New here so be gentle. I am starting to slowly prep.the first thing i am doing is wheat berries. I have a food saver and mylar bags. I would like to prep some to use some 5 gallon tubs would not be totally practical. I also have mason jars that would be good with the food saver and maybe some oxgenizer packets. My question would be what would be a good set up for storage of a lot of berries but also be able to use on a regular basis.
If you're using them, then you don't need any kind of preservation. If you have some that you won't use for years, then bite the bullet and do it right. .. and cheap.
Bucket
mylar
O2 absorbers
Clothes iron and 2x4 wood to seal.
Don't forget to also drop some in a pot and soil for wheat grass.
Depending on how many people you are prepping for, you might think about using 1-gallon bags instead of 5 gallon. I stored some wheat, but decided a while back that I probably would only use it to cook for cereal, so have stopped buying it. I just bought a big bucket of flour and divided it into 1-gallon mylar bags. That way you don't have so much open at a time. Be sure not to store self-rising flour or meal!
You're making a good start and on the right track. When you buy your wheat, not berries, you can pack it in a number of ways, depending on what's available. The best way would be in Mylar bags for a 5 gallon bucket. Seal the Mylar bags with appropriate size oxygen absorbers - not oxygenators; the goal is to remove oxygen, not create or insert it - in the Mylar bags. There's plenty of info on this site and others on how to do that.
My wife and I were just reading a book from the 80's about using wheat - a book that came with the Magic Meal wheat grinder we bought back then. The suggestions then included simply lining a trash can with plastic, putting the lid on, and taping with masking tape. That method worked well at the time and lesser methods worked for thousands of years before then. The book also recommended a process we used a lot back then: a chunk of dry ice at the bottom of the bucket in the hopes that it would displace the oxygen before we sealed the bucket. We had good results with that, too. It doesn't mean that the dry ice trick worked (or didn't work), it simply means that wheat is a very reliable storage item in most circumstances.
But the best method available to us today is the Mylar and oxygen absorber method and, for serious long-term storage, that is what I recommend. Don't leave your future to chance.
I have wheat stored in #10 cans from the LDS Storehouse, in 5 gallon buckets where I used dried ice, and in one gallon Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers which are then placed in 55 gallon steel drums.
Wheat is a good first thing to start storing. It is very forgiving.
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