For those that have never had to re-soften brown sugar placing the piece of sliced bread into the container is a miracle maker! Trust me on this one and try it yourself. A ‘brick’ of brown sugar will be pliable within a couple of days. Happy Mothers Day to AG and all the other mothers out there!
@@Pmwalls46 yes! I use the large size but mini’s work too. (I like the large because they’re easier to see) One or two of the large or 2-6 for the mini’s. Then I make rice crispy treats with the left over marshmallows. 😋 I replace the marshmallows when I refill my brown sugar. I just set a marshmallow on the top and seal it up in air tight container.
Alaska Granny. I'd like to make up jars of brown rice and lentils etc like you showed in your video. Could you please post about the quanities of each component.
Just store white sugar and molasses as these store indefinitely and make your own brown sugar when you need it. Less molasses yields light brown and more molasses makes dark brown sugars.
I just found out last year that yeast will store 1 year (an opened sealed jar) and 2- 3 years (unopened) in your freezer- game changer! I recently made bread with this year old yeast and found it was still active and fresh!
One day at university I bought a bag of black beans. I cooked them and ate them. I didn't read the instructions. I was so ill I thought I would die. I was so badly constipated afterwards I had to take drastic action. NEVER eat dried beans without soaking overnight first, drain, rinse, boil, drain and rinse, simmer and rinse.
I don’t store nuts anymore except in the smallest quantities. They seem to go rancid really fast in AZ. I could freeze them but freezer space is precious.
This video, is again another great video. Thank you, for the great info. I am late, too busy, but never too late, to wish you, a Very Happy Mother’s Day wish. God bless you, and thank you. 👍🙏☘️🌺🌷❤️🌹🌟
I like brown rice - bought another bag yesterday. The Best By date is two years hence. That's long enough for me - I don't need food to keep for decades.
I just checked my prepper pantry & I don't have dry kidney beans stocked (I only have canned). I do, however, have 16 bean dry soups stored that contain kidney beans. I'll add a label to ensure they are properly cooked or pick out the kidney beans prior to use. Thank you!
I don't store black eyed peas any more. I just don't like them very much. I'll eat them if starving, but why not just add other types of beans? I added Great Northerns to make soup, as well as some canned pintos so I won't have to soak and boil them. We have been using that powdered cheese blend a lot lately to make sauce for vegetables, it's delicious. I am so excited that my bread machine has arrived! Today, I made a trek to town and bought all the ingredients I need to make pumpernickel! That will busy me while I incubate my sourdough starter, which I've never done.
Most pastas you buy in the store do not contain eggs. Pasta is produced with durum wheat semolina and water. Read the label. Eggs must be clearly stated if they are an ingredient in a package as they are an allergen. If you are highly allergic, read labels for egg free facilities.
Brown rice can be stored in the fridge or freezer for years as well as yeast-- not as a pepper food but just to keep fresh. Question, what if egg noddles are made with dehydrated or freeze dried eggs, will they last a long time?
i have Yeast in sealed packets that is over 7 years old that past the Still Active Test. I guess once Yeast is opened like many other food items it has a short shelf life. Yeast Test: Proof your yeast to find out if it's still active by adding 1 teaspoon of sugar and 2 1/4 teaspoons of yeast (one envelope) to 1/4 cup of warm water. Then, wait 10 minutes. If the mixture bubbles and develops a yeasty aroma, the yeast is still good.
When I started prepping (over a year ago) I thought it was a good idea to buy a case of organic lemon juice in small glass jars. Turns out it tasted terrible! The date was coming up so I just donated what was left. Now I stick to 'buy one, try one'!
Good info! I'm going to look into a bread machines🙂. White rice, dry lentils, dried beans, pasta, oat berries (for oatmeal & flour) and pop corn (for corn flour) are probably the main foods in my long term 'forever food' pantry. I also like dehydrated veggies and powdered eggs but they can be expensive and not necessarily 'forever foods'. Powdered milk and plain instant potatoes also seem to store well but aren't forever foods either. I look at our ancient ancestors for the most successful long term storage candidates.
I have made a number of loves of whole red wheat bread using a bread maker, solar only. Solar for grinding, solar for baking. Same with popcorn for corn meal.
