Flour weevils...what do you do when you find you have a few in the flour?

[solo]

Do you use it or throw it? it's just a few, but I'm fed up throwing flour out and quite honestly, I can't afford to keep doing it!
It's kept in a sealed Tupperware container, so they are obviously already in the flour...advice please.

Seive it???
My mum would have.

I would chuck it, but perhaps I am profligate....

I'd chuck it

what??? please explain these to me, as i have no idea what they are!

They are minute bugs that occur in flour amoungst other things. They obviously multiply but I'm sure they are present in the flour before it even gets bagged up otherwise where would they come from? so we must surely be eating them in most things made with flour anyway! I'm just fed up throwing whole bags of flour away - especially as I'm just about to start baking Ds cakes for lunch in order to save money!

I'd sieve it if you only have a few bugs.

Oh, I could write you a novel on bugs in food. (Live in tropical Africa.) Here's what you do: chuck out this lot of flour as they could spread. In future, store your flour in the freezer, either in a strong plastic, sealable bag or tupperware to keep it from taking on taste of other food in there.

Need to keep the ants out of your sugar? Cockroaches out of your cereal? Keep the humidity from making your salt stick together? I'm your woman.

Solo, I live in the tropics, where flour grows weevils overnight, it seems. Someone here gave me a great tip - keep your flour in the freezer and that solves the problem.

Snap sue!

Snap!

SNAP!

Snap snap and snappety snap

Freezer for all mine

And pasta, rice, breadsticks, crackers oh I could go on...

coco would you by any chance put rice in your salt? African Expat childhood

Cocobear, I put the flour straight into Tupperware containers as soon as I've bought it. I will start to store it in the freezer, but I still don't ' get' how they are there in the first place. I've just checked the flour advisory online thing and they say that the weevils don't start in the flour! hard to believe that!]

Thank you all for your tips. Think I'll sieve it and use it. Money tight and over ripe banana's should mean banana cake! can't afford to waste it all...

Good luck solo. Once ya bake the critters, they're dead, and no one's gonna know if it's banana bread!

Coca - no, I use rock salt and a grinder. Never had much luck with rice.

One day I'll start another thread about those little blue-green worms in cauliflower...

Sieved, baked, delicious! Thanks for the help ladies!