NEW PREPPERS: DO NOT USE MYLAR BAGS FOR LONG TERM FOOD STORAGE! 

IMPORTANT!!!! One BIG correction and TIMESAVER . . . IF you are using Mylar and oxygen absorbers, there is ABSOLUTELY NO NEED to send your food through the freezer routine. The oxygen free environment will already take care of any critters. The freezer trip is only needed if you’re putting it in Tupperware or Rubbermaid or something on the shelf. Another bonus when you avoid the freezer, you don’t risk introducing moisture into the food. That is a big issue with keeping foods safe long term.

I use mylar for certain items, but for dry goods I use 2-3 litre soda bottles, and apple juice bottles. Clean then sanitize dry then fill, and cover top with saran wrap then place the lid on. This works great for rice, beans, lentils, salt, sugar, baking soda, and cornstarch

I think mylar bags are worth it for staples like rice and beans. I can seal smaller amounts, so when I open and expose one to air, I'm not exposing 25lbs of goods to air.

Recommendation on flour, get you some paper lunch bags, measure out 4-6 cups (whatever bread recipe you commonly use), roll up the bag and put in a vacuum seal bag and seal. That way you don't have to open a whole bag of flour at a time. Extra work, but it lets you only open a small amount. I do the same for potato flakes and oatmeal. Some of those for really long term I then put in a large mylar bag and further seal. Overkill....probably, but if things go really bad, there are no second chances.

I agree. The priority right now for me is to complete the one year supply. Unfortunately I have adult children in my home who thinks I'm nuts and eat my stuff 🙃 so it's like swimming upstream

I'm completely new to long term prepping. I usually go major grocery shopping about 2 times a year, so every 6 months but never thought about long term storage as an option. We are a family of 6 that lives in Florida and my husband is the only one working. Within the past few weeks, I have loaded up on tons and tons of food for long term storage and these types of videos have really been helping me to navigate a whole different world. Thank you so much!! 🤗🤗

You can leave the flour in bag it comes in, just cut the top off and put in mylar, place absorber in the flour. It is much easier that way

The best way I have found to store flour is to place it into paper lunch sacks, fold over the top, then place them in a mylar bag. The oxygen absorber will still be able to work inside the lunch sack as well as outside and no flour dust. Yes, there is a major urgency within me to get things sorted and accumulated and stored. God is good to let His people know what to do!!!

I also save the instructions from one of each item in my food storage notebook. I store them in a sheet protector and have the instructions available when they are needed.

Hey girl, Just wanted to share something I learned recently with the beans. Dry beans will not be good for the long term past a year or so in mylar or vacuum-sealed without being cooked. Everyone says they will not get tender when cooked, no matter how long, they stay kind of hard after a while. Also, the energy it will take to cook them may not be available to spare when the time comes to cook them, this one is just important if you are considering a power outage during a time period. You would waste a lot of propane or wood to cook them for hours. So it is best all the way around to cook them now and then preserve them in a canning jar. I cook mine in the instant pot (pressure setting) for about 30 mins, that leaves them almost done and they will finish cooking in the canner. Again, this is for people who want to go past a year's storage or are concerned with a power outage.

Thank you. I’ve been putting off doing my Mylar bags, but I got off my butt today and did it watching you. I’ve been buying when I can and at this point I’ve been saving food also for my extended family and want to also store food for my church family, and just someone in need. May God be with us in these times coming.

Pro tip : If you want FREE food grade buckets go to your local restaurants or bakery. They usually have an abundance of them over time cause that's how they order food supplies. They usually get thrown away. I pick them up usually once a month and have so many I give them away....

Excellent suggestion. I wish someone would have told me this 12 years ago. When I started prepping I spent waaayyy to much money on long term foods (backpacking type meals) and nothing on foods I eat regularly.

