Spelt grain availability in Aus?

[Nay-nay]

My local fruit and veg place gets 5kg boxes of spelt for me from Trumps. 

[Russell]

My local fruit and veg place gets 5kg boxes of spelt for me from Trumps. 

I guess we'll just have to ask around. The Trumps web site wasn't working for me at home, was mostly blank pages.

I guess you could go 50/50 with spelt & wheat to spread it out, assuming gluten isn't an issue. Sort of defeats the purpose though.

Russell.

[quirkycooking]

I agree Cathy - we've bought white spelt bread now and then, and the whole loat dissapears in a couple of hours sometimes, whereas my heavier home made ones last two days!  (Maybe it's also the novelty of bought bread, but I know for sure that white fluff doesn't fill you up and you need heaps more!!)

I buy my spelt grain from Demeter Farm Mill (http://www.demeterfarmmill.com.au/) through a co-op for about $4/kg (including freight) - it's 12.5kg bags for $46.49 + freight.  They're in NSW, we're in FNQ, so it's a fair distance to travel - we pay about 30c / kg freight.  You should try and get a co-op together!  It's the best way to go.

Do you get spelt grain from Trumps, Nay Nay?  I've only ever seen spelt flour on their list -they have white spelt flour for $5.10/kg if you buy 20kg.  (They have wholemeal too, same price, but I wouldn't buy that - it goes rancid really quick, and it's better to grind your own.)

[cathy79]

I guess we'll just have to ask around. The Trumps web site wasn't working for me at home, was mostly blank pages.
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Trumps website is hopeless - but if you ring them they will email you a price list.

Russell - we really should get our acts together and get a proper coop going in the area as Jo has suggested.  Interested?

[Russell]

Russell - we really should get our acts together and get a proper coop going in the area as Jo has suggested.  Interested?

Possibly. I've emailed Demeter and asked what the story is - their website isn't much better - phone number & email At least there's no false pretenses.

Russell.

[quirkycooking]

Do you want me to email you the price lists for Trumps and Demeter?  I have them both.

[Russell]

Well, Demeter just replied to my email saying they have no spelt grain....

I have emailed Trump, but if you can send both price lists through, I'd be interested in seeing them.

Russell.

[faffa_70]

The only place that I have found it in WA so far is at Loose Produce, so if any other West Aussies are reading this and know where else you can buy it, please let me know!!!

[cathy79]

I have emailed Trump, but if you can send both price lists through, I'd be interested in seeing them.
Russell.

I tried putting the files up on here, but they're too big.  If you want to send me an email, I'll forward them to you.

[Nay-nay]

Do you get spelt grain from Trumps, Nay Nay?  I've only ever seen spelt flour on their list -they have white spelt flour for $5.10/kg if you buy 20kg.  (They have wholemeal too, same price, but I wouldn't buy that - it goes rancid really quick, and it's better to grind your own.)

Yes Quirkycooking - the flour. I ordered the white flour after asking you and you told me about wholemeal going rancid.

[Russell]

I have emailed Trump, but if you can send both price lists through, I'd be interested in seeing them.
Russell.

I tried putting the files up on here, but they're too big.  If you want to send me an email, I'll forward them to you.

Thanks Cathy, I have them now. Quirkycooking sent them to me.

Trump has raw cashews at half the supermarket prices, which is good fo rme too. Shame they don't have the spelt grain. Is the white spelt flour and better than normal flour, goodness wise?

Russell.

[quirkycooking]

Russel, the reason the unbleached plain spelt flour is better than the wheat flour is because it is easier to digest - it has less gluten in it, and hasn't been altered like wheat has (which has reduced the enzyme in the wheat that helps you digest the gluten)... hope that's not too confusing!!!

[Russell]

Russel, the reason the unbleached plain spelt flour is better than the wheat flour is because it is easier to digest - it has less gluten in it, and hasn't been altered like wheat has (which has reduced the enzyme in the wheat that helps you digest the gluten)... hope that's not too confusing!!!

Yeah that's fine. I'd read Spelt was a gluten product that gluten free people might be able to tolerate, along with other benefits, just wasn't sure if the refining messed it up.

We'll probably go gluten free for a few weeks to check it out on the FAILSAFE diet. I'm hoping it won't be a problem for us though, so i don't know if we'd stay on it, given the cost. Will depend how far the budget stretches with all the otehr stuff as to how far we go. Seems everything is twice the price of "normal" foods. Bought some A2 Milk on the weekend, $4.78 for 2 litres!!

Russell.

[Nay-nay]

I'm glad we have our own cow!  Many people these days are buying shares in a cow at a dairy so they can legally have raw milk - any round where you live?

[Russell]

I'm glad we have our own cow!  Many people these days are buying shares in a cow at a dairy so they can legally have raw milk - any round where you live?

We had our own cows, some Dexters, but had to sell them back to the people we bought them off late last year Damaris's hand operation meant she couldn't milk anymore, the dry weather meant we were spending $50 - $100 a week in hay, and the cows kept breaking through the electric fences and eating all our fruit trees! (and lots of other things they shouldn't have. I think they were eying off the aerial on my car when they left). I even spent a fortune of a full cheese making kit, but only ever ended up making 2 lots of Quark

Russell.