OK. I get that mylar bags are the way to go.
Anyone have a source for them and the equipment to vacuum and seal them?
To me this is kind of like learning to can. That I have down cold, but an totally unfamiliar with this mylar bag stuff.
I vacumm my stuff with in food saver bags cut to fit inside the mylar. Vacuum them with the machine with a oxygen absober and then seal the mylar with an old iron and a piece of scrap 2X2. Also you can get an attachement and vacuum seal canning jars as well! I use that to vacuum stuff I only need to use a little at a time. I did spices, dehydrated peppers, Nestle Quick (Makes Podwered milk drinkable!)I brought a dehydrator and dehydrate a lot of frozen vegteables and then put them in the jar with a oxygen absorber and the vacuum them shut!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DtlcfKNERk
You can seal the mylar bags with a regular clothes iron over a 2” wide piece of flat wood or similar. You fill the mylar bag within a couple inches of the top of the bucket, put one of the oxygen absorbers in, fold the mylar bag over the wood strip and iron one side on an setting of about 8 (if I remember right), then fold the seam you just created over the other way and iron it again. You can find the video on Youtube. I just watched it a couple days ago.