I found some dry black beans with a best by date of 2013 recently. I soaked for 24 hours and then pressure cooked for 35 minutes. They were fine but didn’t tell my husband until they were gone. 😀

I've started putting all my pantry items in large glass jars. That keeps my products fresher and neater.

Hope and Larry, I have been hanging out with you guys for just over 2 months now, but I must say you have already saved me lots of cash. But what is more important, you brought back the smile on my face. Thank you ever so much for your videos, advice and smiles on your faces. Keep posting and keep up the good job.

If you have old beans, soak them in hot water with a couple teaspoons of baking soda overnight. Rinse and then cook as you normally would. Has worked for me everytime

Thank you for your videos. Dry beans that have become too old to cook in a reasonable amount of time can be ground into flour. You can use the flour in non yeast recipes or for gravy. Adds extra protein as well.

Good Tip about only buying what your family or you will eat. I try to put stuff in my pantry that I know I will use, as I’m a single person. Recently got some canned goods for a good price to add to my stash. Can’t cook much right now due to a procedure has left me only with one arm to use for a week, so this really made me take a note to ensure I have food at home in case in the future I am unable to drive like I am unable to this week.💕 from Canada.

Yes, I use bay leaves between my rice, pasta & bean layers & I've never had a problem. If you get get those moths & it becomes a problem, put fresh or dry lavender around the infested areas & you will see them drop like flies in about a day. I think an oil diffuser with lavender oil would also work. I hope this helps!

I used to write the day on the cans of when I bought them, in black marker to be able to see it quickly, but then I noticed that I could buy the same thing in another store later on, and the best by date came a year sooner. So I found that it was better to check each can and put on it the actual best by date. This takes longer, but is much more accurate as to when it needs to be used. So that is what I do now. Also, not everyone has a deep freezer, or room in their fridge freezer. If you store rice or something in a canning jar, and use a Food Saver to remove the oxygen, and you can even add oxy absorbers, insects can't live in an oxygen free environment. Just as good as freezing. You are right that you should buy what your family already eats. You don't want to be wasting money on things they may not like, and won't eat. Thank you for the video.

Oh my gosh I just love your videos! You both are such a great team and give so much valuable information to all of us. Thank you so much!

I keep my chia seeds in the freezer too. I keep way more than we’ll normally eat for emergency preparedness. They’re nutrient dense and calorie dense so in a food scarcity situation it’ll really help us out.

Take your old dried beans, stuff in a new sock, tie off, microwave for three minutes for a cheap heating pad & buy fresh beans.

I lost it at "Bob the Moth". 😂😂😂 Thank you so much for all the great tips! I learned a few things today!!

Hello again, your posts are ausumn. There for a while I wasn't sure what way to go since my wifes passing and our only daughter in 2017. It's a long haul but thanks to people like you showing strength in many ways and I can do it yet. A long story but bless you two.

I started keeping track of how much Of items I am using each month. This helps me know how much I need for a year and what I need to get when any extra money comes my way or money saving coupons. So I don't stock too much of items I don't use. I also am cutting back on the amounts of items I'm using. I've cut back on how much coffee is use in my coffee maker, paper towels being used over again if possible, wash my aluminum foil off and reuse it. Pickup extra napkins when I pickup fast food for my Aunt then I use those instead of paper towels.

All I would add is to make sure you have ingredients to feed family with no electricity or water available for three days. Many parts of our infrastructure rely on electricity including in many cases our water systems. Which also means you need at least 3 days of water for each family member. You don't want to have to use your emergency water to boil beans.

Thanks for the “freezing” and bay leaves information. I always freeze walnuts and pecans also. They keep longer and fresher.

I have to say that I really love the two of yours. You have such a great personlity and work so wonderful together. And.. and you have a great channel.

Good basic information for people who are new to cooking from scratch and new to living frugally.

