wheat flour

WHEAT FLOUR

Today you get a Back To Basics article.  I’m not going to make fun of your silly ass for choosing rice over wheat, or talk about storing wheat, but rather cover the time between now and the actual collapse when stores are still open but your money supply or purchasing power shrinks daily.  Like when I talked about the Air Fryer or other appliances that make bought food cheaper while the grid is still up.  A further exploration of Modern Living Frugally.  I know this won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m contemplating the subject so you get to share.

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To quickly recap, I’m a big advocate of eating whole wheat flour, and a lot of it.  Every day.  Your food budget goes down, your health goes up ( and you poop! ) as does your energy level.  I’ve both unloaded semi-trucks and loaded/unloaded donations for the Food Bank in the thousands of pounds daily, eating nothing but whole wheat for breakfast and lunch.  800 to a thousand calories in wheat is a lot of bread ( microwave bread is also cheap and easy ) and it gives you a LOT of energy.  Mostly because it is real rather than processed food.

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That makes a big difference.  Calories are NOT the same.  If anyone tells you that they are a vile crapsack with the educational level of a purple haired Gender Studies lesbian.  I didn’t want to say “a box of rocks”, as that would have insulted the rocks.  Okay, so moving on, the last couple of years I got a bit lazy on the physical as I delved deeper in the digital.  I concentrated too much on research and writing and not enough on keeping my former levels of Bomb Diggity Ready For The Apocalypse fitness. 

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I’ve turned that around, greatly expanding my cardio ( anyone can do it, just start walking.  Later, walk longer.  Then faster ) from just the exercise bike.  I stopped smoking.  At first I thought, meh, what harm is one cigarette a day?  Then, once I started that cardio seriously, smoking made me feel like crap, big time.  It was easy to quit ( I had smoked just one a day for the last sixteen years, so that made it easy as well ).  Also, I’ve started eating a lot more whole wheat as I once had.

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I’ve constantly improved my diet over the last few years, if for no other reason than my heartburn.  I just wasn’t eating as much whole wheat as when I was working physically all day.  Instead of two cups ( 800 calories ) I was down to a half cup of fresh ground, and then about an equal amount of calories in store bought whole wheat the NOL gets for free at work.  It isn’t the best for you, but better than most eat.  The thing was, I need butter to eat the toast as it tasted like crap with other toppings.

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But, again, heartburn.  I’m better off skipping butter first thing in the morning.  I started eating oatmeal ( yes, the fruit flavored ones.  Not great for you, but I can’t stand the plain stuff ) instead of the toast.  And then I started missing my bread.  Now, I crave and gladly eat my freshly ground whole wheat microwave bread, but only one serving.  The Victoria mill ( used to be “Corona” ) is designed for corn milling, and even grinding three times the end result is NOT fine flour.  It is still rough and lumpy, not pastry flour fine.

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It just doesn’t taste as good.  So I was eating Wal-Mart whole wheat flour.  Again, not really good for you.  You should, optimally, eat ground wheat within a few days.  I keep mine in the fridge immediately after grinding.  Store bought whole wheat has an expiration date of a year ( it used to be six months, then they changed it to save money ).  So, it is slightly rancid as a matter of course.  No where near as bad as brown rice, obviously, but not the healthiest.  It was just Healthy Enough.

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Wal-Mart used to not only sell whole wheat flour with a six month expiration, they also had really, REALLY cheap flour.  White was $1.50-$1.75 and whole wheat was $2.50 ( the brand was something like “Hungarian Mountain” ).  I was going through near a bag a week, and I didn’t worry about the cost as that was peanuts compared to meat or butter.  So, while working a job I used the store bought flour.  Yeah, grinding that much myself would have been a bitch.  And, it wouldn’t have tasted as good.  Whole wheat flour and water, microwaved, tastes bad enough as it is.

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A fine flour tastes completely different than a course flour.  It almost tastes like a different food.  I didn’t even realize this until now, eating one serving of each the same day.  I use the course flour for the fresh food and the store bought fine flour for calories and filler.  I just started doing this again, having procured a bag of flour at Wal-Mart.  It is a different brand, and much more expensive.  Almost $4.  They don’t carry the Hungarian brand anymore.  Sure, it is in plastic instead of paper, which helps.  And it was milled this month, which REALLY helps.

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But!  Four Damn Dollars!  What am I, Rockefeller?  Right now, this is no big deal.  $4 a month, okay.  Even though feed store wheat kernels would cost $1, the $3 a month difference won’t kill me except for the philosophical blow of paying someone for something I’m capable of doing.  And it is really only $2.79 difference, if I want to talk myself into it.  But what about later?  The cost already went up 50%, for the store bought ( the feed store cost actually decreased ).  Will it keep going up?  I needed to find a better way.

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Continued tomorrow

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