How do you store sugar and flour stockpile?

[coupondink]

ok...my struggle with my sugar stockpile is over.

Acme had a great cat deal last week and I used my overage to get 6 pound of sugar.

YEY!

That should last me a while. Whew!

For storage...I followed your advice and went to a few bakeries and obtained a few food grade buckets. Two bakeries gave me a three gallon bucket each and Stop and Shop bakery gave me a 5 gallon bucket. After a half hour of scrubbing the icing out, soaking and peeling the labels off, dry for a few days....they should be ready to use in a few days.

I also shopped around and got my 25 pound 6 month supply of rice today. BJ's wound up being the best price for jasmine rice. $16. All the other stores wanted $20. Wow Rice is expensive lately. I had bought a Container Store pet food container 6 years ago for something like $15 (I think they are $20 now). Little did I know back then that bakeries give away 5 gallon buckets for free! I could have saved $15. Oh well. Now I know. I am much wiser now with hotcouponworld.com in my life. :-)
Here is the one I bought:


I am still asking around for a few more 3 and 5 gallon buckets. I plan to store flour, beans, oatmeal, yellow rice, and basmati rice in them.



I have a 5 pound flour in the freezer right now and tomorrow, I will put it on the counter for 3 days and then refreeze in case there are eggs hatched, and then place in the 3 gallon bucket I have drying on the counter right now. I will put a bay leaf in it to avoid bugs.


As soon as the 5 gallon bucket dries, I will place some dry rice grains in the bottom of the bucket to absorb moisture...and then put five pounds of sugar in it. I have a set of Tupperware Stackeables my sis-in-law gave me that fits 5 pounds of sugar nicely, and it pours nicely. I love them!



I use them for sugar, cereal, oatmeal, dry potatoes, dry milk, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt. I store the stockpile in bigger buckets and tins and then keep day to day supply in the Stackables.

I am so excited about this! I feel so....stockpiled!

Thanks again for all the various advice everyone offered.

[coupondink]

regarding storing flour...
I am trying to store my flour using your suggestions....but am confused with this new method.

so I got a bucket and it is clean and ready to go.

I popped the flour in the freezer two days ago for one whole day. It has been sitting on my counter for a day.


I read you should then freeze it again (first time to freeze any bugs and second to freeze eggs).

Once you pop it out the freezer, at what point do you put in the food grade bucket? It is obviously moist right now, since it was in the freezer and is not defrosting. I don't think I should put it in the bucket until it is dry, right? How long does that take? A few days?

Thanks again.....