. Also known as open kettle caning. If you accidentally scorch your fat while simmering/boiling out the water, repeat the "washing" again until clean. Sorry this is so long but, this is how I do it...

I just purchased enough canned cat food yesterday that will add enough to make 2 years worth. The canned cat food I get has doubled in price from a couple of years ago. $28 for 12 of the 5 oz cans... I am blessed that I also just got off from working overtime. I worked 90.1 hours just in overtime these last two weeks. Grateful that I can 🙏❤

Maybe it's different for you folks in the States, but here in Canada the MAJOR factor in our food prices going up is the cost of fuel. Farmers need fuel for their equipment. You need fuel for the trucks to pick up the ripe produce and deliver it to factories for processing, or to centres for cleaning and packaging. Then the goods have to be delivered by trucks to the stores and outlets where we can purchase the food. And with our smaller population, many of our remote towns and villages pay a hefty price for goods. Luckily most of them, like you, can produce a lot of their own fresh food and will can it themselves, but our growing season is a lot shorter, so we have to rely of imports which are trucked in. And with so many being out of work for so long, times are very tough already. And we are facing more tax increases on our gas and oil usage. Most of our politicians have never had to shop for food to feed their families, and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, but the road to hell is filled with good intentions. You cannot save the world by starving people.

Your channel has been sooooo helpful! I’m a mom of two under two and have started my prepper pantry. It is my obligation as a mother to ensure that my family is fed every single day, and by starting my prepper pantry my heart is at ease. Thank you for your insight, it truly helps! ❤️❤️

Ghee is also a great alternative to butter. If you buy it commercially packaged it can last for years on your shelf.

I’m doing everything I can to stock up and grow/can what’s coming in from our garden. I’ve been taking advantage of the chicken sales. Great video!

Thank you Leisa for all you do to keep us informed we greatly appreciate you❤

Lisa, I just bought chuck roasts for $4.99/pound and I canned it. I've been waiting for a more reasonable price at my local grocery store. I got 20 pints of beef out of it plus I put a small roast in the crock pot. I'm in Wisconsin. The normal sale price was $3.99/pound. I'm thankful that I could get it for a dollar more per pound.

Thank you for getting into the details of what pantry building is, our best hedge against inflation. We have never experienced the cost of groceries dropping hugely in price. Buy extra on sale, and stocking up gives you the best savings for your future food budget. I don't go down the rabbit holes, I just listen to farming news, and I pay attention to the extremes in climate change and realize that food can't optimally grow there. So when they can't grow bumper crops, costs go up, so plan. I am in the Manistee area and my tomato crop was horrible, too hot, not enough rain, and despite all of my best efforts and irrigation I only got 1/10 of what would be a normal harvest for the 84 plants. But I put up every bit of it. Last years harvest was bumper crop, and I still enjoying those products. I have bought from local farmers, although one scolded me for wanting to buy a total of 12 dozen ears of corn. So we just went to the next farm down the road, who was happy to sell me as much as I wanted, and smiled and thanked me. I will always support my local fellow growers, because we all need to help each other, always.

We eat very little beef, but venison is another story...hahaha. Been canning and dehydrating everything we possibly can...now have two pantries and both are full! I agree on the vac sealing canning jars...has saved us a ton!

Thank you for all of your sensible advice! ❤

I appreciate your video today It is so painful to go into the grocery store now a days I had a list of items I was out of and some that I wanted to put back in my preps and really it was a workout just to find some of what I am used to purchasing empty shelves are mostly empty so I was glad to get what I got and get home!!

thank you for being honest and down to earth...things to come...

I agree!!! It’s soooo scary out there. Let’s keep cooking from scratch.

My husband does most of the grocery shopping because I am an impulse shopper. I was at the store recently and saw $ signs in my head when I saw the prices for canned vegetables! Diced tomatoes, and green beans $1.59 a can. Really?! When I look at my pantry now I realize how much I've saved. Much of my abundant harvest was canned for an older disabled family member and the neighbors. Our store has a sale on English roasts for $3.49 a lb. Wasn't planning on canning more beef but feel I must at that price. Might not be able to get it next year.

Well said Leisa ! 👍🫶🏼

We had a great canning season, thankful. I started making condiments for my family. I’ll even use the old squeeze ketchup bottles for our Hm made recipes. I still need to can sweet potatoes, pumpkin and use up the last of my tomatoes I’ve been freezing into tomato soup.