Oh my goodness! If I saw you I would be doing the happy dance and you would think I’d lost my mind. But I’m here in Texas, USA, so no chance of a loony woman accosting you❤❤❤. P.S. I think I was born 100 years too late! My 5 siblings say I have a “depression era mentality”. But I’m ok with that!
Totally agree Stacey, cooking from scratch is not shit food. Thanks to you we no longer buyer canned pineapple for example, my family prefer it! The meals I make from your videos are always well received in our house. I’m so thankful I found your channel Stacey 💖⭐️💖
What's in a word i have become Frugal since my retirement, not wasting left overs. The word Frugal has caught on with my circle of friends and we are putting more thought into waste. Love Love your RUclips channel you have been very helpful in my Frugalness.❤
I love this video. I feel like I’ve gotten a chance to be in NZ. I think it’s kind of funny that people who will cut throats to get a super small better interest rate think that cutting food costs for better food is a bad thing. Growing up in the States decades ago, I remember watching “The Frugal Gourmet “, he got grief for using the word frugal-like it was a bad thing too. So Stacey, just keep doing you. Your growing because of you genuine personality that comes through.
I like what @bignamasty said in her comment! Frugal Food is much better than budget food, as it implies much more than just cheap cooking. You, Stacey, use the whole food item, as in using the scraps as well, weather it’s for soup stock or feeding the pigs. My mum used to do the same thing when we lived on the farm. All food scraps went into either soup stock or a big saucepan to be cooked for the chickens. I am the 10 child of 12 children, so mum was the epitome of FRUGAL.
How awesome that viewers came up to say hi! And your land is absolutely beautiful! Plums, plums, and more plums! I’m thinking Asian sauces, bbq sauce, and of course jams. I had that “problem” with apricots and raspberries a couple months ago (I’m in SoCal) and they’re still in my freezer waiting patiently for me. I did, however, manage to can my pineapples as I only got 6 this year. We go through rotations, as I like to call it. One year I’ll get a bumper crop of tomatoes and the next I won’t, but I’ll get a bumper crop of peppers. It’s weird, still haven’t figured it out. Unfortunately, the only animals I can have are chickens. I also raise doves, not for food but people buy them for weddings and other celebrations…and some for the meat. It’s enough to keep me busy as I’m in my 70’s now. TY, Stacey, I’m happy I found your channel, you’re teaching this old dog new tricks 😊 much love from SoCal.
All the best for 2025. I have been watching for a short while and love your channel. Just what my mother and her family taught me to do. Cooked from basics most of my life and I am close to 70 now. I live in North Canterbury and unfortunately all my stone fruit (about 30 trees) this year were hit by a very late -4 frost. Luckily I have lots of preserves tucked away. On a good note I have had lots of raspberries and strawberries and have been making jam. Great to barter with. Last year I made peach sauce and it was yummy. Nice and spicy. Keep doing what you do, Stacey. You are making a difference in so many lives....❤
I just clean the plums, take stems and leaves out etc. Boil in a pot with a little water. Add sugar once they’re cooked. Freeze in ice cream containers. Use months to years later on cereal or ice cream.
Home cooked with care. Still using apple from last years crop. Spent the last few months of 2024 using up the content of the freezer getting ready for 2025. We have a small suburban plot but have apples, pears and quince. Didn’t do tomatoes this year as the weather has been awful. Will wait for the season glut and buy and process then. You have me doing the buy two when there’s a bargain. ❤
Love seeing your plum content - I moved to a property a bit out of Auckland with fruit trees in September and I can't keep up with the plums here. I've given them away at every opportunity, I've made a batch of jam and still have 15+ kg of cut plum flesh in the freezer.
I never have a problem with calling something a budget meal. For all the complainers maybe instead of budget food you could call them affordable meals.
Budget cooking is smart cooking! Some of my relatives eat a roast chook or lamb once and then throw the rest away! Crazy! Loads more meals to be had from the leftovers! I always cook enough for us to have leftovers later in the week! I also tend to cook 3 or 4 dishes at one time so ive got a weeks worth of meals ready to go, and i get to spend more timecin the garden!
Hi Stacey, obvious you are not in Australia. Our Galahs and Cockatoos would have had a field day with those plums. They demolish bird netting like it is tissue paper. A very eager patrolling dog is our best defence. We are busily processing and drying almonds in nsw central west at present. Also harvesting okra for the first time ever. So easy to grow and really yummy. We just pick them at the 10cm size, slice them then steam them and they taste like a cross between peas and beans. Such a pretty plant too. They each grow happily in a 40cm pot and three is quite enough to keep a constant supply for up for 2 nights a week for a family of 4. Nothing seems to touch them either so far, so they look like becoming a staple at ours, from now on. Love your casual style. You are like having a creative best friend.
Wholesome wallet friendly food? By the way I tried your lemon curd recipe. Delicious! I shared it with the rest of the family over Christmas and used up the lemons from the tree.
I’m a morning song gal from Turangi, I’m often out on the lake trollling for trout however seeing as I come from a hunting fishing family my ears always twitch when I hear your pheasants caw caw. Xxx
Excited to watch you bottle the plums. I have some on my bench right now. My nan used to make stewed plums and plum jam from blood plums as she had a tree in her yard.