My pantry is rotational. EVERYTHING I have in it we eat or go through within a few months time and once something is used (say a can of tuna and two cans of soup) I replace those pretty quickly in the next grocery trip but I have PLENTY stocked so I never run out, just slowly replace as they are used :) The only thing in my pantry that is not on rotation, although I do use them from time to time, is my Augason Farms preps. I buy 2 cans every 4 months to build up my supply!

Watching here ,a new friend

Good video I drink a lot of tea 🇬🇧

Hey Hope and Larry! Love this video! I personally now have about a year’s (possibly more) supply of oats, several flours, beans (including lots of lentils) white rice, and soy.Now I want to focus on getting quinoa, more oats, Maseca to make tortillas as that’s a staple in our home. My other goals is to get a grain grinder so I can get wheat berries, and we get a lot lentils because they take less time, energy and water to cook. I also keep ACV, blackstrap molasses, cane sugar.Also, bottles of water (buying plastic bottles breaks my heart tho), canned tomatoes and hot peppers. I also keep in my pantry stock of zote soap as it’s multipurpose as is baking soda, borax and washing soda.

New Subscriber, My name is Sharon and I am a 65 yr young single female all alone and I believe God led me to your channel. I would love for you to do a video in depth for dummies on how you power your refrigerator and other items in your home with the battery. I can not afford a generator and at 88 lbs I get cold very easily. I am on a budget so I can not afford to loose my food if the power goes out. Please Please Please do a video about this, I saw where in the past other subscribers have ask for this. You two are adorable and are so lucky to have each other.

Its all about being organised and knowing what you have. Good points about Dates.

Learned a few things from this video. Just requested the pantry workbook . Thank you so much!

One thing I was just thinking you should buy is powdered milk I had to drink it as a kid and yes I hate it but you can cook with it

Thank you for the ideas. Love you both.

Great show today. Learned some new things today, and am looking forward to upcoming shows. Thank you for being here for us all.

Thank you guys! ❤️

Hi Larry and Hope, I love to watch your show...all the way from South Africa ! A tip from my side : to keep any critters from cornmeal ,oatmeal , rice etc. Just stick a few dried fig branches into the container and seal airtight. It really works xxxx

Love watching your videos and I am loving your free ebooks. Thank you both for all the tips.

I put in what I use. I constantly look for suggestions on items I may have overlooked.

My challenge at this point is that my 6yo is extremely picky, even when she helps me cook. She loves helping me cook for myself and for others, but she won't eat a lot of what she helps cook. Except mac-n-cheese.

Thank you for making this video.

This video was so good, I listened to it twice. GREAT INFORMATION, HERE....THANK YOU SO MUCH! LOVE the tips about the storing of dry goods as well as the "hack" about the bay leaves.🙂🙂🙂

Awesome video! Thanks

Good tip on writing second date on items! 👍

Thanks for the video! Encourages us to get busy!!

It's prepping time.. thanks for sharing

🙋🏼‍♀️ hi Larry and Hope, So good to see you once again. We actually have everything in.our ER Food Pantry, non of our goods need to be refrigerated and will last 3 to 5 years, every item is what we will eat. We do not buy or stock what we wont eat or use. Make sure to keep a Running Inventory List., Food Pantry, deep freezers. Date every item, the day you brought it in the home, and the date its opened. I keep our Ground coffee in our deep freezer. Hope I made Chili for our Supper and used Impossible Sausage Vegan, My Cowboy loved it, ate 2 bowls !!! He of course lol didn't know. Delicious, Love this video, great job guys ❤🇺🇲

Thank you!☮🙂

Love your videos!!

This is so cool. It's like pbs. You two are great hosts.

