It's just my husband and myself but on Sundays I make a huge pot of homemade soup, 5 bean salad, and roasted chicken ,beef or pork meal . The roast gives us leftovers for sandwiches, hot or cold and we pack the salad and soup for lunches.

@danesaredarlings4679

Жыл бұрын

Us two too! I love to cook big on Sundays for leftovers. My salad of choice is tabbouleh for me.

I've lived 50 years without a knowing how to can food. I now find myself in need of a canning pot. Thanks a lot. I like your channel. It's a nice change from the news(crap) I tend to watch.

@marthav2772

2 жыл бұрын

I too started LATE to canning, just two years ago now and I so wish I had done it when my kids were little! I'm 73 now, my kids are grown and gone but I love to can now and have a full pantry to share with them...now!👍. Thank you Carolyn for all you teach and show! I've learned so much from you even at MY age! 😊

Hello Carolyn. I am a New Hampshire working farm wife. This channel is really helpful on so many subjects. Your comment regarding including the children in your chores and trying to make it joyful is important. My husband and his brother were raised on a working dairy farm with two other brothers, starting in the late 1940s. Native New Hampshire farmers are known for their "all work" ethic, few words an dry sense of humor. I see the outcome of that lifestyle in my husband and brother-in-law. They don't know how to play and take time off! At 74 and 71 they are out haying and working 24/7. I was fortunate to have been raised with N.H. farmers on one side of the family, with a more modern 1950s country/suburban family on the other side. My mother was a nurse and a "Mrs. Cunningham" and I was "Joanie" . I am trying to strike a balance between the two and I am the ONLY woman on the farm! So I am trying to take the best of 1935 and the best of today. I have a strong feeling that will prove very helpful in today's " NEW NORMAL" . The "boys" are learning to relax a bit more and enjoy taking a break to have some fun. Our large farm is now our new world. No visitors and customers are required to social distance and wear masks. What model kitchen wood stove do you have? I have a 1930 Home Comfort and will send a photo if I find your email. We live both on an off-grid, especially during winter. So happy to see you and your husband living this lifestyle!

Very useful video. I'm going to call it "planning in grace" as opposed to "planning to fail". Because it's not failure, it's just life 🤷🏿‍♀️

@YeshuaKingMessiah

2 жыл бұрын

When u plan so u don’t fail u will see how not planning means u choose to fail

@celestebinus6142

2 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful thought!! Thank you!

Very good advice to get your kids involved doing chores. We had two children - one boy and one girl. They’re both well out of the house. Both were taught basic mechanical skills, woodworking, plumbing, and electrical. Both can sew and are excellent cooks having learned at home. We live off grid 5 miles from a paved road, and both of us can do anything the other can - but we gravitate towards different things on our homestead. Thanks for sharing.

Great advice to young parents and just slow down and for encouraging them to have quiet time.

@Ee4yh8rg

4 жыл бұрын

I ❤ how shes encouraging people to not compare themselves to someone else but to slow down. There will always be super dads and super moms with a GOD given ability to work miracles but most of us will simply get most things done or some things done and if we can do that with a good attitude...we win.

Making christmas breakfast and dinner with Carolyn today because I do not have an open floor plan in my 100 year old house and everyone is off playing and snacking and watching the parade. haha! I'm enjoying myself! Thanks for all these chats to keep me company!

I raised 4 and had an in home daycare. I made french toast 2 loaves of bread 2 griddles going. Pancakes a whole box of mix or homemade. Put in Gallon zip and kids can heat in microwave... Egg bites in Instapot. Quiche and Casseroles are great.

Thanks, Carolyn! I want to add that you're so blessed to still have both parents. I wish you thousands more beautiful memories.

I would love to see your weekly chore list.

@jdurnal

4 жыл бұрын

Jason Tooley would be a good video.

@adriaharding1783

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@Jenny.MG82

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@jodylund5477

2 жыл бұрын

Me tooooo

@celestebinus6142

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

I am 31 and watching you makes me feel like my entire life has been wasted. I wish my parents taught me this stuff.

I’ve sewn since I was around 7 my grandmother thought me. I spend fall/winter sewing gifts and quilts just enjoying making.

SUCH AN AWESOME QUESTION BETHANY! We are now raising 5 grandbabies and starting over has been a huge challenge. CAROLYN AND JOSH YOU ARE SUCH BLESSINGS!

