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I am trying to find a good way to store things like flour, cornmeal, rice and so they don't get contaminated by bugs or whatever. I am talking about earthquake supplies and any other disaster. You can't store brown rice because it gets rancid and flour gets bugs. (Even when you can't see them). Anyone know! I heard that you have to use nitrogen for some things.
Anyone an expert on this subject???

What I've done, and I've had luck so far (but it's only been a month) is put the bags and cans into large tupperware containers, and then put some more cans on top in hopes nothing can crawl in. Then, I keep it in the house- not the garage or anything - in hopes it fares better inside.

Get a chest freezer and keep it in the freezer. Stays fresh and keeps the bugs out. And in an emergency when the electricty goes out it does not matter if its all staples in the freezer.

You can keep it in the freezer with no problems. Flour, rice, butter, Then when the time comes, you can use it with no worries of defrosting, spoilage, etc.

Thanks! refrigeration is always nice but I am just looking for the best way to store in a nice cool place. I am looking a freeze dried foods but they prices have gone up so much. We have some old freeze dried foods but they need to be replaced. I think they are still okay but not sure about their food value at this point. I am going to call the manufacture.

BTW I had ants get into my stored sugar in a tuperware container and it was sealed tight!

It appears from the Website for Mountain House.com in Oregon that the freeze dried products that we have are good for 30 to 40 years. They are "packed" in nitrogen which makes them last longer. There are mostly #10 cans of hamburger patties, mac and cheese, rice and chicken, all kinds of fruit, veggies, and even one #10 can of chocolate covered nuts! So I guess we can live for quite a while with this stuff. Now I just need to make sure I have all the things like salt, pepper, soda, flour, rice, beans, powdered milk, oil and all the things that go with it. The price now is really high for what was paid for it in the 1980's. I can feed the neighborhood!