Girl... in the old day, you would put those wheat beries outside on a sheet and let the bugs crawl off and use those anyway... you would do the same thing if the wheat was already ground, so you could still use it without eating see able bugs. The bugs are in the berries when you buy them...
Mrs. H., My grandmother would say, "Child, you didn't make a mistake, you learned a lesson". Thanks for being transparent and continuing to teach others.
@@paulettebarrentine1795 yes you can if they are in sealed containers the grains should be fine for several years even without a or heat...just try to keep them in the shade and not in direct sunlight
@@debrahumphrey9538 would you know if I caned food would it ruin with the same living condition? I don't know how long canning has been around but back in the day people didn't have AC or heat.
Oh honey...hugs and prayers 😅❤❤ did that with my rice...my hens were eating high on the hog for a month!! You both are so precious and this was helpful reminder for sure! Prayers with all the nasty weather coming through
SOOO glad I found y'all's channel!! We need to see all sides of homesteading! Not just the "Oh look at my beautiful garden, my massive crops, perfectly behaving animals..." blah blah! We ALL need to see the REALITY of homestead life, the work, the joy, the HARDSHIP, the NEVER-ENDING learning curve, the successes, the screw ups, catastrophes and the absolute thrill of a day when 85% of things go to plan and turn out successful. Y'all's no holds barred, good bad and ugly way of showing things is FANSTINKINTASTIC!!! Can't wait for the next video!! Thanks for giving us a real window into y'all's homesteading adventure!
We can’t thank you enough for this video! We are new to milling our own flour. My wife bought 5# of hard white wheat berries from Palouse to try it out. We haven’t tried it yet but, about two weeks ago we went to our local Mennonite store and bought a 50# bag of hard white wheat berries for $40. I put them in two 5 gallon buckets and sealed the lids. After your video, we checked both buckets thoroughly and saw no evidence of any critters. Despite that, we dumped them all back in the original bag and put them in the freezer where they will stay for at least 3 days. We love our chickens but don’t think we want to invest $40 of wheat berries as a snack. Thanks again and realize you are providing this old couple in their mid 70’s, married over 56 years, with a lot of good advice and helpful information to make our old homestead more successful. BTW, Mylar bags are being ordered as we speak!
If you have those big food safe buckets with regular lids, you can put large oxygen absorbers in there and seal them without the mylar bag if they will sit for a month or more without being opened. Some people put dry ice in the bucket before sealing and wait for that to use up all the oxygen in the bucket by sublimation prior to sealing. That works also.
@@marthasundquist5761 thank you so much for this advice. We do use food safe 5 gallon buckets with either gamma lids or t snap on lids. My wife is quick on the trigger and Mylar bags are already ordered. We will keep your information on hand for future reference though. Thank you again.
No need to freeze the wheat berries if using mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. A 5-gallon mylar bag needs 2500cc oxygen absorber. Critters can't live without oxygen.
So my mom told me a story of how when she was young she was making bread for her and her sister. The bread had little tiny black things in it. She thought it was supposed to be there. Turns out she was making bread for over 2weeks with weavel flour. Lol. To this day, she inspects flour and grains cuz she is so paranoid about that. Lol. She didnt see the flour was moving cuz she has bad vision. Lol. This was over 60yrs ago and it still haunts her. 😊
I heard that India wanted to really improve their grain supplies to improve nutrition in their people...they tested the people....then they built better storage for their grains, to remove insect pests.....then tested the people again to look for improvement....the nutrition status of the people actually went down....the extra protein from the insects were actually beneficial.
Ya'll are just the cutest. I love how Mr. H finishes your sentences. You're both on the same wavelength. Thanks for being transparent and sharing your mistakes with us. We all make them! I continue to learn so much from you. THANK YOU!!
Mrs. H. if you still have 5 gallon mylar bags cut them into four pieces and reseal the edges to make your own 1 gallon bags. That amount should provide you the quantity needed to refill your jars once at a time
This goes for all products that are made with wheat, freeze them when you get things like pasta or grounded flour. Put them in the freezer to kill those bugs.
Oh you forgot to freeze the wheat berries before storing them. You may put them in 1 gallon bags in the freezer 3 days but you can leave them for a week and then put them back to defrost and when it's all dry you put them in mylar bags in your buckets. Now, woth those berries you can use them if they smell good by freezing them, bugs will die, you can use a fine colander to sift and bugs will fall down and your wheat will stay clean. If it's too late you can algo preserve in the freezer with bugs and use that to treat your chicken.
Now remember whatever eats, also has to poop! So you have to get rid of the poop also after the wheat has been infiltrated with bugs. Just give it to the birds and the chickens, the hogs or some animal that will eat dirt.
