Welcome to the Simple Farmhouse Life Podcast, episode 4.

Today I want to talk to you a little bit about the staples that I keep in my pantry

and just what I keep on hand to cook from scratch.

My name is Lisa, a mom of six and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farm House on Boone.

Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.

So this is a question I get asked a lot.

People want a little walk through of our pantry and what staples we keep on hand and

quite honestly our pantry is not really ready right now for guests of any kind.

It's kind of a mess. We moved into our farmhouse actually exactly one year ago today and

The pantry is just an area that we haven't quite gotten to. I have gone in there and put things in kind of a place

that I feel like, you know, they would be good for now, not super organized, but at least to where we can access them. But I kind of have this intention

of completely redoing it and it's something that we plan to do really soon. And so I keep thinking that and I haven't gone into full-blown

organization mode in there because I know that we're going to be redoing

it adding cabinets making it kind of more of a butler's pantry. So that's been my hesitation with

taking everybody on a pantry tour but I can at least go in depth on here what

kind of things we keep on hand. So first let's start with the grains category.

As far as grains I buy a 50 pound bag of wheat from a co-op I actually actually order from Country Life Natural Foods out of Minnesota.

Now I used to go and pick it up from a local person's house. We all kind of pulled together

and ordered so that way we could get free shipping.

But she lives about 45 minutes away from where I live now.

And so now I just pay for the shipping from Country Life Natural Foods. I believe it's around

$20 which sounds like a whole lot for shipping but when you picture yourself

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