"jmcquown" > wrote:
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> I don't understand the reason for freezing uncooked rice, beans, etc.
> Unless you have a problem with bugs, what is the point?

I keep my 2lb bags of popping corn and coarse ground corn meal in my
freezer because frozen corn pops better in my air popper and I bought
my coarse cornmeal at a Hispanic market (nuff said). All other dry
vittles are stored in air tight jars in the pantry. Some seven years
ago when I first moved here someone in MN sent me a 10 lb sack of very
nice wild rice. The label said to store in a air tight container at
room temperature for up to 10 years. To date I've only used about two
pounds. The remainder looks perfectly fine and I doubt I will be
tossing any in the trash come ten years.... it's not even in a
jar/tin, its in a doubled zip-loc... I think dry foods store better
with little air space, I also use those oxygen absorbing packets, they
do seem to work.

http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/sea...oxygen+packets