Subject: The Perfect Breakast, WARNIMG: 15K post, save & read latter

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Date: 11 Mar 1995 21:58:02 -0500

THE PERFECT 3.3 CENT BREAKFAST
 By Kurt Saxon

  A while back some Mormons visited  me and told me of a friend who had
been suckered into paying $12,000 for a year's supply of "Survival Food"
for his family of five.  The seller had given him a break by not charging
anything for the baby.
  The only good thing one can say about most commercial survival foods is
that they won't taste any worse in ten years than they do now.  The worst
that can be said for them, aside from their lack of nutrition from over
processing, is that they cost an average of three times that of food from
your local supermarket.
  A year's supply of food would be nice and you should go for it. But be
practical.  Buy what you norm    ally eat and like.  Learn basic food
processing so you can buy foods cheaply and in bulk.
  Of course, we all use canned and processed food on a regular basis and
they should always be bought by the case.  You should figure how much of a
certain product you will buy over the next year and buy it all at once by
the case from your supermarket.
  The economy is obvious.  First, the supermarket manager will deduct at
least 5%, since his people won't have to unpack it and put it on the
shelves.  Second, since food prices do nothing but rise, you will probably
pay at least 25% more for the same products in a few months.
  You can do even better by trading at the discount food stores like
Sam's.  Their prices average 10% above dealer's prices on most items.
  Although food in cans, jars    \and dried packaged foods easily keep
from three to five years if they are stored in a dry place, you can insure
freshness by rotating. Say you bought ten cases of canned peas.  Just mark
the cases from 1 to 10.  Use from case 1 and when that is emptied, buy
another and label it 11.  Then start on case 2, buy another and label it
12 and so on.  That way none of the food will ever be less than fresh.
  When you incorporate grains into your diet you will see your food costs
plummet. Buy a hand grain grinder and bake your own bread.  You will save
several dollars a month.  It will also taste better and be more
nourishing.  You can even sell it to neighbors and even to local health
food stores.
  Grain grinders should be steel-burred, not stone.  Stone grinders are a
fraud.  They are touted as causing less heat than steel.  But hand
grinding does not  cre   iate the amount of heat objected to in the
commercial milling of grains.  So buy the much cheaper and more durable
steel-burred grinder.  Atlan sells the Corona Grain Mill for $48.00
delivered in the continental  United States (foreign please request
additional shipping charges).  It is the best for the price of any on the
market and should last a lifetime.
  The Survivor Vol 1 and Poor Man's James Bond Strikes Again video tape
will give you an excellent grounding on the processing of inexpensive and
nutritious foods.  Through them you will learn that high food costs, and
especially the need for commercial survival foods, are the results of
ignorance.  You may soon have to abandon the luxury of such ignorance.
  But now to get to the main subject; the perfect 3.3 cent breakfast. 
This is just one example of a food which is easy to process, nourishing,
energy and health giving and costs practically nothing.   x
  It is simply four ounces of wheat, sprouted for 48 hours, cooked
overnight in your thermos and put in your blender.  This makes a large
bowl of breakfast cereal which tastes wonderful and will give you more
energy than you can imagine.
  There are several steps to processing this food but it takes only a few
minutes in all as you bustle about in your daily routine.
  You probably already have most of what you need but you should equip
yourself with what you lack.
  First, look up your local feed and seed store, even in a city, and call
them.  Ask if they have, or can order, 50 to 60 pounds of hard red winter
wheat, untreated (treated seed is strictly for planting).  There is no
reason they should not be able to provide it.
  It will cost between $7.00 and $8.00, depending on your location.  Say
it costs $8.00 for 60 pounds or 13 cents per pound.  You will use 4 ounce
portions.  That is 4 times 60 or 240 breakfasts or 3.3 cents for each
breakf   'ast.
  One thing you will need is a Stanley Aladdin narrow-mouthed thermos
bottle.  These cost $19.00 at Wal-Mart, are almost unbreakable and will
last a lifetime.  Don't be tempted to get a wide-mouthed thermos, if you
mean to cook in it.  It holds 3/4 cup less than you need.  Also, the cap
has a wider surface, which keeps it from holding the heat of the near
boiling water needed for actual cooking.
  Next you need two quart jars.  Mayonnaise jars or similar will do.  To
cover them get some nylon window screen from the hardware store and cut
two six inch by six inch squares.  Put four ounces of wheat in each jar. 
Put the screens over the jars and hold them in place with large rubber
bands.  Fill one jar one-third with water and set it near the sink
overnight.
