Posted: 7/16/2007 7:12:06 PM EDT
| I've picked up a couple of vacuum packed 2lb bags of rice at Aldi. They come packed in a pretty heavy plastic heat sealed zip lock bag with and oxygen pak. Looks good for long term storage you can pick up a couple every shopping trip rather than spend a wad cash in one shot on buckets and bags. They have both brown and white long grain rice. They sell for a buck and change. I forget the exact price. The nice part is the 2 lb size you don't have to crack open a 5 gal bucket of rice at time. |
Be sure to store the rice in a vermin-proof contain container because ant, rats, mice, etc can easily gnaw through anything plastic. I store my SHTF rice & pasta in air-tight old lard sheet metal cans. |
| Yeah my plan for rice storage is going to be to vacuum seal the rice in portion sizes that match what we would normally eat with a meal now. Then store them in 5 gal buckets. That way when we want to rotate through our stock we can just open a portion that we can use and no more. Also in SHTF we only have to open the ammount we will consume at one sitting. |