I clean out ziplock bags too. They’re expensive really. If nothing else, you can clean them and use for utility purposes. Put some hardware in them or some other non food item. We save our aluminum cans in big black trash bags and I save and reuse those too as many times as I can. We don’t get trash service here so I save dog food and other feed bags to put glass bottles and jars and other non burnable items in to save up for a dump trip.
We keep sugar and other things in a 4 gallon frosting bucket. The grocery store sells them for $2/ea but I just go out back and check the dumpster every time I go shopping. They can’t sell them all so they throw them away. I bring a stick with a nail in the end to snag them out of the dumpster. The round ones have a rubber o-ring seal. Requires very hot soapy water to clean the leftover frosting out of them.
And Dawn is the best for cutting that grease out of those buckets.
lately, as in for the last two yrs, I've been using a lot of large canning jars or large pickle jars for storage....I keep everything downstairs mostly in a dark room. with my pasta,sugar,etc, I do the freezer bit and then oxygen absorbers as needed (not for sugar or salt of course)
anybody know how to keep baking powder and baking soda long term?