Yes,been doing that for years.Anticipate where it’s going to go after it’s empty/and what other uses it could serve.Glass is best I think but plastic also can work well.My concern is getting the lingering smell out of the lids especially those that have the rubber gaskets inside.
3 tips: •You won't lose the zipper on a zip-top mylar bag if you cut the bottom part off instead of the zip part. It'll keep getting smaller, but you'll keep the zipper this way. •We don't drink soda, either. We get the bottles from friends who do, or simply buy them and pour the soda out. They're often found for around $1, so it's worth it for us to buy them even though we're not drinking the contents! •The funnels you find at auto supply stores/auto supply section of Walmart are bigger and allow beans to pour through them. 😊
Single fella here, livin the travel trailer life, with 200# o beans & 200# o rice in 2 liter soda bottles. Plus canned goods. I blame you & Jonathan 😂🤣😂🤣🤔👍
I lived in Utah back in 1994 after I was discharged from the Marines, just for a year. I was 19. My friend I was staying with, Marine buddy, was showing me all of her relatives and their food storage. I have never heard of that before. I'm from Ohio. I did learn that the people of Utah were excellent at prepping and it did change the way I do things all these years later. I also love how the LDS encourages their people to be prepared as well! I always said if things go bad, I'm heading for Utah! Which, I am prepared myself now as a grown woman, with the help of what I learned all those years ago.
Instead of duct tape, my suggestion (which works!) is to cut a piece of syran plastic wrap over the opening of vessel opening extending is down and over the threads of opening BEFORE screwing on the lid. This creates it own kind of gasket and provides a very airtight, snug seal without the sticky mess and guesswork with tapes.
To really protect your clear jars from light, wrap them in newspaper or brown paper and stick a label on them, so you won't have to take the paper off to find out what is inside. Even better would to make reusable cloth jar sacks out of tightly woven dark colored cloth, with a drawstring, and a clear vinyl pocket (cut from a clear table cloth) to hold a card with the contents written on it. Pop your bottle or jar inside, pull the drawstring shut, slip in the card, and stick it on your shelf.
I plan to use landscape weed barrier for this purpose after I have moved. Probably hold it with the hair bands that are wrapped versus standard rubber bands.
@@nunyabznz3029 The wrapped ones contain a rubber core that can degrade over time, especially when exposed to air. It only takes a few months for them to degrade enough to become brittle and snap or become sticky or gummy, depending on the environment. Better to use "pantyhose" type hair bands. You can even make your own by cutting old pantyhose legs into loops and giving them a quick stretch. If the loops are too big, you can cut them and knot them to the size you want. They are strong and they will last. (it's also good for staking plants)
After I fill jars and soda bottles, I place them in kitty litter buckets. Fill extra space with smaller jars and bottles. Lable outside with contents and stack.
This was most informative and helpful ! Thank you ! Not having oxygen absorbers , the white rice was frozen for a couple of weeks , then poured into sanitized Boost bottles ! Each "single-serve" bottle holds two cups of rice... more manageable for a single -person household...and sharing . Be safe and well...
I agree about the smaller size bottles for one person. When C hit in 2020 I decided to try to prep some basics. I got rice to try first. I froze it for about a week and used soda bottles-no oxygen absorbers. Today (10/19/24) I decided to open one and check if it was still good. I opened the smallest which was an iced tea bottle that held 2Cups dry. It was perfect! I was so excited to know my prep worked. For one person it was a great size bottle
I store a lot of items in plastic bottles! Empty 2 liter soda bottles for rice, black beans, split peas, lentils, and small- shell pasta. Empty 3 quart apple juice bottles hold chlorinated tap water for drinking. Empty square ice cream pails hold mylar packages of muffin mixes. Empty plastic peanut butter pretzel jars with screw-on lids hold cardboard cylinders of instant coffee mix. Empty laundry detergent jugs with spouts, and liquid handsoap jugs, are refilled with water and labeled "soapy water- don't drink" for hand or dish washing. We tend to buy the same groceries repeatedly, so we get a lot of the same containers each week. I even reuse plastic steamer containers from frozen food for gardening!
Kylene, For over 40 years I have used a double layer of plastic wrap under the large lids and brought it over the threads. After many years I have not had any failures. I have also used the wax and duct tape ideas with the plastic wrap.
I bought a cylinder shaped vacume sealer from a UA-cam channel "Raincountry" here in WA state. Heidi's husband builds them. You can drop your jar in the cylinder and put the hose to a brake bleeder and pump the air out!! I LOVE IT! IT WORKS EVERY TIME! the reason for the brake bleeder is incase there's no electricity. They built a large version now too for quart sized jars. The brake bleeder can be used with seal a meal jar attachments too. I bet Jonathan could build them too.
I have been using my different containers for some time, I also put the tape on the lids for extra safety. You had a great video and full of information. With sugar, if it gets hard, get your grader out and scrape the sugar, you will get the fine sugar again. This was done during my Grandmother's time.
I was born in Jamaica n my mom would store beans n corn under sea sand. She would put the beans in buckets n pour dry sea sand over it. Would last for years
Sugar and salt never go bad. If they clump, break up the clumps and you have the same product as you did when you stored it. Commercial salt and sugar have expiration dates so the salt and sugar industries can sell you more products, as is true with virtually every commercially processed food (and some non-food products as well). And for anyone who doesn't already know, both honey and maple syrup are still good if they sugar over; simply put the whole container inside a pan with water and heat it gently until the sugars dissolve again (be sure to remove the lid before heating). This technique can be repeated indefinitely. Thank you for sharing these food storage techniques. I prefer to use glass and stainless steel for my food storage (both short and long-term) as plastics have been shown to affect hormones and can affect health. These negative effects include can cause a number of health issues, including cancer, diabetes, reproductive disorders, neurological impairments in developing fetuses and children, and even death. {Taken from the Endocrine Society's article "Plastics, EDCs & Health: Authoritative Guide."} If you have no alternative to using PETE / PET plastics to store food, then do so, but be on the lookout for glass jars when you're making purchase decisions in the grocery store. Starvation will kill you much faster than any potential disease from plastic, so plan accordingly.
Ive been a bar manager for about 30 years and most of the bars ive worked have a gun that your basic booze comes out of in measured shots but in the back it is fed from 1/2 gallon size bottles that i order in plastic. These are quite abit thicker than your soda pop 2 liters and more of a substantial lid. Plus having alcohol in them they dont take much to wash them clean. Thats what lines the shelfs of my pantry. Plus they all match. And have handy indentations to grab. Once inventory is taken i just take them home instead of throwing away. Works really well for me
Wow!! I bought emergency food supplies in 1999. And in the last few years, i have gotten more intense with trying to store foods as i can afford. This is the most encouraging and educational video I have watched in the last 2 years! I had a nagging instinct not to throw away the 2-liter empty coke bottles I have had, but couldn't find a "legit" reason. Ugh. NOW i will be using all of your tips! I know nothing is 100% fool-proof, but you have given me sooo much more to work with. THANK YOU!!
I learned a way to store green beans from my garden from watching A couple of Homestead YT channels. The process is called Leather Britches & was a way of preserving them prior to canning jars & lids. You use string or thread & needle. Hang them to dry in warm area. I hung them at the back of my stove. They really shrink up. I have since put them in ziplockbag.
@@juliabrown5948 I haven’t tried to use them yet~ Still harvesting beans! Whippoorwill Holler on YT has a recipe for them. Might check Appalachia’s Homestead too
@@juliabrown5948 what you have is dehydrated green beans without all the fuss of tending a dehydrator. You reconstitute them the same as any other dehydrated veggies: put a measured amount of the veg, plus a measured amount of hot water, in a container for the amount of time needed for that veggie. Then you simmer them until they are done. There are lots of books on dehydration that give all of those details.
Walmart has these same options and free shipping if you join the "club" or buy a certain dollars worth of products. And no not Sam's club, the shipping/store pickup they have forget what it's called, automaticly charged to my bank account yearly. @100$, or 9.99/mo.
I am glad you are showing people a better alternative for storing their food instead of just stockpiling food from the supermarket that it still in its regular packaging. I have never found a better price on #10 cans of basic food storage than the prices at the LDS Home Storage Center online store. Too bad I have to shop elsewhere for #10 cans of dried "luxury" foods such as meat, poultry, cheese, broccoli, spinach, cornmeal, tomato powder, white grits and powdered eggs. I store granulated cane sugar in salvaged, rectangular, cranberry juice bottles. Sugar is so heavy, even in a two-gallon bucket, so those filled bottles are easier for me to move and their rectangular shape means they can be packed together tightly in the bottom of a closet with less wasted space or lay on their sides under a dresser or sofa. I use the somewhat smaller, cylindrical, plastic beverage bottles, such as Snapple tea bottles, for storing pink Himalayan salt from the dollar store. Those bottles can fit in the spaces between the five-gallon buckets of wheat grain, white rice and dried beans. I have used a Food Saver jar attachment to vacuum-seal the lids on canning jars filled with dry foods. I store those glass jars in shallow cardboard boxes, the boxes reinforced with mover's tape, so that the jars are less likely to fall and break if there is an earthquake. I do have to check those jars periodically to make sure a lid has not lost its seal. It is hard to beat using Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers at home to preserve an assortment of different styles of dry pasta, dried mushrooms, cocoa powder, masa, dehydrated hash brown potatoes, dry onion flakes, baking mixes, dry culinary herbs, Nesquik flavored drink mixes, tea bags, dry soup mixes and home dehydrated veggies and fruit.
