I think I have Indian Meal Moths...

[TheOddity]

which sounds delicious but is actually a moth flying in your face every time you open the kitchen cupboard. I had no idea moths ate food (sad). Putting the pieces together now, I saw a tiny caterpillar thing crawl up the side of the fridge and thought it had come from outside. Now thinking it was one of the larvae (boak).
Do I just chuck everything in the cupboard? Is it just best to be really over the top and get rid of them ASAP?
Any success stories people?

I had success getting rid of them but it was a pain in the arse to do. Basically I bought mountains of Tupperware boxes and labels, and carefully checked all dried food before transferring it into boxes. A year later there are no moths and everything looks neat and organised.

I'm very pleased to hear you found a way to avoid chucking some stuff and they did go away, so thanks. I think I may transfer the things that look OK to ziplock bags and stick in the freezer until I have a permanent Tupperware home for them. I'm not a food hoarder but even so I have quite a few half used packets. Not sure I can face looking for larvae. I might just chuck anything clearly unsealed.
I hate moths!

Well that was a truly horrific three hours of my life. Everything is now thrown, double plastic bagged in the fridge or put into sealed glass jars. Every food cupboard bleached. Found the caterpillars in a bag of salad rice right at the bag but loads of other things had weird cobwebs from them at the bottom of the card or paper packets so I just chucked them because I can't stomach the thought of eating the stuff, even if it looks sealed. Five pedal bin bags of food to chuck. Hate waste. Only found two moths in the process but I'm sure they were about to explode.

This is becoming more my own journal/chronicle of moth misery than a thread, but I don't give a shiny shit, it makes me feel better.
Just when I thought moth-gate was over, I open a bottom (non food) cupboard, get out a measuring jug, fill it with water to water the plants and lo and behold, a caterpillar (OK, a larva) is doing the breast stroke in there. Then I find a squashed moth on the cupboard door. It's like a horror film. [Sigh] More unplanned maintenance of kitchen today.
Can I just ask you to go and seal all your opened packets right now please? And chuck old stuff you won't eat. Save yourself this process.

Oh no poor you! That sounds really horrible. They are determined little shits and don't stick to food like they're supposed too - horrible flashback to when i found the larvae swarming in a bag of recycling. Urrggh.

Oh god poor you. I think we used to have some in our old house (I found a bag of suspiciously cobwebby flour) but we didn't have many open packets so I just ditched almost everything and we started afresh. We now have containers for almost everything which pleases me hugely, and guards against the little buggers.

Eugh! Good luck!

I used to think people who put everything in Tupperware and jars were anal dicks. I now get it.

I've been dealing with this recently too. Chucked out everything open and put any new stuff in Ikea food bags. Also bought moth traps from Amazon, make sure you get food ones, not clothes ones. There are a few dead bodies in them heh heh. Bastards!

Snap with the Ikea food bags. I swear they are bullet proof! Love them! Even put a bag of biscuits in the large size bags.
I invested in more Tupperware to keep all my new flour in and so far so good this week. Plus my cupboards look so good that I look like I have OCD now.