"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> Quinch wrote:
>>
>> I tend to buy flour in bulk in large paper sacks that would ideally last
>> me about a year or so, if not more. The problem is that, inevitably and
>> usually in the summer, moths manage to crawl inside at which point the
>> whole batch is pretty much unrecoverable. Trying to seal the sack has,
>> at best, only delayed the inevitable, so I'm wondering, does anyone have
>> any advice on how to deal with this?
>
> Couldn't be an easier solution... don't buy flour in bulk... if you
> have to throw a bunch out then what did you save? Next time don't buy
> more than you can use within about six months. Also perhaps you need
> to change stores where you buy, they can not be storaging properly,
> nowadays even more stores turn off their AC after hours... it's very
> likely you're not storaging flour properly either. If you live in a
> warm/humid climate and don't use A/C refrigerate/freeze your flour.

Yes! The K Mart that I used to work at didn't sell flour at the time. We
did have some groceries but only a couple of aisles. I believe that they do
sell it now. At least they do sell more groceries than they did in the
past. I was very careful what food I did buy there because we did have a
severe moth problem. But it came in with the pet food. Mostly a certain
kind of bird seed. But because of where that was placed in the stockroom,
the moths easily migrated to the food. And for some odd reason to the toy
aisle. I don't know what it was about some of the plastic toys but they got
in there.

I also saw some moths on the baking aisle in a Fred Meyer store. After that
I would not buy flour or baking stuff there. I know from personal
experience just how hard it is to get rid of the damned things once you do
get an infestation. Particularly in a retail setting. They lay eggs in all
the nooks and crannies of the shelves and the backing and such.