How We Use ALL of the Food We Grow on Our Homestead (weekly meal prep)

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(No Nut Butter) Chewy Granola Bars
-9 Tablespoons butter
-7 Tablespoons honey
-6 Tablespoons sugar
-4 teaspoons molasses
-2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Combine the above ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and boil for a solid minute.
-3 ½ cups rolled oats
-1 ½ cups cereal of choice
-½ teaspoon salt
Mix these dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Pour the sauce over the dry ingredients and stir thoroughly. Pour the mixture into a 9x13 pan and press down firmly with a piece of parchment paper. Cool the bars, then pour melted chocolate over the top and chill again before cutting. These bars need to be refrigerated or they will fall apart.
Note: If you would like these bars to be even chewier, you can blend a third of the oats in a coffee grinder. This helps the bars stick together even better.
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[@estherzaiback7390]

As a mom and grandma, I know how much effort you put in cooking good food from scratch. Your family is so fortunate to have a mom/wife like you. May God continue to bless you and your family 🙏. You are a good role model for me!

[@joannepoulias5092]

Thank you for your raw honesty. One of the things I really appreciate about your channel.

[@ChicGeekLifeAndBudgets]

For boiled eggs, use your instant pot! I use the 5/5/5 method (5 minutes on manual, 5 minutes natural pressure release, then release the rest and 5 minutes in an ice bath). The shells never stick when I do them in the instant pot like this!

[@morethanfarmers]

Thanks for the tip!

[@Just-Nikki]

Same! I will never boil them any other way if I can help it.

[@joanacooper0429]

I boil my water first before I add my eggs and then the shells peel off so easy with farm fresh eggs

[@corinne7126]

Now you tell me 😊 thank you

[@susiebyler5226]

I like the tips about the eggs here.

[@Katie.slaughter_of_YHWH]

I made a huge pot of soup once a week, even in the summer! and it’s my go to for lunch (we homeschool , so I’m also feeding 6 people 3 meals a day😳) or a night where I am exhausted. It’s nutritious and easy❤❤

[@LittleDreamFarm]

Thank you both for sharing such valuable, down-to-earth advice. Your practical tips always resonate deeply with me, and I can't express how much I appreciate the effort and heart you put into each video. It's inspiring to see how you balance structure and spontaneity, and I learn something new with every single one. Thank you for being such a grounding and motivating presence in my life!

[@morethanfarmers]

So glad it’s been helpful!😊 Thanks for following along with us!

[@Mwakatheewifeprenuer]

200k Subscribers 🎉❤

[@johnambrogio9585]

I just put my 11 gardens to bed for the winter. I will be spreading my compost in November, then plant my garlic the middle of November. I love watching your channel, and I know living here in SE Michigan, these next 6 months are the slow times for me, looking out at my barren gardens, but I know I can always go back to watching your garden videos in the winter.

[@Godsplan89farmlife]

Wow.....I always learn alot from you both. Real no nonsense tips are valuable. Thank you for all your efforts ! I LOVE my chopper too !

[@Myladybug70]

You are right! I was missing out. I love my chopper.

[@FannyVandemaele]

Thank you for sharing your experience with food and kids😃really helpful 😊

[@morethanfarmers]

You’re welcome! So glad it was helpful!

[@sharonanderson346]

You are such a great mother! I love your organization! Well done! Have a good few days off!

[@morethanfarmers]

Thank you!☺️

[@ChristinaMoore79]

When I get my place and have a garden that gives, I plan to do prep on Monday as well -- I'm gonna call it Meal Prep Monday, lol. Oh, and I noticed in this and the last video that Cody finally got his truck he's been wanting!

[@joandial7395]

That loofah sponge look so useful for root crops ❤

[@beautifulgorgeouslovely4661]

I love this channel sooo much🤞🏾 Very informative and inspiring ✨✨

[@LifestylewithMjkhan]

Thank you for sharing this vlog 🤗

[@maryegerton6848]

I absolutely love that grey and green chopping device. Best tool ever. I buy in season what I can’t grow enough of, like peppers and onions and chop huge bags of them up with that thing and freeze them for the winter. 😊 Your tortillas are so perfect. Mine are all crazy looking, but I love them anyway. I freeze those too.❤❤. Thanks for another great video.

[@SusthaniaTatiana]

Thank you so much for the tendon free chicken tip! 😀I can totally feel you on prepping and cooking for a family. I like how you organize your day so it's more efficient for you.

[@farmgirlzz2319]

I feel the same way about cooking as you do. I was also the tom boy that ran away from all things housework. I would have rather cleaned the barn! But, now I have a family to feed, and it is my least favorite activity, but it gets done because my family deserves a good home cooked meal.❤❤

[@GrowCookPreserveWithKellyDawn]

Thanks for the bar recipe! I definitely have to try that one.

[@kattrinahowe1868]

I have that same chopper it was a gift from my mother before she passed away

[@bumblebee7922]

Thanks for such awesome, fun videos!!

[@FYMXQ-36815]

I want to tell you both that you both make a very good KZbin content and I especially like what she is doing in the kitchen and in her garden but both of you. I like and love how you both do your videos. It make me very happy when I see the both of you on video and you put out a video. But I want to tell her that I have to commend you and how you know how to do scratch cooking very well for your family and what they like now. You have done a very good job in the short of time. I've watched your videos that she had learned very well how to cook from scratch very well and that make me very happy to see a woman like your statured that has learned how to cook from scratch and doesn't go to the store and have to buy crappy food that has all the preservatives and additive in the food. That is not good for your body especially lately food coloring that is not good for your body as well. This is why when I see a good woman that knows how to cook from scratch, I want to really tell them because I want you to know that I'm learning how to cook from scratch as well because I don't like all the additive and Prince Edward tips in the food in the grocery store as well. Now I'm getting ready to watch your new video. I hope the both of you and your family. Your kids have a good week and God bless you both and your family as well ❗❗❗ and the One that gave you the comment. His name is Mark.

[@FYMXQ-36815]

Thank you 2 for an outstanding video that you made for today, I like what she does in the kitchen inner meal prep from scratch. Again, thank you both for making such a outstanding KZbin video. This is why I give certain KZbin channels the good and outstanding comments that I give you guys when I see you. Very good KZbinr and the channel that I really do like. Again, congratulations on how you know how to cook from scratch for your family and your husband.

[@rebeccahanks8392]

I will try that tendon trick! You're so relatable and I love your videos! I'm learning from you and you inspire me with your homestead lifestyle. Thank you

[@KAMLANDER]

I got so excited when I saw your insta story, ahhh!😍

[@ericawhitfield9289]

Ooh was it something good?? I don’t have insta. 🫠

[@tdewtx]

I dunno I live in Texas. An Ohio transplant actually from Springfield. I moved to Texas in 1982. In Texas a tortilla press is used for corn tortillas and flour tortillas are rolled out. So don't pay any attention to the trolls you are doing it just right. Besides your kitchen your rules. anyone not happy can go by the rule their kitchen their rules

[@MNTNSTARZ80.]

I grew up on a farm was always outside but I also loved taking care of inside things. Why would you resent your kids for coming to you, their mother for care? It thrilled me to be the one that she ran to for even basic things like eating. On days I was busy I planned the night before and made things like juice, fruits and veggies cut up and put in Tupperware in the fridge so she could grab whatever she wanted.

[@cathyscroggins1420]

Make ahead breakfast burritos or breakfast sandwiches and freeze them or keep in the fridge so you don’t have to cook every morning. Buy some lunchmeat so your kids can make their own sandwiches. There’s has to be some give and take to make your life easier if you don’t like cooking.

[@NoName-NNISOTBS]

Congrats on the 200k🎉

[@morethanfarmers]

Thanks!😊

[@tamararobinson2069]

Another Inspirational vlog!!! I’ve been sitting on Buckwheat seeds for cover crop - I’ve watch how to cover crop videos - but was still no sure how to proceed. I’m mean seriously planting something I may have to weed later made me Very Leary!!! But your explaining was perfect & I do think it was the “ Wedding Toss” that sold it!!😂 Michelle I love your meal planning methods!! And those tortillas are going on this weeks plan!!! Thanks!!!❤

[@LifestylewithMjkhan]

I watch full video very very very very very very very very very very very nice vlog 👍

[@kprairiesun]

Mashed new red potatoes with peels on are good. Great tendon hack! I always hate trying to cut them out!

[@kprairiesun]

Wow! Great tilling!

[@joeyhardin1288]

Love the granola recipe. Must have missed it but you have a truck now!

[@morethanfarmers]

Yup! Got it a few months ago.😊

[@Seasoncromwell]

Fork/tendon thing ....genius.

[@GreenThumbGardener65]

I get it. I do not like cooking either. I do cooking on the weekends. I make 5 meals for dinner m-f but here’s the secret. I make twice as much and put half in the freezer labeled. The next week I make totally different stuff and again half goes in the freezer. Half gets eaten for dinners during the week. That next weekend food from the first week comes out of the freezer and goes into the fridge and so on. Basically I work it out so I cook three times a month for dinners. Lunches are sandwiches, oatmeal or pizza that I make with leftovers as toppings. I just use my sourdough starter as crust. Breakfast is fend for yourself except on weekends when I do pancakes or eggs or really whatever DD and DH want. It’s a lot less stressful because I’m not constantly in the kitchen. I also at some point make a pot of hard boiled eggs and leave them in the fridge for snacks. Everyone has their favorite items like apples, banana, grapes, granola. We just keep those stocked.

[@alicewong1633]

Awesome videos, love the content.

[@tildars]

Tks for the video❤

[@Neanglinda-m3n]

Hello mommy thank you for sharing I like your video 😊😊

[@melodyssong4916]

omg thank you for the chicken tendon trick, that thing drives me crazy

[@kprairiesun]

And buckwheat pancakes are tasty

[@59kuphoff]

Never thought of using my glass stove top as a prep area.

[@SumaiyaSulthana-m4q]

Love from Bangladesh 😊😊

[@marytaelliott]

Que bonito!!

[@LifestylewithMjkhan]

I'm waiting next vlog when come 😊

[@FYMXQ-36815]

In the last comment I made, this is to give you something more about that video that I wanted to say who I was referring to. That as good as you knowing how to scratch cook the other two KZbinrs that know how to cook very well and outstanding like you or Meg from the holler homestead and the other one. That is very good and knows how to cook from scratch. Is Chelsea from Little mountain ranch out there like you? And I don't think they've come across any other KZbinrs channels that really know how to scratch cook as well as you three that I have come across on my time watching KZbin channel now.

[@FYMXQ-36815]

Congratulations! I'm very proud of you for making tortilla shells from scratch. I thought you bought them organically tortilla shells. If I see in the video that you make Frito shells or tortilla shells from scratch. I'm very proud of you for doing that. I didn't really know that you did a lot of your stuff for you and your husband and your kids things from scratch. I'm learning very well. How you feed your family? I guess you really don't like all the perturbatives and additives in the store-bought food then do you now?❗❗❗

[@lindameredith1941]

I find if I slice potatoes early in the day with a ceramic knife they don't turn brown like they do when I use a regular knife.

[@eb1684]

Last week we bought milk kefir on sale. Ever the SALE price is very high. Could never pay full price.

[@LifestylewithMjkhan]

I like very much your vlog 🤗❤️❤️🥰🥰❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰

[@Just-Nikki]

I make tortillas twice a week and I never use a press. They don’t get thin enough in a press and I was having to roll them anyway so I decided to save myself a step.

[@laurielyon1892]

Thanks for the information about the apple cider vinegar with the beans. Do you know if you can put some in the jars when I can them? I always meal plan for the week, I just don't normally meal prep, but I really should try it, even if just for a few meals.

[@LifestylewithMjkhan]

Hello 🤗

[@LifestylewithMjkhan]

I know Monday your video come on every Monday

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[@Iamam313]

can you please link where you got your shelving in the pantry from? I see it's all metal and it looks super sturdy.

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[@julieblanchard8604]

Hi! Where do you get your filters for your berky? ☺️

[@joannamamczura5994]

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[@daramurawski904]

Siete brand was purchased by Pepsi so be cautious going forward they may change the ingredients or how they are processed.

[@gardeninglady2015]

What carrot variety do you grow? They’re huge!

[@morethanfarmers]

We did danver half long and red cored chantenay.

[@MNTNSTARZ80.]

I always laugh when people give recipes and act like a potato or apple turning brown is a catastrophic event. I'm not worried about either of them browning. I'm not going to put lemon juice on fruit, especially if it's cooked because it darkens anyway and imo raw fruit getting brown usually tastes sweeter

[@bluelilly22222]

❤👌👍🌹

[@alph8654]

All that food prepping made me tired and hungry. Think i will take a nap and then get something to eat.

[@angelsamongus7247]

Your thrive market link isn't working... just fyi! I've tried twice now. It gives me an "oops the page you're looking for can't be found" message.

[@morethanfarmers]

So sorry! It should work now.

[@dig_grow_cook]

Says Thrive market page not found

[@morethanfarmers]

So sorry! It should work now.

[@rubyfowleri6423]

Liquid smoke may not be good for your health

[@martaescobar7625]

....the kids can't help you with meal prep?