The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #141235   Message #3289600
Posted By: Songwronger
12-Jan-12 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: Long-term Food Storage
Subject: RE: Long-term Food Storage
Picked up our feed wheat this week. "Feed" as opposed to "seed." 7 fifty-pound bags. We'll feed the old to the animals and repackage. Should be 10 35-pound buckets. Waited until after the first freeze to help take care of any bugs in the bags, and we'll package with diatomaceous earth for pest control. Seal the mylar with 2000 cc of oxygen absorbers, and that's that. We can break the wheat out any time to cook (it's about like rice when just cooked by itself), or we can grind it. Got several old Universal sausage grinders, and if you pass the wheat through 2-3 times you get a course flour, shake it down through a series of screens for finer stuff. Or you can sprout wheat. Not too tasty, but the sprouts have chlorophyll and lots of minerals.

Looking at popcorn now. Organic popcorn. Bag a bunch of that. Here's a fun article about the popcorn situation. Get your agent orange-free popcorn while you can.