What’s in the pantry matters! You do have control over the food you provide and prepare for your family. Learn to create a health-promoting, wholesome kitchen, learn to cook from scratch, and learn to take control of your families bodily AND financial health. It really matters!
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Supplies for a healthy pantry:
* glass gallon and half-gallon jars with lids
* 5 gallon buckets with zip lids
* a canner with jars and sealing lids
What to buy:
* the healthiest, most organic food you can afford
* what your family will eat!
* food in bulk; ask for case discounts, join co-ops, shop sales, etc.
* locally grown meat and produce, as much as possible
How to begin:
* Start with what you already like to cook, and slowly build your stock.
* Think of having mostly “ingredients” and less pre-mixed foods
* Ask for help! Lots of people know how to grind wheat, bake, make jam, can beans… Ask!
Keeping hubby happy:
* Have snack foods on hand! Trail mix and nuts ready to eat will keep him from helplessly staring at all those jars of dried beans and millet when you’re away (smile).
Blessings,
I just found your podcasts recently and have been enjoying listening to them while I hang up the laundry or bake.While I don't have any idea how I'd go about finding truly organic food here, and probably couldn't afford it anyway, I do really try to buy ingredients rather than premade foods and make almost all our food from scratch. I don't really like buying much premade food even in America, and I sure don't really want to know what is in some of the boxed snacks here.I think your husbands saying this is a problem is funny though, because my husband has the same problem sometimes. My little guys love to snack too, so I try to make crackers or granola bars often, but sometimes we run out. Usually, then my husband resorts to eating handfuls of homemade granola out of the jar (causing me to wonder how we are going through it so fast) or roasted peanuts or sunflower seeds.
Thanks for your comments, Anna. Lucky for us, food made from scratch just plain tastes better, too. My husband likes his granola by the handfuls, too!
i came here from itunes thinking there was a video? I don’t have itunes downloaded so maybe tha’ts what it is, but it just sounds like when you are in the pantry that there is a visual 🙂 Thank you for making this I’ve been trying to find this for whole food eating for a long time. but I’m still confused on how to start buying bulk when you only have enough food money for a week.
Hi Rose
A video is a great idea! I totally hear you regarding bulk buying. With food prices so high now I am having trouble with doing that as well. There’s only so much “food money” and if I spend it all on canned tomatoes, then all I’ll have are canned tomatoes! Right now I am only buying in bulk when I have extra money, which means sometimes I’m waiting a couple of months for co-op buying. It also means I’m doing “without” a lot too, especially in things I can make from scratch myself. The best way out of this, in my mind, is a more sustainable garden. My garden has not provided enough food to last me the year (other than garlic and herbs!), and I am hoping to change that next spring.