Avoid Food Spoilage - How I Store Dry Goods 

No need to freeze. Just add bay leaves=no bugs.

I freeze for minimum of 7 to 10 days. Then I spread bags out on counters for another 5 days to “dry”. Then I vacuum seal or place in Mylar bags with O2 absorbers. Store according. Short term or long term. Flour, rice, beans and pasta. All the above go through the process above.

@@GeorgiasGarden When you have the bags out on the counter, are they sealed or open? Thanks

agreed!

Glad it was helpful!

Great tip!

Place some bay leaves in your dry goods and you will not have a probken

@@cheryladams5175 The only problem with bay leaves in those is they take on the flavor. Bay leaf rice pudding....yuck.

You are so welcome!

You are so welcome!

January pantry challenge month will keep us all busy ❤️

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Perfect

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How are you using the pressure canner as a vacuum sealer?

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You are so welcome!

Watch the gamma lids. I have several that leak.

@@HowardsFunnyFarm oh no thats not good. I've had good luck so far.

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I use 4 color yard sale stickers to label my cans, bags & boxes. Pink stickers for the month since there's twice as many pink as the other colors & assign the Yellow= 2024, green=2025 & orange=2026 "best by" years. Makes it real easy to spot items that need used sooner than others.

@@cathyrowe594 Genius idea! I'm going to use this too. It would make it so much easier on me. Thanks for tis wonderful tip.

🤣 in hind sight I hope it's a funny memory

I put my ground coffee in the freezer works. Well !!!!

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Yes you can leave the partial boxes

Awesome....thanks Leisa I really appreciate you getting back with me so quickly. I know I can go at least 3 high stacked, not sure about 4 stacked due to weight. I think I have it right on the 5 gallon buckets...no more than 3 stacked high so the weight won't push down on the bottom bucket. Have a great weekend!

I found folding plastic crates at a local produce company. They are all the same size, but some have different side wall heights. They vary from 8 to 24 inches. They stack perfectly. Each crate holds about 2 cases of cans or canning jars. I can leave the end of the crate folded in so you can see the contents.

We, and I before we, have used cardboard of different sizes, shapes, and types to stack items in the pantry. I have only had problems with this in two instances. I lived in a part of the county that pretty much everyone had cockroaches one one typecof another whether they were aware of it or not. They were in the city (and county) water system, they or eggs came in on paper (and cardboard) food containers, they or eggs came in on paper bags from the grocery store despite the stores' warehouses having an aggressive pesticide spraying program of grocery bags (ugg...). Meally bugs were another problem. Pretty much every bag, box, and package from the grocery store went into a glass jar, coffee tin, or other when I lived there. All extra paper nd cardboard went out, the garbage was taken out after each meal, every time I left the house, and often was the first thing I did upon returning home. In another area I lived, they flushed the water systems (sewer I think) on a three year cadence. They would begin at one end of the city then return in the other direction which did kill a bunch of the vermin (primarily rats) but also had them climbing up and out of the system. Having recently come from the roach and meally worm area, I was already in a lot of glass and metal but we did come to have a problematic rodent which I will assume was a rat. Most of the food storage was on shelves decorating the living area but, I did have a few things in what was either a small bedroom or large closet that had clearly been visited by said rodent. For myself I out a little more in there 'cause i didnt want it in the general living space whike I secured plastic buckets, glass, and metal containers. That thing chewed holes in plastic containers and left gnaw marks on metal; partocularly in the pursuit of popcorn. I ended up putting the popcorn in heavy glass Vallasic pickle jars with old school metal lids. That thing actually gnawed and broke the glass just under the metal lid of one of those jars filled with popcorn. That was the last we saw any indicator of said rodent and even the big 'ole, inner city, mouser/ ratter cat became less interested in that room. (I knew it was big and although the cat was big and great, I had t been prepared to pair them off.) A friend of mine also had an invasion of those white grain moths in his big pantry closet in the kitchen. What a flipping mess those were to get rid of. It took him about 6 months. He had much of everything in open bags, boxes, and packets from the store and one day he opened that closet door to be met with a cloud of white moths. They eat through plastic bags, cardboard cereal containers, live in the garbage disposal, and vrryblikely quite away down the drainage pipes beyond the garbage disposal.

@@terryhenderson424 Thanks for your input and experiences with mice/rats/roaches. I'm stocked up on vaporub store brands to Vicks. They all hate the smell of eucalyptus, menthol and other ingredients in it. I'm just gonna take the tops off of the jars and set them into a spare bedroom I'm using as a pantry. It'll irritate their lungs and either die or leave my mobile home in the country. Very few people live in my neighborhood community and the other mobile homes are spaced far apart. Cinnamon and whole peppercorns work good too, but vaporub/chest rub is easier to handle and move around. Also lining shelves with aluminum foil or around the 4 legs/posts of the Muscle racks. Mice can't stand the smell or sound that foil makes. Sounds like you had either a field rat or opossum to chew through those metal lids. I've got about 10 jars but just a few will smell up the room with the door closed.

Coming this month

@@SuttonsDaze I’m looking forward to this too as I’ve never used mylar or O2 absorbers.

no, they are canned

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The gamma lids are good, but for long term add the mylar as the gamma lids are not air tight

Thanks! I've wondered about that for a long time.