Don’t make this mistake! I packed up this forever food almost two years ago and today I found out that I messed up. Wheat berries are an excellent food to store in your prepper pantry for survival. They can easily last 30 years or more. Here’s all the info you need to know about this superfood and why it should be part of your food-prepping plans to hedge against food shortages. People have been storing wheat berries for thousands of years for a reason. You should too. 👍 SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/2Iy7PK3
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Was trying to watch but the jokes are so obnoxious and boring .
Ooh! This is an 'eat the bugs' moment! I remember one time, when I was a kid, we had our Raisin Bran cereal stored out in the garage for a long time. Granddaddy came over for a visit, and he was eating the Raisin Bran the whole time he was visiting. Mom looked at the box later on, after he had left, and she saw that boll weevils were all in it, and Granddaddy hadn't noticed and he had been eating it the whole time. I forgot all about that till just now.
Thank you for the information and the belly laughs!! So sad about the weevils, but like others said they are edible (🤢)
Well am trying to dry canning flour supposed to good for 25 years
Ya gotta put bay leaves throughout, to be sure.
I actually buy wheat and sorghum from my local feed store. It's not as clean as it would be if sold for primarily human consumption, but it's perfectly safe. They sell other whole grains, as well, like corn, oats and barley. And since there's no shipping, that cost is eliminated completely.
One bucket out of your entire storage is totally acceptable. When dealing with nature, you're never gonna get 100%, no matter what precautions you've taken and how hard you try. In a true crisis, you'd eat that bucket of grain anyway. The little meal worms and grub worms are just additional protein & nutrition.
Bay Leaves
Well. There's your COMPLETE protein.
Weevils lay their eggs on the wheat berries there is nothing you can do to prevent them from doing that. Freezing does kill those eggs but the eggs are there and nothing you can do about their presence.
I think the most fool proof method is to use DE
Cornflakes were originally developed as the "Ultimate survival food" – so just go buy some. Easier.. They kinda have it down pat.
Awe C'mon mountain gurly man. When it was gonna come down to it, you tell me a few bugs would have stopped you from using that almost good wheat grain? 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂 YT experts… I wonder if anyone wants there subscription back? 😵💫🤢🤒😵 maybe, just maybe, next time try smaller containers to avoid total loss and by goodness sake use gloves and don't expose it to air unless your gonna use it. Gee Whizzzzzzzzzzzzz.
I’m 74 why didn’t anyone have gluten allergies when I was growing up?
SHTF is what we say.
Just keep in mind that HDPE plastic is not airtight. It will seem like it at first but it will slowly allow air back into the bucket. So even with your CO2 purge, you’re eventually going to need to do it again. That’s why the Mylar bags are a superior solution. They coat the plastic with a very thin layer of aluminum to fill in all the little holes in the plastic. Polyolefins are gas permeable without a metal coating.
Omg there are so many of them.
McDonalds fries are a forever food that can be stored just about anywhere. Underneath furniture, between couch cushions, in the gaps between the car door and the car seat. I have a bunch of McDonalds fries sitting in the bottom of my desk drawer. Some of them have been sitting in there for over 20 years, and they are the exact same color they were the day after I ordered them.
I remember doing this with my parents back when I was a kid. They used the dry ice technique and it worked amazing! Those buckets of wheat, rice and oats always came out with no issues. The only thing different was the buckets we used were push on lock bucket lids that seemed to seal the air completely out, where you had a big metal tool you would use to pry the top off when you were ready to use it, instead of screw on lids so not sure if the screw on lids allow more air in or not. Sorry to see you lost some food.
Ah, just a little added protein.
Wheatberries funny? Huh? Maybe had he said Dingleberries
Thanks for educating people on the nutrition chasm between fresh milled whole flour and store bought carb dust
Weevals Wobble but they don’t fall down
After adding the dry ice and the bucket swells, you said to burp it . Doesn’t that put 02 back in the bucket? Can you share a video how to? Thanks
I need a mill that will grind corn as well as wheat. Do you get $ if I purchase through the Amazon link you have listed here? TY!
Civilization is good, our folks knew what to do.
I now always stick purchased dry goods in the chest freezer for a week before putting them into long term storage. Went back and freeze-treated some older stuff I had in buckets, luckily no buggers! I bought some fresh organic flour from a local mill a few years ago, and one kind lasted several months with no issues, the other had bugs that became obvious after just 3 months and the rest had to be tossed. That was before I learned about freeze-treating though. From now on I will do that even if I am not going to store long term! This is good info!
Diatomaceous earth brother.
Not to prep or ruined food when you really need it.. I wonder what's the lesser of two weevils?
Get so pigs
Yup everything I buy I put in freezer 3 to 5 days prior to mylar bags. I feel your pain.Hell even stuff I use day to day I do it with as well. Mylar bags then food grade buckets. Amazon 50 bags and o2 for 26.00. Do it right.
I couldn't smell it
I put my wheat berries into a vacuum seal bag with oxygen absorbers then sealed them inside of airtight buckets. So hopefully the oxygen absorbers will kill any weevils that MIGHT be in there. I got the wheat berries from True Leaf and they came in sealed mylar bags but were not vacuum sealed.
Thanks for taking us through this sure appreciate you two
In a survival situation you wouldn't give a shit about bugs! Eat them and have the protein
No "you (don't) have to decide what's best for your situation" You have to learn from others' mistakes.
Oxygen absorbers reduce the pressure in a bucket. Buckets' walls are permeable to oxygen, so more comes in thru the plastic.
Also the walls of the buckets are 'sucked' in, often causing them to crack, letting in oxygen and bugs.
Use a mylar bag liner with an oxygen absorber or use CO2 to displace the oxygen.
I've been storing food for 40 years and advising people how to do it correctly for almost as long. Learn or repeat mistakes; your choice.
Whoa – a bucket with dry ice and the lid down is called a bomb. Set the lid on, but do not close it down for 12-36 hrs.
Bay leaves are useless. Ask Utah State Univ (yep, they tested that myth in the 1980's).
DE works only against bugs that aren't there. If you add bug eggs (USU again) and use nothing but DE the food loss is the same as doing nothing.
And freezing is iffy at best.
Also dry ice/CO2 does not need to totally displace the air, just poison it (movie Apollo 13) so that it kills eggs and larvae.
you do know that berries are soft and juicy, no hard and dry!
FWIW, I talked with the folks who made your freeze-drier and they said that flash-freezing in liquid air (-200C/-328F–made with a cryocooler you can buy) before freeze-drying would not only result in a better quality and more nutritious end-product, but should speed up the process quite a bit. (I'm not sure if flash-frozen and/or freeze-dried wheat berries would still sprout, but it would be definitely be something worth trying. In any case, the process would DEFINITELY kill any weevils and utterly destroy any eggs.)
Thank Mr Haxman for the great videos and for all your efforts to help everyone around you. sorry wheat is a grain and not a berry