I'm exhausted | preparing for a COLD VAN LIFE winter
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We are Linnea and Akela. Through the van build, I used my stubbornness and drive to show individuals that they, too, can convert a campervan by themselves and on a budget, with a lot of learning, rolling up the sleeves, and getting to work.
Our goal is to inspire individuals to chase their dreams... to break from societal limitations and live the life they truly desire.
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Your videos are never long enough for me. I get sucked in, mesmerized like, picturing myself right there doing the things you are doing. (Hopefully I’m not weirding you out! 😅) You & Chris are an inspiration, & you work perfectly together. Your alone time, with Akela is most precious! I love watching this life you are living Linnea. Give Akela an extra hug from me! 💗
Tammy this is so sweet. Thank you for watching, supporting, and leaving such positive words 💛 I will absolutely give Akela a hug from you!
Agreed!
I'm with you! I was hooked when Linnea showed the world how human she was with victories and woes of her self conversion. Such an enjoyable channel!
There needs to be a feature length film!
So agree!
I feel like this channel is the only one that shows a true reality of “van life” and sustainable living. I’ve learned a ton of things and I just love this channel. It’s the only channel I secretly wish for longer videos randomly. Like a surprise long video here and there
Totally love you guys.
your videos bring me inexplicable peace
I am so grateful for that! Thank you!
This is wonderful to see, young people canning. The chicken is what we call "Ugly Chicken" almost all the canners call it that. It is horrible to look at but the first time you open it and eat it you will be in love. You could have fit the whole 1/2 chicken in a wide mouth quart. push it down hard. You could have made apple pie filling or apple butter so keep that in mind for next time. You are going to be so glad you did all this when you open your first jar. Also remember you can freeze things to can later. I know you will be limited on space, you will also find things that are left over like huge batches of chili and soups can be canned for later also. Great video's!!!
My mother RIP would be sooo proud of you two. Her canned goods made winter special. My favorite was her honey pears. You’ll be thanking your former selves this winter! 😋
OMG Linnea the disappointment in Chris's voice when you said no ice cream 🍨 so sad lol. You know you seriously could make some homemade with just a few ingredients. Anyways you two are just amazing. Love watching your videos and learning so much. Thank you both for bringing us along for your journeys. 🙏💕💕
I WAS SO WORRIED TOO GREAT CALL
I grew up in Alaska on a homestead. My mother used to can chunks of moose just like you did with this chicken. She would open a can, drain the delicious juices from the meat, into a bowl and set it aside. She made a roux of butter and f!our, added in the set aside meat juices and a cup of beef broth. This made delicious gravy into which she shredded up the canned meat, and she served this over mashed potatoes.yumm! Mom also dry canned salmon but she added a clove of garlic and a quqrter onionto each jar. Delicious for Salmon chowder.
You can make apple pie filling or just sliced apples rather than all applesauce. You can make use for sliced apples for apple pancakes, apple pie,cobbler, muffins. I'm in Illinois so I pray your winter isn't to harsh.
Leaving the bones in Will give the chicken a better flavor
I was thinking the same thing! Why not do something different to give some variety!!
I love the look she gives at the 10min mark "this doesn't look appetizing" 😂🤣😂.... trust me you will like it & you do not need to cook it "ready to go", you can quarter the apple and make pie filling with them also apple sauce can get boring to eat all the time. You can make apple mead also for those long winter nights by the fire lol
Apple mead. Yes.
Dehydrated apples would be amazing too!!
Linnea...I'm sure you hear this a lot but feel obligated to mention how absolutely gorgeous both you and Chris are...stunning human beings...honestly I think you guys are perfect replica of Adam and Eve, I imagine. LoL...love ur videos always, thanks for sharing. 💯👏👏👏💯😘🤗
I absolutely loved this video!! We spent our honeymoon in Door County in our truck and we’ve been married 40 years!! Absolutely loved growing up in Wisconsin 😊😊❤️Thanks for producing this one!!!loved the walk in the woods!!!
Its so interesting seeing what and how you are preserving food. I had no idea chicken could be preserved that way! And I love that you are finding ways to reduce waste (making stock and vinegar, feeding chickens) Recently I've been canning my very own homegrown tomatoes in a variety of ways (whole tomatoes, marinara sauce, and roasted and preserved in olive oil) and just made my first batch of jerky in a dehydrator. With the right tools, its so cool how many things you can make yourself. Thanks for the inspiration for new recipes to try
Such a great experience preserving food. Full circle from our Grandparents ways.
soooo...apple sauce is good, but as a snack for the winter dried apple slices would be awesome too!
You don’t have to turn all your apples into applesauce, you can also can the apple….cut up apple pieces, simmer them about 5 min. in syrup you make from sugar and water (ratio of sugar to water depends on if you want light syrup or heavy syrup), then can them (hot pack canning). The canned chicken looks sort of like a strange science experiment….lol….but I’m sure it’ll taste good in the cold winter months. I love watching you and Akela exploring the outdoors together. I feel like Akela’s auntie, from the RUclips side of your family…lol.😊
Put some jalapeños in the apple sauce too.
I love love love the song in this. "I was old, I was young, I was sitting in the sun" What is it? I want to hear the whole thing and play it on repeat.
I was wondering the same thing, such a great song.
Hello, Another idea for apple treats, try dehydrate apple slices with cinnamon. We use Honey Crisp. You can keep any where. We take them on hikes. We freeze most of them as we have lots of room but we keep a lot on the shelf too.
ummmm you guys need a tv show! The editing, audio and video are soooooo good , your skills have gotten really great ! so excited for the winter programs
I started watching your videos a little over a year ago and my journey to living a nomatic lifestyle is almost here. Thank you so much for being an inspiration
Thank you so much for watching and supporting 💛 Congrats on your own exciting journey!
You can make snow ice cream! It was one of my favorite childhood winter treats. Mix some fresh fallen snow with a lil condensed milk and cocoa powder. 💛
I think it's really cool that you guys are doing this together.
Such pretty music on this video.
Excellent and fun Video. I have done a Lot of cannon while living in Oregon for 10 year when my boys were little. I canned venison, fruit snd veggies from my garden. It was fun and lots of work.
Idea 💡 cut up the apples and leave them a tiny bit chunky - add cinnamon and a small bit of brown sugar & can. Heat it up and with some oats on top for some winter-wannabe-apple-crisp!
I found your channel back when you were just building out the van and I am so inspired by everything you’ve done since then!! Your videos transmit such a beautiful feeling and I look forward to watching them every week. One day soon I hope to embark on my own canning and preserving adventures, thank you for sharing so much about your own learning process. I’m so excited to see how your winter unfolds and everything you will experience! Big hugs to you and Akela
That was so cool. I did not know how simple making apple cider vinegar was to make. Thank you
Chris, you may know by now that apples are a bit fragile. I grew up on an orchard, and they bruise easily. When you make them into juice or applesauce, not so important! Have a great winter!
You should always remove the rings after they come out of the canner. The rings do not keep the lids on. The vacuum seal keeps them on. The reason to remove the rings is to be able to tell at any time if the seal is broken. You could get extremely sick if the seal is broken and you consume the food . On rare occasions the seal does get broken or the seal never happens due to food being on the jar prior to placing in the canner. If the ring is on the jar you can't tell if the food is safe to eat. Never assume every jar is perfect, especially when you are new at canning. These are mistakes that I made. Once I got out of the hospital I had to inspect each jar, luckily only 1 jar had not sealed. I worried that I would be forced to throw out everything, jars and food. I do things very differently now.
I’m sure someone’s mentioned it but you can use applesauce in place of oil in a lot of brownie or baking recipes, just make sure to reduce other liquids by about half. Take cocoa powder with you, and white sugar (for making caramel!)
Did you ever think about dehydrating some stuff ? You can dehydrate meat too ! I haven’t done it but friends have
when cooled, the chicken fat floating on top turns into chicken fat again and it's called smultz...I think. you can use iit for frying instead of oil or shortening. When you open a jar, if it's cold and there is a skim of fat on top, scrape it off and save it another jar and keep in the fridge.
Have you looked into preserving eggs with lime? Super cool, they go in the jar with lime, uncooked and can keep upto a year! If you guys eat eggs, definitely try this!
If there isn't going to be ice-cream there should be double the chocolate. I feel your pain, Chris!!
You can actually buy - in a can - canned whole chickens. They really look disgusting when you open them up. But boy is it full of good fat and collagen!! That chicken will make amazing sandwiches or even more chicken soup!! I do have a hard time eating the skin if it isn’t crispy but you can put it on a stick over a campfire if it isn’t too fragile from cooking. Otherwise I’m sure your puppers would love the extra collagen too!! I’m excited to watch your winter.
I just wish I had been able to get a cubic mini this year. I live in a place where -40 is common. Living in my van is sometimes harder than others.
You may already know, but remember to remove the rings after the jars seal. That way there are no false seals you miss. Especially with any meat you can. Once again, your videos are so beautiful in every way.
When you do this, do you put the rings back to protect the seal? It seems that any jostling could pop the lids off.
@@daniellawson652 No. if the jars are properly sealed then the vacuum holds them on. This is the reason to remove the rings.