I've always put my grains in 5 gallon mylar bags inside a 5 gallon bucket with the correct size oxygen absorber and I store 100 pounds of my favorite grains in 4 buckets for 100 pounds. I rotate through them and once I open the mylar bag for use I don't seal it again I just push the air out and put the gamma lid back on it. When I empty it I take out the bag and give it a good shake, put it back in the bucket, add my new grains in, push out the air, put in a new oxygen absorber, and seal it with my sealer thing. I've never had any bugs this way. I don't have enough room in my freezers, to be able to freeze it first
You two are such an honest, loving, knowledgeable couple! It's a true pleasure to watch your videos., laugh along with you, and learn something, too. Stay strong.
I love how calm and relaxed you are about your experience with this. It’s wonderful to see Mr.H. right there supporting you. My hubby would be calling his friends and family to let everyone know i goofed… that’s why So many of us can’t handle anything like bugs or spoilage and feel devastated but the fact is these things happen. Ive had 1lb. Bags of beans or rice or a canister of oatmeal that was infested. A few times i had a store bought bag of beans 🫘 that the weevils ate through the plastic and were popping up all over my house. So thank you again for your candor and for giving a proper and practical solution for the situation.❤ I didn’t have chickens at the time but if it happens again I will let them take care of the product.😊
You two are such a wonderful couple! You interact so supportively of each other. You are lucky to have each other. I've had a couple of food fails recently and I totally know the frustration and disappointment. I beat myself up then move on. Lesson learned and it's always a process!
Great content and thank you very much. I would still deep freeze your packed wheat flour berries for 48 hours. I freeze all my flour based products and have not had weevils in years! God’s favor be with you!
Mrs. H and Mr. H you both are connecting beautifully. A marriage made in Heaven. I really am enjoying and learning from both of you. Hope your body is mending, sweet lady . 🌷 🌷
We buy the 5 gallon bags, but you can cut the bag into smaller bags. LF73 has a video on it and it's great. But that's what I do and put smaller portions into smaller bags to put into the 5 gallon bucket like Mr. H. said. Hi Mr. H!
😊Mr. & Mrs. H ❤ You'all teach us so much goodness and help us learn what to do when upsets happens. Continued blessings to both of you. Central Florida.
My grandparents were born in the 1800s. My grandmother's stored their grain in burlap sacks. They mixed diatomaceous earth with the grain. We have 150lbs of wheat berries. Hubby divides each 50lb bag into smaller bags for freezing. Those bags are emptied into a 5gl bucket. If the freezer is full, I mix in diatomaceous earth. We have had no incesect problems. I love your videos and have passed on your Chanel to my granddaughters. Blessings to you both
I put my wheat berries and my oatmeal in 1 gal bags and put them in the freezer for 2-3 days. I had 50lbs wheat and 50lbs oatmeal, brought them out and room temp then put them in mylar bags with oxygen absorbers in the bags and bay leaf's in bottom of buckets.
What I do is, once I open a bucket I divide it up into one gallon mylar bags with oxygen absorbers and the gallon that I'm using I put into half gallon mason jars and vacuum seal what I don't use. But that is a very easy mistake to do, we all live and learn don't we. Great video keep them coming.
I heard that when you transfer wheat or any flour or any rice to a pale or mylar bag you should include bay leaves in the bottom and pour some of your item in then put bay leaves again in the middle and then pour more and put bay leaves on the top and you should use oxygen absorbers because that will suck all the air out and if there are any weevels inside of the bag or the pail they'll die before they hatch eggs in your wheat and if there's any eggs they will die because they need oxygen and air to grow and breathe so probably next time dry bay leaves and oxygen absorbers and resealing the bag obviously you know that now but thanks for content
You guys, thank you!!! I learn so much from you two and I cant say it enough!! Thank you for the old school schooling and I am sorry that you lost your supply. But knowledge is power and you have the power!!! Thank GOD for you and your family!!! Peace and Blessing!!
Love this most informative video. If you put them in the bucket with dry ice on top, it kills everything. OR, freeze the wheatberries first and then store. I freeze EVERYTHING first. Rice, Wheat, Flour, anything! I have never had weevils in about 13 years of storing.
My aunt was single with 5 children. She didn’t have the luxury of throwing it out so through the sifter the weevils went and the wheat still made the bread. Hard times make you less particular when there’s 6 mouths to feed. I’m sure the commercial milled flour has plenty we don’t know about milled right in. Although is always best to properly store pantry items in a disaster a few weevils won’t hurt.
Thank you so much for sharing Mr & Mrs H. So sorry that happened, but at least they will not go to waste. I hope your back is feeling better. Hope you had a nice Easter. 😊
You'll never know when a soda top of a bottle has gon bad til you twist and dont hear a thing 😂. I only by can now. Atleast you can see immediately when if a can has burst
There are better things to treat with. Backing soda in water is like magic. Actually drinking that stuff MAKES me sick. Especially the thought of all the toxins in it.
Good tip about putting it in more manageable size bags so you don’t have to wrestle with the 5 gallon bags and remember to reseal the bag every time you need something. You’re only human! Thanks for sharing your story so others can avoid the same dilemma!