No yolk noodles will last a very long time, not sure the time but I have kept mine 5 yrs no problem then they start turning greyish white.. white sugar store in mylar bags , buckets will turn rock hard same for salt. I use a bread machine , love it. I store long term and short term food. Some foods are store bought but not many as it is much more cost effective to make what you need from scratch and the chemicals added to the processed food just not something I want in my body. I wont can hamburger again it tastes like dog food to me, but I do store freeze dried cooked burger, raw burger as well as raw premade hamburger paddies. Store what you eat and rotate. Have a min of a yr supply but I would wager you going to need more.
Happy Mother’s Day Granny !! Thank you for all your knowledge and wisdom. I’m going to watch your video about the bread. I have a bread machine & haven’t used it in a while. I saw all my children today and feel so blessed ! Love you Granny ❤️❤️❤️
Just had a can of diced tomatoes do that. I had 6 cans on hand but that was the only one that went bad. I've probably had it 6 months. I won't add canned tomatoes to my prepper room going forward.
Eggs. Although eggs of course have an expiration date, here's how to drastically prolong that. Always put them with the pointy end downwards. Rotate them after a week, so the round side is downwards. The trick is not to let the yolk sac reach the inside of the egg, hence the rotation. Honey. Buy organic honey so you get a product where the anti-inflammatory properties are mostly intact. Don't worry about the crystalline sediment it gets after awhile, it's a natural process, just shake the jar when you wanna use it. If SHTF happens, all drug stores will be emptied along with super markets, so having something antibacterial in your house will be a priority for wound treatment. Before penicillin, people died left and right from a scratch from a rusty nail. Buy an Aloe Vera flower. Snap of a branch and use the liquid inside for burn treatments. I always have one in my kitchen.
I'm planning to switch to wheat berries instead of flour. I have lots of flour to use before i start working on wheat berries. I have several mills, so it should work well.
Thank-you! We store our brown rice in the freezer. I hope that will be fine. 🤔 We go through the pasta! It never gets close to the Use By date. 😄 We enjoy your videos so much. God bless🙏🏽
I have never been a big fan of red kidney beans. My mother was. I didn’t know about having to be careful when cooking them. Don’t remember mom ever mentioning it. 🤔
I must hav always lucked out cookin kidney beans. Never knew about the toxins till very recently. So now i store can beans or pressure can kidney beans. Hope thats enough!!!!!
YES. Haven't seen any of your posts in - long time. Indeed, egg noodles don't last long at all. Neither does spaghetti since I'm a huge spaghetti fan. 😆. There is little I have put back now. Peanut Butter, can salmon - ham - chicken - roast beef. Cans corn - spinach. Flat Bread seems to be -- time durable. Instant mashies. Wow, not a lot.... I need to "re-think" future meals.
I got this idea from the dried meals in a jar from watching the brown rice lentil jar meal that Alaska Granny posted. . I do not have the canning equipment or jars. But I decided to make pouch meals in vacuum sealing bags. So I can put 2 cups of water and the contents of a pouch in my 6-1 cooker and press a button for a quick and easy hot meal. So, I have been reworking my food storage. I have learned some things like that I need less of certain foods and more of others. And some of the unopened sealed food that I purchased from the survival food companies is no good. I accidentally knocked a container of freeze dried bell peppers off a shelf and it did not make the rattle noise when I picked it up. So I opened it to find a moldy clump. That was not cool. The bags of dried beans contain rocks and debris. My favorite dried bean that I store in bulk 22 pounds each batch has about 2 pounds of rocks and debris so I really have 20 pounds of beans after I picked out the rocks and other debris. Some even had various seeds from soybeans to hemlock and others. I spent days picking all that out. I assumed that each pound was 2 cups because that is what the package had listed. My favorite beans have 2 1/2 cups per bag. So my dried beans had to all be repackaged minus the rocks, seeds and other debris. I do not want to see dried beans right now. Instead of rice that should be rinsed, I am using parboiled rice for my pouch meals. I made Parboiled Rice with dehydrated vegetables and soy powder for a vegetable fried rice meal pouch. I can add canned meat to it. I also made Parboiled Rice with the cream of chicken powder for a creamy rice meal. I can also add canned chicken. I measured out Cream of Wheat with raw turbinado sugar for meal pouch. I measured out and sealed single ingredients into bags to make it easier to assemble for many other meals. I did the beans and the regular rice that needs to be rinsed. Next up is the burrito filling pouches which are flaked refried beans with taco seasoning and dehydrated vegetables. So I can put 2 cups of water and my pouch into my rice cooker to make a meal when I make my own tortillas.