  Next morning pour out the soak water and drink it.  It is vitamin-rich
and a good morning tonic.  Upend the jar in the sink to drain.  After the
first draining, flood the wheat about every four hours before bed   gtime
and drain it.  The idea is to keep the wheat moist.
  At the last flooding the first day, just before bedtime, flood the
second jar and let it set overnight like the first.  Next day, drink the
water and treat the second as the first, flooding both every four hours or
so.
  On the second evening the first jar of wheat will show sprouts
protruding from the ends of the grains.  Now it is ready.  It is part
grain and part fresh vegetable.  Its protein and vitamin content is higher
and it is altogether a more complete food, rich and amazingly nutritious
and, again, a complete meal for less than 4 cents.
  Empty the sprouted grains into a two cup measure and put four more
ounces of wheat in the jar, flood and set aside overnight as before.  Now
you have a perpetual routine taking up no real time and producing a
fantastic amount of food for little cost.
  With the   3 sprouted grain in the two cup measure fill it with water to
the two cup mark.  Then pour it into a saucepan on the stove and add two
more cups of water and a few shakes of salt to keep it  from tasting flat.
 Heat it to a boil, which takes about five minutes.
  You will need a funnel to pour the water and the grain into the thermos.
 Take a gallon plastic bottle; milk, bleach, vegetable oil, etc. and cut
it in half.  Use the top half for the funnel.
  Fill your thermos with hot water to preheat it and then pour out just
before filling with the grain.  While the grain is still boiling, empty
the pan into the funnel and so into the thermos.  You will have to use a
spoon to push part of the grain from the funnel into the thermos, as well
as some of the grain from the pan.  At any rate, do it quickly so you can
c    ap the thermos to contain the heat.
  Cap then shake the thermos and lay it on its side so its contents don't
bunch up, and leave it overnight.  Next morning, pour the contents into a
blender and pour out part of the liquid into a cup.  Drink the liquid as
it is rich in vitamins.
  With just enough liquid to cover the grain, turn on the blender at low. 
Then increase the speed until the grain is all ground to the consistency
of oatmeal.  You can add cinnamon or any other flavoring if you like but
you will find it has a delicious taste of its own.
  You do not need much sweetener as the sprouting has created quite a bit
of wheat sugar.  You can add cream if you like, but I like mine plain.  In
fact, I just blend the wheat with all the liquid and drink it.
  You will be surprised at the e    nergy you feel even a few minutes
after eating.  Not only will it enable you to be more energetic and alert
until lunch time but it will also be an excellent weight adjuster.
  For instance, if you are overweight, that energy will make you more
active and you will lose weight.  If you are underweight, its
carbohydrates will be burned up as energy and that same energy will
activate and increase your musculature.
  There is one possible drawback to this 3.3 cent breakfast.  If you are
active, no problem.  But if you live a sedentary lifestyle and are
sluggish, you may get the runs.  Not chronic, just loose.   However, this
would only last a few days.  After all, this is whole wheat, with all the
bran.  People have been eating roughly ground whole wheat for thousands of
years.  Up until     about eighty years ago only the very rich ever ate
white bread.  Sluggish intestines were a rarity except among the wealthy.
  Consequently, only the rich got colon cancer.  Colon cancer is caused by
the buildup of carcinogens on intestinal linings.  The rough bran from
whole wheat and coarsely ground corn kept the intestines of common folk
free from any such buildup.
  The same goes for oatmeal, which has recently been touted as the perfect
bran food.  It is a staple of the Scots and is high in protein.  But what
with the bran craze its price has risen much higher than its nutritive
value.
  So back to the wheat bran and its unsettling effects on the innards of
sluggards.  This is only temporary.  Any radical, even beneficial, change
in the diet will cause a reaction.  The intestines are n    ot harmed, any
more than unused muscles are harmed after a first day of horseback riding.
 The nether quarters doth protest but they soon get used to it.  No need
to overdo it to bowleggedness though.
  So I am not suggesting this to be your whole breakfast permanently or
that you make whole wheat your staple food.  What I would suggest,
however, is that you challenge yourself to make it your whole breakfast
for two weeks.
  You will save money.  You will experience fantastic energy.  You will
lose/gain weight.  You will even get cleaned out and regular and will
realize that you will never really need a laxative, even Metamucel, from
then on if you eat only one serving each day.  You will lower you risk of
colon cancer.  And you will never fear starvation as long as you have
sense enough to  buy whole grains in bulk. 
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