Get Your Freezer Ready for Winter — 12 Things Black Families Buy Now

A $9 chicken in October can cost $16 by January if you wait too long to buy it. That's the whole lesson sitting in my grandmother's freezer, and it's the one I'm handing you before winter prices climb. In this video, I walk through the twelve things I stock my freezer with every fall before the holidays hit: whole chicken, ground meat, collard and mustard greens, smoked turkey necks and ham hocks, homemade stock, butter, corn and okra, cooked beans, cornbread and biscuits, big-pot Sunday meals, pie filling, and the one item that saves the most money of all, a whole holiday ham bought months before Christmas prices take over.