PANTRY TOUR (Storing a YEARS worth of food!)

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You asked for it, so we're finally giving you a pantry tour to show you how we store a year's worth of food for our large family of 12.
It may not be perfect, but that's not stopping us (and it shouldn't stop you!), we're continually making improvements and adjustments. We hope some of our long-term storage tips come in handy for your own food storage solutions.
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[@creativehomemaker503]

What a beautiful, and well stocked pantry. Homesteading is a goal of ours one day, but right now we are content with a few chickens and a garden. Thank you for sharing, and for all of the information you and Josh put out weekly to help us all to be more self sufficient. Blessings to you and your family. ❤️

[@Banishedsoulsofficial]

We all start somewhere. You're already leaps ahead over a large portion of the population. I'm still working on mine, started last May finally have 2 honey hives, 11 chickens and around 70 coturnix quail. Just put the table garden in earlier this week. Still need to plant the back half acre

[@HARVIELL1]

Prunes from our prune tree....... Made me laugh 😂

[@lindachandler2293]

People that haven't stored food from harvest to harvest have no idea how much food this actually is!

[@shaunaferguson6102]

Right? And all the work put in to prepare it!

[@dumbbunnie123]

If you powder your freeze dried pickles you can use it as a popcorn topping...yum!

[@BradfordHomestead]

🤯

[@dumbbunnie123]

@@BradfordHomestead ...Lol!

[@dottiea.2186]

Yes, I don't see why not, experiment... 🥒🥒🥒🥒 people put dry cheese, nutritional yeast and other ingredients...👍

[@dumbbunnie123]

@@dottiea.2186 .....Many times for whatever reason, we get pickles that taste great but are mushy...dry and powder them you don't waste them and you get a yummy popcorn or salad topping.

[@vonniemerriam974]

Would love that rhubarb marmalade recipe. As this will be my 7th garden season, I am giving the yard it's Sabbath rest, sowing nothing and will only harvest perennials. And thankfully, I have an abundance of rhubarb. Have made everything imaginable with it in the past but your marmalade sounds intriguing!

[@AtHomeWithSheree]

I’m only 30 seconds in and I’m so excited! I’m trying to have a year’s worth of mostly home grown food this year. You are an inspiration!

[@olat1273]

She is so beautiful and great i won’t to see her do freeze dried food

[@AtHomeWithSheree]

@@olat1273 I got a freeze dryer for Christmas! About to freeze dry onions today. It is awesome. I can’t wait to get summer fresh berries. I did freeze dry some frozen ones from last year. But not a lot as we use those for smoothies.

[@olat1273]

@@AtHomeWithSheree I like to do freeze drying i have a dryer and don’t know how to use it

[@AtHomeWithSheree]

@@olat1273 I have the same one she has. It is very easy to use-I just followed the Simone set up. And it literally runs automatically. You just push start and it goes. What brand do you have?

[@fatherofchickens7951]

If i had a pantry like that...I'd call it "THE VAULT". Amazing!

[@mary-catherine9237]

Wow. What a great pantry! I am curious about your freeze dried pickles! You are giving me so many ideas! Thanks!

[@ursinidaho]

This is amazing! You guys show us so many great ideas! Thank you!

[@Redlady1960]

Love all of your pantries!! You have done really really good!! Proud of you!!🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻

[@lindahansen9395]

Thanks for sharing your pantry with us. Love the extra room off the kitchen for appliances and other storage. All very inspiring.

[@MockingbirdHillFamilyFarm]

Thanks for showing us!!

[@larrybevirt2962]

Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge and experience with us!🌼

[@brightstarr57]

Great job! Amazing food storage areas! Thanks for sharing!

[@mamabear8359]

Great video I love seeing how others do food storage! 😍

[@patsmith1324]

What a wonderful pantry you have! You are doing so many things, and are an inspiration to many! Thanks for sharing.

[@OurHomeOurLife812]

Oh my! You have an amazing pantry! Thanks for sharing this!