Oh, I'm so sorry for you guys. I did the same thing once, and I was just sick! I wasted time, food, energy, and money, and on top of that, it grossed me out. But we press on, Thank you for sharing and teaching. My Jehovah continued to bless your family.😊
That makes more sense to use smaller bags. It will be easier to use and safer. Thank you for sharing! Its no wonder you forgot with so much happening at one time!
I appreciate your channel so much! Im not at the point in my journey to buy wheat berries yet. Im fairly new to the whole concept of homesteading, so im still buying my flour from the grocery store. I have restarted my garden too. I did order my garlic from keene garlic, thanks to you. I can(t) wait for it to get here. Im super excited about this new journey! I just wish i had land to have chickens &/or other livestock. I cant have them in the city where i live. God willing, one day.
I found bugs in my 5 gallon pail of rice. I had popped it into the freezer for a week, came back up to normal temp and even added bay leave. Luckily it was only about 5 lbs out of 25 lbs. Now I break a 25 lb. bag into 2 - 12.5 lb. mylar bags with oxygen absorbers in them, then 2 go into a gamma sealed 5 gallon bucket.
I always say you learn from mistakes. Sometimes it turns out a new way for me to complete the task. Then the other 80 per cent of the time I made a mistake but you work through it and "Don't be scared" attitude learn and move on. Laugh a little cause that's life! I am so glad you showed us this learning experience. I have never bought this berry and probably won't. But it I should use this with my flour and such. Thank you Mrs. H. And Mr. H you are such a gentleman. And a parting note your laugh is so great!
I have products stored in mason jars right from the store and they ALL had bugs so I freeze all of my storage products for 10 days to 2 weeks in my air tight containers. No more bugs thankfukly!
I had a serious issue with weevils that invaded my food stock and my home. It took 9 months to get rid of them. Now, I freeze everything that comes into my home. It was disaster! Man they got into everything. Rice, beans, flour, certain spices(paprika). I had to throw out pounds of food. That powdery substance is their frass aka poop. Its not salvageable i.m.o. thank you for this video.
I love that we can laugh with you. You both make us feel so welcome and comfortable in knowing we are all not perfect. And we can learn together. Your chickens are going to love you.😅❤❤❤❤😂😊
Thank you for the tip on the 5 gal. mylar bags. It happens to the best of us, and your chickens will be happy and could be laying some extra eggs. They'll be wanting some more of that. 😊 🐔 💕
Mrs. H. You can add bay leaves and diatomaceous earth to any container with wheat berries, any grain or pasta, or whatever you know weevils get into. They help to keep the weevils from hatching.
You might consider buying a CO2 high pressure tank. CO2 is heavier than air and if you have a bucket with a good air seal, you can attach a hose to the CO2 tank and place the end in the bucket and fill the bucket with CO2 gas which replaces the oxygen in the tank. Since you can’t see when the tank is full of CO2 you can light a match and hold it at the top of the bucket. When the CO2 overflows the match will go out. Thus your bucket is full of CO2 which will prevent weevil’s from hatching. I have stored dried rice for more than a decade and it was still like the day I placed in the 55 gallon drum. They were sealed food grade drums. A tank was a couple hundred dollars and the CO2 fill was $20-$30 to fill.
I freeze everything I dry can for three days to kill any larva because all of the grains and beans and sugars and stuff like that have it! Oh I almost forgot, I dry canned and enormous food storage system in the early 90s and all I used was dry ice. I put a pound of dry ice in the bottom of a bucket in a brown paper bag or an 8 x 10 sheet of paper and folded over so that they didn’t touch the contents and put the lid on loosely and when you get up in the morning, they’re all sucked down on the rim. you just seal them no oxygen absorbers nothing no mylar bags and it lasted for six years! I never had a problem with any of it. I actually supplemented my budget, raising my three sons alone, and it worked wonderfully.
I had bugs flying out of my store bought oatmeal! Not happy. I learned aboit weevils from my mom years ago as they would show up in our foods and flour. Yall are precious and real. Thank you for being you. ❤
what I do is store my wheat, flour, rice, ect. packaged in 5 to 10 pounds mylar bags which I seal with an o2 absorber then I place in 5 gallon buckets. This way when I open the bucket I am only taking out what can be used in a reasonable time and not compromising the entire product.
Dang it! I did the same 😩 I am giving them to chickens and ordering new bags, this time I will put them in freezer for several days then open the burlap bags and dry them out and into Mylar bags and my 5 gallon bags this was my long term storage incase flour became more than I could afford , now I have to redo 😢
I found I like smaller mylar bags too. I actually have just cut down the larger bags, just because I had them. I think it would be a good plan to check your bags to see if they didn't lose their seal, which would allow bugs to live there. Better to check it while you have access to get more
I feel it. I did it with cornmeal. Did the Mylar bags put in 5 gallon bucket but forgot to go back and put on the lid. So a visitor came and reminded me. Also did it with a 50pounds bag of berries that you introduced me to purchasing. Well at the same time I place the bag of wheat along with that bucket of meal and forgot to go back and bag it up for storage. Well I lost all of it and no animals to feed it to. I was so heartbroken.
I've always broken down my 50# bags of rice, oats, wheat, sugar, and beans into quart and gallon Mylar bags with O2 absorbers and put them in buckets. I'm a single person and it takes a long time to go through 50# of anything. This keeps things safe, but if something did go bad hopefully it would be confined to one small bag.
Mrs H. You can feed the wheat fermented for your chickens. Just place hald your bucket in another bucket and fill the one bucket or both with water. Let it ferment for 1 to 2 days. Then scoop out with a serve what you want to feed the chickens. They will live it. I buy chickens scratch which is corn, wheat berries and black sun flower seed. I ferment the this. All I do is add a 10 lbs to a bucket and cover scratch with plenty of water. My hens love it,
Your chickens will love them.any grains or flowers i put in the freezer for 2 weeks before i put them into the buckets i do this also with all my rice too.
You made me check mine lol. I freeze for 48 hours, put in 5 gallon pails in Mylar bags, zip them closed but don’t hot iron them. I also add bay leaves inside the Mylar bag and in the pail. Well all is good. Since you said oxygen got in there which allowed eggs to hatch I will check that pail again in a week, maybe two. Thanks for sharing.
None of us are perfect Mrs Heart 🌹 we all are human and we all make mistakes it's just a learning process we go through. Thanks for sharing and God bless 🙏❤️
Ugh! So sorry that happened to you! I lost oats to weevils and I know how frustrating it is! I have developed a system where I use a color code system. Like, I use green lids to denote the buckets I'm currently working, yellow for the next up, red, black, and white are the newest product. It just helps in keeping up with so much product (both our food and animal feed).
They are in the berries but not hatched. Freeze your berries for 24 to 48 hour before storage in your bags add a couple of O2 absorbers and the eggs and larva can't survive. As for your old bug berries, chicken feed or add cracked corn and soak it and bait y'alls fishing hole. Smaller bags is a good idea.
I mill white wheat berry for our bread ! It’s amazing . I don’t buy bread at the store anymore. You are correct, weighing the flour out is best. You get more with fresh milled flour. 😊
I had never heard of wheat berries before I heard you talk about them. They're so much nicer than milled flour, and actually more cost effective. Thank you for helping me feed my family well. West wishes from across the pond.
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Girl... in the old day, you would put those wheat beries outside on a sheet and let the bugs crawl off and use those anyway... you would do the same thing if the wheat was already ground, so you could still use it without eating see able bugs.
The bugs are in the berries when you buy them...
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Mrs. H., My grandmother would say, "Child, you didn't make a mistake, you learned a lesson". Thanks for being transparent and continuing to teach others.
Thanks for being so candid about mistakes. It makes the rest of us not feel so bad about our mistakes
Another thing that is good to use is: Bay Leaves, bugs hate the smell & bay leaves. It will keep bugs from entering containers.
Can you store wheat berries in a house that does not have air-conditioning?
@@paulettebarrentine1795 yes you can if they are in sealed containers the grains should be fine for several years even without a or heat...just try to keep them in the shade and not in direct sunlight
@@debrahumphrey9538 would you know if I caned food would it ruin with the same living condition? I don't know how long canning has been around but back in the day people didn't have AC or heat.
Your husband is sooooooooo adorable saying "WE" he is the most amazing man!
I agree🥰
Such a cute couple. 🤗
Oh honey...hugs and prayers 😅❤❤ did that with my rice...my hens were eating high on the hog for a month!! You both are so precious and this was helpful reminder for sure! Prayers with all the nasty weather coming through
SOOO glad I found y'all's channel!! We need to see all sides of homesteading! Not just the "Oh look at my beautiful garden, my massive crops, perfectly behaving animals..." blah blah! We ALL need to see the REALITY of homestead life, the work, the joy, the HARDSHIP, the NEVER-ENDING learning curve, the successes, the screw ups, catastrophes and the absolute thrill of a day when 85% of things go to plan and turn out successful. Y'all's no holds barred, good bad and ugly way of showing things is FANSTINKINTASTIC!!! Can't wait for the next video!! Thanks for giving us a real window into y'all's homesteading adventure!
We can’t thank you enough for this video! We are new to milling our own flour. My wife bought 5# of hard white wheat berries from Palouse to try it out. We haven’t tried it yet but, about two weeks ago we went to our local Mennonite store and bought a 50# bag of hard white wheat berries for $40. I put them in two 5 gallon buckets and sealed the lids. After your video, we checked both buckets thoroughly and saw no evidence of any critters. Despite that, we dumped them all back in the original bag and put them in the freezer where they will stay for at least 3 days. We love our chickens but don’t think we want to invest $40 of wheat berries as a snack. Thanks again and realize you are providing this old couple in their mid 70’s, married over 56 years, with a lot of good advice and helpful information to make our old homestead more successful. BTW, Mylar bags are being ordered as we speak!
