A Great Tip for Buckets!
A lot of readers are interested in storing some of their food storage in buckets. Plastic buckets can be used to store food items that are dry (10 % moisture or less) and low in oil content. For information on how to store these items in a bucket, please click here.
You must get a food grade bucket, and a lid that has a gasket (the plastic round lining). You may also choose to use a gamma lid (more on that next week) for convenience.
Here is a great tip from a Caroline in Florida:
“ I’ve been collecting food grade 5 gallon buckets from my local grocery store for the past couple of months. They use them for frosting in the bakeries and then they just trow them away. Fortunately they have been kind enough to give them to me instead!!! :) All of these grains were put in to 17- 5 gallon buckets. If you buy the buckets brand new they are appx $5, with a lid, if I remember correctly. I sealed them with Dry Ice according to the instructions on provident living and now they should be good for 20 years!
These buckets also fit large bags of flour, sugar and rice purchased from stores like Costco and Sam’s Club. I keep buckets filled with those items in my st
orage room and then fill my kitchen containers from them. All together collecting buckets from the stores has saved me over $100 (I have gotten 21 buckets total) and I am sooooo grateful for that savings that I can put towards food for my family.”
You may also want to try your local ice cream shop. I was able to get buckets for 50 cents! I could not use the lids because they do not have a gasket in them, but I am going to buy some gamma lids and that will solve the problem.
Do you have a tip you would like to share? Please let me know!
These buckets are also good for the cannery pouches. They are not rodent proof so putting some in buckets and sealing them would be a good idea.
Where can you buy these large food grade buckets?