Grain Grinding 101 (plus video)

Remember that starting to grind fresh grain in your home should only be started after you have started cooking with the right fats!    Getting the fats right is the most important change you can make in your kitchen.

Using fresh flour is a wonderful addition to your cooking repertoire as even the organic flours from the healthfood store or the ones shipped to your door are nutritionless and not worth the money.    Once you grind flour, the nutrition is gone in about 3 days in an unrefrigerated situation. Freezing your flour right after grinding will preserve this nutrition for weeks, which is why you really need to do it yourself.   As you can see from the video, flour can be used immediately right out of the freezer, so there is no disadvantage to freezing it.

Grain Requires Proper Preparation after Grinding

Delving into Traditional Eating for the first time inevitably uncovers the fact that modern methods for preparing grains and legumes can be extremely damaging to health over the long term particularly if numerous servings of these foods are consumed on a daily basis as recommended by conventional dieticians and nutritionists.

Even if you take the time and care to make your own bread at home with freshly ground grain, if you do not follow the centuries old traditions for eliminating anti-nutrients and maximizing the nutrition in the grain prior to baking, you could in fact be doing yourself and your family more harm than good.  These methods are sour leavening, soaking, and/or sprouting.

But first, you must grind the grain! Below is the video how-to.

Grain Grinding Basics

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist