We have prep for many years.....my great grandparents, grandparents, mom and dad and me. Only we called it getting ready for winter! We worked all year round. People have forgotten all that. That's why folks have gardened for years.

I love how you incorporate your kids into everything and teach them as you go. It is clear that you are someone who really respects your kids as human beings. ❤️ I recently discovered your channel, and I am loving it! Great content - witty and informative.

Momma!! I think you have got to be the cutest on KZfaq! I seriously would love to sit at a table with you over an iced tea and a good meal! People used to call me a food hoarder, because I would buy 2-3 of something on a good sale like bbq sauce, canned tomatoes.. when lockdown happened and the grocery stores ran out of everything we were more than ok, and I had enough to share a little with friends. Now I show them how to do it themselves. And they don’t call me a hoarder anymore!

Fellow Tennessean here. Girl, we Southern women know all about this, don't we? I appreciate you teaching others what our mamas and grandmamas taught us.

Mixing different beans together I find gives a more satisfying "heartiness" to a meal. I may miss meat in a meal containing one type of bean, but I never seem to miss it in a meal containing a variety of different beans. For this reason, I always "mix it up" when making a meatless dish.

The Sazon flavoring sold at dollar tree..Is really good. If your are making any soups..It helps build that broth base. I use it with my vegetables all the time.

Brooke, sometimes I get teary-eyed watching you and hearing you talk about food insecurity- we have 3 kids and I choose to stay home and homeschool 2 of them ( the 3rd is back at public school) and man it is damn hard with 1 paycheck! It's hard with 2! You inspire me to look at all the aspects and rethink things. I am watching from New York and just adore you! I so appreciate what you are sharing. Thank you!! xo

“Just in case” pantry is perfect. I always have one extra loo roll etc hidden away “just in case”. It sounds so much more positive your right. Love what you are doing. Hope you have fun making these videos

You are the real deal. Thank you for showing us we don’t have to have tons of money to start a food pantry.

Sometimes in the Hispanic section of the grocery store, they will have seasonings in clear plastic envelope-looking bags. These can be purchased quite cheaply, sometimes under a dollar. Also, in Walmart's Hispanic section, they have 7 oz bags of pasta for about 47¢. Better than none, especially if you only have a dollar or so for your "Just in Case" pantry. Thank you for another outstanding video!

After I married ....many moons ago. I started a pantry with one small shelf and a large box. That was it! Money was tight! So before I went grocery shopping.. I shifted any canned food or products out of my cabinets that were left and that I thought I could spare out of our stock. And put it in my box or on the shelf. And then did my grocery shopping. If I found something on sale I bought 1 extra for my pantry. It slowly stacked up. We get storms here and the power can be out for 2 weeks. That little pantry grew ,...and helped us more times than I can count.

NIDO brand powdered milk...sold in the Spanish food section. Comes in canisters. This milk product is good because it has vitamins for kids added and milk fats in it. And in a pinch could make a baby formula. Because it has the vitamins in it. Just add the karo. This would be for babies without milk allergies. And you could use it as well to make butter.

I always buy the pink salt, shelf stable milk, the pasta and beans from the Dollar Tree. 😊

I Love how real you are and how you are teaching your babies important survival skills.

I love your just in case. We have done that for years and it got us through a 2 year span of unemployment. Not just for a post-apocalyptic world.

Thank you for being real! A lot of us are on restricted budgets and the stuff you buy and fix are doable. I appreciate your wisdom and advice. I’ve been increasing my pantry for a while now. I think between my neighbor and I we could feed ourselves for six months. And try to feed others along the way. We have a mini neighborhood food pantry that I try to donate to. Keep up the good work, you have quite a mission.

Hey Brooke 💜 this is a fabulous video to help someone get a " just in case" pantry started. As with almost anything when you're just starting out & you haven't done it before you need some help knowing how to do it! I searched for preppers who I could get help from - many show big stock up hauls from the membership stores $500 & up then they turn a room and all the closets over to pantries! That wasn't helping me - I live in a small apartment & I don't have $500 to put out for stock piling! The help you give us is helping us so much!! Love you 💞 & keep 'em coming

Prepping 4 yrs. It has saved me many times. Sickness job loss emergencies etc

I love videos like this, while I have my pantry well established it’s always a good reminder to have a starter pack made up for a new home as a welcome gift

your dollar tree is way better stocked than mine!!!!! I got called a hoarder yesterday because I teach people how to cook with their food storage.

Where we live in Arkansas we have tornadoes, significant snows (fairly high elevation where we’re at), and sometimes our small town just runs out of some items at the grocery store and we don’t have options of places to shop. So, a “just in case” pantry is exactly what it is for us!

