Posted on 11/16/2013 6:32:36 PM PST by dynachrome
You have your 1,000 pounds of wheat. Your 500 gallons of water and enough ammo to make Chuck Norris jealous but the question remains, are you truly prepared? Just because you’ve been prepping for twenty years doesn’t mean you haven’t made some mistakes along the way. It’s not enough to just have your emergency food storage, you have to be able to store it, eat it and even move it if things really get crazy.
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Frankly, I’ve never gotten the single malt thing. Give me a consistent blend by a great blender.
Flour is the one thing that we do not buy locally. I had 3 bags in a row that I had to throw out. I would buy a bag. Hubby would open it, and throw it out because it had a few bugs in it.
I told him it was probably just a little extra protein. The next time I told him that they probably didn’t eat much. The third time, I couldn’t think of anything smart to say, so I just said I give up and opened a can of flour, then ordered a bunch more.
Sometimes I grind some of my wheat or flax seed to substitute for part of the flour in a recipe.
I did try to make a whole wheat tortilla once, but that was when I only had the coffee grinder to use. It was barely edible.LOL
I read something lately about Indians (East Indians) who live mostly on rice getting sick and starting to have beri-beri.
They had only recently started eating mostly store-bought, bulk processed-food rice.
The bugs in the local rice they had previously eaten had enough vitamin B-12 to keep them healthy.
When they started eating the washed rice, they got sick!
You said on a gardening thread I think it was, that you order your flour from the Mormons. Exactly where do you get that? Do you have a link to the place? And, from what you said, it comes in cans? I would rather get flour from them than buy bags in a grocery because I don’t trust those bags to have flour without bugs.
I use OJ containers. Rinse them out really well with hot water. Let them air dry until OJ smell is gone. You can put some baking powder in to absorb the smell.
I have some refrigerated that is over 3 years old. Drank some this summer and it tasted fine. The rest is stored in the finished basement. Cool and dehumidifier runs year round. Use the dehumidifier water for the plants, along with the rain barrel water.
Try this. If it doesn’t work, then go to www.lds.org, scroll down and click on online store, and then scroll down and choose self reliance.
Looks like they have added a few items since the last time I was there. I also liked the starter kit, which was about what it takes for 1 person per month. So it made the calculations easy for getting a few months put back quickly.
Gill nets can be a lifesaver or they can be used to over fish any waterway. The Indians of today use them the wrong way.
It’s possible that the processing may have taken out the nutrients, since B12 is water soluable. Beri Beri is a deficiency of B1.
Bulk processing just sounds unhealthy.lol
I read somewhere that it is nearly impossible to get all the bugs larvae out of stuff. Still, flour can harbor deadly stuff too, so I guess it pays to be cautious.
Some how I just can’t bear to think about eating wiggly stuff.
anitbiotic=antibiotic
Well, it was a B something!
There are a whole host of nutrients that come from animals that you will not get just from veggies.
Of the nine or so amino acids, I think about three do not happen unless you eat something that squirms! (Or at least DID squirm!)
;-)
I have met a couple young people who want to learn that stuff.
Thankfully, one of them is my son. The other is actually his best friend.
I do know a number of homeschool families who are interested in these kinds of skills, if they don’t already practice them.
Anyone with skills like who wants to share them, may have more success by contacting the local homeschool support chapter. While they can’t necessarily be found in the phone book, online works or just a trip to the local public library, which homeschoolers frequent a LOT.
Ping to me with that if you will.
I used to make homemade bread all the time and learned a lot the hard way, but haven’t done it much lately. I should get back into it and use the grain I have.
Ooops!
“AMINO ACIDS” sb “ESSENTIAL AMINO ACIDS”
There are about 21 amino acids human life depends on, we can manufacture about twelve of those.
Note something else.
When the dieticians say “You need this but not that...” they are talking about mostly under perfect conditions. It is a well known fact that humans enzyme and hormone levels fall off rapidly as they age, meaning past about age 35 or so.
So when they say essential amino acids, they mean essential when you were twenty.
If you are older than twenty, take a mineral supplement, don’t be scared of eggs, dairy products (milk and cheese) are very anabolic foods, a tsp of lecithin and another tsp of brewers yeast a day will give you what you need.
You have to make sure the wheat berries are absolutely free of small stones as they can ruin the blades of the mill.
And you have to grind it fine enough. I always set it for finest. It takes longer but makes better bread.
Have ear protection on hand. They can be loud.
Cleaning them is tedious, but it's the price you pay.
Homemade bread made with fresh milled flour is awesome. I like the hard white wheats the best. I would either get Golden Grain or Prairie God. It's not as heavy and dark as the red wheats.
........ditto.
What about hand mills?
You can recycle wives every few years. It’s expensive though...
One tip I rarely see mentioned is to have a “SHTF Binder”. It should include a spreadsheet of exactly what you have stored, expiration dates, quantities, etc. Have one sheet alphabetical and another sheet listed by expiration date descending. This helps you quickly locate a particular item and will help you rotate efficiently.
In the binder, you should also have some basic info printed out (water purificiation methods/dosages, how to make charcoal, how to make soap, gold/silver amounts in U.S. coins, etc.)
The most important info to have is a collection of RECIPES that use WHAT YOU HAVE STORED. So you’ve got 500 pounds of oats...what are you going to do with them? Make oatmeal? Whole oat groats for breakfast? Oat flour? It’s really not pleasant to have all this grain stored and realize you can’t make bread because you don’t have any yeast (or baking soda, or baking powder). And yes, there’s a recipe for that. Have some recipes printed out and you’ll be far ahead of the curve.
For water have several methods to purify - “pool shock”, laundry bleach, Berkey, Katadyn, boiling, etc. As with all prepping we do the “Two is one, one is none” so we have backups for our backups. Water is especially important to get right.
Just my $0.02...
/johnny
We have 3 kinds of water stored. Large kitty litter jugs filled with tap water for toilet flushing, clear plastic water jugs filled with tap water and a few drops of bleach for washing up, teeth brushing, etc, and commercial bottled water for drinking.
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