I have to sort my freezer. Heaps of berries for jam and syrup, rhubarb for bbq sauce , bones for stock, fat to render etc and I need the space as hubby got invited to a deer cull.
so wish i could eat beans i miss them ,, but they dont do well with my colostomy bag also the fruit skins as i cant digest them,,i lost alot of my lower intestines so have had to change my diet drastically but do so love watching your videos to try and give me an idea for my husband and sons meals,, keep chatting during them too love the accent lol
Happy New year to you and your family Stace, loved the morning walk at the farm with you and the dogs and saying hello to the goat and piggy's and the chooks, and you got some eggs and wow that plum tree is loaded hey. Thank you for always being you, and not worrying about making a mistake, and just shrugging it off as any normal person would🤷🏻♀️we learn from them and move onwards don't we, and the plums look so pretty in the jars Stace, can't wait till your next video👍🤗♥️
Hi Stacey, love your videos. Instead of "Budget" what about "Artisan" sounds a bit posh but the description fits: (of food or drink) made in a traditional or non-mechanized way using high-quality ingredients. Cheers Juls😊
Thank you Stacey, i loved the trip around the farm, sun rise, bird song, dogs, rooster crowing, chooks, sheep baaing, goat bleeting, was so awesome and your farm is very is in such a nice location. Totally agree with your comments about facebook, some people obviously don't understand about the true meaning of budget food, i so much satisfaction from eating what i have grown. Looking forward to your next vid. Have a great day😊😊
You might consider buying the beans, or whatever else you fancy, in the whole bag. It's usually 20 kgs or so, & works out a little cheaper. You are right about anticipating a more difficult year in my view.
Ohhh, those plums are gorgeous! Could you use some of the juice in the jars to then make a jelly? Mmmmm... I love the beans, too, but I am used to Boston baked beans with salt pork, onion and molasses. I will give a try though! Thanks Stacey!
Hi Stacey we're over the ditch in Tasmania when you said how much it cost you for shipping with the forjars flats I was a bit surprised we get them on Amazon and normally we don't have to pay shipping at all would this work for you, keep doing what you do it's good to see a genuine person doing genuine things
Stacey if you haven't thrown the spilled beans, rince/wash well with lots of running water to free of contaminants and still use. No different to washing a lettuce pulled from the ground. Love the channel.
Its good that you show us mistakes, everyone makes them but so many youtubers cut their mistakes out, that isn't reality 😉 I love your videos, youre doing greqt Stacey ❤
Home made from scratch is what people go to our Saturday morning markets for. If you don’t cook it yourself it costs a lot because that is what we all want. My youngest is 3 States away and always buys her organic fruit and vegetables plus her jars of canned home made. It is not budget unless you are doing all of the work. In Melbourne it comes under boutique and it is only budget then because of the money you are saving. Not the food quality.
Hi Stacey, I love your video's and you're such a lovely woman. I don't know if using other descriptive words for budget, such as "cost savings, reduce expense, frugal, thrifty, good value", would change anything, some people are just negative for the sake of being negative. Take care and don't let them get you down, they're not worth your time & effort.
Well done Stacey have a fantastic day and keep ding what u do the type of. Cooking u do is not budget it’s whole foods cooking from natural ingredients
Great video again. I sent you some pics of Jasper when he saw the goat and Trix!! Making from scratch is definitely not budget food. Its better for you!!! And cheaper. You are doing a great job in educating everyone. Keep smiling lovely xx
I have all sorts of cherries, plums, blueberries, blackberries to process in my freezer. Cherry jams were supposed to be Christmas presents but I ran out of energy! They’ll get done in the next few weeks 🙂
Hi Stacey, all the best for 2025, looking forward to what goodies you are going to come up with. Why don’t you call it WHOLESOME HOME COOKING. Most of us understand cooking on a budget doesn’t mean crap food, but, there is always that one or two that can’t understand that budget means buying on special, or buying bulk, growing your own produce and making most of your own food from scratch. My Mother in law used to say “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all or a silent tongue is a wise head”.
Loved the farm scenes. Missing the old plum trees we used to have. Also, love the word budget. That is a wise word by not being frivolous with the family finances and wasting your husband's hard work. It is freezing in the US today so I pulled some leftover already cooked pinto beans from the freezer for lunch and may have another container of them before this cold goes away. Those are definitely within budget and gave us warm tummies. Waiting on a dough to rise so we'll be having leftover bits of ham, sautéed onion and cheese pinwheels topped with spicy mustard tonight so another well within budget meal. Last night, we had baked potatoes topped with chili so really cheap warm and comfy as the temperatures dropped. I pulled the sad little ginger plants yesterday and split them with the neighbor so looking forward to a hot cup of ginger/lemon/honey tea in about 5 minutes. Hoping your family and the new grandbabies have a wonderful New Year.
