Nutrition and food storage

It is practically impossible to design a diet based on unrefined starches and vegetables that would fail to provide enough protein, including sufficient amounts of all of the essential amino acids, to support human health.

Nor is it necessary to combine "complementary" plant sources to provide complete protein.

Plant Foods Have a Complete Amino Acid Composition

Good news for us as far as food storage.

Inexpensive bulk wheat, rice, beans, and corn can produce a living diet for our families.

Add dried/dehydrated/freeze dried foods and sprouting and one could most likely live better and healthier from storage food than our current diets.

To prove this point - document everything you and your family eats every day for a month... If you were ever disgusted and afraid this will do it, I hear far too much about nutrition from the yuppie survivalists out there and never a review of the current eating standards (or lack of them). To be honest if your diet is crap now, when forced to eat (and cook) bulk storage food you would most likely have several steps up in quality!

I shudder at what my wife and kids survive on NOW, the wife and all but one child think that the food groups are what make the boxes square and what makes the colors printed on the fast food wrappers!

Nutrition, yes the sugar is different!

Listen to a real scientest explain solid research about glucose, sucrose and fructose.

Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public

Information for simple sprouting

Sprouting is the practice of germinating seeds to be eaten either raw or cooked. They are a convenient way to have fresh vegetables for salads, or otherwise, in any season and can be germinated at home or produced industrially. Sprouts are believed to be highly nutritious and rich in enzymes which promote good health. They are a prominent ingredient of the raw food diet and common in Eastern Asian cuisine. Sprouting is also applied on a large scale to barley as a part of the malting process.

Basics of Sprouting

Sprouts for variety and nutrition in your preparedness storage

Sprouting makes a superior nutritional product, for easy transformation of carbohydrates into other nutrition.

Simply sprouts are a LIVING plant, and LIVING plants as do all LIVING things change their surroundings by the NATURAL processes of LIVING creatures.

As much as some may want to attribute this to some "grand mystery" that "no scientist can understand" this is no mystery! Of course the simple minded may want to think that with a little mind control propaganda this is something that could "shame scientist and skeptics" it is far from that, in fact it is just several simple natural processes that have been well known for MANY years.

LIVING things in the form of sprouted seeds or beans change stored carbohydrates (and at least 8 times the water content) into other nutrients.

Carbohydrate molecules are broken down by the plant during sprouting growth and mix with absorbed atmospheric and water suspended chemicals into new chemicals.

The standard dumbfounded 'merican will have huge problems with a fast turnover from the typical poisonous fast food diet to a natural one, they will suffer, learn, or die! Tough stuff, I have lost my desire to want to convert the stupid, it is time better spent sleeping.

I have been a whole food eating vegetarian for over 25 years and a, a vegan for the first 15 of them. Storage foods are just standard! For my variety, I keep 12 different beans, rice, spices, canned goods, and some oils. The typical meat eater could simply add a few meals with small game and even the average 'merican could be satisfied (especially when hungry).

A single meal that combines the meat of a bird, fish, or small mammal, or plant proteins three times a week with the standard dried storage foods, sprouts and other small additions is better nutrition than what 98 percent of americans get NOW!