Remind me to never challenge you to do a video just as good as your previous one. Because you my friend, go all out! 😂 Your attention to detail is outstanding. Even going to the extent of rounding off the corners of the Mylar bags. Are you sure you weren’t prior military? Because this has been an awesome block of instruction! Thank you so much for doing these videos. I know it takes a lot of time and effort but I have no doubt that people will be helped by your knowledge. Outstanding video Sunshine. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5 stars in my opinion. For all my military brothers and sisters, the only thing left you need to do is spray some camo paint on that bucket and you are ready to Charlie Mike! 😂

I don't consider myself a prepper, but at my older age, I do have some experience in planning ahead for a larger family. I sincerely mean this with total respect, but it is my honesty that, I would not necessarily advise even my own offspring to concentrate on building a year's supply of food before adding longer term supplies. Recently I bought two, 2 and 1/4 lbs packs of 80/20 ground chuck for nearly $10 for each pack. So for roughly $20. During that same shopping trip I picked up a 20lb bag of pinto beans for about the same price. I respectfully ask, which was the better deal? Personally, I believe the pinto beans were. There are far more servings in a 20lb bag. They already have a long shelf life, and don't even require a refrigerator or freezer to store them. To my thinking, it is a bonus to know that storing those beans in a Mylar bag would extend their shelf life even years longer. So I would advise my own offspring to first buy what is going to stretch your food supply the furthered, and for the least amount of money. Many people already know that beans and rice together form a complete protein - a nutritional need that most people meet with meats - which are becoming increasingly more difficult to afford. Likewise, peanut butter and whole wheat bread form a complete protein, (although I did just read of a recall involving Jif brand peanut butter, and some people have issues with the gluten in wheat bread). Anyway, I also bought 5lbs of long grain rice during that same (above) shopping trip, and for around $5. Of course, rice also has a fairly long shelf life which, again, can be greatly extended with Mylar bags, no refrigeration needed. And, 10lbs of rice would cost about the same as 2 and 1/4 lbs of the 80/20 ground chuck (mentioned above). In keeping with my belief in procuring dry goods first, the last time I bought all purpose flour I paid just under $8 for a 25lb bag. It, too, has a fairly long shelf life, which can be greatly increased when sealed in Mylar bags, or when otherwise vaccume sealed. Of course, flour is an essential basic. With a few other ingredients, (baking powder or yeast, salt, sugar, etc.), it makes everything from biscuits, bread, gravy, pancakes, tortillas, and chocolate cake, and cookies. It helps stretch the $1, at least for now., and bread - type foods are filling. I respect that you are reaching out to others to forewarn them that they need to plan ahead for the "real" shortages the President recently spoke of. So I hope you don't take my comment in a negative way. I grew up in the country, in a family of eleven. We ate well because my parents grew gardens and some years raised livestock, and because my mother kept certain dry goods on hand as insurance, in a sense. She preserved alot of home grown foods. I have a household of 6 now, and I can't imagine canned goods (first) getting us very far. I cook from scratch on the daily. Because a 14.5 oz can of whatever just wouldn't go very far here.

That a girl! You had me at “we might not have 10 years.” I’m going to subscribe and thumbs up! Finally somebody speaking the truth not just tiptoeing around feeling for comfort.

Something you can do to make storage of powdery goods easier: have paper lunch bags available to place them in. They will reduce the amount of powder within the mylar. We do this for our King Arthur flours (we always get 50lb bags on sale). It’s a better flour for artisanal types of baking, so that’s our treat to ourselves.

Thank you so very much for taking your time and performing the steps involved. It may seem mundane to many but when your a newbie to this process every thing you do answers so many questions.

You can also use glass jars. Put oxygen absorbers in bottom of jar then fill up. Dont use oxygen absorbers for sugar and salt, as it makes them hard.

You can seal the bag like 3/4 before you drop in the oxygen absorbers then you can work fast to finish sealing the bags and the oxygen absorbers aren’t exposed to as much during the process! You can always use a bag clip on the opening until you get to it and that works great.

When you asked about the sense of urgency -whew I felt that!! I have never prepped anything- and -I all of a sudden got an overwhelming- truly overwhelming feeling that I had to start now! It is like a voice in my head- urging me to start immediately ! This is how I found your channel/videos!!!! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH-I’m a newbie- I have NO clue- I am studying your videos!!!! I will be shopping all around this weekend!! Thank you so much -THANK YOU!

Some of those items can be sealed with a food saver and placed in air tight buckets. Cut a small slit so the oxygen will be removed from the bag. Flour can prE portioned in paper bags first, like in cup increments. Good for bartering. Way less work.

Flour for sure. It’s not shelf stable for long. Still needs to be used in a few years. I’m now stocking wheat berries and have a grinder. Lack of oxygen will kill the bugs, btw.

If you put the mashed potatoes into a paper bag you could put both boxes into one mylar bag and it'd be less messy. I also cut off the cooking ingredients and nutrition label and stick them in the bag too.

