Weekly Mobile Food Pantry Haul. Comparing 2 Locations! See How I Use The Food!

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This week I wanted to compare 2 different mobile food pantries. In my area we are blessed with multiple mobile pantries. You can usually find at least one in the area every day of the week. We also have 2 or 3 food pantries that are buildings you can go into. My family has a tight budget but I feel like once a week is sufficient enough to help us. I have been debating on switching to an evening location rather than my normal Friday morning stop. This week did not make the choice any easier!! Let me know in the comments which you would pick!
If this is your first time, my name is Laura and I am always wearing my frugal pants! We are a family of 4 with one coming in April. We have too many pets to count who often make an appearance in some way.
On this channel you will find food pantry hauls, cook with me videos, organizing and food prep. I am beyond awkward and ramble a little too much but hope this is your style and you keep coming by!

[@jenniferhamby7667]

Happy to see a young lady being frugal and creative with what she has and not wasting anything. Great job 😊

[@jeannieknudsen7516]

Amazing generosity on the meat 😀👍

[@jeannieknudsen7516]

Very generous & nice variety of food 😀👍. ❤

[@vitsteele-lz2hn]

Blessings to you

[@lilyflores7018]

Yes dehydrate your kale or spinach, or freeze them in little bags and use in smoothies

[@brendasmalley6528]

Salmon loaf. It's really good

[@judiklaus5291]

The spinach, would be great, in quiche and omelettes

[@soothingsymphonies]

Spinach is good in so much! Salads, soup (zuppa tuscana-ish), sandwiches & wraps, smoothies & pastas & a stratta (savory bread pudding I learned about yesterday on another cooking channel lol)

[@gabriellejewison5557]

Watching you brings me such joy. I am so proud of you working so hard for your family!!! I love your creativity and diligence with making the absolute most of what you have!!! I love watching you learn and your honesty about mistakes being made. You are fabulous and will get better and better. Your family will reap many blessings from your diligence. Way to go!

[@justnina8023]

I am so happy that you do this. Awesome haul. New friend.

[@martylayes337]

you don't have to blanch the spinach. I just put it in a bag and put it in the freezer. I use it in soups.

[@FrugalPants]

Thank you! I am glad I didn't waste that step!

[@dbond309]

Yes! Smoothies too!

[@angelam4258]

You can also dehydrated and use as green powder in chilli and pasta all sorts of things for extra vitamins

[@ashlipope5079]

Amazing! What a blessing. Green beans are so good in all soups and stews. Casseroles. Ect. Yummy w cooked vinegar and bacon pieces as well is how my mama made them! Great video. Thank you. Great use of it all!

[@FrugalPants]

Ohh, what kind of vinager? I like them with bacon but hadn't heard of vinager

[@SSanf]

Fry some onions until they are glossy. Cube and boil some potatoes. Heat some milk very hot but not boiling. Add the onions, potatoes and salmon to the milk. mash up a few of the potatoes and a bit of salmon to give it texture. Salt and pepper to taste. This makes a superb chowder.

[@FrugalPants]

Oh thank you!

[@sharoncontini3284]

I know it sounds crazy, but cooked onions are one of my favorite veggies.

[@andreacarlson2222]

Salmon patties were a staple in my home growing up With canned salmon. We also had potato Pattie’s (fried mashed potatoes in a patty) and applesauce.

[@FrugalPants]

Potato patties sound great!

[@brendasmalley6528]

Green bean casserole. It is delicious. You can find the recipe on the internet

[@BrokeButBountifullyBlessed799]

You are amazing. I would never have gotten so much done while dealing with crabby baby and older kids. Love your channel. Have a wonderful day.

[@FrugalPants]

Thank you!! I feel like I am not doing enough because I am so pregnant and tired!

[@kathytrevino5932]

Great hauls, you did good making food for your family

[@FrugalPants]

Thank you 🤗

[@SSanf]

Sauté some slivered almonds in butter and add a can of french sliced green beans. Add a cap full of lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste. Serve hot. Very good.

[@FrugalPants]

Thanks for the tips!