Totally agree with you on that horrid word "B" you said it right sister lol. Love what you canned up. Wish I could come up to your class in Tauranga, who Know's things might change and I get to meet you Live xx huge hugs xx
This would be ideal for me as l have tried making jam, it wasn't as sweet but also had the tanginess, but we enjoyed it. I'm still learning but also need to get books & equipment to begin my journey of budgeting. It's not shit food at all it is called managing your finances & learning to expand your cooking skills with food. Enjoying your vidz Stacey don't allow negative vibes or words to ruin your passion. Enjoy your day beautiful farm by the way, thank you so much for sharing
Hi Stacy! Love your channel and meals. I don’t understand why people have a problem with the term ‘budget’ meals when you cook everything from scratch and is always easy and yum! Maybe these people would understand better terms like ‘wallet-friendly’ or ‘affordable food items’ or ‘home grown’ - beats me 🤦🏼♀️ I love that you cook in season plus outsourcing better prices for this economy we are living through. We are the same here in Australia and it is hard. I love the term we have here when someone ‘scores a bargain’ Brilliant! Keep doing you! 💪
Happy New Year Stacey 🥳. Nice public recognition. Goes to show you are doing a wonderful thing with your channel, I thoroughly enjoy it 😊. Not preserving at the moment but harvesting figs to eat, for the first time in 6yrs. Grapes are rocking this year, they'll be well protected from the sheep, they love grapevines. Pears & apples are coming along, may do something with them when ripe. Wishing you & your family the very best for 2025 🌻🌻
Happy New Year from the US 🎉 Thank you for sharing a bit of your morning routine, takes me back & humbles me for what I love. Love your humor & outlook on life. I call it "around the kitchen cooking" using what I have from putting up our own food. Again, thank you beautiful soul. I look forward to your videos each day 💛
Having starts a new orchard really missing my frozen fruit but next year should get a harvest. With the berry fruit though I have not bought fruit for 2 months and feijoas will be ripe in a couple, have 3 hens so never short of eggs and now as a household of 1 leftovers or as I like to call them cook once eat twice😅😅. Efficient pantry management as you recommend is a great money extender 😅😅
Morena Stacey, Happy New Year to you and yours. Well here I am wide awake because I went to sleep too early last night lol. Anyway, I’d thought I’d go on to RUclips to see if there were any new homesteading video’s up and yes, yours was there🤗. What a pleasure it was to watch and pass the time till Dawn appears. Like many others have said already, your farm is beautiful. To me it is the best life 💜. The bird song, the animals and the fresh air, I love it. Great video, mistakes and all🤗. I’m so eager to try your baked beans? I’m going to Bin Inn Rotorua this weekend anyway so I’ll pick the beans up then I’m actually going to check out a plum tree today in the hope to harvest a good amount to make plum jam. The plums are the variety that you have which I think are the best ! Thankyou for today’s video🙏💜 have an awesome day Stacey🤗
My grandmother used to bottle all her fruit & put them up on the sideboard in rows. They looked so beautiful. She won prices at the Royal Easter Show for her cooking going back to the early days of the last century as she was married in 1903. They used to taste yummy. She also made jams, bread, cakes - the works!! Everything was cooked in a fuel stove & she was a fantastic cook, something I never inherited to the same degree. Those plums will taste heavenly over icecream!! Also using them as a base for a keep a week fruit cake is so yummy! I also envy you your chooks!! I made an order with Woolies today as I need more dairy & salad veggies & it has been a fortnight today since I last shopped. I am single, gluten intolerant, & yet it cost me $200 Australian to buy my groceries & I forgot to order the tomato paste I needed to make my mini meatloaves from frozen meat I had bought previously. I did spend $15.50 on a kilo frozen turkey leg pack from Inghams as it will last me nearly 5 days, but everything I bought has gone up in price & I couldn't buy eggs at all, you have to go into the shop to buy them & I didn't buy everything I had on my list because it was over my budget. So it looks like my grandson is going to be buying eggs for all of us as my daughter couldn't get them either. He works at BWS & so can duck into Woolies when he finishes his shift & grab a pack of eggs, so we will have a queue waiting in turn for our eggs. I have three left so they are like gold!! Oh & I did spend $7 on buying cherries but they are only in season 100 days & half that time has gone already. As far as my pineapple keep a week fruit cake goes, it was rather bland, so I should have added cherries & peel to the mixed fruit, so I am going to make it again, only this time I have ordered a tin of pineapple juice & will use it to soak the fruit in, as well as the peel plus glace cherries I bought last fortnight since the mixed fruit was only raisins, sultanas & currents Then I added macadamia nuts. When I make my plum version, I use almonds. The mango version also used macadamias or almonds but I think pecans would also make a nice option. I am also going to use the rest of the pineapple syrup to make a warm syrup to pour over the fruit cake when finished by piercing holes with a skewer first. I was able to spend up big in my last fortnight's order as I had saved $150 in points over the year & so I spent an $95 extra of my own money so that I could bulk up on odds & ends that I normally can't stretch my budget to cover as well as purchase things like prawns for the family meal. So now I can make another cake!! 😆 If this one doesn't turn out as nice as I would like, then it is back to making the plum version which I know tastes yummy as long as it has glace cherries & peel included in it. I have a feeling that the mango cake is also not as yummy as it sounds. Plums are best as they are usually tart & have a strong flavour. Anyway, I am glad you had a lovely christmas & are now ready to tackle the new year & I couldn't help smiling while watching you do the bakebeans as I saw that you still had sauce in your pot & was trying to tell you to use it first. However, the way you touched it all up was what I would do & have done I might add. Cooking isn't that complicated & I always throw things together & rarely have a failure, in fact they usually turn out better & I can't remember what I did because I wasn't religiously following a recipe. It is how I made my chocolate gluten free cake for the chocolate mousse trifle & my brother & nephew commented on how nice it tasted!! 🤣🤣🤣
Your plum tree looks great! (I originally wrote "your plums look great" but somehow that sounded a bit dodgey) Our black Doris is laden but totally green. It has been about 10 degree's here in ChCh so hopefully they will eventually ripen! Happy NY to you and yours 🙂
@@starsdell1789 Oh thanks for letting me know that! There is hope yet! This is the first year that it's had fruit. The only other plum tree's I've had funnily enough were when we liven in Palmy and they were ready by Christmas and done by boxing day☺
So glad your new year is starting out wonderful, love watching your channel, loving seeing your fur babies the piggies and the chickens, the rooster crowing brought back so many memories with my Mom growing up😢. Thanking you for letting us see your day ❤
Hi Stacey, i absolutely love your channel. I used to live in Raglan and really loved the area. I've just started using some of your ideas and doing meal prep and making bulk meals and freezing . Your meals are great, tasty and nutritious. Keep it up Stacey we love you.
Enjoyed your video I love preserving and think I will give baked beans a go. Title ideas for your book: Wise Cooking, Make Eat Save and Food Files:Stacey’s Stash
Just popping in again to answer your question about what are we preserving. I bought some beetroots at the farmer's market because I wanted to make a beetroot and onion tarte tatin (it was delicious, by the way), but I bought far too many so I pickled the rest and water bathed them. I'd never water bathed anything until I saw your pineapple video and since then I've preserved heaps of stuff so THANK YOU!
