30 Year Supply Of Survival Food Ruined!

i grew up eating weevily flour . we just sifted them out and ate it. my parents grew up during the great depression, so they didnt let a few weevils waste a bag of flour or rice or anything edible

McDonalds fries are a forever food that can be stored just about anywhere. Underneath furniture, between couch cushions, in the gaps between the car door and the car seat. I have a bunch of McDonalds fries sitting in the bottom of my desk drawer. Some of them have been sitting in there for over 20 years, and they are the exact same color they were the day after I ordered them.

Ok,ok. thank you for answering a question I've pondered for decades. "If bread has no nutritional value, how is it people of the past seemed to live off of bread and cheese?" Because their bread did have nutrition. 👍

Several decades ago I'd read that the amount of time needed for the bugs to die in the deep freezer was 20 to 40 days. Probably because IF the center of the large bulk bags doesn't get cold enough for long enough the eggs can survive. You were lucky it was only one bucket. I'd also read that the cold from the CO2 could weaken the bucket, as well as damage some of the grain (think freezer burned meat), so the magazine recommended putting the pieces of dry ice on a coffee filter or paper plate at the top of the bucket. Since CO2 is heavier than air it will sink down into the bucket.

Put some bay leaves in the containers in which you store grains and spices. Sometimes the products are contaminated with weavel eggs in the store. Bay leaves work like a charm, even if the product is contaminated the eggs and bugs will die. If no contamination is present, they won't even come near your products.

I spent 23 Years in the Navy. After 4 months at sea it would become a common issue to find Weevils in prepackaged single serve breakfast cereal. You just learn to pour on the milk and wait for the weevils to float to the top, scoop them out and eat your breakfast. Mind you, 4+ months into a deployment you didn’t have fresh milk, you were drinking Magnolia boxed milk with a 99 year shelf life, so regardless of the cereal or the milk, it tasted like crap anyway.

Whoever does your editing gets mad props on the intro here - the reflection of "other you" in the refrigerator at the beginning absolutely sells the idea of there being more than one of you. Also, great content! Love your channel!

I lived in Sri Lanka as a kid and having cooked weevils in your bread and any bakery goods was just normal so I’m living proof that they won’t kill you! 😂

Had weevils in my oats as a middle schooler... my biology teacher totally researched it for me and even asked for a sample...he said it's ok to eat and it just adds a slight protein as long as its fully cooked...he then proceeded to ask my parents why they were making me eat it, he learned that day what it's like to choose when you're poor.So we all learned, but....cook the weevils and you're fine.

Kim , you DO need to turn-on your Grinder BEFORE adding seed etc . The seed drops down into the 'mill' and slightly jams it ;that wee-pause before it goes . Over time, this damages the 'brushes' and the armature, commonly called a 'rotor' , this Will halve the life of the motor . Dave NZ

If you find weevils in a grain product in your pantry or cabinet you need to check everything. They tend to spread.

Goodness! This was the first time I watched your channel. Loved all the silliness. Thanks for the entertaining info.

BTW my dad said in Vietnam rations we're so tight and supply ships couldn't get in....Flour with Bow Wheevels was reground and became cinnamon rolls, extra protein and a pastry delight. 👀 I guess if your starving you aren't so picky.

There's a reason why they want you to turn it on BEFORE you fill it. Your milling machine is working WAY too hard to get started because you fill it before you turn it on. By doing that your going to burn out the motor a lot faster than normal.

This video came just after I discovered that 4 of my 5kg rice bags were lost to pests while stored for over a year (I wonder why they pack rice on perforated bags...). The same day I checked the vacuum sealed ones and they where fine and didn't lost vacuum at all. Your video is packed with everything I should have done before and I will.

While other folks here are saying you can just pick the weevils out, I have to weigh in: it looks like those bugs have had 2 years to eat the inside of every one of those berries and left none for you but the husk. Not the nutritious food you were banking on anymore. And I'm sure when PHTF, there will still be plenty of yummy bugs available in nature if you're deparate enough for forage for them. I vote toss it. We're having a really hard year with pantry moths and I'm arguing with my mother over throwing out $20 worth of flour in the sifting bin. Oh... it's going out if she likes it or not. I can stay up hours later than her and still get up earlier. Thing is, pantry moth larva are big fat wet maggots and not the same at all as weevils. Moth larva get the flour wet and you know you can't eat flour that's got wet and has been sitting out any more than you should let cooked pasta or rice sit at room temperature and still eat it. There's a bacteria that inhabits grains and cooking doesn't kill it or the toxins it excretes. We can handle the small amount that's inherent with safe food storage and handling, but this stuff rapidly explodes in poplulation under moist and warm conditions. Re-heating and cooking doesn't remove the toxins this bacteria excretes. So, even though foods getting 'some' weevils is ok to pick them out, please everyone please, consider the rule is pest specific and food specific; and also evaluate your stored grain or flour did it also get wet from the bugs' wastes? Is just lousy with bugs? Is it still flour or is it now pure bug poop and they've eaten all the nutrient out of it and left behind an empty powder that only looks like flour. A few weevils are ok in stores that have long shelf life if the infestation hasn't been going on very long. Remember, that the reason long-term storage of whole wheat berries works is because they are still viable as seed. Once the seed is damaged and killed, whether we do it by grinding it or a bug does it by chewing through it, that seed is going to go rancid in a few days. You should be just as ok about discarding that as you would tossing a bag of ground wheat berries past the expiry date. That's my .02 plus a few nickles. Now I must go back to my conspiratorial job of throwing out our pantry behind my mother's back tonight.

Weevils are completely edible. I've had them in bulk rice before. You just freeze them or let them use up the oxygen then submerge the grain before use. The weevils, eggs and any heavily eaten grain will float to the top and can be poured off. Weevils were also a problem in hard tac stores on ships. The squimish sailors would just make sure to eat below deck where they couldn't see if they has an infested piece or not.

I don't freeze my bags of wheat berries because bugs and eggs survive long, cold winters up here in Northern Wisconsin so I figure a few days of freezing won't help. I just use oxygen absorbers and food grade buckets and have not had a problem so far, thankfully!

Well Mr. Haxman, the sealed frozen wheat grain buckets was a great idea, and you may be sorry that you listened to those people who don't understand that any kind of plastic bag has pores, small holes and voids. Look at the bags under a microscope to see them, but the pores and very small holes are there. Our company made blood cuffs to heat up blood for infusion into live patience for MW hospitals and we had to go to 10 mil bags just to keep the blood from oozing out through the pores and small holes in the blood cuffs (bags). Some say use mylar bags, but how thick are the bags ???, I would never use a bag thinner than a 10 mil bag. One American Hospital Supply Production EE emplyee.

I just found your channel and WOW I’m super impressed. Well scripted, presented, videography, humor, etc, etc. I’m hooked! I know what I can watch over the long winter. Thank you!