Food Prep, Planning & Meals - Large Family, monthly grocery shopping Jun Pt6 |Off Grid Australia 280

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Sixth lot of days of food prep after the six monthly grocery haul!
Chicken pie, sausage rolls, english muffins with sausage patties, homemade bacon! yum yum! :D
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There's always a juggling act in the beginning period of the grocery haul when it is fresh, because you want to make sure you use up all the food that can't be preserved but you also have all this exciting food to be eaten!
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[@GrandmaBsBusyLife]

You asked for feedback about how your videos are done. So, here it is. It wouldn't matter what or how you do your videos. I watch every single one, all the way through. I love ALL of your content. It is all interesting to me. Thank you for taking the time to let us into your life.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Naww, thank you! :D

[@janicedelp2775]

Totally agree! I love everything about your videos! Can't say that enough! Janice from Arkansas USA

[@kirstyalexander3398]

I love your videos Nyssa! We live in a bus thats been converted into a tinyhouse and love it, we're currently saving to buy land and your videos are such a huge source of inspiration towards our own off grid journey! 🥰

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Oooh, yay! D likes the idea of travelling/doing up a bus once the kids are older, I dunno, I kinda like staying put lol.

[@kirstyalexander3398]

@OurSmallFootprint we had the intention to travel in our bus but here in NZ seat belts are so hard to get signed of for a Certificate of fitness to be on the road so were parked up rurally on leased land. We are super lucky to be close enough to my husband's work but far enough out to enjoy the country lifestyle ❤️

[@OurSmallFootprint]

@@kirstyalexander3398 I think that's key, even when we lived 'metro' we were on a couple of acres, commuting was a little lengthy, but doable, but we had that distance! Darryl wants to take me to NZ and show me all the places he went to as a kid, we thought we might hire one of the motorhome/buses they rent for that kinda thing, and do that. But once the kids are old enough we can leave them behind ;) heh

[@katiebell7455]

Hi Nyssa, would you consider doing a “day in the life” style video every now and then? Hugs from Samantha in NSW.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Hey Samantha, I'll see how I go, I find them hard to film because I have to remember to film the ordinary lol, the everyday stuff! :D

[@pattaylor8955]

Just found this one that I hadn’t watched. Again Nyssa you are so creative with all of your food. ❤

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Thank you Pat :)

[@feenonzalo2622]

I would love to see some of life off grid❤ i love your channels i dont live off grid but love watching what you do with all your food!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

I think winter is a time when we don't show much of the actual living and gardening etc, we do a lot but a lot of it is nothing that shows any progress, I'm learning with doing the youtube how the seasons flow a bit more because I'm documenting it!

[@ruthtingle7219]

I just appreciate anything you post, I love your content and appreciate you xo

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Naww, thank you Ruth! :D

[@Cynkarl1]

Oh my the English muffins with sausage and egg looks amazing. Have a lovely day Cindi

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Was a super way to use the sausage meat!

[@jenstewark8087]

Haven’t even started watching yet and I’m excited lol Just like a new episode of my fav show that airs every week Thanks nyssa

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Hehe, thank you Jen! :D

[@lethaharris1608]

Inspiring as always !! I'm always so happy to see you!! Thank you ❤️❤❤❤❤❤

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Thank you Letha! :D

[@lethaharris1608]

@@OurSmallFootprint ❤️❤️❤️

[@voodookitchenmama]

Those sausage rolls look amazing.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

They're so tasty, we reheated the frozen ones yesterday and they heat up as good as fresh!

[@bethenyauker4727]

Yummy 😋 all the meals looked delicious 😋. I'm sorry I'm behind on the videos, I've been up to my neck in garden produce and have been very busy canning. I'll be got back up soon though!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

That time of year, we're slow and you're pumping! :D

[@emmabeer5690]

Can you please do a one off video on what you grow off-grid? I see 1:48 that you have greenhouse garden beds. I'm interested in your setup to see how your lifestyle differs to mine. Same sized families but city vs off grid country

[@OurSmallFootprint]

We had such a disastrous garden season last year that we are doing things very differently this year! I will definitely bring you all along as we figure it all out! But I am doing my seed inventory soon and I'll discuss that too, what we choose to grow over what we don't etc.