I just came across your channel. I have watched a few of your vids and I must say I love how well mannered your boys are!💙

Thank you for this video. I don't know how many budget cooking videos I've seen where it's assumed we all have a seasoning, oil, etc. If someone has had a house fire and need to totally start over today in temporary housing they wouldn't have all of the usual pantry items.

Add a gallon of water also for emergency food scary for loss yes I'm with you and maybe a breakfast food like oatmeal or grits too

When I began to build my pantry some years ago, I spent £5 a week specifically and I bought one spice/herb each week. It was easier that way as they’re quite expensive here.

Loved the video! My breakfast nook table has benches instead of chairs and I plan on building boxes to fit underneath them and that's where I'll store my 'just in case' items.

Before lock down I stocked up as much as possible, including toilet paper. We only had to do to the store for eggs or milk. My husband thought i was crazy. Now he helps me stock up if he sees a sale or uses his 5 off if 25 coupon for Dollar General. He saw the value of being well prepared. When toilet paper was one pack per person i would get it and share with family and friends because we had plenty. It is good to be prepared and in today's world economic environment it is like an investment. Thanks for the video.

I'm a hurricane prepper, raised by my grands and parents who all lived through the great depression. I just call myself "old school".

Excellent and informative. Great ideas. Today I realized that after grocery shopping yesterday with my list I had forgotten some important items. One of them was MILK. Grabbed my shelf stable milk from the pantry and I'm good to go. I used shelf stable milk in Europe for years. Well with the wars etc. In The Balkans we were not sure about anything. We could buy 12 in a case. Ice cold shelf stable milk delicious. Don't ever be nervous to use it.

This is awesome and thank you. Next time try doing this at Aldi. I would love to see that.

Great ideas

I just love your positivity! I cleaned out a small hall closet that just held jackets and sheets and my husband added some shelves so that I could start a small pantry😊

Just in case pantry! Yes!! AKA Preparedness pantry. Stocking up is a great idea.

I would say salt pepper and sugar are my top 3 seasonings to start with. Sugar depends on how you drink your tea. If you can only have sweet tea or nothing, sugar is a top priority 😂

Great job!

In 1994 my husband and I were in a head on collision with a seemingly and couldn’t work for two years. We had to go on food stamps but only received $85/mo. Luckily we were still able to give the government commodities for about six months and then they stopped them and I had to figure out how to cram that food(butter, cheese, peanut butter, beans, rice, pasta, instant potatoes, canned beans, fruit and veggies) into my monthly allotment of food stamps and it was impossible. There were many months towards the end of our food and having a few days until the next allotment came in the mail that I didn’t eat much because it was more important for my son, who was 8/9 and husband to eat and I ate a small amount and if they didn’t finish theirs I ate their leftovers and drank a lot of water or tea to help fill me up. After we recovered and were able to go back to work I started working on my pantry. When anyone asks about it I say I do this because you just never know what can or will happen and this way my family will be fed without any worries. In 2020 I didn’t go shopping but one time in March at the beginning of the month and I didn’t buy a whole lot. In April I went once and again didn’t buy as much as I normally would, mainly fresh produce and dairy items. May I found toilet paper!! But again still wasn’t buying like normal(limits kept me from my normal shopping). My pantry wasn’t as full as I normally keep it but we were still doing well. Before that when we had to buy tires or repair a truck we had the pantry and freezers to fall back on and not worry about affording the repair. Friends or family fall on hard times? I am able to fix a food box and help them out. It is just being prepared for whatever life throws at us. I do a lot of my buying in bulk especially flours, sugars, beans, seasonings, cornmeal, etc from Azure and boy does that help. Since the tp fiasco of 2020 I buy it in the large packages and I buy it pretty much every month wether we need it or not!! Great video

I giggled about storing your pantry under your bed! Welive in a rv full time at the present and I have 'just in case pantries' under every bed and in every flip top hideaway foot rest. 😉 Love your ideas!

I stumbled upon your channel and I love it!!! I have no more kids at home so I'm not as " careful" as I once was with my shopping, but I definitely shopped multiple stores to get the best deals ...my Walmart is MORE expensive than my regular grocery store, by a fair amount!! I will admit I have never shopped at Aldis or the dollar tree, but I suppose they are worth checking out...thanks for doing what you do it's great.

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You are so right in calling it a just in case pantry I have one on a larger scale. I have to have one because I am relying on food assistance because I have a disabled son and a husband who is 49 in the later stages of dementia both need full-time care I keep my pantry stocked just in case benefits get cut or something goes wrong I have a family of 5 and want to make sure I can get us by for a bit. I live in middle Tennessee and our dollar tree is a $1.25 through the whole store I use to buy tons of stuff there now I buy things that I can't get cheaper at Walmart love these videos.