❤🎉 absolutely loved seeing your farm, piggies, chickens, goat and lambie! Brilliant plum tree, must plant out a few varieties on a half acre too!! Never seen baked beans made before, so cool!! I think I need a canner!! Happy new year dear friend, so happy people are recognising you in your town, exciting. Yes, cooking with Karl, Carl? A new segment 🤣
Please don’t worry about saying “don’t do a Stacey”, as we all do a Tammi and a Wendy and a Shirley and Debbie and …….. I hope you understand what I’m trying to say is that we’re all in it together sister! Just home cooks, trying to get it done as best we can! Much love and best wishes for a healthy and happy 2025 from your Stacey crew! You’re loved! 🤗❤️
Happy New Year Stacey. Glad to see you back in another great video. I'll be looking forward to the plum sauce when you get there. If you ever do any dehydrating I'd love to see it in a video. hubby got me one for Christmas. Lemons are finally on sale here so I'm going to try dehydrating the zest for lemon pepper as you did earlier. You live in a wonderful place. love the farm visits.
So awesome for you having a viewer encounter out in the wilds!! LOL Man I am such an introvert I don't know how I would cope if it ever happened to me, I get awkward enough just bumping into people I actually know hahahaha. But seriously it's great knowing you are starting to get the recognition you deserve Stacey. I'm busy in the kitchen at the moment making spice blends with my dehydrated herbs, next up will be gravy and soup mixes, with some jams and water glassed eggs thrown in the mix of it all for good measure. Hubby has been making jars of mustard eggs and pickled eggs which are really yummy for snacking on. Fingers crossed by the end of this summer I will have enough eggs preserved to last us throughout the winter. On the meat front we have a few ducks and roosters getting nice and fat for the freezer.
The plums are probably Bilingtons Early, being medium sized, dark red skin, flesh and clingstone, as well as being ripe at this time of year. Im waiting on the Black Ambers, Hawera's, Omegas, Burbanks, Fortune and lastly Luisa. I love plums so much!
How very exciting for you that you had a viewer encounter! That is SO AWESOME! I am accepting this video as a personal gift from you - you know how much I love seeing your farm, and the early morning, with the sun coming up - STUNNING! Nothing much going on here, still looking for a job and praying that my car gets fixed soon. Today was an anniversary of sorts for me - J 6, as I was there four years ago with a group of Frens, so it's been kind of a peculiar day today. ANYWAY - it's always so good to see you, and to see you so radiant and industrious. Love & BIG HUGS!!!
Good morning 🌄 Stacey and a very happy, healthful and prosperous New Year 😊. What a truly wonderful, heart filling and melodious start to the video 😊😢❤. I never realised how much I missed the sound of a North Island farm until I saw this. The hills, the pheasants and the abundant Birdlife. You are so blessed 🙏❤😢. I went to Opotiki in 2020 and drove through to Whakatane. Oh my god. The myna birds and Nikau palms broke my heart. It's funny how such small things can bring you peace and a sense of belonging 😢. I wish I could be back home in the north again, but we're retired now and are stuck down here. Please live your life to the fullest and I'll take it into my heart. Bless you Stacey❤😊❤.
I have a question what type of spices are in mix spice for the baking? England and the United States mix spices are different. I would love to be able to try some of the cookies with the proper spices.
Down with uninformed; the haters! Let them eat ALL THE processed foods!!!
Oh my goodness! If I saw you I would be doing the happy dance and you would think I’d lost my mind. But I’m here in Texas, USA, so no chance of a loony woman accosting you❤❤❤. P.S. I think I was born 100 years too late! My 5 siblings say I have a “depression era mentality”. But I’m ok with that!
I call it sensible food.
Its sensible to eat wholefood.
Its sensible to waste less food
Its sensible to waste less money.
Totally agree Stacey, cooking from scratch is not shit food. Thanks to you we no longer buyer canned pineapple for example, my family prefer it! The meals I make from your videos are always well received in our house. I’m so thankful I found your channel Stacey 💖⭐️💖
Thank you X
I agree. I made Staceys granola last week/ hubby loves it and said it is better than the packet stuff
@@kellywickenton7722 it’s definitely worth the effort when you see them enjoying it, that’s brilliant ⭐️
What's in a word i have become Frugal since my retirement, not wasting left overs. The word Frugal has caught on with my circle of friends and we are putting more thought into waste. Love Love your RUclips channel you have been very helpful in my Frugalness.❤
I suggest "Real food, for real people" Stacey rather than "budget". I freeze all my fruit and find it very safe and convenient.
I love this video. I feel like I’ve gotten a chance to be in NZ. I think it’s kind of funny that people who will cut throats to get a super small better interest rate think that cutting food costs for better food is a bad thing. Growing up in the States decades ago, I remember watching “The Frugal Gourmet “, he got grief for using the word frugal-like it was a bad thing too. So Stacey, just keep doing you. Your growing because of you genuine personality that comes through.
I like what @bignamasty said in her comment! Frugal Food is much better than budget food, as it implies much more than just cheap cooking. You, Stacey, use the whole food item, as in using the scraps as well, weather it’s for soup stock or feeding the pigs. My mum used to do the same thing when we lived on the farm. All food scraps went into either soup stock or a big saucepan to be cooked for the chickens. I am the 10 child of 12 children, so mum was the epitome of FRUGAL.
How awesome that viewers came up to say hi! And your land is absolutely beautiful! Plums, plums, and more plums! I’m thinking Asian sauces, bbq sauce, and of course jams. I had that “problem” with apricots and raspberries a couple months ago (I’m in SoCal) and they’re still in my freezer waiting patiently for me. I did, however, manage to can my pineapples as I only got 6 this year. We go through rotations, as I like to call it. One year I’ll get a bumper crop of tomatoes and the next I won’t, but I’ll get a bumper crop of peppers. It’s weird, still haven’t figured it out. Unfortunately, the only animals I can have are chickens. I also raise doves, not for food but people buy them for weddings and other celebrations…and some for the meat. It’s enough to keep me busy as I’m in my 70’s now. TY, Stacey, I’m happy I found your channel, you’re teaching this old dog new tricks 😊 much love from SoCal.