[@angeladavis2165]

I live in Washington State USA, where it is 105f, hot and dry, so seeing the fall/winter foods is a great contrast. We only have three in our home, but I do do a big shop once a month and prep and freeze. I am only 5 minutes to our grocery store so fresh fruit and veg is a lot easier to buy weekly. I feel like I channel you a bit, while I am preserving my food to last until the next month. Thank you for all the inspiration!!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

I think it works really well to make sure you use everything, just having that thought process! :D

[@lorrainecostanzo9092]

I'm so glad to see all the greens being used, as a shopper who also shops rarely (this time it was six months as I fell and broke my ribs) I also find it hard to have enough fresh greens to use on a regular basis

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Its really where we miss the gardens, even if we don't grow a whole lot over winter, we normally have an abundance of kale and silverbeet! which can be used as greens in just about everything, definitely need to figure out at least greens beds again, some way to continue those even if the rest of the garden isn't going to work! :D

[@bunnobear]

@@OurSmallFootprint I am going to start a small greens garden this year and rhubarb, yum

[@bunnobear]

wow that must have been painful, do you live on your own to shop so little?

[@OurSmallFootprint]

@@bunnobear I put rhubarb in this year, it’s still alive, so that’s a good start!

[@debc8402]

Wow you really do all kinds of meals ty

[@OurSmallFootprint]

I definitely try to diversify our choices, I buy much the same every month and find that to make me enjoy it, I need to sorta span out in my inspirations for meals :D

[@rain.danceing3867]

Ooowee I'm hungry now! Yummo! Nyssa, I belive that if some of the viewers were were having, fresh sausage, beautiful, fresh fried eggs, pork rolls from fresh grond pork with spinach leaves and those awesome noodles with fresh cabbage and fresh ground pork meatballs and wow all cooked outside,They'd feel that they were in heaven instead of complaining about a beautiful fresh english muffin with a couple of charred spots! I might even be able to make square english muffins, lol. Oh it all looks sooo good! Thnx Nyssa😮

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Heh, I’m lucky we’re not fussy! :). Scrape the burn off if it’s a little too charcoal :)

[@rosemariemichel7050]

Can't go wrong with chicken pot pie. The potatoes and gravy, yummy. Pork rolls 😋

[@OurSmallFootprint]

It's such a good tasting meal, anything in pastry really hehe.

[@pauladart176]

I enjoy every video you do. Thank you.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Naww, thank you Paula!

[@countrymousesfarmhouse497]

Everything's making my mouth water. Lol. Thats a great tip on the boxed spinach.The sausage rolls would be my pick but almost tie with the ramen meatball meal. Yum and yum. Your English muffins look pretty compared to mine. I need to try steaming them like that, im still searing in cast iron then baking to finsh. Thank you for sharing honey❤❤

[@OurSmallFootprint]

It definitely helps with the internal pockets I find, they end up more dense baked! I was amazed at the spinach the first time I bought it like that, I was so worried most of it would end up with the animals, but because it lasts so well I'm happy to pay a little more for it!

[@ghc7400]

If you boil your pigskin first then bake in the oven. You will get fantastic crackling.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

I wonder if that would render out some of the fat that I'm trying to save though ?

[@ghc7400]

@@OurSmallFootprint probably not. I would shave it off before boiling. But it does make the best crackling.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

@@ghc7400 we prob don’t need to eat anywhere near as much crackling as we do, prob good some of it ends up chewy and given to the dogs lol

[@FrugalFunMum]

I got a few ideas from this video! Thanks for sharing!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Thank you, best compliment out there for videos I reckon, that someone gains something useful from them :D

[@FrugalFunMum]

@@OurSmallFootprint I have ADHD too so you know we have 2,000 ideas for food all the time and it’s not till we see someone else do it do we go ohhh that’s how I can do it lol

[@katiebell7455]

Absolutely gorgeous food as usual. You are very talented.❤ Hugs from Samantha in NSW

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Thank you Samantha :D

[@oliviafox3605]

Thank you, Nyssa.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Thank you Olivia! :D

[@aprilwright8056]

Loved this video. Anything pork is amazing!!!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

It's so very versatile!

