(soft country music) - Yeah, friends. We've got a whole lot a lot
of noodles going on here, to say the least, right? And I'm doing hopefully about 15 of these five gallon buckets. These are food grade, heavy duty. We got these at Lowe's. I have been working on my
long-term food storage. Thanks to Care/of for
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enter promo code jamerrill50. If you saw my video a few weeks ago, you know that I did my
first 10 50 gallons total of emergency food storage buckets for our large and growing family, and let me tell you, I learned a lot. Now, I read a book by my
now friend, Karen Morris, called "A Year Without the Grocery Store," and she super inspired me to get started with long-term food storage. Now, usually on hand, for many years now, I've had two to three
months of food storage available at home, between
refrigerators, and freezers, and pantry items, but I've
been trying to expand and grow and doing long-term food
storage buckets is definitely, definitely a new skill I
wanted to pick up in 2020. So far in my long-term food storage, I have been able to get rice. I have done some sugar and some salt. We're gonna do more sugar today. I don't have any noodles yet. Now, you've seen by my recent
Sharp Shopper grocery hauls, these bags of 10 pounds of
noodles for 5.99 are amazing, and I've been stacking these in my foyer, waiting for today to get some
food buckets done with them. I also have some more
wheat berries and flour that I would like to get
in food storage buckets. So far, my food storage
buckets, as I mentioned, I've done rice, I've done some
sugar, I've done some salt. I have done wheat berries,
I have done flour, and I've gotten some beans done, I've gotten about 80 pounds
or so of dried beans. Now remember, we have ages toddler all the way through
grown-up, multiple teenagers, getting into lots of middle school kids, and little kids now, so yeah. And we've always worked from home and school from home
full-time, so let me tell ya, it's a whole lotta lotta
all the time, yes and amen. So I definitely wanna get pasta
in long-term food storage, because I have found such
a fantastic deal on it. My plans with my long-term food storage is to rotate through the buckets, and not really keep anything
in buckets for 25 or 30 years. Since I'm taking the time to put the food in proper
long-term food storage. Anyway, we're using
our food grade buckets, got Mylar bags, oxygen absorbers. We might as well take the time and give it as long of a shelf life as it will possibly have. Now for the salt and for the sugar, I learned from you all here
on YouTube before I got to it, do not put an oxygen absorber
in your salt or your sugar, or you will end up with a giant brick. So you saved me from that when I did my salt and
sugar the other day. No bricks, (chuckling)
no bricks whatsoever. So today I will be
using an oxygen absorber with the noodles, and
then I have sugar here. My dilemma is I only have
10 oxygen absorbers left. As I said, this is
probably my fourth time now doing food storage buckets. And I videoed it the first time, you can watch that
video up on the channel. So since my first time,
I have moved on over to using the hair straightener idea, also learned by my
wonderful YouTube viewers, and that worked fantastic the
last two times that I did it. So it has been going well. Like I said, today, I wanna
get these noodles done. You can watch my other
video to see how I did rice, and I did oatmeal, and I did
wheat berries in that video. So more long-term food
storage videos coming up, but let's get going with this
pasta, see how far we can get. I don't think I'm gonna
get all these done. I'm thinking one 10 pound bag per bucket. Got about 140 pounds of noodles
that I've gotten on sale. Let me also say, this
is not noodle hoarding, because Sharp Shopper is
a discount grocery store. You can go to it yourself, it's in Virginia and Pennsylvania. They have markdowns from items that are not sold in
traditional stores fast enough, and Sharp Shopper buys 'em up in bulk, and sells 'em back to folks. There has been no limits there. And so for the past two
months, whenever I go, and they still keep
rocking this noodle deal, every time I get two or
three bags of this pasta, and it has added up to what it is. My family will not mind because we love noodles
in all of their forms. Also, I have been recently
reading this fantastic book called the "Prepper's Pantry." Here's more about this author, her blog, theorganicprepper.com. Anyway, she has a food list in here. Her book talks about building a one-year emergency food