[@debwoodward]

Thank you for the tour. Gives me good ideals and would also love a cookbook. 😃🥰

[@LadysFarm]

Thank you so much for sharing your pantry with us. I love all the space you have and all the canning you did. I definitely want to get a freeze dryer in the future. This is so inspirational for me. Thank you ❤️

[@heatherh2728]

I'm just getting started and learning so much from you ! Thank you for your videos !!

[@deborahjones6066]

That is quite an impressive pantry! Thanks for posting this inspirational video.

[@janicegardner9458]

Enjoyed the tour - thanks for sharing!

[@jakefrechette3224]

Incredible pantry and stock of home grown/made foods. Definitely setting the bar high! Can't wait to see updates to the pantry this year!

[@mvblitzyo]

what a great tour and idea's for us new people, who learn soo much thanks Joe n Christina

[@patriciariddle2997]

Your pantry areas are awesome! That really is a lot of hard work in there.

[@gitakiss5801]

I looked up family pantry checklist and your video was the first that popped up. This is exactly what I was looking for too. I am definitely subscribing and cant wait for new videos

[@TheSpinDoctor]

I have pantry-envy over your shelves of jars of deliciousness! I don’t have a lot of space but I love preserving so in tend to just give most of it to friends.

[@beagrine2657]

What an awesome, AWESOME pantry tour. I am almost jealous. 😁 I love, love how you organize all ur goodies. Thank you for a great tour. Halelulia

[@Earthy-Artist]

Thank you I very much enjoyed this tour Carolyn, it's very inspiring to me to see how you store your stock & what types of things you store. I like the wood shelves that you store much of your canned goods on. What a dream to have so much cool dark storage space such a blessing. In our home we have to store our foodstuffs in strange odd places where they don't belong.

[@Nerak7219]

Thank you for sharing! And I am intrigued by your freeze dried chicken pot pie filling - I'll definitely be trying that in the near future!

[@juliewilliamsnewzealand818]

That was FABULOUS!!!!

[@phoebedigs1356]

Oh thank you so much. This helps me know how much to put up. I feel so much better now. Have a blessed day 🌸

[@sylviaastorga4196]

Amazing! That’s all I can say. May God continue to bless you and your family. 🕊🙏🏼♥️

[@kathleenfalkner4478]

Thank so much for sharing. That helps to see how to organize storage!! You’re amazing Carolyn… you too Josh🤗

[@tgood9344]

Loved seeing how you organize. Your channel is so informative. This helps motivate me to do more preserving. There is an endless amount of ways & foods we can all work on to fill our pantry’s. Thank you so much for being our choice of information to prepare our families for whatever life my bring.👍🏻🌺

[@kellyh8218]

That was fun!

[@Singmeadream]

I'm so impressed and dreaming of doing this one day. I'm a city girl and longing for this type of life. Thank you for inspiring me.

[@joanreid2804]

You have done such an excellent organization with all your prepping! I love to watch your videos, they are always so uplifting and inspiring.

[@wanderinghome9979]

Wow….I had to stop doing the things and sit to watch your tour! Thank you so much for sharing.

[@lynngliottone2812]

You absolutely amaze me!! Such a lot of thought and preparation. Must be wonderful to feel so "food secure"!

[@KendrasBrain]

The big picture on your food storage is awesome and is proof of a cooperative family effort!

[@karenrussell6425]

Thank you for the tour of your pantries!

[@angelicguidance444]

Wow love the pantry, makes me want to order 20 cases of mason jars.

[@gaylegilmore6187]

I just loved watching this!

[@breahnalawrence6725]

Thank you for this! We are working on our food storage/production, but we live in a standard early 90s home, with no pantry, so this helps me get some ideas.

[@BeccaNolte]

Good ideas here. Thank you for sharing this.

[@lulamamie8524]

Hey! I enjoyed this video soooo much last night; that I had to watch it again today 🤩❤️👍🏻 Awesome video!!! Thank You for sharing 😄

[@sueyates3555]

Wow I admire the hard work that you and your family do to have such a wonderful pantry like that. It's so nice to make meals from the garden that you had actually planet yourself it's got to taste so much better than store-bought. Love learning different things from your channel.

