FOOD BANK HAUL! What's In My First $10 Food Pantry Haul For The New Year?! January 2024 - Australia
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- We're an Aussie family of 4 doing our best to make ends meet with the rising costs of living. Check out what I received from a local church food pantry this past Friday (5th of January 2024).
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Honey is the only food that never expires or goes off..crystalised honey..it shows its pure and doesn't have any additives..thats really great to receive. K
Oh that's good to know, so awesome to receive indeed!
You can mix that sweet and sour sauce with the pineapple/stir fried veggies/meat and serve over rice :)
That's a great suggestion, thanks Taralynn😊
I honestly don't know how I ended up on your videos but hearing you speak and your soothing voice made me stay: I love to see what people get/want at food pantries. I needed some myself at some point and now I try to give back when I can. Thank you for these lovely videos (and I love that you take time with items and there is no music while you speak).
Hello and welcome! Thanks so much for your kind words😊 Glad you enjoy the videos. Yes I hope in future that I'm also able to share and donate surplus veggies from my garden with my local food pantry too.
My idea for the pineapple right off the cuff, was take the sweet and sour sauce, add the pineapples in it and some form of meat and veggies to go over rice. I would make like an Asian stir fry using the pineapple and sweet and sour sauce.
Ooh that sounds great! Thanks Suzzie😊
Your cucumber plants are wonderful looking, I've never grown any that nice looking.
Thanks so much Roberta. I'm excited to see how they produce!
I honestly love how grateful and calming you are. I hope your channel takes off ❤
Thanks so much Deb, that's so kind of you to say😊💕
Right...I really feel that relaxed vibe
@itstime3976 Oh thank you!
Yes I concur, you really are a wonderful RUclips channel. I hope things are good for you in 2024
@abigails7825 Thanks so much! Hope you have a great year too💕
Look up a recipe for “ pineapple upside down cake “ . The pineapple circles are on the bottom of the cake pan with cherries in the middle, the pour the cake batter on top+ bake. When cake is done, put a plate over the cake pan+ flip over. P. S. Honey does not spoil. Just put it the microwave 30 seconds at a time to melt crystals.
Thanks for the delicious suggestions Judi!😊
Nice haul. ❤ Any help is awesome. Your garden is coming along nicely. Take care and thanks for sharing. 😊
Thanks Kerri😊 Yes any help is welcome in the current economy! Thank you, it's a work in progress! Appreciate you watching💕
Happy New Year! A nice box of goodies & the kids will be happy! The garden is lovely. Hav a wonderful week.
Hey Jenelle😊 Thanks so much. Best wishes for a great 2024 to you as well! Have a wonderful week too💕
So sorry .. don't know how I missed this video. You received some wonderful items in this video, especially the honey. What an awesome blessing! Our weather has gone crazy. This Polar Vortex has everything upside down. Now we are preparing for up to 5" of snow after too much rain, high winds, tornados and temps dropping from 58⁰ down into the teens for the next several days or more. Trying to prepare.
Hope everything is going well for you. Hope you finally got some rain. The garden looks lush! Take care, my friend! See you next time 🥰
Hey Tammy😊💕 That's no worries! Thanks so much. Yes getting honey is always very welcome. We received over 100mm of rain the other week back, all our rainwater tanks are full now which is wonderful! Oh please stay safe over there, that weather sounds crazy!! Take care my friend xx
Happy 2024 you started the year with a diverse lot!
Hey Virginia😊 Thanks so much! Yes was some interesting things! Best wishes for the new year to you too💕
You could do some breaded chicken bites and rice . Then use the sweet and sour sauce and the pineapple chunks !!! Have sweet and sour chicken with rice ! Yum !!!!
Great idea!! That does sound good. Thanks Melissa😊
Never seen green apple 🍏 jelly but it should go well with vanilla ice cream😊
Pineapple chunks are tasty with overnight oats and honey 🍯. Yes, just warm the honey
Very good assortment of fresh food and pantry items 🎉
Thanks my friend😊 Yes I've never had that flavour jelly before but it sounds delicious! Looking forward to trying it. That's a good idea to put pineapple in with the oats and some honey. I can imagine that would be really nice too!
Your garden is beautiful!
Oh thanks so much my friend!
Enjoyed !thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it Diane. Thanks so much for watching😊💕
Great haul!! Your garden is beautiful!! Have a Happy New Year Mem😊
Thanks so much Sally😊💕 Best wishes for 2024 to you too my friend!
