It is so refreshing to see how much help you get from your boys and other children. The thing I enjoy the most is the fact that they really go out of their way to help you and do it to perfection! Thank you Gabe and David for helping your mom with the bigger, more strenuous jobs!

I'm going to try a low spend month in December, a no spend in January. We'll see how it goes before I commit to anything in February. Thanks for all the ideas.

@LacyO86

2 жыл бұрын

Good idea! I'm thinking I'll do the same.

How terrible that allergen scare must have been! I cannot even imagine… Thank you Jesus for looking out for Gabriel! Thanks for taking us all along and showing us how you organize and take stock prior to your pantry challenge. I’m looking forward to joining along this year. We are a family that uses dairy and so I anticipate having to still purchase a gallon or two of milk during the month. I do look forward to seeing your videos for inspiration on how we can creatively use up what we have on hand. Have a blessed day!

Monday I used my pressure canner for the very first time. Thanks to you I finally got the courage to try it. Today is Thursday and I've canned something everyday. I've learned so much from your videos.

@elainemartin1801

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't canned anything in two weeks and I think I'm having withdrawals. Lol

I like to keep a magnetic white board on my outdoor freezer so my inventory is always accurate. I have listed everything in the freezers with the amount next to it. When I take or add something I just quickly change the number. Just an idea instead of typing it. I got my whiteboard at the dollar tree.

Yay!!!! A bonus week!!! An extra video!! Hiiiiii Jessica!!!! Sending joy and love to u and yours!!!

Thanks Jessica. I am really looking forward to pantry month. I am a healthy 75 year old widow, mostly plant based. So I am going to go through my pantry and freezer, then stock up on what I may need during this next grocery shop.

The boy in the black jacket is hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣 And I really like the idea of your inventory list. Thanks for the tip! 💙💙💙

@sarahbee8064

2 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah, I was coming here to see if anyone else noticed Gabe's antics!!

😱Praise GOD that you caught it and Gabriel was unharmed. Lesson learned for us all🙏🏾❤. Thank you for the motivation.

I have two stocked freezers for potential food shortages (for 1 person) and now am planning to move from VA to TN in the spring. Instead of continuing to stock up, I'm now eating it! This video was very helpful in helping me organize my thoughts about planning over the next two months. thank you!

@nancyseery2213

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, my name is Nancy and I have lived in TN for the last 24 years and I have a son near Richmond,VA. Hope you will love your new home in TN. There shouldn't be too many changes between VA and TN. We came from NE and I love the warmer weather and being able to get more than one crop in every year.

@tanyabailey7791

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to TN!

@jylking6313

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nana-zi9xq I will be selling my VA home early next year. Right now I am looking in the NE part of the state. Ive been following the TN legislature and recent bills passed and Im hopeful given TN has a solid history on conservation.

@austinuden1872

2 жыл бұрын

I am in a similar situation, I have a 3.5 cubic foot chest freezer, a mini fridge freezer, and a regular above fridge freezer stuffed full and I am moving at the end of May so I have to start eating through it instead of making sure it is stocked for an emergency situation

@1Letter23Numbers.

2 жыл бұрын

Happt eating to everyone that has to clear their fridges and freezers. I hope you all have safe and pleasant moves to your new homes.

That a commercial grade freezer!! A little jealous, not gonna lie.

Your children are so helpful and you all work together. They will learn good values, skills and how to work with others. Nice to see as so many kids now now a days only watch TV.

So surprised and happy to see this notification. Thank you for the extra video. God bless.

Thanks for all the great ideas, my sisters and I take turns staying and taking care of our 90 year old Dad. So when I go to his house and stay for a month or two I always bring things that I have canned and preserved. Sometimes it is challenging to come up with something he will eat , so I am looking forward to seeing what meals you will fix.

Jessica - Thank you for your videos. You inspire me to do better with our food consumption and reduce our waste. Thank you for sharing with us.

I think last year's challenge that you shared here is how I originally found your channel. I am so happy you're going to do it again this year. Hopefully some other KZreadrs will also join in. It's a great time to learn how to eat what we have stored.

@threerivershomestead

2 жыл бұрын

I believe Acre Homestead is planning to join

@RowesRising

2 жыл бұрын

I love this idea!! I will join in on my channel too!

Such a great challenge for everyone that preps. I would have been terrified when I saw the cheese, you have to be so watchful. People just dont realize what a little bit of something can be so enormus for someone else.