All the best for 2025. I have been watching for a short while and love your channel. Just what my mother and her family taught me to do. Cooked from basics most of my life and I am close to 70 now. I live in North Canterbury and unfortunately all my stone fruit (about 30 trees) this year were hit by a very late -4 frost. Luckily I have lots of preserves tucked away. On a good note I have had lots of raspberries and strawberries and have been making jam. Great to barter with. Last year I made peach sauce and it was yummy. Nice and spicy. Keep doing what you do, Stacey. You are making a difference in so many lives....❤
You said it Jo-Anne! I believe you are changing lives too Stacey! And yes, please keep doing what you are doing.
I just clean the plums, take stems and leaves out etc. Boil in a pot with a little water. Add sugar once they’re cooked. Freeze in ice cream containers. Use months to years later on cereal or ice cream.
Home cooked with care. Still using apple from last years crop. Spent the last few months of 2024 using up the content of the freezer getting ready for 2025. We have a small suburban plot but have apples, pears and quince. Didn’t do tomatoes this year as the weather has been awful. Will wait for the season glut and buy and process then. You have me doing the buy two when there’s a bargain. ❤
You are so fortunate to have those plum trees! I love going outside and seeing your beautiful homestead!
I remember plum sauce from my Kiwi growing up years. It was delicious on meats & sammies!
Love seeing your plum content - I moved to a property a bit out of Auckland with fruit trees in September and I can't keep up with the plums here. I've given them away at every opportunity, I've made a batch of jam and still have 15+ kg of cut plum flesh in the freezer.
I never have a problem with calling something a budget meal. For all the complainers maybe instead of budget food you could call them affordable meals.
Or maybe frugal, wholesome food?
Cooking from scratch is so good for the budget . Your ideas are fantastic.Thank you .
You may blab all the way you want. Your bubly personality lifts me up. I look forward to your videos.❤
Budget cooking is smart cooking! Some of my relatives eat a roast chook or lamb once and then throw the rest away! Crazy! Loads more meals to be had from the leftovers! I always cook enough for us to have leftovers later in the week! I also tend to cook 3 or 4 dishes at one time so ive got a weeks worth of meals ready to go, and i get to spend more timecin the garden!
Hi Stacey, obvious you are not in Australia. Our Galahs and Cockatoos would have had a field day with those plums. They demolish bird netting like it is tissue paper. A very eager patrolling dog is our best defence. We are busily processing and drying almonds in nsw central west at present. Also harvesting okra for the first time ever. So easy to grow and really yummy. We just pick them at the 10cm size, slice them then steam them and they taste like a cross between peas and beans. Such a pretty plant too. They each grow happily in a 40cm pot and three is quite enough to keep a constant supply for up for 2 nights a week for a family of 4. Nothing seems to touch them either so far, so they look like becoming a staple at ours, from now on. Love your casual style. You are like having a creative best friend.
Wholesome wallet friendly food? By the way I tried your lemon curd recipe. Delicious! I shared it with the rest of the family over Christmas and used up the lemons from the tree.
I’m a morning song gal from Turangi, I’m often out on the lake trollling for trout however seeing as I come from a hunting fishing family my ears always twitch when I hear your pheasants caw caw. Xxx
Excited to watch you bottle the plums. I have some on my bench right now. My nan used to make stewed plums and plum jam from blood plums as she had a tree in her yard.
I have to sort my freezer. Heaps of berries for jam and syrup, rhubarb for bbq sauce , bones for stock, fat to render etc and I need the space as hubby got invited to a deer cull.
so wish i could eat beans i miss them ,, but they dont do well with my colostomy bag also the fruit skins as i cant digest them,,i lost alot of my lower intestines so have had to change my diet drastically but do so love watching your videos to try and give me an idea for my husband and sons meals,, keep chatting during them too love the accent lol
Happy New year to you and your family Stace, loved the morning walk at the farm with you and the dogs and saying hello to the goat and piggy's and the chooks, and you got some eggs and wow that plum tree is loaded hey. Thank you for always being you, and not worrying about making a mistake, and just shrugging it off as any normal person would🤷🏻♀️we learn from them and move onwards don't we, and the plums look so pretty in the jars Stace, can't wait till your next video👍🤗♥️
Your farm is beautiful. I know a farm is hard work but I think it is so rewarding. Love your videos. Wish you all the best for the new year❤
Lovely to see your farm and area. Goodness, your birds are noisy. Our woods where I am in British Columbia are very quiet.
Hi Stacey, love your videos. Instead of "Budget" what about "Artisan" sounds a bit posh but the description fits: (of food or drink) made in a traditional or non-mechanized way using high-quality ingredients. Cheers Juls😊
Thank you Stacey, i loved the trip around the farm, sun rise, bird song, dogs, rooster crowing, chooks, sheep baaing, goat bleeting, was so awesome and your farm is very is in such a nice location. Totally agree with your comments about facebook, some people obviously don't understand about the true meaning of budget food, i so much satisfaction from eating what i have grown. Looking forward to your next vid. Have a great day😊😊
You might consider buying the beans, or whatever else you fancy, in the whole bag. It's usually 20 kgs or so, & works out a little cheaper. You are right about anticipating a more difficult year in my view.
So lovely to see gorgeous summer! We’re looking out at 10 inches of snow and deadly cold here in Missouri. Those plums made my mouth water. Thank you!
Ohhh, those plums are gorgeous! Could you use some of the juice in the jars to then make a jelly? Mmmmm... I love the beans, too, but I am used to Boston baked beans with salt pork, onion and molasses. I will give a try though! Thanks Stacey!
