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Started laughing as I'm in my 70s and wish I could preserve myself for another 20 years.

Just remember that totes and buckets can be chewed through by rodents so you have to check them regularly to make sure that you don't have any rodent predation. Also if you used trash cans or any other metal container and you're going to put my mylar in there put a trash bag in there. Two types of metal in contact with other can have some sort of a chemical reaction, it's called electrolysis and can corrode metal. So put a trash bag in it and then put your mylar in it. That way you have something between the two different types of metal.

I put together a 5-6 day emergency food bug-out cooler. Everything inside of it is shelf-stable, but if we're bugging out in the winter, I don't want our canned goods to freeze while traveling (freeze dried is not in the budget at this time), and if we end up traveling in the summer, food will stay cool longer. I included a menu plan for all of the meals so that someone else will know how to use it if I'm not there. (Example: the package of dry fettuccine alfredo goes with the canned chicken). I wrote a date on the outside of a year from when I assembled the contents so that I know when to move the items back into my pantry and refill with new stuff. It's my first bug-out food bucket, so hopefully I thought of everything. I made sure everything had at least one year before it's best-by date.

About storing, saving large quantities in buckets, my recommendation is to separate those big bags to single use bags of those items. Whether they have an oxygen absorber or not, when you open a container with a mass amount of product, exposer to the local elements can cause that product to be reduced in available use. Much of what you say is good but we have started individually packaging items for that reason. Even the sugar or flour and such should be package according to your use of those item and package them for that purpose. Example, I would make a 2-3 lb. mylar bag of flour or sugar because that item will normally be used up in a week or so. We freeze dry and mylar is a great way to store. BUT, rather than bulk storage using mylar or glass jars, we make smaller bags or buy smaller bags to help reduce our work load. We Freeze Dry Milk, Eggs and other items and were storing in quart jars. We are now saving in smaller Mylar bags to save 6-10 eggs (powder form) or larger as the use my be compromised from the opening and closing of jars or bags. Hope this gets you to thinking to longer use instead of large storage.

1. Mylar can be punctured pretty easily (as you say at the end) so also if you want to re use a mylar bag check it CAREFULLY for damage. 1a. a shockingly common source of damage is pasta or sharp grains. seriously. 2. all too often i see people who dont understand that the heat seal can be on any part of the mylar. a friend online thought that it wouldnt heat seal below the ziplock! so after opening the seal on her bags she *threw them out*! you can totally heat seal them anywhere 3. related to 1.... and a personal oops. we heat sealed a bunch of rice and pasta in mylar and oh so casually tossed it into a plastic tub... not only did we break most of the pasta into pieces, but we put holes and damage in a lot of the mylar

Baking powder will store much longer if kept refrigerated or better yet in the freezer. The same goes with yeast.

I just realized my mylar bags are 'aluminum' ! The very thing we are trying to avoid since studies know it causes Alzheimer's. Seniors who lived from the iron skillets to lighter aluminum pots and pans are filling the memory care units in nursing homes. Is there a correlation with that generation? And adding the primary metal in CTs aerial spraying for years and years is... aluminum. So now I have to go back and see if I dumped any dry goods directly in the bags. I think I let most stay in their original bag and put that inside the mylar. I looked up many brands including Wallaby and it has an aluminum inner lining. It's a decision that I made for me, I'm no longer using mylar unless I can find a company that is not aluminum or other toxic plastic. Thank You so much and God Bless You! ❤🙏🤗💕

Wow! I have always had questions about how, why, when, where and how long can you store food in Mylar bags. Thanks for answering many of my questions!😊

Good idea about keeping in mind the difference between long term storage and rotated foods, whether for pushing out your time needed for resupply from the supply chain, or especially for people that diets may change from normal to SHTF times, or having to store for certain dietary restrictions, etc. For example, while I don't eat any grains/carbs now, in SHTF, the calories in stored rice is a game changer, so I have lots of it stored, but I wouldnt store those flavored side dish style rice dinners pouches cause I wouldnt use them before parts of the ingredients went off. I'll be checking out that wallaby sealer, even tho the flat hair iron works well, when doing a lot of bags at once, I'm thinking the wallaby thing would be easier. I'm a fan of the HDX style heavy duty totes vs 5 gal buckets, cheaper/lb stored, holds more and no shelving needed if in a seismically safe area. While some dedicated rodents may eventually breach even an HDX, have some 4 legged rodent "terminators" to give you a hand, plus they're fun to have around, anyway^^ many blessings

That grab and go bucket is an excellent idea. That'll be my next short term goal.