@@Holly-ys1me Oh for sure on the cans of freeze dried stuff. I shook them, they were "solidified". When I opened them -- yuck. Such a waste. I love your ideas. Will have to give it a try. One can only dread eating so much Peanut Butter on flat bread... hahaha.
I don't store whole wheat flour or any whole grain flour due to the oil. I store small amounts that I will use up in a year or less or store grain to grind.
I wonder if there's multi vitamins that last a long time, because most seem to be okay but they usually expire in a matter of months, maybe a couple of years. 🤔
@@zippy2641 I don't know about that. My vitamins usually get gross when they're old. The pills get a weird smell and taste. The effervescent tabs get weird too and won't react well as usual. Capsules also feel unusual when too old. I am talking 2 years or more. I threw vitamins in the past because they didn't look good anymore (I would have used them otherwise, but it was too bad to take them).
@@AlaskaGranny Oh yes, I do that. But I can't stock up 10 years of vitamins for an emergency situation or to save money, for example. When we think about emergency situations where we eat ultra long life items we might need supplementation (even people who don't usually take vitamins) because we might lack certain things found on fresh food like Vitamin C. It's always great to have seeds, of course, but considering we currently have access to a wide variety of supplements I always felt it would be wise to have some vitamins around. I have no idea if there's long life vitamins that can be stored like those cans of rice etc.
@@TheSimArchitect I would imagine (guessing) that the extreme degradation your seeing is likely the additives different manufacturers use in their products. Have you ever had a container of pure ascorbic acid (Vit-C) get smelly/nasty? Mine never last long enough to have that problem, so I really don't know.
For those that have never had to re-soften brown sugar placing the piece of sliced bread into the container is a miracle maker! Trust me on this one and try it yourself. A ‘brick’ of brown sugar will be pliable within a couple of days.
Happy Mothers Day to AG and all the other mothers out there!
Happy Mother's Day!
An orange peel in the container with an airtight lid will keep it soft for months!
I use marshmallows. They never go bad and they work fantastically
@@Pamela-B
I’ve read this before and I bought some. Do they really work that well ?
@@Pmwalls46 yes! I use the large size but mini’s work too. (I like the large because they’re easier to see) One or two of the large or 2-6 for the mini’s. Then I make rice crispy treats with the left over marshmallows. 😋
I replace the marshmallows when I refill my brown sugar. I just set a marshmallow on the top and seal it up in air tight container.
Alaska Granny. I'd like to make up jars of brown rice and lentils etc like you showed in your video. Could you please post about the quanities of each component.
Just store white sugar and molasses as these store indefinitely and make your own brown sugar when you need it. Less molasses yields light brown and more molasses makes dark brown sugars.
I just found out last year that yeast will store 1 year (an opened sealed jar) and 2- 3 years (unopened) in your freezer- game changer! I recently made bread with this year old yeast and found it was still active and fresh!
I just don't tell the yeast what year it is. So far, so good.
I'm using yeast from 2008 all good
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Happy mother's day to you and all the mom's out there💐🌷🌻🌺🌹🌼
Happy Mother's Day!
Just add a couple of large marshmallows in the brown sugar container and the sugar does not dry out. I have been doing this for many years
One day at university I bought a bag of black beans. I cooked them and ate them. I didn't read the instructions. I was so ill I thought I would die. I was so badly constipated afterwards I had to take drastic action. NEVER eat dried beans without soaking overnight first, drain, rinse, boil, drain and rinse, simmer and rinse.
I don’t store nuts anymore except in the smallest quantities. They seem to go rancid really fast in AZ. I could freeze them but freezer space is precious.
This video, is again another great video. Thank you, for the great info.
I am late, too busy, but never too late, to wish you, a Very Happy Mother’s Day wish.
