Finally, it is naptime at my house.... ahhhh :) Peace and quiet.... Sipping on my apple cider by the woodstove, listening to it storm outside and not feeling motivated to do much else but this. I am trying to be a better time manager. I thought earlier that while the kids were napping that I should do all of the dishes and start some laundry, get out everyone's clothes for tomorrow so I could actually get to bed at a decent hour but when it actually comes down to naptime, all I want to do is relax.
The good news is that I got my wheat! :) ha ha... Went into Sunny Farms on Saturday, paid $35 for my huge 50 lb. bag and off I went. And of course that night when I got home, after I unloaded my van from our shopping trip, I got out my handy cooking with food storage cookbook and looked up how to cook whole wheat berries. 1 cup of wheat kernels, 2 cups of water, 1 tsp. of salt, bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 1 hour or more until tender. Well I was so excited for Ryan and I to try my wheat berries (we tried it similar to how you would eat oatmeal) that I overlooked the "or more until tender" part. I drained my wheat berries when the timer went off, put our wheat berries, some brown sugar, a little cinnamon and some milk in 2 bowls and... it tasted like eating little chunks of rubber. I mean the taste of the wheat was actually really good, better than rice or oatmeal but I obviously did not cook it until tender. Oh well, it was my first experience. Now atleast I know that I could eat it if I needed to. It's not totally gross. And I'm really excited to use it in some recipes. You can use it in taco meat, meat loaf, pancakes.. tons of things and people say it really enhances the flavor of food and gives you more hidden nutrition. So yah for that... I'm all about hidden nutrition because most things I know are really nutritious, I don't eat.
Also, another leap for me this week.... I tried powdered milk. I bought a small box. I have never tried it before but milk is something that is really important to have in your food storage so I thought I should try that out now too so I don't throw up if I ever had to drink it. I mixed it up, refrigerated it for a day because apparently you don't want to drink it unless it's really cold and then made Ryan try it first :) He's such a doll for putting up with my food storage craziness and trying potentially gross things for me. He took a drink and told me it tasted like powdered milk. Thanks, I've never had it before. I want to know does it taste like real milk? Should I prepare for something really disgusting? Anyways, so I try a drink. It isn't too bad. I mean, I would definately choose fresh but I did not spit it out. And I'm sure if I needed to, I could drink powdered milk. For now, I am going to use it when I bake so I can save our fresh to drink and save some money.
So, I am on a roll this week. A couple new goals I have are to get a hand wheat grinder and learn to grind my own wheat flour and purchase and try some powdered eggs when we get our tax return. Oh and I am wanting to go to an LDS cannery because they sell stuff really cheap.. now to find a morman friend... hmm...
Sometimes I wonder if all of this is a waste of my time but I think I am getting alot out of the experience.
-I am cooking and we are eating healthier. I am learning to incorporate things that I never would have thought to eat, into our meals.
-I am saving money, stockpiling things when they are on sale, and using things I already have here instead of running to the store all the time.
-I feel prepared that if we were to be unemployed for a while or if an emergency situation were to happen. I can feed my kids :) woo hoo!
-I feel like I am contributing to my family in a different way, not just the mundane, everyday things like laundry/dishes/etc.
Well, now I am off to do my everyday mundane things, laundry/dishes/etc.... Maybe next time I'll talk about long term storage?
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