You are right Linda. She is so good

My small freezer quit working. Everything had to be tossed out. So glad I had dried some items as well as froze some. Plus I keep in mind what if we lose electricity. Love dehydrating and powdering.

@@patfranks4024 If I lose power for something that might be long term, my outdoor bbq pit will be going non stop canning and every sheet I have will be spread on our metal roof covered in dehydrating things. The house is partially underground so it only a step stool height to get up there.

@@lindachandler2293 Parking a car in the sun works as a dehydrator also.

@@patfranks4024let ppl lol please belle any k

Thanks for this tip!

Preparing doesn't have to be expensive. It is what you make it. People who can learn how to survive off the land, will survive a lot longer than most. How do you learn? You obviously have KZfaq - watch videos and go outside and practice what you saw. - learn to make a filtered water system with a 2 liter soda bottle and dirt, rocks and other outdoor materials. - learn how to build a fire. - learn how to make candles out of items typically found in every house - learn how to make a small room heater with a clay pot, cupcake pan and dollar store candles - learn why boiling water is important and why you can't just drink Lake /ocean/creek water. - learn how to build a small wood stove with a plastic step stool and a little concrete. - look around your yard and your family/friends yards or local state park. Try to identify the trees, shrubs, leaves, vines, and other earth materials. What are they, they you eat them or are they poisonous. - everyday you eat - start cutting your meals in half. Take your usual sized meal,put it on a plate and split it into 2 equal portions. Then actually eat the leftovers, don't throw them away in a week. Training your body to eat less food now, while be extremely beneficial. - learn your area. What is around your home, your neighborhood, your subdivision, your town. Figure out what is available and you can get to if you only have a half a tank left in your vehicle. Don't go further out than half a tank, so you'll be able to get what you need and have the other half tank available to go back home. Figure out what is within bicycle range and what is within walking distance. For example: we have a lot of tornadoes where I live. So it's important to me to know where the nearest public tornado shelter. I don't just know where it is, but I've figured out the best way to get there in a vehicle and on foot. I know the route I take during the day and a different route I'd take at night. - once you've gotten used to cutting your meals in half and eating them twice. Every meal, every day, cut in half. Once you become accustomed to that, start cutting your 2 halves into half. Making 4 meals instead of 2. - do you have a flat iron? If not they are super cheap. Learn how to use a flat iron to reseal bags, like potato chips. Which extends the shelf of that food. - do you have a chili pot or stock pot? Learn how to reuse your pickle jars and pasta sauce jars and salsa jars and other glass jars by cleaning, sterilizing and then water bath canning. What can you put in glass jars using water bath to make it last longer? -stsrt going to yard sales and thrift stores and dollar stores to buy everyday things. That box of kraft macaroni is the same whether you buy it at the dollar store or the fancy grocery store. - buy toilet paper from the dollar store. It's not great, but if s.h.t.f you'll be glad you have something in your closet to use other than a wash cloth you then have to clean or your hand 🤢. - learn how to build a rainwater catch and filter system using 5 gallon buckets. Last time I looked you could still get food grade 5 gallon buckets at tractor supply for less than $4 a piece. Go talk to your local grocery store (foodland, food Town, piggy wiggly) anywhere that has a deli/bakery. Ask them if they have any used and empty 5 gallon buckets they are getting ready to throw away. Then ask if you can have a few. (Don't horde-pass your knowledge along and help save the next person)! - stop eating out. Everytime you get a craving for fast food - pull that money out of your account (I'm 1 person and used to eat fast food almost daily. An average size meal can easily cost you $20.) Go to your bank and take 20 out of atm. Choose instead to support local and find out when your local a l farmers market it. They are usually once a week in just about every town every where. Spend that $20 cash instead on something from the local farmers. If you see someone selling corn for example and you love corn. Buy $10 yo $20 worth and ask the farmer how they suggest storing this food for long term storage. - if you are like me you'll have $50 to $100 every week that you would have easily spent on fast food or restaurant eating out food. That's money that can go towards several farmers (who help produce all this wonderful food we eat every day). You're still getting food from that money, but it's much much healthier and you've gained some knowledge from each person you bought from in regards to properly storing this food. - one of the weeks you have this extra food money, buy one of those $40 knock off food savers. It does the same thing as the expensive one. They break down quickly if they are used a ton, but the expensive ones break down just as often. - learn how to vacuum seal things, like rice and beans, flour, sugar, etc. - learn how foods that "say" the expire in 1 year, can actually be stored a lot longer, if we just put some effort into repackaging them the right away. - start looking at labels, specifically the ingredients list. If you don't know what something is, give it a Google. Once your learn what that item is, if you're ok with eating it, go to the next ingredient name you don't know and Google and so on and so forth. If you get to an ingredient and you realize, "yuck" I don't want that in my body, immediately put the food item down. See if there are any alternatives, if so check the alternative label (those can be just as bad). Just cause something says "free range" or "organic "...does not always guarantee that's what your getting. Local farmers markets can tell you what pesticides, if any were sprayed on their food and what fertilizer, if any they use. Your local farmers can tell you how the food was grown or raised, what they fed it, how they harvested/picked it or how the meat was processed. They can tell you every step of their items from idea to your dinner table. - most of that information is hidden from us in the big box grocery store. - learn what items the off grid surviver considers absolutely essential and once you've cut your normal size dinner into 4 portions. Start buying half the amount of food you used to buy. If you normally spend $100 a week at the grocery store, you should now comfortably be able to spend just $50 and have plenty of food. -use that extra grocery store money to start buying those survival must have items.(keep in mind - in a s.h.t.f. scenario a $20 knife is better than no knife. Get the necessities but purchase the ones in your affordable category. If you can only afford a $20 pair of heavy winter gloves from Walmart, then buy those. Don't think you have to do without because you can't afford the $200 pair of fancy gloves.) - learn how to filter water with a bucket or a 2 liter bottle or dirt and clay and practice it often! - there are so many other things I could add to this list. But the point is, don't let money or a lack of money keep you from surviving! Every day you wake up is a day you can learn at least 1 new thing about surviving. If s.h.t.f happens, maybe you find someone on the road who had a ton of money but knew nothing about survival. Maybe that becomes a day you can pass theknowledge on and you can teach someone else the basics of survival! May the Lord bless all of our eyes to see, our ears to listen and our minds to learn. May He bless our mouths to only speak words of kindness and helpfulness. May He bless us with strength and courage for the times ahead of us. May He bless our hearts with enough love to show compassion to those around us. May he bless us with the willingness to share the knowledge we've learned with anyone and everyone! 🙏 Amen!

