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I just bought over 250 pounds of wheat at a local grain farm. It's in garbage bags within boxes. I need to get some white storage buckets. Can anyone direct me to the best place to purchase these online?
I do live 3 hours from Denver, so I could possibly get some there also.
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Is there any chance you have a Macey's there? I think it is only a Utah store, but I'm not sure. They have buckets on sale right now.
edit: OK. I'm not finding one in CO. I did find Associated Food Stores. They may have a store that carries them.
One of the places I have got them here in Salt Lake is Industrial Container Supply. You could see if there is a place like that around you - just make sure they are food safe.
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If you can't find any good clean ones for free locally (from restaurants or school cafeterias) you might like this company's pricing.
Also, here's a good article on food storage buckets in general.. (eta: and if you can't find any locally as per yungmom's suggestion, this site also has an almost identical deal to that other site on the buckets but I think the shipping is less!)
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I forgot to mention that the only store we have in our town is Wal-mart, so local purchase isn't an option unless we're making a day-trip to Denver which doesn't happen all that often.
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Our ward preparedness rep says you can get them for free at the supermarket bakery department. They get their flour and sugar delivered in them, and they throw the buckets away when they're empty!
I've never tried it, but I'm told you can just stop by the bakery department and ask for them.
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Make sure the lids have the plastic gasket in them or they will not work for long term storage.
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I got my 5gal buckets at Home Depot (sometimes they go on sale) for about the price that was mentioned in an earlier post. They are food grade too. Look for the "2" HDPE in the triangle on the bottom of the bucket. When I can at home I use the mylar bags purchased from the church. I then put them in the buckets. Check the internet via google search (or whatever is your search engine preference), for storage containers. Good luck, and get that wheat under storage quickly.
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Our stake just had a big wheat drive--the first one in a decade. The wheat came unpacked and the men went and packed it in what looks like mylar bags with a substance should create a vacuum although some bags don't look very shrinky to me. Anyway, if this is the mylar bag you all are writing about, does the wheat need to be in a second container as well? Why?
We are putting it in a storage spot which gets no light and is traffic (well, the mice walk through.)
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You can actually go to the Walmart bakery and get the ones they have for free. Here you have to get to Walmart early in the day, as many people know about it. Then, you can get 4, 5 or 6 gallon buckets depending on what they used that day. Winco also carries brand new buckets, they are about $4.00 for bucket and lid, and are 4 gallons.
I think they have Winco in Denver, and maybe in a closer town.
Good Luck!!
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Well, I was planning on asking the school cafeterias, but in the meantime I checked with a friend of mine. She said her neighbor has a barn full of new, but dusty buckets with lids for just $2 each. So I'm all set! Thanks for your help.
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Mice like to eat wheat out of mylar bags. Not so much out of buckets.
If I were to receive 250 pounds of wheat, and I lived in a part of the world were it gets cold, like Denver, I would use a 55 gallon drum.
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So I need to pack the mylar bags in plastic bins. Oh will my hubby be dismayed. Where we have our long awaited wheat is not big enough for bins. dang.
I wish preparedness was a little better thought out in this country....we just do NOT have the same storage capacity as most USA homes.
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