Will dry rice and dry beans in original pkgs. and in freezer bags, be ok stored in a freezer for a long time—like 5-10 years? Anyone?
Stored in a bucket in mylar and oxygen absorbers 20+ years.
Freezer bags won’t last 20 yrs, they won’t last but about 6 months. Its also not necessary to store rice and beans in the freezer.
Use Mylar bags, something for bugs, and an O2 absorber. Use an iron to seal the mylar bag and they are good to go.
Do you want them in freezer to avoid bugs?
I would think you would want to repackage into something stronger than original package—be that freezer Tupperware- type containers or heavy duty zip lock. The packaging I have seen for rice and beans is a very thin plastic—think that “freezer smell” might permeate thru it. Also could easily tear.
That said, I have rice in a very large glass jar.