Thanks for the great tips both 👍 I was listening to you talking about storing flour and rice and the potential bug problems and thinking of mine that hasn't been put in the freezer, and is just sitting there on the shelf and my face was like 😳 🤣

Hi hope and Larry you can also vacuum seal different foods using a brake bleeder and it will seal the food in the mason jars for a really long time

Larry, you’re so funny. “I don’t know beans” 😂

Always enjoy your videos 🇬🇧 UK

Great info… thanks 😊

I put my flour and cornmeal in the freezer and took it out and had sat it out for a while and kept looking for bugs. Now I know why no bugs. TFS!💝

Loved this content.. V useful

Hi Hope and Larry. Great info and sounds like 2 more very informative videos coming. I would also put the item's expiration date on it. Have bought same item, different times, and turns out older one had a further out expiration date than newer one. Surprised me. See you next one!

I really enjoyed this. Trying to make sure I have enough for winter incase some things go down hill, per the preppers I’ve seen. Thank you.

Great tips! I especially liked the tip about writing the dates on the cans! …Deborah Gnagey!

Love this channel !

Ditto. I stockpile all the same things...but not in the quantities you do. I live alone. I've kept a stash of these things for years and years....really decades. I rotate through them to make sure I'm using the oldest first. A few notes...I may have shared with you before (can't remember where I share what!) 1. I dilute soft soap by at least 50%. 66% is just fine too. You just need to be able to see a few soap bubbles. It's actually the friction that cleans. 2. I dilute or decrease laundry detergent by at least half. On a front loader, if you can see bubbles, you've put too much detergent in. On a top loader, if you can barely see soap bubbles (or, really, even if you don't) , you're OK; clothes will come out clean. If you want to strip detergent residue, every once in a while, add some vinegar. Don't do this too often because (voice of experience), it'll weaken and basically eat through fabrics. It's an acid. Be sparse with it, use sparingly. It'll make colors vibrant again...even blacks...they'll look blacker. It makes clothes look almost brand new. 3. Light bulbs: my area electric company gives out free light bulbs to those who ask for a free energy evaluation of their homes. In some circumstances, they'll actually insulate your house. I've also been known to unplug everything except the fridge to lower electric bills. (I turned the stove off at the breaker box till I needed it and then turned it off again as soon as I finished using it.) 7. Hydrogen peroxide: I've used it for years to sanitize toothbrushes. I keep a small jar in the medicine cabinet of it to soak my toothbrush in in between uses. Then, when I brush, I don't rinse out the peroxide. I put a dab of toothpaste on top of it and brush. It whites teeth a bit. The only only REALLY IMPORTANT THING is to DILUTE by 50% water. Hydrogen peroxide is not only an acid, it's a strong enough acid to eat through and destroy soft tissue...like gums. So, DILUTE by 50% and make sure to RINSE THOROUGHLY with water after use! 14. I've bought cases of canned goods for years. It makes it so that I don't have to go to the store as often. Learned in an economics class decades ago, that the less we enter a store, the less we spend overall, because there are less opportunities to snag impulse buys. 17. I add sweet pickle relish to condiments stored, because I love them and use them in a dish I often eat. I didn't hear salt on your list. Not only does it last forever, if you're a brave soul, you can brush your teeth with it and use it as a sort of deodorant.....and use it on a slice of lemon as an abrasive cleaner on things like brass, sinks, bathroom fixtures, etc. Thought I'd also share with you a way to de-bug rice I learned decades ago at a convent. People would donate a 100 lbs. at a time. It would get bugs. When it came time to take more out of the 100 lb. sack, they would fill a large (huge, industrial size sheet cake pan...flat, with sides... and as a convent, they did have restaurant style and sized cookware) pan with hot, almost boiling water. Before hand, they'd have filled up a slightly smaller pan (that would sit in the larger pan) with rice. As soon as the smaller pan hit the larger pan with hot water in it, bugs would scramble fast to get out of that hot rice. So, they'd jump overboard...right into the pan of nearly boiling water. I tried it; it works! Plus, you don't have any frozen bug parts left. It kills bug eggs, too. As soon as there are no more escaping bugs, remove the pan with rice from the hot water pan. Let the rice cool and then pack it in air tight containers. It hasn't cooked...cook it in the usual way.

