Reed Mueller

On the evening before our church’s 72-challenge, I thought that I would provide a one-serving conversion the UNIMIX emergency food recipe that we mined from WorldVision’s 30-hour Famine site. For one serving you need:

• 3 Tablespoons sugar
• 3 Tablespoons milk powder
• Heaping 1/2 cup cornmeal (9 Tablespoons to be exact)
• 3/4 cup ground [Pinto] beans (or softened, then mashed)
• 3 Tablespoons oil

To make mine, I’m grinding my pinto beans after measuring them. Then I’m mixing all the dry ingredients together. Finally, I’m adding the oil (which in our pantry is soybean oil). Once this is all thoroughly mixed together, add water until you have an oatmeal or porridge like consistency. Then eat away. But I promise you, it won’t taste like what we’re used to!

A few notes about the recipe. First, the totals are a little funky because the recipe came to me in percentages and I wanted to scale it to one serving more or less; this is the best I can do. Second, this is a much smaller batch than I made at church, which would have sustained a hungry child for more than a day, possibly two. Third, when used in emergency situations, the mix is also fortified with additional vitamins and minerals.

As for the nutritional information of this recipe, here’s what I have for the recipe above (one serving):

*Percent Daily Values are based upon a 2,400 calorie diet.

ADDITIONAL RECIPE CONVERSION -
One Day’s Worth of Unimix (2400 Calorie Diet)

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup milk powder
• 1 1/2 cups cornmeal
• 2 cups ground [Pinto] beans (or softened, then mashed)
• 1/2 cup oil