I’m focusing on stocking up the pantry in the new year 2012.  I’ve started early.
With all the Christmas sales and holiday clearance finds, I’ve been able to get a good start on stocking up my pantry with some basic canned food.
Look for these canned food items now:

canned pumpkin
canned chicken broth
canned milk
canned veggies:  corn and green [...]

Years ago, I knew I needed to do something about my pantry.   I started seriously couponing and looking into other ways to buy food besides just the “running to the grocery store every other day” solution.  I eventually, starting to build a pantry that lasted longer.  I even had food in the pantry and freezer at [...]

One of the key things that makes my Penny Pantry easy is having a freezer stocked with meat!  Meat is also one of the most expensive food items to buy!  We moved to our farm several years ago and one of the first things we focused on was raising our own meat.  It wasn’t as difficult [...]

Those huge #10 cans of food use to look so huge!  Not so anymore!  Now, I’m buying more #10 cans to stock my pantry with.  They are super cheap compared to the little cans.  Unless I can get a super deal on the smaller cans, it’s almost always cheaper to buy the #10 can. 

While I [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time working on building my pantry.  Call it a pantry stockpile or pantry stash, but my goal is to have a pantry that has enough food and supplies in it to keep me from having to go to the store every couple of days.  Another pantry goal of mine [...]

This isn’t supposed to be a lake….it was our neighbor’s cow pasture and hay field. 
Many of you know that Tennessee was hit hard by a devastating flood on May 1st and 2nd of 2010.  Devastating is often a word that is thrown around and meaningless to a lot of people but when I say devastating…. I mean [...]

I do shop at warehouse bulk stores like Costco for some things.  I also shop grocery store sales for other things.  I also recently discovered the GFS bulk restaurant supply store and did some comparison shopping between GFS, Costco and the grocery store.
Here’s an example:
Publix:  Publix had a sale on Mueller pasta BOGO (buy one [...]

I’ve been making do without the supermarket lately.  However, I am running low on several key ingredients now from all my from scratch cooking and baking.  I need olive oil, brown sugar and Basimati rice from Costco.  I need another 5 lb pail of Rumford baking powder from the little Mennonite market.  I need to restock my [...]

You may be wondering, “What exactly is a pantry tithe?”.  Well, a pantry tithe is another great way to build your home pantry strategically.  You could call it “pantry investing”.  A pantry tithe is where you take a portion of your weekly budget and allot to purchasing a group of items just for your pantry.  [...]

I’ve written in the past on building your own pantry home store.  So what is a pantry home store?  Everyone will have a slightly different definition of what a home store means to them.  For me, my pantry home store is my grocery and household supply stock that is in my home and not at [...]

Here’s a few pantry stocking tips for homemakers.  The grocery and household bill for a family doesn’t have to be huge and out of control and trying to build a pantry full of these supplies doesn’t have to be difficult. I think that any mom can benefit from learning some shopping tips as well as [...]

The year is winding down.  It’s December and winter time.  This year I started a series called Pantry 2009 of which I had high hopes for adding more content to the site about pantry building.  I didn’t blog about all the Pantry 2009 things that I did get accomplished, but I thought I would start [...]

A lot of people scoff at the notion of stockpiling food.  That’s fine.  There are many misconceptions and prejudices attached to the word “stockpile”.  I happen to love the word stockpile.   When I hear the word “stockpile”, I think of a nice stock of valuable items.

There are many reasons why a homemaker should stockpile food.  I [...]

Pantry building has been a subject that has consumed me these past two months of the new year.  A good sort of consuming.  So I hope to journal more of my thoughts on the subject in the near future.
I have been reading books, like Self-Reliance:  How To Recession Proof Your Pantry, learning a lot,  evaluating my [...]