Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

We keep a big plastic container in the cupboard full of sugar for our cooking needs. It was running low..just an inch or two left in it…so I figured I’d refill it from our stock of stored sugar. The sugar that I used was from 2005…so its five years old. I took the paper packaging it was in and dropped the entire thing into a vacuum sealer bag, sealed it up, dated it, and stuck it away on the shelf. Opened it up today and it was perfect, loose, and not caked into a rock-like mass from moisture nor contaminated by insect or environment.

Food storage FTW!