@SuperLovetolisten

4 жыл бұрын

Amy Ziesmer God bless you taking on five grand babies! I know so many grandparents living for themselves and completely ignoring the beauty and honor it is for children to have them. (I’m speaking of my own family and many of my friends families). Bravo to you !

@SuperLovetolisten

4 жыл бұрын

We have chickens and thankfully my kiddos want eggs & toast almost every day. Sometimes I’ll mix it up and make French toast, pancakes or muffins. I do like bagels & cream cheese on occasion.

@amyziesmer5189

4 жыл бұрын

@@SuperLovetolisten Thank you! We have had 3 for right at 3 years now, and a few months ago gained the 3 year old and now 10 month old...LOL...GOD IS SOOO GOOD! Today is my 52nd Birthday...I honestly remember a day that I never thought I would live to see myself have children...My husband is such a Blessing! We just hit our 4 year Anniversary a couple of weeks ago! We are Ministers, Have a fully practicing Organic Homestead/Farm in the Ozarks...a homebased Biz and my Husband is currently still working Fulltime as a letter carrier for USPS...Busy is our middle middle name LOL...I love the extra help we get from all of Carolyn and Josh's tips! Especially since we are moving to be fully sustainable and even more grid free and conventional med-free! 🤗🥰🙏

I’m just amazed at all you do and the amount of knowledge you have! I am 26 with a 16 month daughter and always trying to streamline our meals but only recently started meal planning and it helps so much but I have so much more to learn and put into practice! So inspired! ❤️

@smas3256

11 ай бұрын

Sales is when to stock up. I like some store brands better than expensive brands. Those large containers of spices and mixed spices are excellent when you can't grow it yourself. Sometime when an herb is in season you can buy it fresh. Get white cotton thread and let them air dry just to try it. Always wash them good first. I save jars with the lids to save left overs in or dried herbs shelf stable. Label what it is or you'll forget like I do.

Watching this 2 years later and still as relevant and helpful! I commented 2 years ago as well such great tips!

Great video, Carolyn. I'm single and live in NYC. Still I'm trying to build those habits into my life. I appreciate all of your tips.

@bearrivermama6414

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Ellis that is fantastic! I'm sure there are some challenges that come along due to living in the city and I'm sure there are some advantages 👍🏻 I gotta give you props because I bet it's not always easy to resist all the tempting tastes around every corner! For us the closest restaurant or eatery of any kind is 35 miles away. Kinda makes it easy to resist 😂

@MichaelEllis1

4 жыл бұрын

@@bearrivermama6414 hardest part is storage. I'm lucky to have outdoor space for a small garden. Keeping squirrels from eating everything is a big challenge. Next year I'm getting a slingshot! Farmer's markets are great but expensive. I make everything I can from scratch. Never going to live the pioneer lifestyle here, but doing what I can to get back to basics in the city. And a night out on the town is a real treat about once every couple months.

@bearrivermama6414

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Ellis that is great that you scratched out a little garden space in the concrete jungle 😊. Squirrels can be a pain! But the biggest pain here are the deer. They mow every thing down over night! Flowers and food and then bat there Betty Davis eyes at you 😠. Can't fault the deer, they are just hungry but those goofy squirrels! We had a shed that they had chewed a hole in and they had mushrooms and pine cones and acorns lined up like a prepper lines up can goods. They are hoarders! Ever support in the wall had a perfect row of lined up mushrooms drying for winter!

@ISa-jy8ol

4 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelEllis1 sprouting is another good idea for limited space in the city!

@sherryllynnjones7077

3 жыл бұрын

@@bearrivermama6414 😂😂😂 🙏❤🙏

I’ve found when my family eats natural meat with its natural fats and leafy greens and fermented vegetables they eat less often and feel full enough to only eat 1-2 meals a day.

@carolschedler3832

4 жыл бұрын

We have the same experience

@gracesoule3754

4 жыл бұрын

My little ones have to eat more often. My husband could do two solid healthy meals but the little ones no way not yet. 😁

@Silverstreamhomecrafts

3 жыл бұрын

I completely agree I very rarely eat three meals a day even when I'm out in the garden all day

@YeshuaKingMessiah

2 жыл бұрын

My kids are nauseated in mornings without breakfast. Starving at night without dinner. I IF myself, 2-3 hr window. They just can’t get there. They’re still growing I think-14&16yo. I put fat in their porridges and lentils & rice too plus fullfat dairy, besides fatty meats and dip or dressing for vegs. Butter in cooked vegs.🤷🏼‍♀️

Wonderful tips Carolyn, thank you so much!