[@wholenewperspective]

Your pantry reminds me so much of when I grew up. There were 10 of us and we grew most our food too. Great memories watching you and your family. I love home canned chicken too. Azure Standard is a go to for me too. Thanks for sharing your pantry with us.💚

[@vonlipi]

Those freezer are amazing! Wow

[@andreaprincillo9307]

Wow! love looking at your beautiful pantry and neatly stocked in uniform glass containers!👍 Pray though that no earthquake will mess it up.

[@360eagleeye4]

Such focused hard work. You are shining. You are beautiful and you and your family deserve everything that is good to come your way.

[@mayaberk3270]

Impressive to see how hard you all been working on this "year around" supermarket at home.

[@jenniferdee11]

Wow amazing, inspiration!

[@Banishedsoulsofficial]

Awesome setup! Learning alot from your videos

[@CookingwithCatLover0330]

I love this video. I am starting to can and I am loving it. I made a super good chicken soup so that is in the canner now. We have a freeze dryer too. I love your ideas. I have most of mine in mylar bags, but I like the idea of putting some in jars. It's easier to use and not waste the mylar bags. Thank you for all your videos.

[@franciscoayala1062]

Wow Awesome Family , Homestead. Really like your Homestead and Family Life. God Bless you all and best Regards from Bavaria Germany. 😊.

[@jeffreygraf3358]

Your organization is excellent.

[@emmittmatthews8636]

I'm 43 and just getting into this. I live in/ near the city..unfortunately but my house IS paid off and I have a decent amount of land around me and I can buy more if I want. I so badly want to homestead at this point in my life. I'm starting with canning, and I'm going to look into getting chickens. That pantry is amazing!!! Your channel is so helpful and informative. Thank you.

[@pixi8690]

Oh my, now that’s a thing of beauty and a goal for me, to be able to have an abundance of food for my family. Right now I have my first 9 quart jars that are eagerly waiting to be filled with home grown veggies that are hopefully going to do well this year and we are saving up for a chest freezer.

[@wendyc.5769]

Thanks for sharing your beautiful food. Y’all make sure that your children eat whole foods and that’s so important. As I sit here and can hear my tummy processing homemade sauerkraut. lol

[@tinacarr9498]

WOW! You are a perfect example. The meat freezers! Wowzah!!! So impressed with what you guys get accomplished... it just amazes me...

[@NovelIdeaIndeed]

Amazing variety - and the jars are all shiny and clean!

[@marcidevries5515]

My jars are much dustier!

[@catiepower3550]

Pantry goals! I’m starting my pantry stocking this spring and I’m super excited. I’m going to start with the canned goods I know we have on hand currently along with dry goods we always use. As spring and summer go along this year I will be canning and vacuum sealing to preserve the garden produce.

[@smlorrin]

Thanks so much for the great video!

[@blessedmama8133]

Greta video! We just received our freeze dryer after waiting ten weeks! Would love to see some freeze dryer videos!

[@trishabrinkdesign]

Well done👏👏👏 Looks pretty similar to ours but on a much larger scale (only 4 of us here). I just wish I had that awesome separate preservation kitchen! 😃 Thanks for sharing all your knowledge…I’ve learned so much from you!!

[@vivianfields9261]

Thanks for sharing your beautiful storage. Lots good healthy eating and lot hard work. Of course you and husband are young and work so well together. I’m too old for that now but still enjoy yours and I’d still love to do that but can’t. Old age comes so quickly wish it didn’t but life passes so quickly. Enjoy and God Bless.

[@brandynash1409]

The 55 gallon drums are a fantastic idea!

[@milissamackenzie4975]

Thanks so much for sharing, I would really love to have a pantry of my own.

[@libertyforamericanow]

You guys got it going on.

[@mickael999able]

this is so legit, thank you. I live in a society where we completely forgot about the great techniques of storage.

[@missybyrd8468]

Love it thank you so much for sharing

[@melissabouffard6246]

Hello from Canada, thank you so much for this amazing video of your pantry.Your family is amazing and always looking forward for your videos. You guys are an inspiration. Thankyou for sharing all your knowledge with us. God bless

[@plden2442]

Canada. What a nazi country. Vax land . Trudo is a Hitler

[@T_i_n_a_]

Fantastic!