If you have those big food safe buckets with regular lids, you can put large oxygen absorbers in there and seal them without the mylar bag if they will sit for a month or more without being opened. Some people put dry ice in the bucket before sealing and wait for that to use up all the oxygen in the bucket by sublimation prior to sealing. That works also.
@@marthasundquist5761 thank you so much for this advice. We do use food safe 5 gallon buckets with either gamma lids or t snap on lids. My wife is quick on the trigger and Mylar bags are already ordered. We will keep your information on hand for future reference though. Thank you again.
No need to freeze the wheat berries if using mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. A 5-gallon mylar bag needs 2500cc oxygen absorber. Critters can't live without oxygen.
If you freeze flour or any other bulk item, you may need more than 3 days. In
Home freezers are not always that cold. Freeze a couple weeks. Then it may penetrate through.
So my mom told me a story of how when she was young she was making bread for her and her sister. The bread had little tiny black things in it. She thought it was supposed to be there. Turns out she was making bread for over 2weeks with weavel flour. Lol. To this day, she inspects flour and grains cuz she is so paranoid about that. Lol. She didnt see the flour was moving cuz she has bad vision. Lol. This was over 60yrs ago and it still haunts her. 😊
I heard that India wanted to really improve their grain supplies to improve nutrition in their people...they tested the people....then they built better storage for their grains, to remove insect pests.....then tested the people again to look for improvement....the nutrition status of the people actually went down....the extra protein from the insects were actually beneficial.
@@leelaural I was wondering if the bugs might actually be somewhat beneficial
@@camy1512 no thanks….no bugs for me…
@@KT-yq7ed me neither, under normal circumstances, but if the SHTF and my wheat berries have bugs.....I'm eating wheat and bug bread. 🤣
Oh Mrs H that giggle is adorable 🤗
Ya'll are just the cutest. I love how Mr. H finishes your sentences. You're both on the same wavelength. Thanks for being transparent and sharing your mistakes with us. We all make them! I continue to learn so much from you. THANK YOU!!
I love it when you say, “come closer, don’t be afraid”. Cracks me up every time.
At least the chickens will get a meal.
I know this made you sick feeling. You turned it into a positive by educating others. A great life lesson is learned with that ❤
Mrs. H. if you still have 5 gallon mylar bags cut them into four pieces and reseal the edges to make your own 1 gallon bags. That amount should provide you the quantity needed to refill your jars once at a time
The good thing is you can either plant them, or feed to the chickens. Lesson learned! ❤❤❤
This goes for all products that are made with wheat, freeze them when you get things like pasta or grounded flour. Put them in the freezer to kill those bugs.
At least it wont go to total waste. Your chickens will Love weavily wheat berries!
Oh you forgot to freeze the wheat berries before storing them. You may put them in 1 gallon bags in the freezer 3 days but you can leave them for a week and then put them back to defrost and when it's all dry you put them in mylar bags in your buckets. Now, woth those berries you can use them if they smell good by freezing them, bugs will die, you can use a fine colander to sift and bugs will fall down and your wheat will stay clean. If it's too late you can algo preserve in the freezer with bugs and use that to treat your chicken.
Dang I made this same mistake 😩 I need to reorder my stock of wheat berries and this time I will do it right thank you
Now remember whatever eats, also has to poop! So you have to get rid of the poop also after the wheat has been infiltrated with bugs. Just give it to the birds and the chickens, the hogs or some animal that will eat dirt.
@@marilynbreed8082 ooooppssss never thought about bug poop! 🤢
I've always put my grains in 5 gallon mylar bags inside a 5 gallon bucket with the correct size oxygen absorber and I store 100 pounds of my favorite grains in 4 buckets for 100 pounds. I rotate through them and once I open the mylar bag for use I don't seal it again I just push the air out and put the gamma lid back on it. When I empty it I take out the bag and give it a good shake, put it back in the bucket, add my new grains in, push out the air, put in a new oxygen absorber, and seal it with my sealer thing. I've never had any bugs this way. I don't have enough room in my freezers, to be able to freeze it first
Why can’t the berries be stored in a freezer all the time and take them out as you need them ? Just asking ?
You two are such an honest, loving, knowledgeable couple! It's a true pleasure to watch your videos., laugh along with you, and learn something, too. Stay strong.
I love how calm and relaxed you are about your experience with this. It’s wonderful to see Mr.H. right there supporting you. My hubby would be calling his friends and family to let everyone know i goofed… that’s why So many of us can’t handle anything like bugs or spoilage and feel devastated but the fact is these things happen. Ive had 1lb. Bags of beans or rice or a canister of oatmeal that was infested. A few times i had a store bought bag of beans 🫘 that the weevils ate through the plastic and were popping up all over my house. So thank you again for your candor and for giving a proper and practical solution for the situation.❤ I didn’t have chickens at the time but if it happens again I will let them take care of the product.😊
I put Diatomaceous earth DE in every bit of grain I store. This can help keep the grains free of bugs.
You two are such a wonderful couple! You interact so supportively of each other. You are lucky to have each other. I've had a couple of food fails recently and I totally know the frustration and disappointment. I beat myself up then move on. Lesson learned and it's always a process!
