Wheat For Man

(Doc&Cov 89:16-21)

What do you think the prophets mean when they say a one year’s supply of food?  What would need to happen for you to need to use it?  How long will a year’s supply really last?  if you are sharing?  Will society still be fully functioning?  Will only a few people be affected?

How much wheat should I have?:  It is recommended that for a year’s supply you should have at a minimum 400 lbs per person of grains that store well.  Wheat is one of the best grains to store, but white rice also stores well. There is a lot of online information about grains and food storage in general!

How to use wheat:

Ground into flour (*Grinder and **grinder screen):

·         Bread

·         Pancakes, muffins, etc.

·         Tortillas or other flat breads

·         Cakes and cookies

·         Pasta

Sprouts

·         Bread (grinder not needed)

·         Greens

·         Drinks (Wheatgrass)

Cooked Grain:

·         Cereal from whole or cracked

·         Can be sent through a meat grinder and the mash used for various recipes including a wheat sausage.

How will you grind your wheat?  Have you tried it yet?  Do you know how long it takes to grind enough wheat to make bread?  What if you needed to make bread every day?

*Grinder:

                Most of us are familiar and may have an electric grinder that does a great job at grinding the wheat into a fine flour.  Without electricity, however grinding the wheat in your food storage becomes a bigger challenge that should not be ignored.  It is recommended that you consider purchasing a high quality hand grinder ($350+) and become familiar with it.  There are less expensive (~$50) hand grinders available in most of the emergency preparedness stores but you need to be aware that these grinders produce coarse flour so you may want to grind the flour multiple times.  A grinder screen is helpful in separating the finer flour from the coarser ground product to lessen the effort this takes.

**Grinder Screen:

                This is basically a screen or sifter that you can send your flour through to sort out the finer flour from the coarser product.  You could easily make one of these yourself with a fine window screen mounted to a frame.  This allows you to separate the fine flour and send the coarser flour through the grinder again.