if I had seen them, I would have bought at least one. Transfer the flour (beans or rice) to smaller sacks and freeze them. They will be fine ove a year. Who was the manufacturer who offered the sacks?

How about a share club? Divide the flour into apx. 5 lb. 1 gallon plastic freezer storage bag. Divide the pounds in the bag by 5 to get the number of "divides". Divide the price by 5, then subtract some cost from 4 of them, say use the regular price for a 5 lb bag (after all you get to keep the cloth bag.) What store carries them. Would love to buy one and share with my daughter's and friends.

I sure hope I can find some,I buy in large size quanities.

WOW WOW WOW!!!!!! I hope they do that here in Maine also!!!! I make my own bread so I could use the flour no problem.!

I keep all flour, oatmeal, any grain type food in my freezer, always have and it doesn't affect it at all. I started doing this about 30 years ago when I opened a sealed storage can and it was buggy.

A little research: LaPina sells flour in cloth sacks. Their website isn't very detailed but you might want to save the name to a bookmark as more information may be heading our way. Also, Cortez Milling Co. out of Cortez, CO. sells Blue Bird flour in 20, 10 and 5 lb. sacks. Their website is under construction and just has photos up at the moment. Let's just keep the info flowing and some us will be sure to find it!

Donatint to the food bank is very good idea. Would like to know the name of store carrying the cloth sacks. As for the weavels that is why we have a sifter it was to get the weavels out.

Beans can be used for so many things like stuffed toys, etc. I made some bean bags to set on our patio chairs so they don't fall over in the wind. Many of our family quilts are from feed and flour sacks. I also remember cornmeal coming in cloth sacks. If you use a lot of beans, it won't matter if bugs get in (I don't know what they would eat) since you rinse them and soak them before cooking.

If you buy your rice, flour, etc., in bulk, please remember to buy several packages of spearmint gum. Take a couple of pieces of gum, peel the paper off, and stick them in your bin of flour, rice, etc. For some reason this keeps the bugs away.

I doubt that any agency collecting food for the needy would use flour or other staples out of the original container. They would be concerned it was tampered with. If you want to buy and donate, I would suggest taking it in unopened and ask them to give the fabric back to you.