Provident Living - Wheat Cereal

Natural Family Blog ^ | March 16th, 2006 | Jenny Hatch

[Jenny Hatch]

For the past few years I have taught cooking classes in my home to share the basics of Provident Living with those who attend.

These classes are designed to teach the new homemaker (or anyone) how to cook with whole foods. In the class I cook a pot of cracked wheat, a batch of muffins, and a loaf of whole wheat bread. I share the economics of cooking with whole foods, and also give a brief lecture on 72 hour kits, safe water storage, and how to rotate stored foods into your day to day cooking.

I have done numerous posts on this topic for my Blog, but for those of you who are new, here is a primer on how to cook cracked wheat cereal. This is covered in detail during the class.

[Jenny Hatch]

For the past few years I have taught cooking classes in my home to share the basics of Provident Living with those who attend.

These classes are designed to teach the new homemaker (or anyone) how to cook with whole foods. In the class I cook a pot of cracked wheat, a batch of muffins, and a loaf of whole wheat bread. I share the economics of cooking with whole foods, and also give a brief lecture on 72 hour kits, safe water storage, and how to rotate stored foods into your day to day cooking.

I have done numerous posts on this topic for my Blog, but for those of you who are new, here is a primer on how to cook cracked wheat cereal. This is covered in detail during the class. My next class will be on April 8th from 8:30 to 10:00 AM. If you are in the Denver/Boulder area and would like to attend, just email me for directions.

I will also be taking anyone interested on a Family Canning Session down at the Aurora Cannery. If you are interested in learning more about how to store whole foods for long term storage, just click on this blog entry. The canning session will be on April 15th from 8AM to Noon. Just email me for more information.

Cracked wheat Cereal with Butter and Agave Sweetner. A great way to start the day!

One cup of Organic Red Wheat

I crack up one cup of Organic Red Wheat to feed my family of seven breakfast. This wheat costs about five cents. If you add in the cost of butter, spices, sweetner, milk or anything else you like to eat with the wheat, breakfast for my family costs about a dollar a day. Compared to any wheat based box of cold cereal, the economical savings of this breakfast are obvious. Most cereal costs about three dollars a box. Add in milk, sweetner, fruit, etc...and the costs go up significantly per serving. I also can't "reuse" wasted cold cereal. Any cracked wheat left in the pot can be put in muffins, bread, or biscuits, and the waste is minimal.

You can make cracked wheat Cereal with just salt, but I like to use a variety of spices to make the wheat taste great! All of these spices help with digestion, which can be an issue if you are just starting whole food adventures. Into one quart of water I put a mix of Flax seed, Whole Clove, Cardamon pods, a chunk of ginger, a cinnamon stick, and grated nutmeg.

After the spices have hard boiled for twenty minutes, you can add in the cracked wheat, stirring constantly as you gradually add it in. The wheat then needs to hard boil for five minutes. I usually turn the heat down to medium and let it go, stirring every once in a while. This boiling step helps to soften the outer hull of the grain, and it quickens the cooking time. I then turn the heat down to a low simmer and let it cook for another half hour or so. Then I put it in bowls and let it sit and cool for five minutes or so. It keeps cooking in the dish while it cools down to "just right".

More on Wheat Cookery

Provident Living Q & A

Jenny Hatch

Nobody is talking about it yet, but I feel passionate about parents being prepared for Emergency Childbirth during a Bird Flu Pandemic. Here is a previous Blog Entry on that topic.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

I feel passionate about hating spam and dispiteous towards spammers. This is a conservative news discussion forum and there's nothing newsworthy nor discursive in your self-aggrandizing drivel.

[Jenny Hatch]

Wow Huffman you are huffy!

This post is for those people who are interested in getting prepared for a possible flu pandemic by storing foods and learning how to use those stored foods in their day to day life.

You call it drivel, I call it survival, and very much relevant to conservative discussions on this forum, of which I have been a part for years. I know and understand what is drivel and what is spam.

Jenny Hatch

[Donald Meaker]

Why work so hard when twinkies are so tasty and nourishing.

I am also ready to help date old ugly women, in the event of a bird flue epidemic. I haven't talked much about that, but, just saying....

[cyborg]

BUMP

[Donald Meaker]

The silly thing about the bird flu is: bird flu infects birds in a place that has no counterpart in mammals. It is really unlikely that it will mutate to sit in a different human organ, and then mutate again to pass from person to person.

The two big pandemics were caused by human behavior. Death of the host is very bad for a parasite, and can only occur with regularity when people do something that radically increases the ability of a germ to pass from person to person.

Take the 1918 flu pandemic. It could be lethal because soldiers were cheek by jowl in dugouts, to protect themselves from artillery fire. A lethal strain could evolve, and transmit to others during the latent period.

The 1968 flu pandemic was also caused by human behavior, in this case the Chinese Cultural Revolution. City people were herded into barns in the country, and slept cheek by jowl.

Take AIDS. the virus was in Africa for many years, and had meaningless, inconsequential lethality rates. Then, after it got into a population that had thousands of sex partners a year, it could mutate and become much more lethal.