Hi Stacey we're over the ditch in Tasmania when you said how much it cost you for shipping with the forjars flats I was a bit surprised we get them on Amazon and normally we don't have to pay shipping at all would this work for you, keep doing what you do it's good to see a genuine person doing genuine things
Lots of love and happy thoughts ❤
Thanks for sharing your farm, I’m sick (stomach thing) & that raised my spirits!
Budget food means to me another way to make delicious meals, so I agree with you. Love this vid, nice to see Trix ❤😊
Stacey if you haven't thrown the spilled beans, rince/wash well with lots of running water to free of contaminants and still use. No different to washing a lettuce pulled from the ground. Love the channel.
Its good that you show us mistakes, everyone makes them but so many youtubers cut their mistakes out, that isn't reality 😉 I love your videos, youre doing greqt Stacey ❤
Home made from scratch is what people go to our Saturday morning markets for. If you don’t cook it yourself it costs a lot because that is what we all want. My youngest is 3 States away and always buys her organic fruit and vegetables plus her jars of canned home made. It is not budget unless you are doing all of the work. In Melbourne it comes under boutique and it is only budget then because of the money you are saving. Not the food quality.
Hi Stacey, I love your video's and you're such a lovely woman. I don't know if using other descriptive words for budget, such as "cost savings, reduce expense, frugal, thrifty, good value", would change anything, some people are just negative for the sake of being negative. Take care and don't let them get you down, they're not worth your time & effort.
Happy new year, lovely to see the farm and you back in the kitchen
Well done Stacey have a fantastic day and keep ding what u do the type of. Cooking u do is not budget it’s whole foods cooking from natural ingredients
My mom always made plum fruit, we all enjoyed the canned fruit, so good in the winter.
It's good to see you back in the kitchen and on youtube after the Christmas/New Year's break. 👍👍👍
Great video again. I sent you some pics of Jasper when he saw the goat and Trix!! Making from scratch is definitely not budget food. Its better for you!!! And cheaper. You are doing a great job in educating everyone. Keep smiling lovely xx
Beautiful beginning to your video, I’m a kiwi away from NZ at the moment and missing home very much. Beautiful bird song!!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. It's amazing to be able to share that part of home with you.
I have all sorts of cherries, plums, blueberries, blackberries to process in my freezer. Cherry jams were supposed to be Christmas presents but I ran out of energy! They’ll get done in the next few weeks 🙂
Hi Stacey, all the best for 2025, looking forward to what goodies you are going to come up with. Why don’t you call it WHOLESOME HOME COOKING. Most of us understand cooking on a budget doesn’t mean crap food, but, there is always that one or two that can’t understand that budget means buying on special, or buying bulk, growing your own produce and making most of your own food from scratch. My Mother in law used to say “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all or a silent tongue is a wise head”.
Loved the farm scenes. Missing the old plum trees we used to have. Also, love the word budget. That is a wise word by not being frivolous with the family finances and wasting your husband's hard work. It is freezing in the US today so I pulled some leftover already cooked pinto beans from the freezer for lunch and may have another container of them before this cold goes away. Those are definitely within budget and gave us warm tummies. Waiting on a dough to rise so we'll be having leftover bits of ham, sautéed onion and cheese pinwheels topped with spicy mustard tonight so another well within budget meal. Last night, we had baked potatoes topped with chili so really cheap warm and comfy as the temperatures dropped. I pulled the sad little ginger plants yesterday and split them with the neighbor so looking forward to a hot cup of ginger/lemon/honey tea in about 5 minutes.
Hoping your family and the new grandbabies have a wonderful New Year.
The plums look delicious. There are no canned plums available at my grocery store.
But I remember them from my childhood.
Totally agree with you on that horrid word "B" you said it right sister lol. Love what you canned up. Wish I could come up to your class in Tauranga, who Know's things might change
and I get to meet you Live xx huge hugs xx
This would be ideal for me as l have tried making jam, it wasn't as sweet but also had the tanginess, but we enjoyed it. I'm still learning but also need to get books & equipment to begin my journey of budgeting. It's not shit food at all it is called managing your finances & learning to expand your cooking skills with food. Enjoying your vidz Stacey don't allow negative vibes or words to ruin your passion. Enjoy your day beautiful farm by the way, thank you so much for sharing
All the best for you, Stacey, in this new year ❤😊
Hi Stacy! Love your channel and meals. I don’t understand why people have a problem with the term ‘budget’ meals when you cook everything from scratch and is always easy and yum! Maybe these people would understand better terms like ‘wallet-friendly’ or ‘affordable food items’ or ‘home grown’ - beats me 🤦🏼♀️ I love that you cook in season plus outsourcing better prices for this economy we are living through. We are the same here in Australia and it is hard. I love the term we have here when someone ‘scores a bargain’ Brilliant! Keep doing you! 💪
It's so beautiful there.. you are very blessed
Happy New Year Stacey 🥳. Nice public recognition. Goes to show you are doing a wonderful thing with your channel, I thoroughly enjoy it 😊. Not preserving at the moment but harvesting figs to eat, for the first time in 6yrs. Grapes are rocking this year, they'll be well protected from the sheep, they love grapevines. Pears & apples are coming along, may do something with them when ripe. Wishing you & your family the very best for 2025 🌻🌻
Happy New Year from the US 🎉
Thank you for sharing a bit of your morning routine, takes me back & humbles me for what I love. Love your humor & outlook on life. I call it "around the kitchen cooking" using what I have from putting up our own food.