I have the exact inventory sheet. One tip is to write the date when a particular food ends. It allows me to see how much more or less to preserve the next year.

Thanks for sharing your family and knowledge of how to live a wonderful life.

Thank you for sharing. I enjoy seeing how others are doing their prep.

I will love seeing your meals in January. Thank you!

Your eyes are the exact color of your cap! Beautiful! I haven’t been watching your channel for very long so I’m back tracking! Love your channel!

Just love the inventory chart! Will try this for my dry storage!

What a great idea!!! I enjoy your channel. Thanks for all your hard work, and taking the time to share.

This was so helpful! I gleaned some great ideas, thank you!

Love seeing your inventory on your freezer! Hugs and love from Texas!

Ooh, I'm looking forward to following your video series this year. Thank you for detailing it on KZread.

I found your pantry challenge this past January. I loved it. You are so inspirational.

Good idea on the inventory sheet! I’m going to try that. ❤️❤️❤️

Love you videos! I need to take inventory, and would love to know how David and Gabriel did that inventory sheet, or if they could do a blank sheet that could be downloaded, and printed, and then filled in by us?? We could color in the blocks with our counts, then black them out, or whatever. So grateful you found the cheese. I would think your butcher would exchange that meat with something useable for you, since he made that nearly deadly mistake. We are a dairy consuming family, so going to the store for those items will still be happening, but reducing the trips to perhaps every 2 weeks will be a blessing. I wish we could buy raw milk here and I could make cheese, butter and cottage cheese myself-but it’s not possible, and I’m not in a position for a milk cow! I’ll watch your linked video and see what other wonderful things I can learn!!

I greatly appreciate your channel. I have learned so much from you! Thanks!

Blessings to all!

I found you late last season and I'm looking forward to step by step with you. Since I have allergies too, and this is my first time canning, Im learning so much from you and actually eating better than before, so I'm feeling better about everything! Have a Blessed day 🌹

Im excited for the challenge. Yay!

You are so organized. I have been canning for years. One of my downfalls is I don't use my goods on a regular basis. Instead I just run to the store and get what I need. This is all going to change. I have started an inventory of the food we have on hand. Perhaps I will join in the challenge. You and your family are awesome!

Love your challenges. I can't wait for the videos. I'm getting my pantry ready to do this also. I won't be ready by Jan but maybe by spring. So thankful you found the cheese in brats before Gabriel did. God is so good to us.

I'm looking forward to doing the pantry challenge 1st time with you for January. You are so inspiring Jessica.

Love this idea. We have been stocking up all year and I really like the idea of doing a low spend month the next 3 months! I'm going to try that!

This is a great idea will give it a try. I definitely need to go through my freezer will most likely have things that need to be used asap.

I can’t imagine the worry you must go through to protect Gabriel. Talk about needing eyes in the back of your head. I’m going to try the Pantry Challenge this year…I’m so excited! Thank you for always being such an inspiration ❤️

Thats a great inventory the boys created. I'm terrible at freezer inventory, ill work on that now though. I don't like relying on freezers too much so we just have a huge deep freeze and a fridge/freezer on at the moment. A small deep freezer stays off as a spare or when we have used most of the deep freezer food and want to keep our power use down. Congratulations on all those subs. I'm sure we'll really enjoy watching you document the challenge. Great job everyone 🤩

I already do this January through March (ish) so maybe I will join this year. Just found your channel today. I raised my family of 7 like this in the 1980s and 1990s and I was such a weirdo for back then. Guess I was ahead of the times lol, or way behind. Anyway Im older and it’s just me now but still a way of life. Once you start becoming self sufficient and prepared I don’t think you ever go back.

Awesome inventory chart! And Wild for Salmon 😁🐠🐟

My dear you are prepared for the winter. Gabriel can dance. Go Gabriel. LOL. Food allergies are no joke. What a fright. It goes to show what a good mother you are. Big hugs to you and the kids. I'm looking forward to your next video and the challenge. I will fallow along and make an inventory like you did. What a great idea. Thanks.

I want to see how you sort your fridge

Love this idea! Especially the freezer inventory sheet, I might borrow that idea 👍

Such a treat.

Love your commercial freezer !

I watch and admire many homesteader moms, but nothing did it for me like you peeling the enormous bowl of grapes. You have a lovely family.

I don’t know how you get done all you do, except that your family helps out. It is just the two of us and 2 puppies! We are elderly and have survived the 18+1 this past August. That weaponized thing took a month out of our lives. We barely kept up with the garden and canning! We live in SE Ohio.