Good haul. Like your show. Like you, I to like the produce. Take care.
Thanks so much Virley 😊💕 Yes it's always so helpful!
Hello there, What an awesome abundance of wonderful food to help feed your family. The honey was another great item, They are correct, if you wanted to you could gently heat it up and mix it and it would be just as the day you got it. I too don't mind crystalized honey, I just had a coworker yesterday about to throw away a container of honey because it was crystalized and I told him I would take it. Works just fine in my hot tea!!!
Hey Amber!! Thanks so much. It's a big help for sure. Yes I didn't mind in the least, it's still honey to me! That's an awesome score from your coworker too, it would be perfect for tea! Hope you have a great week over there my friend😊💕
You could add the pineapple to the sweet n sour. The little olive and onion bites i've crushed or broken up onto pasta. I've also squeezed out some filling from the sausages into pasta sauce for mini meatballs.
Hey Debbie😊 Oh those are some excellent ideas, thanks so much!
It’s so lovely to see how excited you get for the produce that was produced by locals and donated. The honey, the eggs and that white cucumber are such beautiful produce and you recognise that. Sadly many would pass up those items because they aren’t what you’d find in a supermarket :(
Thanks Trina😊 Yes I love homegrown produce! Being a gardener I can appreciate all the time and effort it took to grow/make and the fact that they then chose to donate it is just so lovely❤️
You could use some of the pineapple on pizza and the rest for sweet and sour chicken or pork using the the street kitchen kit.
Pineapple, banana, apple?, etc. would make a nice tropical fruit salad.
That's some great ideas, thank you!
Another great haul I see hawain pizza and a noodle sweet and sour stirfry ! is your bok choy ready !! Oh so pleased to see your videos back 😊
Thanks so much my friend🥰 Ooh great ideas! The stir fry greens (apart from the mustard greens) are not ready yet, but hopefully with all this rain it won't be too long before I can pick some!
Happy New Year my sweet aussie friend!Great haul.
Same to you Debbie! Thanks so much 🥰
You could add some of the tinned pineapple to your sweet and sour dish you make, or make a pineapple cake or muffins. Just a few ideas that came into my mind.
Some great ideas, thanks Wendy😊
HAPPY NEW YEAR🎉 Nice variety. I use pineapple chunks while baking ham. Gives ham a good flavor. Sausages looked terrific. Since I am from the South, USA. I would fry sausage and make biscuits to go with it. Not cookie biscuits but bread. Hope blessings find you. Yummy treats all round.😊😊😊😊❤
Hey Judy😊Thanks so much! Best wishes for 2024 to you as well! Thanks, that's some tasty suggestions. Your biscuits are delicious I'm sure! Blessings to you too my friend. Hope you have a good week💕
A good looking amount of food. We got a surprise Saturday of New Year Eve from our daughter a food bank delivery? It was a good one and she has been helping at one in town. I got a gift of a dehydrator from my soon so am going to start on it Tuesday and Wednesday. I have an appointment tomorrow and Wes Thursday we had one Thursday last so surely I can get the cauliflower done in between. LOL My thyroid was messed up so finely got my new medication yesterday.
Hey Jane😊💕 Thanks so much. Oh food and kitchen gifts are the best! How nice. Hope you manage to squeeze some time in for dehydrating. Hope you get your thyroid issues sorted soon too. Best wishes to you and Wes. Take care xx
You could add the pineapple to the sweet and sour sauces for the str fry and if your budget stretches you could buy a chicken Brest fillet and cut it thinly one would probably be enough if not you could just add veggies that you have. Or un upside down pineapple cake.
Great idea, thanks Tiree. Yes I think sweet and sour stir fry might be on the menu soon! But upside down pineapple cake sounds so delicious too!!
Well worth the $10
Definitely! Thanks Rosemarie😊
So nice getting some things from the pantry after it being closed for a while. The things that are growing in your garden look lovely. We are preparing for snow in the next 2 days they think our area will get 3 to 6 inches of snow, hopefully will melt quickly. I imagine with the heat there snow sounds great. LOL
Hey Donna😊 Thanks so much. Yes it will be a great help with meals. It's extremely humid here right now. Sweaty somehow becomes the new norm lol, even a cool breeze sounds appealing at the moment! Snow would be great lol! We've had more storms and rain today with more forecasted. On a positive note at least I didn't have to water the garden. Hope the snow doesn't cause too many problems. Stay safe and warm over there💕
With your groceries being so high it is great to get those boxes.