Great content and thank you very much. I would still deep freeze your packed wheat flour berries for 48 hours. I freeze all my flour based products and have not had weevils in years! God’s favor be with you!
Man I love you guys. So sweet and supportive of eachother. ❤
Thank you for sharing your mistakes with us. We have made plenty ourselves!!
Y'all are the cutest couple!
Mrs. H and Mr. H you both are connecting beautifully. A marriage made in Heaven.
I really am enjoying and learning from both of you.
Hope your body is mending, sweet lady . 🌷 🌷
I put my buckets outside is subzero temps for three days. I can do that in Wisconsin. I will be checking my wheat berries anyway
Thanks so much for all y'all do. It takes courage to publicly share mistakes. Much love and gratitude!
You guys are literally the cutest couple on this planet❤
We buy the 5 gallon bags, but you can cut the bag into smaller bags. LF73 has a video on it and it's great. But that's what I do and put smaller portions into smaller bags to put into the 5 gallon bucket like Mr. H. said. Hi Mr. H!
😊Mr. & Mrs. H ❤ You'all teach us so much goodness and help us learn what to do when upsets happens. Continued blessings to both of you. Central Florida.
I remember growing up in the hot south with no AC and anything like grits, cornmeal etc (dry stuff) would get bugs in it. It was so annoying.
So informative. And so refreshing to see the love you share. You are her knight in shining armour, Mr.H.
Thanks for sharing Mr & Mrs Blessings to family ( Its nice to see you again).
My grandparents were born in the 1800s. My grandmother's stored their grain in burlap sacks. They mixed diatomaceous earth with the grain. We have 150lbs of wheat berries. Hubby divides each 50lb bag into smaller bags for freezing. Those bags are emptied into a 5gl bucket. If the freezer is full, I mix in diatomaceous earth. We have had no incesect problems.
I love your videos and have passed on your Chanel to my granddaughters. Blessings to you both
I put my wheat berries and my oatmeal in 1 gal bags and put them in the freezer for 2-3 days. I had 50lbs wheat and 50lbs oatmeal, brought them out and room temp then put them in mylar bags with oxygen absorbers in the bags and bay leaf's in bottom of buckets.
Appreciate you showing us the good and the nasty. Bless you two. I learn so much from you all. Love Mr.H being right there with you.❤️
What I do is, once I open a bucket I divide it up into one gallon mylar bags with oxygen absorbers and the gallon that I'm using I put into half gallon mason jars and vacuum seal what I don't use. But that is a very easy mistake to do, we all live and learn don't we. Great video keep them coming.
Thank you for the information. Your mistake has made me rethink my wheat storage too.
I just love watching you two.
I heard that when you transfer wheat or any flour or any rice to a pale or mylar bag you should include bay leaves in the bottom and pour some of your item in then put bay leaves again in the middle and then pour more and put bay leaves on the top and you should use oxygen absorbers because that will suck all the air out and if there are any weevels inside of the bag or the pail they'll die before they hatch eggs in your wheat and if there's any eggs they will die because they need oxygen and air to grow and breathe so probably next time dry bay leaves and oxygen absorbers and resealing the bag obviously you know that now but thanks for content
You guys, thank you!!! I learn so much from you two and I cant say it enough!! Thank you for the old school schooling and I am sorry that you lost your supply. But knowledge is power and you have the power!!! Thank GOD for you and your family!!! Peace and Blessing!!
Thank you so much for the information to protect my grains. Sorry about your loss 😢
Love this most informative video. If you put them in the bucket with dry ice on top, it kills everything. OR, freeze the wheatberries first and then store. I freeze EVERYTHING first. Rice, Wheat, Flour, anything! I have never had weevils in about 13 years of storing.
Thank you for making this video. I bought wheat berries locally and they had all those bugs in them. I never want to see that again lol.
My aunt was single with 5 children. She didn’t have the luxury of throwing it out so through the sifter the weevils went and the wheat still made the bread. Hard times make you less particular when there’s 6 mouths to feed. I’m sure the commercial milled flour has plenty we don’t know about milled right in. Although is always best to properly store pantry items in a disaster a few weevils won’t hurt.
Thank you so much for sharing Mr & Mrs H. So sorry that happened, but at least they will not go to waste. I hope your back is feeling better. Hope you had a nice Easter. 😊
At least you can use it feed your chickens. You 2 are so adorable
They are for sure in there, a learning curve.
One mistake I made was to buy 7 up in plastic bottles…they don’t keep.
Only buy 7 up in cans. I bought them just in case I would get sick.
You'll never know when a soda top of a bottle has gon bad til you twist and dont hear a thing 😂. I only by can now. Atleast you can see immediately when if a can has burst
7-Up is my go-to when sick, too. Cans last a long time. Unless my kids get ahold of it 😂
There are better things to treat with. Backing soda in water is like magic. Actually drinking that stuff MAKES me sick. Especially the thought of all the toxins in it.
