wheat

[countrygirl66]

I have about 50 lbs of wheat i need to rotate, it is about 15 years old but still good. My question is for ideas on how to use just regular wheat without grinding it up for flour. If you have any recipies or ideas I would love them. Thanks

[BenRaines]

cracked wheat breakfast cereal.

Recent studies and results show that if stored properly this stuff can last 30 years or longer with good nutritional value.

Ben Raines

[rameumptom]

My wife makes wheat berries and uses them to stretch meals. She'll mix it with hamburger, meat loaf, in salads, add it to cereals, etc.

It can also be cracked, and then used in granola/granola cereal.

[amightyfortress]

Cook up the wheatberries until they are soft. Then knead them into raw hamburger meat so it's all mixed up. You can then use the hamburger mixture as you normally would to make meatloaf, or fry it up for taco meat, or make chili, etc.

[amightyfortress]

hahaha I scrolled too fast and didn't see rameuptom's post. Nice to see your wife also discovered the great meal stretching and budget pleasing uses for wholewheat berries, too. They're great, aren't they? I don't know why more people don't use them.

[Starfish]

What are wheat berries? Do you mean the whole wheat kernals?

I boil the whole wheat till it's soft (about 15 min.) then store in fridge. For breakfast, I scoop out a bowlfull, microwave it and eat it like oatmeal, with milk and sugar/honey/Splenda.

[Mirium]

Forgive my ignorance but what is cracked wheat breakfast cereal and what do you do with the wheat to make it and what are wheat berries and how do you make them?

[rameumptom]

Cracked wheat are wheat kernels that have been cracked open. The outside of a wheat kernel is all bran, which means the body will not absorb anything in the wheat, if it is not at least cracked open.

Bulgur is cracked wheat that is then toasted. Tastes pretty good in cereals or as a cereal.

Wheat Berries are wheat kernels that have been soaked/boiled until they are soft. These can be used to stretch many recipes. We use them to stretch hamburger, in chili, in tacos, etc., as a cheap and healthy way to make our food go further.

Here's some links for wheat uses:

Provident Living - Wheat Cereal

Cook's Thesaurus: Wheat

[WANDERER]

How do you crack wheat? Can you do this without a grain mill?

Edited October 16, 2008 by WANDERER

[amightyfortress]

I get teased alot about "grinding wheat with a rock". Without a grainmill, you'd really be reduced to about that point to crack wheat. But you don't need to do that. Go to Emergency Essentials - Be Prepared Emergency Preparedness Food Storage and you can get a great handcranked "Back to Basics" grainmill for $69.95. It doesn't use electricity. You can grind grain into flour, or set it to a very course setting to make your own cracked wheat. It's easy and it's fun.

You can use it on wheat, oats, spelt, corn, etc. It's a nice mill, cheap, and I love mine very much :)

Here, I just looked up the address for the page with the mill on it (click on the words below):

Hand Grain Mill

Edited October 16, 2008 by amightyfortress
I looked up the web address for the mill

[WANDERER]

Thankyou. Had a quick google and it talked about using the wheat berry mix in pancakes and bread and stuff...but no time to find recipes ATM.

I also came across a link for sprouting...not sure what you would do with sprouted wheat..

[Starfish]

I get teased alot about "grinding wheat with a rock". Without a grainmill, you'd really be reduced to about that point to crack wheat. But you don't need to do that. Go to Emergency Essentials - Be Prepared Emergency Preparedness Food Storage and you can get a great handcranked "Back to Basics" grainmill for $69.95. It doesn't use electricity. You can grind grain into flour, or set it to a very course setting to make your own cracked wheat. It's easy and it's fun.

You can use it on wheat, oats, spelt, corn, etc. It's a nice mill, cheap, and I love mine very much :)

Here, I just looked up the address for the page with the mill on it (click on the words below):

Hand Grain Mill

Thanks for this info. This would be a great Christmas gift to my married kids! We're focusing on food storage this year.

