September 2025 Updates & Shopping Guides
Let's Do This! 31 Days to Get READY
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Welcome! Start HERE (11:02)
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THE READY PANTRY overview (27:41)
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Well, hello there, I'm Melissa (20:35)
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Why is PANTRY PREPAREDNESS important?
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What are the benefits of a WORKING PANTRY?
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TOP EXCUSES for an UNPREPARED PANTRY (23:44)
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Let's talk EXCUSES a bit more!
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Introduction to the BABY STEPS (14:31)
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ARE YOU READY to get started? (1:03)
WEEK ONE: Let's get ready!
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Week ONE overview (2:01)
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Baby Step 1: What's a 72-hour kit? (8:50)
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Baby Step 2: Know your SEVENS (5:39)
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Know your SEVENS examples (14:49)
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More about your 7s (40:27)
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Baby Step 3: The WORKING FRIDGE - your new and improved meal-making partner! (7:42)
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Resources for your FRIDGE 🫐🫐🫐 (5:47)
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Baby Step 4: REFLECTION
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Baby Step 5: water for drinking, cooking, hygiene (12:03)
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Staying within your FOOD BUDGET
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Why aren't we STOCKPILING yet?!? [steps to build up the pantry RIGHT NOW]
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Baby Step 6: ACTIVITY - use up an ingredient!
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Baby Step 7: Time to CHAT Start the conversation.... 🌽🌽🌽 (6:18)
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ENCOURAGEMENT as we wrap up WEEK ONE (0:34)
WEEK TWO: Let's begin the FOOD STORAGE SIFT!
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Week TWO overview 🌽🌽🌽 (1:53)
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Baby Step 8: Improving your READY Kit
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Baby Step 9: Choose your 7s and Start Listing Ingredients
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Video: Watch this Consulting Session with a READY member (52:58)
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Baby Step 10: FREEZER(s) (8:39)
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Baby Step 10: Let's tackle the freezer(s) 🫐🫐🫐 (8:30)
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Baby Step 11: Back to your 7s (2:27)
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Baby Step 12: New weekly habit (7:42)
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Baby Step 13: ACTIVITY - choose your own adventure!
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Baby Step 14: Time to CHAT
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ENCOURAGEMENT as we wrap up WEEK TWO
Week THREE: Let's keep sifting through all your current food!
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Day 16: Let's touch every single bit of food storage that you have THIS WEEK (3:35)
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Day 16 Continued: What about those items in the back of the pantry and the mystery roast in the freezer?
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Day 16 Continued: Saving your food funds for Level 2 (2:41)
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Day 17: Let's tackle the food on the shelves 🌽 🌽 🌽 (5:46)
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Day 18: Picky eaters, special diets, food restrictions and allergies 🍉🍉🍉 (15:18)
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Day 19: Continue with your sevens and your weekly fridge session from baby step #1 (2:05)
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Day 20: Melissa's Kitchen Pantry (23:29)
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Day 20 BONUS: Livestream guided pantry declutter from 1/16/25
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Day 20: Are you feeling STUCK? (2:09)
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Day 21: Fun Activity 🍉🍉🍉
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Day 22: Let's CHAT 🍉🍉🍉
Seasonal Living - Month by Month
Level 2 - build up a 3 month pantry
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Where to START 🫐🫐🫐 (6:16)
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Remember your SEVENS? (14:19)
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How much food does it take to feed my household for three months?
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How much space will a three-month food storage take? (2:58)
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Want individual support for baby step #3? 🫐🫐🫐
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What if the POWER GOES OUT? 🫐 🫐 🫐
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Buying in BULK 🌽 🌽 🌽 (12:30)
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Buying directly from a farmer (28:38)
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Storing 13 weeks of food
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Water - storage, filtration
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What about: BREAD, buns, bagels, etc?
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What about: FRESH PRODUCE and herbs?
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BONUS VIDEO: Your 90 Day Shopping Plan - Livestream Replay plus resources (30:34)
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BONUS Video: Your 90 Day Shopping Plan - 2nd Livestream (15:29)
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BONUS Video: Watch this Baby Step #3 Consulting Session🫐🫐🫐 (52:58)
Level 3 - invest 15% of your food money in the future
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Welcome to the FUN part: Baby Step #4 🫐🫐🫐 (3:41)
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Grocery budget - mindset shift (3:41)
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Possibilities: Producing Food
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Possibilities: Your Orchard 🫐🫐🫐 (7:33)
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Possibilities: Storing Dry Goods for the Longest Shelf Life
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Possibilities: Dehydrating
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Possibilities: Professionally-Packaged Freeze-Dried Food (11:04)
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Possibilities: Berries 🍓🍓🍓 (3:39)
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Water 🫐🫐🫐
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Is investing in your food future a habit now? 🫐🫐🫐
Level 3- Explore shelf-stable swaps for ingredients
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All the possibilities!
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Meal Ideas featuring Shelf-Stable Ingredients 🌽🌽🌽 (5:48)
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Shelf Stable MEATS (Are you scared?) 🌽🌽🌽
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Pressure Canning 🌽🌽🌽 (18:02)
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Dehydrating
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Salt Curing
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Preserving in Salt, Alcohol, Vinegar
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Fermenting Vegetables
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Learning from locals: foraging, hunting, fishing, and more
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Should I buy a freeze dryer?
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Did I graduate to step #6? (0:34)
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Shelf Stable Tacos? 🌮 🤔 And other Possibilities! 🫐 🫐 🫐 (0:22)
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What about DAIRY? Shelf-stable options, dairy cow/sheep/goat 🌽🌽🌽 (13:45)
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Pressure Canning Meats (and veg, broth, beans) 🌽🌽🌽 (13:03)
Level 3: 12 month food + supplies on-hand
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Setting a new goal for your at-home grocery store (0:34)
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ALDI haul for May 2025 🍓🍓🍓 (18:53)
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Should all my food be in one location?
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Food storage: Buckets & Lids
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Food storage: Glass jars + Vacuum Sealing
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Food storage: Mylar 🌽🌽🌽
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Food storage: Cans 🫐🫐🫐
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Long-term food: Freeze Dried Ingredients + Meals
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Strawberry Season: Preserving one of Melissa's favorite crops 🍓🍓🍓 (6:20)
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Say No To Onesies Twosies 🌽🌽🌽 (0:31)
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A big fat CELEBRATION! 🫐🫐🫐 (1:55)
RESOURCES
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where Melissa + Cara shop
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Melissa's favorite books
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Melissa's favorite online resources (including YouTube)
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Cara's favorite books
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how to find people + resources in your COMMUNITY
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list of foods that last FOREVER
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how to shop with THRIVE LIFE - long-term food that actually tastes good (8:56)
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melissa's FAVORITE food PRESERVATION equipment + supplies
PRINTABLES
Week FOUR:
baby step #1 - 7s + a working fridge (OLD VERSION OF THE READY PANTRY)
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what IS baby step #1?
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know your SEVENS with printables 🫐🫐🫐
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SEVEN breakfasts
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the WORKING FRIDGE🌽🌽🌽 (7:42)
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Resources for your FRIDGE 🫐🫐🫐 (5:47)
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staying within your FOOD BUDGET
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why aren't we STOCKPILING yet?!? [steps to build up the pantry RIGHT NOW]
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BONUS: Livestream Recording (14:49)
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BONUS: Livestream recording - butternut squash, broccoli, kale, etc (40:27)
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ENCOURAGEMENT about baby step #1 (0:34)
