Food Storage in Buckets

So I recently acquired some buckets, and will bring them tomorrow night to see if you guys would be interested as well. They are 5 gallon food grade buckets with lids that have rubber seals, used, and are only $2. You can also get them from a bakery, but that's harder to do sometimes.

So I've been reading up on how to store food in buckets. You can store a lot of dry foods, like flour, wheat, rice, beans, sugar, salt... in buckets. You can use dry ice, foil packets, or nothing...using dry ice or foil packets will make your food last longer though. I understand dry ice can be purchased at Fry's at the counters, but not at Wal-Mart.

I'm going to do mine this week, so later this week I'll actually have experience. One thing I do know...if you get used buckets, you need to make sure they are very clean, otherwise your food can spoil.

R U Getting Prepared Blog
This blog is operated by a Queen Creek resident; she's not a member but she knows so much about food storage. Her husband was my old boss! :) Anyway...here is her take on storing in buckets. Dry ice method...she does say though that you can store sugar, brown sugar, powdered sugar, and salt WITHOUT dry ice.

Provident Living
This page gives instructions how to do it using dry ice and how to store it.

EHOW.com
You can find instructions for everything specifically on EHOW.com, using dry ice or foil bags.

Let me know if you have any questions on this.