[@gabrielebruhl1218]

Quick spinach recipe…..wash it, a pan with a little bit of oliveoil garlic low heat in 5 minutes ready to eat give it some salt pepper and nutmeg. Hope you enjoy it😀

[@justjasz5572]

Freeze the beans and canned veggies and feed them to the chickens.

[@Myfavorites877]

Beautiful Pyrex collection!

[@FrugalPants]

Thanks a bunch!

[@joycef8443]

Valuable!

[@catherinebarlow3079]

The salmon you could make salmon pattie with salmon and mashed potatoes and have green beans on the side your kids and husband might like it

[@FrugalPants]

Thank you! I am all for giving the kids fish because I don't want them to not like something just because I don't like it.

[@latongelajohnson6979]

I love your kitchen girl ❤️ it's so organized 💙💚

[@FrugalPants]

Thank you! I don't feel like it is every clean enough so this made my day!

[@brookephelps3135]

I really liked this video! New subscriber and looking forward to seeing more of your videos 😊

[@FrugalPants]

Yay! Thank you!

[@davidoverton2432]

I know I'm late for this but the way we store spinach when we get a big bunch of it is saute it with garlic and onion and finely chopped mushroom then divide it in to zip lock bags then freeze them and use it to add to soups or mix into ground beef for spaghetti

[@FrugalPants]

Great idea!!

[@ritarichardson3881]

That spinach is good with wilted with bacon.

[@ritarichardson3881]

Do you try to total the amount that your local grocery store would sell it all for? I do and it's the funnest thing.

[@debbieframpton3857]

I would have taken the size 4 diapers and set them aside to you needed them. They may not have that size later

[@FrugalPants]

I think they were 4t or I would have. My little one is almost 16 months and still in a 6 months so she will be wearing a 4t in college HAHA

[@sharoncontini3284]

Take them and try to trade for what you need.

[@temperancehope]

If you do powder the spinach you can put it in smoothies, to help your greens intake.

[@FrugalPants]

I got 20 bunches of kale one time and I powdered that. I need to start making more smoothies!

[@missbubby4327]

Love all your pyrex

[@roreyb7]

Nice food haul it seems like Southern States as well as the Mid West has many food pantries. I'm in Massachusetts and I know there used to be a few but to my knowledge not anymore.

[@vermontnative5676]

We have them all over Vermont. There’s a big need here.

[@rorey8535]

@@vermontnative5676 I live in Boston and if there are any I can't find them.

[@FrugalPants]

Dang, what a bummer. I am Utah and there is definitely a ton.

[@autumnpillow6506]

Your hair is super nice.

[@FrugalPants]

Thank you so much

[@angelam4258]

Stir Fry green beans in butter and garlic powder or use in a vegetable soup. Or cook in the crockpot with potatoes and bacon

[@FrugalPants]

Great idea!

[@Ways_of_her_household]

I dehydrate spinach and then powder to add into soup, pasta sauce or meatloaf.

[@FrugalPants]

I have been trying to get into dehydrating more but for some reason it is just not my jam. I have a very simple circular dehydrator and everything always falls down the holes! I guess I need to just play around more with it!

[@Ways_of_her_household]

@@FrugalPants that’s what I had and I agree, they are not that great. I now have a 10 tray Magic Mill and I love it. I use it all the time 😊

[@Ways_of_her_household]

@@FrugalPants oh, I forgot, the silicone dehydrator mats are awesome to keep things from falling through.

[@FrugalPants]

I have been looking at that one and have it on my Amazon wish list. But just haven't been able to get it. I got one of the silicon mat things but it was too large, I cut it down but for the price would rather invest that into a new dehydrator

[@kimtuiai605]

Drain the salmon add salt pepper mash with fork add a little lemon or malt vinegar have on a sandwich with cucumber or spinach yum

[@FrugalPants]

Thank you! I need all the fish ideas!

[@laurac5451]

I've been told the one at the next county was better and they don't turn people away but online it says it's for residents of that county and they want your ID

[@FrugalPants]

North or South? I found one yesterday that is a Tri City one but I don't know if my city counts, even though it is sometimes considered part of the bigger city. (trying to talk in codes HAHA) Also, I am Laura C. as well and was super confused!

