How we build a pantry & home supplies on a budget - #pantry #costoflivingcrisis #stockpiling

The year before my marriage, I took $5 a week and purchased non-perishable & household items every week. Whatever the store had as their loss leader that week. Started my marriage well stocked. Still married 30 years later.

I have had a pantry since 1983 which was quite unusual in England at that time. We lived on top of a hill with 7 other houses and we would get snowed in numerous times in winter. Snow drift up to bedroom window sill. I would know by 3.00 pm whether my husband should leave work otherwise he wouldn’t be able to get up the hill. Helicopter drops of feed for livestock were dropped on the land at the back of our house. My pantry kept all of our immediate family of 15 in food and all necessary needs through the pandemic as none of us were able to work. 7 adults and 8 grandchildren. I would not be without my pantry which includes everything you could want.

This video is one of THE MOST IMPORTANT videos you have ever done, especially now a days.

I stopped at a yard sale today and the lady was a big “couponer”. She had bags of five bean mix and split peas for 50 cents each. I bought all she had (8 bags). I considered that my deal of the day.

Love my pantry, have an Ikea cupboard in a dead space in my hallway and I love it. I have it full to the max so only replace what I have taken out and it all gets rotated so nothing goes to waste and I only top up buying the offers. I have a very tall freezer which is filled to the max with all sorts including the meat deals that I have been stocking up on and that freezer must have at least 6 months of food inside. Just after Christmas I was gifted an entire years worth of bodywash, liquid handsoap, hand cream, bubble bath and body cream from my elderly uncles as a thank you for calling them every week and this was all from M&S in my favourite Royal Jelly scent. I was blown away by their kind generosity and chuffed they bought it all in the after Christmas sales so they also saved money in doing so. Keep going everyone, we can and will do this if we do a bit at a time - in the sales and weekly offers.

Totally agree. I am a 72 yr old widow. My freezer is full. Pantry has at least a 3 month supply. Cleaning products and toiletries at least 6 month. The only thing I ever pay full price is some produce.

I really love your channel! Our Greek pantry has flour, legumes, pasta, rice, tomato paste, dried veggies, canned sardines, olive oil, vinegar, spices, sugar, greek coffee and honey. Our cleaning products are pure olive oil flakes for laundry and olive oil bars for everything else. We use it everywhere. It is ridiculously cheap, easy to store as the bars are very small. It's antiseptic, fantastic for hair and skin, for shaving. Perfectly cleans wood, tiles, kitchen utensils. No chemicals, no huge plastic bottles. We also have natural wax and rose water for making cold cream. We use but we don't store toilet paper cause we have a bidet toilet attachment. We try not to be dependent on electricity or oil, we use a wood stove instead of the open fireplace that came with our apartment, and we cook with LPG. If the economy collapses tomorrow, I don't think much would change in our lives. In any case, a well stocked pantry is an excellent idea, but ladies, try to keep it simple.

Bushfires cut us off sometimes too (Australia). This is invaluable.

We had a flood last year and were cut off from the world for a week. We never missed a meal. I pulled jars of meats and full meals off the shelf. When I was bedridden a few months ago, having jars in meals helped a lot. Vermont USA

Groceries have doubled and sometimes have tripled in price (here in the states) so saving ten percent for stock up is like turning your savings of ten percent into twenty to thirty percent these days.. better than the “stock” market 😉most times!! Much better returns! Thank you for your channel!❤

While growing up being sent down to the cellar, or to the canning cupboard, or even digging to the back of the canned good cupboard, by my mother, or in summers by my grandmother at my grandparents house, clearly stayed with me. Because at age 62 I am stocking a pantry, filling my canning jars, and in the winter months I am digging through my stores and making meals from my extended pantry. We eat it down quite a bit throughout the winter and spring months, enjoying the cost savings of having gardened, and shopped the sales, and clearance throughout the year. We constantly watch prices and ads, and buy extras of what we use when on sale, just as you do.😊 I have added rolling shelving racks to my utility room to add storage, yep it reduced my floor space, so we made that concession to be able to store my found food treasures(sale, clearance, or bumper crops).

I do not have a huge pantry; I also have neither basement or attic. So, for me, my stockpile has to be smaller. What has really helped me to both budget and stockpile is to take advantage of sales and buy one get one free. I recently got a BOGO on my laundry detergent, so even though I only had space for the two, I still felt like I had accomplished something for my stockpile. We do what we can. Love this video, Jane and Mike!😊

Your channel has kept me out of debt, into saving and in control of my finances. Building a pantry is something that has eluded me thus far, but this video will definitely change that. Thanks so much.

When we built this house, we decided to save, living space and money, and not have a 'garage' - no one round here keeps their cars in theirs, they're always storage spaces, the cars are all out on the drives anyway! So we have a sort of lean-to area we call the cellier, quite narrow, but with the downstairs loo and washroom, the water ballon and filter system (very limy water here!) , washing machine, small freezer and fridge-freezer, coat-hanging space and really sturdy shelves all along the wall for everything pantry-related. We've some cupboard space in the kitchen, which is part of the one living area, and an under-the-worktop fridge for immediate things, but getting the cellier properly fitted out was a must. Having extra fridge space out there is a boon. Doing a weekly inventory and meal-plan as a couple for the last couple of years has been a life-changer. We 'shop the freezer', save time, money and energy since we know what we're having for dinner every day and shop, waste and spend far less. But also it's really helped our relationship, it's a pleasant shared effort with more cooperation and communication, plus my husband now cooks more! He's a good cook, but was never very good at doing it ad-hoc, whereas now he knows where he is with it, and enjoys it more. So it's a win-win!

Sometimes there are unexpected benefits to stocking up. Friends of mine recently were displaced by a fire and that night I learned the value of simple things like toothbrushes and toothpaste, plus a couple of my mum’s old nighties and a robe I bought at a garage sale.

I live in a very small cottage with 1 closet and very little storage. Basically 2 10 x 10 rooms. I have things stored behind books in my bookcases and behind my couch.😂 Trying to figure out a spot for a small freezer since all i have now is the one in the refrigerator. Lazy susans have been helpful in hard to reach areas. I'm looking at pull out shelves for inside the cabinets. May not be an option because my vintage (fancy way of saying old) cabinets are not standard sizes. Find taking things out of original packaging saves me some space. I save the production information with the item in case there's a recall or other problem. I find storing fruit in ball jars keeps it fresh longer. I freeze crackers to keep them from going stale. Love the new look of your videos.

I buy fresh mushrooms, cut them and after I freeze them. You can cook them while frozen. Thank you for your amazing videos

Good job of covering the many reasons for having a well-supplied pantry. After lots of wild weather, power outages, and a pandemic, my family doesn't make fun of me anymore. (I didn't let it stop me!)

My New Year’s resolution was to use 2 freezer meals a week (I’m good at not wasting food but rubbish at using them once they’re frozen) so far I have succeeded. However, I have had to freeze at least 2 meals a week because I kept meal planning and buying the same amount of food. This week and next week I am just using freezer items - the money I have saved is unbelievable

I honestly don’t know how some of us have this mindset of having a well stocked pantry and others shop daily, I feel like I’ve always had the sense to buy “extras” and hunt bargains down, when my children were little I was always buying in the sales for the following year, topping up on things that had a long shelf life came as second nature, I use my garage for non food extras, for example cleaning products, and at present have around six months of dog food stored in there too, I think we just have to get inventive with storage space in our U.K. homes my ottoman bed is home to toilet rolls and other toiletries, I’m just relieved that we are not planning to move any time soon 😂