Emergency Essentials Hard Wheat

[OldCoot]

OK, I'm a hardcore prepper who preps for a long term crisis. I have lots of food in long term storage... plastic pails with mylar bag and oxygen absorber. Most of my stores I've put up myself, mainly using foods bought in bulk from Sam's Club. IMO, there is no better way to store food than in this fashion. It is very economical, especially when compared to the prepared freeze dried stuff. It all will last 30+ years. It is very easy to do yourself especially if you go ahead & get a good sealer for the mylar.

I keep large store of all sorts of goods, such as rice, beans, oats, sugar, salt, pasta, etc. But my number one store by far is hard wheat from Emergency Essentials. I like that they package as I do with the mylar & oxygen absorber. I know lots of preppers start with beans & rice but I believe in storing, as best I can, what I currently eat. Most folks, including me, don't eat rice or beans every week much less every day. The one thing that most folks eat every day is wheat product, be it bread, pasta, biscuits, pancakes, cake, cookies or whatever. Flour has a rather short shelf life so that doesn't work for me. But the wheat berries store for over 30 years and when ground in a grinder, make healthy whole wheat flour.

Anyone else store wheat?

 

[Maverick]

I have about 12 6-gal of the wheat, I purchase about 65% of my #10 from Emergency Essentials and happy with there service

Edited; red and white

 

[jontte]

actually never thought about this..then again,I had to get a grinder of some sort,which in the long run might be smart...thinking...thinking..

 

[OldCoot]

I have about 12 6-gal of the wheat, I purchase about 65% of my #10 from Emergency Essentials and happy with there service

I find I get a much better price on Emergency Essentials items from walmart.com that their own website. Walmart offers free freight too.

 

[Maverick]

I find I get a much better price on Emergency Essentials items from walmart.com that their own website. Walmart offers free freight too.

A lot of times I get free shipping from Emergency Essentials, Walmart has good deals and Amazon is iffy, when the wife goes to the university in Salt Lake, we take the truck with us and we load up at their store front and while there we hit up Augason Farms, we generally call a head and put our order in a few days before we leave.

 

[OldCoot]

actually never thought about this..then again,I had to get a grinder of some sort,which in the long run might be smart...thinking...thinking..

I have two hand grain mills. The heavy duty from Grainmaker and the Wonder Jr.

 

[OldCoot]

A lot of times I get free shipping from Emergency Essentials

I'll tell you something I found out about their website... beprepared.com. If you want to get specials such as free freight and/or a discount, make sure you have an account & make sure you are logged in. Then put the items you are interested in into your shopping cart. Once they are in your cart, logout & leave the site for maybe a day or so. Many times you will get an email from them, letting you know you have items in your cart & to get you to order, will give you codes to enter for the free freight or maybe 20% off.

 

[Maverick]

I'll tell you something I found out about their website... beprepared.com. If you want to get specials such as free freight and/or a discount, make sure you have an account & make sure you are logged in. Then put the items you are interested in into your shopping cart. Once they are in your cart, logout & leave the site for maybe a day or so. Many times you will get an email from them, letting you know you have items in your cart & to get you to order, will give you codes to enter for the free freight or maybe 20% off.

I use there web site every once in a while an order from them, think been purchasing from them since 1996, first heard about them 1995 when I owned land outside of Kanab Utah, a gun store in town made me aware of them. Promo codes online, it does make worth while

 

[Proud Prepper]

I have two hand grain mills. The heavy duty from Grainmaker and the Wonder Jr.

Would you recommend either of these grain mills? I did not like the reviews on the wonder jr.

 

[OldCoot]

Would you recommend either of these grain mills? I did not like the reviews on the wonder jr.

I recommend both but as with most things in life, you get what you pay for. IMO, the Wonder Jr is perfect for the prepper who wants to be able to grind their stored wheat into flour during an extended crisis. It is cheap enough that one can put it on a shelf with their stores and never think about it again. When needed, it will easily get the job done. The Grainmaker is a built like a tank. It is perfect for the prepper that wants the best & can pay for it, but it might be overkill if you are just going to store it just in case. It is type mill that could be used every day or so for the rest of your life. Now if you prep for a group or like me plan on growing your own corn & grain after a crisis, then this is the unit I'd buy. I covered my bets and bought both.

You know most folks eat a lot of bread and other flour based product every day, but how often do you hear preppers talk about having flour available for the extended future? Who stores enough flour to make your own wheat based food for a year? Two? 10? Heck if you store flour, it will go bad in a few years anyway. With proper stores of wheat berries, ability to grow field corn and/or other grains and a grain mill, one is set for the long haul. There is only so much rice and beans one can eat.

 

[Proud Prepper]

I see your point. I have used white flour that was stored for 6 years and I did not notice anything wrong with it. I only made pancakes and rouxs with it, not bread. I have also read that you can store flour for 10 or more years. Its the self rising and baking powder that doesnt keep very long.