To fill the bags with less spillage, . . . I use some Dollar Tree plastic totes that are a little bigger than a shoe box. I line up the bags I’m gonna use and they help each other stand up. Then they are also ready to receive the O2 absorbers quickly.

To prevent the powder from mashed potato’s coating it you could bend the top of bag over (like rolling it out) when you fill it then straighten it out to close. That way the powder doesn’t come in contact with the top.

I love the “rounded corner” tip! I had not thought of that!

Yes, I'm feeling an urgency. We are just starting to put together our food supply. One step at a time.

The corner clipping is a great suggestion! Thanks for that.

Thank you for this very helpful video. I’m especially happy you showed how to seal with the hair flat iron and mentioned the temperature setting.

For me, I appreciate seeing all the details. I'm a person who kind of needs to actually see the process and maybe more than once!

You can store lots bags of food in New large metal garbage can with metal lid.Safe from all pests

I have put away flour in food grade buckets with bay leaves set on the top of the flour and it stayed fine for 20 years! I have also used Mylar bags more recently for both flour and rice.

trimming your corners was a really good idea I never heard that one before however I think I fold the top of the bag over in trim the corners before I sealed it. Also I always put a double seal on my mylar bag simply because I'm paranoid and I'd like to make absolutely sure that there is no leakage

Good content. Your intelligence shows in your videos. I pray God helps you get your information to those in need. You'll be at 100k subs in no time. Prayers and respect to you and your family.

I use mylar or vacuum seal bags for all freeze-dried foods. Then store them in buckets to protect from air & light. Stored in a basement or other temp controlled area.

great advise for beginners!!!! and I love the idea of a pot holder and rubbing it to make sure its sealed. Have a wonderful weekend!

I got a grinder and a wheat berries an I could not agree more I told people skip it now if your just starting an don’t have thousands to spend nope get food now right now I agree with you 💯 💕

I bought some Mylar bags 3 weeks ago but they are on back order. Wallaby isn’t expected to get them in to ship out for another 2-3 weeks, so it will likely be another 30 days before I have them in hand. The company has great customer service and I would recommend them, but this is a FYI for brand new preppers who may be looking to buy bags. Buy food now, don’t wait for the bags to be back in stock!

Thank you for this tutorial! I just bought my first mylar bags (five gallon and other sizes). I wished I had seen this tutorial before buying the buckets I purchased. This tutorial makes me less afraid of making a mistake.

To keep the dust from getting into the seal area, you can first put things (like the potato flakes) into a Ziploc-type bag.....just don't close it....put the open bag into the mylar bag, then seal it. If the food item comes in a bag (inside the box), you can just use that. Also, consider how many people you'll be feeding at a meal, and tailor the size of your mylar bags to that fact. If you have four pounds of beans in one bag, will you be feeding a whole lot of people at one time? Or will you have to worry with re-sealing the bag, every time you take some out for a meal? We do lot of vacume sealing, too. Heidi, on her Rain Country Homestead channel, shows how to use a brake bleeder to seal jars.

I pre-seal my bags until there is just enough room to fit the oxygen absorbers before I open the oxygen absorbers.

I TOTALLY have that same sense of urgency! I was wondering if it was just me!

I agree. I've been prepping since 2006. I began using mylar bags at least 10 years ago. I know that bc I opened a bag of large macaroni noodles that was dated 24 Mar 2014. I opened the bag and cooked one cup. They were good. Just ate them with some olive oil and salt pepper and chili flakes. The bags worked as they should. However, they did begin to get expensive, especially buying the oxygen absorbers. Those went up in price as well. Also, I write the contents, date of purchase, price, and where I bought the item.

I dry heat rice, never will have a problem with bugs. Vacuum seal in bag. Works great.

I put flour in a food-grade paper bag, then put it in a mylar bag with oxygen absorber, seal it after that. Super easy. I also do this when I vacuum seal.

Good info. We got those outrageous oats because the do not need to be repackaged. 12 in a 5 gallon bucket with 12 one quart packages of nonfat dry milk and a bulk bag of stevia. That's three months of breakfast in the emergency pantry. We did a coffee bucket same way. 12 vacuum sealed bricks of coffee and a bulk bag of stevia. It's a three month supply. One prepper channel suggested making your own survival bucket. Since we have food allergies we thought that a good idea and put boxes of Mac n cheese, dried soup mixes, canned diced ham, tuna, Vienna sausages, canned pork n beans and can chicken, spaghetti and sauce in a 5 gallon bucket. One bucket is one week of lunch/dinner. Its cheaper than the survival buckets and suits our needs. Just a note on packing things in mylar. It extends food freshness for 5-10 years but the situation now is immediate IMO. If you are just getting started back up what you use now so you have enough to use within the next 12 months. Replace as you use and use oldest first.

