I like to freeze my flour in rubbermade containers in a snow bank outside the back door for a couple days...Never had a problem with bugs since I started doing this. Any grain product will have eggs on it. It is the hatching of the eggs that causes an infestation, not an outside source. Freezing the grain for a couple days will kill the eggs and prevent them from hatching...gross I know, but we've all been eating bug eggs all our lives, so no biggie there. I will unfortunately have to keep using flour until I can get a grain mill and a good(read cheap and local) source of unground wheat.
I worry about the condensation created by thawing previously frozen food. I'm worried that the condensation will create a medium for mold to grow.
Does anyone have a thought on this?
yes, it is a concern. I freeze and then spread the grains out on a towel to warm up and dry before packaging them. I have a mold allergy which is how I know! Flour seems to be the biggest culprit prehaps because it has more surface area? I'm not sure why but I haven't had any problems with the grains after I started doing it that way.
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Awesome. Thank you!
if you have or can save up enough for a vacuum sealer i believe you can thaw it out without the worry of condensation aiding mold growth as all air has been taken out of the bag before hand, some of the bag rolls state that they are reusable and resealable, boilable, microwavable as well as dishwasher friendly. Just a thought mind you! haven't tried it out but when i get a vacuum sealer i will try many experiments with it! this included! if anyone wants the link i have here it is!
http://www.vacsealers.com/index.html
I have a V.sealer and it works great, it even has a jar sealer with it.
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
I've been thinking about my Preps storage while listening to various senarios and reading Suzanna's Disaster Alert in Australia today. I'm going to keep duplicate preps in various locations around my home: For instance, if there was a tornado or nuclear fallout, I'd bunker down in a basement room with no windows, so I'm going to store some preps there too just in case I get trapped there for awhile (candles, canned goods and a can opener).... And in various closets and cupboards around the house....
It's probably prudent to have your preps scattered around the house anyway - don't keep your eggs all in one basket, so to speak - just in case any future break-in.....
When we were at the meet on Saturday, my brother was talking to someone from London about buying oxygen absorbers somewhere in London. Can someone let me know the name of the store. thanks.
On the subject of 'food grade vs field grade' or animal feed grains.
The family and I went to one of those pioneer type events locally one year. They had a demonstration going on where field peas were being harvested and separated to be used for animal feed. The man giving the demonstration gave a handfull of peas to the kids, telling them to plant them.
In my curiousity, I asked him about eating these. He told me sure, you could eat them...but frankly they'd be tough and hard to digest. If you dried them to future use, you'd have to soak them for a long time and they'd still be tough. He also said they wouldn't be much good to you, as because they are so tough, you'd pretty much pass them out before you gained any nutritional benefit from them. He told us, livestock chew more then us...and then some of them re-chew it again later on (cows).
Field corn is corn. The corn we are used to is bred to be sweeter (hence sweet corn). Field corn would likely make a good corn flour or meal. But I don't think we'd take to it as well as we do to the everyday stuff we use now.
My family and I are just now easing into a more whole grain diet. I say easing in to it, because if your not used to it normally then let me just say...going from grocery store to high-fibre whole grain will clean out your pipes in a really big way.
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When we were at the meet on Saturday, my brother was talking to someone from London about buying oxygen absorbers somewhere in London. Can someone let me know the name of the store. thanks.
I think we were talking. I thought Forest City Surplus would have them, but apparently they don't. I do know that Berry Hill in St. Thomas has them. Here's their link:
http://www.berryhill.ca/SearchResults.asp?Search=oxygen+absorber
That's the only "cash and carry" place.