Again, thank you beautiful soul. I look forward to your videos each day 💛
Hi Stacy I think we can call it additive conscious food as that's exactly what it is Healthy home made and additive free :) Great videos good work
Having starts a new orchard really missing my frozen fruit but next year should get a harvest. With the berry fruit though I have not bought fruit for 2 months and feijoas will be ripe in a couple, have 3 hens so never short of eggs and now as a household of 1 leftovers or as I like to call them cook once eat twice😅😅. Efficient pantry management as you recommend is a great money extender 😅😅
I’m doing beetroot relish in the next couple of days from my garden
Morena Stacey, Happy New Year to you and yours. Well here I am wide awake because I went to sleep too early last night lol. Anyway, I’d thought I’d go on to RUclips to see if there were any new homesteading video’s up and yes, yours was there🤗. What a pleasure it was to watch and pass the time till Dawn appears. Like many others have said already, your farm is beautiful. To me it is the best life 💜. The bird song, the animals and the fresh air, I love it. Great video, mistakes and all🤗. I’m so eager to try your baked beans? I’m going to Bin Inn Rotorua this weekend anyway so I’ll pick the beans up then I’m actually going to check out a plum tree today in the hope to harvest a good amount to make plum jam. The plums are the variety that you have which I think are the best ! Thankyou for today’s video🙏💜 have an awesome day Stacey🤗
New Zealand, the land of birds. I really miss the sound of NZ birds .
My grandmother used to bottle all her fruit & put them up on the sideboard in rows. They looked so beautiful. She won prices at the Royal Easter Show for her cooking going back to the early days of the last century as she was married in 1903. They used to taste yummy. She also made jams, bread, cakes - the works!! Everything was cooked in a fuel stove & she was a fantastic cook, something I never inherited to the same degree.
Those plums will taste heavenly over icecream!! Also using them as a base for a keep a week fruit cake is so yummy! I also envy you your chooks!! I made an order with Woolies today as I need more dairy & salad veggies & it has been a fortnight today since I last shopped. I am single, gluten intolerant, & yet it cost me $200 Australian to buy my groceries & I forgot to order the tomato paste I needed to make my mini meatloaves from frozen meat I had bought previously. I did spend $15.50 on a kilo frozen turkey leg pack from Inghams as it will last me nearly 5 days, but everything I bought has gone up in price & I couldn't buy eggs at all, you have to go into the shop to buy them & I didn't buy everything I had on my list because it was over my budget. So it looks like my grandson is going to be buying eggs for all of us as my daughter couldn't get them either. He works at BWS & so can duck into Woolies when he finishes his shift & grab a pack of eggs, so we will have a queue waiting in turn for our eggs. I have three left so they are like gold!! Oh & I did spend $7 on buying cherries but they are only in season 100 days & half that time has gone already.
As far as my pineapple keep a week fruit cake goes, it was rather bland, so I should have added cherries & peel to the mixed fruit, so I am going to make it again, only this time I have ordered a tin of pineapple juice & will use it to soak the fruit in, as well as the peel plus glace cherries I bought last fortnight since the mixed fruit was only raisins, sultanas & currents Then I added macadamia nuts. When I make my plum version, I use almonds. The mango version also used macadamias or almonds but I think pecans would also make a nice option. I am also going to use the rest of the pineapple syrup to make a warm syrup to pour over the fruit cake when finished by piercing holes with a skewer first.
I was able to spend up big in my last fortnight's order as I had saved $150 in points over the year & so I spent an $95 extra of my own money so that I could bulk up on odds & ends that I normally can't stretch my budget to cover as well as purchase things like prawns for the family meal. So now I can make another cake!! 😆 If this one doesn't turn out as nice as I would like, then it is back to making the plum version which I know tastes yummy as long as it has glace cherries & peel included in it. I have a feeling that the mango cake is also not as yummy as it sounds. Plums are best as they are usually tart & have a strong flavour.
Anyway, I am glad you had a lovely christmas & are now ready to tackle the new year & I couldn't help smiling while watching you do the bakebeans as I saw that you still had sauce in your pot & was trying to tell you to use it first. However, the way you touched it all up was what I would do & have done I might add. Cooking isn't that complicated & I always throw things together & rarely have a failure, in fact they usually turn out better & I can't remember what I did because I wasn't religiously following a recipe. It is how I made my chocolate gluten free cake for the chocolate mousse trifle & my brother & nephew commented on how nice it tasted!! 🤣🤣🤣
What a beautiful environment you live in❤
Your plum tree looks great! (I originally wrote "your plums look great" but somehow that sounded a bit dodgey) Our black Doris is laden but totally green. It has been about 10 degree's here in ChCh so hopefully they will eventually ripen! Happy NY to you and yours 🙂
Hahaha, that would have been funny! It is so cold at the moment. Where is our summer? Happy NY my friend and to your family X
I'm in the Manawatū and my doris only have a blush on the green. They are just a later plum. Old Instagram posts say feb 10th every year
@@FarmersWifeHomestead Oh I know- we've had the fire going so many evenings- argh, I am in desperate need of some Vit D
@@starsdell1789 Oh thanks for letting me know that! There is hope yet! This is the first year that it's had fruit. The only other plum tree's I've had funnily enough were when we liven in Palmy and they were ready by Christmas and done by boxing day☺
Telling it like it is - always entertaining. Stacy, your the best!! 😄
Thank you for a beautiful New Years morning , Happy New Year Stacey! I love your channel🩵
So glad your new year is starting out wonderful, love watching your channel, loving seeing your fur babies the piggies and the chickens, the rooster crowing brought back so many memories with my Mom growing up😢. Thanking you for letting us see your day ❤
Mmm Stacey, plums with custard and cream!
Thanks so much, Stacey that's great
I love the nature sounds as the world awakens ❤
Hi Stacey, i absolutely love your channel. I used to live in Raglan and really loved the area. I've just started using some of your ideas and doing meal prep and making bulk meals and freezing . Your meals are great, tasty and nutritious. Keep it up Stacey we love you.
