Day 8
Food
Cherries and cooked wheat were my choice again today. I had four small bowls full. I still don't feel deprived. I also had two slices of whole wheat bread.
Symptoms
My body is still not back to normal, but I feel good. I have absolutely NO bloated feeling - something I frequently get with my regular diet. The rashes itched quite a bit today.
Day 9
Food
I enjoyed cherries and cooked wheat in the morning and at luch, with a slice of whole wheat bread. In the evening I decided to try my hand at making a fluffier whole wheat bread. I researceh on the internet and found one that I thought might work. I sweetened it with honey and made four loaves. Wow! they turned out great! There was a bit of dough left so I decided to try pizza. I rolled out the dough veryt thin, then topped it with canned, crushed tomates, basil from our garden, and drizzled it with olive oil. It was amazingly delicious. My husband even liked it. I became so excited about the pizza that I decided to try focaccia with the remaining dough. I rolled the dough a bit thicker this time and added the tomato and added the tomato and basil, then I grated some onion on top. I drizzled extra olive oil (extra virgin), and baked it at about 350. It was heaven! Honestly - it nearly captured the taste of the pizzas I remember eating during my mission in Southern Italy. Yes! I think I will survive.
Symptons
My body seems to be going back to normal. The rashes are still there, but have quit itching.
Day 10
Food
Breakfast consisted of wheat toast from the delicious bread I made Wednesday evening. I spread a bit of apricot jam on it, too. We canned the jam ourselves last fall. For lunch I finished off the delicious focaccia I had made the night before. No deprivation here! For dinner I experimented by adding beef boillion to cooked wheat. Then I added some onions and canned green beans (from our garden). It wasn't the best meal I have ever had, but certainly tasty, and a nice change. Don't think it will be on the top ten, however.
Symptons
I feel great and my body truly seems back to normal. I am drinking about 32 oz. of water a day. I should probably drink more. I still weigh 142 lbs. I secretly had dreamed of this turning into the next Oprah Diet and netting me $millions.
Day 11
Food
Cooked wheat and pears today - three bowls. I also had a few blueberries. Now I know these are not in my food storage, but we DEFINITELY grow them this summer.
Symptons
My body is functioning normally - yipee! The rash doesn't itch too much.
Day 12
Food
Cooked wheat again - all three meals - with some more blueberries and a few strawberries. No canned fruit today. The fresh fruit was such a nice break but I realize that this would only be possible if I grow these berries in my yard. I will order seeds or starts this week.
Symptons
None. I feel great. Mt energy is up and I need less sleep.
Day 13
Food
Today I ate very little - a slice of whole wheat toast with a bit of apricot jam (which I made in August) was our breakfast. For dinner I had a bit of cooked wheat with steamed broccoli and a simple sauce on top (no cheese) I made it by sauteeing a bit of garlic in olive oil. Then I added crushed tomatoes, dried basil (from our garden), and a little salt. The meal was delicious.
Symptons
None - except I started craving what my family was eating.
Day 14
Food
Mysweet husband made wheat bread and kept out some dough, so I was able to make another focaccia. I topped it with crushed tomatoes, basil. and onion. It was my meal for the entire day. The onion was very bitter though. That was a disappointment. Maybe next time I will use sweet onions.
Symptoms
The rash has stopped itching. I weigh 141 lbs!
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Can a person really live on the wheat he/she has stored in the basement without getting sick or going crazy?
What Am I Doing??!!
Hi. My name is Patti Adams. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I try to do all the things I know I should - and sometimes I venture into the second mile - and some days, I would rather just stay in bed.
I was recently called as the Relief Society president of my ward - charged with the task, among other things, to get the sisters under my stewardship to get excited about food storage. I had been assisting the previous president in this already. Our Enrichment Nights consisted of great presentations from water storage to foam clothing. We had some great stuff!! The problem was, the same twenty people came each month and most of them already had food storage. Seventy percent of the sisters weren't even coming.
I have spent a good deal of time thinking and praying about this. How do I get the other sisters to peek their heads out of their routines and look at how easy it could be to put something away for a rainy day (or worse).
The Church used to ask us to save two years worth of food. Then they cut it down to one year. Recently, on their webite at http://www.lds.org/, they suggest we store 90 days of the food. I am sure this isn't because their recommendations changed, only that they hope people will get AT LEAST this much. I passed this 90 DAY concept on to the sisters. "Surely we can all get 90 days worth, right?" I said. The responses were usually "I can't afford to get 90 days of the food we usually eat. I can't even afford to keep food in the house for a week." This is a valid concern. When I suggest storing basic, inexpensive commodoties like wheat, they often respond "But if we start eating wheat, won't we all get sick?" My response, muttered under breath is "Isn't sick better than dead?" And so the cycle goes.
About four days ago, New Year's Eve I think, I got a craving for cooked wheat for breakfast. No, I don't usually eat this healthy. If I eat breakfast, it consists of Sugar Crisp (now called Honey Crisp so that we feel okay about giving it to our kids) or a spoonful of Nutella - so this was a strange craving. Could I be pregnant? Certainly not. I turned fifty last month. Too old for childbearing.
