Pioneer life

A big part of pioneer life was the food. Where would it come from, would we go hungry, is there enough ect. Grains played a big part in the diet of pioneer families. To go along with our Little House on the Prairie study we bought a Grains unit study from Marmee Dear Co. The study covers a bunch of different grains, rice, wheat, Kamut, rye, triticale, spelt, barley, oats, buckwheat, flax, corn, amaranth, quinoa, millet and teff. Some of these I have never heard of let along tried. But I did notice that our local Mennonite store has most if not all of these. We have tried rye, wheat, spelt, barley, oats and flax. I must admit I feel much better after introducing these into many of my baked items.

After a short lesson on the grain of the day we went to the Bible to see how many verses on bread, baking and food we could find. Below is a list of what we found: I have used many versions to find these.

Bread:

Gen. 14:18
Gen. 47:12-13
1 Sam. 16:20
1 Sam. 21:6
1 Sam. 25:18
1 Kings 17:6
2 Kings 4:42
Nehemiah 10:37
Psalm 80:5
Psalm 102:9
Psalm 104:15
Hosea 7:8
Matthew 6:11
Matthew 26:26
Mark 14:22
1 Cor. 11:23-26
Luke 6:4

Baking:

Gen. 18:6
Gen. 40:1
Jer. 37:21
Hosea 7:4
Exodus 16:23
Lev. 2:4
Lev. 26:26
1 Kings 19:6
Matthew 13:33

Food: just a few because there are A LOT of verses in the Bible on food.

Gen. 1:11-12
Gen. 9:3
Judges 7:13-15
Psalm 78:25
Lamentations 5:9

I really enjoy turning all of our studies to Christ. Isn't that one main reason we are home schooling our children? Point them to Christ. We bought the book:" Where to Find it in the Bible: the ultimate A-Z resource" by Ken Anderson. I must tell you I am so glad we bought this book. No matter what the subject we are studying I can open this and it will point me to a scripture passage to use. Many times it is more than one. We bought this book at Dollar General for $5.00!