Absolutely The Best Way To Store Beans Long Term
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- This is the absolutely best method to store beans safely for your family long term. Is it packing in a 5 gallon bucket? Or in a Mylar bag with oxygen absorbers? Or vacuum packing? Or is it just better to buy canned beans? Watch and find out the best method for your family's needs.
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Thank you, Kay!😊
You are all so encouraging!. I started canning moose and salmon in Alaska over 50 years ago. Now I can everything I can get my hands on. I source jars at garage sales, thrift stores, from people who no longer can, etc. A good thing about canning beans and veggies, etc., is that the liquid you need to eat them with is already in the jar. This saves water. I learned several good ideas on this channel. Praise the Lord and pass the beans!
Thanks and keep on canning
Sheila….can you tell me how long I have to water can meats?
Sheila, you may know this already, but I wanted to mention it anyway. When your canning jars are empty, store water in them. Just use a clean used lid and a ring. When you're ready to use the jar for canning, dump the water. Maybe use it to water a potted plant. This way, you have extra stored water for emergencies while your jars are not in use.
Just a hint, store some baking soda with each batch of dry beans. Cooking the beans with a little baking soda in the pot, they cook alot faster!
Morning Light, How much baking soda do you add to how much beans? Thanks for this tip.
@@lyndarina9839 I add a heaping teaspoon to each pot of beans...and no need to drain then after. For really old beans, I add a really big heaping teaspoon. It doesn't seem to matter the exact amount.
Baking soda also when your soking your beens , before you cook them it exspells the Gass that's in the beens
Yes, I always add a big heaping teaspoonful of baking soda when I soak my beans! (Reduces the gassiness of the beans!) I always rinse the beans very well, before cooking, too!
I have one bucket each of beans and rice. The rest is split up between vacuum sealed and put in totes. Each tote contains beans, rice, freeze dried mixed veggies, spices we use and bullion cubes. I store enough water for each tote to be able to cook them. I also think it's easier for when family or friends needing help to keep things individually packaged and I keep certain names on the totes for those I may need to help.
Very organized
@@PrepperPotpourri Thanks. Doing my best. Live out in the country so am on a well. No electric, no water. We have a basement so we have plenty of climate controlled space to store what's needed.
Be careful storing water in totes with the food. Plastic bottles in particular can start leaking.
@@coloradopackratprepper Thanks, but I don't store water that way. Appreciate you trying to be helpful
Brilliant. Light bulb moment. 💡 Thanks for sharing!
Here in South Africa I place the beans and other products in the Deep Freeze for 1 to 2 wks and then I store them in 2L cold drink bottles with Bayleaves.
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@@doctork1708 what's so funny
If you place things in a freezer more likely they're going to be damp therefore it could produce mold.
Of course with anything you put into the freezer you bring them back to room temperature before storing them in whatever you choose. This way you prevent mold from being an issue.
@@cherylferrell6163 WRONG!!!!!The freezing kills mealy bugs.
Turn a cake pan upside down in front of the vacuum sealer. Place the bag in position, before closing the lid, flatten the beans neatly. Seal it. Now you have a flatter more space efficient package for storage.
Good tip
I will do this as have dehydrated mixed vegetables ready to be sealed 💯👍
perfect!
I have stored beans in a plastic ice cream bucket for up to fifteen years and they were just fine. Also I put my rice in the freezer for a couple days and then I leave them in the bag in a plastic container. As long as it's stored in a cool dry dark place, they will last a long long time. That's how my dad stored rice and beans and that's how I store rice and beans. They didn't have mylar bags when I was a kid and there were fourteen of us kids.
Why the freezer?
@@rosemolina3225 supposed to kill bugs if any is in rice from what I have learned
@@rosemolina3225 To kill the bugs and eggs in the rice. Always rinse the rice until the water runs through clear. Add a little lemon juice to 1 cup rice to 2 cups of water and you will have very fluffy and good rice. God bless you and your family 💕🙏
How about if I live in Indonesia where everyday the sun shines brightly
Using several bay leaves also keeps the bugs away@@rosemolina3225
We store beans by vacuum sealing. They're then placed in a cool dark basement. Just made ham and bean soup last week with Great Northern Beans from 2016. Love 15-bean soup! IIRC, we talked about this 2-3 years ago. I bought individual bags of beans (legumes!) in 15 varieties and blended and vacuum sealed in 1-lb packs. Then found an 38-ounce bottle of ham seasoning powder (to be added when beans are cooked). