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

[@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!

[@morethanfarmers]

Thank you!☺️

[@camicri4263]

Amen!

[@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.

[@joannepoulias5092]

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

[@carolmcmillan1108]

You are such a great organised cook for someone who doesn’t particularly like cooking 😊

[@sherry2836]

I'm reminded of an old joke "One of the hardest things about being an adult is deciding what to have for dinner every day for the rest of your life!" I can only imagine how much harder it is with a large family, 3 meals a day, each person with their own likes and dislikes. Thanks for sharing!

[@morethanfarmers]

For sure!😅

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Lg families learn to like what they’re given on their plate

[@adaniels4326]

Thank you for being honest about having resentment for doing some of your typical tasks. I love my child. I love doing my part in the household, but I do sometimes get frustrated with it all. That doesn't mean I don't ever want to do it, cause I do.

[@norliahnasir2252]

Congratulations on achieving your 200k subscribers milestone 🎉🎉🎉

[@morethanfarmers]

Thank you!

[@lisagrafton2529]

For those of us who don’t have ice makers, I keep a couple frozen ice packs in the freezer, (ever the long thin ones meant to put in water bottles works, but you need more of them! I use ice packs for anything that needs an ice bath, to stop the cooking. It’s reusable, and the few ice cubes we have, I save for iced tea, etc.!!

[@judygillespie3242]

Good advice.

[@5GreenAcres]

I grow my own and I love cooking. I hate the clean up. You might want to think about cubing your potatoes and canning them. They are excellent to make potato salad with. Fast and easy. Also watch Acre Homestead. She has many meal prep idea's. I never ever peel my potatoes. I use red potatoes for mashed. They are called Dirty Potatoes. Thank you so much for the tendon hack!!!!

[@FarmLife-k7f]

"This channel is an absolute gem for anyone who loves gardening! So many great tips 🌱🌿."

[@kendratai]

I feel like the hardest part of gardening was figuring out how to use and eat it...and then have time to deal with prepping it so you could eat it. It's such a learning curve and you definitely have to have the time to deal with it

[@lylacrawford1827]

Good video. I enjoy seeing how you prep for the week on Monday. Good idea. Bless your sweet family.

[@morethanfarmers]

Thank you!😊

[@andreapickern-oj3rn]

This is so inspiring! I love that you can just go into your basement and freezers to get food for your family. Thank you for all of the inspiration in the garden and the kitchen! I have been food prepping more and making more from scratch. My 10 year old son loves watching your channel, too! ❤ And him frolicking and the throwing the seeds made me laugh! 😁

[@morethanfarmers]

You’re so welcome! Keep up the good work!😊

[@kimberleychapman8416]

I so relate and remember how it felt when my children were younger and I felt like I was cooking nonstop as I cooked from scratch too. It was especially difficult when we came to the U.K. to join in a Christian mission. This meant that family members weren’t around…however, in time, my children learned to cook. This is one of the things they thank me for now - that we ate together and that we had healthy meals most of the time. ❤☺️ You guys are amazing and modelling wholesome living to your family.

[@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

[@Katie.slaughter_of_YHWH]

I make 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❤❤

[@morethanfarmers]

Such a great idea!

[@jessicapower8585]

oh my gosh... the fork trick for the chicken tenders!!! Thank you!!! 😂❤❤❤

[@ericcawith2cs11]

I've never felt more seen then during your talk about the mental fatigue and resentment around meal planning. It's so hard to get back into a routine when life throws changes to your schedule. I need to do better. We've been in chaotic survival mode for so long now.

[@SemiWholisticHomestead]

It makes my heart happy to see that now you both are doing this full time… the artistic and creative aspect of ya’lls videos have sky rocketed

[@morethanfarmers]

Thank you!

[@Mwakatheewifeprenuer]

200k Subscribers 🎉❤

[@EmmaMG21]

Yes, I was going to mention it. Fantastic!

[@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!

[@kimkreate]

imho, you are the most adorable family on all of youtube! thanks for sharing your lives with us! what an inspiration you are :) God Bless You and Your Beautiful Family :)

[@morethanfarmers]

Thank you so much!

[@khome707]

What you were describing how you were before you meal prepped is so me! I need to do what you do.

[@mrs.broccoli4362]

my Monday highlight after a long day in my practice. Thanks for the great video. It will certainly help many followers to find out how to use up the harvest at the right time. We are currently cooking everything from the stock and can still harvest tomatoes and peppers. We don't have any night frosts yet. I'm so happy for you about the 200,000 subscribers, it's wonderful to see how everything has developed positively. Your honesty and warmth make you so successful. As always, I would like to say thank you very much for all the work you do.

[@morethanfarmers]

You’re so welcome! Thank you so much for your support!😊

[@FannityVair]

I love that you get to “grocery shop” from yourself!

[@thisnthatcormak]

Michelle's comments about being a tomboy and not loving cooking and your kids constantly asking to eat could have come out of my mouth. I constantly stress about meals. I don't meal prep but I meal plan and that's been a huge help. I make our granola bars in a similar way. Butter, brown sugar local honey and vanilla. Rolled oats and puffed einkorn. I add pecans, raisins and chocolate chips. We love them so much more than the store bought granola bars. Congrats on 200k subscribers. VA is amazing. My husband's cousin lives there. They have 10 acres and we stay a few times a year.

[@morethanfarmers]

Yes just making a meal plan helps so much too! The bars sound delicious! Thank you!😊

[@loganjackson1335]

This video had me cracking up. The first time was when Michelle talked about having to marinating the chicken to be ready to cook on the fly. The second time was when Codi was seeding the cover crop and the ducks were have dinner. Not sure how much of that crop will come up haha. Loved the Video and Congrats on the 200K subs 🎉

[@morethanfarmers]

Thank you!😄

[@loganjackson1335]

@@morethanfarmers You are so welcome. I also meant to to tell Codi I love the truck!

[@meganfarrow6581]

You guys are absolutely amazing! You inspire me to want to grow and preserve more for my family of 4. I love watching your videos and always look forward to seeing new ones every week! God bless you and your family ❤

[@NashRambler]

Loved the entire video as usual. I shared this with my husband and asked him to go to 22:12 so he can hear your sage advice “it’s so much easier to manage everything on a homestead if you aren’t always waiting until the last minute”. We are both retired and guilty of putting things off sometimes, after all, we have all day every day. 😊

[@ajrichardson3871]

"What should we have for dinner?" always throws me over the edge!!!! I just don't know where to start with meal prepping. You get through this so gracefully. Fall is upon us, and we still have work to do before the short days of winter are here. You are both doing life to its fullest. Thank you for taking us on your life journeys ☺

[@op4rlb348]

Oh My word! Thank you SO much for the tendon tip! That is amazing! Always wondered if there was an easier way…🙂

[@TeresaEdwards-kw3np]

Yay 200K, congrats, so happy for you, your family deserves it!

[@morethanfarmers]

Thanks so much!

[@gregbaxter-fz8eg]

You two are amazing together on video. Thank you so much for sharing. You both bring hope into this decaying world. Keep pressing on and please do not give up. Just get tougher. Offer no compromise.

[@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.

[@lauraklein6405]

Congratulations on 200,000!🎉

[@xenamw1]

Such a great video guys! Intrigued with your meal prepping Michelle, thank you for talking us through your plans. I’m also liking how the seasons change and looking forward watching Winter arrive. Thank you for sharing your family life, I’m learning so much about homesteading. Not just how to do it but the reasons why I’d want to do it. My goal tomorrow is to make those granola bars!

[@workinonit9562]

I am starting to do more like you and so is my daughter-in-law getting things chopped and thawed and have some idea as to what we are cooking. Always have onions, peppers and shredded zucchini in the freezer and usually some cooked potatoes that I can fry up for any meal, my leftover potatoes from last week became a nice cream of potato soup today.

[@SunraeSkatimunggr]

Amazing, all that in one day. I'm exhausted just watching. Good Job!!!

[@Anu_Fathima]

Dehydrate fruits and vegetables so they can snack on them..With potatoes chips can be done, so as sweet potatoes.These will be healthy for kids

[@Alison2436]

it's like your grocery shopping in your own basement! how nice! that's the dream ❤

[@morethanfarmers]

It’s the best!😊

[@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.

[@zannaB60]

Nice hack on the tendon-free chicken! Thanks.

[@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 !

[@FannyVandemaele]

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

[@morethanfarmers]

You’re welcome! So glad it was helpful!

[@ourlongwayaround9583]

I love this perspective on meal prep!

[@marinamayo7994]

This is excellent! I wish I would have done this when I was raising my kids! 😊

[@diannsmith4625]

Omg, that tendon droves me crazy. Thank you

[@NasonMusa]

I found this video so inspiring! The way you presented everything made it easy to understand. Thank you!

[@morethanfarmers]

Glad it was helpful!

[@leighascorner6678]

Seed throwing form ON POINTE!

[@morethanfarmers]

😄

[@cathykillion6544]

Congratulations on 200k

[@joandial7395]

That loofah sponge look so useful for root crops ❤

[@user-hz7kv6js6l]

Thank you, Michelle, for sharing your food preps and hacks. I will definitely be using the hack with the fork to remove the tendon from the chicken. Food prepping can come in handy besides preparing meals for the week at home. My husband and I just came back from being in a shelter for 4 days during Hurricane Milton here in Sarasota, FL. Two weeks leading up to the storm, I was prepping meals to take with us. Even though the shelter served 3 meals a day. It was not food that I could eat. I have special dietary restrictions, so I dehydrated a lot of chicken jerkey for protein and fruit for snacks and prepared some salads to eat cold. We have an electric cooler to keep our food cold along with my husbands medications. I was able to relax, knowing I had food that I normally eat at home. The medical shelter we stayed at was amazing, but it's sad to see how unprepaired people are for emergencies and the dependence people have on others to feed them. 😢

[@morethanfarmers]

Glad you were safe and able to have everything you needed!

[@GrowCookPreserveWithKellyDawn]

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

[@kellielarsen7756]

Thanks for the Chicken tenders fork tip. I totally hate having to cut them out. Awesome idea!

[@rosedoles6089]

OMG that tendon trick really worked, just sayin! Thanks Michelle! ... Learning some great tricks from you!

[@christinnaolson8040]

Love watching you guys. Keep up the good work 💪

[@LisaNeuman-m2p]

I just realized you have temp tone cookware! You steamed your eggs in a temp tone pan, I got mine over 30 years ago, love my pans!

[@catracampolieto8989]

You cook the yummiest looking food. ❤❤❤

[@elizaC3024]

Great ideas for recipes from the pantry. 😊

[@vcrouch6041]

Fantastic job on the tortillas! I love how round they are too. We eat a lot of them in southern Colorado.

[@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.

[@Myladybug70]

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

[@sharonwittmayer1221]

Thanks so much for your transparency and the amazing granola bar recipe! ❤

[@morethanfarmers]

You’re welcome!😊

[@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

[@pavanam-wy4ki]

How do you clean and store your utensils? You can make a video showing that

[@rachelr8946]

Those granola bars look SO GOOD. Just like the ones you buy in a store. But better. We've made similar to that but with more nuts and seeds. I pray that God continues to bless your family in their endeavors!

[@janejdough2230]

In our house Friday is " clean out the fridge day" whatever is left over.

[@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.

[@sallyvernon2375]

CONGRATS on 200k subscribers!

[@morethanfarmers]

Thank you!

[@kattrinahowe1868]

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

[@AM-br4ix]

You have such a beautiful and wonderful Family!!!❤🙏

[@morethanfarmers]

Thank you!😊

[@sharonanderson346]

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

[@morethanfarmers]

Thank you!☺️

[@lorithornhill649]

Congratulations on the 200k

[@mariaallevato6121]

Love you guys and your filming style. Thanks for the content. Keep it up!

[@swadfihri8278]

As always, awesome video. When do you trim your asparagus? Thanks for all you do n share with us ♥️♥️

[@kdavis7525]

Congrats on 200,000 subscribers to one of my favorite channels!

[@morethanfarmers]

Thank you!😊

[@LifestylewithMjkhan]

Thank you for sharing this vlog 🤗

[@jessicapower8585]

Those Thrive Market grass fed beef sticks are pretty good too!

[@jessicapower8585]

Oh wow, I'm trying the hard-boiled egg trick too! Dang girl ✌🏽❤️😁

[@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.❤❤

[@AlmostHomeChannel]

Congrats on 200k! I remember when you guys were at 20.000. Happy to see the deserved growth! 👏

[@morethanfarmers]

Thanks so much!😊

[@SowJustGrow]

8:09 this is so validating!

[@beautifulgorgeouslovely4661]

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

[@debbiemoscoso8606]

I juice carrots with the skin on. I noticed that my eyesight started to really improve. Then, Costco started to only stock the baby carrots that have their skins removed. I could see the difference in my eyesight decline (I'm a senior citizen) because the there was no skins on them. Most of the nutrients are definitely in the skins!

[@paulaelves5160]

snacks was not a big thing here in england till recently, with all the shop conveniences. we had breakfast(7am) dinner(12am) tea(between 4-5pm) supper (7pm), and that was it, you are cooking from scratch like my mom did and thats how i do it,, now and again the odd treat snack thrown in xx

[@debbiesellers4494]

You all are adorable. Love your channel

[@morethanfarmers]

Thanks!😊

[@calliknudsen]

Michelle using the chopper! 😮😂

[@ANTOCOOKINGART]

It is very good​ for making your onw home made food and thank you for sharing❤❤❤

[@KAMLANDER]

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

[@ericawhitfield9289]

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

[@LifestylewithMjkhan]

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

[@bumblebee7922]

Thanks for such awesome, fun videos!!

[@sozod2000]

I bought that liquid smoke per your suggestion and it’s wonderful! I made salted smoked nuts with it in the oven😊 You may not like cooking but you make it look easy, like you’re an expert! 👏🏼 Also, thanks for explaining why you put ACV in with beans. I’ll do that next time. 🫘

[@morethanfarmers]

Yum! Glad you like it!😊

[@camicri4263]

It' s so good you found a good method for you! I sould do this too becouse now aday I am not as fast as I used to! ;/ Blessings!

[@damiansanchez1384]

Never had sweet potato hash, my wife has not either. We are definitely going to try it this week.

[@morethanfarmers]

Hope you enjoy!😊

[@mollybeee]

I can remember harvesting buckwheat and grinding it for bread. As a bonus it's also gluten free. No one seems to use buckwheat anymore.

[@deepalijones9402]

What do you do with all the ziploc bags once you use up the food stored in there?

[@glendaking4596]

Definitely trying that chicken tendon hack!

[@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.

[@kprairiesun]

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

[@justme-uw6bz]

Hey you're the first person I've seen peeling potatoes like I do, yay for us 🤭