Ginger tea and apple cider vinegar can knock out colds/flu
Good tip about putting it in more manageable size bags so you don’t have to wrestle with the 5 gallon bags and remember to reseal the bag every time you need something. You’re only human! Thanks for sharing your story so others can avoid the same dilemma!
I ALWAYS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BELOW ZERO WEATHER, AND PUT SUCH ITEMS... CEREAL, PANCAKE MIX, AND THE LIKE OUTSIDE IN BELOW ZERO WEATHER
Oh, I'm so sorry for you guys. I did the same thing once, and I was just sick! I wasted time, food, energy, and money, and on top of that, it grossed me out. But we press on, Thank you for sharing and teaching. My Jehovah continued to bless your family.😊
That makes more sense to use smaller bags. It will be easier to use and safer. Thank you for sharing! Its no wonder you forgot with so much happening at one time!
Thank you Mr and Mrs H., for this video. I am going to check all my buckets.
Ohhhh Mr and Mrs H😐~~ this gives a whole new meaning to the bug powder they trying to literally choke down our throat😐~~ ❤🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️
This was super helpful. Thanks for all y'all do to teach others. Be blessed!
I see y'all playing with filters tonight. LOL!
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Wow I am glad I watched this video so I can take precaution.
You are both adorable , good that the lost is not a total lost. You both have a beautiful energy.
Thank you for your honesty! I learn so much from you two!
I appreciate your channel so much! Im not at the point in my journey to buy wheat berries yet. Im fairly new to the whole concept of homesteading, so im still buying my flour from the grocery store. I have restarted my garden too. I did order my garlic from keene garlic, thanks to you. I can(t) wait for it to get here. Im super excited about this new journey! I just wish i had land to have chickens &/or other livestock. I cant have them in the city where i live. God willing, one day.
Hi blessed woman of God, Mrs. H and blessed man
of God, Mr. H
Thanks for this information
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I found bugs in my 5 gallon pail of rice. I had popped it into the freezer for a week, came back up to normal temp and even added bay leave. Luckily it was only about 5 lbs out of 25 lbs. Now I break a 25 lb. bag into 2 - 12.5 lb. mylar bags with oxygen absorbers in them, then 2 go into a gamma sealed 5 gallon bucket.
Sprouted wheat grass is excellent source of vitamins. And, chickens love sprouted wheat. No waste just different use. !
Super helpful to share this to help folks avoid this same problem.
Thank you for talking about mistakes, so we can learn. Mr H is the best husband!
I always say you learn from mistakes. Sometimes it turns out a new way for me to complete the task. Then the other 80 per cent of the time I made a mistake but you work through it and "Don't be scared" attitude learn and move on. Laugh a little cause that's life! I am so glad you showed us this learning experience. I have never bought this berry and probably won't. But it I should use this with my flour and such. Thank you Mrs. H. And Mr. H you are such a gentleman. And a parting note your laugh is so great!
So sorry that happened. Words are hard. Thank you Mr. H for you clarification aka completion of Mrs. H thought. Love you guys!
I have products stored in mason jars right from the store and they ALL had bugs so I freeze all of my storage products for 10 days to 2 weeks in my air tight containers. No more bugs thankfukly!
I had a serious issue with weevils that invaded my food stock and my home. It took 9 months to get rid of them. Now, I freeze everything that comes into my home. It was disaster! Man they got into everything. Rice, beans, flour, certain spices(paprika). I had to throw out pounds of food. That powdery substance is their frass aka poop. Its not salvageable i.m.o. thank you for this video.
I freeze rice, flour, sugar, salt, oatmeal,pasta, etc...
Thank you both for the information ! It would've taken me a long time to want wheat berries for awhile and I love breads 😅.
I watched the beginning of this video several times, that made my day. Thanks for the laugh this morning.
😅😅 thank you for sharing your humor with this very important lesson.
I love that we can laugh with you. You both make us feel so welcome and comfortable in knowing we are all not perfect. And we can learn together. Your chickens are going to love you.😅❤❤❤❤😂😊
I'm so glad you caught that.God bless
Thank you for the tip on the 5 gal. mylar bags. It happens to the best of us, and your chickens will be happy and could be laying some extra eggs. They'll be wanting some more of that. 😊 🐔 💕
Mrs. H. You can add bay leaves and diatomaceous earth to any container with wheat berries, any grain or pasta, or whatever you know weevils get into. They help to keep the weevils from hatching.
You might consider buying a CO2 high pressure tank. CO2 is heavier than air and if you have a bucket with a good air seal, you can attach a hose to the CO2 tank and place the end in the bucket and fill the bucket with CO2 gas which replaces the oxygen in the tank. Since you can’t see when the tank is full of CO2 you can light a match and hold it at the top of the bucket. When the CO2 overflows the match will go out. Thus your bucket is full of CO2 which will prevent weevil’s from hatching. I have stored dried rice for more than a decade and it was still like the day I placed in the 55 gallon drum. They were sealed food grade drums. A tank was a couple hundred dollars and the CO2 fill was $20-$30 to fill.