You are the first person who I have seen round off the corners of the Mylar bags and I think it’s a great tip.

Great advice and great instructions. Thank you and God bless you all.

Notice that you said we may not have 10 Years. This caught my attention and I had to share with my friends. We also know this to be true. I have told new preppers our time of preparation is and will come to an end. 7 years of tribulation begins.

I made the mistake of buying these when I first started prepping. I now reuse glass and plastic containers, as well a vacuum sealing dry goods.

You bring up a very sensible point. It's also good to remember that if food production is halted, or supply chain is disrupted, or shipping becomes impossible for any reason, what you have may be all you can get. One year food supply may not be enough, especially if you are the kind of person who can't turn away a hungry child or starving neighbor. I used to pick up a 25 lb. bag of beans or rice at Super1 for $20 every month for 'them'. Prices have gone up so much the past few years but it's still one of the cheapest ways to get shelf stable calories. One pound of beans or grain is generally in the neighborhood of 1,600 calories per day, which is just barely enough to survive on. Lately the least expensive place for bulk beans and rice seems to be Winco which is still in the $18 to $30 range for 25 lb. bags.

I haven’t put anything in Mylar bags yet. I inherited 600 mason jars so this is what I use but I’m ready to try the Mylar bags

I seal the bags with an Iron and leave a small opening in the corner then I add the oxygen absorber. Then I draw out the air with a small 3/8 tube connected to a shop vacuum. I have a 12" sealer so first I seal a wide part of the corner because you can't remove the wrinkles under vacuum it does seal so I remove the vacuum hose and seal the small hole in the corner. The bags will shrink more and by the third the bags are hard as rock.

I watched a video a while back about cooking rice and tried it…it worked. Instead of simmering for 20 minutes or so, bring it a boil, cover it, shut it off and just let it

Thank You!! I started doing canning & dehydrating & Stayed Away from Mylar for the Same Reasons!!

Yes the urgency feeling is there for many. I've been cleaning and deep cleaning like crazy too.

We also use vacuum sealer bags and Mason jars for our food stores. We also dehydrate a lot of vegetables and fruits as well

Love the "long format" videos!!! You really fill the time with obvious as well as great nuance tips and advice. So true about the 1 year store bought foods before the "survival buckets" that will most likely never be used as intended. I have canned meats dated out to 2027ish. The grains take time to process (freeze) and some peeps have to break it down to fit in small freezer spaces ( to kill critters before sealing) but it can/should be done. Canned goods (in water only) are good for out here in the dry humid less west. And lastly I agree going a lil more on the OA's because I hate the worry from a loose bag .... absolutely no pun intended. Perfect timing tonight. I'm shopping the "zon" for mylar sealers tonight. On my kitchen table is Rice, Sugar, Creamer, Oats and powdered eggs I'm going to break down. Keep up the great work. Excellent content.

I would never wipe off the crumbs with a wet towel. I use a dry paper towel and it works great. Also, I fill all my bags and then open the OA's so they will not be absorbing oxygen while I work.

Love your videos. You're so adorable AND a smart prepper. I don't bother with gussetted mylar bags, but find that a nice cardboard delivery box stashed, is the perfect way to stack all my filled mylar bags together upright, so that I can pop in the O2A's all at once and seal away. Although you didn't show how you do flour, maybe my tip will help. Open the flour fully, place the mylar bag over it to come a third of the way down, now flip it over and carefully ease flour into the mylar bag.... Being in Fl also, my biggest angst comes from having to deal with how low to keep my A/C, so my food stash stays cool enough. 😇😘

I found it on those 5 lb bags of flour if you turn it upside down and then slip the 1 gallon mylar bag over it, then when you turn it up right it'll be the right direction, then I take a knife poke a small hole in the paper bag, drop a oxygen absorber in there and seal it up leaving all the flour in the original container, works very good

I use an oblong pitcher to hold the mylar bag while I'm filling it.

I picked up a used flat iron at the thrift store, for a couple of dollars. I keep this with my supplies and only use it for sealing mylar. Another trick I've learned is to use a vacuum and pull out all the air before you seal the mylar. I keep a flat tip vacuum attachment in with my storage supplies, just for this purpose.

