Day 15
Food
Whole wheat toast with apricot jam for breakfast; wheat with canned apricots for lunch; and wheat with tomato sauce for dinner. Dinner was very good. I am discovering that with such a basic diet, the simplest tastes are sooooo good.
Symptons
None! I still feel great and my energy is up!
Day 16
Food
I had toast and jam for breakfast and leftover wheat and sauce for lunch. I also had a few green grapes (We will plant grapes this summer - for sure!)
I became desperate for a different flavor, so after having my bowl of wheat and pears for dinner, I consumed a very small, red baked potato. I don't know if that goes outside my self-made rules, but we actually grew red potatoes this past year, so maybe it was okay.
Symptoms
None.
Day 17
Food
Toast and jam for breakfast (Be careful with the electric knife when the loaf gets very small. Ouch!). Whole wheat toast has become my standby when I am in a hurry to get out the door in the morning. The great thing is that I haven't gotten tired of the taste and it sticks to my ribs until I eat lunch at noon. For lunch I had cooked wheat and canned (bottled) pears. Dinner was a challenge. I had to drive out of town and thought I took enough food from home - whole wheat bread, some bluberries, and a few baby carrots. This didn't last me for the entire trip. I resorted to snatching some lettuce from my sister's hospital food tray. When I had to drive home at midnight, it was necessary to grab something to munch on in order to stay awake. I chose kettle chips. I thought I would be tempted to consume the entire bag but I was surprised to find I was content to eat just a few. I managed to stay awake and then slept like a baby when I arrived home.
My husband says I am losing weight. It's fun when he notices.
Symptoms
Absolutely none.
Day 18
Food
When I stepped on the scales this morning I weighed 139 lbs! I could get to like this. The great thing is that I always feel full - never hungry. This morning I skipped breakfast because I munched on the way home. Lunch was cooked wheat and bottled pears. For dinner I made another whole wheat crust Italian pizza. Heaven.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
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
Followers
0 comments:
Post a Comment