[@foxsparrowtarot9615]

Thanks so much, bliss ✨✨

[@alexissuggs2560]

Love your videos! Thank you! I hope to have a homestead in the next yr or two. In the meantime I am learning all I can, working on a farm, gardening and preserving food.

[@renamaemcdonald2075]

Great pantry tour! I had 9 siblings. This reminds me of the amount of meat we had to butcher, except we had to butcher the pork 3-4 times a year & usually 2 at a time 🙂

[@Ali-tn9yb]

Very inspiring! 😍

[@kay7602]

I pray that someday I’ll be able to do this, what a legacy you’re cultivating. I’m trying to get up the courage to start pressure canning

[@lrmsmrls16]

My freeze drier is so much fun. I agree with you on the tomatoes, it's a game changer how fast you can put up chopped tomatoes direct from the garden. I'm thinking about trying to do some paste tomatoes in my food mill, then just powder it and then blend fresh ketchup. I don't know how that will really work out, but it's a plan of mine. One thing with a freeze drier, is that people are still just learning and coming up with good garden to FD plans. I love ideas! So keep sharing those. Thanks for the great channel.

[@dancnluc1]

What a great looking pantry. I wished I had a place for storing. Our basement is damp so we don't use it. My pantry is a size of a small closet with shelves. I love the ideal if freezers for different types of foods. We have several freezers but the food is mixed. Now it makes me want to rearrange them.

[@crankycorner16]

Wow, you're very well set. I've started buying long term foods. It's a start...

[@annaking9213]

Thank you.

[@lazarjr330]

Ma’am your the most beautiful person in the whole world😘and your hubby doesn’t do a bad job either😁, what an awesome family and outlook on life, much love from Australia.

[@CoolTaxiDriver]

Thank you for sharing!! I love your pantry! My basement, which is the coolest place in the house…is also damp, so there is very little food product down there.

[@JustanotherMainer]

Okay, I buy Raspberry Chipotle sauce for cream cheese, which is one of our favorites! Would love to see a canning recipe you could share! Yum! Beautiful pantry!

[@maryloomis8075]

Wow you are really well prepared...like having your own grocery. I never realized how much it takes to feed a large family in one year! Thanks for the look at your pantry and orderly system of storage. I've longed to live out further in order to grow more of our food, (.24 acre in city) and at 60+ years this was my first year canning meat. Yes it doesn't look pretty and I'm afraid my family won't eat it. But hey I'm doing my best! Thanks again! You are an inspiration to us homemaker/homesteaders.

[@hazztv6317]

You are doing great👍🥰

[@RunAway99963]

Amazing,

[@LEIGHPFOSI]

Gotta love the clearly visible bottles of store bought items: plenty of wine, Dole brand, Prego.. all alongside the "homestead" canned chicken. Yum.

[@edenridgefarms]

You just changed my life with that freeze dried chicken pot pie filling! Ohmygosh!!!

[@mariannereno8501]

Great job, that's a lot of work 👏

[@JG-ph3xg]

I started dehydrating, some of my tomatoes, and herbs to sprinkle on fresh dough drizzled with olive oil in replacement of pizza sauce. Works awesome and can also be used for soups, breads, bagel spread ect...

[@jessicaj8148]

Wow! Goals!!!!!

[@marvinmulford2536]

Good video!

[@Sue-ec6un]

Wow! That's a lot of canning! I imagine how much you really love your freeze dryer now! Trade offs on power/time. And with so many kids, time is the the greatest resource that money cannot buy and you can never recoup. God Bless your household.

[@crystald3655]

If you watch the rest of the video, the canning was done in smaller batches over time which allows time for caring for kids and such.

[@kaylaandrews240]

I would love to see the crabby Apple process! 😍

[@blendedheartshomestead]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and wonderful homestead with us. I was wondering if you have any tips for growing potatoes well. We tried last year and did not have a good harvest.

[@Famcke]

Well done! Loved this video. Very personal. That took courage to open your house to the world. We appreciate that more than you will ever know. I didn't see the cheese chest. Maybe next time. (Please share your skin care and hair products. You have beautiful hair and so does the girls). Best wishes 💐

[@sherryseay6918]

Best video ever!