That’s one thing I keep forgetting, toilet paper! It’s so important. Do you have a video of your pantry, how it looks and organized?

You are spot on for starting a pantry. I didn't have anyone to teach me when I was young. This is a great beginning.

My family called it 'putting food by'. It was just the normal way things were done. You store food so it's there if someone in your family or friends lost their job or was sick you would be alright until things started to look up again. If there was a weather event or say a pandemic came up, lol. During the great t.p. shortage we managed to squeak by because we tended to buy when it was on sale. Thankfully that got us through until the stores restocked.

Haha… I thought that vinegar was vodka 🤣 Love the thought of a just in case pantry, my kids know I’m pulling from my pantry when were eating tuna patties. We don’t love beans, but we always have rice and canned tuna on hand.

It's not negative, it's just using wisdom!!!

I enjoy mixing northern and pinto to make mixed beans

i started getting my tp at dollar general instead, its still a dollar so far. love your videos

I call mine a working pantry because I buy extra to replace what I use, so it is in rotation but there is extra of it . Example: a flour in my kitchen and two in my working pantry. Does that make sense. I started two years ago and a few items a week helps build the working pantry. I enjoy your videos Brooke!

If you haven't already, what about a video on what you can do with vinegar, baking soda and lemon juice??

Hi from New Zealand 🇳🇿, we don't get tomato bouillon here, but I dehydrated some of my tomatoes from my garden and ground them up in a blender for my recipes. I'm getting all the things to start canning but I have been dehydrating for a while.

Sister! That Tony Chachere’s. I came to make sure you got it and you did not disappoint!! Not that I expected you to. But that stuff ifs like $4 in the grocery store. Same stuff, different packaging.

Loving your videos !!.

SURVIVAL PANTRY!

My just in case pantry got so large that now I only go to the store and buy sale items and I am able to utilize my just in case pantry with the sales. I still buy just in case items each week too, to continue to build on that, but mostly, I am working with the "extended" pantry as my everyday pantry now because it is great to have mostly forever items on hand and not have to worry about things going bad all the time. Just starting a real pantry...I think that is what the just in case pantry turned out to be for us. Rather than a junk food, processed food pantry with no real nutrition in it, this has the ability to work for everyone.

I have just found you and going back through your videos. I massively agree with starting a pantry! As a ‘new home present’ when my sister and then my brother(and his girlfriend) got their first homes I made up ‘starter’ kits for kitchens (couple of sauce pans, baking sheets and a host of herbs/spices/ necessities

I bought an over sink dish rack. Life-changing!

I agree in calling ours a "just in case" as well. We've built ours by buying 2 every time we only needed one of things like canned veggies, all types of beans and soup mixes. I coupon (no cheating couponing) so I have over a year of all hygiene products for free or pennies. Toothpaste, body wash, bar soap laundry soap, shampoo, razors, deodorant etc.. I also have a years supply of tp & paper towels. I need to bulk up on salt and oil. It's taken time to build up & I've been able to donate so much to the church pantry as well. I'm in MI so small house & yard, no garden but miss growing up with a "can closet" in the basement. My parents are southerners (Pikeville, TN) & between them and my gran & pa pa, we never bought vegetables, jelly, honey, tomato juice, stewed tomatoes, chili base etc. until I was in my late teens. I've been watching since the beginning, just quiet. I love watching and seeing your channel grow so quickly. Have a blessed day, Brooke! xoxo

another great video and I so totally agree - a just in case stockpile is easy to start and easy to maintain once you make the commitment. i just call mine a pantry, as I am using it constantly but I always have what I need in it, JUST IN CASE!

Even before 2020...I always kept an "emergency" pack of toilet paper...you know for when the kids use the last roll and fail to tell you. My pantry is my pantry...I stock it and I use it ...right now it's extra stocked.

If you have the money you can order from Dollartree online and have it delivered to the store with no shipping cost. I have done this with the Himalayan salt and water so far.

Like many I just call my the pantry for all my food stuff. We use it, rotate it, cook from it. My other stuff is all organized in a big closet….grandson calls that the store 🤣🤣🤣

The local food pantry is a good place for stock up. A family of four if you make under fifty thousand dollars you can participate. I live in a middle class neighborhood and several of my neighbors participate.

