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It's me, Simply Cherie,
helping you stop living in chaos
one organizing project at a time.
I have another stock up haul.
And I had a question asking
why I am stocking up so much.
Actually I wish I could stock up more,
but I'm just staying within the budget
that I've always had for my groceries.
So in the past, I've had a prepper pantry,
but it's only been food and
supplies up to six months.
It's never gone past that. So
now I've been more intentional,
and I am using my budget
for the current month's
groceries and then the
zero to one year supply,
the one to five year supply,
and then the long-term supply,
which is five-plus years,
including the tools and the jars
and accessories that I'm using to do
the long-term food storage.
In this stock up haul,
I'm going to be showing
you baking supplies and
breakfast items that I will be
storing for mid-term - one to five years.
and for long-term five-plus years.
These items are from Walmart and Costco.
I do have one thing here, the brake
bleeder, which is from Amazon.
Let's start here on the left. So what
I did was to get a blank calendar,
and I listed out what we
usually eat for breakfast.
We're not big breakfast eaters.
But on Saturdays and Sundays,
I do try to make a bigger breakfast,
which includes eggs and maybe
sausage or pancakes and French toast.
So all of that is not going to be
here like the eggs or even the bread.
That's something that we could
either make or keep buying on
our regular grocery runs. So here,
when I listed out the oatmeal,
I think I'll do this in a separate video,
just showing the menu how I calculated
it and how I ended up buying this
amount. So I'm trying to stock up
for three months worth of breakfast.
We have old-fashioned oats.
And I had started buying these
from Walmart and decided might
as well just go to Costco and grab
it cause it is a better price.
Then I have the Krusteaz. Krusteaz.
I don't even know how to say that.
The buttermilk pancake mix because
you just have to add water.
I also have here some corn starch.
My daughter does the baking.
And so that's about
the amount that we use.
Probably we use less than that in
three months and then baking soda.
So I got some baking soda
also from The Dollar Tree.
I'll show you that in a different haul,
but this we use for baking
and of course, also cleaning.
And then got peanut butter because
my family uses peanut butter
for breakfast like in the oatmeal.
And so what I did was I observed my
family for the last couple of months,
specifically the last month and
calculated what we're really using.
So aside from the written calculations,
I also looked at what my family
was using during the month.
And based off, based off of that,
I did my shopping here. We have blueberry,
frozen blueberries, and I'll
probably have to go back for one,
if not two of those.
But I'm waiting for the deep freezer
that we're getting from my mom to be able
to get more frozen food
and even more meat.
Because right now my regular freezer would
not fit everything that I'm trying to
stock up, but I'll probably
add one or two blueberries,
one more bacon, one of
those, and one of those,
which is going to be way
more for three months.
But I thought I might as well get it now.
Maybe that will be going
towards my six-month supply.
And then here I got Honey Nut Cheerios.
So the other box I've already
put into our OXO container
.and they were out of Honey Nut
Cheerios. They just had regular ones,
which I don't like. That's basically
the only cereal that I like.
And this is the cereal
that my daughter likes.
I'd probably get one more box of that.
And here you will see also
here is the maple syrup.
Okay. And that will be enough for
the three months. Here,
sausage links and then the veggie
original sausage patties from Morning
Star. Those are pretty good.
And I got this nonfat dry milk.
I didn't check out other stores.
I went ahead and just got
this online from Walmart.com,
picked it up curbside. This was $15.98 for
four pounds. So I don't
normally buy dry milk.
So I didn't realize that was the price.
Is that about a good price
because I wasn't sure?
It seemed a little bit expensive for me.
And then I grabbed some almond
milk, the shelf stable kind.
And then as far as the
sugar and the flour,
I got 25 pounds and 25 pounds
because in the summer my daughter was
doing a lot of baking and it was
about four pounds total for sugar.
I wasn't sure about the flour.
So I just got the even
amount of pounds and then I
want to get more.
But I stopped with that because I've
just been trying to find that mason
jar. So if you can see
all these mason jars.
What I'm going to do is I'm going
to put these into the mason jars.
These are more for long-term food storage,
not necessarily for the next three months.
And I'll tell you what I've been doing
with the mason jars. It looks like a lot,
but this is a lot of work
together, these mason jars.
I'm sure as you guys have
probably tried to find mason jars.
They're not easy to come by. So
I have three Walmarts near me.
Near me within a 20-minute drive. Okay.
So what I do is I go on Walmart.com,
and I order the wide-mouth Kerr mason
jars, which is the one I tend to like.
And they ask me if you want a
substitution. So I click yes.
And then the next morning when they
go to bag it, if it's not there,
they will substitute it. And
if I see, then when they,
when I go to pick it up curbside, they'll
say, do you like the substitution?
And I'll say yes or no.
And then they work it out with the refund
and all that and charge your card or
not. So it's perfect.
So that's one of my tips for
finding a mason jar or finding mason
jars in Walmart is just go ahead
and go to Walmart.com. Order it.
If it's out of stock, it's out of stock.
If it says it's in stock
and allows you to order,
go ahead and choose substitution because
they'll either do a Ball or a Kerr or
regular mouth versus a wide-mouth, a
pint versus a quart. Whatever they have,
they'll substitute it. And they'll,
they'll get your confirmation before
they actually put it in your car,
which I think is perfect because
it saves you the time and you know,
just a lot of effort and even gas.
And then another thing I do is
I literally go to the store.
So I pick a store for the week
that I'm going to cause it's,
it's been hot in Arizona. It's
cooled. It's cool down. So, I mean,
it's hot to go out in 110
degrees and look for mason jars.
So I've been doing it every
week. And I pick one store.
And I try to go on a Tuesday
afternoon or a Monday, I'm sorry,
Tuesday afternoon or a Wednesday.
I just figured people
still deliver on Tuesdays.
The other thing I do is once a
week, I go to, I pick a Walmart,
one of the three that's in my area and
I go straight to that aisle and see if
there are any mason jars. So
if there are four, I take two.
I leave two. And so I've been fortunate.
There's only one trip in the last month.
So three out of four where
there were no mason jars at all.
And so I found that these Anchor Hocking
ones have been the available ones,
the regular mouth.
So I haven't been finding the
wide-mouth Kerr, but that's okay.
So here I found a Kerr.
They substituted this Kerr regular
mouth pint, which was fine.
Okay. So it looks like
a lot of mason jars,
but this was work and intention.
I go on walmart.com every day
and see if it's available.
to buy. Okay. If it is, I go ahead
and click, I buy once a week.
And then I go in once a week.
So that is all to say that
when I get more mason jars,
I will get more flour and sugar to
put in those mason jars. I
might try the gamma lids.
So I haven't tried that yet. So
we'll see. That's just kind of,
we're all in the process here.
We're all trying to make it happen.
Trying to stock up. Almost
forgot to show the brake bleeder.
So I ordered this on Amazon, inexpensive.
So it was a good price.
Someone had mentioned this and
I had actually seen a video of
gosh, was it Rain Country doing this?
And so I went ahead and got the brake
bleeder. I think this is like 10 or $15.
And you basically attach the hose, pump,
and that vacuum seals the
mason jars versus using
your food sealer.
So I did both and this requires work.
So if you don't mind doing
that, it works perfectly.
And I love that it came with a case.
I think most of them are in a case. So,
and I glad that it was orange,
like the nice, bright color.
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So I hope you enjoyed this stock up haul.
Let me know in the comments below
what you usually eat for breakfast
and if you're stocking up on that.
And I'll see you in the next one. Bye.
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