I am so grateful for these videos and your willingness to share your knowledge with others!

You are a blessed lady! I love how you engage your kids into this! Well done to you and your family! Thank you for sharing!

Always enjoy pantry chat. Great information thank you.

Fantastic video! This is one of my favorites... Thank you so much for sharing so many great tips!

Thank you for all the encouragement and ways to keep our families healthy with links to help us do them ourselves!

All great ideas ! The one about meal planning and planning for those days when everything fails lol that's what I was missing and really needed . Thanks so much Carolyn

Love you guys and what you do! I appreciate that you tape your lives so that I can view them when I have time.

Carolyn, I appreciate best the times you make time to address organizing systems. I LOVE to be organized so much. But I don’t find it easy. So thanks for this opportunity to stop and think!

Love your pantry chats ❤️

I just adore you. I always find your information so useful and unique. Thank you for sharing what you know and your lives with us 🙏🏻

Wow. This is so helpful. Thank you for sharing these tips. Best wishes for the happy new house project, too.

Goals, goals, goals! You and your classes AND your videos are really getting me together over here!!!

I love your advice and tips because I know they are tried and tested. Thank you so much x

Your advice is inspiring. Your channel has given me so much to think about!

Super video Carolyn! It's been many years since I was done with homeschooling, but having a weekly menu and planning was so important for us during that time in order for things to go smoothly, and for me not to get frustrated/harried. Blessings!

Look forward to watching you leap into zero waste... I’ve been doing more hand sewing and basic sewing lately... I made an apron and some carry bags from reclaimed fabric from goodwill.

@fionafiona1146

4 жыл бұрын

"low waist" is the less discouraging term in long changes. *for your information, I can come across as very rude😅

@amandawilliams2266

4 жыл бұрын

Very cool !

@madhouse7364

4 жыл бұрын

Consider gathering animal feed sacks locally. I cut and craft them into tote bags superior to grocery store bags. I imagine they will make lots of great items.

@pameladecicco6509

4 жыл бұрын

@@madhouse7364 Hey, Dolly Parton's clothes, amongst many others were sewed from those. There you go.

@YeshuaKingMessiah

2 жыл бұрын

She handmakes all meals, buys in bulk, grows a ton of food, prob cloth diapers. They don’t run around but stay home, conserving gas. When someone does all that then the little things don’t add up to worry about.

Carolyn thank you for giving me so many ideas for meals. These plan ahead ideas are a way for me as a working away from home mom to still have nutritious meals on the table.❤️

I love your wood stove!! Thanks for all your videos, I really appreciate them!

Excellent video! As I have been making more meals o. This journey, I write them on my calendar and spreadsheet so I can look back for inspiration

These are definitely some awesome goals to work toward. Thank you!!

Hello, I love all your videos, advice and teaching us how to do our own food. Love it going back to basics. I would love to see a video on sewing, how to start and all the basics on it. Thank you for putting all your wisdom in videos for someone like me that I’m a visual learner. Many blessings

Wow! Just finding your videos. I’m very encouraged. Thanks. ⭐️

Refreshing! i sooooo appreciate a young Lady (mum) like You! sooooo needed In this day and age! Lovely Clip! Thank You for sharing . . .

Love your joyful & thankful attitude. Life is such & the best lessen for life! ❤️❤️🙏❤️❤️

One of your best practical videos.

Love your content it is very helpful. I love the fact you are getting away from wasting thing would like to hear where you are with it. Its very inspiring to me. Thanks

I know this is from years ago but your advice of the midday break is SO true. It makes a WORLD of difference. It’s a standard thing in a lot of cultures but not the US.

I love even just having canned meat on the shelf. Along with canned or frozen veggies or the addition of rice makes a quick meal. Great advice! Thank you for sharing!

Good stuff, Carolyn! I think I'm going to work the freezer system for now. 😊

This was so encouraging to me as a mom of littles! Thank you!!!!!❤❤❤

Thank you so much for this video! It's exactly the encouragement I needed to get new systems in place! I have a house full of little too. My oldest is 6.5 but very capable and loves the kitchen work, I'm going to put her on sourdough pizza dough and focaccia duty now. I am up early with the baby (4:30 a.m. with the daylight savings time change) and paused your video to print of the breakfast casserole recipes and threw a batch of the baked oatmeal in my oven!

I have to start cooking dinner around lunch time when everyone is calm and I have plenty of time, usually that means I cook it during nap time right after lunch and keep it warm for dinner time.

The way you have organized your channel is beautiful!

