The circle of trust

I've had the hardest time figuring out the food storage thing. Over a year ago, I decided that I wanted to get serious about it and I ordered wheat. It's been one thing after another that has gone wrong...order was dropped, cannery closed for Summer, order dropped again, cannery decided to only sell wheat every 3 months, etc, etc. So we decided to do it on our own. We got the cans and wheat at the cannery and then bought a bunch of rice at Costco. It took a while to locate the stake canning machine but finally we got it. After all the hastle, I'm now realizing that most people here (who actually have food storage) have done it this way. Why did this turn out to be so complicated and shrouded in secrecy? It feels good to have finally broken into the circle of food storage.

The girls had a lot of fun too. At the cannery they helped me count labels and we talked about the process that the cannery goes through as well as the concept of rotating food. They enjoyed filling the cans but especially loved working the canner and labeling the boxes. They decorated some of the boxes and I feel like they are time-capsules in a sense.


I also ordered a wheat grinder and Bosch mixer this week and am looking forward to using more grains. Our grain intake has been limited to whole wheat waffles made in the vitamix and cracked wheat cereal.