@@lexiburnham796 Wow Lexi!!! You put your whole heart into helping others and it shows.There are so many things I didn't know and didn't even know I didn't know! I'm going to print out this list and keep it close to me, to remind me that every step matters, even the baby ones. My biggest problem with your suggestions, is the one about cutting your meals in half. Then half again! Seems to me that if you're in shape, not counting that 19 pounds I still need to take off in order to fit my frame, why would you want to starve yourself for something that might not happen, at least for a good while yet? My theory is that the moment the bull droppings start flying around is the time to cut meals in half. Don't men need as much nourishment as they can get since for many their responsibilities will greatly increase as they take on more physically demanding things? Sorry I lost the plot on that question, I trust you will get it. Lexi, you have saved lives, of that I have no doubt, at least you gave them a fighting chance. Once again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for your caring and compassion for your fellow man. May Peace be upon you!

@@lexiburnham796 you are such a fantastic lady, thank you for being you and passing your amazing knowledge on to other good people. God bless you and your family.🙏🙏🙏❤

@@lexiburnham796 I have been working on cutting down meals. I am now down to one meal a day. I go 20 hrs fasting and have a 4 hr eating window. Now to work on reducing the content of that one meal so that it is balanced with enough protein fat and carbs. I am 70 yrs along in this life and feel great. Water is now my main focus. I have a Berkey and know that the filters will not always be available. Need to figure out a way to layer easily found materials to filter water. Silk fabric is the best for the first filter. Find that in the second hand shop men's shirt section. xxxl please lol Very useful list. So much is about changing perspective. Change is about the only constant in this life. Thank you so much.

So nice of you

My pleasure! Thanks for watching!

Any time!

Happy to help!

Glad it was helpful!

I'm so glad!

Thanks, Mary!

I am glad you found it helpful!!

Waste NOT Want NOT~!

You should!

Thank you! 😃

It's definitely better in bulk, I just don't have a giant stockpot. Mine is just a 12-16 Qt (can't remember which). I'd do so much more at once if I had more stock at once!

You should!

You are so welcome!

Glad it was helpful!

You are so welcome! have fun!

Thanks!!! Looking forward to the canning series from you and Leisa this month!

oh if only you knew how VALUABLE this video and your efforts are!!!! THANK YOU SOO MUCH

You are very welcome - I'm glad it was helpful!

I hope you love the outcome!!!

I've got some jerky going at the moment and then after I get all the trays cleaned back up then I will do some onions, garlic and zucchini (I will save a few of each for this next go round) ❤

You are so welcome!!

Awesome! Thank you! I appreciate you so much!

A book? I need to look that up. Does it also have recipes?

Glad it was helpful!

Composting is a valid way to use them! You're feeding the things that feed you!

Glad I could help!

Awesome!

My pleasure 😊

Have fun!

Thanks for sharing!!

Wow, thank you!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Awesome!

Perfect!

You're welcome!!!

Glad it was helpful!

Glad it was helpful!

You haven't seen my other videos lol. I'm a messy cook, and don't always because I'm just going to mess it up again.

@@ThePurposefulPantry I've been watching your dehydrating videos I'll have to look for cooking videos

It was my grandmother's

Glad it was helpful!

Glad it was helpful!

Glad it was helpful!

Happy to help!

Thank you so much!

Oh no! Just remember, by safest standards, bone broth powder needs to be stored in the freezer.

Glad it gave you a great idea!

Thanks again!

I just checked, and the YT generated CC is there - perhaps it might have been turned off on your device?

Initially, holding down the button isn't great for your grinder because things need to be broken up first, and then you continually hold down. I have found it puts less stress on the machine over time.