Larry, I sure like your "cool as a moose " mug. Great idea to write when something is bought. I put the date on things I open. I dehydrate some foods so that I can have it on hand & it doesn't go bad. I have dehydrated mushrooms (got on clearance) & celery.

So funny when your coaster stuck to your mug as that always happens to me! 😁 I am planning on doing another stockpile for my pantry as the weather is getting cold. Thanks again for all your tips. Definitely taking notes on this! 📝

I love your channel and I’m excited for the new series! My family is plant based and I just recently started buying things like beans and grains in bulk. My dilemma is how to store them with limited space-especially that meets the criteria you mentioned for food storage. I’m not sure which route to go- food buckets, Mylar bags, storage bins... hope you’ll be sharing your favorite ways to store these types of foods. I’m also curious, do you keep long term foods like freeze dried foods in your pantry?

Excellent !!

Thanks for the bay leaf tip. It'll have to pick some Myrtle wood leaves and dry them. Voila bay leaves.

I'll just share my experience with freezing my grains for 3 days - was not enough, and I still had moths! I am now trying to put them in the freezer for a week.

I just had to throw away some cheese. I have been so good about not wasting food, but this one slipped past me. I love this video. There re so many great ideas.

Poor bugs 😁 that's why I freeze my rice too

Rope, cord, matches, cigarette lighter, Duck tape, tarp, oil lamps, oil, deck of cards.

You can get a bay leaf plant at the garden store though if you have a very cold winter you may need to protect it. 🌺🙏🌺

Larry's coffee mug is amazing!!!!! #coolasamoose

Such good advice, especially concerning buying foods that you will eat. I used to buy protein additives for my smoothies, but never liked them. Money wasted every time.

Oh Hope, Larry set you up! I don't know beans! HA! I laughed out loud !!

Great idea on coffee beans

I would add oats to the list of things that should go into the freezer for a few days. We have had so much trouble with oats having moth larvae in them that we keep the oats in the freezer now.

I love how he always has a cup of coffee (or tea).

I didnt know you could freeze flour interesting i love corn meal for breakfast ate it as a kid good listening

And the jars keep the products free of bugs as well. This is why I use them! I use my jar sealer to do the deed. I live in the south where we have an abundance of trees that seem to harbor tiny bugs.

A lot of people in the Caribbean do this as bay leaf trees grow here

Hi! Thanks for your sharing, thought I would share a tip I recently learned by experience. When planning an emergency pantry, like you can’t buy groceries? Seriously consider testing your stock by doing a pantry challenge! We have been doing this and find we needed to consider items in our supplies, because you just might have to eat a little differently than you normally do! One example we found with no butter, I found I was okay in many situations replacing this fat with olive oil in some instances and coconut oil in others. Coconut oil works to butter my toast with and to make chocolate chip cookies 🍪 with 😉 We knew we would desire sweet treats on occasions and bought prepared pie fillings only to discover we enjoyed the flavor of simple canned fruits instead of the mix. Which had more flavor as well as far more versatility!

Dry beans continue to get dryer. They will get to a point that soaking or cooking won’t make the old beans eatable. Insects don’t like mint either.

I don't do tons of rice and beans ( I have some for if TSHTF) .. I do like can goods ( but space is an issue for cans) I prefer date of purchase.. ( the use by date is hard to see) I have ground coffee to last 3-4 months.. But beans take up too much space for me.. I prefer instant and freeze dried instant coffee for long ( past 3 months) term after the ground coffee used up. But very good practical storage advice, loved this clip.

Stock dates, best buy dates do differ. Don't buy food or sizes of packaging you know you won't use before the product goes bad. I have enough buorbon and syrup for probably a year. Cocoa and tea, not coffee for me. Pasta n dry beans need placed in glass bars in a cool dark place. (Thanks to mice.) I am very slowly getting my 3 month pantry done.

