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RACIST FOOD

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I trust you all remember our discussion about “white foods”?  Geez, I hope so.  Didn’t we just cover that in the digest version of the “Frugal Survival” book?  White foods-white flour, white rice and white table sugar.  Completely valueless nutrient wise but chock full of calories.  And because they are practically worthless to most life forms as food, they store forever.  White foods are NOT what you want your storage foods to ENTIRELY consist of.  They are a supplement, both as fillers and comfort food.  The bulk of your storage foods should be whole wheat.

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( yes, I understand some have gluten issues-frankly, unless you are rich and can afford VERY expensive alternates, you are going to die first.  Sorry, but your only alternate to whole wheat on a budget is whole corn and that crap sucks.  You pay way too much-thank you dingus licking FedGov bastards for the ethanol fiasco-for a very nutritiously inferior product that needs to be dried prior to storage by you as the feed stuff is meant for short term use and not processed sufficiently.  If you go with white rice and beans, which I’m not convinced is as nutritious as a whole grain but I could be wrong, you are also paying a lot more ).

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Not only is wheat the cheapest, it is the best grain nutrient wise ( again-on a budget.  I’m sure that there are superior grains available in health food stores that sell for ten times the cost ) with the best storage life.  Once you get yourself that one pound a day for your 1500 calories, you’ve got your bare bones calories.  You sprout some of that for your veggies ( with a back up vitamin supplement ) and with a few pounds of shortening a year for fat ( I’ll now add shortening to the White Foods List since it is both white and terrible for you, but cheap ) you can, barely, survive both caloric-ally and nutrition-wise.  Any White Foods added to that whole kernel wheat are just extra calories that are not going to hurt you.  If you ONLY ate the white foods you would soon die of scurvy or something, although short term would be okay.  Long term, of course, you need MOST calories in whole wheat. 

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Not that you would probably need to worry about TOO much White Foods.  Most of the time they are so much more expensive than wheat, you’ll only have them as a supplement for months rather than years.  Take Top Ramen.  On sale it is fifteen cents.  They are 380 calories each, so 2660 calories per dollar.  Wheat is 6000 calories per dollar.  That fact, plus their bulk, means you won’t be eating oodles and cobs of Ramen.  For the initial die-off they are great, as you can, if needed, eat them uncooked.  That is barely over fifty cents for an “alternate MRE” if you can’t cook or are on the move ( you obviously want more with it, such as at least some peanut butter, but that doesn’t ratchet up the cost all that much.  I just bought some PB on sale for a buck a jar and for twenty cents worth I could gain another five hundred calories which would “stick to my ribs” better than Ramen alone.  So, 70 cents verses $7, Raman and PB verses an MRE ). 

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The reason that I’m so focused on White Food now isn’t that they are cheaper, or more nutritious or anything else, but because for the first time since I began prepping I’m expanding my storage foods for variety and taste ( true, I’ve always had SOMETHING else besides wheat-just not very much.  I’m now going with bulk variety ).  Having mostly run out of space to store wheat kernels ( and believe me, I rearranged until it wasn’t possible anymore ) and now having a better grade of Old Lady to provide for, I’m filling her storage space with food she’ll be more inclined to eat ( with the ex, I just figured she would eat what I wanted her to and like it! ).  Hey, I tried to get her to embrace whole wheat, but I can only push so hard and so fast.  Come the time, she’ll be eating a lot of it but for now she just sees White Food which doesn’t spook her ( like most gals that will never get rid of kid/age weight, she leans towards an Atkins-centric diet.  As a result, she craves those foods she can’t have such as sugar and flour ).  And I don’t mind it one bit.  I ate enough whole wheat for two lifetimes already and am glad to embrace a bit of variety.

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And of course, there is the preparation factor.  Whole wheat simply takes a lot of prep work.  When the flywheel of our civilization is flying apart with dangerous shrapnel, for a short period there are going to be periods where meals must be simple and fast.  It is a lot easier to make pancake batter with white flour and a dash of sugar than to cook bread ( even the super simple flat bread ).  Plus, we must concern ourselves with the familiarity factor.  I can eat whole wheat all day long.  It was the bulk of my calories for close to twenty years.  Most people are used to white flour.  Having plenty of that on hand to ease them into only whole wheat is smart.  Sugar is great in that aspect also.  We consume a lot of sugar in our processed foods and going cold turkey is going to be an issue.  A little bit of sugar each day also weans folks off of their normal diet. 

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White Foods are like paper currency.  You don’t want to stockpile too much of it, but it can come in handy and has its place in moderation in your plans.

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