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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2017-12-23 5:17 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:
> wrote:
>> On Saturday, December 23, 2017 at 9:27:11 AM UTC-6, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>>
>>> I only buy small quantities of sugar and
>>> that's for the hummingbird feeder.
>>>
>>>
>> Last week my Kroger had 4 pound bags of sugar on sale for 99Â¢ and I
>> really
>> didn't need it but it was a good bargain.Â* I think it was part of a buy 4
>> or 5 items in a list and each item is only 99Â¢.Â* Anyway, I sealed that
>> unopened bag in very large Food Saver bag so whenever I'm ready for it,
>> it won't be hard as a rock.
>>
>> Another use for the Food Saver!
>>
> Joan, don't you have to add the cost of the food saver bags to the 99
> cents to evaluate how good the sugar savings are? Penfart actually has a
> point here about the cost of the bags (and equipment), of course he
> consumes food in such massive quantities that he probably doesn't have
> to bother storing much
>
> I sort of wanted a food saver, but the cost of the bags is pretty high,
> at least when I last looked (admittedly, some years ago). The other
> negative is finding a place to keep the tool, then having to drag it out
> all the time. A lot of my nifty appliances go unused because of this.
> The last time I used the george foreman grill, God was still wearing
> short pants I guess I'm just lazy as hell.
>
> On the sugar ... I use very little sugar. A 4 lb bag lasts at least a
> year, or two. For many years, I have a glass canister (with rubber seal)
> which I fill about once per year, and keep the rest of the bag in a
> cheap 1 gallon twist tie bag, and it never develops more that a few
> lumps (easily crushed). I'm not in the desert either, in fact very humid
> here, but not as bad as further south.
>
> Brown sugar is also stored the same way, but it does not keep as well as
> regular white cane sugar.
>
> I hope you guys get good sealers. When I was looking years ago, I read
> that some were much more effective than others.
>
>