pantry for your family, and she has numbers in here
based on a per person amounts. And then she encourages you,
once you build your one year, that you keep growing from there. So let me just show a little reality check for what it's like for a family of 10. I don't think I'm gonna get to truly a one-year emergency food storage. I might get a solid several months, even though I'm here talking to you about 140 pounds of noodles. Let's look at these numbers real quick on what this looks like
for a large family. She suggests for every
family member over age seven, we got 300 pounds of
grains, 60 pounds of beans, 75 pounds of dry milk, 60 pounds of sugar. She goes on, I won't spoil
her whole book for you. For a large family, that
would be 3,000 pounds of rice, noodles, flour, and wheat
berries, (chuckling) okay. 600 pounds of beans. Right now I have 80 pounds
of beans in my storage. Now, beans go a long way, I'm glad to have 80 pounds of beans. But I'm just saying, to
help bring some perspective to the numbers for
feeding a lot of people, I'm nowhere near close. My 80 pounds of beans breaks down to about six weeks worth
of emergency food storage. Dry milk, I would need 750 pounds. I'm trying to think. I have maybe 50. Then she has sugar as 600 pounds of sugar. I think after we get my sugar done today, 'cause I've got different
little packs of sugar I've picked up here and
there whenever I shop, I think I probably did 75
pounds the other night. We might have another,
hmm, 50 pounds in there. So I'm sharing those numbers
again to bring perspective. I think with the emergency
food storage buckets that I have done, and again,
these that I'm doing here, and if I can get a few
more in, I'm thinking, and again, I've got a nerd out on my math, I might have three to four months when it's all said and done, of large family emergency
pantry-stable type food storage. So I'm saying all of this 'cause again, I know I got a lot of noodles here, but whenever you break down on the math, it's not really a lot of
noodles, it's illusion. So I've got my Mylar Pro bags, also with my oxygen absorbers,
I've got one pack of 10 left. I just have Mylar. Again, oxygen absorbers and
Mylar are available now, but a few months ago, it was very hard to get your hands on 'em. So, might be thoughts you wanna think as you're planning ahead
for fall and winter. As the saying goes, make
hay while there's sunshine. You might wanna look
into getting some things that your family might
need now in the summer, while the sun is shining. Okay. So these are ginormous Mylar Pro bags. I like to use this because I
can get a good seal on the top, and that has been working
with the hair straightener. Squeeze all the air out,
pop my oxygen absorber in, seal it on down, so let's
get these in all the buckets. This is so sad. This Mylar bag looks
like it has a cut in it. That is also an advantage to
rotating your food storage is if your Mylar did get a rip in it, or if you've had any issues
with your food storage, it allows you to get in
there and troubleshoot it, make improvements, reseal
something if you need to. And I learned that in the book, "A Year Without the Grocery Store." Okay, so here we go. We got 15 buckets with Mylar. Like I said, I'm gonna do 10 with the noodles and the oxygen absorber, then I'm gonna see how far
I can get with the sugar. Then besides that, I've
gotta wait 'til my next order of oxygen absorbers
comes in in a few days. I may end up with a couple buckets that are just here waiting to go. So one thing that I've read about doing noodles in long-term food storage, now, I haven't done noodles
in long-term food storage, but I'm getting ready
to learn all about it, you've gotta watch the
noodles ripping the Mylar. So my macaroni style noodles,
things should be fine. I do have some like, bow tie type noodles, and I also have long spaghetti
and fettuccine noodles. Those I will have to hand in there. I'm gonna try to just pour
this, so see how it goes. And then you pick up on your bag, twist it around a little bit. Oh, don't do it on your toes. I'm going to write on, I've
been using painter's tape on this, and put it on
the outside of my bucket. I get my bags filled, then I
set my timer for 15 minutes, because again, I have read, you need to use your oxygen absorbers in less than 15 minutes. If you need to, you can
store 'em in a mason jar, seal the lid real tight. Last night when I did it