Common health precautions, selecting fresh fruit that looks fresh, cooking meat all the way through, washing one's hands before eating or sleeping, prevents transmission of most diseases. I know the Mormons have a screwy theology that suggests that a horrible fate will fall to all infidels, but G-d will preserve the Mormons. As for me, I would rather work to keep us all healthy.

[samiam1972]

I'm not worried about the flu or storing up any goods. However, I found all of this very interesting! I try to cook with whole foods, just not to this extent! Thank you for sharing! :o)

[texasbluebell]

Oh, what I would give for another bowl of my grandmother's hot cracked-wheat cereal! No spices, nothing but a pinch of sugar and some milk. It was delicious. Ground fresh everyday in her old red hand-mill. Long long ago.

[Jenny Hatch]

"I'm not worried about the flu or storing up any goods. However, I found all of this very interesting! I try to cook with whole foods, just not to this extent! Thank you for sharing! :o)"

SamIam (I love Dr. Suess!),

Thanks for your warm post. Actually the responses to this blog post are pretty typical of the reactions I have gotten over the years when I speak up about provident living and preparation. Anger, dismissive dissing, sarcasm, etc etc..

The thing is, I'm not the one who predicted the last days were going to be turbulent. All the holy prophets, Jesus Christ, Modern prophets and today the evening news, point to our time as being a time of trembling.

I just want to know that we will have some food and water ready when and if something goes down, and I have set up my web site and blog to share how simple it is to prepare and use the foods stored in day to day living. I also teach classes once a quarter and take groups down to the cannery once a quarter to share what I know with anyone interested. I don't charge any money for these classes/sessions at the cannery, which is why I felt comfortable posting it here at free republic.

I thought you might be interested in the church cannery's one month kits. They have been designed to feed an adult for one month and are very inexpensive - about $35.00. The foods included contain all necessary nutrients and will support life for that month.

Here is a link to the provident living web site that talks about the one month kits.

http://www.providentliving.org/content/display/0,11666,2882-1-1688-1,00.html

My class is designed to teach people what to do with all that wheat, which is why I share how to make cracked wheat cereal, muffins, and bread.

Anyway, I thought you might be interested. You do need to be accompanied by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in order to purchase the foods from the cannery, but phoning your local mormon bishop should put you in touch with the welfare specialist in his ward who can take you down to the cannery to store the food. I am the specialist in my ward, and do this all the time with members of the church and people of other faiths.


Jenny Hatch

[samiam1972]

I clicked on the link you sent and have bookmarked it. I'm looking forward to browsing through the garden section.

This doesn't have anything to do with your post but thought I'd share anyway. We're looking at homes in Independence, trying to find a little more space for our family. We looked around the Truman home area and saw the RLDS spiral shaped temple(is that what you call it?). That is one amazing piece of architecture!

God bless!

[Jenny Hatch]

"We looked around the Truman home area and saw the RLDS spiral shaped temple(is that what you call it?). That is one amazing piece of architecture!"

I've seen that building up close and it is amazing looking. A friend is an organist and he has played organ in it and told me the acoustics are incredible. I like Independance, I think it is a great location to raise a family.

I am not RLDS however. Just LDS. The reorganized church is very different from the church I belong to. We have some similar doctrines and history, and it is a fascinating history, but The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the Salt Lake City based church and the one I am affiliated with.

Jenny

[samiam1972]

I realize there is a huge difference. I just wasn't aware of which one you were affiliated with! It is still a neat building, isn't it?

I've enjoyed visiting with you! We are very different people. I don't want to store up anything! I even have a hard time keeping my kids clothes for the next one that might need it. I give it away! My pantry has in it only the food items we will use within a week or two. I honestly can not stand any clutter at all, whether necessary or not! I'm not sure if this is a good thing! LOL! :o)

Thanks again for the info though. I enjoy the reading and take from it what I can apply to my family. I really appreciate it!

[Uri’el-2012]

Take AIDS. the virus was in Africa for many years, and had meaningless,
inconsequential lethality rates.
Then, after it got into a population that had thousands of sex partners a year,
it could mutate and become much more lethal.

6 posted on 03/16/2006 5:30:57 PM MST by Donald Meaker

Many believe the that the so-called AIDS virus is
a concomitant marker of self abusive behavior.

[Donald Meaker]

I think that too many people got AIDS from contaminated blood for me to condemn them all. (Take Arthur Ashe, got it from blood during his heart bypass).

Again, HIV was in humans in Africa for years. A closely related virus is in monkeys. It it a marker for self abusive behavior in monkeys too?

[Uri’el-2012]

I think that too many people got AIDS from contaminated blood for me to condemn them all. (Take Arthur Ashe, got it from blood during his heart bypass).

Again, HIV was in humans in Africa for years. A closely related virus is in monkeys. It it a marker for self abusive behavior in monkeys too?

14 posted on 03/20/2006 8:04:02 PM MST by Donald Meaker

Arthur Ashe got the HIV virus from the blood transfusion.

But he was poisoned by his physician with AZT.

[Donald Meaker]

But Who owns the copyright to the Book of Mormon?

And where the heck are the gold plates now?

[faith4faith]

Where are the original Bible documents??

[faith4faith]

Thank you for the step-by-step! Very informational!