Keeping Pests At Bay
If you have ever experienced a pantry moth invasion you will appreciate the advice in this article. If you haven’t, read it to make sure you never do.
via DailyHerald.com > Lifestyle > Food on 9/02/10
Pantry stockpiling and purchasing food in bulk are popular among frugal people. But it’s common for larvae or Indianmeal moths to be carried in with bulk purchases such as flour, cereal, dog food, powdered milk, spices and birdseed.
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We use a FoodSaver vacuum sealer to seal our longer term storage dried goods. We generally seal 1.5 liter mason jars of various flours, sugars, oats, nuts, pancake mix, oat meals etc. etc. etc.
Just cracked a jar of bread flour today that was sealed 2.5 years ago (50lb bag price was to good to be true back then (more so now).
Nasty little critters can’t live in a vacuum!
FWIW,
Oscar