“Other wise I avoid bags-they don’t sit well on the shelf. The mason jars look so pretty with stuff in them.”
The jars do look pretty. And are reusable. However it seems that no matter how many I get i use them all up. I hate being in the middle of summer and having no jars empty. Last summer we were eating a lot of apple sauce and stuff like that from the previous year, so I can have more jars!
Whenever I put dried stuff in mylar, I do stick them in super pails. Otherwise they do look messy on the shelf and it’s really hard to find what you want. And they’re less likely to get punctured Or nibbled on.For instance the last thing I did was put a bunch of different types of beans in mylar. Then I put a bunch of the gallon bags in a superpail. They didn’t fit real neatly, so I didn’t get quite as much as if I just poured all the beans into one huge mylar bag. But I like having the variety of different types and only having to open 1 gallon at a time.
lol, Speaking of bags not sitting neatly – I had a whole bunch of pesto cubes – froze it in ice cube trays and put in Ziploc bags in the freezer. I decided to vacuum seal them. Originally all the Ziploc bags just sat neatly laid on top of each other. After vacuum sealing, the pesto was in all sorts of irregular shapes! They went to stack it all and took up a lot more room actually. I had to get a box and put that in the freezer so I can have all the pesto in one place. It didn’t work out quite as nice as I thought. but I’m sure they will last longer.
I like canning jars mostly because they are vermin proof.
Also, they will hermetically seal and if something gets contaminated with bugs, it keeps it contained and from spreading.
The only down side is, drop them and all bets are off.