So, I cooked some wheat - and ate it - a little molasses and rice milk (we don't drink real milk at our house). It was delicious! I had a second bowl and felt satisfied. That afternoon I made Tabouli with the cooked wheat I had left over. Delicious!
The next morning I cooked wheat again and added a few pears from a jar that my husband had canned in the fall. Wow - closer to heaven. It was great! I began to look forward to what I could do with wheat at lunchtime. I could get to like this stuff!
This led me to think about the sisters in my ward. What if I could prove that a person wouldn't spontaneously combust if they suddenly began eating wheat? Maybe then, if the sisters in my ward could see that hard red wheat, at just $6 a bag from our local cannery, could provide sustanence without killing them, they would begin storing it.
I have to admit, when the idea first came to me, my biggest fear was, "What if I do do get sick?" Well, better to know now and make other plans before I need to live off of my own wheat.
So, I am into the fourth day. I will eat wheat as my main food source for 90 days. I am not sure, under what circumstances I would not have access to commercially grown food, but in case I was ever in that situation, I have created a few ground rules for myself.
1. Wheat must be the main ingredient for all of my meals.
2. Anything we grew in our garden this past year, or would grow in our garden, can be added for flavoring. This includes herbs, spices, garden vegetables, and fruit from our trees.
3. We don't produce any edible animals on our land, so I will not eat meat products. All protein will come from wheat.
4. The wheat can be ground to make other things - as long as it is the main ingredient.
5. I will not eat refined (white) sugar.
Here on this blog I will record my progress. If, all at once, the blog stops, one can assume the worst has happened and you are welcome to whatever wheat I have left.
(I'm really going to miss Nutella!)
Patti
Hi. My name is Patti Adams. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I try to do all the things I know I should - and sometimes I venture into the second mile - and some days, I would rather just stay in bed.
I was recently called as the Relief Society president of my ward - charged with the task, among other things, to get the sisters under my stewardship to get excited about food storage. I had been assisting the previous president in this already. Our Enrichment Nights consisted of great presentations from water storage to foam clothing. We had some great stuff!! The problem was, the same twenty people came each month and most of them already had food storage. Seventy percent of the sisters weren't even coming.
I have spent a good deal of time thinking and praying about this. How do I get the other sisters to peek their heads out of their routines and look at how easy it could be to put something away for a rainy day (or worse).
The Church used to ask us to save two years worth of food. Then they cut it down to one year. Recently, on their webite at http://www.lds.org/, they suggest we store 90 days of the food. I am sure this isn't because their recommendations changed, only that they hope people will get AT LEAST this much. I passed this 90 DAY concept on to the sisters. "Surely we can all get 90 days worth, right?" I said. The responses were usually "I can't afford to get 90 days of the food we usually eat. I can't even afford to keep food in the house for a week." This is a valid concern. When I suggest storing basic, inexpensive commodoties like wheat, they often respond "But if we start eating wheat, won't we all get sick?" My response, muttered under breath is "Isn't sick better than dead?" And so the cycle goes.
About four days ago, New Year's Eve I think, I got a craving for cooked wheat for breakfast. No, I don't usually eat this healthy. If I eat breakfast, it consists of Sugar Crisp (now called Honey Crisp so that we feel okay about giving it to our kids) or a spoonful of Nutella - so this was a strange craving. Could I be pregnant? Certainly not. I turned fifty last month. Too old for childbearing.
So, I cooked some wheat - and ate it - a little molasses and rice milk (we don't drink real milk at our house). It was delicious! I had a second bowl and felt satisfied. That afternoon I made Tabouli with the cooked wheat I had left over. Delicious!
The next morning I cooked wheat again and added a few pears from a jar that my husband had canned in the fall. Wow - closer to heaven. It was great! I began to look forward to what I could do with wheat at lunchtime. I could get to like this stuff!
This led me to think about the sisters in my ward. What if I could prove that a person wouldn't spontaneously combust if they suddenly began eating wheat? Maybe then, if the sisters in my ward could see that hard red wheat, at just $6 a bag from our local cannery, could provide sustanence without killing them, they would begin storing it.
I have to admit, when the idea first came to me, my biggest fear was, "What if I do do get sick?" Well, better to know now and make other plans before I need to live off of my own wheat.
So, I am into the fourth day. I will eat wheat as my main food source for 90 days. I am not sure, under what circumstances I would not have access to commercially grown food, but in case I was ever in that situation, I have created a few ground rules for myself.
1. Wheat must be the main ingredient for all of my meals.
2. Anything we grew in our garden this past year, or would grow in our garden, can be added for flavoring. This includes herbs, spices, garden vegetables, and fruit from our trees.
3. We don't produce any edible animals on our land, so I will not eat meat products. All protein will come from wheat.
4. The wheat can be ground to make other things - as long as it is the main ingredient.
5. I will not eat refined (white) sugar.
Here on this blog I will record my progress. If, all at once, the blog stops, one can assume the worst has happened and you are welcome to whatever wheat I have left.
(I'm really going to miss Nutella!)
Patti
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