Saturday, April 20, 2019

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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note: a guy living in his van with a six month supply of prepper food click here ( it is a web site, not the guys regular YouTube video )
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30 comments:

  1. Following along, good to see a reviewing of some Minionite basic boot camp training. I, being a singular urbanite have not dabbled into the wheat fields of grains from field to table arenas of prepping. Someday perhaps post decamping from the system. It may be a better strategic course for minions to limit or avoid the grocery store sourcing (for macro amounts or critical categories of deep storage food) these retail outlets are a dicey proposition for this topic. They have limited stocks, too many mouths to compete with, a gathering and choke point for zombies post collapse, etc. A mapping out of primary and multiple (other area or regional locations) feed store or warehouse type outlets may be a best option. Once a storage threshold is met, the Minion can continue to build supply stocks and continue a storage building and replenishing of consumed items regimen. (Why go to a watering hole frequently that may have a risk quotient attached, when going UPSTREAM to another source will reduce those attached risks and help increase aquisition odds during a sytem stress eventuality) perhaps other Minions can contribute thinking towards aquiring grains, etc. at the initial points, farms, silos or storage, middle dealers in the chain, etc. This will help get ahead of the curve as collapsing (may be slow many years long) systems choke out minions from the regular "known" sources. Just thinking aloud as every topic here has threads that lead to new areas.

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    1. The only problem with targeting less known sources is that plenty of someones still know about it. Perhaps not tens of thousands but still dozens. One has to question the whole idea of last minute supplies.

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  2. And the hollyweird idiot of the day award goes to über leftwing, feminazi nutjob, Charlize Theron, who just announced that her 7 year old son Jackson has transitioned to female. It wasn’t enough to virtue signal adopt a little african kid, you had to take it a step further, didn’t you. Hell, if you’re gonna do something, do it right. Should have had him transition as a blond white girl, and called it a day!

    The 43 year old feminist actress, is currently dating bad boy spousal abuser, Sean Penn (lol)

    Dear God, I don’t ask for much. But I am asking that you send Aabdar and Maahir on a special mission to hollywood, and I will never ask for anything ever again :D

    https://bckonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/charlize-theron-son.jpg

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    1. I used to think she was a good actress. But after I watched that one where she is a spy in Berlin ( or some damn thing-a few years ago ), taking down squads of beefed up Russian mob guys with her chop suey, I just couldn't give her any more passes ( I wasn't crazy about Mad Max, either, but the whole rim job of a flick pissed me off, not just her ). Yeah, modern bitches. Selling out their children for temporary gain. How wonderful.

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    2. I don’t think that I’ve seen her in enough movies to be able to tell Jim. I just know that she’s one of these very vocal hollywood lefties, along the same vein as the “do as I say, not as I do”, Robert De Niro or Alyssa Milano types. Most of them are pro-climate and SJW proponents, but fly in carbon spewing jets everywhere, live in mansions with a carbon footprint bigger than Rosie O’Dumbbell’s ass :D or in the case of feminists like Theron, dating dudes like Sean Penn, who is said to enjoy a friendly game of baseball, with the girls head serving as the ball :D

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1157780/Is-Madonna-love-Sean-Penn-man-beat-baseball-bat.html

      I knew that the new mad max was going to suck. I heard beforehand, that Charlize Theron was mouthing off that it was going to incorporate a feminist agenda into the plot. When I saw hundreds of rounds of ammo being expended in the preview alone, there was no way that I could take it seriously as a post collapse story. Besides, without Mel Gibson, mad max isn’t mad max. But Mel was a bad goy, and had to be smacked along side of the head with a kosher salami :D

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    3. If you have seen "Monster" ( or, "The Monster"-going by memory ), she is the vengeful highway hooker. I was impressed she could do that role so well, and change her appearance. She just seems able to do almost any role, which you have to admire. Sean is one of the few real men in Hollywood. And they probably know they deserve a good beating from him. I imagine he was never celibate long.

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    4. Yeah, Sean Penn is somewhat of an anomaly in hollyweird. He’s a hard line leftist, but unlike 99.999% of them, he’s not a pussified beta male. That’s an unusual combination, and I often wonder where the appeal in leftism is with such types. Shia LaBeouf is another one.

