Emergency Preparedness – Whole Wheat Angel Food Cake Recipe? “If they don’t have bread, let them eat cake,” said Marie Antoinette. Surely she was speaking about whole wheat angel food (sponge) cake. It is something to really loose your head over. The only difference between angel food and sponge cakes is that the entire egg is used in the sponge cake. We’ve never had anyone not like this, let alone know that it was whole wheat. The flavor…
Emergency Preparedness – Whole Wheat Bread Recipe. (Great bread at 15-cents a loaf.) Ten years before Great Harvest, we raised our kids on this bread recipe. Couldn’t have made it without it. In mixing bowl blend 5 ½ cups warm water, ½ cup sweetener (honey, molasses, or sugar), ½ cup oil, 3 T. liquid lecithin, 2 T. salt, 6 cups fresh ground whole wheat flour, and ½ cup gluten flour. On high speed mix for 5…
Emergency Preparedness – If You Can’t Eat Bread, You Might Try Cake “If you have a high roughage diet and no problems with gluten (wheat protein), your intestinal tract is buff and tough,” said the nutritionist. “Modern refined food diets diminish basic digestive capabilities and addict people to additives as simple as common sugar. A spoonful of sugar may make the medicine go down, but think what the sugar has already done to denigrate a diet and desire…
Emergency Preparedness – Infectious Diseases The biggest threats of infectious disease after disasters don’t come from dead or decaying bodies, or even spoiled food. They result from failure of basic public-health services: sewage disposal and water purification. That means disaster victims are at risk for enteric disease – intestinal illness. The culprits: — E. coli: common cause of diarrhea, cramping, diminished fluids and malnutrition. — Vibrio cholera: mostly eradicated in the U.S., but acquired from poorly cooked shellfish…
Emergency Preparedness – Good Foods Sustain Good Health It’s true – good foods can act like medicine, boosting your immune system and reducing cancer, heart disease, and other ailments. Individual foods are complex packages of chemicals and compounds, but unlike pharmaceutical drugs, don’t deliver a concentrated punch to knock out a specific malady. Popular refined and processed foods may have little nutrition of what we expect. Granola bars have fewer nutrients and nearly as much sugar as…
Emergency Preparedness – 10 Safety Musts for the Home. Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors Fire extinguishers easily accessible and located away from hazard areas First aid supplies and kits for vehicles Flash lights and/or chem.-lights for power outages Utilities shut off tools and instructions for water, gas, and electricity A family evacuation plan, including emergency phone numbers A sturdy step stool Rubber-backed mats and non-slip throw rugs Grab bars and non-slip appliqués in bath facilities Indoor nightlights and sensor-triggered outdoor…
Emergency Preparedness – Give Big Rig Truckers a Brake. . . And they will probably wind up in the trunk of your car. Some interesting facts about those huge semi-trucks and those who drive them: At 40 mph a partially loaded semi requires over 185 feet to stop. A mini-van – 70 feet. Professional drivers have 4:1 fewer accidents than other drivers. There are 188 million vehicles on U.S. highways. On the open Interstate about 40% are…
Emergency Preparedness – We Have to Pay Taxes, . . . don’t we? “That which is taxed decreases, while that which is subsidized increases.” Legislators know this rule well. Governments need revenue, but will offer tax breaks to encourage things that promote self-sufficiency, valuable social and environmental policies, retirement, and charitable giving. If you knew that it only cost $.78 for every dollar you gave to charity, would you be more giving? In higher income brackets, $.65…
Emergency Preparedness – Things We Keep. I grew up in the late 40’s – baby boomer from practical, hard working parents. My mother washed aluminum foil and reused it before recycling was ever a word. Dad felt better in resoled shoes than new ones. Both were great at making do and fixing things – curtain rods, window screens, oven door, lawn mower, hem in a dress – things we’d keep. That was our way of life, and it…
Emergency Preparedness – Unimix and Atmit. The LDS Church’s food relief effort in African and East Asian nations had an abysmal start when wheat was identified as “too high test” a food to save near starving souls in metabolic distress. “Malnourished little children and the elderly cannot digest whole grains and foods made with course flour. To recover, their stressed and tender digestive systems require frequent feedings of easily digestible food in small amounts,” said a Welfare Services…