what about all the time, energy, materials like water, salt, yeast, baking soda to mill and process wheat into food stuff such as breads, biscuits, noodles and more water to clean the mess up thats no sounding practical for many ..is it?
speaking of wheat, anyone grow wheat grass for vitamin supplement ?
I think it is safe to say that we will be spending much time after SHTF with matters of survival, including food preparation. Our grocery stores have enabled us to have instant everything, and we can still stock many of those foods, but stored wheat is a valuable basic food. With experimenting, you can find ways to save time and fuel. You can also plant some of it for the future...they are seeds, after all. This is also true of beans. These will be important in the future when the instant stuff is gone. Yes, survival is more time consuming.
Growing wheat grass wastes most of the wheat. Instead, you can sprout wheat and eat the sprouts, the same as other kinds of sprouts. This would give you more nutrients without cooking and uses the full grain. You can also dry those sprouts and grind them for adding to breads or other goods, and once sprouted, there is more nutrition from the wheat.
You need water for digestion, so that is even more important than food. You wouldn't throw out any water used to cook with or sprout with, so your preparations of wheat does not waste water...it has many nutrients in it to add to soups and any recipe in place of just water.
Salt and baking soda are other items that you would want to stock anyway. You cannot live without salt, and baking soda has an incredible amount of uses that could be important in SHTF besides baking bread. Yeast can be made, or breads can be made with sourdough, so that is not as important as the other two items. You also can make pasta and flat breads (like tortillas or pancakes or crackers) without yeast.
With wheat, rice, and beans, you can have an incredible variety of meals and they will be a complete protein with combining the right way. Also, with a good stock of each of those, you can still have a variety and complete nutrition if you should develop an allergy to gluten or one of the others. Some canned or dried foods added in for meals and food from the garden and wild edible plants will fill it in to give immense variety to avoid appetite fatigue.