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Emergency Preparedness – Understanding the Evils of Weevils
 

   “They are all over.  They must have come in somehow from outside,” said my mother to the installer. 
   “We’ll underlay your new cabinets with DDT and your kitchen will be weevil free forever,” he replied.
   DDT was not the answer.  Why?  Because microscopic insect eggs are in all grain products from the field and no amount of processing or refining can get them out.  With heat for incubation they hatch – in flour, mixes, pasta, even powdered milk products – and come from the inside of boxes out, not the outside in.
   Without life essentials of heat, moisture, or air kitchen critters can’t live.  A simple trick is to freeze any product susceptible to weevil for 3-4 consecutive days before putting it in inventory.  Either stock up in winter when you can leave products outside (the added weight in the car trunk will improve traction) or put them in your freezer to kill the insect eggs.  Otherwise, temperatures must be cool enough in storage rooms to stop incubation.  Dehydrated (very dry) foods and airless packaging will also stop weevil growth.
   Remember, insects are nine times more protein rich than beef.  If you get them, think of what you are eating as a bonus meal with grain fed additives.   Insure that everything is seasoned well – lots of pepper.
   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
SEE THE NEED AND THEN PROCEED, TO BE PREPARED.

Emergency Preparedness – Anyone Need an Abacus?

   Time was then memory was something you lost with age, an application was filled out for employment, a program was a TV show, a cursor used very bad language, a keyboard was on a piano, a web was a spider’s home, a virus caused the flu, a CD was a bank savings account, a hard drive was a grueling road trip, a mouse pad was where a mouse lived, and bits and bites had to do with horses and horseflies.
   Do you ever suffer from techno-overload?  With more information comes higher performance expectations.  Oh yes, a crash usually involved vehicles of some kind, not life in general when any of the previously mentioned computer components fail.  Is it any wonder people don’t like to cook during a techno-crisis when take-out, drive-up, or heat and serve (expensive) fast foods are so available?
   Take the time to gather just one recipe each week for a simple food that is easy to fix.  Learn to use raw foods in your recipes.  This simple preparation practice can cut your food budget markedly, and everyone knows raw foods have the most nutrition, cost the least, and keep you from eating expensive meals out.  Have you ever noticed that “fresh garden vegetables in season” in fancy restaurant meals are ALWAYS green zucchini and/or yellow squash?  Know why?  Because they are cheapest and easiest to fix.
    For more information, contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
SEE THE NEED AND THEN PROCEED, TO BE PREPARED.

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 for good, wholesome foods.”
     Texture is a very important part of an efficient diet.  There is a reason for roughage and some think that course food is the answer.  Whole wheat, when ground to pastry flour fineness, still has its roughage.  So, if you aren’t up to whole grain bread because you don’t like the texture, try angel food cake.  Just make sure you grind to pastry flour fineness and use a recipe designed for fresh ground flour that has everything nature intended in it.  We’re talking good food here, and you’ll be a regular person for eating it.
   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
SEE THE NEED AND THEN PROCEED, TO BE PREPARED.

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 Pop Tarts.  1/3^rd cup of banana chips has as much fat as a Big Mac.  A slice of multigrain bread has more calories and the same fiber as two chocolate chip cookies.

   What are the dependable good foods with the most medicinal value?  Apples, asparagus, avocado, banana, barley, beans, bell peppers, blueberries, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, celery, chili pepper, cinnamon, clove, collard greens, corn, cranberries, dates, eggplant, fish, garlic, ginger, grapefruit, grapes, kale, melons, mushroom, mustard, nuts, oats, olive oil, onion, orange, parsley, plums, potatoes, pumpkin, raspberries, rice, soybeans, spinach, strawberries, sweet potato, teas, tomato, watermelon, wheat, yogurt, . . . . . I didn’t say you would like them all.  But, I certainly feel better now about my chocolate chip cookies.

   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).

SEE THE NEED AND THEN PROCEED, TO BE PREPARED.

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 report.   (Google Search:  ATMIT, www.lds.org/newsroom) 
   Unimix and Atmit, products made of mild grain flours (oats, corn, milo, etc), powdered milk, sweetener, cooking oil, salt, and boiling water, provide the “nourishing porridge” to save the most vulnerable.  Church-member volunteers are saving millions of lives with Atmit they produce at Welfare Square. 
    “All grains are ordained for the use of man and beast to be the staff of life.”    Remember special needs family members and store foods that are useful and digestible.  Anybody can eat mild grains, whether in soupy porridge or mush.  If it’s too soupy, reduce the water.  Gerber cereals feed infants, but not with wheat. Remember also that it’s easy to cook grains in, and serve them from a wide mouth Thermos bottle.
   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
CATCH THE VISION, GET THE FACTS, DEVELOP SKILLS, AND BE PREPARED.