My mama just passed away a week ago. She was 97 years old. She was a child of the depression and she lived through the rationing of World War II. Our rice and flour was kept in mason jars with a stick of gum in it. Wrigley's spearmint. Same with our sugar and our salt.
never forget how many places will give you used food safe buckets that you can use (with or without mylar bags) ! from bakeries that get their icing in multi gallon tubs, to sandwich shops who get pickles in 5 gallon buckets. ... i always save my salsa, jelly, or tomato sauce jars to use as "gift size" preps... carefully cleaned and filled with rice, beans, and maybe a jar of salsa or pasta sauce intact? its a combination meal kit/housewarming and safe to hand out gift. ... if people in need come to my door i can hand out small amounts (or if they are homeless or lacking cooking ability i give canned soups or etc) without revealing how much i have in storage
The problem, though, is that there will be those who intuit that if you have some to give away, you have more. It won't matter that you're not letting others know how much you have, they WILL determine to take it all. For this purpose, you would be better off to have small, empty containers. Bring a bigger container to the door, and offer to give them 'half' of it, so that you still have a little left for YOUR family. Your aren't lying (you ARE giving them half of that container), and hopefully they will be grateful to get it rather than automatically assuming you must have a lot more, and also hopefully they won't decide your house is a viable target to hit later. Another thing to consider would be to offer to 'trade' something, once again doing the 'half' scenario. Something else that I saw on a thread: if there's a community food bank going early on, be sure to go occasionally. You do NOT want to be noticed as never showing up, because when the food IS gone you WILL have unwelcome attention. If wanted, you can distribute the food back to others (which is what I would do). For example, I can approach a family who may not have gotten enough and give them my bread / rice / whatever I think they can use best, and tell them that my family won't eat it (in the case of rice / etc, they won't -- they'll be eating what I put back) or that it will go bad before I can use it all. The objective is to appear to be no different than anyone else. Too many people have flippantly made comments along the line of going to someone else's house to get what they need if things go bad -- simply because they KNOW that others HAVE prepared,and they think it's ridiculous. However, when things hit the fan they WILL remember that others DO have what they want or need, and WILL come looking.
We drink a lot of bottled water. We get the 1 gallon jugs. They work perfectly as they require no cleaning as any water left in the bottle simply evaporates no cleaning required
I think I put air absorbers in the sugar. 😢 can I reopen the 5 gallon buckets with a seal and check and then are the buckets resealable? Also….I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR CONTENT!!!! You are doing Gods work by training up us newby’s. I have lost years of time by keeping my head in the sand about having what I would need for my family. Please keep teaching us. This is your calling!
Thanks! We are on God's errand. You are prepping just in time! Some buckets are very much resealable and others aren't so it's hard for me to advise you on that.
We recycle 2 litre pop bottles and plastic juice bottles to store water to use for flusing toilets (if you've lost water to your house due to floods or earthquakes, or the city turns off your water to make repairs to the lines, etc. Just clean them out well, fill (we leave air space at the top for expansion since these are store outside and the water will expand when it freezes) and store them. They are all labeled as "flush only" so someone doesn't mistakenly use them as drinking water.
I put pasta in 2 liter bottles...I hope I can get it out lol. Yesterday and today I've been Mylar bagging oats, instant rice and potatoes and pancake mix. Also used the huge dry creamer container with a screw lid for rice. I found a bunch of 16 oz Mylar bags in my stash. Forgot what I got them for but had 2 big bags of candy corn so used some for that. These days I've been using the juice and soda bottles for water, not so much for food. Thanks for your awesome videos! Take care.
I have been putting my pasta in food saver bags with an oxygen absorber. Contents are visible, and I can shake it down flat for storage before vacuuming out the air.
@@sandym6760 When I started putting food away 5 years ago I was using the vacuum bags for pasta but something always poked a hole. Now just using used containers with oxygen absorbers. I still have some bagged that made it into buckets with other long term foods. If they have poked through at least they are in a bucket.
Ugh during the lock down I decided to get rid of a lot of stuff sitting around. I had stored so many Glass Jars, plastic bottles that I discarded After Seeing this video I’m regretting it! Thank you for the knowledge
Καλησπέρα από την Ελλάδα. Μπορείτε να με βοηθήσετε; αγόρασα Mylar bags αλλά δεν έχω καταλάβει, γιατί τα αγγλικά μου είναι μέτρια, πόσοι απορροφητές οξυγόνου αναλογούν σε μισό κιλο/ ή ένα pound ενός αγαθού πχ βρώμης. Θα σας ήμουν ευγνώμων αν με βοηθούσατε. Ευχαριστώ.
I don't care for the classico brand pasta sauces but my mother does and she saves all the jars because they're actually Atlas canning jars with small mouth. She gives them to me from time to time and I would say half of my pantry right now is probably based on those jars. All for free!!!!
Before oxygen absorbers exist, other option is to place a piece of cotton damp in alcohol and put the cap on, it will absorb the oxygen. Then seal the outside with melted wax.
Thank you so much! Im a newbie prepper and cant afford the expensive type containers. I have found some cheap food grade square buckets on Amazon, but now I can do it much cheaper...thanks to you. God bless you
I have been using Plastic reasonable jars And bottles for years Because I am on a very limited budget. It's allows me to store food. And I also use those plastic bottles like that to store water
I know they say not to, but I reuse my Classico & other jars for water bath canning and I reuse the store lids that came with them. Only with acidic food though and I don’t pressure can them. I’m telling you it works, the seal is strong and if I can’t use it for canning I store my dehydrated foods in them. I know it’s not usda but I see no risk - unless I was pressure canning I them - anyway just my two cents.
Walmart's Great Value jelly jars are great. When empty wash well and store until dry. Just before refilling with my own homemade hot jellys and jams i sterilize jars and lids in boiling water, cap tightly and allow to cool As they cool they will reseal themselves.
The Classico Atlas jars are great for dry food storage like in this video of Kylene's. Just don't try to water bath or pressure can with them. They are not heatproof to the same specifications as actual home canning jars, and Classico purchased the Atlas name and the design of the jars many decades ago.
FYI For food grade buckets for cheap, ask at the bakery/deli for empty frosting buckets, check bakiers, resturants. Cheap or no cost. My local grocery store Food Lion I get for free.
This was such a great video! You don’t have to be rich to prep! I use the Dollar tree Arizona southern sweet tea bottles for my “ go away” rice bottles, for when people come asking.
Quick life hack, instead of using a narrow funnel to fill the large pete type bottles take a gallon milk jug cut the bottom of the jug off just below the handle. The pour hole fits right into the larger diameter bottle . Instant large bore , wide funnel with a handle for easier bottle and jar filling, and totally free. Also after use it just slides over the top of the storage bottle. No extra storage space and can't lose it.
I use press and seal in between the lid and container of the square peanut containers. So far it’s protected many types of shaped pasta (longest that I opened and tested was 8 years, it was good as new)
I've been looking at loads of videos about storing food and find them very interesting. I have also looked up reusing plastic containers and found on one site that PET 1 bottles shouldn't be reused. They are safe for single use and should then be recycled. This is what I've taken off another site - 'Number 1 plastic containers are believed to be safe for single-use, however, they should not be reused or exposed to heat changes. Use them with caution.'
I have been doing this same thing for a few decades. All my dry storage is kept in glass jars I bought food in, then repurposed for dry good storage. Even my spices bought in bulk go into these jars. When I visit people I know, I ask for their big jars when I notice they will be empty soon. I still have the gallon jar my mom stored sugar in about 30 years ago. Everything I buy in a container gets reused for food or for storing things for my businesses.
I was surprised to find that the kitty litter containers I was getting with my cat's fragrance-free kitty litter was marked as food-safe plastic. When I ran out of other containers, I decided to wash out and use the kitty litter containers. They hold a LOT of rice, but after watching your video, I realize that the seal may not be adequate. I am going to open them all, put in new oxygen absorbers, and then duck tape them after closing. BTW, I don't know whether kitty litter that has a fragrance would contaminate the container and never come out with washing -- so best to use only the fragrance free type.
You can also use a regular clothes iron for sealing mylar bags with a piece of wood beneath (ie; 2x4 piece) to prop up the backside of the mylar bag. If you have a mini shop vac or small hand vac, you can tape a small tube to the end to create a vacuum inside the mylar bag. Probably easiest to put your product in, then seal all but about an inch with the iron. Stick the small vacuum tube in to suck out the air then remove tube and quickly seal the last inch of mylar bag.
I already save soda bottles, now I'm going to have my daughter save her Gatorade and spaghetti sauce containers ... Thanks! Also, THANK YOU VERY MUCH so showing how to do sugar. Every video mentions not to use oxygen absorbers with sugar, but this is the first one (out of HUNDREDS I've watched) that shows what TO do!!!!
