Please help me find threads re: HOW MUCH FOOD TO STORE

patience · Expert Joined: Jan 04, 2008 Posts: 1523

Well, I guess it depends on what you like. We don't sift anything, but then we like the bread coarse, with a bran muffin sort of character. If you want white flour, you'll have to sift it of course.

We started this process for several reasons, the primary one being that my wife was diagnosed 30+ years ago with Multiple Sclerosis. Our research showed this to be rooted in an inability to process nutrients, notably B vitamins, needed to repair nerve tissue. WHOLE wheat is rich in those B vitamins, if you just grind it and eat it. So, we did, and came to enjoy it. Note that her sister had it too, and was treated by Drs. She died some years ago in one helluva state. My wife has only been treated with food and vitamins, and is doing fine, still working every day.

Worth noting is that when sifted white flour became available, so did a batch of vitamin deficiency diseases, especially beri-beri, I think it was. Only the rich could afford white flour, so only the rich were afflicted!

Whole wheat bread takes some getting used to. Try a batch of pancakes with unsifted flour, add some rolled oats, and some chopped pecans. Slather them with butter and sorghum, or honey. To quote Jerry Clower, "Now THAT'S fit to eat!"

edit: use a lot LESS liquid in recipes with whole, unsifted flour, as it is less absorbent. The result is a heavier, more dense product that doesn't rise as much, so add a bit more baking powder, or whatever.
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patience · Expert Joined: Jan 04, 2008 Posts: 1523

Patience's wife here. Your vitamins are in the bran. Jerry grinds the flour 3 times through the burr mill (set fairly tight) and there is no bran to sift out. It's ground in.

If you want to try your wheat in a recipe, this is an easy one to start with. It makes a lot of pancakes and we keep a supply in the fridge for dry snacks or to have later in the week for breakfasts. You can cut the recipe in half. You can leave out the pecans. The oats is old fashioned raw rolled oats and helps with cholesterol control. We do the food as medicine and the medicine is great!

Since I work out recipes as I go, you may need to add more liquid to get a pourable batter. I'm still working on this.

Whole Wheat Pancakes

2 C Flour
1 C Oats
3 T Bkg Pdr
1 t Salt
2 T brn Sugar
1/2C chopped pecans
Combine all dry ingredients in large bowl.
2 Eggs
2/3 C Milk Pdr
2 C water
1/4 C Oil
Mix wet Ingredients in small bowl and add to dry ingredients. Mix together and fry.
(optional: use 2 C milk instead of pdr & water)
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500 pounds of grains/beans for each adult. This will provide mostly calories. At this time, sugar is the only product that hasn't gone ballistic pricewise--I just saw a 25# bag of lima beans priced at $48!!!!
If you can get your daily calories, you can forage the other nutrients.
Stockpiling (hoarding) will soon be practically impossible for the average buyer.

Pops

Come on Lump, in the menu bar to the left is a Downloads section with spreadsheets and compilations of FAQs on food storage.

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buzzard · Heavy Crude Joined: May 31, 2004 Posts: 105

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sittinguy · Heavy Crude Joined: Sep 07, 2007 Posts: 346

Lumpy, I ordered the year supply from beprepared in late 07. You said you had some cans bulge on you. I stored it in the house, and I was hopeing you could give me some insite to how long is this stuff REALLY going to last since you have experience with the same product. Is some foods going to make it 10 years and some only a few, if so which ones will be the first to go you think?

Thanks
sittinguy

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Here's the thread;

http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic106.html

Letting all the threads float let's most of the threads become lost to the average person, even when they are in the index.
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