for my other 10 buckets, I was able to, once I had the food in and I sealed them until
the last little bit, and I got the oxygen absorbers in and sealed the last of the bags. I did 10 and like, four
and a half minutes, so it can be done, you just need to have everything
prepped, and go quick. So I'm just gonna put pasta. And it looks like 10 pounds
is all I can get in a bucket. I'm dating it 7/20. Now, the bucket itself cost me about $3. The Mylar, I think less than a dollar. Oh, I wrote on the wrong side of my tape. Oxygen absorbers, I bought 'em in bulk, like 30 oxygen absorbers for $17, so you can divide it on down. If you go to buy a five
gallon bucket with food in it for long time food storage,
it costs a pretty penny. It's convenient, but I mean, I see buckets go for 50 to
a hundred and some dollars, just depends on what's inside, so it's definitely more affordable to do it yourself at home. But then sometimes you just can't, and if you're able to just get yourself a bunch of buckets for long-term
food storage, do that too. Okay, so I'm gonna do a couple of these pasta 10 pound labels. Now, since my last emergency
long-term food storage in buckets video, I was able
to get a case of gamma lids. I think I got 10 or 15 total. For a while, those were something that was also hard to find. And I think some of my
viewers last time recommended that I also write with
permanent marker on the Mylar. Also with the Mylar,
now in my first video, I got a board and I used an
iron, and I did it down low. What I've been doing now is
taking my iron along the top. So the Mylar is reusable, later I could open this and reseal it. My plan is, as I'm getting into this, let's say this thing of pasta- Oh, to give you an example,
if I'm doing spaghetti, or lasagna, or some sort of pasta dish, I do six pounds of pasta,
whatever style noodle, at a time. Now, that may make a couple meals that we enjoy over a few days, so that would be more
than half of this bucket for one meal that I
would cook for my family. So again, just saying, like, with 140 or 160 pounds of noodles, when I use noodles, I go
through a lot of noodles. But I am gonna write on here, and I guess now if I open
this and I reseal it later, I will need to scratch out
what I originally wrote, and write the new item on there, but I'm gonna write
pasta, 10 pounds, 7/20. Why not? Doesn't hurt to do that. Then I'm going to go ahead, put my little label on my next one. I didn't wanna write with
permanent marker on the buckets. It just seems so permanent. Okay, so I just did three bucket labels. I like getting my little assembly lines. Gonna go ahead and do five more labels, because we're doing 100 pounds
of pasta, that's official. How much sugar is questionable. (soft country music) I'm just gonna do three more labels. And I'm just taking the lazy
way, I'm just saying pasta. Now, the three other times that I have worked on my
long-term food storage buckets, I have been able to get about
25 pounds of rice per bucket. You can see that in my first video. I was able to get 25
pounds of sugar per bucket. The salt I've been able
to find at Sharp Shopper, it's a 25 pound bag for like, $8.29. I think I could actually get
50 pounds of salt in a bucket, but I just package them
at 25 pound intervals. And then the oatmeal, I'm able to get about 12 and
a half pounds per bucket. I have, whoops, that was
a noodle under my knee. I have flour and oatmeal in my freezer. And what that does is, flour and oatmeal, various pantry items, they
all have a certain amount of bug eggs, weevil eggs in them, and if you can put them in the freezer, at least for 72 hours, I mean, they can be in
there for years, honestly, but if you can put them
in there for 72 hours, that should freeze all the eggs, and kill anything alive in there. Also though, I have read
that the oxygen absorbers, because it takes out all the oxygen, will also kill the weevil
eggs in your food storage. So you want to, if possible,
put 'em in the freezer first, because it's not gonna hurt to do that, and then when you take them out, you'll want them to return
back to room temperature so you're not dealing with temperature fluctuations
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he was desperate for it. And so now, yes, we hear the
horn outside all the time. So we're coming right along here. Got our various types of pasta noodles. And now we have three more buckets to do. (soft country music) And for this last one,
before we get into the sugar, let's see, this looks
