Flour loses it’s nutrition within 48-72 hours. Buy the wheat -whole, red, white,winter, hard, doesn’t matter really, , and a hand crank grinder. You can also cook the wheat whole and eat it like cereal, ‘grapenuts’ style.
I dehydrate food. Takes up much less space, stores longer, doesn’t lose nutrition. No jars/cans to lug around if needed to leave. Store in vacuum sealed bags. Wrap in saran wrap, store in mylar bags too for extra protection. Good for years.
Dehydrate2store ,on youtube, has EXCELLENT video’s. She also has a website dehydrate2store.com
But I store for long term storage, as well, 10-20 years. And for short term, dehydrated food I keep in a a canning jar. Fill with dehydrated food, pop in a oxygen absorber, it will suck seal the lid...
You can buy seed, fruit and vegetable already sealed good for up to 20 years. You might want to add seeds to your stash.
You can order Eggs, too, yes they are made and sealed, good for years.
I have ordered from frontiersurvival.com
Some prices better here than others, some not. Same price on shipping and handling no matter how much you order!
Might consider a hand crank/solar radio/flashlight, cheap in stores..
Rechargeable outdoor lights, like you see along sidewalks, make great replacements for candles, when the elec. goes out, safer than candles and no kerosene required.
One last thought. I tried an experiment this summer in my garden, I had read about. Take beans out of your cupboard. Yep whatever kind of beans you have in there and plant them. Yep, they grew. Who knew? Let grow til they turn brown/yellow and the pod splits. Presto, dried beans. Pain shelling them out, but in dire times....
Which beans were most successful for you? How many beans does one plant yeild? (A cup? 2 cups? OR...?)
I read an autobiography by a woman who was a child in southern Missouri during the Great Depression of the 1930s and she said that Lima Beans were one of the only successful crops during that massive drought, that they could take the intense sun and lack of water very well -- but that after harvest they were very very very difficult to dry out. So they ate LOTS of lima beans, almost every day, but could not dry them out to last through the winter months.
Tell me more about what you are doing with your beans - also, have you tried cooking any up??
Thanks.