Getting Started with Food Preservation: Freezer Meals, Stocking the Pantry | Becky of Acre Homestead
In the homesteading world, we place a lot of emphasis on sourcing food well and producing it at home when possible. With all of the hard work we put into obtaining high quality food, we have to have a plan for what to do with it! In today’s conversation, Becky shares about her process of preserving food using various methods: freezing, freeze drying, canning, etc. She also shares some practical tips about planning for and executing a successful freezer meal preparation day. We cover plenty of simple and attainable ideas in this episode; you don’t want to miss it!
In this episode, we cover:
- Quick meals you can throw together without much planning or preparing
- What to consider as you are planning for large batch freezer cooking
- Finding the right containers for your freezer meals
- Suggested methods of preserving for various foods
- Pantry staples every from-scratch cook should keep on hand
- Figuring out what your family eats most and stocking up accordingly
- Ideas for sourcing food: what we buy from local stores vs. large bulk orders
- Deciding what preserving method fits best with your tastes and lifestyle
- Recognizing what parts of homesteading you want to prioritize
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Love Becky, she does it her way and she shows all her successes and her failures. Most people on you tube only show you the perfect version. Becky keeps it real.
Love Becky! She’s full of energy and kindness and she’s just such a natural at homesteading
Becky changed my life for good. I am 58 years old, I have learned so much. She is the new Martha Stewart, she should have her own show🙏 greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦
@tinacarr9498
6 ай бұрын
Me too lol.. I have become such a better cook watching Becky's channel!
Two of my favourite youtubers 👌🏻
@DrivingFree
Жыл бұрын
Mine too!!
@rebeccafincher2486
Жыл бұрын
Me too!! ❤❤
@marylooksfineonadime
Жыл бұрын
Mine, too!!
I’m disabled, so I have about 1/10 of Lisa’s energy. I make freezer meals here and there, when I make something like taco soup, I just set up a freezer bag and add the same ingredients to the bag as I’m adding to my pot. By the time dinner is ready I have a freezer meal ready as well. I do that maybe once a week or every other week.
Wow two parts of my world merging together. Gotten so much from you both. ❤ Nice interview.
Becky is one in a million. Just love her an her family. Lisa I never seen ur program but I will now.
Becky’s approach to batch cooking is realistic and obtainable. I do it a little differently because of our needs but still get so much from watching her. I love both of your channels and find you to be motivating. I only have KZread as I just don’t want to be pulled into other platforms. I appreciate you taking the time to post on here.
That's a great idea to get the only the cuts you want to eat. I like to have them quarter the big ham piece and give it to me fresh, with no curing. Then for special occasions I can salt my own ham in smaller portions and which tastes so much better that I can't stand regular ham anymore.
I love Becky’s channel. We have freeze dried chili, split pea soup, spaghetti sauce, meatballs, ground beef, vegetables, lasagne and many other easy dinners and items for quick easy go cooking!! In addition to onions and garlic and homemade beef and chicken broth to powder. Becky has been such an inspiration for us and we never miss an episode!!
Woohoo! Both of you togethet!! Couldn't be better. Thank you
I absolutely love this podcast..I love Becky's channel and now I found a new channel!! Also I just want to say, both of your skin is just flawless and beautiful. I'm thinking it's probably because you both eat food that is organically grown and not all processed nasty food!! Definitely encourages me to eat better healthier sourced food. I've been having some skin issues, not on my face, but some other parts of my body and I'm trying to be more mindful of what I'm putting into my body now thanks to people like you guys. You are teaching a lot of us so many new things!! Thank you so much❤❤❤😊
@jenniferkingsbury8229
Жыл бұрын
When my partner and I switched to no processed foods, his psoriasis started clearing up. His skin has never looked better! Definitely give it a try…took about 2 months for him to see the differences start. Good luck!!!!
@michelledesjadon1476
Жыл бұрын
@jenniferkingsbury8229 Thank you, that is very encouraging!!!!
@jks9204
6 ай бұрын
Be sure to switch out what u put on your body as well. Inhalant scents, detergents, topicals, just all self care products.
I love Becky, she is so relatable. She always upbeat and personable.
A wonderful idea for those pork shoulders, carnitas. I cube up the pork shoulder, season it heavily with paprika, cumin, garlic, salt and pepper. Put it in the crock pot with 2 limes, 2 oranges (cut in half and juiced), and cilantro, cook on low for several hours. At the end I break up the meat into bite sized pieces and put it on a cookie sheet under the broiler until it has crispy edges. It makes a ton of meat so we have tacos for dinner and then freeze into quart sized bags. The kids typically pull it out for quesadillas, nachos, burrito bowls or just to throw into scrambled eggs for lunch or when mom and dad have a date night and they are in charge of dinner.
@Simplefarmhouselife
Жыл бұрын
Sounds good!