Thanks so much - Raglan is a special place!
O. Before I forget again, ty for the beautiful sun rise ❤️
Such a beautiful farm. Love hearing the birds, the other animals and seeing the beautiful sun.
The BEST FOOD. Is what it is.
HAPPY NEW YEAR STACY
Enjoyed your video I love preserving and think I will give baked beans a go.
Title ideas for your book: Wise Cooking, Make Eat Save and Food Files:Stacey’s Stash
Just popping in again to answer your question about what are we preserving. I bought some beetroots at the farmer's market because I wanted to make a beetroot and onion tarte tatin (it was delicious, by the way), but I bought far too many so I pickled the rest and water bathed them. I'd never water bathed anything until I saw your pineapple video and since then I've preserved heaps of stuff so THANK YOU!
What a perfect way to start the day ... bird song, animals ... bliss. I really miss this, thank you.
❤🎉 absolutely loved seeing your farm, piggies, chickens, goat and lambie! Brilliant plum tree, must plant out a few varieties on a half acre too!! Never seen baked beans made before, so cool!! I think I need a canner!! Happy new year dear friend, so happy people are recognising you in your town, exciting. Yes, cooking with Karl, Carl? A new segment 🤣
Please don’t worry about saying “don’t do a Stacey”, as we all do a Tammi and a Wendy and a Shirley and Debbie and …….. I hope you understand what I’m trying to say is that we’re all in it together sister! Just home cooks, trying to get it done as best we can! Much love and best wishes for a healthy and happy 2025 from your Stacey crew! You’re loved! 🤗❤️
Happy New Year Stacey. Glad to see you back in another great video. I'll be looking forward to the plum sauce when you get there. If you ever do any dehydrating I'd love to see it in a video. hubby got me one for Christmas. Lemons are finally on sale here so I'm going to try dehydrating the zest for lemon pepper as you did earlier. You live in a wonderful place. love the farm visits.
Good to see you in the kitchen making all this delicious meals and preserving. Thank you for sharing.Cheers
Aotearoa native bush❤
Beautiful!!
I grew up on a farm and your video made remember many years ago😊
I’m so glad you enjoyed it and that it brought back some lovely memories for you! 🙂
l like You culture and The , people's live on You country and foods also Nature so Clean 😍😍
Hiya Stacey! Thanks for another great video. It was so lovely seeing where you live and gorgeous Trix! Lots of love from Pukekohe ❤❤❤
A beautiful.place to live ❤ nz
So awesome for you having a viewer encounter out in the wilds!! LOL Man I am such an introvert I don't know how I would cope if it ever happened to me, I get awkward enough just bumping into people I actually know hahahaha. But seriously it's great knowing you are starting to get the recognition you deserve Stacey.
I'm busy in the kitchen at the moment making spice blends with my dehydrated herbs, next up will be gravy and soup mixes, with some jams and water glassed eggs thrown in the mix of it all for good measure. Hubby has been making jars of mustard eggs and pickled eggs which are really yummy for snacking on. Fingers crossed by the end of this summer I will have enough eggs preserved to last us throughout the winter. On the meat front we have a few ducks and roosters getting nice and fat for the freezer.
Wow you sound like you are so onto it and some yummy foods are being made ready for the colder months. I love it :-)
The plums are probably Bilingtons Early, being medium sized, dark red skin, flesh and clingstone, as well as being ripe at this time of year.
Im waiting on the Black Ambers, Hawera's, Omegas, Burbanks, Fortune and lastly Luisa.
I love plums so much!
Great video thank you 🙏
The beans and plums look so yummy. Lovely afternoon in the kitchen.💕
You could call tge meals 'Home made Yummies'
Winter here in Onrtario..often my time to make marmalade 😊Happy New Year🎉 Dont change a thing😊
Hi Stacey. I love your channel. And I absolutely LOVE that you can wear your favourite socks whilst filming. It warms my heart ❤️ Much Love
@@nessday1821 so do I 🙂
Happy New Year, just love this video from your slice of paradise 💙
How very exciting for you that you had a viewer encounter! That is SO AWESOME! I am accepting this video as a personal gift from you - you know how much I love seeing your farm, and the early morning, with the sun coming up - STUNNING! Nothing much going on here, still looking for a job and praying that my car gets fixed soon. Today was an anniversary of sorts for me - J 6, as I was there four years ago with a group of Frens, so it's been kind of a peculiar day today. ANYWAY - it's always so good to see you, and to see you so radiant and industrious. Love & BIG HUGS!!!
I always think of you when I am filming around outside. We really need a catch-up. Thinking of you XXX
Happy new year. Seeing the plum tree brings back memories of childhood on the farm would eat stone fruit from dawn to dusk.
Good morning 🌄 Stacey and a very happy, healthful and prosperous New Year 😊. What a truly wonderful, heart filling and melodious start to the video 😊😢❤. I never realised how much I missed the sound of a North Island farm until I saw this. The hills, the pheasants and the abundant Birdlife. You are so blessed 🙏❤😢. I went to Opotiki in 2020 and drove through to Whakatane. Oh my god. The myna birds and Nikau palms broke my heart. It's funny how such small things can bring you peace and a sense of belonging 😢. I wish I could be back home in the north again, but we're retired now and are stuck down here. Please live your life to the fullest and I'll take it into my heart. Bless you Stacey❤😊❤.
My husband bought me the Edmonds cookbook for my collection. Looking at some of the recipes it reminds me of my Aunts cooking in England.
That's a great cookbook, you'll have so much fun with it.
I have a question what type of spices are in mix spice for the baking? England and the United States mix spices are different. I would love to be able to try some of the cookies with the proper spices.
@carolynahaught7005 if you check out my Hot Cross Buns recipe, it has the spice mix recipe 😊 links are in the video description.
@@FarmersWifeHomestead thank you