You can also use dry ice (carbon dioxide) in the bins instead of nitrogen, or now they have oxygen tablets which remove the oxygen from the bin (they absorb it).

The best way to use wheat in the long term is to sprout the wheat and either make juice, eat them raw or make bread from the sprouts. If eaten raw you get the full use from the enzymes, vitamins and minerals in the wheat grain. This is very beneficial in an emergency situation.

You can live for a very long time on sprouts and be healthier at the end. However, living mostly on bread in the long term will have a very bad effect on your health.

Also, after a few years of storage, the grain will probably not sprout, so if you want to do sprouts I would keep a fresh supply. Hey why not incorporate sprouts into your regular diet <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> it will keep your supplies fresh and you healthier. Plus it will keep you in practice.

It is very important to remember with any long term storage of foods that any cooked food is dead. We need vitamins and enzymes (raw food) for long term health. In a time when you will be using long term stored food it is pretty safe to say that medical care will be hard to find. So think about live foods which can be stored and cycled, in addition to the dehydrated and cooked foods.

Remember, eating only dead food will kill you in the long run, after many health probems.