Excellent information and very timely! I was thinking of repackaging some of my foods (1 person household only) just today. I have a lot of cupboard items already in glass or a few plastic food storage containers but thought of moving some of my freezer foods to smaller packages. When needed I can just take out a premeasured amount of food and cook that instead of opening a bag and not sealing it well enough in the freezer. Already have a heat sealer with bags and a lot of sizes of glass storage (freezer, microwave, and oven safe) in the freezer, but only have so many. I also have a large box of saved clean plastic containers and glass jars I put aside to finally recycle or throw out. They only recycle cardboard in my area, so was waiting to dispose of these other things in one batch. Now you have convinced me to repurpose them instead. So glad I procrastinated now and didn't get rid of them yet.
When your sugar gets hard use a grater and when your honey crystallizes warm it to dissolve the crystals. Just be careful if it is in a plastic container because the plastic will melt often if you heat it too quickly. Same goes for Caro syrup or pancake syrup.
I have some big 2 1/2 gallon heavy plastic jugs with handles that I buy dog shampoo in( I'm a groomer), and they make awesome storage for non potable water! We've used them many times for washing water and flushing toilets when the power was out( like after a hurricane, etc), or washing dishes😊 We also save the gallon jugs from the spring water we buy and refill them with all kinds of prep stuff, especially rice and beans! The square ones from Crystal Springs are really easy to store because of their shape. I save all those plastic wide mouthed jars, like yours, but I put foil, plastic wrap, or wax paper over the top before the lid, works great and it's easier than the wax or duct tape😊❤ I keep every kind of container because I also have a ridiculous craft room, lol, so what I don't use for prepping, I use for storing craft stuff!❤
I use a coffee filter with the plastic lids that do not grip well. It tightens and I think, in my opinion, may absorb any moisture sneaking in the bottle over time.
Could you do a video on how to store medicines, ibprofin Tylenol etc, vitamins and antibiotics long term? Can they be place in smaller Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers? Your videos are so helpful thank you
@@christiemcdonald2789 You don’t take the pills out of the bottles. I’m wondering if they last much longer than the expiration if the bottles are then put in a mylar bag with an oxygen absorber
Step 1. Take meds out of bottle Step 2. Put in vacuum seal food bags with a vacuum food sealer. Step 3. Put oxygen absorber in with meds and seal the bag.
Thanks for sharing your video. I am so pleased to find out from you that I don't have to use oxygen absorbers (£30s worth) with all the sugar I bought. Bless you guys. You are full of what is good to know! God bless from an old boy across the pond! ☺️🙏👍✌️🇬🇧
Thank you for your video. Bake those pickle jars in the oven 180f to 225f to help get rid of the smell. Still waiting on my Mylar order and the pressure is wearing on me, .. AGGHHH!!!! Went for six, 10 kg bags of flour today and six 8 kg bags of rice. Got the last two bags of flour and no rice. Not the rice I was looking for. The On Sale rice. So I picked up two bags of Two Dragons rice from Vietnam of all places, for $2 more. New to me rice so I only got the two. But they did give me a raincheck for the six bags I wanted. We'll see if it ever arrives at the store again. This was only the second day of the sale on this rice. I guess they had to post a limit of six bags on the amount being bought because people were loading up the carts two at a time. Push one and pull the other. Oh yeah, the dollar store had racks and racks of canned mackerel in the past and it was always there. Until today, only four cans left and now there are none, ... and they don't know if they'll be getting more. It's getting interesting to say the least. Two pounds of linguini for 97 cents, and the two pounds of other assorted pastas for $1.47. I filled a five gallon bucket with 4 lbs left over. Bought another 20 cans of $2 No Name luncheon meat. Man, it adds up fast when you increase your numbers like that. And you don't see the huge expenditure of cash it takes to buy them all at once. But really, buying five cans at a time wasn't doing the job. Oval cans of Ham, .. and two boxes of dried Coconut Milk from the international section. Bit my tongue and bought the pound of dried Shiitake that was $8 last week but $12.99 this week. There's a whack of mushrooms in a dried pound. And the 500 gram, (1 lb) of Coconut Oil packed in an all metal can. I can't beat that for storage. It was $4.50 last week and $5.25 now. *POOF* God, I love to hate plastic. I look at the stuff as horrendous environmental disasters happening every minute of every day, .. all for profit. This only limits myself of course, so use them if you got them. I do love Pallet Wrap. A super heavy duty saran wrap I use to wrap full boxes of stuff I don't want getting damp with humidity. The cases of knock off Mac and Cheese for instance. I'll also wrap my bags of flour I'm keeping in rotation just because I can. We keep four 10 kg bags rotating all the time. 10 kg of flour lasts five to eight weeks depending. Back when I dumpster dived I'd take cases of pasta sauce for the Jars and the good metal snap lids they have only to discover there was nothing wrong with the sauce so the bottles and jars can wait. And now my "Staging Area" is getting so full it's uncomfortable. That's where all the finale long term prep happens to my food and it's hard to turn around there now. The gall of me to complain. Thank you lord for the abundance! Make hay while the sun shines. Have a great one and good luck.
Usually, my freezers are full up, but I have frozen filtered water from my tap and kept it in the top of my freezer to make sure all the space is used so it is more efficient. I also find that I have emergency water in case the community's wells go wonky (you never know). I also used to take out a bottle of frozen icy water to take with me on a long car drive in the summer. The water is refreshing as it thaws during the day in the bottle.
The simply lemonade juice styled bottles are my favorite for the narrowed neck. Makes handling much easier if you have problems with your hands and limits the weight. I've taken all out of our apt recycling. Totally stocked up after the heat wave. Removed labels, washed, sanitized, fully dried. They are the best. So no fancy clear storage for me in my cabinets and pantry. People spending hundreds of dollars on acrylic containers to decant their dry goods. Wish I could find more wide mouth glass containers.
claussen pickles in the large plastic container has a removable white rubber seal in the lid. i love this pickle and have many jars i saved they seal well with oxygen absorbers
If the electrical grid goes down, you will need to find another way to seal the mylar bags. They do make a battery-operated sealer, I think. Having a generator would let you operate a hot iron. Having a straw to manually suck out as much air as possible from the mylar bags is a possibility before tossing in an oxygen absorber to take care of removing the rest of the oxygen. You'd have to seal the bag almost closed using the hot iron, leaving a small hole for the straw. I wonder if you could use the tubing from a vacuum sealer to suck out most of the air rather than using a regular drink straw. Again, you would need some source of power to operate the sealing machine. Then again, a brake bleeder doesn't require electricity, so that is another option if you don't have a generator. I do suggest, however, that if you use a brake bleeder, make sure it has not been used on a vehicle. It's a good idea to buy one strictly for using with food products. The brake bleeders can also be used with the mason jar attachment from a vacuum sealer. The brake bleeder kits come with a variety of tubes of different diameters and usually there will be one that fits the jar attachment. If not, it would a good idea to do a test run prior to a grid down scenario so you can ensure you have the correct size tube.
Hi Guys, Haven't posted in a while. Gonna leave a tip on the PEET bottles and 2 ltr soda bottles. We live in the high mtn's of NC and when my husband takes our trash to the recycle center the guys there know him and lets him get whatever he wants also good for winter sowing. i've got a "Garden sized" bathtub with ton's of them soaking now along with uses pickle and pasta jars (soak lids 24 hrs in pool shock it bleach before final wash) hope this helps someone...Connie C
Hey, for the seal for the canister container, my mom would use a yogurt lid. Cut to size and it’s perfect fit in the lid as a liner. I’ve had an airtight with this method. Thank you for these great tips.
If you're going to use tape to seal the lids better get the aluminum tape that they use for heating and air conditioning you can get it at the big Box home improvement stores works very well
I have checked prices on plastic jugs, bottles, whatever (with lids of course). I have concluded that it is at least 50% cheaper to just buy cheap cola, fruit juice, whatever in the jugs than to buy the empty jugs. Amazing!! How can that be??
The beverage companies buy them in bulk, with a single order being far more than you'd ever buy in a lifetime, and with a contract that locks them into buying from the same supplier for many years, so they get deep discounts that you can't get. In order words, they are far cheaper if you buy millions of them.
you know I learned about the plastic bottle and stuff from you guys thank you. Also I save all my glass that I buy from the store and have learned to can food in those jars any where we can save money and it stays out of the landfill.
You can also make a fantastic funnel by cutting off one of those 2 liter bottles part way. To use it to fill another 2 liter bottle, just use a piece of painters tape around the threads to hold it in place. Even that can be used more than once.
Add a banana or other ripe fruit scraps or vinegar to so.e water at the bottom of the bottle. Put the funnel lid side down and you have a fly and fruit fly trap!
I saw another coupler on here store things in soda pop bottles.. Think rice and popcorn Didn't use an oxygen absorber. Am collecting juice and pop bottles for several things. I vaccum seal pickle and other jars Really helps save my jars.