They’ve been doing this 😉
Oba vídeo desta menina que tem um sorriso lindo e a Akela, eu to achando incrível ver o trabalho de preparação para o inverno que você e o Cris estão fazendo, tenho certeza de que teremos lindos vídeos desta temporada nas montanhas, abraço para vocês e aos dogs. 🙋♂️🇧🇷🚌
Looking forward to following your experience this winter
Chris' remark about always having chocolate around for a sweet treat is so relatable. Chocolate and peanut butter are my favorite foods. Haha. I'm not a fan of ice cream but I bet you could still make homemade with shelf stable milk and heavy whipping cream. Then use the snow/outdoor temps as your freezer. Get creative. Can't wait to follow your north woods adventure. 💛
Applesauce and cake mix in the oven or Dutch oven! Could be a way to switch it up. Still not ice cream tho 😂
Love this. I wish I wasn't old. (51). I would do this myself.
Hey older than you and we r prepping to do this too!
Yooper here, good luck this winter. We love to can much of our own food. We also enjoy making maple syrup.
I'll have to check out more of your journey.
My brother loves to can his venison.
haha, your reaction to the canned chicken has be ROLLING 🤣
If you can find them Wide mouth quarts are great for bone in chicken!! I’m so happy for y’all!!
Oh you two make me so happy with your canning, homemade vinegar, and broth. I do raw pack chicken, roast beef, pork butt, hotdogs, sausages and meat balls. It makes having a meal so easy
You need to get a dehydrator and do you apples that way! Delicious 🍎🍎
I love your videos. You guys are awesome. I think everyone should challenge themselves one way or another. It's good for the soul and it's an achievement in life that will be remembered!
Omgosh! You guys would have the cutest baby! 😁
Watching your journey through van life has been so fun. I start living in my van in January and I love the idea of prepping all these canned foods for winter, I think I would like to try it out as well. Keep up the great videos Linnea!
Thank you so much Donovan! Congrats on starting your own van life journey, how fun!
I wanted to shout "stop throwing those apples into the box" Looking forward to watching your continued adventure.
Bring ice cream! It'll stay cold outside 😃 stick it in a cooler so critters can't get to it
I love your videos so much, thank you for sharing your journey!
You've spent a lot of time making applesauce. It maybe less time consuming if you made pie filling. You get the firmness of the apple slices, sweetness and flavor from the sugar and cinnamon. And you don't have to peel and mash. You may save yourself some time. I much prefer it to the applesauce, myself.
I have canned Deer meat once. I added spices and whole garlic cloves. We also raw packed the jars with steak tip size pieces, and I will say it was very good. We used it in stews and vegetable soup. We had of course soaked the meat in milk prior to canning.
Does marinating the meat in milk tenderize it?
@@daniellawson652 it does but the reason for that is to tame the game taste down out of the wild meat. Deer can be quite gamey tasting to me and my family. The milk makes it taste better to us!!
Just found your channel and I have to say….well, I’m blown away. I’m so jealous. The best videos I’ve found on RUclips. Absolutely fantastic job. What a wonderful, hard but rewarding life. 🤗
Sweet! What a harvest delight, makes me want to do it! How much processed meat in a jar does one look at? Reminded me of museums…(ewe) anyway, when I lived off grid I used to have a special ‘pillow case’ that I put hot, rounded (better for leg bumps) rocks from the fire in my bed at night, hmmmm, that was sweet slipping in bed on a cold winter night!
My maternal grandparents had a pantry filled with canned goods and watching your videos brings me back. It's so much work but the payoff is so worth it. (Though the chicken did look questionable. haha) Looking forward to this adventure for y'all.
Love Door County. I live on the Illinois/Wisconsin border and Door County is a favorite of ours. Love watching you and Chris prep for this together and seeing how you are learning together and from each other. You compliment each other so well. Can't wait to see how the winter goes.
Dude… I’m sold on that speaker. lol
As someone also off grid in a camper in Wisconsin this winter, I am so excited to see what you guys come up with!
I love your determination. I love that you both get to do what you love and also get to challenge yourselves. ❤
YAY! we were in Door County 2 weeks ago with 11 vans. Excited for our van to be completed. welcome back home. we live near Madison. Van build being done in Wisconsin. Excited to watch your adventure in Wisconsin. Love your videos.
If you do the apple thing again, make some apple butter!! It would go great with your bread! :)
Caned meat is good and so convenient to make meals, toco,chicken salad,take some flour to make chicken and dumplings!
Fried chicken dipped in applesauce is so yummy!
I’m so excited for this journey. Good preservation and meat harvesting is something I’m very interested in experimenting with in the future.
I really appreciate you and Chris sharing this journey. Thank you!