This video came at a great time! I just finished cutting up my hubby's buck and we stuffed into a freezer!! So my next big project is to go through the freezers!! Thanks for the inspiration!!

This was very helpful 👍

How exciting - loe to see how to use what I put up. It is entirely different than cooking from the store and allows creative freedom! I need to learn how to cook again. Will you video this for Jan and Feb? Would love to know how you plan your meals from that inventory. I can't even find all that I froze in mine. I need to clean out and inventory also - such a great inspiration for me. THANK YOU!

I'm am doing freezer inventory this weekend

I'm going to do the pantry challenge this year with you. Heaven knows I need to and it will be good for me! It will also motivate me to work through my freezers and pantry.

Very nice Organized Freezer 🙏🎄❤️

Love the commercial freezer,,, would love to have one to replace 2 chest freezers.. hope y'all had a Merry Christmas

I am looking forward to the pantry challenge in January!

I'll go back and watch the challenge video, but I've become so skeptical about showing anything in my pantry because of current worldly situations. I did just start doing videos of pantry meals that I may be able to add to the challenge. Like I said, I'll go watch it and see what it's all about. Thanks for the info and sharing!!! ❤️ You Jessica, ❤️Kacy

I have been watching for a few and I am gonna try it this year because now it is juat me and the hubby and want to make aure we get thru everything so nothing is wasted.

So excited to participate again!!

Always look forward to your pantry challenge each year. I do a bit of the same, only thing we buy for 2 months is fresh bananas each month as my elderly mom needs the potassium. Otherwise, our pantry and freezers are fully stocked from the gardens and buying dry goods, etc months before.

Glad you doing on here this year. I love the challenges but I don’t follow instagram. I will do it with you I also fully stocked freezers and pantries. 💜

How scary!!! I'm sure that was crazy to go through! But on a better note, your so organized! I've been working on it. You and your family are inspirational! God bless y'all! And I praise God you happen to be cut up baby's meat and found the cheddar! God is 😊

I’m in!!! I’m aiming for 3 months!

I did low spend this month too, had multiple full freezers to start with. Going to try and go through what we have in 2022 while replacing when we can snag some great desks! My 2021 meat deals may be nonexistent in 2022! Sad

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I love the inventory list with the blocks that totally makes sense. Anna In Ohio

You're a strong, intelligent, and beautiful lady ❤ love your videos

I'm looking forward to seeing what your meals look like. I'm thinking I will join in this year.

@regularmompantrylife2587

2 жыл бұрын

Ps...the brat story is scary. Praise God you saw the cheese!

Sooo enjoyed this video ❤️

Oh what a scare! Thank you Lord for watching out for Gabriel!! You will love at least grinding your own meat and making your own sausage. I have a LEM grinder and plan on getting their blender/mixer this year because I want to make more. Picking and choosing the different seasonings and knowing everything that goes into your meats will be amazing. I have two huge chests and a standup freezer and wish I'd seen a commercial one first that's a beauty. Where has the year gone and time for another pantry challenge? I really enjoy watching you do it. Thanks so much for sharing!

I thought I was the only one who inventories the deep freezer. I have a small notebook. Every time I add something to the freezer I jot it down in the notebook with a date. No 2 dates are put on the same page. So the older items are in the front and newer items are in the back. I just scratch through each item as I use it and test out the page when it's done. Works for me.

That is a lot of freezer goods. When they start turning the screws on homesteaders and the power doesn’t come from the plant anymore, that’s going to be one very big bbq. Hopefully you have an alternative longer term source of energy for those appliances. Good luck

@threerivershomestead

2 жыл бұрын

As I mentioned in the video, we have all our freezers hooked up to a backup generator. At that point you just start canning it up on the propane stove. We have had to do that in the past. And if we couldn't can it all, we invited friends over and sent them home with meat. Several bartered with us for other items we needed.

I would absolutely have to have lettuce all winter long. I'm so glad you saw the cheese in the sausage before he ate any. 🥰🎄❄️☃️🩰🎁💗✝️👑🎅🕯️🍬🍭

I have a canning spreadsheet that I keep each year. I track date, product being canned, amount of produce used, cost if I had to purchase the produce, how many jars I got, the last column is for how many jars are left in the spring or the date I ran out. It has been very beneficial for knowing how many jar lids I need as well as how much money I need to save to purchase the produce we don’t grow

We usually do a no spend January but I am doing the pantry challenge this year! Now we don't have access to fresh milk so we will have to still get that but I am excited to try! We have a special needs child so this is going to be truly a challenge.

