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Hey there, friends! Chelsea here from Little Mountain Ranch, inviting you on a thrilling pantry tour as we kick off the 2-Month Pantry Challenge hosted by Three Rivers Homestead. For the next two months, we're closing the doors to grocery stores and throwing open our pantry doors to discover the treasures within.
In this video, I guide you through our well-stocked shelves, sharing the ins and outs of preparing for this unique challenge. Whether your pantry is brimming or modestly stocked, this challenge is a fantastic opportunity for all. There's no rulebook here - just a shared commitment to embrace what we have.
This challenge isn't just about saving a trip to the store; it's about discovering the potential of our pantries and the joy of creating meals that are both delicious and resourceful. It's a journey of learning, experimenting, and, most importantly, having fun with what we have.
So, grab a cup of tea, get comfy, and join me on this pantry exploration. We're in this together, and I can't wait to share every step of this adventure with you. Let's show our pantries some love and see where this challenge takes us!
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I always enjoy your videos, but I gotta comment on how adorable it was when Dan came in and kissed your temple!😘😍💗💞
I love when my hubby does that. 😊
I thought that was adorable.
best part. so sweet
I live in Alabama and we call all flavors/variety of sodas "Coke".
Great video We have decided to try the pantry challenge just for the month of January. It will be our first one and i am kind of excited to see how we fare. Thank you for your tips and tricks
Surprisingly you can add beans to smoothies and they add protein and help make them creamy.
Rice pudding is also nice with your frozen or freeze dried fruit.
Hi Chelsea, I am a Cuban American we use a lot of beans and rice in our diet. I am making a dish called Potaje de Judias ( White bean soup with ham and root vegetables) it goes great with Rice I believe your family will Love it and would use many things you have in your pantry. You can google it for the recipe. It originates from Spain. Try it 😊😊
Im Cuban / Spaniard too. I make that soup every couple of months. Potaje w veggies and some kind of green. Usually spinach or now Kale
Funny because I am Sicilian/American..
We do a similar soup put use a broth and some sauce as the base with potatoes, choice of meat (cooking the meat in the pot first with chopped garlic and onions) with some sort of greens (Swiss chard, spinach or turnip greens)
Burrito bowls! So easy and so customizable to each person’s taste. It’s rice, beans, salsa, sour cream, olives, avocado, hot sauce, whatever really you want to top it with. It can be as simple or complex as you want to make. Also super filling and you can feed a crowd super cheap. I also make bean and cheese quesadillas pretty regularly. Flour tortillas are refried beans are not super hard to make and you can top with sour cream and salsa. So good! Also love bean soups and there’s lots of recipes online. Good luck 👍
19:08 Marmot: Don't mind me... 😂
I love the little moments when wildlife reminds us they're here, too ❤
I had to go back and watch to see - lol...the cat makes an appearance!
We just call fizzy drinks 'soft drink', so 'pop' is quite funny to me, too.
North Carolina, USA - soft drink for carbonated beverages. For dish soap, just add water when you finish about half a bottle . We are fortunate in NC because we simply plant lettuce and other greens late in the Fall for harvesting throughout Winter. It's only in the 40's here now but will get cold so we add row covers to keep them going strong on chillier days (though lettuce may eventually fail.) We can grow Kale, Collards and Chard without row covers. And, we will harvest beets and carrots throughout the Winter under row covers. I like the idea of Microgreens in case our greens run out . I'm a non commenter typically but always watch your videos.
Re: ideas to use Beans and Rice...
White chicken chili uses a larger amount canellini (or any white beans beans) as a thickener for the dish.
Mexican Piccadilly is great served over rice. Of course the old standby of chicken casserole. Taco casserole uses both black and red beans. Pasta De Fagioli uses Cannellini beans (or great northern beans). Refried beans uses pinto beans or black beans or a combo to use with all the Mexican dishes. We also use Spanish rice, in addition to refried beans, when we make our burritos in bulk and freeze. Taco soup uses both red beans and black beans. Chili con carne uses small red beans.
Mexican Slow Cooker Beans, Green Chile and Beef over Rice uses pinto beans. We add a layer of pinto beans to our Cowboy Lasagne/casserole. We also use pinto beans in our vegetable soup. We make lots of chicken and rice soup when cold and flu season rolls around. Of course we use red beans, black beans, or pinto beans in tamales. Broccoli and rice casserole.
