For some reason, lately, the subject of Food Storage really makes my skirt fly up. I was so excited to open the first bucket of Food Storage Wheat today. I'm all about rotation. This is an extra special bucket because it contains wheat that is as old as Briton and I. Briton's folks acquired this wheat as part of their food storage plan the year Briton was born. But just loooooook at it! It doesn't look a day past 30.
Beautiful wheat!
Not a single weevil or donkey tooth in sight.
Worked like a charm!
Tasty slice of fresh bread, smothered in Oregon marionberry jam.
So when you look at the LDS church "family home storage center products" order form, and it says Hard Red Wheat has a storage life of 30+ years... it's true. It does. Thirty-three years and counting.
Now, if you want to talk about kidney beans, that's another story. Unrelated to the wheat entirely.
After extensive internet research (i.e. one Google search), I learned that dry kidney beans last about 8-10 years. No matter to my dad. He would off-load his "reject" stuff (e.g. photographs... beans ...) on people rather than throw it away. As long as someone else is doing the throwing away, then his conscious is clean.
I found my pop's propensity to pawn kidney beans during his last several visits. He'd fill a sandwich-size ziploc baggie full of beans, tuck it behind the bookshelf, and then leave the state. Or the country. I'd find kidney bean caches all over the house for weeks. But it's not like they're good for food storage anymore. They've lived their shelf-life and then some. Those kidney beans. Man. They're so dessicated, I swear you'd have to soak them a week and then boil the beans out of them before they were edible. So I guess not all food storage makes my skirt fly up. At least, not those beans.
2 comments:
You are amazing!! I'm sitting here feeling very guilty about my lack of love for food storage. The whole thing stresses me out. Guess I need to hang out more with you. You inspire me.
All right, what the cronk is a donkey tooth? Blogging with Robin is definitely going to be educational. I am thrilled that after 33 years that old wheat of ours is edible and being put to good use. Thank you, thank you, thank you. All that heavy hauling around, up and down stairs during 4 moves (2 houses and 2 temporary apartments) was worth something after all. The bread (and jam of course) look very tasty. Sorry about the beans. Maybe you could use them in one of those layered sand sculpture type thingys in a glass vase or create an artistic design of glued-on pastas and beans, etc., frame it, and give it to your Dad. Father's Day is coming right up!
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