@evawood9655
Жыл бұрын
Sounds perfectly delicious... I wonder if pork shoulder can come cut in 1lb portions as to be on the quick cooking list, like ground meats are? I do portion out a big meat into freezer portions... Hubby prefers switching up meats. Otherwise, I'm great at eating tacos for a week
Becky, you are so much more than a cook and gardener. You are amazing and have put something that displays ALL you are. Wife, mother, daughter, sister, cook extraordinaire, gardener, homemaker and amazing business women.
In my opinion the best homestead on you is Living Traditional Homestead. They have been at it for years...from planting from seeds, chickens, rabbits, pigs, and cows. They are simply put amazing.
Oh my gosh, I miss Winco SOOOOO much. My over all shopping bill was less than Walmart. But, their meat selection was less varied than a regular supermarket. 😊❤
Becky is wonderful, a true gentle soul❤️
My two favorite. Oh boy, I am going to have a great lunchtime walk listening
Loved every moment of this video! You are my two favorite KZreadrs and my biggest inspirations for my channel! Thank you for your knowledge and encouragement! ❤
I so love and enjoy watching you both.learn so much.Thank you
@Simplefarmhouselife
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
Two of the nicest ladies on KZread! I’ve learned so much from both of you.
Great to hear, my two fave youtubers in one podcast! Cheers from UK :)
@Simplefarmhouselife
Жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks!
my two favorite youtubers on one podcast…yes please and Thanks Lisa! ♥️🥰💖🙏
This was great! I learned a lot and I had not considered the benefit of buying and storing glass 9x13 dishes over aluminum pans so I am glad you asked. I have always wondered about that.
@Simplefarmhouselife
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Yes, skip the corporate chain restaurants and go for the mom and pops. Our small businesses need the boost.
I love Becky's channel. I didn't know that she was home schooled; that is so cool.
Becky you are so approachable, watching your channel is like taking a walk with you and the chickens outside. Or sitting down at the end of your countertop to learn something new. You really have a nack for making people feel welcome. Liza you make me feel relaxed when I watch you cook or spread a quilt on a child's bed. Beautiful necessities come to mind when I'm watching your channel. I enjoy you both tremendously but for different reasons.❤❤
Becky is very sweet. I love watching her videos.
Love the program! When we get a hog butchered, in lieu of ham (not our favorite either) we have pork cutlets made. After bacon, it's our favorite cut. Flour, egg, panko breadcrumbs, quick browning and into the pressure cooker for 15min. 12.25.2023
I watch Becky watch both of you
I love this woman also I have been falling her channel and her mom. Because she is a wonderful woman that is sharing her life! I cherish her!She is amazing because she shares her recipes and knowledge I love her !
Lisa and Becky; what a pair!!! ❤
I also follow Becky channel too. She is fabulous and works so hard on her channel interests 💛💛💛
I know some just dont like getting things like the pork shoulder or the ham cause its such big cuts of meat so you dont cook them as muchand as a resukt you have several in freezer that you still have to deal with and you get burned out on them....just when you bring them home, cut them in half and repackage and freeze. Smaller portion is easier to deal with, less overwhelming, less nights of having to reinvent a way to use the leftovers...instead of eating that ham for 4 or 5 days, cut it down to 2 or 3 days.
Such fun having both of you together! I have been watching Becky from her beginning & Lisa since she was selling pillows & embroidered items out of her little home.I don’t have a garden & I don’t cook but I enjoy watching both of you I do sew and when I was younger made all my own drapes and curtains. At 71 I am a stay at home Grammy who did early preschool for all 4 of my Grandkids ages 2-13 . My big passion now is quilting. The grands renamed my craft room the classroom so I share my space with them .
Put your pork shoulder in the Instant pot and it really does make it feel like a way more accessible meal to make a bit quicker. Especially if it is partially frozen, just get it cut down enough to fit in, put it in for about 80 minutes. There's also just something that it does to the meat to make it so tender, you will never roast or crock pot it again.
Wow!!!! My two favourites! Love what both of you do so much!!
Awesome collab ❤
Hello to two young women with an abundance of common sense. I’m a widow and only buy sausages. The Italian seasoned sausage makes dishes so tasty. Blessings.❤
Two of my favorites together
I love Becky! So glad to see this interview 🙌 ❤
How am I just watching my two fav people!! Thanks for sharing!! I loved it all!!
@Simplefarmhouselife
7 ай бұрын
Yay! Thank you!
You ladies are absolutely awesome!!!! I've been watching Becky for over a year and think she is amazing ❤❤❤ I'm only a newbie with watching you Lisa ❤ I'm a mum of six, we love meal prepping and are currently looking at buying our own property and starting our family dream. Such inspirational ladies thank you for your uploads and your advice ❤
I love that you both are homesteading. You both talk about freezer storage. I just recently lost 3 freezers FULL of food, due to a bad storm that took out our power for a week. I couldn't trust that the food had not defrosted, especially since we had not opened 2 of the freezers. So we had to toss it. The insurance company would only cover $!,000 for the loss. So now I am slowly refilling them, but nervous about another storm. We live in Oklahoma and it has sometimes taken more than a week to get power back in some places.
@northstar4851
6 ай бұрын
Couldn't you have cooked a bunch of the food and then it could be frozen?
I love Becky ❤
I absolutely love Becky she has inspired me to cook more from scratch and make freezer meals.
Love Becky ❤️
Really enjoyed this! Love you both! 💝💝
@Simplefarmhouselife
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
Thank you Becky.
I have been a Becky for since the beginning! She is like the energizer bunny…always busy and tackling amazing projects :)
Lisa and Becky are my 2 favorite KZreadr.
I love Becky...I actually watched this video because I saw her face. but now I am a new subscriber to your channel. I really enjoy this type of content, Thank you. Next, I have to watch your other videos and the one with Jamerrill.
Love you Becky. I started watching your show when first start it. You're so much amazing you show us how to garden. Your flaws your goodness of your garden. As well when you're in the kitchen cooking. How to can our food. As well how to restore it for the year. You let all the fans know if you're feeling good or not. You have share your family and Josh's family with us. You had your sister your brother-in-law her young'uns on your show. You had your sister-in-law as well as your mother-in-law and couple your friends from out of town. I love with you and Josh have done with your new place. Most of all you have a new place as a new baby 🍼. I love watching your parents in the garden with you at your old place. You and your mother works really good together shop a foods for the family get together. You share your products your foods with other families and friends. You have a heart of gold and God bless you and your family and Josh's and friends.
Love Becky!!
Great to see you both together. Lisa you were spot on to say Becky is relatable. We all make mistakes in the kitchen and she embraces them and rolls with it. I started watching Farmhouse about three children ago, so excited for this summer baby. You make motherhood relatable like Becky makes spilling the pepper relatable, thanks to you both.
Great collab!! So excited to see Becky here 🤩
Great show ~ Thank You!!
I ❤ Becky! Awesome podcast.
This is fab ! Love Becky 😊
So awesome seeing my favorite ladies on here together. Both of you are such an inspiration to so many people.
@heatherinparis
Жыл бұрын
You've taken the words right out of my mouth! This is what I came here to say
@Simplefarmhouselife
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
Great program today. Becky is so relatable that I truly believe that she’s a friend!
I've seen Jessica on Three Rivers Homestead freeze dries soups and similar things.
Loved this!
My favourite person in the world is BECKY what a awsome person Has a AWSOME Husband and Son ACRE and her 2dogs
Loved this
Great Conversation.
so happy for this duo!
Love you both!
I've been waiting for this one!
Becky’s KZread channel is way more than a food channel. She is such an inspiration to getting it done. I wish I had just a fraction of her energy. My husband says Becky does more in a morning than most people get done in an entire day. Thank you for having her on, we really enjoy her content.
Lovely ladies! Thanks Lisa & Becky love both of your channels! @Simplefarmhouselife I love your Sourdough recipes & the cinnamon rolls & dinner rolls are a big hit! The dinner rolls are so yummy used for breakfast sandwiches with simple ingredient bacon (Hemplers), cheese and pastured raised eggs!
Basically my two faves! ❤
Great episode!
Love Becky!!! She has been such an inspiration for me to begin growing, preserving, and storing.
Love Becky!!! ❤
Love Becky!! Thank you for this!!!
Hello lisa, I clicked because u saw Becky And had to see what y'all were talking about! Omgoodness the stuff you eat lol! We raise pigs.... and first time I tried to do all the cuts with 3 hogs.... I literally have away 5 hams. Now sausage, bacon, rubs, and last 1 ham per 3 we butcher. It's really what you and yours eat.
My favorites in one video!!
Two of my favorites! I’m so excited!! Thanks Lisa and Becky!
Love our sweet Becky!
So awesome! My two favorite gals!
What a powerhouse collab!! Love both of you ladies!
Very informative chat. Cracked me up about the beets. 😁 Thank you.
@Simplefarmhouselife
Жыл бұрын
😁
My two favorites! You both are such an inspiration 🥰
This made my Friday morning!!
2 of my favorites❤
My two faves!!!!❤❤
Love you guys ❤️
This is so fun watching my two favorite people. Watch you both from Kentucky.
loved the interview. Sounded like two neighbors over coffee and yet content relatable.
Great job 👏🏻
Thank you for this video. It is so helpful.
I am vegetarian and for bulk 9:20 eeze in glass ( such as jam jars). NEVER fill jar to the top since food expands in the freezing process. Just meal plan and take jar out the night before to thaw and no risk of food contamination from plastic.
My 2 favorite u tubers!!! Thanks for the conversation ladies!!
Love you both! I can't wait to try to glass with snap lids for this!
This is so informative. I love this concept.
Love both of you and follow you both…..great content!
@Simplefarmhouselife
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much
Great episode…two of my faves sharing their tips and info… ❤️❤️thanks Lisa and Becky!
@Simplefarmhouselife
Жыл бұрын
Our pleasure!
Great interview love Beckey, she's my favorite.❤