You guys are the best pepper channel for explaining food storage - Bar None!!! Thank you.

I store home-dehydrated veggies and fruit in heat-sealed Mylar to which one or two oxygen absorbers have been added. I also store dried herbs and spices, different varieties of tea bags and Dutch process cocoa powder this way. This is how I add variety to my long-term food storage without spending so much.

For salt it depends. I don’t like the cheap cardboard barrels. I at least put in a jar. I don’t like to keep anything in cardboard

I really appreciate these explanations. I usually watch them after the family is asleep and I have great strategies to implement the next day!

What a GREAT video packed with valuable information. Ok, all your videos are full of valuable info. QUESTION: How would you preserve dried fruit such as mangoes, apricots, cranberries, raisins? When I purchase dried fruit, I always dehydrate it more to remove more moisture than I seal them in mylar bags with oxygen absorbers. How would you recommend I rectify this? On another subject, a year ago I purchased some freeze dried blueberries and in less than a year they were soft. I knew I would use them within a year so I didn't remove them from their hard plastic container. I was shocked to open them and find that they had softened. I dehydrated them and once again they were crunchy. I live in Massachusetts and we have high humidity but I was shocked at how much of that humidity permeated the hard plastic.

We use a mylar bag sealer like the Wallaby sealer and it works great. It will even seal the 5 gallon mylar bags by sealing each side of the bag and overlap in the middle.

My mylar bag failure: I found a good clearance deal on 5lb bags of self-rising cornmeal, something like $0.27 each, so I decided to stock up on enough for a 5 gallon bucket. Months went by and one day I was out in the garage and noticed the lid was off of a bucket and the mylar bag within had ballooned up. It turned out something had reacted somehow with the self-rising ingredients causing gases to build up in the bag. The force of it inside became so strong that it had blown the lid off that had been hammered into place. At least it was an inexpensive lesson learned.

Because I am storing in a pantry and not in a to-go kit, I like to store those envelopes of dry milk in a wide mouth half gallon jar, Yes, you have to sorta "roll them" to fit past the mouth of the jar, but it doesn't damage them and works just fine! I'm thinking a lot of rice and pasta mixes would work in the same way. There is also room in the jar to cut out the part of the box with the mixing/cooking directions and slip them in too, facing out against the side of the jar so they can be read even with the jar closed

Thanks for your solution-oriented stance. I always leave your videos smarter than before I watch them.

Thank you! You answered questions about the corn meal and those specific Powdered milks that I've had for so long and couldn't really find an answer to.

Another absolutely fantastic video. If there is another channel out there,I haven't come across. Have been recommending The Provident Prepper to anybody I meet interested in preparedness. Thanks Again for all you do

I like the fact you showed "Knorr' pasta because it does have a 1 year expiration which is great but do think packaging some of them in mylar would extend there life since they are dehydrated already. Given them a better water barrier from the paper there in does make a difference. beside the contents of that food only takes up 1/3 of the bag its in so by putting it in a very small mylar bag that will take up most of the space in the bag is a great way to get a better vacuum out of it.

I have an impulse sealer and I don't like it at all. I switched to a flat iron after several of my impulse sealed bags popped open. I buy my mylar bags on amazon and have never had an issue with them. And for us, I can't imagine keeping food for 30 years. Long term storage for us is 5 to 10 years ish at most. Just know that food storage is a learning curve.

Always enjoy learning from your experience, thank you Jonathan and Kylene. Happy trails!

Thank you!! Glad to hear you will do a video on grab-n-go bucket with items Kylene can eat (that would be me too) assuming it will contain chocolate of some kind.

Great video guys! I have stored white flour for about 10 years in mylar bags. We rotate and for the most part would never have flour sitting that long. But we moved and one of our tubs was misplaced. We have been making a lot of bread lol. The flavor is a bit off but only a tiny bit. So I guess if things get real bad it will still make a decent loaf of bred 😮

It's not necessarily the manufacturer of mylar bags as it is the thickness of the bag. 8 mils is probably the thinnest mylar bags you'd want to use.

Love the grab and go bucket idea.

I haven't used mylar because of cost. I am using buckets and bay leaves which I understand is not ideal. I am on very limited income and hold off buying dry goods until they are rotated down. I have reasonable canned goods including freeze dried veg, onion, peppers, noodles, and some basics from home storage center except for carrots. They are on list for next trip in March or so. I want to use regular veg based on best buy dates first. I am studying for bread making and gardeni,gardening, I have plenty of hygiene items. Even some medical items but RX is based on need and very expensive. I have you ebook and thank you for that gift from a previous promotion but I intend to get the paperback for its practical advice in case power goes out during hurricane or other brouhaha. 🤗🤭

I keep 4 gamma lid buckets for my second layer. Rice, oats, sugar and flour. Those are what I fill my kitchen canisters with.