I just found your channel and have been enjoying the chat. You remind me so much of my sister that I lost a few years ago, She was so smart and lovely And I imagine that she's watching from heaven with me learning some handy home skills! XOXO god bless your beautiful family

Such such good advice. I had four under the age of six at one point. Often felt like I was just treading water, but my daughter Margaret, 39 years old and living in San Francisco, still remembers making homemade raised doughnuts together, with "all hands on deck" when she was five. I loved watching this vid-- it brought back sweet memories.

I put up Beef Barley soup and Split Pea and Ham. I keep 28 its of each. It is so easy for all those days when things go wrong.

This was a great video even for us who are retired. I make everything pretty well from scratch too but get so sick of cooking and coming up with dinner ideas. Thanks so much 🌷🇨🇦

I’m new to the program this is something I been wanted to know this I’m so excited about this program thank you so much

Awesome. You are so organized. Thanks

Thank you for your tips on little ones. I also have 5 children, 4 5 and under. It can be a little chaotic at times.

Thank you for all your videos!!

I know it’s a year later lol but I’m a newbie & I binge watch your videos 😂😂😍😍 thank you for lots of helpful advice & tips. You’re always so kind & include real life examples. I’m learning so much. Thank you for sharing. You have a beautiful family & homestead. God Bless ✌🏻💚🙏🏻

Just started following you guys! Enjoying and we are in our sixties. Please encourage us older folk ! And tips appreciated. On gardening tips please!

I wish we learned these things in school. I've got two young children and would have loved to know this before becoming a parent!! Thank you so much for the great tips, I love your channel! We're aiming towards %100 sustainability here on the Big Island of Hawaii.

You are such a sweet organized wife and mama. You are such an inspiration.

I can't wait to try your breakfast casserole recipes. New subscriber and I am binging.

Such a great question Bethany. I am the elder sister from a family of 6 children. My eldest brother was born in 1971 and my youngest sister was born in 1981. Two sisters, three brothers no twins. My Mum also worked part-time as a nurse and Dad FT as a teacher plus had a weekend business. Reminds me of some things I learnt when I was 10-14... I remember having a great street with neighbors teenagers older than us who come over to help my Mum a bit.

❤thanks for your content 😊 my mom cooked EVERYTHING from scratch🎉 we definitely got spoiled ❤ I raised my baby's that way and have been blessed to continue with my grand babies 💕

Thank you so much for your videos. You are wise beyond your years. I am 71 years young and have learned so much from you. May God bless you and your family.

I enjoy this video. Watched many of your videos. My husband and I work. I like how you over time developed systems to make healthy meals every week. I want to work on these ideas you talked about when I'm well

You have given me some great ideas and thank you for that!

Your fantastic !👍🏻”God bless and keep you and your family safe always.🕊”

I have learned how to pressure can, so I love to can roasts complete with the veggies and every thing in it. So I spend a whole day canning a whole bunch of roast or chicken stew or spaghetti sauce, then I have dinner ready later by just opening a jar and heating it up.

Wonderful tips and video!

I'm new to you're chanel , so far I like what I see.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spring is trying to slowly come in , we are getting excited about planting gardenHave a fantastic day.God Bless

I love your channel. Always crosses my mind just how many canning jars you have. I just counted mine and was shocked to realize how many I have.

I just love your channel! I always go through your videos and watch them. Sometimes I rewatch them just to make sure I understand what your saying and any instructions. I only have one little one, well, big now haha. He is 10, almost 11, he was born 16 days after my 21st birthday, so I was never in a hurry to have more children. I wanted to enjoy the time with him and be together as a small fanily. And we have for almost the past 11 years now. But now since hes almost a teenager, we find ourselves wanting alot more children. Almost like you haha. We love children and would love to have more, my sister has 2 little ones and one thats only 4 months younger than mine, their best friends, and I just love being around them so much. So watching your videos in preparedness for that is great for me. I have always gardened and sowed, little things, but ive strated canning and crocheting and really getting back to the basics. I hope to one day have a homestead like you guys do. I think your just wonderful people and just great role models and i truly aspire to be like yall. God bless. Much love being sent to all of you.

I love videos like this because no one taught me how to cook or do anything homemade. Thank you for being the one to do it 😢❤

In the cold months I mostly use a crockpot. I make a whole chicken and when it's done I make a whole can of steel cut oats and alternate. This way we always have something ready to eat.. can flavor oatmeal however you want, etc.

