Larger orders of flour -- suppliers?

[Seeria]

I'm not overly sure where to put this post, please move if in the wrong spot.

We're looking to do a stock up for the winter on flour (among other things). With very little transportation ability during the winter we'd like to find a good resources with good quality and decent prices.

Where do you all get your flours you buy in huge sacks, bags, quantity, etc, please?


We're in central WI, btw.

[Forerunner]

I don't know your situation, but if you want to stock up on flour, you might consider stocking up on the specific wheat that you prefer and pick up a grinder. The wheat will keep much longer and stores much easier.

[Shawna]

We're in Ohio,b ut we have a bulk food store (actually two of them) near us. They will order for us, usually at a cheaper price than they shelve it at. Check around and see if you have any bulk food stores. Co-ops would be a good place to grab some extras too.

I am sure others have some great ideas here!!

:baby04:
Shawna

[snowonder]

Natural Way Mills in Middle River, MN. They have a website I believe.

[cathleenc]

Originally Posted by snowonder

Natural Way Mills in Middle River, MN. They have a website I believe.

http://www.naturalwaymills.com/faq.htm

[fin29]

If you have a friend with a food service business, ask them to make an order from a restaurant supply place. My price on King Arthur WW and high gluten unbleached white is $28/50#. The restaurant quality stuff is even cheaper.

[stranger]

Originally Posted by Seeria

I'm not overly sure where to put this post, please move if in the wrong spot.

We're looking to do a stock up for the winter on flour (among other things). With very little transportation ability during the winter we'd like to find a good resources with good quality and decent prices.

Where do you all get your flours you buy in huge sacks, bags, quantity, etc, please?


We're in central WI, btw.

personally i would go to Bobs red mill or some other supplier and get a couple hundred pounds of hard white wheat berries and to Jung seed company and purchase a cheap hand grain grinder.

[beowoulf90]

If you are looking for flour, check with the local flour mills.. Most places will sell 100 lbs bags to you. You have to look for the mills though, they are there, it's just most people don't even know that they are there...

[homebirtha]

United Natural Foods and Frankferd Foods both sell bulk flour as well as wheatberries.
http://www.unitedbuyingclubs.com/
http://www.frankferd.com/

I second the recommendation to get the wheatberries and a grinder. Flour gets stale pretty quickly. So flour you buy now won't taste very good by winter. Unless you have a freezer to store 50 lb bags in?

[longshot38]

local bakery supply places might sell to individuals or if there is a local bakery they might be willing to sell the 40 or 80 pound bags that they buy at cost or just over. my family has a bakery and we have done this for others who have approached us.


jsut a thought.
dean

[ladycat]

I get mine through the local buying club.

There is a buying club in reach of almost everyone. You have to google to find them. I was shocked when I found ours with the pickup point only 10 miles away. I live in the boonies!

Google for buying club, food co-op, and try to find the distributors that supply them. The distributors can put you in touch with the ones that are closest to you (that's how I found ours).

[Happy Palace]

Originally Posted by Shawna

We're in Ohio,b ut we have a bulk food store (actually two of them) near us. They will order for us, usually at a cheaper price than they shelve it at. Check around and see if you have any bulk food stores. Co-ops would be a good place to grab some extras too.

I am sure others have some great ideas here!!

:baby04:
Shawna

Hi Shawna,
Where are the bulk food stores? I'm in Marysville, just outside Dublin. Are they close to me?

[orphy]

Are you anywhere near Eau Claire, on hwy. 12 just outside of Fall Creek there is a store called Weaver's it is an Amish store. They used to and I believe still will order you anything you want.

[fretti]

I buy at a restaurant supply store or at Bob's Red Mill but I don't have to pay shipping. But I agree with the others: get a mill and buy wheat berries. MUCH fresher.

As a side note, I was at Bob's just this morning. I stocked up on corn since me thinks the price might rise a tad. It hasn't gone up at all for a long time - still ~$13.50 for 25 pounds. And all the shelves were full, including rice and wheat.

[Seeria]

Thanks everyone!

Does anyone know roughly how much wheat berries grinds down to how much flour?

Originally Posted by Seeria

Thanks everyone!

Does anyone know roughly how much wheat berries grinds down to how much flour?

Well, the obvious answer is that one pound of wheat berries will mill into one pound of flour. But I suspect that's not what you really wanted to know.

The answer is it depends on how coarse or fine your mill grinds and how you meaure your flour. My WhisperMill turns eight cups of wheat berries into twelve cups of flour at the setting I usually use. Mills that grind more coarsely will yield somewhat less.

Once out of the canister it comes down to how you measure your flour.

.....Alan.

[Seeria]

Good to know, thank you kindly.