You guys are to my go to Storage Specialist! Thank you for what you bring to the table!

I store salt and sugar in food grade plastic bags placed inside of sealed 5 gallon buckets. Cushing salt and sugar isn't an issue if it should get hard. Beans, rice and wheat get mylar and oxygen absorbers, protected by 5 gallon buckets.

Can someone tell us please when it’s appropriate to use the desiccated packets? I’ve heard to use those on the bottom of bag & an oxygen absorber on the top! Soooo confusing!!!! Thank you!!!

Kylene: Why not store the components to make your own baking powder. It is very simple 2 parts cream of tartar to 1 part baking soda if you want to make just enough for a single usage. If you want to make some to store you should also add 1 part corn starch it prevents the baking soda from reacting with the cream of tartar and prevents clumping. Next store it in a sealed container like a mason jar. This will make a single acting baking powder, so it is important to get your batter into the oven asap. I learned this from Rose Red Homestead videos she is a retired professor who taught science the better part of her life. Just another thing to add to our emergency preparedness booklets. Your comment about storing soybeans, they will not store indefinitely because of the natural oils in them. All said, this is still a very informative video. Keep up the good work.

I have several questions and comments regarding prepping for a disaster. The comments are meant to stimulate thought, and aren't intended to be offensive or to discourage anyone from making whatever preparations they feel are necessary for surviving a potential disaster: . With regards to mylar bags, one of the positive things about them is that they block light, so the food inside them potentially lasts longer. I have a vacuum sealing device. Would it be a less expensive option to store my food items in the vacuum bags, keeping the sealed bags in a light blocking container, perhaps something like a .50 caliber ammo can or a black plastic bin? . What is your take on storing seeds as a prepper solution? Having prepackaged food is nice as a short-term solution, but once you use the item, it's gone. Seeds take time to plant and grow, but using good management of the fruits and vegetables, some seeds can provide many generations of food. . While long-term food storage can seem like a good plan, what is the realistic survivability of a disaster that might potentially last for 25-30 years? One might assume it would be a global-level disaster, and it would seem that those best able to survive would likely be young, very healthy to start with, and extremely resourceful, with a number of manual labor skills (see my point below about survival skills); and long-term disasters can also be exacerbated by societal breakdowns. Sadly, disasters don't always bring out the best in people. . Another consideration is how much food would you realistically need to store away safely for a 25-30 year disaster? If you're going to be moving about during the disaster (a distinct possibility in some disasters), how are you going to transport all your food? I saw an article in an old 1962 Science & Mechanics Camping Handbook that talked about a guy lightweight packing for a trip that would last several weeks. His backpack weighed 60 pounds, fully loaded. Imagining 10 pounds of food for 1 person for 2 weeks, that works out to over a half a ton (1040 pounds) for a family of 4 for a year. . Prepping for a potential disaster should include multiple facets, including taking the time (well before the disaster) to learn some basic survival skills: how to start a fire without your usual fuel sources, how to build a natural shelter (such as a debris hut), how to forage for natural food sources, how to develop a plan and practice it (like you did in a previous video), how to protect what you have (remember, not everyone out there is going to ask politely for you to share your resources), and probably most importantly, how to stay sane and not panic. It's also good (as you've pointed out in many videos) that you mentally prepare yourself for the idea that surviving a disaster won't mean living in the "lap of luxury" while the world around you crumbles to dust. . I love your videos as they present common sense prepping ideas. Keep up the good work. . George (gen81465)

We just bought a 16” impulse sealer & 50 1 gallon bags. Wish I’d bought some smaller bags now but- I’m sure we’ll get there!

How would you go about long term packaging spices? Mylar or vacuum sealed glass containers? I’m brand new to building my food storage so I’m not sure. Thanks!!

You're my favorite prepping channel. Thank you so much for the valuable and practical information that you share.

I love her voice, so calm and relaxing.

I read recently that high fat foods like nuts should not be stored in mylar because the bacteria they grow is anaerobic meaning it actually grows better in low oxygen environments. Are there any other foods you know of that absolutely should not be stored in mylar because of food safety concerns?

I forgot to mention, an expert I was watching on a different channel said that food inside mylar would be safe from radioactive particles during a fallout, even suggesting using sheeting barriers around gardens to prevent exposure as well as reflect light.