In our kitchen, we have a wooden shelving unit that has a compartment with a drop-down door, much like a bread box. About a year ago, I had placed several products inside of the wooden compartment. One of them was a bag of Fritos. I forgot I it was in there because we rarely go in there. Then one day, while trying to find a lost kitchen tool, I opened the door and saw the Fritos. And I immediately kicked myself mentally for allowing the Fritos to sit in there for over a year without eating them. When I removed the bag, I noticed that the sides of the bag were all sucked in, much like a Mylar bag does after the oxygen is gone. When I opened the bag and tasted one of the chips, I was pleasantly surprised and quite frankly shocked that they were still crispy and had no rancid odor. The wooden compartment is well built with no space for air to get in as long as the door stays shut. So, I thought, "This would be a great place to store other dry food for long storage." So, that's exactly what I started doing. It now holds things like pkgs of muffin mix, cookie mix, pizza dough mix, etc. It's going to be interesting to see how long they keep inside that tight compartment. We have an armoir in a guest room that seems to be air-tight. It is made of very thick Mango wood. The double doors make a "whump" sound when being closed because of the tight fit. So, I wonder if I should be using it to store food instead of blankets, family photographs, and books. Another thing I've been wondering is if tin canisters (like they used in the old days) can be used as a source of air-tight storage. Some of the lids on the ones I have are very difficult to remove. Maybe I will pack some Fritos in one of them to see how long they survive. 🤔
@@margaretlovrich6837 Yes, and adding an oxygen absorber would make it even greater. I wonder if it would help even more if the seams inside were sealed with a ribbon of glue using a hot glue gun.
@@theresahouck3516 It doesn't state on the muffin mix that it contains any genetically modified ingredients. All it says lists is: Corn, Corn Oil, and Salt. Salt, in itself, is a preservative and Fritos are VERY salty, so maybe that helps preserve it. As for any other pkgs of food I decide to put in there, I will be sure and research the ingredients to make sure they are not classified has GMO. Thanks for the warning.
Wonderfully informative video, thank you for your efforts! I especially love that you broke down that most of what remains in the bags after the oxygen absorber is added is nitrogen and not oxygen! An informational detail most people overlook.
Kaylene,thanks so much for this information.So very useful and helps with recycling.Have you/Jonathan done a video on food grade buckets and their use? I’ll have to check your play list.Thanks for all your work doing these for us.
Καλησπέρα. Δοκίμασε να διώξεις τις δυσάρεστες οσμές από τα βάζα σου ρίχνοντας μέσα σε αυτά ένα μεγάλο κομμάτι κάρβουνο από τα ξύλα που καίγονται σε φωτιά, σε τζάκι κλπ. Άφησέ το λίγες ώρες με κλειστό καπάκι και θα καθαρίσει. Μπορείς να το κάνεις αυτό και στο ψυγείο σου, αν έχει άσχημες μυρωδιές που επιμένουν. Να είστε καλά.
Thanks for the great video! I had sort of given up on the oxygen absorbers and the mylar as they were not available for a very long time in my location. What with harvests from the garden coming in dry storage had all but slipped my mind...😅 I just checked because of your video and it looks like I'll be getting some oxygen absorbers and Mylar bags delivered soon. Thanks for the reminder!
If you eat chips / crisps on a regular basis, these are a good source of Mylar bags. I also reuse the bags the dry pet food comes in. Just give it a good cleaning before reuse.
I do the same repurposing all kinds of plastic Jugs especially milk. Instead of oxygen absorbers I purge with Co2. Co2 kills the weavels and removes the oxygen. Each spring I purge all my jugs. So far so good.
Fantastic video. Good solid advice and good visual instructions. Off the subject, but just to let you know, food prices in UK are rocketing. Energy prices have currently tripled and about to quadruple, petrol and diesel up by near to 40% increase.
I ate a meal last week , was rice, canned moose, salsa, i packaged in 2006, and i eat same foods from fresh bought, and i cant tell any difference, if yoi store right its amazing the shelf life
I got this idea from someone else and it really works well. Make a funnel for the soda bottles (or any others) by cutting a matching bottle off about in the middle. Superglue the top of that bottle to a matching top (so flat ends are together and you have threads on each end). Screw the empty bottle and the “funnel” bottle together with this. Then pour into the funnel and beans, etc. will easily pair onto the empty bottle.
@@TheProvidentPrepper Also, using a chopstick helps move things through the funnel without constantly having to tap the container on the counter or wiggle the funnel.
Hi🏡🌿🐦 I'm sorry but I don't understand that and I really want to. If both of the lids are glued together on the flat side where is the hole for the rice to go through from the funnel to The empty bottle? I don't mean to sound dense but I don't get it and I really want to understand how to do this cause it sounds really cool. Thank you and God bless ❣️🌿🐦
@@jude7321 sorry that was confusing. I forgot to mention that I drilled a hole in both tops. You can start with a fairly small hole and make it bigger with bigger drill bits, or possibly with a box cutter. The final size hole in mine is about 3/4”. Thanks for pointing that out. 😬
@@MegaNewsJunkie Hi again Thanks for responding to my question because I thought I was losing my mind. I couldn't figure out where the hole was for the beans or flower to pass through. I have read and reread your instructions at least a dozen times and could not figure it out, no wonder. 😂 All clear here. Thanks a bunch, Jude ❣️🌿🐦
Another great video. It never occurred to me before living in the Balkans that you could use something besides a mason jar. They save all containers there. So be careful as I found out, the label on the bottle isn't necessary what's inside 🙃 They used doubled up plastic wrap and then screw the lids on for a better seal .
Glass only. Plastic and Mylar bags can be chewed through. All plastics. They also change the flavors of some products. They may be okay for some powdered cleaning supplies.
Thank you. It's good to know that using empty jars and safe plastic bottles can extend the "life" of food products. With increasing grocery prices, it's a necessity to buy now, stock up and preserve. Amazon subscription prices on some bulk food items have risen $5 since last month, which is quite disturbing, due to the lost prospect of getting the most for your available $$ budgets. Preserving food now can help alleviate sticker shock in the coming months.
I have a vacuum sealer for jars that you put over the lid on the jar. Most of them stay sealed, but every now and then, I find one or two that have unsealed even though they've just been sitting on the shelves. 🤷♀️ I do save gallon water jugs, let them air dry, and use them to store beans, pasta, sugar, rice etc.
I have the same problem sometimes with the lids unsealing in storage. I'm not overly concerned because they should still be airtight due to the gasket on the lid. I would love to know if anyone knows why this happens!
I ordered some wheat from the LDS website and out of 12 cans I think 10 came heavily dented. If you live reasonably close to the brick and mortar location I think it’s definitely worth the drive!!
What do you mean rotate them? I want to buy food now to store. Are you saying use them (if I can) with the next year or so, then store / replace with new food? Sorry if it’s a dumb question
What a great idea using the decorated duct tape around the plastic containers; that was very creative of you. Interesting tips--used a few right after this video. LEARNED A LOT TODAY!
Does anyone else make purchasing decisions based on the jar the product comes in? I'm like oh that's a nice jar.
I do!
Yes,been doing that for years.Anticipate where it’s going to go after it’s empty/and what other uses it could serve.Glass is best I think but plastic also can work well.My concern is getting the lingering smell out of the lids especially those that have the rubber gaskets inside.
Yes😊.
😄 you bet!
Yess! Why I Now drink Juicy Juice and buy Classico pasta sauce, I just think a cooler looking jar. Great Iced tea glass as well
3 tips:
•You won't lose the zipper on a zip-top mylar bag if you cut the bottom part off instead of the zip part. It'll keep getting smaller, but you'll keep the zipper this way.
•We don't drink soda, either. We get the bottles from friends who do, or simply buy them and pour the soda out. They're often found for around $1, so it's worth it for us to buy them even though we're not drinking the contents!
•The funnels you find at auto supply stores/auto supply section of Walmart are bigger and allow beans to pour through them. 😊
Great tips! Especially about cutting the bottom of the bag! Genius 🤪
But you’ve heat sealed right next to the zipper, so you’ve lost the zipper already.
@@lindastovall9209 I think she means to cut the gusset part not where it Zip locks.
Great tips, tfs!
Our city has weekly recycling pickup so walkinh down the street you can find many plastic , glass containers which are useful for storage and FREE.
Single fella here, livin the travel trailer life, with 200# o beans & 200# o rice in 2 liter soda bottles. Plus canned goods. I blame you & Jonathan 😂🤣😂🤣🤔👍
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I lived in Utah back in 1994 after I was discharged from the Marines, just for a year. I was 19. My friend I was staying with, Marine buddy, was showing me all of her relatives and their food storage. I have never heard of that before. I'm from Ohio. I did learn that the people of Utah were excellent at prepping and it did change the way I do things all these years later. I also love how the LDS encourages their people to be prepared as well! I always said if things go bad, I'm heading for Utah! Which, I am prepared myself now as a grown woman, with the help of what I learned all those years ago.
Instead of duct tape, my suggestion (which works!) is to cut a piece of syran plastic wrap over the opening of vessel opening extending is down and over the threads of opening BEFORE screwing on the lid. This creates it own kind of gasket and provides a very airtight, snug seal without the sticky mess and guesswork with tapes.
@@susancarmona36 thank you for the tip.. By the way my maiden last name is also Carmona.. 😊
Pretty sure the people of Utah are prepared to defend their resources against opportunists.
I hope they are well prepared. I have no doubt.
Yep...we had the same experience when we lived in Idaho for 20 years.
God heard my prayers, I wanted to know how to store our food cheap, and your video popped up. Thank you so much!!
Well, God and Google 😂
Im trying to learn this too, as well as learning to survive without modern day equipment.
@@cassandramcneil4106 God can show you real fast how you can rely on Him.
