cheap wheat is neat

CHEAP WHEAT IS NEAT 1 of 3

Throughout the years the number one comment, problem or complaint about the Redneck Irregular Deluxe Survival Plan was that there was never any feed stores near the reader and hence they could not stock as much cheap wheat as was needed.  Today, we revisit one solution and present a new one.  The old plan I covered last year was to buy wheat through Wal-Mart.  Every swinging dingus out there has a Wal-Mart near them, or at least far closer than a feed store.  It isn’t as cheap, but that is where the new plan comes in.  It is even cheaper than feed store wheat but even harder to find.

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( the feed store is where you must specify human consumption, non-treated [vet meds] whole wheat kernels.  If the pimply teenager clerk fresh from his X-Box has no idea, ask the owner or manager.  If your wheat is red, it is treated, but don’t rely on a mere visual )

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 So you now have three options, all cheaper than mail order wheat.  Best price ( a quarter a pound with Home Depot orange containers  ), good price ( feed store 37cents a pound with same container ) or Wally ( at 68 cents a pound in food grade buckets ).  Mail order is usually $1.25 a pound after shipping at the better deals.  For a comparison, if you bought white rice ( anyone who tells you to store brown rice for the apocalypse is a complete and utter moron, president of the Republic Of Dumbassness, Supreme Ruler For Life Of Idiot Ville ) and put them in orange buckets ( if kept out of sunlight, they don’t outgas.  Not a guarantee of no toxic ingredients, but in the collapse,  famine now because you didn’t store enough food is stupid compared to cancer in twenty years from a ‘maybe food grade’ bucket.  Obviously, reused with chemical ingredients stored in the bucket is instant death, but bought new orange buckets are most likely okay, and a third the price of food grade buckets.  Not all of us are lucky to get free used buckets, so I go with the cheapest new ones ), the cost would be 63 cents per pound in a container.  A mere 5 cents a pound savings over a whole grain, with a crappy bucket to boot.  If you can eat wheat, I’d buy the already stored Wally kernels instead of white rice.

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The cheapest are hard to find, requiring research and luck.  They are called “wheat cleanings” and are irregular sized kernels culled from regular feed wheat and sold as seed for planting the next crop.  Search in the Yellow Pages or Internet equivalent under “seed” or “wheat seed” or “seed sellers” or something similar.  You want a seed store product, not a feed store item.  A minion came across this method, one I’d never heard of or considered.  If you can find a source that sells these, you are back to pre-Y2K wheat prices, $12 per hundred pounds.  In theory, with a source for free or $1 buckets ( say, from a BBQ joint, as everyone else is trying the bakeries.  Five gallon buckets hold 33 pounds of wheat each so you need three per hundred pounds, with each year being 400 pounds you need 12 buckets per year ), your five years of food just cost $255.  Anyone can afford that.

Continued Next Time

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