Another important video! Thank you Thumbs up people ♥

I make my own baking powder by mixing baking soda, cream of tartar and cornstarch together. How long will cream of tartar and cornstarch last and would you store them in mylar. I buy my cream of tartar and baking soda in bulk.

Thanks for all the great information you share!

Great video!!! Helps me think more clearly about storing foods!

I wish you lived in our ward. Our preparedness program/leader, doesn't do much. And I'm limited as to what I can do as the RS prep advisor. Your videos are pretty much all Im ok'd to add to the fb page and an occasional tip. No activities. I miss the good ol days when i could have hands on activities. Frustrating, but grateful I can atleast do that.

My issue is I live in a TINY apartment. Trying to store enough water , food & supplies is tricky.

I don't see you say much about the use of mason jars .. I have seen flour, sugar, rice (et al) put in paper bags, then inside a mason jar and sealed with a food saver lid attachment .. and it seems a great idea for beans .. your comments would be appreciated .. love your videos, I watch them all 👍

Thanks for the information 👍

Pomona pectin stores indefinitely, I believe. That's been my choice to store.

thanks guys some great answers to questions I have, this video covered so much.

Thanks for the info about Mylar. (my personal experience)... Plastic tubs kept in the garage, etc., can be chewed through by mice. And if you have mice, you will get snakes. Those plastic buckets need to be inside a metal foot/wall locker without even the tiniest opening. But I do have a question about the usefulness of 25-year storage. Why? Unless you have a warehouse which can hold 25 years of food - and can defend that warehouse... what's the point? ROTATE YOUR STOCK, and pretty much anything you buy at the store can last a year. I doubt many of us have the room to store more than a year of food.

I didn't know that about baking powder thanks.

We've been buying flour and such in bulk and splitting it into 5lb mylar bags. We make just about everything from scratch so our flour gets rotated out in less than a year. Still, it seems worth the effort to store it that way but I'm open to suggestions. 😃

What about vac seal ing products . Stays fresh and saves space

Good one, Mr and Mrs PP. Thank you as always.

Is there a guide as to what can be stored long term is mylar, but vacuumed and head sealed? Is there a similar guide for which items need an oxygen absorber.? And you said fats go rancid in storage, but what about peanut butter? My understanding is peanut butter can last over a decade in an unopened container. Not sure if the powdered version would last longer. Sorry for all the questions,.

I have an experience of rice and oats i put only in the bucket and last for 13 years and its still good and don't even have an oxygen in it

Can I please ask? What happens if the mylar bag "needs" for example a 100cc absorber and we use a 500cc just to be sure? Can we damage the bag or the food inside? Thank you!

The short answer, yes. Loose items like nuts or dried fruit are perfect for a mylar pouch. The key is making sure you have an oxygen absorber in the bag. Then it will seal just like a Mason jar.

If you want to use beans or wheat with the option of using them as seed to grow, would using Mylar with oxygen absorber hinder the ability of seed to grow?

Can you use the foodgrade pet containers fir dry goods????

I have stored some foods in glass (xtra large canning jars) with oxygen absorbers. No problem with vermin chewing through and the jars are in amounts that I would use in a couple weeks to a month. I did buy a double package of jerky at Costco, and one of the packs was growing white fuzzy mold(?) long before it’s expiration date. Yuck.

Great information. Much appreciated 🙏💕

Great information. I watch all your videos. But I feel sorry for Johnathan, he never gets to talk:-)

You mentioned a grab and go. My question is: can I make about a weeks amount of combined freeze dried and something like nuts and crackers vacuum packed stored in reusable insulated grocery bags with a zipper top. Storage maybe 6 months up to a year. Im just not into long term storage.

I am also protecting from pantry moths that came in with grits. I don't need to worry about 25 yrs as my age.

I'm not a bug out bucket, kind of person. My question has always been, where am I going to bug out TO? 😆But, kidding aside, I do live in hurricane land. We just had this conversation, yesterday. What to put in the storm bucket, this year. The whole idea is to make a bucket for this years season, but at the end of the season, that stuff needs to start being used, even if it has a 25 year shelf life. I end up throwing away more food, "trying to save it for a rainy day." The home grocery store is supposed to keep us from always having to bug out to the store..again, and again, and again. Our goal, starting this year is 1: the weather bucket. 2: freeze dried leftovers. 3: Ingredients. My aunt was a prepper that was raised by depression era parents. You waste nothing, and you save everything, no matter what it is. When we had to move her out of her home, we found food everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE. Some of it was from..Y-2K..Jelly- It's ALL black, peach, grape, guava.. She said, don't you throw any of it away! It's for a rainy day. The point is we have to be careful and be responsible with those rainy day items, because it tends to make us forget about the droughts.

