The BEST Way to Store Flour: Tips from a Pro!

How to store wheat flour in your food storage stockpile? Here are some easy solutions to keep weevils and other bugs out of your wheat flour.

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[masunshine]

I was told by the bug spray man to always freeze your flour for 5 days right when you buy it. He told me that flour and those types of products have microscopic eggs in them that can hatch. At first I never wanted to eat flour or corn meal again. However I do freeze everything like that for five days now. I actually clean out my big jugs of water that have screw on lids and put my large bags of flour in them and my sugar. I am going to make myself a corn meal one, an oatmeal one, and a couple of rice ones. I leave those things in the freezer all the time except my sugar never goes in the freezer, and I only put my oatmeal in the freezer for 5 days.
I am glad you are telling people this because you can't believe how many people don't even know this.

[dnp]

When we lived in humid tropics (Guam), Tupperware with bay leaves was so successful!

[carolechoff]

I keep my flour in freeze at times. No problem with it all.

[christymckinley]

I freeze it 1st.. for 72 hrs.. then I sit it out let it come to room temperature..vacuum seal it and keep it a food grade bucket/ barrel..

[copperhousefarm]

My big freezer died a while back.☹ What I have been doing with the cold weather we have been having. I leave my flour out in the car for a few days.

[moniqueyap]

I live in a tropical climate and have to take special steps for some things. Along with my flour I also freeze my rice for a week before putting it storage. And I won't buy a bag of rice that doesn't have a clear window so I can see the rice inside the bag. I've been burned more than once buying one of those huge bags and once I got it home and opened it, it already had bugs. Of course, I just returned it but what a pain to have to take the time to do that.

[thecramptons]

How do you rotate it though in order to keep using the most fresh abs not leaving any at bottom?

[amyp]

We dry can flour, sugar. Very easy. Dry canning also kills the bugs. 😉

[brightstarr]

I keep mine in the refrigerator... I live in the South.

[fatbaldguy]

Would vacuumed sealing it not kill the bugs also

[elizabethengquist]

I keep mine in sealable plastic bags in the fridge.

[Clairbear]

Diatomaceous earth added to flour keeps the bugs out.