[@laurac5451]

@@FrugalPants I found another one for my zip code I'll try it and see if I get more fruits and vegetables when the EBT comes in it will help.

[@laurac5451]

@@FrugalPants It's east of me covers quite a few zip codes the city has many many zip codes. Don't worry I'm too old to be your dopple ganger

[@nicholscholten1102]

I don't think you need to blanch spinach - you can just throw it in the freezer and then when you take out a handful for soup it crunches and breaks down really easily.

[@joycepedercini3841]

Salmon pie is our favorite

[@FrugalPants]

Interesting! I'll have to look that up!

[@marilynbeebe8249]

In our area we can only go to one. Ours is every other Thursday

[@FrugalPants]

It is amazing how much it varies across the states.

[@latongelajohnson6979]

Hi Mama ❤️💓 you got some good stuff from both places 💓❤️💚💙💜

[@peggybrady5264]

If possible you could go to both pantries. They give such different things. Canned green beans can be used any way fresh ones are prepared. I enjoy watching your videos.

[@FrugalPants]

I definitely could do both, I just don't want to take more than I need and be respectful of others who utilize it!

[@peggybrady5264]

@@FrugalPants I can tell you are a very respectful person. If they have extra food it would be discarded at the end of the day. I didn’t mean to be disrespectful of you.

[@FrugalPants]

@Peggy Brady Oh, no I didn't think you were being disrespectful at all. I thought about doing both but personally know a few people who ate very greedy and take all the free things they can. Way beyond what they can even use and it goes to waste. I don't ever want to be that kind of person. I have even wondered how I could help homeless with what we get since we have a very large population here.

[@jeanz3622]

I help at a food shelf in the Midwest and I can tell you that some food has to be disposed of at the end of the day if not given to someone.

[@Myfavorites877]

@@FrugalPants You could do both. You can always share anything you don’t need with the elderly or others in need.

[@sandytmobile4467]

Make Shepard pie with green beans. Brown. Hamburger with onion and salt, pepper, drain fat have a large sprayed baking dish dump the hamburger into it then drain green beans dump a can of corn drain dump then a can of tomato soup dump mix all up them make up mashed potatoes to spread over top then salt pepper and back at 350' for 45 minutes then it should be bubbly on sides sprinkle cheese on top if have and heat tell melted and serve can also do a budder bread or garlic seasoning bread .

[@FrugalPants]

Oh thank you!! Last summer we bought a half cow and a friend was supposed to go in with us and last minute they backed out. So we had over 100 pounds of ground beef!!! I thought we were going to have hamburgers every night HAHA! Great suggestion!!

[@sandytmobile4467]

I can throw our hamburger favorites on some. Tamales pie, rolled taco's, Enchiladas, spaghetti, lasagna, meat ball's, so this is some after all having barbecue meat balls you can freeze, sweet and spicy meatball yum freezer them pop out if gest, make meatballs like meatloaf but into tennis ball size and then cover with a sticky barbeque sauce. Have all that meat is one thing but having meal's on fast hand is nice even a meat ball soup. Just a little help.

[@tanyaparker6296]

Hey there blink and breathe.

[@justnina8023]

Can i ask what ste you live?

[@FrugalPants]

We live in Utah

[@louisechapman4009]

Why not visit both pantries to help your family?

[@FrugalPants]

I just don't to take more than I need or can use. I would hate to take from someone else if they missed out because I visited two.

[@louisechapman4009]

@@FrugalPants can you just get like diapers from the one and good from the other?

[@kelliesherriff2078]

Is this free?

[@FrugalPants]

Yes, it was.

[@jeanettegilder1616]

Are you criticizing free food ans orher items?

[@FrugalPants]

I'm not sure what you're referring too? I am always grateful for everything that we get. I will mention if it's not something I usually would buy or like but if you have seen a few videos you know that I have even turned a life long hate for mushrooms into a regular part of my diet!

[@margaretghirardello5933]

Greedy people out therabusinge