[RikaStrom]

Kart,

I have a question (ok, I just realized I had two questions), I hope you can point me in the right direction.

Question 1:
I am looking for airtight/watertight storage containers, and everything I see doesn't look like it is sealable to the degree I want. Even the rubbermaid storage containers I was looking at weren't watertight. Would you recommend where I need to look?

Question 2:
Vacuum sealed jars sound heavy, are there options to vacuum seal bags? I mean that really work? The reason I am asking, is that we have in our family a recipe for the base of a cream soup, all powered ingredients and you just add water (2 cups) and a protein of your choice once you are ready to make the actually soup. I want to do it up in prepared portions and then vacuum seal them for easy use later. I figure I will just print the recipe on big stickers and put in on the packages.

Thanks!

RS

[greeneyes]

Would you please consider sharing that family recipe?

[greeneyes]

Would you please consider sharing that family recipe?

[Kartographer]

5-6 gallon food grade buckets come with very tight lids with ‘o’ rings.

The bags are good, but will eventually alow air in. I have also had a few come usealed. I’ve never hame a canning jar fail to seal and stay sealed.

[Titan Magroyne]

Thanks for posting your recipe. That’s a great idea. I’ve stocked up on powdered boullions (beef, chicken & chicken-tomato) but even in their original containers they want to clump & harden over time. As to your storage questions:

Washing & reusing containers with screw lids, like the clear, sturdy plastic canisters some tree nuts come packaged in. To better the seal for your goods, wrap the container’s threads a few times in plumbers tape, in the direction of tightening the lid. (Plumbers tape is a thin, slick plastic. No sticky involved, but it’s clingy much like saran wrap.)

You aparently have or intend to buy a vacuum sealer. A technique I have seen in Youtube videos but not yet geared up to try uses the Food Saver jar sealer lid, and for reusing former grocery jars, the same demonstrator was using Food Saver’s vacuum sealing canister. She put the odd jar inside, ran the vacuum til done, then opened the canister. That sucked down the target lid.

Food Saver’s website markets pricey sets of differently sized canister. I’d rather expend on the one & use it to seal reused grocery jars. With that technique (assuming it works), you could stack your individual packs in a “free” container that also gets vacuum sealed.

There’s another technique that uses a manual or electric pump, hose & hollow pin. You drill or punch a tiny hole in the target lid, vacuum seal, then quickly remove the pin & seal the hole with tape similar to electrical tape. I have my doubts about long term vacuum storage relying on a sticky tape seal, tho I suppose its first inclination, given the tiny hole, would be to get physically sucked down enough to seal the hole.