Storage for cereal, rice, flour etc

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Has anyone got any recommendations for storage for the above please?

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If you're going to store flour you need to freeze it for 48 hours first and then seal it in an airtight container (I'm loathe to suggest it but clingfilm would be good).

Thanks. I didn’t know that.

I keep flour and sugar in plastic containers in the fridge, because I’m short of cupboards.

I LOVE Oxo Pops containers. I have 5 large cereal ones and various square/rectangle ones for rice and pasta etc.

They are expensive. I won't deny it. I've built up my collection over some time! They keep things are tight and look great too.

This is the cereal one:

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I have never ever frozen flour before storing it. We have Kilner jar type things for flour and then just plastic storage tubs for cereal/rice

We use this sort of tub for cereal

Plastic storage tubs, kilner style jars, even a zip lock freezer bag. You want to keep weevils out.

Top tip: don't buy organic flour. Only made that mistake once. Urghhhhh, little blighters.

Vino freezing first, does that kill any lurking tiny horrors?

I use cheap screwtop plastic jars and get them in bulk, if I need them to be especially airtight I add a seal made from a plastic sandwich bag and an elastic band. You can also get a bag of 100 damp absorber sachets on Ebay for a couple of pounds.

I keep all these in largish, air-tight 'tupperware' containers, they just need to be kept in cool & dry conditions.
I keep my flour in the original bag in an large (tallish) biscuit tin.
Rice can be kept in the bags they come in esp. in the foil ones.
You shouldn't keep any of these in the fridge or freezer - there is absolutely no need.
With cereal, always keep the inner bag they come in - seems to absorb any extra moisture.
Have fun

I’ve never froze it, like why would anyone? It’s not like granny was freezing it back in the day is it and she lived 🤷🏻‍♀️

I do not freeze flour, but I do put my flour in a glass kilner jar, my family aren’t dead yet.

With cereal I leave it in the box, just put a peg on the bag once it’s open. Cereal isn’t around long enough here to need fancy storage.

You really don't need anything fancy unless you bought it all in like 30 kg bags. Normal supermarket size bags of cereal, rice and flour can just be closed up with a clip, rubber band, in a plastic zip bag whatever and re--opened as needed for use. I've never stored it in anything special and there really is no need unless you plan to keep it for 6 months unused (which I assume you don't plan to do in the circumstances).

Flibberty yes, that's the idea. More info here

We had weevils a decade ago so have been careful since. We don’t buy too much flour! And we open the flour over the kitchen sink because the outside of the bag seems to have overflow..

I've never heard of freezing flour. I've had my own house for 25 years and due to the fact that we buy a wide variety of foods and don't use anything very fast, most things go out of date, often by years, but just get used until they run out or anything is actually wrong with them, which almost never happens.

We've had flour weevils once in all that time, which suggests to me that freezing flour isn't really necessary.

But I've noticed that the over the top hygiene freaks have really upped their game due to Covid19. Sanitising parcels, leaving them in the shed for days on end, changing clothes, showering and washing the towels if you've been out and that's after going out in clean clothes after having a shower, obviously, daily disinfecting routines of any item that may have been looked at by another person, the list goes on. Why go to those lengths when you could just wash your hands regularly and not touch your face?