Food Storage Method: #3 Dry Ice Packing

by Dnurkle | | Preparation

The Dry Ice Method The instructions for using this method are as follows: One pound of dry ice is used for a thirty-gallon drum of wheat. Place about three inches of grain on the bottom of the Mylar bag that is inside a plastic bucket. Then place a three-inch square...

Overwhelmed by long term food pantry? Relax and take steps.

by Dnurkle | | whole Wheat

I know how you feel. Just take a deep breathe and compartmentalize…..it can be very overwhelming at first.  That’s one reason I found these buckets – people were telling me that for a year’s supply I had to vacuum pack and re-vacuum pack etc…drove me nuts! It’s like I...

Wheat and corn prices effect more than baked goods.

by Dnurkle | | whole Wheat

Have you looked at just about any box of ‘packaged’ pre-prepared food in the store for ingredients? What about some of the processed ‘meats’ that are the staples for the Standard American Diet (yes, SAD is a very good acronym for it)? Most...

Irradiated Foods

by Dnurkle | | Food Supply

In the UK, irradiated foods are already ‘available’ to the consumer. There is a difference, though, they are LABELED. They are labeled in the stores AND on the menus.  Now either the FDA thinks that Americans are stupid, or apathetic about their own health...

Food rationing hits home.

by Dnurkle | | Whole grains

In an article in the New York Sun, Josh Gershtein wrote a few very interesting and quotable remarks: “Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing.”...