On the peanut jars, I wrap cling wrap over the top before twisting on the lid, makes it's own safety seal.
Good idea 👍
To really protect your clear jars from light, wrap them in newspaper or brown paper and stick a label on them, so you won't have to take the paper off to find out what is inside.
Even better would to make reusable cloth jar sacks out of tightly woven dark colored cloth, with a drawstring, and a clear vinyl pocket (cut from a clear table cloth) to hold a card with the contents written on it. Pop your bottle or jar inside, pull the drawstring shut, slip in the card, and stick it on your shelf.
I plan to use landscape weed barrier for this purpose after I have moved. Probably hold it with the hair bands that are wrapped versus standard rubber bands.
@@nunyabznz3029 The wrapped ones contain a rubber core that can degrade over time, especially when exposed to air. It only takes a few months for them to degrade enough to become brittle and snap or become sticky or gummy, depending on the environment. Better to use "pantyhose" type hair bands. You can even make your own by cutting old pantyhose legs into loops and giving them a quick stretch. If the loops are too big, you can cut them and knot them to the size you want. They are strong and they will last. (it's also good for staking plants)
Your old cheap socks
Yes. Socks that have holes that would normally be thrown away become my jar covers. @@ladyhawk1083
After I fill jars and soda bottles, I place them in kitty litter buckets. Fill extra space with smaller jars and bottles. Lable outside with contents and stack.
This was most informative and helpful ! Thank you !
Not having oxygen absorbers , the white rice was frozen for a couple of weeks ,
then poured into sanitized Boost bottles ! Each "single-serve" bottle holds two cups of rice...
more manageable for a single -person household...and sharing .
Be safe and well...
I got oxygen absorbers from Amazon.
I agree about the smaller size bottles for one person. When C hit in 2020 I decided to try to prep some basics. I got rice to try first. I froze it for about a week and used soda bottles-no oxygen absorbers. Today (10/19/24) I decided to open one and check if it was still good. I opened the smallest which was an iced tea bottle that held 2Cups dry. It was perfect! I was so excited to know my prep worked. For one person it was a great size bottle
We also use the top of a soda bottle as a funnel for wider mouthed jars. We just cut off the top 1/3 of the bottle and you have a funnel.
So smart ❤
I store a lot of items in plastic bottles! Empty 2 liter soda bottles for rice, black beans, split peas, lentils, and small- shell pasta. Empty 3 quart apple juice bottles hold chlorinated tap water for drinking. Empty square ice cream pails hold mylar packages of muffin mixes. Empty plastic peanut butter pretzel jars with screw-on lids hold cardboard cylinders of instant coffee mix. Empty laundry detergent jugs with spouts, and liquid handsoap jugs, are refilled with water and labeled "soapy water- don't drink" for hand or dish washing. We tend to buy the same groceries repeatedly, so we get a lot of the same containers each week. I even reuse plastic steamer containers from frozen food for gardening!
I put the pasta sauce lids out in the sun for a couple of days to bleach and remove the odor. Thanks for doing this video.
Kylene, For over 40 years I have used a double layer of plastic wrap under the large lids and brought it over the threads. After many years I have not had any failures. I have also used the wax and duct tape ideas with the plastic wrap.
I bought a cylinder shaped vacume sealer from a UA-cam channel "Raincountry" here in WA state. Heidi's husband builds them. You can drop your jar in the cylinder and put the hose to a brake bleeder and pump the air out!! I LOVE IT! IT WORKS EVERY TIME! the reason for the brake bleeder is incase there's no electricity. They built a large version now too for quart sized jars. The brake bleeder can be used with seal a meal jar attachments too. I bet Jonathan could build them too.
Can we order these?
I have been using my different containers for some time, I also put the tape on the lids for extra safety. You had a great video and full of information. With sugar, if it gets hard, get your grader out and scrape the sugar, you will get the fine sugar again. This was done during my Grandmother's time.
What do you mean by grader?
Hi, I think it's a hand held cheese grater.
Right
I had several bags of sugar that went hard on me and yes, I grabbed my cheese grater and got my soft sugar back. Worked like a charm.
I use a old flour sifter on lumpy sugar works great
I was born in Jamaica n my mom would store beans n corn under sea sand. She would put the beans in buckets n pour dry sea sand over it. Would last for years
Sugar and salt never go bad. If they clump, break up the clumps and you have the same product as you did when you stored it. Commercial salt and sugar have expiration dates so the salt and sugar industries can sell you more products, as is true with virtually every commercially processed food (and some non-food products as well). And for anyone who doesn't already know, both honey and maple syrup are still good if they sugar over; simply put the whole container inside a pan with water and heat it gently until the sugars dissolve again (be sure to remove the lid before heating). This technique can be repeated indefinitely.
Thank you for sharing these food storage techniques. I prefer to use glass and stainless steel for my food storage (both short and long-term) as plastics have been shown to affect hormones and can affect health. These negative effects include can cause a number of health issues, including cancer, diabetes, reproductive disorders, neurological impairments in developing fetuses and children, and even death. {Taken from the Endocrine Society's article "Plastics, EDCs & Health: Authoritative Guide."} If you have no alternative to using PETE / PET plastics to store food, then do so, but be on the lookout for glass jars when you're making purchase decisions in the grocery store. Starvation will kill you much faster than any potential disease from plastic, so plan accordingly.
Ive been a bar manager for about 30 years and most of the bars ive worked have a gun that your basic booze comes out of in measured shots but in the back it is fed from 1/2 gallon size bottles that i order in plastic. These are quite abit thicker than your soda pop 2 liters and more of a substantial lid. Plus having alcohol in them they dont take much to wash them clean. Thats what lines the shelfs of my pantry. Plus they all match. And have handy indentations to grab. Once inventory is taken i just take them home instead of throwing away. Works really well for me
LUCKY!!
Wow!! I bought emergency food supplies in 1999. And in the last few years, i have gotten more intense with trying to store foods as i can afford. This is the most encouraging and educational video I have watched in the last 2 years! I had a nagging instinct not to throw away the 2-liter empty coke bottles I have had, but couldn't find a "legit" reason. Ugh. NOW i will be using all of your tips! I know nothing is 100% fool-proof, but you have given me sooo much more to work with. THANK YOU!!
I learned a way to store green beans from my garden from watching A couple of Homestead YT channels. The process is called Leather Britches & was a way of preserving them prior to canning jars & lids. You use string or thread & needle. Hang them to dry in warm area. I hung them at the back of my stove. They really shrink up. I have since put them in ziplockbag.
I have seen this method but I don't understand how you eat them when you were ready? Are they like green bean jerky? Or do they boil up like normal??
@@juliabrown5948 I haven’t tried to use them yet~ Still harvesting beans! Whippoorwill Holler on YT has a recipe for them. Might check Appalachia’s Homestead too
@@juliabrown5948 what you have is dehydrated green beans without all the fuss of tending a dehydrator. You reconstitute them the same as any other dehydrated veggies: put a measured amount of the veg, plus a measured amount of hot water, in a container for the amount of time needed for that veggie. Then you simmer them until they are done. There are lots of books on dehydration that give all of those details.
We use to do that hang them to dry.
I cannot get mylar anymore (Ireland) glad I bought when I did.... I save everything now
What about Amazon, wont they ship to Ireland?
I have ordered MYLAR BAGS from TEMU. Oxygen absorbers, too!
Walmart has these same options and free shipping if you join the "club" or buy a certain dollars worth of products. And no not Sam's club, the shipping/store pickup they have forget what it's called, automaticly charged to my bank account yearly. @100$, or 9.99/mo.
@@cheririchey868 NO
@@cynthiadodge3089 TY good to know
I am glad you are showing people a better alternative for storing their food instead of just stockpiling food from the supermarket that it still in its regular packaging. I have never found a better price on #10 cans of basic food storage than the prices at the LDS Home Storage Center online store. Too bad I have to shop elsewhere for #10 cans of dried "luxury" foods such as meat, poultry, cheese, broccoli, spinach, cornmeal, tomato powder, white grits and powdered eggs.
I store granulated cane sugar in salvaged, rectangular, cranberry juice bottles. Sugar is so heavy, even in a two-gallon bucket, so those filled bottles are easier for me to move and their rectangular shape means they can be packed together tightly in the bottom of a closet with less wasted space or lay on their sides under a dresser or sofa. I use the somewhat smaller, cylindrical, plastic beverage bottles, such as Snapple tea bottles, for storing pink Himalayan salt from the dollar store. Those bottles can fit in the spaces between the five-gallon buckets of wheat grain, white rice and dried beans.
I have used a Food Saver jar attachment to vacuum-seal the lids on canning jars filled with dry foods. I store those glass jars in shallow cardboard boxes, the boxes reinforced with mover's tape, so that the jars are less likely to fall and break if there is an earthquake. I do have to check those jars periodically to make sure a lid has not lost its seal.
It is hard to beat using Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers at home to preserve an assortment of different styles of dry pasta, dried mushrooms, cocoa powder, masa, dehydrated hash brown potatoes, dry onion flakes, baking mixes, dry culinary herbs, Nesquik flavored drink mixes, tea bags, dry soup mixes and home dehydrated veggies and fruit.