I freeze everything I dry can for three days to kill any larva because all of the grains and beans and sugars and stuff like that have it!
Oh I almost forgot, I dry canned and enormous food storage system in the early 90s and all I used was dry ice. I put a pound of dry ice in the bottom of a bucket in a brown paper bag or an 8 x 10 sheet of paper and folded over so that they didn’t touch the contents and put the lid on loosely and when you get up in the morning, they’re all sucked down on the rim. you just seal them no oxygen absorbers nothing no mylar bags and it lasted for six years! I never had a problem with any of it. I actually supplemented my budget, raising my three sons alone, and it worked wonderfully.
Is that the reason they used sifters back in the day?
Oh Marie! Hon I am so sorry that this happened. You are a Queen for sharing with us. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! ❤❤
I had bugs flying out of my store bought oatmeal! Not happy. I learned aboit weevils from my mom years ago as they would show up in our foods and flour. Yall are precious and real. Thank you for being you. ❤
what I do is store my wheat, flour, rice, ect. packaged in 5 to 10 pounds mylar bags which I seal with an o2 absorber then I place in 5 gallon buckets. This way when I open the bucket I am only taking out what can be used in a reasonable time and not compromising the entire product.
Dang it! I did the same 😩 I am giving them to chickens and ordering new bags, this time I will put them in freezer for several days then open the burlap bags and dry them out and into Mylar bags and my 5 gallon bags this was my long term storage incase flour became more than I could afford , now I have to redo 😢
I found I like smaller mylar bags too. I actually have just cut down the larger bags, just because I had them. I think it would be a good plan to check your bags to see if they didn't lose their seal, which would allow bugs to live there. Better to check it while you have access to get more
You guys are great! The chickens are gonna love you and provide an abundance of eggs!
Ya’ll are such a cute couple…thanks so much for your honesty and pouring into us!!❤
I feel it. I did it with cornmeal. Did the Mylar bags put in 5 gallon bucket but forgot to go back and put on the lid. So a visitor came and reminded me. Also did it with a 50pounds bag of berries that you introduced me to purchasing. Well at the same time I place the bag of wheat along with that bucket of meal and forgot to go back and bag it up for storage. Well I lost all of it and no animals to feed it to. I was so heartbroken.
I've always broken down my 50# bags of rice, oats, wheat, sugar, and beans into quart and gallon Mylar bags with O2 absorbers and put them in buckets. I'm a single person and it takes a long time to go through 50# of anything. This keeps things safe, but if something did go bad hopefully it would be confined to one small bag.
Your misfortune is very informative 🤓 Thanks for sharing!
Mrs H. You can feed the wheat fermented for your chickens. Just place hald your bucket in another bucket and fill the one bucket or both with water. Let it ferment for 1 to 2 days. Then scoop out with a serve what you want to feed the chickens. They will live it. I buy chickens scratch which is corn, wheat berries and black sun flower seed. I ferment the this. All I do is add a 10 lbs to a bucket and cover scratch with plenty of water. My hens love it,
Thank you so much for the tip & sharing that mistake. You & Mr, Heart are so appreciated.
Your chickens will love them.any grains or flowers i put in the freezer for 2 weeks before i put them into the buckets i do this also with all my rice too.
You made me check mine lol. I freeze for 48 hours, put in 5 gallon pails in Mylar bags, zip them closed but don’t hot iron them. I also add bay leaves inside the Mylar bag and in the pail. Well all is good. Since you said oxygen got in there which allowed eggs to hatch I will check that pail again in a week, maybe two. Thanks for sharing.
None of us are perfect Mrs Heart 🌹 we all are human and we all make mistakes it's just a learning process we go through. Thanks for sharing and God bless 🙏❤️
Ugh! So sorry that happened to you! I lost oats to weevils and I know how frustrating it is! I have developed a system where I use a color code system. Like, I use green lids to denote the buckets I'm currently working, yellow for the next up, red, black, and white are the newest product. It just helps in keeping up with so much product (both our food and animal feed).
I freeze mine for several days. Y'all seem like a great couple! I appreciate your authenticity and tips on storage. 😊
You two are so cute together! Great idea with smaller Mylar bags!
They are in the berries but not hatched. Freeze your berries for 24 to 48 hour before storage in your bags add a couple of O2 absorbers and the eggs and larva can't survive. As for your old bug berries, chicken feed or add cracked corn and soak it and bait y'alls fishing hole. Smaller bags is a good idea.
I mill white wheat berry for our bread ! It’s amazing . I don’t buy bread at the store anymore. You are correct, weighing the flour out is best. You get more with fresh milled flour. 😊
I had never heard of wheat berries before I heard you talk about them. They're so much nicer than milled flour, and actually more cost effective.
Thank you for helping me feed my family well.
West wishes from across the pond.
I keep mine in glass jar in the dark.
Once you purchase the grain then freeze then mylar bag then store.