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Evil Weevils

A while back, I bought a bag of flour to refill my flour jar in the kitchen. The jar looked kind of dirty, and I was going to wash it, so I just left the bag of flour on my counter top. I guess it sat there for a few weeks. By the time I got back to it and opened it up, it was full of weevils. Yuck. I threw it away, got a new bag, and put the flour in the flour jar right away. The new flour will stay weevil-free.

But then something bad happened. I found weevils in my cereal. Uh-oh. I threw it all away and got new.

I’ve decided all my food that contains grain will be stored in the refrigerator for a while. If the weevils don’t have anything to eat, maybe they’ll move on to some other place.

My refrigerator looks more full now.

My refrigerator looks more full now.

4 Comments

  1. Lauren

    You look so fancy with your chilled cereal…….

    Having weevils would make me mad after paying $50 for a box of cereal. That’s what it goes for, yes?

  2. ANN Bergman

    I learned the heard way in Hawaii to keep all grain products in Tupperware containers. Things I didn’t use regularly (like flour, pancake mix, breadcrumbs) I kept in Tupperware IN the refrigerator. Actually I am still doing that, since I had all those containers when I moved back to the mainland.

    • Brad

      Thanks for your tips, Ann. I wondered if the solution was containers. I’ll have to start shopping around for them…

      • ANN Bergman

        I have found that the containers sold in places like Target (my favorite store) work every bit as good as the more expensive Tupperware ones. I think that will take care of the problem, although I was told that sometimes the eggs are already IN the product and so you MIGHT still occasionally have a problem unless it is stored in the refrigerator. I think that is another reason why I started keeping flour, pancake mix, and rice in the fridge. But I don’t like to think about eggs already being in there…

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