Why does this matter? Well, see what Brigham Young had to say on the matter - its time to cash out that 401K and get something that really matters and holds value in your future stores:
http://ldsdoctrine.blogspot.com/2011/02 ... ilver.html
“Were I to ask the question, how much wheat or anything else a man must have to justify him in letting it go to waste, it would be hard to answer; figures are inadequate to give the amount. Never let anything go to waste. Be prudent, save everything, and what you get more than you can take care of yourselves, ask your neighbors to help you. There are scores and hundreds of men in this house, if the question were asked them if they considered their grain a burden and a drudge to them, when they had plenty last year and the year before, that would answer in the affirmative, and were ready to part with it for next to nothing. How do they feel now, when their granaries are empty? If they had a few thousand bushels to spare now, would they not consider it a blessing? They would. Why? Because it would bring the gold and silver. But pause for a moment, and suppose you had millions of bushels to sell, and could sell it for twenty dollars per bushel, or for a million dollars per bushel, no matter what amount, so that you sell all your wheat, and transport it out of the country, and you are left with nothing more than a pile of gold, what good would it do you? You could not eat it, drink it, wear it, or carry it off where you could have something to eat. The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat. Gold is not to be compared with it in value. Why would it be precious to you now? Simply because you could get gold for it? Gold is good for nothing, only as men value it. It is no better than a piece of iron, a piece of limestone, or a piece of sandstone, and it is not half so good as the soil from which we raise our wheat, and other necessaries of life. The children of men love it, they lust after it, are greedy for it, and are ready to destroy themselves, and those around them, over whom they have any influence, to gain it” (Pres. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 1:, p.250).
Just a thought to go along with the wheat...do you have some sourdough starter? I suppose you could also store huge amounts of instant yeast as well, but I understand that sourdough bread is much healthier than the standard yeast bread (see here for a quick overview: http://www.kitchenstewardship.com/2010/03/05/food-for-thought-health-benefits-of-sourdough/ although I'm sure you could find much more in-depth info online)
ReplyDeleteIt's taken me a few months to get satisfactory sourdough loaves....it behaves differently than other bread....but now that it's going, all I need is flour, salt, and water. I periodically dry some of the starter as flakes and store them in ziploc bags (I keep them with the food storage). I would recommend anyone with wheat food storage to at least have some dried sourdough starter on hand and, if possible, to try their hand at baking some loaves.
Thanks for your blog.
Wow, great comment about the sourdough starter. That really fills in a gap for most of us with wheat storage. Thanks!
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