Practical application of perennial staple crops

Good evening!

I've just finished watching Mark Shephard's video on Permaculture Voices and have found myself wondering about the practical application of using the crops he grows (primarily apples, berries, nuts) as staple crops.

As a lover of bread and rice, how do we re-shape our diets around a world without wheat or rice as staples?

I've read some of Carol Depp's work, who talks a bit about using Native American techniques of drying large squash slices; she also grows a bit of corn for cornbread if I recall correctly.

I sometimes find myself at a loss when ingesting permaculture information, where I cannot get to the practical use part (why grow nuts if you don't know how to use them as staples?) The silvopasture application is obviously a great use of the nuts, and I know nut flour is a thing...I've never used it.

This obviously requires a re-thinking of how I plan and prepare meals; there are several diets I can think of that don't use rice or bread, but don't necessarily use nuts as staples (Keto-type diets)

If there is someone out there with a resource I can look into, please let me know.

how do we re-shape our diets around a world without wheat or rice as staples?

If you don't have nuts any growing, my advice would be to hit up the unsalted mixed nuts at the bulk bins - buy a few pounds and you will soon find out how many nuts you prefer to eat if you can just eat them all the time anytime. If boring eating out of hand, eat them with a fruit or vegetable. With vegetables, it is a fun challenge to try to eat 30 different vegetables in a week.

Here is a fairly compelling presentation on nuts as staple foods:    

If all else fails write a blog journal about how nuts are such terrible foods, and then surely there will be one or more people who will read it and disagree and then start eating nuts all the time.

After some more thought last night, I was considering that perhaps the silvopasture itself might be a good enough answer.

Most of our annual crop production acreage (aside from lawns) is corn and soy for factory farmed animals. If all of that land was converted back to oak savanna for raising cows and pigs, would that not make a huge part of our diets technically on perennial crops, indirectly? Of course there would be the other stacked crops within the forest, which would only add to the economic benefit of the system

I had originally focused on replacing wheat with nuts, but I think now replacing CAFO pork and beef with silvopasture is a bigger impact and an easier sell to the public as the product is actually an upgrade.

Am I missing the mark here?

Another option would be to grow perennial varieties of wheat and other grains. I don't know of any perennial rices offhand, but Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance has perennial varieties of wheat, rye, oats, and flax available.

Jessica - I think that you are spot on. About half of my property is oak chaparral, my plan is to have pigs to take advantage of the acorns, and milk goats to take advantage of the buckbrush (ceonothus ceantus) and some of the small scrubby oaks. Our area is not well suited to cows, too hot and dry, unless you irrigate. We eat a lot of dairy and a fair amount of pork.

Nuts take a fair amount of processing. Not something that I'd want to spend a lot of time doing. It's easier feeding them to animals. Don't get me wrong I love nuts, but I wouldn't want them to be a primary staple.

Personally, I'm not willing to give up wheat unless/until absolutely necessary.