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Wow! Thank you so much for sharing that with me

Wow! Good for you! No telling what’s coming in this crazy world!

I m from Europe , Belgium , i follow you all 2 years , but , i wonder me , why you stock up so much ?that's amazing , i never See here 🤔

Great idea with gift cards, visas adding this to my stockplie/emergency

@@petrab.-c.1470 everyone is different on why they stockpile. I have a very very small stockpile. Me personally, I stock extra because 1.) my job is very inconsistent, if I get let go = no food…so I buy things for that kind of emergency 2.) when the pandemic happened, people bought things in a panic. I’m talking about no toilet paper, no diapers, etc etc. crazy times… 3.) the weather where I live is very inconsistent. Tornados, snow, etc. one winter, we can have weather that is 88 degrees F and one winter we can have 14 inches of snow. My city can’t handle that kind of weather. When it snows like that, EVERYTHING shuts down. We like to have extra food for when we get stranded and stuck in the house.

@paige rose Thanks!

Nice tks

Well, I was 72 when I learned this tip today!! Two heads are Really better than this old one.

Thank you

Thanks!

Yes. Very good smart European thinking. I am European Australian and we lived right out in the remote bush with the Australians another European migrants,including Russians etc and we all stashed away food, clothing etc supplies, even the Australian people because droughts, floods, fires and disasters routinely hit us and we could be cut off , left with no food supplies etc unless we did this. There were no shops for hundreds of miles and nobody had cars, maybe a horse but even if you could travel so far, nobody had money to buy things. We just made or grew everything ourselves and swapped produce etc with others for what we could make or grow ourselves. We always had enough food, clothes etc because we all worked hard,were very frugal and smart and stashed food and things for some unpredictable future disaster. Although we had no cars and walked for miles of dirt tracks to visit neighbourhbours etc and there was no gas or electricity or TV and very few telephones, for extreme emergencies only, we still live very well and life was hard but good. The Aussies made good beer and whiskies etc, though I suspect some of this and tobacco growing etc might have been illegal, but nobody told anybody, so nobody ever found out. My father grew all sorts of fruit trees, grapes etc and made fine wines and liqueurs plus we had cows, goats etc for milk so we also made fine cheeses. An Aussie farmer's wife made good butter she chrned herself with an ancient butter making machine she had,s well as scalded cream for apple pies another lady made, using my father's apple she grew. Mum made sour dough bread weekly using an ancient sour dough yeast a Ukrainian migrant lady had somehow managed to get to Australia in her suitcase. The Aussies hated this hard crust bread but the local Aborigines liked it and would beg for it, offering some native fungus they found in the forests for us to eat. We knew they meant kindness offering their native "black fella bread" as they called it. But we didn't dare eat it. So, to not offend them,we took it, thanked them and then fed it to our pigs we kept for dad and his mates to slaughter and make beautiful smoked Parma ham, sausages etc,to swap the Aussies for their lamb and beers, tobacco etc. They loved to his special very expensive bacon to buy it in as hops and would som we times come to we ith bags of oysters, cr as yfush, prawns etc they caught up out fishing, to swap it for bacon, wine, fruits, veget as bkes etc we grew or eggs, chickens, duck me as t etc from our many ducks. It was as very tough hard life but we ate like royalty. Cra yfish, oysters, prawns, big steaks,fine wines and cheeses everyday. Fancy pies and cream cakes etc the Aussies and Germans, English ladies made. We had to eat all the food very fresh because it was very hot in summer and there were no refrigerators and many flies in that part of Australia which came from all the many sheep further north in New South Wales. Everybody preserved some sort of fruit or vegetables or made sauces. They were stored under houses or in dug out cellars that sometimes flooded. I ember these pickled cucumbers some Russians or Poles used to make which my mother, who pickled small Latin style cucumbers said we're "too old and big to pickle" but I liked them all the same. There was an abundance of food for all, despite poverty and hard living conditions. But when I recently went back there to see the area,all this life and culture had disappeared. All that was there were young social drop out youth complaining about poverty but not lifting a finger to do any work to help themselves. So, I guess they reap what they some. Nothing....

@@AussieChic968 wow what a life! I loved it all (except for the flies) 😁

You are rich in preparedness!

Cook the lentils in beef broth, if I make sloppy joes I have a recipe that uses lentils instead of ground beef - it is such a hit for everyone that eats them. I also make a lentil meatloaf that everyone loves...then there are the carrot dogs...not lentils but they taste just like hot dogs...:)

@@jean-mariefogarty6165 where can we get some of those recipes

I've never eaten or used lentils. I'll defnitely try that. Thanks.