like thin spaghetti here. See if I can get 20 pounds in this bucket. Only way to know is to try, right? Okay, okay, let me just adjust that label. 20 pounds, okay. So that means we will have
put 110 pounds of pasta in long-term food storage. Now I will be a good little chicken here and write on every bag. (soft country music) Here's a look in all the noodle bags. I guess before I do my oxygen
absorbers, you know what, I think I'll just have a massive
sealing party at the end. Let's take a look at
the sugar that I have, and we'll do however many. As I said, my last time I did
sugar, actually last evening, I got 25 pounds per bucket,
so let's have a look. These are not the bulk sugar. Walmart has bulk sugar right now. I think you can get like, 25
pounds for six or seven bucks. These are various little ones
I had either in my pantry, or I picked up here and there. Okay, so these- Okay, four pound bags. Now let's see. Okay, so my light brown sugar, I actually, I don't have
enough yet to do a bucket. And the same thing with my powdered sugar. I've got about 12 pounds
of powdered sugar, and I've got about 12
pounds of brown sugar, so I'm just gonna keep them
back in my little box here, and I'll just continue to
get a few here and there when I'm out shopping,
and that is a great way to build up your long-term food storage is just get a little bit
here and there as you can. But I do have, these are 10 pound bags, so I've got 50 pounds of sugar. That one popped open. So this'll be two buckets full. And then the pure cane sugar. I've got enough with this to
do one food storage bucket with the pure cane sugar, so
that'll be three more buckets. And again, with sugar and salt, don't use an oxygen absorber. That's what you guys told me, and that's what I have since
read, so let's do that. Also, a few more food
storage, pantry storage, long-term food storage thoughts. You can put your yeast in your
freezer for up to two years to extend the shelf life on that. And then your baking soda, if you can put it in like a Ziploc bag, or an airtight container of some sort, you can put that in your freezer for up to two years as well. Your baking powder though, is not good to put in the freezer. You're only gonna get about
six months to a year with that, so you gotta use it while you have it, but baking soda and your yeast can go in the freezer for two years or so. Not related to food storage buckets, but also wanted to pass that along to you. My younger kids were helping
me last night with the beans. They had a lot of fun with that. We did black beans, and pinto beans, and red beans, and navy beans. I've got some split peas right now, but I only have about five pounds of them, so that will be something I'll look to get a few extra bags if I can. Daniel helped me organize
all the beans into families, and then I opened 'em, and
he helped me dump them in. I learned last night with the beans, if you can with these smaller bags, I know it's not possible
with the giant ones to open 'em in the bag,
and then dump it in. Now, if you need to break
package and seal in smaller bags like Ziploc bags, you certainly can. I just figure, and I could be wrong, will not be the first time, I just figure that as I open buckets, we'll put a gamma lid on it to refill containers on the counter, or use it directly from
the bucket from there. I think that will be functional, but again, I might find out different. Hmm, recipe on the back
for a mango cheesecake, all righty, then. Maybe I should drop
that recipe in a bucket as a note to my future self, huh? Here you go, Jamerrill, this
is what you need to make. Okay, last one, I think this one will be
right about 23 pounds or so. I'm gonna to round up
and say 25, close enough. I was doing that with my rice, too. I've been able to get
20 pound bags of rice at Sharp Shopper, so I
do two 20 pound bags, and then I put the overflow
over a couple buckets. I guess I would do four
20 pound bags, right? And then another 20 pound
bag divided down by fourths for each bucket to make it 25 pounds each. Jamerrill, why do you not
have all your unpacking done? 'Cause now I'm doing
food buckets. (chuckling) So that was raw cane sugar. My little homemade labels here. So we will, we'll have four, three buckets that are just in with their
Mylar, waiting for me. Few days, I'll do those. And be sure to let me know in the comments if you like these long-term
food storage bucket videos. This is something, I feel
like it's another 2020 skill. I read some stuff, I got