My mama just passed away a week ago. She was 97 years old. She was a child of the depression and she lived through the rationing of World War II. Our rice and flour was kept in mason jars with a stick of gum in it. Wrigley's spearmint. Same with our sugar and our salt.
never forget how many places will give you used food safe buckets that you can use (with or without mylar bags) ! from bakeries that get their icing in multi gallon tubs, to sandwich shops who get pickles in 5 gallon buckets.
... i always save my salsa, jelly, or tomato sauce jars to use as "gift size" preps... carefully cleaned and filled with rice, beans, and maybe a jar of salsa or pasta sauce intact? its a combination meal kit/housewarming and safe to hand out gift.
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if people in need come to my door i can hand out small amounts (or if they are homeless or lacking cooking ability i give canned soups or etc) without revealing how much i have in storage
The problem, though, is that there will be those who intuit that if you have some to give away, you have more. It won't matter that you're not letting others know how much you have, they WILL determine to take it all. For this purpose, you would be better off to have small, empty containers. Bring a bigger container to the door, and offer to give them 'half' of it, so that you still have a little left for YOUR family. Your aren't lying (you ARE giving them half of that container), and hopefully they will be grateful to get it rather than automatically assuming you must have a lot more, and also hopefully they won't decide your house is a viable target to hit later.
Another thing to consider would be to offer to 'trade' something, once again doing the 'half' scenario. Something else that I saw on a thread: if there's a community food bank going early on, be sure to go occasionally. You do NOT want to be noticed as never showing up, because when the food IS gone you WILL have unwelcome attention. If wanted, you can distribute the food back to others (which is what I would do). For example, I can approach a family who may not have gotten enough and give them my bread / rice / whatever I think they can use best, and tell them that my family won't eat it (in the case of rice / etc, they won't -- they'll be eating what I put back) or that it will go bad before I can use it all. The objective is to appear to be no different than anyone else. Too many people have flippantly made comments along the line of going to someone else's house to get what they need if things go bad -- simply because they KNOW that others HAVE prepared,and they think it's ridiculous. However, when things hit the fan they WILL remember that others DO have what they want or need, and WILL come looking.
@@sandym6760 It is called: being the 'grey man', to blend in with all the people around you.
@@sandym6760good advice, psychological food prep and sharing,
We drink a lot of bottled water. We get the 1 gallon jugs. They work perfectly as they require no cleaning as any water left in the bottle simply evaporates no cleaning required
I think I put air absorbers in the sugar. 😢 can I reopen the 5 gallon buckets with a seal and check and then are the buckets resealable? Also….I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR CONTENT!!!! You are doing Gods work by training up us newby’s. I have lost years of time by keeping my head in the sand about having what I would need for my family. Please keep teaching us. This is your calling!
Thanks! We are on God's errand. You are prepping just in time! Some buckets are very much resealable and others aren't so it's hard for me to advise you on that.
We recycle 2 litre pop bottles and plastic juice bottles to store water to use for flusing toilets (if you've lost water to your house due to floods or earthquakes, or the city turns off your water to make repairs to the lines, etc. Just clean them out well, fill (we leave air space at the top for expansion since these are store outside and the water will expand when it freezes) and store them. They are all labeled as "flush only" so someone doesn't mistakenly use them as drinking water.
Good idea!
I put pasta in 2 liter bottles...I hope I can get it out lol. Yesterday and today I've been Mylar bagging oats, instant rice and potatoes and pancake mix. Also used the huge dry creamer container with a screw lid for rice. I found a bunch of 16 oz Mylar bags in my stash. Forgot what I got them for but had 2 big bags of candy corn so used some for that. These days I've been using the juice and soda bottles for water, not so much for food.
Thanks for your awesome videos! Take care.
I have been putting my pasta in food saver bags with an oxygen absorber. Contents are visible, and I can shake it down flat for storage before vacuuming out the air.
@@sandym6760 When I started putting food away 5 years ago I was using the vacuum bags for pasta but something always poked a hole. Now just using used containers with oxygen absorbers. I still have some bagged that made it into buckets with other long term foods. If they have poked through at least they are in a bucket.
I use those 2 let plactic bottles for dry food storage.
Ugh during the lock down I decided to get rid of a lot of stuff sitting around. I had stored so many
Glass Jars, plastic bottles that I discarded
After Seeing this video I’m regretting it!
Thank you for the knowledge
I use the Wallaby mylar bags. I do not have a hair straightener so I just use my iron on the Linen setting. Seals in a split second.
Καλησπέρα από την Ελλάδα. Μπορείτε να με βοηθήσετε; αγόρασα Mylar bags αλλά δεν έχω καταλάβει, γιατί τα αγγλικά μου είναι μέτρια, πόσοι απορροφητές οξυγόνου αναλογούν σε μισό κιλο/ ή ένα pound ενός αγαθού πχ βρώμης. Θα σας ήμουν ευγνώμων αν με βοηθούσατε. Ευχαριστώ.
I use plumbers tape around the threads of my jars to make them airtight. Have also seen in other comments cling wrap.
I don't care for the classico brand pasta sauces but my mother does and she saves all the jars because they're actually Atlas canning jars with small mouth. She gives them to me from time to time and I would say half of my pantry right now is probably based on those jars. All for free!!!!
Me and my family are LDS. It reminds me of my Mom . She hoard/storage foods to jars and bottles and give it to the homeless.
Before oxygen absorbers exist, other option is to place a piece of cotton damp in alcohol and put the cap on, it will absorb the oxygen. Then seal the outside with melted wax.
Thank you so much! Im a newbie prepper and cant afford the expensive type containers.
I have found some cheap food grade square buckets on Amazon, but now I can do it much cheaper...thanks to you.
God bless you
I have been using Plastic reasonable jars And bottles for years Because I am on a very limited budget. It's allows me to store food. And I also use those plastic bottles like that to store water
I know they say not to, but I reuse my Classico & other jars for water bath canning and I reuse the store lids that came with them. Only with acidic food though and I don’t pressure can them. I’m telling you it works, the seal is strong and if I can’t use it for canning I store my dehydrated foods in them. I know it’s not usda but I see no risk - unless I was pressure canning I them - anyway just my two cents.
I do the same!
What do you use to dehydrate?
Walmart's Great Value jelly jars are great. When empty wash well and store until dry. Just before refilling with my own homemade hot jellys and jams i sterilize jars and lids in boiling water, cap tightly and allow to cool
As they cool they will reseal themselves.
After watching your video I am now looking out for reusable jars and such, just found out the Classico Pasta Sauce uses *Atlas Mason Jars* Thank You!
The Classico Atlas jars are great for dry food storage like in this video of Kylene's. Just don't try to water bath or pressure can with them. They are not heatproof to the same specifications as actual home canning jars, and Classico purchased the Atlas name and the design of the jars many decades ago.
FYI For food grade buckets for cheap, ask at the bakery/deli for empty frosting buckets, check bakiers, resturants. Cheap or no cost. My local grocery store Food Lion I get for free.
This was such a great video! You don’t have to be rich to prep! I use the Dollar tree Arizona southern sweet tea bottles for my “ go away” rice bottles, for when people come asking.
Quick life hack, instead of using a narrow funnel to fill the large pete type bottles take a gallon milk jug cut the bottom of the jug off just below the handle. The pour hole fits right into the larger diameter bottle . Instant large bore , wide funnel with a handle for easier bottle and jar filling, and totally free. Also after use it just slides over the top of the storage bottle. No extra storage space and can't lose it.
I use press and seal in between the lid and container of the square peanut containers. So far it’s protected many types of shaped pasta (longest that I opened and tested was 8 years, it was good as new)
I've been looking at loads of videos about storing food and find them very interesting. I have also looked up reusing plastic containers and found on one site that PET 1 bottles shouldn't be reused. They are safe for single use and should then be recycled. This is what I've taken off another site - 'Number 1 plastic containers are believed to be safe for single-use, however, they should not be reused or exposed to heat changes. Use them with caution.'
I have been doing this same thing for a few decades. All my dry storage is kept in glass jars I bought food in, then repurposed for dry good storage. Even my spices bought in bulk go into these jars. When I visit people I know, I ask for their big jars when I notice they will be empty soon. I still have the gallon jar my mom stored sugar in about 30 years ago. Everything I buy in a container gets reused for food or for storing things for my businesses.
If your lid still smells after washing, just soak it some ammonia and water over night. It works.
I was surprised to find that the kitty litter containers I was getting with my cat's fragrance-free kitty litter was marked as food-safe plastic. When I ran out of other containers, I decided to wash out and use the kitty litter containers. They hold a LOT of rice, but after watching your video, I realize that the seal may not be adequate. I am going to open them all, put in new oxygen absorbers, and then duck tape them after closing. BTW, I don't know whether kitty litter that has a fragrance would contaminate the container and never come out with washing -- so best to use only the fragrance free type.
I've never seen anyone else do this. I'm impressed by how much food you've been able to put back in this 1 video! Good job hun.!
You can also use a regular clothes iron for sealing mylar bags with a piece of wood beneath (ie; 2x4 piece) to prop up the backside of the mylar bag. If you have a mini shop vac or small hand vac, you can tape a small tube to the end to create a vacuum inside the mylar bag.
Probably easiest to put your product in, then seal all but about an inch with the iron. Stick the small vacuum tube in to suck out the air then remove tube and quickly seal the last inch of mylar bag.