@laurab5184

2 жыл бұрын

Could you freeze some milk now to use during the challenge?

@BucketListHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

@@laurab5184 we have tried in the past but it was always watery, but i might try it again.

Even if you aren't ready to do all of your own meat processing, you could just take some ground pork and make your own brats. I'm going to be thawing five pounds of ground beef to make my own summer sausage for the first time. Mom used to make it and it was SO much better than store bought or from the meat locker! Sadly, I don't have her recipe, so I'll need to find some and experiment.

I also do an inventory but i dont have half as much as you do, (just a poor memory) as to what is in my 3 freezers! I also do1 of my non frozen items so that i know what i need to buy. I dont live on a homestead so i have to rely on Costco and the local store!

Thank You, Jesus for watching over Gabriel, so glad he's ok. 🙏

Wish I could stock up that much, but we can't have animals at our home. I am looking for a homestead area where we can buy several acres, but so far no luck.

I always look forward to your videos because they are so inspiring. I love the inventory sheet! Your son should do a tutorial on how he did it. It’s such a great visual. Will you keep that in a binder or on the magnet board or refrigerator? If I were single I would seriously consider getting rid of my dryer, but my family is definitely not for it. 😂🙈

@kulickfamilyfarm4333

2 жыл бұрын

I agree! It would be fun to see how the boys made that inventory sheet. A VERY useful tool.

@threerivershomestead

2 жыл бұрын

In a binder

What are garlic scape cubes and how do you use them? Your inventory is impressive! Thanks for sharing!

do you have a link for your laundry drying racks? Thanks for any info. I love your channel. I wish I was half as organized as your are.

I just want to reasure you that processing your own meat isn't too scary.. I would definitely encourage you to look into it. For safety and a savings. ❤

@CG-mj8tk

2 жыл бұрын

Plus it's a known fact that many butchers keep best cuts for themselves

@heidibriggs3384

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah it hard to know sometimes of you are really getting your own meat and all of your meat. But I just wanted to encourage her to not be nervous about it. It really isn't that scary. ❤

Good morning, I’d like to know what the frozen carrot cups are for and how you made them.

Wow, thankfully you spotted that cheddar. I would have assumed they cleaned the machine between each order. I loved seeing your freezers; I always think mine are messy, but I think I know mostly what I have in them! I’m looking forward to trying the pantry challenge, I watched last year but didn’t participate. My only spend would be for my husband who has lactose free milk, (he doesn’t like the nut or oat milks). He’s also GF so lots of from scratch cooking here too. My daughters and I are vegetarian, so we also have food challenges. Would coconut oil work in David’s frosting recipe from your thanksgiving video? Looking forward to the new year & cooking along with you x

What a sad loss of wonderful pork. Praise God you found it before he ate it. I have a friend who has a daughter with anaphylactic allergies to dairy as well. They spent a couple years taking her to a specialist to get her to the point where she no longer has to fear small exposures. Have you ever considered doing exposure therapy for Gabriel?

@threerivershomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Gabe doesn't want to do it right now. We are waiting until he can consent to the treatment.

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Do you have a video on how you freeze in jars? Mine have cracked? Thanks!

We live in Alaska and have more fish than meat in our freezers. Right now a huge wind storm caused power lines to go down and we’ve been without power for a couple days. We are on vacation in Florida but our adult son is home and using the generator to give all the freezers time to assure everything stays frozen. We have multiple freezers in different locations as well. Do you have a small generator and enough fuel to do the same?

@threerivershomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I actually have a video coming out on Sunday that talks all about our preparations for power outages

I noticed you had some canning jars in your freezer. I never knew you could use them in a freezer. Do they break ever? Any special instructions? Thanks.

I’m curious what you use the cashew pieces for. If you've mentioned it before maybe another person can let me know.

Can you share that freezer inventory sheet with us? Thank you!!

Hello, I'm looking at purchasing additional freezers. Do that many extra appliances increase the electricity bill a lot?

On your pantry challenge, do you buy milk or dairy products along the way? I wont have anyone in milk til February

Do you have a form you use for inventorying your freezers?

Similar issue recently except I. React to potato starch and this place I normally order from must've cooked my food with used fry oil because I had an autoimmune response which is disappointing and disgusting

Does beef tallow need to be refrigerated? I have always thought that they are shelf stable..