I was at my local grocer's today, picking up Thanksgiving and saw: FLOUR IN REAL FLOUR SACKS! Sweet florals just like the ones my mom bought in the fifties! About $3 more than the paper sacks. If I had a place to store 25 lbs, I might have bought a bag. Maybe after Christmas I'll indulge, just for the memory.

I have found rice and beans in these sacks too... I could NEVER eat that many beans or rice in a year LOL

Wow...wondering if they're be doing this or is this just for the holidays?

cool, will need to look for them, would be fun to get them and share with others

If I see them I will get them. I have tins from popcorn gifts. They will work to hold dry goods.

Thanks for the heads-up. The only big food store around here is GIANT.

which stores did you see them in? Wish I could find something like that down here in south MS.

I think alot of people are stocking up because they keep telling us we are going to have a real shortage of food next year due to crop failings worldwide. Suddenly all of our stores are stocking 25-50# bags of flour, rice, beans, etc. I have not seen any in cotton bags yet.

You could bake a bunch of Christmas cookies - or better yet, get a recipe for cookies or cake - put ingredients in a basket as a Christmas Present?

Start making your own bread. It's easy and cost about .25 or less a loaf. There is a great no knead bread recipe from a bread chef called No Knead Bread (ha) Google it, it's some pretty darn good bread to be no work. I use my bread machine every day. I go through flour fast so I hope I see these sacks.

I make my own bread and I have a 25 lb bag now but it's not the fabric one. I wish I knew...anyway, even if we stock up rice, beans, flour because of coming shortages....weebles will get in the stuff....it happen to my rice all the time. I think the egge come with the rice and just hatch later....