      Despite the claims by women that they really want nice guys, I’ve never met one that actually meant it. Even feminists hate nice guys. They go for those types since those are the only men that will tolerate their attitudes, but they don’t respect them, and usually cuck them in the end. That was one of my biggest mistakes as a young man; I was the perpetual nice guy. And there wasn’t a damp vagina within a 5 mile radius of wherever I was at any given moment :D

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    5. Haha! Yeah, that’s the one exception that I forgot to factor into it :D

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  3. “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”


    Yeah, but that extra $2.79 buys you non-irradiated and non-pesticide treated wheat. One imagines that your alimentary canal looks about as good as Liberace’s did (That is, it looks like a band of Athenians waged a war in there, and celebrated with a little R&R afterwards :D )

    Pre-collapse is not the time to be a Rabbi Dakinstein with your wheat purchases, my fine haired friend :D

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    1. Good crap, that was hilarious-that's for the chuckle.

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  4. I occasionally eat oatmeal in the morning. The great value stuff in the big round cardboard can. I/2 cup in a big bowl, lots of filtered water and a peench of salt, then in the micro for 5 mins. Watch it, it will blow over the top. Then a big squirt of real honey and real maple syrup - cause I deserve it. After a good stir I top it off with whole milk. I likes mine like a slurry as it goes down easy. That lumpy sticky shit won't do. Keep it simple. No I don't put any sugar in it. Man that shit is good. Now that I'm yappin about it I might make some for suppah.

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    1. Honey is the bomb diggity. I wouldn't touch sugar if I could afford the natural bee nectar more.

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  5. A little something for you cereal lovers:
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    https://xkcd.com/27/

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  6. I appreciate going back over the basics. Some of us miss the first, the second and the third time you say it. Eventually it sinks in :-)

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    1. I've always been a "repeat until it sinks in" learner. So, just teaching the same way. If it makes minions asses itch, that is just a bonus :)

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  7. Almost every week I come across a person who thinks they're a Prepper but have none to little wheat grain and no mill to make it into flour. Flour is top on the list for being able to eat normally in bad times. Flour and baking bread items is critical for a comfortable survival and so easy to do.

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    1. Not sure why wheat was so normal the last Bad Times ( '70's ) and now the very idea of it turns fearsome preppers into quivering jello.

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    2. Because Gluten , you old bald fart. Get with it Jimbo.

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    3. How do you turn an entire population into gluten intolerance? I thought another possibility was the spraying of the crop at the end to get a uniform ripeness for harvesting? Of course, again, how is everyone suddenly allergic to chemicals when we were swimming in them from the womb? There has to be a better explanation.

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    4. My thought on that is , ROUNDUP and its current use to get uniform ripeness.
      I agree, and believe gluten intolerance to actually be an allergy to Roundup.
      Thank the gods that I don't seem to have that issue. I've been using the hell out of that weed killer for decades now, seemingly without issue...
      Hell, we can't produce enough food now for the world's population, let alone without chemicals !
      While I do empathise and mostly agree with organic methods. I'm not fanatically an idiot either.
      People gonna starve big time without Monsanto.

      Not all will of course, some have the knowledge and means of old methods. This is not possible for seven billion. Six B. of which are fat fucks.

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    5. It used to piss me off, reading Lucifer's Hammer, and the total dismissal of anything organic for farming. To me, it was on par with their pro-nuke stance. Took me awhile, but yeah, they are spot on about taking no changes with nature growing food at first. Still wrong about nuclear power, of course.

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    6. Tho nuklar could well in certain situations like depicted in that particular case. Be an avenue of maintaining an industrial society without oil energy. My reservations might be nukes are so high tech, hat soon they'd have issue with replacement parts. Yet surplus energy gives lattitude for much expansion on a local basis anyway. Lucifer if written in today's world allows solar and much better batteries so range might not even be as great an issue. Again replacement batteries etc. Would be a short term problem. Without government interference and political fear mongering much could be done on the nuke end of things. Of course then too , without gvernmental oversight, could further hasten our doom if left up to the libertarian mindset of zero regulation.
      Seems to me that a Lucifer scenario might also give the world a thousand Fukushimas...or in other words an ELE.

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    7. Yeah, that would have put a bit of a crimp in their survival chances, sucking in all that radiation. Not sure the difference in the number of plants now and then, though.

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  8. A cup of oats with 3 cups of boiling water go in the Thermos the night before. Cap and shake well. Wrap in a towel. With a little milk and honey, it’s breakfast for the wife and I. Cheap and good eating. Also, in case of a power outage during the night, you’ve got a hot breakfast.

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    1. No problems getting it out? Spatula? Still watery?

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    2. That was always the problem that I had, getting it out of the thermos. I was going to get one of those wide mouth thermoses, but all of the articles that you read on thermos cooking say not to get that model. I was thinking that if you wrap it up well to better insulate it, as the poster above states, that it should still work pretty well, but I haven’t tried it yet.

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    3. Maybe a wide mouth thermos?

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    4. Duh, one of those long handle spoons like you use for ice tea or thick milkshakes ?

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