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Weeping Willow
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Posted: July 19 2006 at 1:35pm |
Need a little help from those oohhh so wise. I bought 2 hopefully wonderful 8 gallon containers but from what I have read here food safe containers will have HDPE on the container these do not, in the triangle is the # 30 but no HDPE under it. We were told that vitamins were shipped in them. They are great because they still have a lockable metal round seal to help keep stuff air tight.
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Information Update: If your buckets have the triangle with the 2 in it and the buckets are white or natural, they should be food grade. The buckets used by Walton Feed are new, food grade buckets. 12 Mar 2002 |
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Iron Mommy
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CHEAP/FREE FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS
I am too cheap to buy these containers, so have been improvising.
Basically anything you buy food in, is food-safe--a good thing to know! Makes it easy to know what to reuse. I've been saving and reusing
peanut butter jars
spaghetti sauce jars
pickle jars
juice bottles
powdered drink mix containers
etc.
Think about things your family eats a lot of now--not necessarily things yu will stockpile. We eat a LOT of olives and buy them in gallon-size glass jars, which are great for reusing. If there's some food that your family eats in mass quantities, consider buying it in giant containers, eating it up, and then using the jars for bulk storage. I use the gallon jars for flour, dried beans, etc. Smaller ones for spices, dried veggies, etc.
You can also sometimes get food-safe buckets/jars from delis, restaurants, bakeries, etc. just by asking, because they usually just throw them out
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Good luck!
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