God bless you, and thank you.
👍🙏☘️🌺🌷❤️🌹🌟
Keep your brown sugar. Just grate it when it gets hard. Simple solution.
Storing food you like also makes it easier to rotate.
I like brown rice - bought another bag yesterday. The Best By date is two years hence. That's long enough for me - I don't need food to keep for decades.
I just checked my prepper pantry & I don't have dry kidney beans stocked (I only have canned). I do, however, have 16 bean dry soups stored that contain kidney beans. I'll add a label to ensure they are properly cooked or pick out the kidney beans prior to use. Thank you!
Good idea! Thanks
I just recently learned about the kidney beans too. I have a few bags in storage that I plan to pressure can to avoid any issues.
I don't store black eyed peas any more. I just don't like them very much. I'll eat them if starving, but why not just add other types of beans? I added Great Northerns to make soup, as well as some canned pintos so I won't have to soak and boil them. We have been using that powdered cheese blend a lot lately to make sauce for vegetables, it's delicious. I am so excited that my bread machine has arrived! Today, I made a trek to town and bought all the ingredients I need to make pumpernickel! That will busy me while I incubate my sourdough starter, which I've never done.
Great idea .. drying doughen 🤣🤠
Pasta contains eggs as well . Just go to any RUclips video on how to make pasta and you will see eggs are in it... it's standard
Most pastas you buy in the store do not contain eggs. Pasta is produced with durum wheat semolina and water. Read the label. Eggs must be clearly stated if they are an ingredient in a package as they are an allergen. If you are highly allergic, read labels for egg free facilities.
Brown rice can be stored in the fridge or freezer for years as well as yeast-- not as a pepper food but just to keep fresh. Question, what if egg noddles are made with dehydrated or freeze dried eggs, will they last a long time?
i have Yeast in sealed packets that is over 7 years old that past the Still Active Test. I guess once Yeast is opened like many other food items it has a short shelf life. Yeast Test: Proof your yeast to find out if it's still active by adding 1 teaspoon of sugar and 2 1/4 teaspoons of yeast (one envelope) to 1/4 cup of warm water. Then, wait 10 minutes. If the mixture bubbles and develops a yeasty aroma, the yeast is still good.
Wonderful advice!
@@AlaskaGranny ♥
@@mannyfragoza9652 I appreciate the helpful comments you leave on my channel. Thanks for helping us all be better prepared.
@@AlaskaGranny awwwww thank you. You have a really nice community here i look forward to your videos i always learn something. Thank you A,G,
To make brown sugar workable again.... Just insert a splash of cooked water into it and seal the container over night. That will moisten it up again.
When I started prepping (over a year ago) I thought it was a good idea to buy a case of organic lemon juice in small glass jars. Turns out it tasted terrible! The date was coming up so I just donated what was left. Now I stick to 'buy one, try one'!
That would seem like a great buy. Too bad.
Good info! I'm going to look into a bread machines🙂.
White rice, dry lentils, dried beans, pasta, oat berries (for oatmeal & flour) and pop corn (for corn flour) are probably the main foods in my long term 'forever food' pantry. I also like dehydrated veggies and powdered eggs but they can be expensive and not necessarily 'forever foods'. Powdered milk and plain instant potatoes also seem to store well but aren't forever foods either. I look at our ancient ancestors for the most successful long term storage candidates.
I have made a number of loves of whole red wheat bread using a bread maker, solar only. Solar for grinding, solar for baking. Same with popcorn for corn meal.
@@SgtSkrog Cool! Very Cool!! I'm still a dreamer.😉 I meant wheat berries.
I use moisture absorbers in my sugar and salt I store for long term
Sugar and salt do not need to have moisture absorbers in the jars.
Actually, they need to be stored dry or they get hard. They do not need oxygen absorbers.
No yolk noodles will last a very long time, not sure the time but I have kept mine 5 yrs no problem then they start turning greyish white.. white sugar store in mylar bags , buckets will turn rock hard same for salt. I use a bread machine , love it. I store long term and short term food. Some foods are store bought but not many as it is much more cost effective to make what you need from scratch and the chemicals added to the processed food just not something I want in my body. I wont can hamburger again it tastes like dog food to me, but I do store freeze dried cooked burger, raw burger as well as raw premade hamburger paddies. Store what you eat and rotate. Have a min of a yr supply but I would wager you going to need more.