Thanks Ashley😊 Yes it's an enormous help for sure!
You can use the pineapple chunks in with the sweet and sour sauce
That's a great idea, thanks Shannan😊
Nice haul❣️ happy new year 🎆🎈 😘
Thank you! Same to you Patti😊💕
G'day Happy New Year..kind regards Karolyn
Hey Karolyn😊 Thanks so much, same to you my friend! Hope it's a great year!💕
It has to be better. (crossing my fingers, legs and We arebstill.better.living on Oz and NZ for sure..regards Karolyn
That should have read ' fingers, legs and toes' ..I typed it correctly..that is what annoys me with youtube ..you write something then you re_read..it's different
As always, I enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing your life with us.
I’d like to send your kiddos a little surprise but I need to know if they are boys or girls. And their favorite color please.
We are in southern Arizona so our gardening season is in full swing now. Our tomatoes are covered in flowers. I can’t wait for ripe tomatoes. Your garden looks lovely. Homegrown tomatoes and cucumbers always taste wonderful. Thank you . Cathe
Hey Cathe😊 Glad you enjoy the videos! Thanks so much. Yes homegrown is the best! Hope you get lots of tomatoes from your plants. That's so kind of you to think of us. The kids will love that! Thanks heaps. My kids aren't fussy colour wise, but their favourites are blue and red.
Great video. I would add the pineapple to jello.
Thank you😊 Oh yes! That's a great idea😋
What a great way to start the New Years off. Lots of goodies for sure. Enjoy 💕
Thanks so much Wanda😊
It's so fun hearing about and seeing your garden while we are in winter.
Oh thanks Margaret, glad you enjoy the videos!
Happy New Year from Dayton, Virginia in the US. I’ve watched your videos but just subscribed today. I love seeing what you get each week and also the wonderful videos of your yard and countryside. Very different from the Blue Ridge mountains I see outside every day. Also, it’s stunning to me to see a food pantry that DOESNT give you a giant jar of peanut butter and an even bigger jar of grape jelly every visit. That’s one and two at every food bank in the US.
I've been helping at a church food pantry for 12 years we rarely have peanut butter or jelly to give out we always have people asking if we have some especially larger families so in Central Illinois US those are much appreciated items. We always suggest to people if they get something they cannot use pass it on there is always somebody that can use those items
Hi Elizabeth😊 Thank you, best wishes for 2024 to you too! Thanks so much, I appreciate that💕 Glad to hear that you enjoy the videos. Yes it's so interesting to see what others get, only occasionally do we seem to receive peanut butter in the boxes where we are here. Oh I'd love it if we got PB and grape jelly more often!
Happy 2024 Mem😊 the honey looks absolutely delicious. Do you ever make little jelly cups with chopped fruit in the bottom? Maybe the pineapple could be used for that? The garden is looking lovely and reminding me that I have to get cracking with mine! ❤
Hey Nmarie😊💕 Thanks so much, best wishes for the new year to you too! Yes I was so lucky to get another jar of the lovely honey, it'll be very much appreciated😋 I haven't made jelly cups but that's a good idea, I'm sure the kids would love that! Thanks, happy gardening!
Hi Mem, you could use your pineapple with your sweet and sour sauce in a stir-fry. How were the Bryon Bay biscuits?
Hey my friend😊 Oh that's a great idea, that would be a perfect use for the pineapple!! We saved the biscuits for Christmas time... and they were delicious! Everyone loved the little gingerbreads and the macadamia and white chocolate biccies were especially good! Thank you so much again💕
You received some very useful things. So happy for you..I know the kids will enjoy the candy. Take care ❤
Thank you so much 🤗 Yes the kids will really enjoy the sweets, was so lovely to get!
With the cornflakes and honey you could make cornflakes crackles also known as honey joys. Your children would love making these, it was a never fail holiday activity for my children. My children would sometimes eat them for a breakfast treat and they loved them in their lunch boxes for picnics during the holidays when their father took them yabbying, I worked out of home so my husband was responsible for the children, we lived on a property.
That's a great idea, thanks Helen! I used to love making honey joys as a kid myself! They are nice aren't they?! Thanks for the suggestion😊
Hello MEM, happy new year my friend. Quite a nice haul there this time, just the honey, cornflakes and milk would probably cost close to, if not more than the $10 you have to pay. I think it is well worth going there. On one hand it make me sad that in the 21st century there are SO many people, all over the world, who need to use food banks/pantry's, but on the other I am also pleased that they do exist so that families don't have to go hungry.
