[CottonBall]

Once you get in the swing of it, good cooking does not take any longer than the boxes of chemicals that we consider easy.

And SO much more healthier. Not to mention cheaper.

My favorite foods are things like beans, rice, pasta, and bread. All are so cheap to make from dried rice, pasta, and beans. And bread is cheap to make using pre-ground flour too, but I've gotten spoiled grinding my own wheatberries and smelling that wonderful aroma in the kitchen all day! Isn't it an odd thing of the times that the over-processed flour is cheaper than the source (wheatberries)?

[DelaWhere]

Hey there CB - Glad to see you back postin...

>>>My favorite foods are things like beans, rice, pasta, and bread.<<<

Mmmm, great combination with a lot of variety potentials...

I am about to try canning some beans - Will probably start with pintos and work my way to baked beans. Seems I seldom have the fore-thought to start my beans early enough, so with some canned and on hand, 20 minutes for the rice and 10 to heat the beans - the bread would take a bit longer, but I usually have that made up in advance anyway, frozen like those brown-n-serve, but homemade.

>Isn’t it an odd thing of the times that the over-processed flour is cheaper than the source (wheatberries)?<

This year I hope to build my own little combine.... I wore out two pairs of gloves doing it over hardware cloth last year, and found a neat Amish Farmer them in his back yard - that I plan to replicate. http://backtotheland.com/html/wheat_thrasher.htm

[nw_arizona_granny]

but I’ve gotten spoiled grinding my own wheatberries and smelling that wonderful aroma in the kitchen all day! Isn’t it an odd thing of the times that the over-processed flour is cheaper than the source (wheatberries)? <<<

I am glad you got your grinder going and are baking.

Could the reason the white flour is cheaper, be that it is the tailings and the gold has already been sold at a profit? as in wheat germ, etc.