How Wheat Works

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Wheat Food Council. All opinions are 100% mine.

Do you take the time to teach your family about the foods that you eat. Do you know yourself? I'll admit, I don't always take that time with Ben, I don't always have it! But on occasion we do spend time talking about farming, and where his food really comes from. It's good for him to know that the grocery store isn't really where his food comes from, just the source of where we buy it.

How Wheat Works is a very cool tool that you can use to help your family and friends learn just what goes into the bread, pasta and cakes that so many of us eat daily and take for granted. Though it's not just about the ingredients, but the work as well. How Wheat Works is an interactive online program that allows it's users to plant their own wheat field, let it grow, harvest and mill it, and eventually eat the fruits of their labor...virtually of course.

The program spans over four days, and is a efficient way to teach your family just what it takes to put the bread on you table. But education isn't the only benefit of the How Wheat Works program. For every person who goes through this free program, The Wheat Foods Council will donate 2lbs of flour to OperationHomefront.net. A non profit organization that assists in helping the families of U.S. Troops. They will donate up to 90,000 lbs of flour! That's a lot of loaves of bread!

There are many resources for Kids on the Wheat Foods Council website as well. Geared at kids ages 9 to 12, you'll find quizzes, recipes, games and information about wheat and other types of grains.