Great ideas; thanks! Do you soak & cook the beans before adding them to these dishes?
Yes! Great question. Thanks
Rice=congee. Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. Snack. 😋
The kiss was so cute! Glad you left that in. 🥰
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Beans can be used to pad meat dishes, either in cooked or freeze dried form. Pinto beans can be freeze dried and reconstituted to make refried beans. Rice can be substituted for potatoes. They don't have to be used together.
I noticed a lot of people who store beans, can them so they are more convenient to throw them in meals and have them as side dishes. Having beans in jars, take the planning out of the prep/soaking.
I was born and raised in Michigan, and we call it pop. Since we moved to North Carolina, we call it soda.
In Texas we call all “fizzy” drinks coke. Even if it’s not Coca Cola.
I’m doing micro greens also during the pantry challenge.
Good luck to you Chelsea.
Burrito bowls. Make them how you like but I make them with rice at the bottom, black beans next, some corn, tomatoes or pico, chicken, grated cheese and salsa. I make them as lunches and cook for the week. I also sometimes add olives just cause. For lunches I put them in microwaveable bowls and nuke for 2/3 minutes stirring half way. Enjoy.
I just had that at a restaurant last night, what is the sauce???
In Australia we call fizzy drinks soft drinks. With the rice just make rice pudding, put about 1 1/2 cups of rice in a casserole dish add sugar and vanilla essence to taste, about 1 to 1 1/2 litres of milk, stir, sprinkle with nutmeg with dobs of butter. Cook in oven at 180 degrees Celsius for about 11/2 hrs. Milk needs to be just a little runny or it will end up dry when cooked. Serve with double cream or ice cream. Stir fry with rice, apricot chicken with rice, fried rice, chilli con carn with rice. Beans you can just add to soups and casserole’s. 😊
Here's a recipe for you, Red beans, rice and smoked sausage or you can use chunks of ham. Make enough for your family and leftovers. Use veggie broth or bone stock . Make homemade biscuits or cornbread to go with it. Enjoy! Love & Hugs Laurie
I'm excited to see the difference in the pantry before and after. My pantry doesn't look nearly as nice as yours but we are a family of 2. Thank you for sharing.
Sorry for the additional comment, but what most people don’t realize is that store mayo isn’t nearly as perishable as homemade mayo. It’s made so it’s safe to keep out unrefrigerated for much longer times.
AND… I use garbage bags instead of lids for my germination in my greenhouse trays. Not as brittle as the plastic lids, and I do so many trays. I just made inexpensive wire cages, if needed to keep the plastic off the soil and seeds. I also take them off as soon as I see any germination 😊
Leave as many comments as you like. 😊
that kiss from your husband made me melt....❤❤
It’s always been “pop” here in Minnesota, but “soda” or “soft drink” is creeping in with more transplants to our state. Again, you have such a great storage setup!!!
Agree
I’ve noticed midwestern people say pop or soda pop. I say soda.
In the soda stream if you decide to buy it get an adapter so you can use the larger CO2 bottles usually used on paintball guns. Much cheaper!!
One of our favorites; 1lb ground beef/venison, 1pnt green beans, and 2 cups rice (before cooking) mix it together and soy sauce. You'll obviously need to adjust amounts, but that's the base ratio. It's tasty, filling and super easy.
Hi Chelsea, for hamburger buns look up Homesteading with the Zimmermans Mennonite Hamburger Bun Recipe. Made them many times, very delicious!
You are simply amazing. I know the kids help when you're not recording, but that pantry is unreal. Good luck in the next two months.
I am a first timer for the challenge and it has been going well despite the challenges we have faced all of December. My husband was in and out of ERs and then an almost two week stay in the hospital. Just got him home yesterday. I have a very, very well stocked home grocery store and freezers are filled. I will have to go to the grocery store weekly for milk, eggs, fresh produce and the sandwich bread that my family will eat for sandwiches only. We don't have a farm so dairy and some fresh produce is just what it has to be as far as "my rules". Otherwise, we will do our very best to just use what we have for two months.
Here in Ohio we call it "pop" also! Other states usually say soda. Some places in the south they just say coke for everything, but it's definitely POP here in Ohio!
I ran into that in Dallas. I tried to order a pizza delivery and was flabbergasted when they asked me what kind of Coke I wanted. I don’t drink Coke, I’m an avid Pepsi drinker. 😂
In Texas we call your fizzy drink “pop” -soda: short for soda water. But I love the word “pop”
Hi Chelsea, Jessica from three rivers has an amazing hamburger bun recipe. I have been using it and it's yummy. Thank you for your tour.
So competent Chels
We call it all Cokes. Alabama
Speaking as a Michigander, IT'S SODA!
I’m from Colorado and we’ve always called it Pop!
One of my kuri squash began to rot too. So far no rot on the others. I did bean sprouts before Xmas for the first time because we can't buy good ones here. They were awesome just grown from Bulk Barn (Canada only) mung beans on jute, rinsed twice a day and kept in the dark. It was so easy, sprouts were crispy and store well. I'll be doing it again!
In Minnesota we grew up saying “pop”, too!
In the Pacific Northwest of Washington State, we always referred to soda pop as "pop". Friends of mine from the Eastern U.S. states laugh at me, too, when I use the word "pop" when referring to certain carbonated beverages. Oh, I just recalled my parents used the term "pop", and they're from Spokane and Cheney Washington (Eastern side of Washington State.)
A New Orleans Monday tradition Red beans 🫘 and rice 🍚
We love our Soda stream!! I juice half a lime in a glass and top with bubbly water!! Delicious!
Yes in Australia, we call fizzy, non alcoholic drinks, soft drinks.
You can keep the soil moist for your microgreens by stacking your trays during germination - typically through day 3 of the grow. This will save the need to get more domes.
That is how barefoot microgreens does it!
I think a skill to add is tortilla/ flat bread of any ethnicity. They are so quick and easy and something to make that would be a fun family assembly line. Quick to do fresh but they can be frozen. And you can use any carb...I love squashes. One of those once you do it you can't believe you haven't earlier. Plus they are so good. A 3 person assembly line and a tortilla press can give you stacks of flat bread and then from that home made chips of any flavor.
On the west coast it's usually pop. On the east coast it's usually soda.
I'm starting in March to get ready for canning season and rotation. I had a bad year in 2023 with 10 surgeries and now i have to organize my pantry room and freezers. Your's looks awesome. Thank You for sharing ❤❤❤
Thin the dish soap out with water and use a pump bottle (or even better, a foaming pump bottle). You will use WAY less dish soap. I reuse my foaming hand soap pump bottle top with a glass mason jar by cutting a plastic mason jar lid to fit the pump neck. It lasts for years.
Beans/rice and sausage links cooked Cajun style !! Very delicious and not really spicy !!😊😊😊
I grew up in Michigan (USA) and we called it pop
This is going to be a really interesting challenge! I’m looking forward to seeing how it goes. One recommendation (take it or leave it) is to reserve a couple of treats for later in the challenge. It can be so good for morale to have a bag of chips when you’re pantry is getting low.
Good idea!
I'm from Michigan, and of course, it's "pop"! 😃
I'm from the Midwest region in the United States and I've always called it pop.
Awww, the sweetest kiss 😍😘💕
He's the sweetest.
Our favorite pantry comfort food is simple rice with canned beef.
As a kid we used to have rice for breakfast. Cook it up as normal then we would add milk, honey(or sugar), and butter. Super yummy and stayed with you. We also call it Pop. ;)
"Pop" for frizzy drinks here in the US is a reginal word, many use pop, soda, coke (this is for all drinks and we use the color) or just the name of the brand. Where I grew up in Atlanta, GA we called all fizzy drinks Coke lol, but when I moved north to KY they call it pop.
In Wales we know what pop means. When I was a child the pop man would deliver bottles to the house once a week. My husband remembers a pop factory in the village he grew up in. In those days pop came in glass bottles and you got a small refund if you took the bottle back to the shop for reuse.
If you want to use up the canned carrots along with some squash, try a spiced or curried carrot and squash soup with coconut cream. Delish.
I love fried rice with any number of veggie ingredients and sausage or meat. It’s best with cold rice from the frig and makes tons!
Good luck Chelsea on this challenge I have every bit of faith that you will do great because you are so creative. 🙂🇨🇦❤
I'm originally from the US Midwest, and it has always been "pop". I agree, soda & soft drink are creeping in. I now live in Hawaii, and when I say "pop" I get a weird look. Ha Ha Can't help it, I'll always call it "pop"!