I already save soda bottles, now I'm going to have my daughter save her Gatorade and spaghetti sauce containers ... Thanks!
Also, THANK YOU VERY MUCH so showing how to do sugar. Every video mentions not to use oxygen absorbers with sugar, but this is the first one (out of HUNDREDS I've watched) that shows what TO do!!!!
Excellent information and very timely! I was thinking of repackaging some of my foods (1 person household only) just today. I have a lot of cupboard items already in glass or a few plastic food storage containers but thought of moving some of my freezer foods to smaller packages. When needed I can just take out a premeasured amount of food and cook that instead of opening a bag and not sealing it well enough in the freezer.
Already have a heat sealer with bags and a lot of sizes of glass storage (freezer, microwave, and oven safe) in the freezer, but only have so many. I also have a large box of saved clean plastic containers and glass jars I put aside to finally recycle or throw out. They only recycle cardboard in my area, so was waiting to dispose of these other things in one batch. Now you have convinced me to repurpose them instead. So glad I procrastinated now and didn't get rid of them yet.
I sit my pickle jars in the sun a few days after cleaning to get the smell out
When your sugar gets hard use a grater and when your honey crystallizes warm it to dissolve the crystals. Just be careful if it is in a plastic container because the plastic will melt often if you heat it too quickly. Same goes for Caro syrup or pancake syrup.
You can put the honey outside in the sun (except incold winter areas), and the honey crystals will dissolve
I have some big 2 1/2 gallon heavy plastic jugs with handles that I buy dog shampoo in( I'm a groomer), and they make awesome storage for non potable water! We've used them many times for washing water and flushing toilets when the power was out( like after a hurricane, etc), or washing dishes😊 We also save the gallon jugs from the spring water we buy and refill them with all kinds of prep stuff, especially rice and beans! The square ones from Crystal Springs are really easy to store because of their shape. I save all those plastic wide mouthed jars, like yours, but I put foil, plastic wrap, or wax paper over the top before the lid, works great and it's easier than the wax or duct tape😊❤ I keep every kind of container because I also have a ridiculous craft room, lol, so what I don't use for prepping, I use for storing craft stuff!❤
I use a coffee filter with the plastic lids that do not grip well. It tightens and I think, in my opinion, may absorb any moisture sneaking in the bottle over time.
I also use the repurposed juice containers to store water.
Could you do a video on how to store medicines, ibprofin Tylenol etc, vitamins and antibiotics long term? Can they be place in smaller Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers? Your videos are so helpful thank you
Take the pills out of the containers, and use an oz absorber and a vacuum sealer as well. Mark the date, what the med is that's all ya need
Why do you have to store them in something other than the original “Tylenol” bottle? I’m new to this and trying to learn.
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You don’t take the pills out of the bottles. I’m wondering if they last much longer than the expiration if the bottles are then put in a mylar bag with an oxygen absorber
Step 1. Take meds out of bottle
Step 2. Put in vacuum seal food bags with a vacuum food sealer.
Step 3. Put oxygen absorber in with meds and seal the bag.
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A square that covers entire opening and threads of jar of glad press n seal will make lid air tight.
Add it and screw lid over it
Thanks for sharing your video. I am so pleased to find out from you that I don't have to use oxygen absorbers (£30s worth) with all the sugar I bought.
Bless you guys. You are full of what is good to know!
God bless from an old boy across the pond! ☺️🙏👍✌️🇬🇧
Thank you for your video.
Bake those pickle jars in the oven 180f to 225f to help get rid of the smell.
Still waiting on my Mylar order and the pressure is wearing on me, .. AGGHHH!!!!
Went for six, 10 kg bags of flour today and six 8 kg bags of rice.
Got the last two bags of flour and no rice. Not the rice I was looking for. The On Sale rice. So I picked up two bags of Two Dragons rice from Vietnam of all places, for $2 more. New to me rice so I only got the two.
But they did give me a raincheck for the six bags I wanted. We'll see if it ever arrives at the store again.
This was only the second day of the sale on this rice. I guess they had to post a limit of six bags on the amount being bought because people were loading up the carts two at a time. Push one and pull the other.
Oh yeah, the dollar store had racks and racks of canned mackerel in the past and it was always there. Until today, only four cans left and now there are none, ... and they don't know if they'll be getting more.
It's getting interesting to say the least.
Two pounds of linguini for 97 cents, and the two pounds of other assorted pastas for $1.47. I filled a five gallon bucket with 4 lbs left over.
Bought another 20 cans of $2 No Name luncheon meat. Man, it adds up fast when you increase your numbers like that. And you don't see the huge expenditure of cash it takes to buy them all at once. But really, buying five cans at a time wasn't doing the job.
Oval cans of Ham, .. and two boxes of dried Coconut Milk from the international section. Bit my tongue and bought the pound of dried Shiitake that was $8 last week but $12.99 this week. There's a whack of mushrooms in a dried pound. And the 500 gram, (1 lb) of Coconut Oil packed in an all metal can. I can't beat that for storage. It was $4.50 last week and $5.25 now. *POOF*
God, I love to hate plastic. I look at the stuff as horrendous environmental disasters happening every minute of every day, .. all for profit.
This only limits myself of course, so use them if you got them.
I do love Pallet Wrap. A super heavy duty saran wrap I use to wrap full boxes of stuff I don't want getting damp with humidity. The cases of knock off Mac and Cheese for instance. I'll also wrap my bags of flour I'm keeping in rotation just because I can. We keep four 10 kg bags rotating all the time. 10 kg of flour lasts five to eight weeks depending.
Back when I dumpster dived I'd take cases of pasta sauce for the Jars and the good metal snap lids they have only to discover there was nothing wrong with the sauce so the bottles and jars can wait.
And now my "Staging Area" is getting so full it's uncomfortable. That's where all the finale long term prep happens to my food and it's hard to turn around there now.
The gall of me to complain.
Thank you lord for the abundance! Make hay while the sun shines.
Have a great one and good luck.
I use my old PETE plastic bottles to hold potable water! Great ideas! Thanks for sharing! 😊
How long would you say water can be stored in plastic bottles such as Powerade bottles?
@@kellysflippinlife2682 Not more than one year. After that, pour out and refill or use it strictly for bathing/washing up.
Usually, my freezers are full up, but I have frozen filtered water from my tap and kept it in the top of my freezer to make sure all the space is used so it is more efficient. I also find that I have emergency water in case the community's wells go wonky (you never know). I also used to take out a bottle of frozen icy water to take with me on a long car drive in the summer. The water is refreshing as it thaws during the day in the bottle.
@@islandgal500 They are also good for using in ice chests. They last far longer than ice cubes and don't make a mess when they melt.
The simply lemonade juice styled bottles are my favorite for the narrowed neck. Makes handling much easier if you have problems with your hands and limits the weight. I've taken all out of our apt recycling. Totally stocked up after the heat wave. Removed labels, washed, sanitized, fully dried. They are the best. So no fancy clear storage for me in my cabinets and pantry. People spending hundreds of dollars on acrylic containers to decant their dry goods. Wish I could find more wide mouth glass containers.
claussen pickles in the large plastic container has a removable white rubber seal in the lid. i love this pickle and have many jars i saved they seal well with oxygen absorbers
If the electrical grid goes down, you will need to find another way to seal the mylar bags. They do make a battery-operated sealer, I think. Having a generator would let you operate a hot iron. Having a straw to manually suck out as much air as possible from the mylar bags is a possibility before tossing in an oxygen absorber to take care of removing the rest of the oxygen. You'd have to seal the bag almost closed using the hot iron, leaving a small hole for the straw. I wonder if you could use the tubing from a vacuum sealer to suck out most of the air rather than using a regular drink straw. Again, you would need some source of power to operate the sealing machine. Then again, a brake bleeder doesn't require electricity, so that is another option if you don't have a generator. I do suggest, however, that if you use a brake bleeder, make sure it has not been used on a vehicle. It's a good idea to buy one strictly for using with food products. The brake bleeders can also be used with the mason jar attachment from a vacuum sealer. The brake bleeder kits come with a variety of tubes of different diameters and usually there will be one that fits the jar attachment. If not, it would a good idea to do a test run prior to a grid down scenario so you can ensure you have the correct size tube.
Hi Guys, Haven't posted in a while. Gonna leave a tip on the PEET bottles and 2 ltr soda bottles. We live in the high mtn's of NC and when my husband takes our trash to the recycle center the guys there know him and lets him get whatever he wants also good for winter sowing. i've got a "Garden sized" bathtub with ton's of them soaking now along with uses pickle and pasta jars (soak lids 24 hrs in pool shock it bleach before final wash) hope this helps someone...Connie C
Hey, for the seal for the canister container, my mom would use a yogurt lid. Cut to size and it’s perfect fit in the lid as a liner. I’ve had an airtight with this method. Thank you for these great tips.
Great idea!!
Yoghurt lidsare also good to keep ferme ting veggies down in the brine, especially with a weight on them.
If you're going to use tape to seal the lids better get the aluminum tape that they use for heating and air conditioning you can get it at the big Box home improvement stores works very well
I have checked prices on plastic jugs, bottles, whatever (with lids of course). I have concluded that it is at least 50% cheaper to just buy cheap cola, fruit juice, whatever in the jugs than to buy the empty jugs. Amazing!! How can that be??
