Food Price's Trend is Terrifying

[monkeybird]

http://www.shtfplan.com/commodities/...fying_09292010

[QUOTE]The Moscow bank Uralsib said half of Russia

[610Alpha]

Everyone better start learning how to grow their own wheat. Victory gardens come to mind for some reason.

[crossbow]

Everyone better start learning how to grow their own wheat. Victory gardens come to mind for some reason.

they better learn how to swing a scythe and thresh their wheat also.

[Bearman202]

Speaking of this, I made my first two loaves of bread yesterday. I realized that bread is my weakest link in food preps, so I figured I'd better learn how to deal. I looked into canned bread, and nothing looked even remotely appealing. Anyway, I've got a friend who has been baking his own bread for a while now, so I asked. He told me what he used, and gave me a recipe. In reading the recipe, the first thing that caught my eye was the amount of kneading that you have to do. 600 strokes! I told him this wasn't a recipe, it was an aerobic workout! He told me to get a mixer, and told me what he had. Well, to get something comparable was going to cost something like $300, so I put an ad in the local freecycle thing on Yahoo, and a woman popped up with one for $25! Cha-CHING! It's a Kitchen Aid, and I don't know when it was made, but the woman said she had it a couple of years before they bought their current house, and they've lived in it for 35 years. It works like a charm. I have blood sugar issues, so I made it out of 100% whole wheat, and it came out great! I think I got lucky, but really, I just followed the directions. I'm thinking, this ain't brain surgery, you know? I did have the guy that made his own show me one batch, so I could see consistency, etc. I don't know if it's the recipe, or the way I made it, but it's very heavy bread. I like that. I had a sandwich with it, and I didn't get hungry again for almost 5 hours. That's a win, to me. Next up, a grinder and a bag of raw wheat from the Amish.... Sam's sells yeast in 3 lb. bags, and I have an order in for one from the same friend who has a membership, so I should be good on the bread issue. There was a real sense of accomplishment that came with good eats on this one too. I can recommend it.

[Bearman202]

I wanted to add, I asked same friend what it cost him, and he said that by buying and grinding his own wheat, using bulk yeast, etc. he was making bread for about fifty cents a loaf. Considering the decent bread in the stores are around $2.50, that's a deal. Plus, if you make it yourself you don't get all the preservatives, additives, stuff you don't really want in your body too. It's a bit labor intensive, but it really wasn't that bad. It took me a while, because I let it rise the second time, (friend says it really makes no difference in outcome, so I'm probably going to stop doing that) but I had nothing better to do, and ended up with two loaves of bread for my trouble. (Recipe results in two loaves, and it takes just as much gas/electricity to bake two loaves as one....)

[LizardKing]

Nothing like hot bread from the oven. I started by using the recipe on the back of the bread flour bag and then started experimenting by adding spices to it. I never end up with the same thing twice, but I always enjoy eating it. The mixer was a score, same kind I use.