Ok, I will admit that this DD Challange has me reaching out and researching more local grains and suppliers, which is awesome, but I am going to own up to a little Secret of mine..

As I was just making a Banana Flax Cake for DH’s Work Week while my Rye Buttermilk Batter Bread is cooling having just come out of the Cast Iron Fry Pan in the oven,  I reached into the freezer and pulled out my Flax for fresh Grinding an my Bran.. and just stopped and looked at it..

So here it is folks, I watch for the big 3 or 4 sales of unbleached white flour that happen at our local store, I do buy a canadian product and the company tells me it is all Canadian Wheat and I buy it in bulk and freeze the bags of flour in one of my big Freezers, and then I buy fresh bulk Flax, Bran, Rye Flour, 12 grain Flour, Barley Flours and I use Red River as a Base alot in my “Whole Grains” and I keep these limited shelf whole grain products in the freezer and then mix them with the unbleached white flour to create my own whole grain.

I tried buying Whole Wheat but sometimes I want alot more Bran and sometimes depending on the product I want alot less Bran and in our warm summers, it goes bad so easy, which meant that I was having to keep the big bag in the freezer and then trying to remember to pull out and fill a bucket for house use, which when you make everything from scratch, it seemed like I was always out, and then the flour would so cold.

Someday I would like to have a hand grinder and grind my own grains, its on the list, but for now, this is how I deal with my needs for the farm. So if you are tired of having flour go bad, or if you are like me, you like to buy in bulk but also don’t like to waste anything.. consider the above as a way to have a good middle road.