Happy Mother’s Day Granny !! Thank you for all your knowledge and wisdom. I’m going to watch your video about the bread. I have a bread machine & haven’t used it in a while. I saw all my children today and feel so blessed ! Love you Granny ❤️❤️❤️
Happy Mother's Day! So blessed to see all of your children.
Really great ideas! Also as you have said in the past look out for canned pineapple. The acid tends to eat away at the can.
Indeed it does! I keep a few cans around, but I occasionally add more #10 cans of freeze dried.
Just had a can of diced tomatoes do that. I had 6 cans on hand but that was the only one that went bad. I've probably had it 6 months. I won't add canned tomatoes to my prepper room going forward.
You could keep cans of pineapple and tomatoes in separate plastic totes. Then write date in black pen in lid, and use oldest cans first.
Great information on not storing dry kidney beans without caution! This is new to most people!
Excellent advice, as always AG.👍
TFS AG, Take care, keep busy, & Happy Mothers day everyone, from over the Pond.❤🙂🐶
Happy Mother's Day!
@@AlaskaGranny 👍🤗❤🙂🐶
Eggs. Although eggs of course have an expiration date, here's how to drastically prolong that.
Always put them with the pointy end downwards.
Rotate them after a week, so the round side is downwards.
The trick is not to let the yolk sac reach the inside of the egg, hence the rotation.
Honey. Buy organic honey so you get a product where the anti-inflammatory properties are mostly intact.
Don't worry about the crystalline sediment it gets after awhile, it's a natural process, just shake the jar when you wanna use it.
If SHTF happens, all drug stores will be emptied along with super markets, so having something antibacterial in your house will be a priority for wound treatment.
Before penicillin, people died left and right from a scratch from a rusty nail.
Buy an Aloe Vera flower. Snap of a branch and use the liquid inside for burn treatments. I always have one in my kitchen.
* best-by date (not expiration date)
I'm planning to switch to wheat berries instead of flour. I have lots of flour to use before i start working on wheat berries. I have several mills, so it should work well.
Happy Mothers Day,💐
Happy Mother's Day!
Great video thanks again ❤
Thank-you! We store our brown rice in the freezer. I hope that will be fine. 🤔 We go through the pasta! It never gets close to the Use By date. 😄 We enjoy your videos so much. God bless🙏🏽
Happy Mother's Day!☮️🙂
Happy Mother's Day!
I have never been a big fan of red kidney beans. My mother was. I didn’t know about having to be careful when cooking them. Don’t remember mom ever mentioning it. 🤔
Thanks for the info about the dry kidney beans. And have a happy.mother's day!
Happy Mother's Day!
Just pressure can your own kidney beans. That's a good way to rotate beans and have them ready to use on the shelf.
I must hav always lucked out cookin kidney beans. Never knew about the toxins till very recently. So now i store can beans or pressure can kidney beans. Hope thats enough!!!!!
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY AG 💓 Thank you for all your tips and advice 😊
Happy Mother's Day!
Just place that yeast in the freezer, it'll keep for years!!!
What about cane sugar?
I recently found a bag of No Yolks noodles that expired in 2018 we were hesitant to try them but turns out they were just fine.
Have y'all considered a raw turbinado sugar? It lasts longer.
YES. Haven't seen any of your posts in - long time. Indeed, egg noodles don't last long at all. Neither does spaghetti since I'm a huge spaghetti fan. 😆. There is little I have put back now. Peanut Butter, can salmon - ham - chicken - roast beef. Cans corn - spinach. Flat Bread seems to be -- time durable. Instant mashies. Wow, not a lot.... I need to "re-think" future meals.
I got this idea from the dried meals in a jar from watching the brown rice lentil jar meal that Alaska Granny posted. . I do not have the canning equipment or jars. But I decided to make pouch meals in vacuum sealing bags. So I can put 2 cups of water and the contents of a pouch in my 6-1 cooker and press a button for a quick and easy hot meal.