 

[Kevin L]

I'm allergic to gluten, so I store soybeans, pinto beans, rice, quinoa, and kidney beans in restaurant buckets with mylar bags and oxygen eaters. I seal the buckets with clear slicone caulking around the lids, and label with a black sharpie pen.

I probably have almost 130 lbs. of combined grains and beans, along with a lot of canned food and things like chocolate, beef jerky, summer sausage, and pepperoni sticks.

I want to store more food, but my girlfriend accuses me of being a hoarder (an accusation that may have a shred of truth).

It's good to have a wide-mouth soup thermos. You cook the beans and rice by filling the thermos 1/4 full, and then the rest of the way with boiling water.

Screw on the lid, wait a few hours, and your food is perfectly cooked with no waste and no burnt residue.

And salt, condiments, and/or herbs for flavor.

Make sure to mix different beans together with rice when cooking this way, so you complement the missing amino acids in each kind of bean, so your body will utilize the plant protein better.

 

[OldCoot]

I see your point. I have used white flour that was stored for 6 years and I did not notice anything wrong with it. I only made pancakes and rouxs with it, not bread. I have also read that you can store flour for 10 or more years. Its the self rising and baking powder that doesnt keep very long.

Most folks nowadays don't cook very much so I doubt many people use more than 25 lbs of flour a year. So a system where you store and rotate flour wouldn't be a big help in an extended crisis, for a "normal" family. Heck, we do a lot of baking but I would want more than a years normal supply of flour on hand during an extended crisis. That is why I stick with the 30+ years of storage of goods such as wheat berries.

 

[OldCoot]

I'm allergic to gluten, so I store soybeans, pinto beans, rice, quinoa, and kidney beans in restaurant buckets with mylar bags and oxygen eaters. I seal the buckets with clear slicone caulking around the lids, and label with a black sharpie pen.

I probably have almost 130 lbs. of combined grains and beans, along with a lot of canned food and things like chocolate, beef jerky, summer sausage, and pepperoni sticks.

I want to store more food, but my girlfriend accuses me of being a hoarder (an accusation that may have a shred of truth).

I suggest storing rolled oats. I once again get mine from Emergency Essentials in super pails. Oat flour can make bread and other goodies, which I bet you know, & is gluten free. I store it mainly as my primary breakfast food but also store if for anyone who might be allergic to gluten. Another choice, which I store and keep seed to grow is amaranth. It too can be ground into a gluten free flour.

 

[lonewolf]

flour gets weavils and even if it dosent, store it for a few months and it smells musty, not quite right.

 

[Proud Prepper]

flour gets weavils and even if it dosent, store it for a few months and it smells musty, not quite right.

True, however you can prevent that by sealing your flour and using H2O absorders, bayleaf, etc. I have never had any problems storing flour. I use it all up most of the time within 2 years. Had one bag sealed up for over 6 years and used it with no problem. I agree with Oldcoot, for long term store rolled oats, hard wheats and corn with a manual grain mill and you can store enough for your lifetime without the ability or need to grow more.

I want to get something like the wonder jr. But have read its not made well and customer service is non good. To many plastic and cheap metal parts. I will save up for the grainmaker.

 

[lonewolf]

i'm storing for post societal collapse and I believe we will be eating different stuff then, not the commercially grown grains of today.

 

[Maverick]

We generally grand as we need , we don’t store a lot of flour in the pantry our food store.

Edited: *grind

good grief

 

[Proud Prepper]

i'm storing for post societal collapse and I believe we will be eating different stuff then, not the commercially grown grains of today.

Im sure we will be eating anything thats edible and some of us, things thats not.

 

[DrHenley]

What about the hard red winter wheat you get at the feed and seed? We buy 25 pound bags for $11 for planting in food plots. Is that safe to eat?

 

[Coffee]

most of my grains, hard red and white came from LDS store

 

[OldCoot]

What about the hard red winter wheat you get at the feed and seed? We buy 25 pound bags for $11 for planting in food plots. Is that safe to eat?

I personally wouldn't especially if it had been treated. A lot of seed for planting has been treated with fungicides and pesticides and that could be poisonous. My understanding is that grain meant for feeding livestock is not cleaned as much as that meant for human consumption. I guess if you know where that grain came from, know that it has not been mixed with other grain of questionable safety and know that it has been cleaned properly, then maybe you could stock it. I personally would not want to risk getting sick from eating my stores and would then not want to risk having to throw out my most important food item. I do stock hard red wheat from Emergency Essentials also. I purchased whatever was on sale at the time.

 

[OldCoot]

i'm storing for post societal collapse and I believe we will be eating different stuff then, not the commercially grown grains of today.

Same here. Even though a lot of winter wheat is grown around me here in north Mississippi, I don't see me growing it post SHTF. I feel rather certain, we will switch mainly to corn meal as opposed to wheat flour, which is what historically has been grown & eaten here in the south. I store a lot of field corn seed to be grown in a three sisters companion planting with the pole beans & winter squash. Also I will be growing amaranth but think it will be grown for the leaves (warm weather greens) and not the seeds. But I'm prepared to be flexible and adapt when necessary.