It took a bit for me to get the picture big enough to read. I think #1 is the best one 🙂

Excellent chart!
P.S. Hi Oldschool!

Besides having the wheat grinder , once you grind the wheat into flour,
what is anyone making with the flour , if they don't have an oven ?

Pancakes ? Bannock flat bread in frypan ? Dumplings ?

Agreed, great chart.

Yum - all of those sound good. In a long term situation you would have to make any and everything from your own wheat. Instead of storing it away we all best get on with learning to switch over our regular meals - it will save money and be much healthier. I love my hand powered grinder but I have an electric one too. Did you know that flour looses most of it's nutrition in the first three days after being ground?? and that flour from the store is only "good" for up to 4 months - after that it goes rancid. That's what makes storing whole grains so important.

If you have a BBQ you could rig up an oven...that may take some practice tho. I have a kerosene oven that sits on top of a kerosene stove and a wood burning stove so there are options available. its also possible to bake bread in a dutch oven over a fire - I have done that a few times and burnt the bottom a little but it still tasted great - just need some more practice. What's your favorite thing to bake Goldie??

Speaking of ground flour not having much nutrition left after just a few days, I tend to think you need to use it the same day to get the best out of it.

I just bought a hand " flaker " mill so I can grind the oat groats into rolled oats. Oats deteriote within a few hours of grinding,
unless they put some stabilizing preservatives in the oats. I'm having some challenges cooking them
as they froth and foam up so high compared to regular quick oats, and also they take quite awhile longer to cook.
So I have had to increase the water to allow for the longer cooking and then there is even more boil overs. LOL 😆

I've just ordered some from a different grain supplier to see if their oat groats work any better.

However, they do satisfy the morning hungries better and they fend off the hunger longer .

You can also just cook the oat groats whole , they look like brown rice. But I like flaked
oats .

I have been trying the "naked" oat groats which grow without the hard husks. The first supplier I got from
a place online from B.C and they do not process the oat groats at all. This next place
" toasts " the oat groats to help stabilize them somewhat.

I'm not so sure about the shelf life as there is fats in oat groats ?

So latey I've been testing oat groats , hand flaked and used within 1/2 hour of flaking.

I have not tried making pan flat bread yet. Perhaps that should be something to try for many of us
myself included.

Besides having the wheat grinder , once you grind the wheat into flour,
what is anyone making with the flour , if they don't have an oven ?

Pancakes ? Bannock flat bread in frypan ? Dumplings ?

Agreed, great chart.

I have baked bread on top of a woodstove in a water bath canner a few times when needed.
Put a *rack in the canner, place an oven therm inside on rack, as that's what you pan will sit on.
When hot enough, put in your loaf pan, place cover over it and set timer for time to bake then keep an eye on it.
It may not look as it would in an oven with a nice top on it, but it bakes it just fine and it taste good too.

* you can use canning rings on the bottom if no rack.

And of course all you have stated as well. 🙂

Good chart. TY APP

Besides having the wheat grinder , once you grind the wheat into flour,
what is anyone making with the flour , if they don't have an oven ?

Solar oven: Homemade, inexpensive, can work in the cold if it's bright, works like a crock pot but also for muffins, bread, and cakes.

I do have to say, she lists bunches but I tend to steer people away from grain mills until they have a significant amount of wheat and food storage. If there's just one or two buckets, use the $100-200 from a good grain mill to get other food items. The LDS wheat in cans can be sprouted, at least for the first four years it's in storage at 55-72 degrees F. Any wheat can also be used in soups and stews, as a side dish like barley or rice, and added to a bunch of other grains and oatmeal as a mixed grain porridge or served by itself as a sweetened breakfast grain.

At the level the author listed, sure, absolutely. I just don't think it's necessary with the first bulk bag or 50# bucket that comes home, and maybe not until an initial goal of food storage has been reached. Since I've bought inexpensive grinders and wasted the money and believe in good tools for the kitchen as well as the rest of life, I'm leery of the lower end mills that would be much mess and not ripple the budget as much. I can put up a lot of supplies of varying types for $200.

I have been looking at the Wondermill Junior Deluxe handmill . However I've been waiting to hear if anyone
has tried this one ? ( The price is much better than the popular Country Living hand mill )

As for the manual Flaker Mill , I bought the Komo Flocino as it had an adjustable thickness and seems to be
a quality brand. Komo had other hand flakers , but the thickness is not adjustable.

The other hand flaker I found that is adjustable is this one
http://www.margamulino.com/

However, I saw some bad reviews that they changed the metal they are now using and it is not as good
as the original older version. So I did not try this one, but it might really be an ok flaker. Price is good.

There are a few critical things that you can't do without. If a lot of your "stay alive" plan depends on grinding that grain and you only have the one grinder you can't afford to let the price factor in to your purchase. It must be the very best, no compromise.

I agree about getting dependable and quality products for critical survival.

The Wondermill Junior Deluxe seems to have very good reviews, from reading
several places, including on the Briden website. So I am not sure yet on which
model to get.

However I would still like to find someone that has tried this brand before purchasing it.