This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Belmay, episode number 232.

Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and

encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home. And now your host from youngwifesguide.com,

Jamie Belmay. Hey, ladies, welcome back to the podcast this week.

We are talking about an awesome thing.

We are talking about grinding your own grains at home,

freshly baking food within your kitchen,

feeding your family, healthy, affordable, nutritious,

and most importantly, delicious food, that doesn't take your entire

life. So this is something I know a lot of you have heard me talk about before, and for some

of you guys, this is a brand new topic, and you're going to be like, what are you talking about?

So I, for a couple years now, have been grinding my own grains

within my kitchen and baking fresh goods and things like that. And when I first heard about

this concept, like seven, eight, nine years ago, I thought, wow, that's a really cool concept. And I'm going to tell you some reasons why in a minute.

But I was fully convinced that this was a really great idea. Except I was fully convinced also that it was

going to take four hours a day in my kitchen, just like baking things. And as a busy woman back then,

transitioning into a busy mom, now I'm a busy mom of five, I couldn't imagine taking that

much time in my kitchen. It just didn't seem realistic. It didn't seem doable, even with the

benefits there. And as I, so I kind of

put that idea aside for a couple years, but I knew in the back of my mind, like, oh yeah, that'd be a

neat thing to do one day. Then I started seeing some resources pop up. I started seeing some

blogging friends. I started seeing some companies who were talking about freshly ground grains again.

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