Did You Know -Vacuum Sealed Dry Food
Did you know that you can preserve your dry food in a Mason Jar?
I have a Food Saver vacuum sealer, however, I still use this simple way to seal my dry food. If you don’t want to go through the expense of a vacuum device this simple little hand pump is so much simpler and easy to use.
All you do is fill a Mason Jar with dried food, put on the vacuum lid, set the hand pump on top and pull up and down 4-6 times and it removes all the air and seals the lid.
Any dry food can be vacuum sealed such as dried beans, rice, pasta, coffee beans, oats, salt, sugar, flour and so on.
I hate it when a plastic bag of rice, pasta etc. gets a hole in it and it spills all over when you pick it up. However, my favorite thing about using a vacuum sealed mason Jar is that I can store it in my basement without the worry of inviting a mouse for dinner.
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What a brilliant device Diane
Isn’t it!
You’re ready for the zombie apocalypse one day! That’s the way to do it and prepare. 😊
Haha Preservation is they key!
This is very interesting Diane. Years ago, we got mites in our dry food, and from then on I threw everything into mason jars or environmentally friendly plastic-ware (but I don’t have that handy pump).
(Side note: On each container’s lid I tape a bay leave – apparently mites and other pests are deterred by the smell of bay leaves).
You taught me something new Corna! I will have to tell my daughter that one.
I use a vacuum seal for dry foods also. I particularly like how it keeps brown sugar from becoming a hard block.
OHHHHHH I never thought about that! I use the clay bear, thank you!
I’ll have to look for one of these!
It is so easy a quick, perfect for so many food items.
Great tip. Thanks. I’ve saved your coffee filter tip blog, too.
You’re welcome! Food is so expensive it’s nice to have a way to preserve it longer.
Thanks, this is new to me!!!!
It is perfect for buying larger quantities at a cheaper price. I have so many Mason jars it is a good way to use them in addition to canning.
What a great device, I’ve never seen this before. Thanks for sharing this Diane.
You’re welcome Carla and if I remember right it wasn’t that expensive.
Thanks 👍👍
You’re very welcome!
I was talking to my neighbor last week and he was telling me how many mice he had in the house as he had bought a large bag of rice and left the bag unopened. That made me worry as I always have an open bag of sunflower seeds, but upstairs. When I fed the birds I had double Rubbermaid containers, on nested inside the other to store all the unopened food. Mom said “I have one mouse in the house and YOU and the birdseed go out!” I wonder if she was serious? I didn’t want to find out.
Hahaha Your mom was a hoot! All the food in my fruit cellar in the basement that isn’t canned is in plastic totes. Darn mice can get into the smallest spots. When my new kitchen cabinets come we have to store them in the garage. I had Terry buy 6 mouse poison to put all around the cabinets. Did I ever tell you they ate through our snowblower wires one year?
Yes, you don’t want any bites, even dainty mouse bites, on the cabinets. I’d be a nervous wreck and no, you didn’t say mice ate through the snowblower wires. Do you have to put it in a type of container now – that would be heavy and awkward! That’s why I’m worried about the mice at the base of the generator … what if they crawl inside? Stupid mice!
It cost $600 to have it rewired! Nothing we can do but keep the poison in the garage and hope it doesn’t happen again. It only happened once in over 30 years of living here.
OMG – that is crazy. You would have a powerful snow blower so it was worth it to fix it rather than buy a new one. Well, it must have the same soy-flavored wires that attract mice and squirrels to car engine wires.
Thanks I didn’t know about this resource for preserving food!
You’re welcome it is such a useful device.