So, I have been reworking my food storage. I have learned some things like that I need less of certain foods and more of others. And some of the unopened sealed food that I purchased from the survival food companies is no good. I accidentally knocked a container of freeze dried bell peppers off a shelf and it did not make the rattle noise when I picked it up. So I opened it to find a moldy clump. That was not cool.
The bags of dried beans contain rocks and debris. My favorite dried bean that I store in bulk 22 pounds each batch has about 2 pounds of rocks and debris so I really have 20 pounds of beans after I picked out the rocks and other debris. Some even had various seeds from soybeans to hemlock and others. I spent days picking all that out. I assumed that each pound was 2 cups because that is what the package had listed. My favorite beans have 2 1/2 cups per bag. So my dried beans had to all be repackaged minus the rocks, seeds and other debris. I do not want to see dried beans right now.
Instead of rice that should be rinsed, I am using parboiled rice for my pouch meals. I made Parboiled Rice with dehydrated vegetables and soy powder for a vegetable fried rice meal pouch. I can add canned meat to it.
I also made Parboiled Rice with the cream of chicken powder for a creamy rice meal. I can also add canned chicken.
I measured out Cream of Wheat with raw turbinado sugar for meal pouch.
I measured out and sealed single ingredients into bags to make it easier to assemble for many other meals. I did the beans and the regular rice that needs to be rinsed.
Next up is the burrito filling pouches which are flaked refried beans with taco seasoning and dehydrated vegetables. So I can put 2 cups of water and my pouch into my rice cooker to make a meal when I make my own tortillas.
@@Holly-ys1me Oh for sure on the cans of freeze dried stuff. I shook them, they were "solidified". When I opened them -- yuck. Such a waste. I love your ideas. Will have to give it a try. One can only dread eating so much Peanut Butter on flat bread... hahaha.
Thank you, AG. Happy Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day!
Thank you for your common sense advice.
Good video , thanks for sharing , God bless !
Happy Mother's Day AG! Thanks for more helpful tips! 💜
Happy Mother's Day!
I don't store whole wheat flour or any whole grain flour due to the oil. I store small amounts that I will use up in a year or less or store grain to grind.
Thanks again for this helpful info AG 😊
I wonder if there's multi vitamins that last a long time, because most seem to be okay but they usually expire in a matter of months, maybe a couple of years. 🤔
They don't actually "expire", but they will slowly lose potency.
If you use vitamins, you will rotate them naturally.
@@zippy2641 I don't know about that. My vitamins usually get gross when they're old. The pills get a weird smell and taste. The effervescent tabs get weird too and won't react well as usual. Capsules also feel unusual when too old. I am talking 2 years or more. I threw vitamins in the past because they didn't look good anymore (I would have used them otherwise, but it was too bad to take them).
@@AlaskaGranny Oh yes, I do that. But I can't stock up 10 years of vitamins for an emergency situation or to save money, for example. When we think about emergency situations where we eat ultra long life items we might need supplementation (even people who don't usually take vitamins) because we might lack certain things found on fresh food like Vitamin C. It's always great to have seeds, of course, but considering we currently have access to a wide variety of supplements I always felt it would be wise to have some vitamins around. I have no idea if there's long life vitamins that can be stored like those cans of rice etc.
@@TheSimArchitect I would imagine (guessing) that the extreme degradation your seeing is likely the additives different manufacturers use in their products. Have you ever had a container of pure ascorbic acid (Vit-C) get smelly/nasty? Mine never last long enough to have that problem, so I really don't know.
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Happy Mother's Day ❤
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Happy Mother's Day ! May the good Lord watch over you and your family and friends. Peace and Love 😊
Happy Mother's Day! Thanks for sharing blessings.
My sugars are in the deep freezer
Happy Mother’s Day to you and all other Mothers too!💝
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Happy Mother's Day 🌻 God Bless You 😇 ❤️
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I NEVER knew that about red kidney beans🤪🤯😬🧂🔥🧂🔥💐💐💐💐
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Not a fan of kidney bean
Only store foods you like.
Gotta love Doughen 🙂
Thanks for sharing this, I'll be making some changes in my food storage based on the info that you shared here. Happy Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day!
@@AlaskaGranny Thank you!