Food Storage Seasonings And Spices To Stockpile...Organize...Rotate

Thank you AG! 🙏🔥❣️. Oh no “black lumpy things” !! 😂🥹. Never seen those before.

Love your videos ❤

Another great video!

I always love your videos Alaska granny have so many spices those are the ones I love I never thought of doing them alphabetical thank you 70 years old see you can't teach Old Dogs new tricks LOL❤

Without spices the food would be bland and dull.

I always enjoy your videos AG

I have to say, if you saw how Himalayan sea salt is mined and processed, you'd never eat it again. Once you know, you know.

I have been researching and learning about and trying unusual (for me in the US) spices and spice blends popular around the world. If I had to eat rice and beans/lentils often I want to know plenty of different ways to change the taste. I tried a spice blend from the country of Georgia called khmeli suneli, on some sauteed cabbage that was delicious! It is really fun to experiment!

I have all the common spices plus some not so much. I use a lot of cumin, coriander powder, turmeric and chili powder. I also use a lot of ginger and garlic so I learned how to make my own paste and store it in the fridge. A major time saver. Even if a recipe doesn't call for garlic I use the paste anyway and I've never noticed a drastic change in flavor.
When I lived in Phoenix I had an Asian store nearby which had aisles according to regions or ethnicity. In the Indian aisle you can buy spices by the bagful. Larger packages of spices for about the same price as the little spice cans from regular stores. I've heard comments from spice snobs who think the quality is less but it just hasn't been the case.
Now I live in Tennessee so my nearest supply store is an Indian grocery in the south part of Memphis so now when I go to restock I spend at least $100 dollars.
I still haven't found the perfect spice jars for everyday use but my stock I keep on a metal Home Depot rack.
I go through enough Coriander and Cumin that I am frequently refilling the spice jars but it works.
I found a site called Manjula's Kitchen and she's on here as well. Her recipes make it easier for me to get enough vegetables in my diet. She's a vegetarian so for anything with meat I have to use other recipes but her recipes are delicious.

I order herbs and spices in bulk, and vacuum-seal them, or put them in tight-fitting jars, (sometimes vacuum-sealing). There has not been a problem. I intend to make sure I have plenty of herbs and spices. I keep smaller containers in the kitchen and refill them. I have some mixes and I vac-seal them or put them in glass jars. With herbs and spices mostly being imported,I want no chance of them not being available.

I'm with you on buying the small containers. But I do buy garlic powder and onion powder in a bigger bottle as I use them almost daily. Great video!

one of the areas that I consistently overlook during inventory and rotation schedule! need to step up my inventory game!

For small spaces & or RV's, I found at Sams club (over a year ago) a wooden holder of 24 tubes of many different spices & blends. Imagine clear test tubes in a holder standing upright. They are in plastic tubes with screw on caps (so much bad things on plastic but these are not heated up to leach in anthing so Im not worried) but what a wonderful find to have at your fingertip a spice without searching for or you can refill. Very space-saving. Hope this idea helps someone. 😊

The moisture in the air is creating that effect, making them stick together.

Thanks AG!! I like to vacuum seal containers and then store them in a tub. Happy Sunday

Enjoy your videos

I have stashes of spices in addition to what is in my kitchen. I put packets in ziplock bags before putting tbem in my storage containers

Excellent advice as always AG. 👍
TFS AG, take care & keep really busy everyone. ❤️🙂🐶

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Spices or any other foods in Plastic Bottles are a bad idea unless you Vacuum Seal them. Plastic is "Porous", air, moisture can leak through. To Prove it, put a plastic bottle of Soda Pop in a pan, put it in a place where it will not be bothered like under your bed, check on it in one year and in two years. The Soda Pop will evaporate through the plastic.

I got some freeze dried garlic and herbs at Big Lots before it closed. I just started using them. They are fantastic! They are almost like fresh after rehydrating them. I'm hoping that I can find a source for more freeze dried herbs, because they are so much better than the dehydrated.

I would wonder if shaking over cooking food with moisture rising might moisten spices aand then they might clump

In my old age i buy the smaller container thats half the height

Good ideas , thanks for sharing , YAH bless !

Beware! I found some little black bugs in a plastic spice jar of "Chili Powder". The cap has a flap to open and shake. Apparently the seal you peel off had loosened in storage. Thats the only one I've had a problem with, and so it may have come from the store that way. I may not have noticed it if i hadn't spilled some of it on the counter and noticed the tiny specs moving around! 😜

Thanks, good tips. I totally agree for most spices, smaller size is a good plan. Dried minced or chopped onions is great to have on hand in case you need onions but ran out of the fresh ones. The spices may continue to go up in price if there are poor harvests plus the costs to ship them long distances. Herbs like parsley and basil are usually easy to grow inside or in your garden and they are different than spices like cinnamon and pepper than are grown in tropical locations and not grown in most places like the US. We keep mini storage containers you can find at Dollar Tree on hand. If someone comes to you needing a spice or herb you can give them a little that way.

Recently bought a lot of spices for $1.00 each on a special price.

It sounds like the "brown lumpy things" might have been clumps of the seasoning blend. That reacted with moisture. That happens to most of my spice/seasoning blends here in humid Mississippi. Especially when shaking the container over a steamy pot. I just scape the mixture out and mash it with the back of a spoon until it is somewhat sprinkleable. I could probably dry it out by heating it, too.
I have way too many seasonings, but I know my food will never be bland LOL

Very good video can you vacuum seal self-rising flour add powdered buttermilk thank you for the answer back😊

Can you vacuum seal non-fat powdered milk😊

Well AG, you can freeze spices! They stay fresh, I know someone who got her mother in law’s spices from the 80’s and 90’s from her freezer and they are fresh and very tasty! She actually thinks some of the older ones are better than today’s spices, more flavorful. Our food has changed in its sourcing that’s for sure. So now I’m freezing my extras in a tub in the freezer, or you could wrap them in tin foil I would think. Who knew? 🤷‍♀️🥰🇺🇸

I always use a felt marker and put the month and year purchased as some spices deteriorate faster then others.

Hi AG... thanks for this info. I actually keep my spices in a container like that too. I have quite a few. Hope you are doing well. I am ok here. Bubba sends a hug to Teddy... LOL