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Buying Wheat

Some folks are not going to want to eat wheat. Okay, fine, whatever. Relax, Francis. Store rice for all I care. But whatever you store, you had better be one hundred percent sure you can eat it. Every. Single. Day. I would still store wheat kernels, in small amounts if it isn't for calories, if only for sprouts. You need sprouts. You THINK you need canned vegetables, or freeze dried vegetables. Which are fine, for taste variety and SOME nutrients. But to be worth half a crap, you need FRESH vegetables. If you don't have a garden, or even if you do, for fresh winter greens, you need to eat sprouts.

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If you are storing rice, it MUST be white. Brown rice has really rancid oil. Yes, you can rotate it, and store brown. I'm not sure how long brown is good for. I don't trust ground whole wheat for much over six months, and I wouldn't trust brown rice much past that also. But that is me personally. Your mileage may vary. Just as you might be fine on White Foods ( white rice, white flour, white sugar, white instant potatoes, white degerminated cornmeal ). If you store this kind of food, just beware it is a starch, an empty calorie. You MUST get nutrients from other foods.

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All the White Foods, you can buy at the grocery store. There isn't a whole lot of reasons to buy elsewhere. The grocery store, in essence, is giving you free to highly subsidized low cost shipping on those items. You pay for Wheaties and rice cakes at a high mark up so that those bulky items are paid for in its shipping cost, and you are not penalized for the high weight items in freight charges. If you buy them through the mail, you are screwed. Wheat is different.

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If you are buying “Hen's Orgasmic Delight” chicken feed at Wal-Mart, you also get the subsidized freight. But chicken feed with added crap and vet meds are NOT what you want to eat for the apocalypse. It has a lot of wheat in it, but too much other crap you dare not consume. To get wheat at a grocery store, you are paying $1 a pound, compared to 50cents a pound bought at the feed store AND put in a new storage tote.

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Starting at the most expensive way to buy wheat, there is Be Prepared Dot Com. That is Emergency Essentials. Nice folks, flat rate shipping, but $1.50 a pound. You pay for nice, honestly. You could even be paying up to $2 a pound, if you bought the wheat in #10 cans. Great if all you need is sprouting wheat, but otherwise leave that for the Yuppie Scum preppers, the ones who buy FLIR scopes for their $2k AR's. Or MRE's instead of beef jerky and roasted grain ( skillet roast grain until brown, grind the grain, eat “flour” raw chased by water. Field rations ).

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Next is the Augason Farms wheat, either from Wal-Mart ( link in my daily small print following each article ) or Amazon ( just search “bucket wheat” ). It is a little cheaper at Wally, $22 to $26 at Amazon, but they are often out at Walton's Chinese Emporium. As of this writing. No future guarantees of pricing. But let's now just call it a buck a pound. And both usually offer it in “white” rather than “red” wheat. Red is preferable, 15% protein verses 13%. The taste is different, slightly ( there is also “hard” and “soft” varieties. You want Hard. Take whatever you can get, though ).

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According to both the 54 Year Wheat Cycle, established by researching 700 years of English harvests, and solar minimum activity, PLUS Malthus' Special, wheat is going to be both expensive and prone to shortages for the next dozen years. Buy it. Now. Don't be too picky or too frugal. Red, white, hard, soft, whatever, just buy the stuff as if your life depends on it. Which it will. If you buy wheat now, panicking mightily and buy way too much, it doesn't go bad. And you are beating inflation.

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Your best bet is to buy from a feed store. Yes, you can get it even cheaper, from a silo or farmers field, but that is a tough nut to find. Hard enough finding an actual feed store. Even when I was in rural Texas ( not recommended ), I had a thirty or forty minute drive to get to a feed store. I'm not talking about an expensive pet store, but an actual “feed your barnyard crap machines” store. Feed & Grain store. You want whole kernel, untreated, without vet meds ( it has a red dye, the med treated grain ), human consumption wheat.

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Your location will have a different price, but I've been paying 20-25 cents a pound for mine the last decade. And whereas it seems all other retail is extra cheap east of the rain band ( 100^th meridian. It might be more like 97, a straight line from Forth Worth to Fargo, but west of 100 it is straight up desert, mostly ), I've noticed feed store wheat seems extra expensive back there. You'll make up for that with cheaper ammo and gas, groceries and whatever. Count yourself lucky.

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Where the Wally and Amazon wheat comes in its own bucket, feed store wheat will require its own container, which we cover next time. Expect to pay twice the price after containers are factored in. That sucks, but hard to get around. Still, it is hard to beat the security of a 300 gallon plastic tote full of wheat, for a one time cost of $500, for five YEARS of calories. Or, you could buy two cases of freeze dried beef for the same cost, and feed yourself for all of a few weeks.

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If you have money burning a hole in your pocket, by all means cut way down on wheat and stock way up on wet canned meat and other concentrated calories. Food is food. As long as you have years rather than months of it. For most of us on the budget, however, wheat is the affordable alternative. Buy NOW.

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