[rameumptom]

I get teased alot about "grinding wheat with a rock". Without a grainmill, you'd really be reduced to about that point to crack wheat. But you don't need to do that. Go to Emergency Essentials - Be Prepared Emergency Preparedness Food Storage and you can get a great handcranked "Back to Basics" grainmill for $69.95. It doesn't use electricity. You can grind grain into flour, or set it to a very course setting to make your own cracked wheat. It's easy and it's fun.

You can use it on wheat, oats, spelt, corn, etc. It's a nice mill, cheap, and I love mine very much :)

Here, I just looked up the address for the page with the mill on it (click on the words below):

Hand Grain Mill

I would recommend this one ONLY for cracked wheat or emergencies. It wasn't built for normal use in making flour. IOW, unless you have lots of small kids that like cranking, you'll starve to death cranking up enough wheat to make a loaf of bread on this one.

There are much better ones available, both electric and hand-cranked for a little more (or a lot more).

[rameumptom]

Thankyou. Had a quick google and it talked about using the wheat berry mix in pancakes and bread and stuff...but no time to find recipes ATM.

I also came across a link for sprouting...not sure what you would do with sprouted wheat..

Use sprouted wheat like regular sprouts: in salads, etc.

And you can plant and grow wheat grass. When it is a few inches long, use scissors to cut it, and add to your salads, as well.

[Iggy]

You can also use sprouted wheat (or other sprouts) in bread. Just make sure to eat the bread within a week and keep it refridgerated.

I had a friend give me a loaf of bread that had sprouted wheat and radish seeds in it. It was great to use for meat sandwiches or with meat dinners. Wouldn't put jelly or honey on it though.

I made some soft bread sticks using radish and brocolli sprouts which I then served with a Pork Roast dinner. I bought the seeds from a food co-op and made sure they were for sprouting and not growing. There is a difference.

Use sprouts in salads, soups, sandwiches. Also if you garden, use your vegetable thinnings (which are extremely edible and good) in your sandwiches, soups and salads. I also seed heavily because I want a lot of thinnings to eat. I prefer my beets to never get mature. I love the taste of them better when they are still very small and I eat them greens and all. Lightly steamed with butter and a few drops of lime or lemon juice!

[amightyfortress]

I would recommend this one ONLY for cracked wheat or emergencies. It wasn't built for normal use in making flour. IOW, unless you have lots of small kids that like cranking, you'll starve to death cranking up enough wheat to make a loaf of bread on this one.

There are much better ones available, both electric and hand-cranked for a little more (or a lot more).

I guess I'm just use to it. I love my Back to Basics grainmill and use it almost every day. I think it goes really fast (the faster you crank, the faster the flour comes out :) It only takes me about 10 minutes to grind enough flour for 2 loaves of bread. The concept of time might be relative to lifestyle. I still do my laundry on a washboard, so spending 10 minutes of enjoyable time doing something simple like handgrinding grain while I daydream goes really quickly for me.

[WANDERER]

That's incredible...I never thought of sprouted seeds in bread : ).

[valereee]

'Wheat berries' also refers to the whole, raw wheat kernel.

Wheat Berries are wheat kernels that have been soaked/boiled until they are soft. These can be used to stretch many recipes. We use them to stretch hamburger, in chili, in tacos, etc., as a cheap and healthy way to make our food go further.

[Guest Alana]

I still do my laundry on a washboard, so spending 10 minutes of enjoyable time doing something simple like handgrinding grain while I daydream goes really quickly for me.

You do your laundrey on a washboard???? I want to spend a day watching you in your home seeing how you do things all day. I'm such a chaotic mess, and I do things with as much as short cuts as I can. As an example, instead of dressers for the kids they each have a big plastic tub. ALl their clothes go in there, unfolded, unsorted... when I need something I just look on top or dig around and find what I'm looking for. Still, I am always behind on folding laundrey. I bought a spare play pen just to use as a giant laudrey hamper for all the clean clothes. It's full... as usual.