I have a question can someone please give me an idea? I don’t have space to storage food, so where and how should I storage food?

I just bought some wallaby bags to store minute rice in.

Very informative! Can those items that don't need to be repackaged just be thrown into 5 gallon bucket with gamma seal lid without oxygen absorbers or anything else done?

Once something goes rancid doesn't mean it's "bad" or dangerous. It simply means that it tastes dreadful; not deadly. You can still survive when oils go rancid.

Baking powder: It dies. Cream of tartar and baking soda do not. Mix a 2 to 1 ratio to make baking powder as needed and avoid product loss. An additional 1 part of corn starch is optional.

Excellent as always, thank you!

This was great, thank you!

How long can you store corn flour, I use Mason jars mostly to store food so I can see it and vacuum the air out of it

Good video , thanks for sharing , God bless !

Great advice. :-)

I bought some grits not for lo g term but I had them just in a bucket and little bugs hatched out I never had that problem

VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION!

Love your channel

Actually I've never stored anything in mylar (hangs head in disgrace and hands over her prepper card). I move apartments way too frequently to have really long term storage. At most I have things that last 3 to 5 years, for that kind of time frame, mylar seems like overkill.

For long term storage is storing dry goods in #10 cans with O2 absorbers better than storing dry goods with O2 absorbers in Mylar bags placed into 5 gallon buckets?

I bought 3 5 pd bags of all Purpose flour on sale and vacuum sealed them with a O A like you did,would you sill put it in a Mylar bag? Is oat meal ok for Mylar bags?

Thank you 💖 love from 🇬🇧

I love your channel. Thank you so much for all the info. Will you tell me if you think I have this correct: Food bucket only: Salt, powdered sugar, brown sugar, white granualted sugar (all of these MUST be in a food bucket? ) If I want super long shelf life, put in bucket PLUS mylar: lentils, grits, rice, cream of wheat, popcorn, baking soda, spelt whole grain kernels. Thoughts on dry dog food- mylar plus bucket or too much fat? Honey okay in plastic bottles from store or transfer to what? Crisco from the store? liquid vegetable oils? Best way to store fat (crisco and melt if needed or liquid vege oil)? Big canisters of powdered lemonade and gatorade? Thank you so much.

How do you personally store spaghetti noodles for long term? Step by step.

Ive been storing items in my vacuum seal bags, and then placing them in buckets. Am I wasting time and money? I have not had the money or ability to invest in the amount of mylar bags I would need for our family. We are a family of 4 adults and 13 kids.

I am curious about something. When I look at grocery store packaging, plastic, boxes, etc., it occurs to me that most of those items have been handled by many people and are not necessarily clean. So why would you want to put potentially germ laden outside packaging in a mylar bag instead of just repackaging them in the mylar bag or shrink wrapping them in a shrink wrap bag?

Can I put rice in a 5 gal bucket with just an oxygen absorbent to last 2 years if stored in my house?

What about flour, different dry beans, rice

WinCo mylar bags are not as good as the ones you get from amazon. I teach people how to seal and store (I sadly don't store much because of cost). I have found that about 10% of the Winco bags fail. I have had great success in classes with the amazon bags. I will try to check out the Wallaby bags for the next class.

So no vacuum sealing is necessary? Just put the item in Mylar bag with an oxygen absorber then heat seal the bag is all that is needed?

Can beans & grain be kept in the original plastic bag inside the Mylar bag

I was wondering about the herseys cocoa

You mention heat seal on top of the mylar but couldn't you just use heavy duty duct tape. It's thick enough to where oxygen wouldn't pass it? One tiny strip across the top would only be a few pennies worth of extra strong tape. If power is out and you still need to package stuff during SHTF I would just use tape over the top to seal it.

Thanks for this informative video. Note to self: remove oxygen absorber from sugar. What about self-rising all-purpose flour, absorber or not?

I put some 1 yr expired MRE (I ate two and they were fine) in a food bucket, and through in 2000cc in the bucket with the MREs. My Bucket imploded. It sucked so much "air?" oxygen that it looked like a deflated balloon. Then I opened it and tried to fix the bucket, I through the same OA in and it did it again. 3rd time, it didn't implode. My question is, if the OA is only suppose to absorb the oxygen, then why did it suck in all the air and cause my bucket to crush like that?

Can you put bottle waters in a cooler outside in a garage? Or a back porch where sun does not touch it..