WHEAT STORAGE-WHERE DO I START?

Some of you may be new to wheat. So here is a little info I found in a famous preparedness book.

• Napoleon marched his army all over Europe on a cup of wheat a day.

• Maximizing the nutrition power of wheat: Ann Wigmore, author of many books on wheat and founder of The Boston Health Institute, pioneered the wheatgrass juice movement, in her books says that when you sprout wheat, and grow it in trays of 1” dirt, you turn it into “a complete protein” and it possesses nearly every nutrient that a body needs for optimum health.

• Wheat keeps forever! (well almost) The LDS Cannery says 30 years, I have made bread with my grandma’s 35 and 50 year old wheat. It was delicious! In fact, it tasted better than the new wheat I was buying! And wheat they have found in the pyramids of Egypt have sprouted! If you start with good quality wheat, and store it properly, the results can be fabulous.

Basic foods keep better than typical convenience foods, requires much less space to store or transport, and is much less expensive. Field tests have shown that the majority of Americans would find these basic foods acceptable under crisis conditions. Unprocessed grains and beans provide adequate nourishment for many millions of the world’s people who have little else to eat. Dry grains and beans are very compact. A 6 gal bucket of grains hold 45 pounds of hard wheat. Yet when cooked, dry whole grains become bulky and give a well fed feeling.

• Netting down the cost: Several years ago when my adult daughter wanted to get started, she didn’t know where to start. So when I showed her the amount and cost of each item of the basics, it helped her to know where to begin, so -

$437 for 1 year basic supply of food (about $1.20 a day)

About $140 of that could be wheat (or $200 after this sale), $2 for 25# salt, $110 for 60# beans, $30 for 15# milk, $25 for 2.5 gal oil, $130 for 60# sugar, 14 gal water min per person plus water filter. These prices are based off of LDS Cannery bulk bags and Macey’s, and bucketing it yourself in used buckets. Yet when you compare this to when you Google “year’s supply” you will see prices 3 times this.

Price of 50# rice, oats comparisons. You would not want to eat just wheat. It would be hard on the digestive tract if you weren’t eating them beforehand, and it would get boring eating the same thing.

• Most of these foods can be stored for 30 or more years. So if you never used them at all (and we hope you do), that would be $15 per yr. food insurance.