So thankful for your answer to the Mama of 5 under 5. I need more advice on this stage. Homesteading with littles is so much harder than I thought. Any other advice on this season would be so appreciated. I grew up in a small family that weren’t joyful at all so I’m taking all the advice I can get to be a better more joyful Mom.

My first video of yours I've seen. You're my hero and my inspiration!! I don't say those things lightly, either. I've been watching a lot of self sufficiency, homesteading, pantry tours, gardening for all year, etc videos, but this gives me ideas and showing me where I've been doing too much myself. But, I have an adult stepson coming to live with us soon and routines were going to have to change then, so this is perfect timing to start revamping everything :) Our younger boy loves to make butter and whipped cream already (not that we do that often), and I just got a kombucha scoby, so I'll teach him how to do that, too, among other things. He's canned pineapple jam a few years back, but I think it's time to get him doing a lot more... definitely. I'm moving to organic, non-monsanto foods, so there is a big transition already going on in the house. Looking forward to more of your videos. Thank you so much for sharing!

Love this one!

Loved your answer to the young mom’s question. Regarding meal planning: what if you kept old meal plans and used those when you don’t have time to sit and figure it all out?

Thanks for sharing your tips.

You and your family are simply AMAZING!!! Btw, you are so beautiful..your hair is just like that of a princess! Thanks for inspiring us!!

My 60th birthday is coming up and I still don't know how to sew! I would love to see you teaching your kids. Thanks.

Carolyn, great video! I liked your concepts of getting systems, rather than one-time techniques, in place. When I was still in the workforce, I spent Saturdays catching up with laundry and Sunday, there were at least three 9x13 dishes in the oven or two plus the crockpot going, so when I got home from work every day, there was wholesome food ready. The years when I worked two jobs and got home at 5:00 and was back out the door by 5:30 meant I had to bring a big lunch bag and have my "dinner" at my desk around 4:00, but it worked and now retired, I'm still "above ground and vertical." lol Have a great week!

@cyndiburns7932

11 ай бұрын

I cleaned and did laundry in Saturdays. Sunday afternoon after church I cooked and made all kinds of sides and froze them. The every morning got up early, cut up veggies, and made a homemade soup, stir fried a few veggies to add to a pocket sandwich with a bit of meat left over from suppers I would freeze for lunch that day. Read my Bible while eating some soup for breakfast. Then I headed off to work. It worked. But I was young and had lots of energy. It doesn't work for me now. That was about dirty years ago.

Just got my dehydrator few months ago and just now bought my pressure canner I’m excited to start food storage

your casseroles will make great meals for my grandchildren next year when I will be in charge of them quite often

Wonderful video. Thank you

I need a pressure canner.... this is such great encouragement!! Thank you! :)

Now that our preservation rush is over this is the perfect time to reset systems. Great encouragement and tips, thank you! I was thinking it would be neat if you offered a planner/pdf of what things you put up during each season . . . any thoughts on that?

Great video!!!

Great video. Would love to see you teaching sewing to the girls and also homeschooling . We are just starting out and I want to show my girls how diverse it can be

Awesome video! Keep up the good work👌

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” Excellent quote! Thanks :)

Another great tool is the instapot. It will cook frozen meat or just a last minute stew or pot roast or pulled pork, etc. It has saved me from those days when I realize the meat is still in the freezer or I forgot to put the pot roast on. I did not get one for several years and then when I did get one for Christmas I didn't use it. My daughter got me started on it and now it gets used at least once a week. The meat comes out so tender.

I’m a new subscriber as of today. I know I’m going to love your channel.

I love the question about littles. I have 9, 6, 3, 1 year old twins, and another in March. We struggle just to keep the garden going with our pigs and chickens also. It's nice to not feel like we are going through these struggles alone. I'm looking forward to the twins walking better. I think it will make getting outside easier.

@edieboudreau9637

4 жыл бұрын

Kristina Toole twins do make it a bit more of a struggle. Don't give up!!! I've got twins myself.

@vivians9392

2 жыл бұрын

WOW!!!!!

I'd love to get the breakfast cookie recipe you've talked about!

I make breakfast burritos and stick them in the freezer for early mornings. I'm thinking about trying breakfast sandwiches.

Our family has one issue that comes around once in awhile. I'm the primary shopper and meal maker. But I do not like leftovers, not at all. I've tried really hard to not let that pass down to our sons, and it hasn't. So I almost always plan meals we can eat in one setting. And any meals with leftovers, my wife and sons take care of them, so it's worked ok so far. Love your videos and web site!