Hi The farmers here in the US have been on the news warning of a food shortage here in the US . Alot of them haven't been able to plant crops bc they said they can't afford to bc of the cost of fertilizer and diesel and seeds etc. They say by the end of the summer or in fall there will be a food shortage. The farmers have videos on RU-vid about the food shortage here in the US. I have never known in my lifetime that the farmers here in the US says that there is going to be a food shortage. I take it seriously bc they know bc we know that they provide our food. Anyways I am getting prepared. Stocking up on flour .and canned vegetables and canned fruit and other food items. I have some canned vegetables stored already. Want to be prepared.

I’m out of Mylar bags and really like the Wallaby. Will definitely use your code to get money off .Thank you good video.❤️

Thank you for this video, so much conflicting information out there about proper rice/dry food storage for new preppers to sort through. This answered all of my questions. I am now a subscriber!

Awesome advice. Love your channel. I just started my own preparedness channel and is always good to learn new things. Have a great Sunday.

Agreed. I just started vacuum sealing instead, mostly rice and beans. I dont think we are going to need a 25 year shelf life. We will be using it way sooner, use that money for more food instead. A lot of things now I'm just leaving in the original package if it says it will last 3 years in the original package I'm calling it good and storing it.

If you have food grade buckets, clean, with oxygen absorbers and good lids, Mylar can be overkill. It’s not always necessary.

You can use a small mylar bag to put some dehydrated meat and vegetables and a bouillon cube and some instant rice in the bags to make an instant meal that just needs boiling water to have a stew

I went to my local dunes to test out my driving capabilities and people always toss their junk up there. Lately I have been finding garden items and storage tubs. The storage tubs are perfectly fine; the last one I found had family photos in it. Anyways, if you are on a low budget then prep for free by hitting up local dumping sites or recycle bins.

Right I am new ish to all this I am just focusing on food and water right now. Then going to slowly work on getting house hold things and other more expensive things.

New prepper but, seasoned gardener who freezes and cans. Just bought my first dehydrator. Feeling the need to start prepping for myself and family. Very scary time we are living in.

Great advice! My sister and I vacuum seal everything and not use Mylar bags same effectiveness and a lot cheaper than using Mylar bags ( heavy duty ziplock freezer bags double sealed) I agree we do not have no more than ten years continual crisis keep escalating at a fast rate now (monkey pox)

Good video! I'm a newbie prepper, but now I'm worried that prices of grain and canned meat will go sky high in a few months! (I live in the UK.) I'm particularly obsessed with getting a year's supply of wheat grain ASAP, as I have devices with which I can grind my own flour and bake bread with, I can't help thinking bread is THE food more than any other shown right through the Bible to sustain life and for survival.. Plus it doesn't use much space to store up a year's supply of wheat grain for one person. (me.) Also I've noticed that oxygen absorbers are actually much more expensive than mylar bags!

A good tip (not sure if you said it or not), but make sure your flat iron is not on too high a heat setting. I have one that gets really hot and it ripped the Mylar bag when I tried to seal it. I have to turn the heat down to under 400 degrees .

I looked up Minute rice and will last long term too. Just cooked and dehydrated too. Faster cooking up. I rarely ate rice before I met the rice eati no g monster and a box of Minute Rice would last a couple years just in a cabinet. I got an impulse sealer. Takes about 2 seconds to seal. A five gallon bag is overkill for 2 so gallon bags. I use Tidy Cat tubs. Stackable and buckets with lids are 5 dollars at least so one less expense. Keep stacking my litter tubs til unavailable. Pretty air tight as I couldn't smell used litter when I used them to clean litter boxes with them. I've been putting the bag of beans with a hole so I know any directions or ideas in the mylar. Less likely to get beans everywhere. Yeah not everything completely everything slurps up every bit of air to a brick. Macaroni seems to really vacuum seal then pastas. Really the only thing to get freeze dried would be meat. One here and there would add up. Freeze drier wouldn't be that cost effective with meat prices now unless you can afford it all at once.

I am a new prepper and haven't started using mylar bags and OAs yet for the exact reason you stated! I'm using my Foodsaver accessory with canning jars and the Foodsaver bags that then go into a 5 gallon bucket. We are not ready for true long term storage past a year or so. We don't have the space to do so anyway. Eventually we hope to figure out a way for true long term storage with Mylar bags and OAs. Thank you for clarifying!!

I just put the year on the package. Ten years from now it won't matter what day it was. If it's SHTF, then it really won't matter lol.