I wish you, your family and subscribers a happy and healthy year ahead.
Much love and respect as always, Jo. xxxx
Hey Jo😊💕 Thanks so much. Yes I think just that honey alone here would nearly cost $10 to buy from the supermarket. It's definitely a huge help and big blessing to get what we do. Yes it saddens me too that there's so many people in need and many who go to bed each night hungry. Grateful indeed for the food banks and pantries. Best wishes for a great 2024 to you as well my friend!
Happy New Year! Great box with both the chicken mishmash and the sausages. Hope all is well with you.
Hi Kathleen😊 Thanks so much, best wishes for a great 2024 to you as well! Thanks, yes it will all be a big help. I'm well thanks, hope you're too💕
Hi there, always lovely to hear how much you appreciate being able to do this and no argument that you're very blessed to have this available to you, however one thing that I think is a bit incorrectly worded is when you describe your items as being '$10 worth'??
I know you're getting all of this for $10 but its cost value is obviously much higher than $10, so perhaps it should say '$10 cost' instead of something along those lines?? Just from an observational viewpoint, that's all.
Hi😊 Thank you, yes we're very fortunate indeed to have this wonderful food pantry in our area, it's a big help to many families, mine included. Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate that ( I've updated the wording on the video thumbnail to better reflect it as costing $10, the value for sure is many times more than the money paid).
Awesome haul!!!❤❤❤❤
Thank you! 🤗
Good to see your got some nice food and that your garden is growing.
We have had record breaking cold temperatures in the northern half of Sweden lately, where I live around -25 and below -30 in many places in the country side. My sister living even further north woke up to -40 one morning and a lot of buses and trains have been cancelled due to safety. One of the more quirky things that happened due to the cold was that one of the big indoor hockey rinks around where I live had trouble with the ice melting since the cooling system of the hall broke down due to the cold. I didn't even know that problem could arise, everywhere outdoors everything was colder than cold but in that building people where trying desperately to keep the ice from melting too much... And no, you can't just open the doors and let it freeze naturally, that would potentially wreck more things.
I went grocery shopping today and I am starting to wonder if there is some sneaky elevation of prices after Christmas going on. I did restock some things but I still think that compared to just a couple months ago, I think the prices are up maybe 30-40 AUS to what they were and almost double to 2 years ago. I getting sick of it quite frankly.
Hey Elin😊 Thanks my friend. Wow, oh my goodness that sounds beyond cold!! Oh no with the hockey rinks, how ironic! Yes it's not good with the huge price increases on groceries, it's not right is it?! And I fear it will only get worse. Stay safe and warm over there. Hope you have a good week. Take care❤️xx
@@makingendsmeet Thanks! It is very cold even to us that are used to long cold winters. Today it is only -1 and the prognosis is for it to even get above freezing now for a couple days. Then it is all back to cold again but not quite the recent record breaking ones.
Hiya good stuff in your haul maybe jelly and pineapple some cream on top if you have any or condensed milk thank you for sharing ❤😊
Hi Lisa😊 Thanks, that's a good idea. I'm sure the kids would love that! You're so welcome, appreciate you watching💕
Are you allowed to have chickens where you live? I know if it's like anything here in the USA not all towns are allowed to have back yard chicks but they are great in the garden to clean out the bugs and to fertilize and for eggs
Hi Lois😊 Yes we're allowed to keep chickens where we are and it is something we've thought about perhaps doing in the future. They would be very handy in the garden to help keep the pests away for sure. Not to mention the eggs and chicken manure!
@@makingendsmeetoh I was going to ask about chickens as well hahaha
Great haul! With the kids home that cereal will be nice for their breakfast. Is what you call jelly like our American jello? If so a few of those pineapple chunks in it might be interesting. I have never seen a white cucumber. Do they taste the same as green ones? Have a great week!
Thanks Gloria😊 Yes cornflakes are a favourite! Oh sorry, yes I should've mentioned what we call jelly is the same as your jello! That's a good idea with the pineapple. The white cucumbers are very nice, very similar to the green just perhaps a few more seeds in the middle. Hope you have a great week too💕
@@makingendsmeet I would love cucumber with less seeds. They tend not to agree with me.