My mom grew up in a BIG family of 11 and food was scarce, my grandma always made do and everyone always ate but once my mom got married and started a family she NEVER wanted her kids to feel like there wasn’t any food. She was definitely not a hoarder or anything like that but well prepared so when the lockdowns happened her & her now partner were good. They had plenty of food to last for months. So because of her I’ve always kept a full pantry. Since COVID and the lockdowns I’ve changed up the foods I store though, now I keep a full freezer too, we’re a vegan / vegetarian family and we eat A LOT of frozen veggies & fruit (because it’s much more affordable up here in Idaho) and during COVID finding frozen veggies here was damn near impossible especially in the first couple of weeks. Now we have 2 chest freezers & we turned our living room closet into another pantry and I have a cabinet for my dogs (we have 3) and dog food sold out everywhere (thank goodness we had just bought 2 big bags of food so we were good but a lot of people weren’t.) Sorry for the long comment! But yes build your pantry just in case!! It always scares me when I see people with like 2 days worth of food in their house 😭

It took me forever to find this want you to know I love you call it just in case pantry your a young Mom I am 60 and girl you inspire Me !! You boys are so adorable and enjoyed listening to your hubby talk about you on a Q and A video I have been binge watching you channel ❤

Scott is a good brand

These are great ideas for a “just in case” starter kit. I would love to see a video on different ways you prepare beans for meals, please. I need ideas and inspiration ☺️😆🤷‍♀️

Yes we need salt and yes it's good to not run out for cooking in general but most pantry items have more than enough salt 😅😅😅

Good job

Thank you I have purchase the pasta and made ziti wowoo

I got a dish drainer that fits in my sink. Walmart. It was around 12 dollars. I've had it for around a year or so. It's metal. Great video.

the Buck 25 store , now.....your son is sweet.

I love your videos. You are a ray of sunshine.

Tomato bullion is great in sloppy Joe's or any other tomato-y thing, spaghetti sauce etc.

Watch the cheaper oils. Because they have a lower burn or flashpoint than others. And will catch fire more easily.

I agree spices make a meal. I would get tomato sauce or pasta sauce. Your beginner pantry is a good one. God bless you!!

We call ours a rainy day pantry

Hi I think you have a great idea it's always a good idea to have things in your cupboard and freezer just in case something goes wrong thankyou for taking the time to do this video cheers possum 💖🌹👍

Found vegetable bouillon at the 💵 🌳, last month. P.u 2 jars of it. (I use bouillon in my canning.) And check out the Pine-Sol/Lysol area!!! They usually have a concentrate that makes 5 gals, of Lysol, and Pine-Sol. Can't buy a reg size bottle for $1.25! We pick it up EVERY. SINGLE. TRIP.

Great pantry haul!

When we were shut down for the first quarantine, I was in better shape than my coworkers. My bills were paid for the month, I had a full freezer, pantry, personal care items including toilet tissue and money for the next month. I had at least one coworker down to her last hf a roll of toilet tissue and stores in our area had none. Luckily coworkers shared with her

These are items I buy when there are food drives for the food bank. I also buy ketchup, bbq sauce, kid snacks and cereal.

I love when you do you 5 dollar prep challenge. Great videos 🥰❤️

Enjoyed your video very much. Love grocery hauls! 👍😎👍🥰❤️

Love this video, you continue to get the word out to help so many. These tips and recipes do help and thank you for being real.

Love your just in case pantry it's also smart to do this had fun with the you too 😉 😊 thanks 👍👍

I seen that pink salt and I said she better pick that up it's like 5 bucks at walmart! We call it an emergency pantry but it's a working pantry cause I use what I store. I agree with seasonings. Remember a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down. Well seasonings make the food go down too. Lol sorry I live in a movie reference...

Love your videos you explain a lot of different things.

I love there milk and use it often since we run through milk so fast in my house. Great video!

I absolutely love your videos!!!

Great job & tips !!

Just fyi… dollar general and family dollar (particularly Fam dollar) still have the same dollar tree type stuff (they’ve been bought out) for a dollar. I’ve never been a big fan of Family dollar but I’ve increased going since DT went to 1.25.

Now that Dollar Tree is $1.25 I'm finding Aldi and Walmart cheaper on some things that I use to buy at Dollar Tree. I have a Dollar Tree, Aldi and Walmart in the same parking lot so I check Aldi and Walmart first to see if it's under $1.25.

Great video Brooke, thank you. ❤️🤣✝️🙋🏻

Love it

I have a 3 year pantry. Then I got sick and can't eat very much of it...figures lol. Still plenty of canned veggies I can eat in there and I batch cook for my husband his own meals and freeze in portions because cooking 2x per each meal is just enough to make me fling open the door and go running down the street screaming.

Great job baby! Awesome video as usual. Love you big bunches!!

If you have more than one Dollar Tree in your area or close enough, you should really hit them all because I've noticed they will.varynin what they carry! I am actually getting ready to look through my pantry and freezer to meal plan...which I'm TERRIBLE at....its HARD for a Single Catmama. Lmao...I am.still.adjusting from cooking for a family size (stayed with froends.and familyndiring hard times a few years back)

Will you post how you make your Spanish rice with tomato bullion

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Get an over the sink drying rack it’s a game changer