Food Storage and Preparation

Grain Mills

The Kitchen Mill is an electric driven device for use when electric power is available. This mill will grind flour for very fine, regular, and course flours.
The users manual can be downloaded by clicking here.
The Marcato Marga Roller Mill is for times when electric power is not available. This mill is adjustable and will process grains for rolled cereals as well as flour.

The Kitchen Mill has about the noise level of a vacuum cleaner when running (the device uses the same technology as the pharmaceutical industry for grinding materials and does not heat flour as hot as a stone or metal grinding).

There is a discount for the Kitchen Mill for groups that order as a group.
The costs are:
2-4 mills $159.95 + tax $10.96 = $170.91
5-9 mills $149.95 + tax $10.27 = $160.22
10+ mills $139.95 + tax $9.59 = $149.54

The price for the Marcato Marga Roller Mill for the group is $79.95 + tax $5.48 = $85.43.

The regular prices are:
Marcato Mill $89.95 + tax and shipping
Kitchen Mill $199.95 + tax and shipping.

Grain

A mixture of grains provides more nutrients than wheat alone. Wheat has gluten content that is missing in many other grains. Gluten provides the "glue" that gives bread, etc. the body that keeps the bread from being crumbly. Too much gluten makes bread heavy and tough.

Grains that do not have the gluten content typically make up no more than %25 of flour for making breads, rolls etc.

Gluten powder is available to add to recipes to add more body to your recipes.

Flour

The flour obtained from the Dry Pack Canning facilities is very high quality, it is not bleached and is monitored for quality.

Storing a number of different grains provides a source of home ground flour that is nutritious and adds fiber to the diet.

Grains for home storage should be "triple cleaned" to avoid materials that would harm a home grain mill. Common storage grains include (but are not limited to) hard winter wheat, hard spring wheat, soft white wheat, oats, barley, millett, and rye. Brown and white rice, popcorn, dried beans and other hard, dry foods can also be ground into flour to add variety and nutrients to our diets.

Sprouts

Storing living grains allows sprouting grains for access to the vitamins otherwise missing from emergency diets.

The Davis County Library has avaialble:

The sprouting book By Wigmore, Ann, 1909-
Publisher: Avery Pub. Group,
Pub date: c1986.
Pages: 160 p.ill.
ISBN: 0895292467

Link to here for sprouting information and supplies.

Vacuum Sealing

Many foods can be vacuum sealed for longer life.

An example of an inexpensive vacuum system is Pump-NSeal.