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....

You store those types of things in buckets. You can find food grade buckets at restaurants, delis, bakeries, etc. Or you can buy the mylar bags & line the buckets with them. We've used the Homer buckets you get at Home Depot before. If you put your sack of flour or whatever down in your freezer for a day or two, it will kill whatever bugs or eggs happen to be there.

Wow, I would LOVE to find those bags too!

What store did you see them in?

think bean bags for kids games. That would take up some beans. Also daycares use them for many things.

Hmmm...I wonder if I could donate some rice and beans to a food pantry? I get some and the sack and they get some... ;-)

My 1st MIL stored flour and sugar in barrels!!! This is the first time I've believed she had a good idea!! LOL Wow -- I hope to find some!

That's great but not practical in Florida. In the summer we are plagued with those teeny black bugs that get into anything like flour, cereal and crackers. Everything must be in a seal proof container. That's why Tupperware did so well here.

what do they look like, the sacks? WE cleaned out the OLD family home last weekend and I found two, what looked like pillow casesbut were sewen on the wrong side. Looked like sheets with the finished edge and border and then scattered flowers thoughout the rest of the material. We also found 4 dresses from the 30-40's in great condition. I washed them and one ended up with a couple of holes in them. One still had the tag on it it. The waist was soooooo tiny. I also found a quilt top that was in the great, great grandmothers trunk, only one piece had holes and wll need tobe replaced. All hand sewen and very scrappy. I will have to take a picture and post it one day.

Ladies,
I wish i could be so fortunate as to have found those sacks. THere are so many agencies that can use that flour. Find one and put that flour in a plastic container and keep the material.
My first sewing lesson was a shift made from a sack. Thanks for bring back such an awesome memory.
I love all you ladies.
Dianne R

That's what I thought...local missions and homeless shelters would probably be happy to have any of the staples that come in sacks. Tink's Mom is spot on...keep some for yourself, enjoy the fabric and donate the rest. Everybody wins!

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.

I found them at Winco, which is a chain here in the west, mostly Idaho. I do make my own bread, cookies cake, etc, but with only 2 of us, it would take a while to use that much flour. I will grab some after thanksgiving if they're available. When you buy buckets or anything plastic to store food, make sure it is food grade. Much plastic is not, and can leach chemicals into food. Where can you find mylar bags?

I concur. This is a time when agencies can't afford to take chances.

I have read Bay Leaves in the cabinet deter them and also boric acid for crawlies

I have always stored my flour, beans are any of the dried products in my freezer. I have never had a problem with it affecting the ingredients.

I always store my flour in the freezer. If you want one of these and have the room, just store the excess in your freezer. It doesn't hurt anything.

I remember my Mama telling of wearing flour sack dresses. I would love to have some of these. You can put flour in the freezer too. Some canning jars are for canning and freezing.

You can store in plastic bags in freezer or you could divide and share w/ friends or church food pantrys. Senior citizen centers have elderly that need assistance w/ food as they are on SS/SSI. Happy Thanksgiving!

I was at work shopping today and found the Blue bird flour in sacks,I was surprised,we must have just gotten them in,they are just plain white bags with the blue bird logo,very cool though

If I were you I would hang a note in the store if they allow it,to any one who buys it to let the cashier know if you can get it from them,just a thought.

yep, and drop an oxygen absorber or two in there and even if something were there to hatch, it won't. (and live anyway)