Peanut butter to cultured butter: Mike G ranks twelve homemade staples

His new scratch-or-store test runs from yogurt and turkey deli meat to sauerkraut, ricotta and vinegar pickles, ending in a final ranking.

Channel: LifebyMikeGStory of October 1, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Which Groceries Are Actually Worth Making From Scratch?

"Which Groceries Are Actually Worth Making From Scratch?" is the newest video from Mike G, the home cook, gardener and dad behind LifebyMikeG. The premise is simple: take twelve things most people buy without thinking, make each one at home, and decide which ones earn the effort.

The chapters move through the pantry and the fridge. Peanut butter and yogurt come first, then a homemade turkey deli meat that gets the longest stretch, then hot sauce, vanilla extract, mayo, sauerkraut, ricotta, hummus, mustard, vinegar-brined pickles and, last of all, cultured butter, before everything is lined up in a final ranking. It went up on September 30 and passed a quarter of a million views in about twelve hours, far quicker than anything else on the channel.

The week's other upload stayed closer to the garden. "3 Ways to Preserve Shiitake Mushrooms 🍄" follows naturally from a three-week-old video on growing mushrooms at home, which has passed 1.3 million views and is still drawing steadily. Between them sits "5 levels of preserved strawberries 🍓," posted in late August and closing on 900,000. Put together, the channel's recent run reads like one long harvest: grow it, keep it, then decide what is worth making yourself.

Among the outdoors and homesteading channels nearest it in size, LouisianaCrawfishCo is the one running well above its usual pace, while Epic Gardening, BlacktipH and Shafikul Garden are a little quieter than normal.

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The videos drawing views on LifebyMikeG right now

3 Ways to Preserve Shiitake Mushrooms 🍄164,269 views · 2026-09-25 5 levels of preserved strawberries 🍓896,852 views Grow an Insane Amount of Mushrooms at Home 🍄1,337,314 views

The numbers

Here are the figures behind Mike G's week of scratch cooking and preserving.

subscribers

5,380,000

total views

929,697,599

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

RAWWFishing

8,320,000

LifebyMikeG

5,380,000

BlacktipH

5,060,000

Kendall Gray

4,640,000

Epic Gardening

4,120,000

Shafikul Garden

4,080,000

Survival skills Anywhere

3,010,000

Woodsbound Outdoors

3,010,000

LouisianaCrawfishCo

3,000,000

As of October 1, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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