Okay, makes sense. Do you buy just regular flour etc from Sam’s Club or Costco or wherever and then put it in the buckets? Or do you buy from a feed mill?
I have some totes with the cleaning supplies, and first aid stuff, etc.
Was just curious how people keep the other stuff so they don’t get bugs etc. I’ve heard I should put a bay leaf in the bucket?
Well, I buy some flour, but grind most of my own, waiting for a report from one of our thread posters on how he likes one mill before I get one like it. (I currently have a grist mill and use blender). I grow my own wheat and corn, and hope to get some hulless oats growing one of these years.
You got the right message - bay leaves... I buy them in containers from a local Mennonite bulk food store - get a pint size tub for about 75 cents. I use them liberally in all the food tubs. Since I open them often, I occasionally add more of the bay leaves to the pails as they lose effectiveness after a while.
Some of the stored items can serve several purposes - like sugar. I only stock granular sugar. From that I can get 4X powdered sugar(remember before the 10X powdered came along?) by running it in the blender - If I want light or dark brown sugar, I add either a little or a bit more blackstrap molasses that they removed to make it white. That way I have 4 different items from one basic storage item, and not as likely to run short of one when I need it.