The beverage companies buy them in bulk, with a single order being far more than you'd ever buy in a lifetime, and with a contract that locks them into buying from the same supplier for many years, so they get deep discounts that you can't get. In order words, they are far cheaper if you buy millions of them.
you know I learned about the plastic bottle and stuff from you guys thank you. Also I save all my glass that I buy from the store and have learned to can food in those jars any where we can save money and it stays out of the landfill.
You can also make a fantastic funnel by cutting off one of those 2 liter bottles part way. To use it to fill another 2 liter bottle, just use a piece of painters tape around the threads to hold it in place. Even that can be used more than once.
Add a banana or other ripe fruit scraps or vinegar to so.e water at the bottom of the bottle. Put the funnel lid side down and you have a fly and fruit fly trap!
Freeze your dry beans rice etc for two days bring back to room temp and put in storage containers with the oxy absorbers
I saw another coupler on here store things in soda pop bottles.. Think rice and popcorn Didn't use an oxygen absorber. Am collecting juice and pop bottles for several things. I vaccum seal pickle and other jars Really helps save my jars.
In our kitchen, we have a wooden shelving unit that has a compartment with a drop-down door, much like a bread box. About a year ago, I had placed several products inside of the wooden compartment. One of them was a bag of Fritos. I forgot I it was in there because we rarely go in there. Then one day, while trying to find a lost kitchen tool, I opened the door and saw the Fritos. And I immediately kicked myself mentally for allowing the Fritos to sit in there for over a year without eating them. When I removed the bag, I noticed that the sides of the bag were all sucked in, much like a Mylar bag does after the oxygen is gone. When I opened the bag and tasted one of the chips, I was pleasantly surprised and quite frankly shocked that they were still crispy and had no rancid odor. The wooden compartment is well built with no space for air to get in as long as the door stays shut. So, I thought, "This would be a great place to store other dry food for long storage." So, that's exactly what I started doing. It now holds things like pkgs of muffin mix, cookie mix, pizza dough mix, etc. It's going to be interesting to see how long they keep inside that tight compartment. We have an armoir in a guest room that seems to be air-tight. It is made of very thick Mango wood. The double doors make a "whump" sound when being closed because of the tight fit. So, I wonder if I should be using it to store food instead of blankets, family photographs, and books. Another thing I've been wondering is if tin canisters (like they used in the old days) can be used as a source of air-tight storage. Some of the lids on the ones I have are very difficult to remove. Maybe I will pack some Fritos in one of them to see how long they survive. 🤔
Old tins are absolutely a great way to store dry goods.
@@margaretlovrich6837 Yes, and adding an oxygen absorber would make it even greater. I wonder if it would help even more if the seams inside were sealed with a ribbon of glue using a hot glue gun.
They put so much preservative in these GMO foods that you probably wouldn't even need anything to protect it.
@@theresahouck3516 It doesn't state on the muffin mix that it contains any genetically modified ingredients. All it says lists is: Corn, Corn Oil, and Salt. Salt, in itself, is a preservative and Fritos are VERY salty, so maybe that helps preserve it. As for any other pkgs of food I decide to put in there, I will be sure and research the ingredients to make sure they are not classified has GMO. Thanks for the warning.
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Great ideas…
I save all the jars that come into our home. I also check thrift stores for nice big jars.
Wonderfully informative video, thank you for your efforts! I especially love that you broke down that most of what remains in the bags after the oxygen absorber is added is nitrogen and not oxygen! An informational detail most people overlook.
I greatly enjoy how real you present. The asides with female wisdom humor are so enjoyable.
I love the reuse of plastic bottles and containers 100%
Kaylene,thanks so much for this information.So very useful and helps with recycling.Have you/Jonathan done a video on food grade buckets and their use? I’ll have to check your play list.Thanks for all your work doing these for us.
I love the idea of saving pickle jars, But these days It really getting difficult to get the pickle smell out of the lid and tips on getting it out
Καλησπέρα. Δοκίμασε να διώξεις τις δυσάρεστες οσμές από τα βάζα σου ρίχνοντας μέσα σε αυτά ένα μεγάλο κομμάτι κάρβουνο από τα ξύλα που καίγονται σε φωτιά, σε τζάκι κλπ. Άφησέ το λίγες ώρες με κλειστό καπάκι και θα καθαρίσει. Μπορείς να το κάνεις αυτό και στο ψυγείο σου, αν έχει άσχημες μυρωδιές που επιμένουν. Να είστε καλά.
How about using plastic wrap under the lid on the larger plastic "jars" that you're not trusting and using tape on?
Thanks for the great video! I had sort of given up on the oxygen absorbers and the mylar as they were not available for a very long time in my location. What with harvests from the garden coming in dry storage had all but slipped my mind...😅 I just checked because of your video and it looks like I'll be getting some oxygen absorbers and Mylar bags delivered soon. Thanks for the reminder!
If you eat chips / crisps on a regular basis, these are a good source of Mylar bags. I also reuse the bags the dry pet food comes in. Just give it a good cleaning before reuse.
I put my beans in smaller jars... because I don't want to keep opening up the jar....
I'm convinced this is the best vid on the subject. Loved your unpretentious, clear, to the point presentation and your own experience comments.
Wow, thank you!
You are an exceptional educator and presenter. I have learned so much from you. Thank you and also for all the valuable resources you provide.
I do the same repurposing all kinds of plastic Jugs especially milk. Instead of oxygen absorbers I purge with Co2. Co2 kills the weavels and removes the oxygen. Each spring I purge all my jugs. So far so good.
Fantastic video. Good solid advice and good visual instructions. Off the subject, but just to let you know, food prices in UK are rocketing. Energy prices have currently tripled and about to quadruple, petrol and diesel up by near to 40% increase.
I ate a meal last week , was rice, canned moose, salsa, i packaged in 2006, and i eat same foods from fresh bought, and i cant tell any difference, if yoi store right its amazing the shelf life
I got this idea from someone else and it really works well. Make a funnel for the soda bottles (or any others) by cutting a matching bottle off about in the middle. Superglue the top of that bottle to a matching top (so flat ends are together and you have threads on each end). Screw the empty bottle and the “funnel” bottle together with this. Then pour into the funnel and beans, etc. will easily pair onto the empty bottle.
@@TheProvidentPrepper Also, using a chopstick helps move things through the funnel without constantly having to tap the container on the counter or wiggle the funnel.
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I'm sorry but I don't understand that and I really want to. If both of the lids are glued together on the flat side where is the hole for the rice to go through from the funnel to The empty bottle?
I don't mean to sound dense but I don't get it and I really want to understand how to do this cause it sounds really cool.
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@@jude7321 sorry that was confusing. I forgot to mention that I drilled a hole in both tops. You can start with a fairly small hole and make it bigger with bigger drill bits, or possibly with a box cutter. The final size hole in mine is about 3/4”. Thanks for pointing that out. 😬
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Thanks for responding to my question because I thought I was losing my mind. I couldn't figure out where the hole was for the beans or flower to pass through.
I have read and reread your instructions at least a dozen times and could not figure it out, no wonder. 😂 All clear here.
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My kids used to have a plastic thing that went between two bottles to make a cyclone effect. Wish I knew where it went?
Thanks to you and Jonathan for all you do. I have learned so much from you.
Another great video. It never occurred to me before living in the Balkans that you could use something besides a mason jar. They save all containers there. So be careful as I found out, the label on the bottle isn't necessary what's inside 🙃 They used doubled up plastic wrap and then screw the lids on for a better seal .
Glass only. Plastic and Mylar bags can be chewed through. All plastics. They also change the flavors of some products.
They may be okay for some powdered cleaning supplies.
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Love content. You made it easy digestible even for newbie.
Thank you. It's good to know that using empty jars and safe plastic bottles can extend the "life" of food products. With increasing grocery prices, it's a necessity to buy now, stock up and preserve.
Amazon subscription prices on some bulk food items have risen $5 since last month, which is quite disturbing, due to the lost prospect of getting the most for your available $$ budgets. Preserving food now can help alleviate sticker shock in the coming months.
I use food safe silicon to make a sealing ring in the rim of plastic jar lids.
I have a vacuum sealer for jars that you put over the lid on the jar. Most of them stay sealed, but every now and then, I find one or two that have unsealed even though they've just been sitting on the shelves. 🤷♀️
I do save gallon water jugs, let them air dry, and use them to store beans, pasta, sugar, rice etc.
I have the same problem sometimes with the lids unsealing in storage. I'm not overly concerned because they should still be airtight due to the gasket on the lid. I would love to know if anyone knows why this happens!
I ordered some wheat from the LDS website and out of 12 cans I think 10 came heavily dented. If you live reasonably close to the brick and mortar location I think it’s definitely worth the drive!!
Same thing happened to me with Thrive Life! Just can't win.
Such excellent info to review and need info to learn. Thank you. I will save this. God bless you👍🙏💙
What do you mean rotate them? I want to buy food now to store. Are you saying use them (if I can) with the next year or so, then store / replace with new food? Sorry if it’s a dumb question
What a great idea using the decorated duct tape around the plastic containers; that was very creative of you. Interesting tips--used a few right after this video. LEARNED A LOT TODAY!