Part two of yesterday's tip

Part One of this tip may have helped you determine a few health reasons why it is good to mill your own grains, but that may still not be enough to persuade your friends and family.

The following tip to answering the questions of why you bother to mill at home is the benefits of cost and storage. Sure, we can buy 'whole wheat bread' at the grocery store. Sure, 'dead bagged flour' lasts for a nice while. Are these reasons to dismiss home milling all together? No! In fact, look closer and you can see why milling at home is better.

Health benefits aside, which is the MOST vital one in my opinion, storage and cost come up on the convenience end of considering milling at home. The 'whole wheat' loaf of bread we can buy in the grocery store is not only made of old, processed whole wheat, but by the government regulations only has to be at least 51% - or mostly whole wheat - to be labeled as such. I meander, this is also a health reason. The cost of that loaf is roughly $2.29. A home milled, fresh WHOLE GRAIN flour, loaf of bread costs me roughly $.75 to make and that is using all organic (a bit pricier) grains and sugar. Also, I know for certain what is in that loaf!

Storage, however, is a completely different thing. Truthfully, my fresh baked loaf does NOT last as long, not due to shelf-life but that we devour it so fast (no one in the house can refuse slicing into a warm loaf when they smell it), but the grains last for years! 'Dead bagged flour' can't say that. Either mites, weevils or simply staleness can render a dead bag of flour useless in mere months. The Creator made the greatest protection for that grain, the husk. There have been grains found in pyramids that were over 4000 years old but when planted, they grew just as planned. Just store the grains in a sound container and from getting wet and you can store them for years. I don't think you will be needing them in 4000 years though.

And there you have it. I hope it was helpful. I'll have more tips coming very soon! There's so much to know, I'll be posting up lots of information about whole grains, wheats, oats, etc. each day. So check back here often! :)

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