Why Store Wheat?

I often am asked "What can I do with wheat?  And why would I store something I will probably never use?"  My answer is.......we store it because it has so many life sustaining values, and because we have been asked to store it.

Let me tell you a story about a young Bishop who had asked his congregation to learn to eat their food storage, and he himself decided that he would live off food storage for a time.  He quickly came to realize that not having vitamins, especially vitamin C would be a problem, a hole in the storage plan.  He decided to pray about it to see how he could solve this problem using the food storage basics, and his thoughts were to use the wheat and sprout it.  It would provide enough fresh vitamins, including vitamin C that it could stave off any vitamin deficiencies.  Wheat is an amazing grain.

It is inexpensive to purchase, stores for years and years under proper conditions, can be ground, soaked, cracked, made into gluten, flour made into breads, pastas, sprouted and eaten as sprouts or wheat grass, or sprouted then dried and ground into a nutritional flour.  As you can see, the possibilities for the wheat, that is sitting in your storage area in your basement, are endless.

Here are some of the things you can do:
Grind it - make breads, doughs, pastas, crackers, gluten / wheat meat, hot cereal (rough ground), cakes, pastries, muffins, cookies, etc
Soak it - make cereal, sprouts, meat substitute for hamburger, and others, used in any meal as a substitute for meat.  It really can, I have tried it for many substitutes and it is amazing
Cook it whole - use it in chili's, soups, casseroles, and as cereal

Wheat is full of proteins, which when combined with a legume or dairy, form a complete protein.

Have I convinced you yet as to why you would store wheat?  Here is the bottom line - are you ready for it?  Here you go.....

IT WILL SUSTAIN LIFE IN A VERY DELICIOUS WAY - IF YOU LEARN WHAT TO DO WITH IT.

Let me say that again.  Wheat can and will sustain your life for a long term if need be, if you just learn what to do with it.  

If of course, you never learn what to do with it, and how to make it delicious every day in your diet, definitely you will wonder why you ever stored it.  Don't let a valuable grain such as wheat, sit in your basement on the shelves and never learn how to incorporate it into your diet.  What a shame and a waste of storage space and money.  Use it!!!

Here is a post I did a long time ago about making and using wheat gluten as a meat substitute and for other cooking.  Check it out there are a ton of recipes and gluten making tutorials. 

Here is a tutorial about how you can use sprouted wheat to make wheat burger.  It is so easy and delicious.

When using ground wheat in any bread or other baking recipe, the rule of thumb at first is to try substituting 1/3 of the white flour for whole wheat flour.  As you get more familiar with using whole ground wheat, you can adjust according to what you like.  Or google some recipes using whole wheat flour.  There are lots of them out there.

Don't let the wheat you have stored go to waste, and if you don't have any stored, get some and learn to use it.  It is one thing you will not be sad you learned how to use.