Old Food Storage Ideas:
Esther Dickey's book published back in 1969 and 1970 was so popular in the LDS culture, it was often given as wedding presents. I had 2 copies myself back then. One WAS a wedding present.
The four main ingredients for survival were:
Wheat
Salt
Honey
Powdered Milk
In this post I will just talk a bit about wheat.
I remember countless Relief Society meetings where we learned to use wheat, mostly by grinding it and making bread, whole wheat cookies, homemade wheaties, etc.
I remember several meetings where we learned to make pure gluten out of the ground wheat and them make lovely seasoned sausages out of the wheat gluten.
Well..fast forward to 2000's...and the big trend now is GLUTEN FREE. Lots of people are so sensitive to gluten that they become very ill. This is celiac disease. The rest of us in the population who don't get obviously ill after eating wheat and other high gluten products are still doing our bodies some harm.
In our family, our world has changed! Because of teeth problems!
OK..this is the problem...
There are several members of our family who have inherited decay active teeth from their mom.
What they discovered as they did research is that phytates in grains BLOCK calcium from being absorbed in your body, your teeth, your bones. So because they have now gone off grains..their cavity formation has greatly decreased and some cavities even disappeared!
Some people are born with teeth that don't get cavities easily. My husband is one of them. But those of us who do, can benefit by eliminating alot of grains from our diets. as well as sugar.
There is a lot of new information out now on phytates... please study out these issues and make some decisions...I am starting on these 2 sites....
http://www.westonaprice.org/food-features/living-with-phytic-acid
http://www.paleoplan.com/2011/04-27/phytates/
And this site on celiac disease...
http://www.celiaccentral.org/celiac-disease/facts-and-figures/
H A P P Y R E A D I N G !
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