Why Wholegrains?
I can not over emphasize the importance of storing whole grains as opposed to storing flours, flakes and meals in your home. Even if they are whole grain flours.
Here it is in a nutshell.
Every kernel of grain was created with the perfect storage system intact. Tucked securely inside the hull is a grain with multiple outer layers which protect the vital nutrients inside. Once the outer layer of grain is removed, ground or broken, the nutrition begins to decrease immediately and steadily until much of it is lost.
Wheat and other grains, seeds, and legumes ground fresh in your home for immediate use are many times more nutritious than a bag of white or wheat flour made from wheat that has been soaked, ground, seperated, bleached, enriched, packaged, transported, warehoused, and then set on a shelf for you to buy weeks or months later.
Instead of flour purchase wheat. Instead of oatmeal purchase oat groats and instead of corn meal purchase popcorn. The shelf life and the nutrition far exceed those of adulterated grains.