Bean burgers, just puree season and bind. Substitute or in addition to chicken or pork in burritos tacos or soup ;) also good with curried flavors in rice, you can use lentils as an alternative to meat in stuffing, you could also see if you can use them as a substitute in baked.goods .
Salad toppers . Good luck on your challenge!
Pop here in Michigan, USA also!
Cowboy beans!!! Ground beef, pork, or sausage, onions, and baked beans. So good!
We call it “pop” as well in Washington.
@@jeccalou9894 funny! Who knows?
I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and we called it “pop” 😊
Growing up in Washington state, we always called carbonated beverages "pop", but then when I moved to California for about 30 years, I picked up what they call carbonated beverages and that is "soda, short for "soda pop".
Have you tried radishes with a roast or chicken? You actually cook them with the meat. Just like potatoes and carrots. This idea came from Jamerrill Stewart. After the radishes are cooked. There is no heat.
Really
A must try for me
I hate radish as it is so deffo try the one
We call it 'pop'. I grew up in Oregon, USA. Most of my family calls it 'POP'.
Also, making rice pudding for breakfast with some of your freeze dried fruit would be delicious. We always put cinnamon, sugar, and milk in ours growing up.
For rice and beans, please look for some Indian dishes..
Chickpea curry - stir fry onions with some curry powder or whole spices and add boiled chick pea to it, cook for sometime and add coconut milk to it.. Adjust the thickness with extra water..
Beans and Squash curry - chop up any squash of your choice, boil it in water with 1 green chile for spice, when ready add boiled beans of choice, cook them together with some coconut milk, this can be made thin or thick by adjusting water and had with rice..
Rajma masala (pinto or kidney beans curry) - boiled pinto beans cooked in tomato onion puree with garam masala.. This is more like baked beans with spices and without meat in it, not sure if baked beans has meat in it, sorry if it doesn't!!!
Lentil soup or Dal - boiled lentils added to onions sauteed in some ghee or butter with 1 green chile, this goes so well with boiled rice..
Savoury Bean pancake (Bean Dosa) - Soak different beans of choice overnight, grind them all together with some fresh water making them the consistency of pancake batter.. (Optional - stir fry some onions and add to the batter..) Add little rice flour or semolina to the batter for the pancake to release properly from the pan.. Add Salt to taste.. Make them like pancake but little thin..
Sauteed beans - Stir fry some onions chopped up small, you can add spice if you need, just adding salt pepper is also good, add drained boiled beans of your choice (we normally do with brown chickpea or peanuts or black eyed beans), mix it all together, check for seasoning.. Growing up, this was the snack my mom made for us during week days when we got back from school.. :)
Beans and lentils stay good for many many years, we just vacuum seal them in jars or mylar bags. If they are more than 5-6 years, you will need to soak them for longer as beans become harder..
This challenge sounds very interesting.. All the best..
In southern New England we called it soda, but my relatives up in Maine & New Hampshire called it tonic. I didn't hear the term pop until I moved to Ohio.
In North Dakota USA we call it pop because if you leave it outside in the winter it pops.
Chicken fried rice is an quick and easy meal to use up rice and you can cook a large pot and freeze
Woah... I think you are prepared for 6 months no grocery shopping
We love having canned meat on hand too. We are off grid, so we only have a tiny freezer and we rely heavily on canning to store a lot of our foods. I find having dry beans for storage is great, but I can up a batch to keep on the shelf so they are quick to grab and use without any planning. I'm looking forward to seeing what creative ways you use them. I need new ideas for sure!
Squeeze bottles for the mayo! That is brilliant!!! Keeps people from putting dirty knives into the jar too.
I grew up in NYC and we said soda for our fizzy drinks. When I moved south and around the Bible Belt most said pop. Now I live in the Pacific Northwest and it seems to be a mix.
I’m in Michigan and we call it pop as well! Probably because Canada is our close neighbor😊
I've used laundry soap in a pinch for dish soap.
Also about the rice my mom used to make rice custard, and also around the upper midwest ( USA ), we add cooked rice to our bowls of chili,
Hello from Toronto. A great way to use your beans and squash is to make a hearty winter soup. Any combination of soaked beans. Sauté onions, garlic, carrots. Add large chunks of squash that could be easily mashed when soft. Add broth and beans and simmer until finished. Option to add any meat. Add salt and pepper to taste. The squash will add a great flavour and thickness. Very filling and warming.