@@lauralarkin5454 I thought I put the links in but, the sloppy joe recipe is from Canadian Budget Binder website, the Glazed Lentil Apple Walnut Loaf is from Oh She Glows website and the carrot dogs are from Clean Eating Veggie Girl website

I've always used 1/2 mushrooms & half beef in my recipes but I'll try the lentils!

Great idea!

And pumpkin rolls!!! Yum

I also have food allergies so I need To find lactose free everything!

Same. the only problem is it's so much more expensive. I've been stocking up slowly on items and waiting for sales.

I can relate! My husband has 9 food allergies on top if being lactose intolerant. I'm glad I had a lot of safe foods on hand for him.

@@audreyhertz301 homesteading family

Yep I have celiac and need to be gluten free and I store alot of food just in case

so does applesauce make a great substitute for oil in pumpkin bread and other christmas treats . . . .

How do you store dehydrated potatoes and vegetables for longest storage? What do you store them in

thank youu!

This is a great tip. I had forgotten about.

Kimmy actually mentions this

Do you use the same amount? Like if you need 5 cups of white flour do you us five of oat

Yes and oats can be used to make oat milk!

@@lauralarkin5454 oatmeal flour works, but it is more dense, aka no gluten. Works great as a 1:1 replace for flour in quick breads and muffins that are more dense anyways. Bread is very different and would only follow a recipe or replace some of the flour with oat if you’re running short on flour.

When I make recipes where I use cans of vegetables or packaged cubed ham in my crockpot I always rinse the ham multiple times in a colander. I never add salt as all processed food even low sodium has lots of salt in it.

You might try a red yellow green inventory that stays on fridge. What needs to be used ASAP. And what is about to move to red status. I’ve gotten in a habit of putting one shelf or bin with the stuff we need to use. I’ve even started sorting like apples. The softer ones versus still crisp.

@@teliciamckee9477 I really love me this idea! Thanks 😊

I much prefer the bagged nonfat dry milk.no soy, and I use it in hot cocoa mix, baking, mac & cheese, and sauces. skip chef boyardee, it’s loaded with msg and salt

At my store the Nido milk is on both the baking aisle and on the baby aisle.

Don't forget a tad of vanilla help the milk.

Soy goes rancid in 6 months.

Costco has Nido in super huge cans. As a single person I'd have to use my FoodSaver after opening that can! I buy nonfat dry milk instead.

I use good quality Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers. Use the quart size, then store them in 3 gallon plastic food buckets sealed.

Oh you freeze it twice? Good to know, thanks. x

I have been researching how to store arms and ammo for the very long term. More difficult than I imagined.

I'm at the non food items now too. Great idea to keep small bills of cash.

I put everything like that in the fridge but we do have 2 fridges. Don’t have to worry about bugs in there either. We used to have a huge bug prob prior to putting everything in the fridge

So true. I also have to store my beans, lentils n rice in the freezer bec of the bugs that get into them. Hot climate causes that her in South Africa.

If there is nothing else to eat they may find out they quite like rice.

What about broth in "boxes" popular now? shelf-life?

Thanks for the Salsa info i go this week to Wally World . I buy the one from Sams Club in the big glass jar usually, but will see if they have that there stay safe

I am in the same boat. If you have any tips, I would love to hear them. I keep rice and a few gf oats on hand, but the shelf life of gf flours are short.

Yes! I’m so excited to start that up

God bless u

They were tiny not #10 but still ok deal beside being double charged n they said their was nothing they could do about it so I canceled n was refunded.

Vidalia 😂😅😊. I caught that also. But I tried them and I didn't like them.

Once they sprouted eyes, can plants in food safe 5 gallon bucket, so still usability afterwards.

Thanks friend!

I agree! I have the smallest pantry, it holds nothing! Extreme climates mashed unsafe to store food in the garage. I'd love to have a room like that

@@robindanza7758 I actually store some food in bedroom closet for extra space

@@andreacremeans1055 that's where I store my canning shelf with my food jars and caning equipment

Kimmy Where did you get the shelves I want. To get some did you buy all at once or one a month

Welcome to family!

Please share how you use the canned beef products in a video. That is something i don;t normally buy.

Ahh, the ShopRite Can Can sale!

@@carmarasmussen8118 YES !

That's your whole grocery budget? Or is that what you spend on extra food to stockpile?

You’re expecting sales?

I feel you. I'm on disability and I get $73 a month for food stamps and I can only allow an extra $15 a week out of my check for groceries. It's tough