Super cheap food from the Mormons

[Tim K]

Great info. Good job I have some caveats
The wheats great. a bushel of HWW is about $14 and l two bushiels will fill three five gallon pails as i remember. use dry ice per you tube
pintos use a shit load of energy to cook, lentils much better.
oats are great, you can also buy these at the feed stores by the bushell again 5 gallon pail, dry ice.

If it was me

5 used 5 gallon food grade pails from resturants $5
2 bushels of hard winter wheat $28
3 20lb bags of basmati rice from sams $45
$ 2 of dry ice
This would fill the five fives.
THe LDS is not a bad deal forshake n bake tho.

Pardon my ignorance, and I'm sure this has been addressed elsewhere, but where does a guy go to buy wheat by the bushel?

[xring]

careful with dry ice. its really dirty and not exactly food grade

you might try nitrogen flooding.

A square inch is more than enough to do a 5 gallon bucket. I wrap it in a paper towel prior to putting it in the bottom of a bucket. Im eating wheat stored 15 years ago this way and Its real hard to tell the difference from last years crop. Could you please elaborate how dry ice that is sold to keep food cold will adversly affect food? Nitrogen purging would be ideal but would require some equipment. I would buy the absorbers before buying a tank and valves. frozen Co2 displaces the air as it turns to gas as it is heavier. Dry ice because it it is a solid requires no investment in tank and valves, shake and bake. Nitrogen would be better as it is more inert but dry ice has worked very well for me as mentioned. I have never opened a bucket to find it full of bugs. I had not considered contamination of the dry ice though and had I I probably would have sprung for absorbers.

[xring]

Pardon my ignorance, and I'm sure this has been addressed elsewhere, but where does a guy go to buy wheat by the bushel?

There is a thread on this do a search.

[offgrid]

Hey Tim,

thanks for the link. Next time I'm in COS I'll check them out.

[tmckay2]

Look at the price list linked in the OP.

i was curious if that included everything or was just a sample.

[Wulf202]

Could you please elaborate how dry ice that is sold to keep food cold will adversly affect food?

Nitrogen purging would be ideal but would require some equipment.

I had not considered contamination of the dry ice though and had I I probably would have sprung for absorbers.

dry ice can often contain several percent water. the guys who over kill with extra dry ice have reported mold issues before. also the equipment used to make it may leak oil. ive cleaned tons of gunk out of co2 systems

nitrogen tanks are cheap on craigslist from hvac guys selling them off.

[Tim K]

i was curious if that included everything or was just a sample.

I think it's everything. They didn't mention other items, and we spent an hour there. I didn't ask, though, so I could be wrong.

[ronaldrwl]

I just got back from the Mormon Food Center and wanted to report back what a nice experience it was. The food looks really cheap to me and a lot of it is already packaged for a 30 year shelf-life in large cans. The people are very helpful and nice. I easily doubled our food storage in one trip (heavy lifting required). The facility is huge but I'm not sure what it's all for. You can also buy in bulk and package it yourself at no extra charge. While I was there people were canning sliced apples. It's in a large clean room where you wear masks and hair nets.

It's worth a trip. They take credit cards, checks and cash.
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[tmckay2]

I just got back from the Mormon Food Center and wanted to report back what a nice experience it was. The food looks really cheap to me and a lot of it is already packaged for a 30 year shelf-life in large cans. The people are very helpful and nice. I easily doubled our food storage in one trip (heavy lifting required). The facility is huge but I'm not sure what it's all for. You can also buy in bulk and package it yourself at no extra charge. While I was there people were canning sliced apples. It's in a large clean room where you wear masks and hair nets.

It's worth a trip. They take credit cards, checks and cash.
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did you package anything yourself or just buy the prepackaged?

[ronaldrwl]

I just bought the packaged food.