the supplies, I've done it. Again, my fourth time doing it, and I just feel a little proud
of myself for learning this. Yay. It's something that's always
been on my to-do list. So I just put my hair
straightener, turned that on. I just turned it up to
the highest setting. Obviously, your miles may
vary, do your own research, use caution, risk, risk,
hot iron, all of that. I'm gonna go through, and the sugar, we'll just go ahead and seal all the way. The other bags we will seal, and we'll push extra
air out most of the way. Then I'm going to set another timer, and we're gonna try to get
all these oxygen absorbers in, and see if I can do it in my, maybe I can beat my four minute record, I don't think so, though. I really thought when I did it last night that I would be pushing
the 15 minute mark. Again, another thing I was proud, I can do oxygen absorbers and seal it in about four and a half
minutes for 10 buckets, yay. And I know it's dark
outside of my windows, but Travis is outside with the kids. Okay, so here's, and actually
Mr. Travis, he picked this up. I said I need a hair
straightener for my bags, and this is the one he got me. It goes up to 430 degrees. Kids are calling animals,
and hooting, and hollering. And I don't need that big
of an opening at the end. Wow, this is a great camera angle. Thank you, tripod, for playing along. Don't need a huge opening, I think, They're calling kitties
now, for evening food. In the last video, one of
the questions I got recently was if I put the oxygen absorber
in with the food, and I do. I just leave a little hole,
squeeze out extra air, and I will also go back, this is just what I've
been doing recently, and then doing another seal, because why not, I got the room. There are also proper heating
bag sealing tools available, and I'm going with online tips and tricks, and YouTube viewer comments. And I've been timing myself,
I just like to run timers. I like to see how long things take. It helps me be aware for future planning. So far, I've been filming this and doing these buckets
for about 40 minutes. Of course, anything you watch me do is gonna take a little
longer because I am filming, but still last night when I did buckets, I think start to finish it was about an hour and a half process. Although, I did have a
five-year-old helping me, so we were taking extra
time to count beans, and have good chat, and make it special. So as always, your mileage may vary. With the sugar, I'm gonna
squeeze all the air out, and we'll seal it all the way now. Okay, and then that was
just me doing a double seal. It's very hot at the top, so let it cool before you shove it back
down into your bucket. So much easier than using the
board and the clothing iron. That was a good way to
do it the first time, but I do like this trick, I do, I do. There might be cons to using this method that you guys haven't told me yet, maybe you're hiding it from me, keeping information I should know, or I just haven't read it yet, but so far, third time
using the hair straightener, and it's going pretty well. I'm probably triple
sealing some of these bags, but I just love using this
hair straightener so much. (soft country music) All right, so now, get
another timer going. Thank goodness these Apple Watches have multiple timers you can run. Pause it for a second. Let me get my oxygen absorbers cut, and then it's just gonna be
10 drops and quick seals, and then we'll go back
and do an extra seal, just because I can, and
that was your guys' idea, and it's a good idea. This was a pack of 30, so
there you go, that tells you, in addition to the salt and the sugar, I've done 20 other buckets
that needed oxygen absorbers. And so- Where'd my scissors go? Where are you scissors? And I have more that are coming on Friday. And again, as I broke down the math, for my large family of 10, when I am done with these buckets, I'm gonna do over the next
few weeks continuing on, I am hoping to have a couple month's worth of emergency pantry items and food storage items for my family. And now, I know folks
said in my other videos, they wanted to see the
bags actually shrink down. But based on what I've read, I'll go back and double seal in a minute, based on what I've read, it
can actually take a full week for that entire process to go through. You can leave your lid off
your buckets to check in on it. Okay, last seal. Nine minutes and 45 seconds left. So that took five minutes and 15 seconds, including me adjusting my camera angle. Now I'm gonna go through and
