Every good long-term food storage has five components: Grains, legumes, dry milk, honey and salt. With these five ingredients you can make a million tasty and healthy meals for your family. We’ve already discussed wheat, beans, honey and milk in detail. That just leaves salt. So let’s go. Why store salt? Salt is vital to…
Dairy is an important part of our diet. It provides protein, fat and calcium, all essential for good health. And it’s essential to some of our favorite foods: cheese, yogurt and ice cream. And who can eat cookies without a glass of milk? When you are thinking of putting dairy into your food storage, you…
You’ll see here at PHC (and in most food storage plans) the advice to make beans a central part of your long-term food storage. Why? Here are four good reasons you should make beans an important part of your food storage. Beans store forever Properly stored (that is, away from heat, moisture, oxygen and bugs) beans…
Complete Your Food Storage with Commodities After you have acquired your three month food storage you may want to consider getting a long-term storage. This is a food storage that can be safely stored for decades. It is built around basic commodities such as wheat, beans, rice, honey, salt and dry milk. Legumes (beans and…
Which wheat grinder should I buy? This is a question that I get all the time. The answer is “It depends.” It depends on how much you can spend, how often you will use it, what space restrictions you have, what kinds of grains you want to grind and if you want electric or hand-powered.…
If you’ve never bought whole wheat before, you may be a little confused by all the choices. The following generalizations are useful, but not always 100% accurate, since wheat quality is also dependent on soil and climate conditions, and those are always changing. In a nutshell: • Hard wheat will make more gluten than soft…