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Foods are chemical compounds that with time break down.  Everything comes from Mother Earth, and I guess this is Mother’s way of house cleaning.  The rate at which foods break down is directly related to temperature and other bacteria supporting elements.

 These chemical detractors effect foods as follows:

1.        Heat – For every 10 degrees below 72 that you store foods, potential shelf life doubles.  Store cool.

2.        Light – causes heat and photo chemical changes in foods and even your containers.

3.        Moisture – Take a drink of water away from bacteria and they just aren’t as active.  Low moisture foods have the longest shelf life and are the most versatile, light weight, and least bulky foods.

4.        Air – Oxygen free means no critters and less oxidation of  fatty foods that can go rancid.

Windowless north side insulated basement rooms are generally best as storage rooms in a home.
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     The first rule taught in US Forces Survival School is, “when living off the land, eat more protein.”  The second rule is “insects are nine times more nutritious than beef, pound for pound.”  The trouble is, it is hard to find a pound of the little critters.

     Many people ask if grain has to be rotated or thrown out if old or if bugs get into it.  Hold on to your tummies, now.  Sixty-five to eighty-five percent of the food value of wheat is stripped out in processing to make white flour.  That’s why it has to be enriched.  Cool, dark and dry stored whole grains can last for thousands of years.  The Egyptians hold the current record of over 4,000 years from whole grains recovered from pyramids.  The only difference between grain fed beef and grain fed weevil is survival school rule number two.  If you put weevily grain through a grain mill on a fine grind, you’ll get brown enriched flour.

     North Americans seem to be the only cultures finicky enough or overfed enough to worry about a few weevil.  You decide.  But remember if you’re squeamish, where have your bacon and pork chops been?

     For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).

     CATCH THE VISION, GET THE FACTS, DEVELOP SKILLS, AND BE PREPARED.

     “If I put a bunch of food in storage, when times get tough my neighbor will just visit me with his .45 and take what I have anyway.”

     I thought of the promise:  “If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear,” (DC 38:30) and guidance about storing whole grains, and foods recommended in the Word of Wisdom.  And then the answer came.

     We are a “peculiar” people when we live the commandments.  If we “store what (we) eat and eat what (we) store,” we will all be on high roughage diets.  Most everybody else is living on junk food and high preservative, low roughage diets.  That means that if  I invite my neighbor in to a breakfast of whole wheat pancakes or waffles and pump him full of high roughage food, he probably won’t want to come back for lunch or dinner.  Oh, I better check my toilet paper supply too, and put in another case.

     For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).

     CATCH THE VISION, GET THE FACTS, DEVELOP SKILLS, AND BE PREPARED.