do a double seal just to do it. I just really like using
this hair straightener, that is the main reason. This one looks like I already did it. Oh, well, I'm doing it again. So even though I keep looking at my watch, I'm off the clock now, 'cause we have the oxygen absorbers in, and we did those final seals. This is just me doing
another seal just in case, because a lot of YouTube viewers recommended it on my first video. I have put many of the
wonderful recommendations of that video into practice the three times since then
that I've done food storage. Be sure to let me know
in the comments as well, what other items you would
suggest I put in my food storage. And I'm still working on different beans, and I want to do a couple of
different types of sugars. I'd like to do some cous cous. (horn honking) Oh, there's that horn. Oh yeah, I just barely touched it. Let me tell you, when you
do the seal at the top, it hurts if you touch it. So be very careful. I already double sealed my sugar. I think we're good. I think I'm gonna start
putting lids on buckets, and start with these sugars. You can leave the lids off and check on your bags over a week. I'm going to at least put
the lids on them loosely, just so I can get 'em out of my hair. In one hour and six minutes, we have done 13 long-term
food storage buckets. I'm just gonna do my math
here in front of you. So we had 11 bags of pasta at 5.99, so it was $65.89 for 110
pounds of various pastas. These are the Mylar that I ordered. I got 50 five gallon bags for $77. It means it was a $1.54 per
bag times 11 for the pasta, so $16.94 in Mylar. Plus $16.94. And then about another $40 for
the 10 buckets and 10 lids, so $122.83, and that breaks down to $12.28 per bucket of long-term storage pasta. You cannot buy a bucket,
especially a five gallon bucket, with 10 to 20 pounds of pasta sealed for 25 to 30 years for $12.28, so it shows doing it yourself at home really is the cheaper
chicken way to do it. And mama's a little tired now. I'm not gonna break down the math on the three buckets of sugar. Mm-hmm, just pretty, probably, actually I'll just say
it's pretty much the same, because the 10 pound bags of sugar, somewhere around the $5 mark,
depending on where you live. Buckets the same, Mylar the same cost. Ah, did not include the
cost of the oxygen absorber. Okay, hold on. My most recent purchase
of oxygen absorbers, we got 30 for $25. I think that's about what
it was the first time. So 25 divided by 30. So that makes the oxygen
absorbers 83 cents each, so whatever that $12, was it $12.59? So you guys have the benefit of having just watched me said this. And I don't remember, 'cause
I'm here doing other math. So anyway, we'll say it was $12.59. So $13.42, including the price
of the bucket, and the lid, and the Mylar, and the oxygen absorber, and the stuff to go in it. Again, if you go look, you can not get a 25 pound bucket of sugar
in long-term food storage. Oh, but the sugar we could take off the price of the oxygen absorber. It's okay. You know. You know what I'm saying. You can't buy it for that price. You're gonna pay five to 10 times as much. So if you want to get into
long-term food storage, this is a good way to step into it. The buckets are available locally to me, like Tractor Supply, Home Depot, Lowe's. Originally, I ordered all of my buckets in my first round of food
storage from Walmart.com. They're no longer available online, but in stores I'm finding 'em, so you can check your local
hardware store and such. And the food grade buckets, Travis got these today for me at Lowe's. They were there, plus the lids. And remember to get your special customizable vitamin experience, head over to takecareof.com, and use special promo code jamerrill50 to get 50% off your first order for your own customized vitamins that are picked to meet the
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takecareof.com as well. And remember, promo code jamerrill50. Let's talk about long-term
food storage in these comments. I'm saving up split peas as I find 'em. I think I've only got
about five pounds so far. Wanna do some brown sugar
and some powdered sugar. What are some other things? And I have more old-fashioned
oats and flour in my freezer, and then I also have some wheat berries that need packaged up,
so more coming along. Let me know if you'd like to see a video with all of those items as well, and I'll see you real soon
with another brand new video. Bye-bye. (soft country music)