When we moved to South Carolina from Pennsylvania, we had to get fast meals and drinks. We asked where the pop were sent to the snack aisle. When I asked again where the Coke and the Pepis we were able to buy the pop.
Pop in Ohio Love watching your videos. God Bless
Hi Chelsea. I'm in the US, up north, we call it pop. Down south, it's called soda
When we were young, Mom used powdered laundry detergent to do dishes.
UK here, we call it POP and when I was a child we used have (I think it Corana) pop delivered to the door in glass bottles like milk.
For me it always when you in Canada and USA talk about Cider when talking about apple juice as Cider in the UK is a alcoholic drink rather then just juice.
Hi I'm In UK too
It was corona pop
All different
We used to live right by a corona yard
So we used to pop in and buy it
Allso iff u took the bottles back u got ur refund on the bottles
Hi Chelsea!! Your storage of food blows my mind. You have my respect. So much work and dedication. BTW, in Pennsylvania we say “pop”! 😂
You must be out west ❤ I grew up outside of Philly and it's all soda there. When I lived in east Pittsburgh it was all pop.
Same here in Colorado😄
When I make a berry pie it’s usually very runny with juice. I found out that you can use tapioca for a thickener.
@@n3rdygrl Lake Erie area
Michigan here! We also say 'Pop" I have friends in Canada who call us 'Canada Lite' lol!
I make my meatloaf using cooked rice instead of breadcrumbs. Bake it as a round loaf in a cast iron pan. I still season it as a normal meatloaf. Delicious! Give it a try.
And I’m from the southern US…we call all carbonated drinks “coke”. Like, “what kind of coke do you want?” 😂
I'm from the south in the US, along the gulf coast. We call ALL types of fizzy drinks Coke. You'll get asked what kind of coke you want. :)
Here in the South all flavors are called drinks. Coke products, Pepsi-Cola products etc. are all called the same thing you call by brand or flavor.. Coke, Sprite, Rootbeer, Orange, Strawberry or Pepsi etc. A very popular brand is simple called Faygo but you have to fight over the red flavor.
In Louisiana, USA, we call it "soft drink". Any carbonated flavored drink is considered "soft drink". Betcha can guess what "hard drinks are!" Thank you so much again for another wonderful video.
Here in northern Minnesota we also call it pop.
I really love your show Chelsea. I have made some of your recipes and even bought the steam canner because of you. The canner is a winner, I have canned both water bath and pressure canning for many years and this canner is a real time saver.
Blessings to you and your family in this new year.
That’s so interesting as here in England ‘soft drinks’ are those that are non carbonated such as water or normal juice.
@@alexisd8190 and here they are considered “still” as in no bubbles moving upward. Thank you!
Enjoyed the video
Minnesota USA: It's pop ...also Zevia & Lacroix type drinks are okay to get a close recipe for with a soda stream. Regular pop type drinks like Pepsi, coke, ginger ale, etc. are not very well substituted... even the brand name Pepsi syrup for soda stream is what the kids call "mid." We haven't found the soda stream to be worth it but we really wanted it to be.
We grew up with the occasional treat of soft drinks, most in my area call it soda, and some pop (northeastern Maine).
In Michigan it is pop. As it should be.
I love my zevia (cola is my favorite) and would struggle without it. So I completely understand how Dan is feeling.😊
I’m English and I’ve always called it pop but my husband is Scottish and he calls it either a can of juice or a can of ginger ( I think it’s because Iron Bru is orange) 🤣😂
I’m Scottish, but emigrated out to Canada a couple of years ago, I still call it ginger 😂
I'm in Australia and we call it soft drink, my grandmother would say fizzy drink.
We call the fizzy drinks, Pop in the UK where I was raised, in Australia we call it Soft Drinks
In northeast South Dakota we also use the term "pop". But other places use the term "soda". And some other countries use the term "pepsi" which I found interesting since we here have the brand Pepsi.
Making a humus but just with a mix of different beans is delicious and is a great side for rice bowls or just as a dip :) Also using beans for cakes is perfect. Black bean brownies and chickpea blondies (you can also use white beans). As a former high school teacher I can attest that teenagers love them ;)