Love your vids 🙌🏼I saw Akelas twin in my hometown ☺️So beautiful, your a natural behind the camera 👑 look forward to your next one …. The winter is going to an be amazing experience, I love fishing , winter fishing be interesting 🙌🏼 live from Australia 🙌🏼
Love not live lol
Looks like Pot Park to me, such a great place!!!
Watched the q and a before this one and I'm loving how much Chris is in your content now 🙌
He seems really knowledgeable and a great team mate for you Linnea ❤️
You guys are inspiring! Wondering if it would be worth getting into canning...
You’re going to have the most amazing, hyggelige exploitative experience out there. Winter is so underrated.
Your reaction to the chicken in the jars, was priceless! 😂😂😉✌
so much prep!
You two are so cute :) I like him a lot
What an interesting adventure this is going to be. Just the preparation alone is impressive.
Props to you two for taking this on.
Wait... no ice cream?!? I'd never make it.
We were in Door county a few weeks ago, very pretty area of Wisconsin. I had work in Bailey's Harbor, we also had time to visit the Cana Island lighthouse, and a few farmers markets. We don't like cold weather so headed south already, hoping to be able to do jobs near the North Phoenix boondocking spot where we met you earlier this year. Good luck in the north woods!
Great Fall weather in Wisconsin!! Little rain is predicted on Monday & again on Friday but 60's in November... WOW!
Absolutely loved every piece of this video, but the end you looked so relaxed. Love watching you and Chris on this next adventure!
Just started following you. It's fun to watch your growth from start til now. Love your honesty and determination.
You'll have unlimited freezing to make ice creamy treats!
Awesome video' watching your journey through van life has been so much fun .I like canned food ' and i hope you have a great Week Linnea.
nice-nice-nice an more nice /thanks much
I love Door County! Have you been to the Coyote Roadhouse? They had the best fried cheese curds when we visited.
You can ground beef in the same way; I watch a couple from Alaska that literally cans everything. I can post a link to their channel if you like.
That would be great, we are always looking for people to learn from! Thank you
@@Linneaandakela ruclips.net/user/SimpleLivingAlaska
You're very welcome, I also watch the Townsends, he does living history and shows older preservation techniques from the 18th century.
Yip “ simple living Alaska” on YT
so refreshing.
Linnea, where does the music come from that you use? I just love it. It really adds a wonderful vibe to your videos. I would really like to be able to play it as I travel.
So many questions. Does Chris have his own social media accounts? Does the canning process cook the chicken? Are you still thinking about sharing your bow hunting experiences? If you are not successful with large game, would you consider smaller game like coyotes for survival? Have you been fishing lately? Safe journeys.
While Akela is beautiful all of the time, when you get those shots of her in the sunlight, it is positively awesome.
Beef is expensive, but I bet you will want it. Get a dehydrator and cut up some cheaper cuts after marinating them. Put them in a dehydrator for 10-12 hrs and you'll have a great snack. I got a de-ydrator super cheap; it was maybe $40. You can also make apple chips, bannanna chips (sp?) , dehydrated fish, etc. Love seeing a fellow Wisconsinite doing cool stuff. BTW - I think you have enough apple sauce. Just kidding on the apple sauce, btw. 😀
Y’all should fix some apples like you would use in a pie. Sliced, cooked, spiced. You can fix apple cobbler or even an apple pie! Even though it’s still apples they will have a different texture.
Hope y’all took all the chicken meat off the backbones you used for broth. Those pieces will make great soup.
Videos are too short lol 😂
Can’t wait to see you have a wonderful your winter will be. I’m so jealous , you guys are going to do great.
You can can apple pie filling if you get tired of applesauce
We love your content! Thanks for sharing
I miss my door county. Have land on Washington Island. Wondering where you will be hunkering down
The real north woods move: making ice cream outside. It’ll be cold enough! Sweetened condensed milk. Fold in homemade whipped cream and whatever you want for flavor. Maybe apple pie flavored ice cream 🍎 👀✨
Whoa such a cool idea!!! We will have to try this for sure! Thank you! 💛
I think that’s the collagen (my mom used to that when you make chicken soup to “boil the chicken till the collagen comes out of the bones”).
Can't wait to see what you create w8th that chicken.
Oh,apple pie filling for apple crisp
Love your videos, looks like you guys are getting the hang of the pressure cooker.
You could also can apple pie filling and make pies.
Yes! We are going to do that with the second box of apples. I'm most excited for that :)
@@Linneaandakela You also use some of the apple skins to make a sourdough starter. You get natural yeast by using the skins. Then you can make bread/rolls all winter.
Your chicken and broth will be amazing. No it doesn't look appetizing but it will be great. Some call it "ugly chicken"! I love to can and have been doing applesauce and chicken as well. Thank you for sharing!