Part 7- Presentation given by Amy at the Morrisville Ward, North Carolina, combined RS/Priesthood, Aug. 29, 2010. I will post the rest of the presentation in the next few days.
We're still talking about Long Term Storage.
What is the point of having wheat if you have no way to grind it? YOU NEED TO BUY AN ELECTRIC WHEAT GRINDER. Save up for this, it is important. Some good wheat grinders can be around $240 and up.
ALSO, YOU NEED TO BUY A HAND WHEAT GRINDER. It is very likely that someday you won't have electricity, but you will still need to grind your wheat. Hand wheat grinders are around $60. If you have to buy only one, buy the hand wheat grinder, and save it for an emergency. Use your visiting teacher's electric wheat grinder until you can save up to get your own electric one.
My son and I did an experiment the other day. We used the electric wheat grinder, it made about 8 cups of wheat into 14 cups of flour in about 1-2 minutes.
Then we used our hand grinder. It made my arm very tired, it took 10 minutes of pushing the crank around and around for it to produce 1 cup of wheat flour. My 16-yr-old son said it didn't make his arm tired when he did it for 10 minutes, but I don't know if I believe him.
I bought a hand grinder like this in 2009 for my daughter-in-law from Emergency Essentials when it was on sale for $50. Now it is $67, but maybe they will have a sale again sometime.
Anyway, a hand wheat grinder is not worth using when you have electricity, it takes too long. BUT YOU STILL NEED ONE. This may be the difference between food and starvation someday. I feel very strongly about this, you can make it a point to save up $67 to get one of these.
QUESTION: Why can't I grind several months' worth of wheat flour at once?
ANSWER: Wheat flour goes rancid quickly. Only grind the amount you can use within or month or so.
Another thing to think of, is buying a bread machine. It is so easy to bake bread in one, and you will start incorporating wheat into your daily diet.
Even a college student can do it. I have a son in college, and his roommate at BYU bought a 50 lb. bag of flour, made bread with his bread machine almost every day and used the whole bag in one school year.
PRICES FOR LONG TERM FOOD
The very best prices for these bulk long term food storage items are from the "cannery" (the correct name is Family Home Storage Center.)
We want to form a cannery co-op, and babysit for each other while we have regular trips to cannery.
The price list is on ProvidentLiving.org for the Family Home Storage Center.
Wheat #10 can packed by customer= 5.8 lbs for $2.70.
For 3 months for 1 person: 75 lbs.
Cannery price: 13 cans = $35. Lasts 30 years.
Beans #10 can packed by customer =5.2 lbs for $4.65.
For 3 months for 1 person: 15 lbs.
Cannery price: 3 cans= $14. Lasts 30 years.
VEGETABLES
If you are wondering how to get vegetables and fruit into your food storage, most of us will probably buy canned vegetables and fruit. However, the prophets have repeatedly told us to learn to garden. This will be another way to supplement your food storage if there comes a time when you don't have access to grocery stores.
This was my second summer to have a garden. I never touched dirt in my life until last summer. If I can do it anyone can do it. Later, probably in Feb or March we will have a class in RS on gardening, and also sprouting.
“We encourage you to grow all the food that you feasibly can on your own property. Berry bushes, grapevines, fruit trees—plant them if your climate is right for their growth. Grow vegetables and eat them from your own yard.” (President Spencer W. Kimball, Ensign, May 1976, p. 124).
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