[@happycazimero1349]

Don’t worry about what people say about your cooking. I’m certain they can’t do half as much as what you do.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Hehe, it doesn't worry me, but there is a part of me that wants to explain just in case others feel the same way, like about the caramelisation causing 'burnt' spots, maybe others look and go, ick, but don't understand why it happens, so if I can share and that makes them understand, all to the good! :D

[@emmabeer5690]

3:54 have you looked up on KZbin on how to fix the fridge? Our fridge died not to long ago. Well I thought it died. Yes it required a new motherboard. But found out if you take off the back and vacuum it, even more dk around the fan it can start working again. Plus it should be done once every 6 months to help push the life of the fridge.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

We did a lot, pulled parts off and cleaned, checked thermostats etc etc, nothing worked, spent a lot of time trying to get it working again but it just didn't chill at all :S

[@emmabeer5690]

@OurSmallFootprint bugger. Didn't you not so long ago get a new one too? Like it bent your ute frame or something like that because you went into underground parking

[@OurSmallFootprint]

@@emmabeer5690 That one that got damaged wasn't working properly, we managed to get it working again, did a full defrost, and clean of erminals etc like what we tried with this one, its not working perfectly, fridge only gets down to about 5/6 degrees but its working, and then the other one died, so we had two, one played up, we managed to fix it, and then the other just up and died :S

[@emmabeer5690]

@OurSmallFootprint might need to buy one brand new. On the upside the news were going on about the QLD giv giving a rebate to people buying high star rating white goods. Give it a google, might be worth buying a new one with high energy rating for the rebate and less drain on your power whilst off grid

[@OurSmallFootprint]

@@emmabeer5690 We ended up getting a hybrid chest freezer, its 4.5 star rating, is 500L and it can be set as high as 8 degrees or as low as -20degrees, so atm I've got it set to 3 and when we get the trailer cold room working I can then use it as a freezer! :D

[@paperbark3754]

what some call burnt others call deliciously charred spots. everyones tastes are different. i thought your english muffins looked yum!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

They definitely didn't taste burnt hehe, but they probably looked it in pics, especially with my phone, it tends to make everything look darker and warmer lol.

[@elizaC3024]

Great video and I love your recipes.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Thank you Elizabeth :D

[@carolynrose9522]

That ramen/soup/pork ball meal looked so tasty

[@OurSmallFootprint]

It worked really well for a thrown together meal!

[@heatherbolichowski1910]

I like the idea of homemade sausage rolls. But sausage gravy with biscuits would be my first choice for sure! I first tasted sausage gravy with biscuits on a trip to the States a few years ago and was surprised at how good it was especially with green onions to garnish. ❤️

[@OurSmallFootprint]

I keep on meaning to make biscuits! But I haven’t yet, though it does work well with roast potatoes hehe

[@sallyhostetter2820]

The English muffins with sausage patties, caramelized onions, egg was really yummy-looking and the Ramen. I am going to watch this video a second time to see those English muffins and the Ramen. I have never experimented with Ramen. Yum. Thanks as always. - Sally

[@OurSmallFootprint]

It's very new for me too the Ramen, but we're really enjoying it! as a simple lunch sometimes or a more complicated dinner! Definitely something I'm going to keep the stuff for available! :D

[@lynneanthony168]

Hi Nyssa, drooling here as usual!!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Hehe, thank you :D

[@mylife-321-0]

Hi Nyssa, you sure sound much better than you did last week. That sausage looked amazing as always! Eat some for me😎TFS!!!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Definitely feeling pretty much 100% now! :D

[@LifeWithMeAustralia]

Delicious meals as usual ❤ I'm excited to see you experiment more with ramen. Its one of my favourite things to eat in winter 😊😊

[@OurSmallFootprint]

We've been doing so many things with it, even just hte basic egg yolk/mayo and vegeta with the noodle water... so simple but so good!

[@LifeWithMeAustralia]

@@OurSmallFootprint Peanut butter, honey & soy sauce is also nice mixed in with strained ramen too 😋 it has a sweet and salty flavour. It may not be for everyone though haha

[@OurSmallFootprint]

@@LifeWithMeAustralia oooh, sounds like my kind of flavour! Heh

[@lynnebrown-hardy1566]

Those roasted potatoes look so so yummy.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

They're that perfect crispy outer but soft fluffy interior when done this way!

[@holleym2927]

Yum, yum and double YUM!!!!! Wow, you hit out of the park with this one!!! Chicken pot pie, sausage rolls and ramen!!!! I really just need to come visit you!!! Excellent video!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Hehe, lots of tasty foods! :D

[@michelleh5727]

Yummy food! Thanks for sharing

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Thank you for watching :D

[@ronalee34]

It all looks yummy!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Thank you :D

[@juliamarple3785]

I LOVE seeing what you do with food. Something new from what I usually do. I have puff pastry in my freezer! Ooh, and minced pork also!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

I like to make interesting food, perhaps I'm making more work for myself lol, but I do enjoy variety with minimal staples! :D

[@Ziggokimbo]

I was so lucky Saturday My hubby and I went to steggles outlet and got 10 kg tenderloins for $15..Great Bargain

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Woohoo! Score! I consider going to the inghams outlet when in Brisbane but it is really out of the way and hard to get into and I just don't know if its worthwhile adding that time onto my trip!

[@Ziggokimbo]

@@OurSmallFootprint We travel 135 klm to do Our shopping every 2 weeks ,But we go straight past so it’s handy.If you rally need to stock up at some stage it’s probably then worth it. Bargains to be had 😀

[@mymemories237]

Loving your VLOGS 😊

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Thank you! :D

[@punkyfish1977]

Youre looking so much better Nyssa, for w while you were looking a bit poorly. Im happy to see you looking relaxed in your face. Brilliant vudeo aa always. I cant remember ao I'll ask, are yourr mugs available to buy? 😊❤

[@OurSmallFootprint]

I'm definitely feeling a bit more normal! I think I struggle with the light a bit too, I'm pretty sensitive to sunlight due to the partial blindness in one of my eyes and because I haven't been able to use the shaded solar spot for doing videos lately due to the roosters I'm in a bit more sun, but it was setting when I did this one, which was nice! lol Not yet, let me finish a couple more iterations of the designs and then I'll put them up! I just want to be happy with a few diff designs and then you can choose them and I can print and press as you decide what you want! :D

[@punkyfish1977]

@@OurSmallFootprint I'm glad you're feeling good. When does the spring arrive there ? Maybe you need some warmer weather too. Ah brilliant, I look out for it when you've done it . I'd love to buy one. 😊 I hope you manage to get your fridges sorted before the summer 🙏🤞 I'm struggling with my garden here , for saying it's July the temperatures have been low and it's constantly raining and windy , my poor tomatoes haha 😂

[@OurSmallFootprint]

@@punkyfish1977 spring is September but we get frosts during September as well, so I can’t plant out some stuff u til October!

[@katiestockley5984]

thanks for the chicken pot pie recipe, looks amazing xox

[@OurSmallFootprint]

I'm so glad it made multiple sets!

[@marygarcia5449]

Delish as always Nyessa!! ❤❤❤❤

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Thank you Mary :D

[@vegemitegirl1971]

Hi Nyssa, I'm looking at your sausage rolls and thinking yum. Have you ever put a jar of caramelised onion in your sausage roll mix? I think it would go well.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

That woudl definitely go well! I will have to try it :D

[@cathybier506]

Everything you make always looks very delicious!! Love allyour videos 😊!! Still dont know how you do it, SUPER WOMAN!!!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Hehe, thank you Cathy! :D

[@bunnobear]

I need to get cooking those ramen noodles, I love the idea of assembling in a bowl, so clever. Did you share where you got the favlours from? I must have missed a video :) I have chicken mince for meatballs. Also we have been enjoying cabbage for the first time for I think 15 years! My kids are finally old enough to eat anything :)

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Pick up limes here on KZbin is the first recipe I used! And I’ve just tweaked it for our taste from there :) All of mine like cabbage luckily, they come and steal bits while I’m cutting it hehe, I spose not Surreal, she’s not a big fruit and veg eater no matter how hard I try! Yet, when she was a toddler, we’d order sides of steamed veg as her meal lol

[@bunnobear]

@@OurSmallFootprint Awesome thank you, my fussy eater is 17 now and finally he is starting to eat his food together, not all separate :) My husband was excited about having a laksa this week :)

[@laurennightshade]

I managed to find some of the ramen noodles today when I was in the city. My small town Coles didn't have them. We can't wait to try them after seeing them a few times on your channel. They are so much cheaper than the ones we have been using!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

They're a great price for the quantity! and just basic ingredients, which whilst I'm not hugely hung up on numbers in food, if I can find something that doesn't have them it makes me feel better about not making them hehe.

[@jeanz3622]

The food looks delicious especially the sausage rolls and ramen.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

The sausage rolls are such a nice treat, I prob only make them once in each 6 week, but they're super tasty!

[@nanettesilas6062]

Yum now I’m hungry

[@OurSmallFootprint]

I've done my job then! :D

[@gloriadavidson8599]

Brilliant cooking AGAIN Nyssa 👏👏👏👏👏🎉👍👏 Love from the UK x

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Thank you Gloria! :D

[@susanwilliams1881]

😂Love your videos

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Thank you Susan :D

[@qwertyqwert2772]

🙂

[@michelle10261]

I used to blogging but I couldn't edited my videos. So I gave up because I could,t get the supscribers. I would love to do some blogs again I do shorts.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

I really struggle to do shorts lol, I forget to take footage with my phone!

[@karolynforeman7529]

Delish! Looks tasty..regards

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Thank you Karolyn :)

[@rrenda1]

Have you ever considered making a cookbook? I would buy it!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

One day! at the moment I just don't have the time to put into it, I am planning on putting the recipes up on the blog I just haven't quite got that finished yet either lol, so many balls up in the air! :D

[@rrenda1]

@@OurSmallFootprint I collect cookbooks. I guess I read them like they’re novels. Lol! My favorite books are the ones with commentary, not just recipes . I would love one from you that maybe even went off of your voice overs but in written form.

[@sharonpeta2390]

Don’t you wish we could chop that fast. Although when it speeds up I’m thinking don’t cut yourself 😂

[@OurSmallFootprint]

Heh, yop! I always wonder when I'm editing if I should show shorter clips in real time or flick back and forth at double+ time hehe.

[@sharonpeta2390]

Lol.

[@angelafleming3328]

Your meals always look so yummy. I know your in your winter do you have times when you get weather that would keep you from doing your 6 week shop. I am in Tennessee and although we have weather that is fairly predictable summer is hot winter is cold but we do get some snow so winter we keep a extra stock of food just in case we get snow because you can live in town and the roads are icey and we can't go anywhere just wondering how weather affects your shopping? Thank you for all you do!

[@OurSmallFootprint]

We don't get snow at all, we do occasionally get flooding or bushfires that cut us off a bit, the hope is always to have enough that if we can't get somewhere we can miss a shopping trip, it wouldn't be anywhere near as varied meals without the run for fruit and veg etc, but we'd manage, we have enough, it would just take some creativity. That's always the plan though, to have enough food to get through double the shopping period that we do, so if we every extend the shopping out more, then we'll aim to have double whatever that is again, JIC!

[@angelafleming3328]

@@OurSmallFootprint Thank you we literally live a mile from the store but 2 years ago we had a very snowy winter but it wasn't the snow that was the problem it was the ice and where we live they salt the main roads but if you live off of the main roads you might as well be 50 miles from the store because you can't walk on the ice let alone drive on it. So we just stay in and play in the snow but we go nowhere that year 2 years ago it took us 10 days to get the ice melted so we could go to the store we went to the store and and it snowed again the next day. We always keep enough food for a few months just in case but as you said the meals would be a little boring but bellies would be full thank you for answering my question.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

@@angelafleming3328 yes, it would be lots of repetition, but we’d manage for a while. Having a garden would help! Which is why we need to work on it this year!

[@angelafleming3328]

@@OurSmallFootprint yes I have my garden and I am always canning things for the shelves I canned 80 pounds of potatoes and I realized today I only had 3 pints left time to can potatoes again.

[@tawanajackson5545]

YUMMY ❤❤❤

[@terrysimpson6761]

There’s been a lot of talk about how can we make an income whilst living the dream. So how do you manage it? What do you and your dh do to make an income?

[@OurSmallFootprint]

I think the really big thing is lack of debt/minimal debt, there is no way we could afford our existence if we had a big mortgage etc! Darryl does converting for dungeons and dragons and I do transcription contract work, as well as an income from here, but because we have a larger family and are low income we also receive some government benefits for the moment :). But we have minimal overheads that is really key! I don't think a lot of people would choose to exist the way we do lol, they're going to want much more backing or ability to earn whilst out here, we didn't have much of a choice, things just ended up the way they did and we make the most of it :D

[@terrysimpson6761]

@@OurSmallFootprint We had 5 children but hubby worked long hours, the family tax benefit was a good help. I also got carer’s allowance for one of my son’s but being autistic we needed to be in the city to enable him to receive the best help available. Thank goodness we did now as he has learnt to cope so well. He loves Dungeons and Dragon’s too but he works at the Air port. We are now moving to land now that our children are all self sufficient. And yes we won’t have any debts. I have to be honest I couldn’t have an outdoor kitchen not here in Qld. So you do very well. I do wonder though how all your appliances will last with all the outside elements. We had a fridge in our under cover but it corroded and I would be worried with your thermi as they are so expensive. I guess it’s like being a pioneer woman with a few gadgets. Good on you.

[@OurSmallFootprint]

@@terrysimpson6761 I definitely worry about the impact of environment, but will have to deal with that as it comes! The kitchen will eventually be partially enclosed but that’s one of those big projects that is a struggle to fund! Things I can add to over time like buying garden beds two at a time etc, much more doable than finding 5k for the pantry structure heh