Good video, 🌞 sunshine! I have never used mylar bags yet. My preferred method is vacuum sealing jars or packages. I then stick the packages into totes.

Do it once - do it right. You don’t want to get 2k lbs into your preps and realize everything is aging much quicker than you’d intended. If we treated every day like the last day and panic buy without proper storage, I wouldn’t bother getting out of bed, much less go to work. Mylar & oxygen absorb what needs it (do your due diligence) and put away the rest.

You can use empty pizza sauce jars, plastic pop bottles ect for beans and rice, put a ox absorber and tighten lid. Save the cost on mylar bags and glass container is mouse proof.

I see you went to BJ's, my favorite store 😊 I bought that rice several weeks ago, and now they don't have it. I'm getting their Basmati in the burlap bag now. I do vacuum seal many things, and did order their 5 gallon bags. I'll be cutting them in half and putting my entire 12lb bags of flour in in, and sealing. I have over 600lbs of flour to do lol.

True. If new - wait. Work on your stockpile. I’ve been prepping for several years now. I just got my first Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. Amazon special. 3 different sizes. Also buy in dry goods in bulk at Costco. Like rice, quinoa, dry potatoes, and dry beans.

I purchased mylar bags from Amazon. I didn't realize they were made in China and am a bit concerned putting my food in these bags. Do any of you all have suggestions for safe use?

I’ve been learning recently that it’s super important to put flour and sugars and anything else in a paper or plastic bags into a secure container. We recently found a cock roach in our house and then got infested with mice. I had to throw so much away. Even though they didn’t destroy the whole bag I didn’t trust any of it because of one hole in the plastic and the mouse poop in the bin the flour bags were in. I’m just glad it happened before it was life or death.

Couldn’t ya Just cut a good slit in the top of the bag of flour, put that end in first, and then pull out?

Thanks for the advice as I am new to doing this and do not have my first year ready!! Thank you Thank you 😊

Needed the 1 gallon bags. Used your discount code and got the 60 count gussested bags. Thank you!!!!

Thank you for your video... I have been putting my rice, and legumes into regular heavy quality vacuum bags and then storing them inside a container that keeps them away from light. I always put those kind of foods into the freezer for three days and then out of the freezer for three days BEFORE I seal them up so that no eggs or parasites can be live in there. Most of my food is home-canned and I have nearly a year's supply now. I Pressure-canned mostly meats as I feel they are going up in price very fast as well as may be scarce in future. Also meats are the most nutritious foods on the planet and we may need to eat less in future.

I partially disagree. If you're building up a years worth of food storage or storing any large quantities of food, it'll attract critters. I prefer to store everything possible in some type sealed container if not being eaten in the short term. Keeps infested food contained, and other food from being infested. Plus, the one year food supply becomes long term storage eventually. Best to start out right.

I’m new as a prepper and honey it’s Never to late!!

Listen, this is not aimed at you. Wouldn’t be on here if I didn’t value your content. I’m probably ignorant, but so sick of the prepper community fixation on Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. No where in my thinking does 20-30 year shelf life exist. Seems like a lot of tribute must come from pushing this stuff. Sorry, had to vent, I’ll shut-up now.

There are other reasons to use Mylar bags for storage like "Space" unless you live in a big house with a basement for extra storage a bunch of can, jars, boxes and 5 gallon buckets are not feasible for trying to get your supplies beyond a few weeks or months.

I see so many channels constantly suggesting some of the long term freeze dried storage foods (25 years). I’m sure they are going to help in many cases but they are so very expensive and of the brands that I have taste tested NOT A SINGLE ONE WAS DELICIOUS to eat. Most were actually inedible to me. So after I collected a good bit of that sort of food; I finally decided from now on to purchase ONLY what I enjoy eating. So now I shop for can foods that should last a few years and dried foods that I can store easily (beans/rice/pasta) in ways that can last a decade or longer.

Thanks for the tips! I love watching your videos, very encouraging!

Forgive me if im not understanding but why waste a gallon size for 2lb of beans? You could cut off the excess and seal the bottom of that extra piece mak8ng a whole second bag to use. For the o2 absorbers you could throw them in a small snack size baggie fast and they wont have much o2 in there leaving more for your next sealing bag.

To make things easier, sitting those bags in a high pot or a mixing bol realy dose help 😊

We have been making our own "MRE's" for daily meals as well. This is easy to do and you can customize your own daily rations for your family