Thanks, But sometimes on the side dish products and beginning one person, it is more covenant and less waste.., but do understand and keep both....Thanks for the tips..❤⚘

Just an idea for your background view: Move the lamp so the pretty flower decoration shows. Thanks. Good points made on the show--- which I have done from your 20 essentials to stockpile series. I appreciate the reminder of what to buy.

I pretty much keep anything whole (brown rice, ww flour, stoneground cornmeal) in the freezer permanently. I find it keeps them fresh for a year. White rice, white flour, and popcorn seem fine on the shelf (after the initial freeze.)

I am an older single senior. One thing to made a note of is size of canned goods. Like you noted is dried food like beans, rise, sugar, flour. We have never been in a situation that we have been without power or water for very long. In my 70 plus years I can count on one hand when we have been without power for more than a day.

Listening at the office. Can't NOT listen to y'all's videos, even when I miss the premieres.

Your husband is just like my father he was the best teacher story teller lone winded and wonderful talented he was i see that in your husband teaching kids is a good idea

I do the three-day freeze treatment with any grain product I bring home. I had a meal moth infestation a few years back and it took a couple of weeks to get rid of them completely. I did make use of them though - I put them out in plates where the Carolina Wrens gladly chomped the mealworms. Waste nothing! lol btw, Bay Laurel essential oil - a few drops on a piece of paper can be substituted for the actual leaves.

I have never done canning but am always in envy of the exhibits at the State Fair. I am really interested in canning meat, you get a great price but preservation prevents you from buying extra. My mother died & I still have food that is still good she caned. I take that back, I have pickled some things but never pressure cooked them. In the 80's I tried a hand at dehydration & made some pretty good beef jerky. Problem is, those .99 cents a pound briskets are now three dollars a pound. I tried some dried Cuttle Fish a Thai guy had, the flavor would not leave for a long time.

Larry's bean joke was funny.

I dunno if there's a solution for this, but my problem (and I understand it's a pretty common one with ADHD) is that it's out of sight out of mind. It's not like I'm a dumbdumb, I swear, but I store things somewhere dark and closed away and I literally forget it exists until the cows come home or it spoils, whichever comes first. The only real solution I've found to not waste food this way is to store things out in the open and ideally in clear containers, but I know that's not good for shelf life so 🙈

You guys are so cute!!!

I try to rotate everything so I don’t waist anything. Only buy what you eat! Have some extra to bless others. Spam taste great with pineapple. Yes. We eat spam. I have a son whose vegetarian so have lots of bean burgers in #10 cans. We are bugout location for the family. We have a very rural farm.

Albertson's starting 10/20/2021, digital coupns, Campbell's Tomato & Chicken Noodle Soup, three cans for a dollar, limit six. Lucerne 6-8oz. shreeded cheese for .99 each, limit two. Russet potatoes, five bag for .79, limit two.

A No-Code Ham radio license & a cheap hand held radio for if the internet & cell phones go Kapoey. Ham radio has been with us for about a century & is a fall-back for communications. In the old days when long distance could be across town, we had Ham radio link phone lines without Ma Bell picking our pockets. Ham radio use to communicate with the Space Station.

Oh! I don't wanna miss the winter electrical next show! How to make a backup with battery

When I open a container that has to be used up in a certain amount of time, I put the date it needs to be discarded on the container. That really helps me use things up and not throw so much away. On my cans etc. in the pantry I put the use by or best by date in big numbers on the outside so I use them up in a timely manner. I live in the PNW and have never had a problem with bugs in my flour etc. Don't know why but I am thankful. I used to live in Hawaii where absolutely everything was bug prone. Yuck.

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Florida has NO cool, dark, dry 🤦‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

Neem leaves too. Also broken coconut shells

I've been replacing millet for quinoa. Even more protein and minerals and usually less costly. It's an acquired taste, but well worth it. I bet your Amish store has millet available in bulk.

Vinegar, especially 9%, is a great disinfectant. I use it everyday instead of bleach or Clorox products.

I’ve been noticing that canned goods from stores now last less than a year based off the Best by date.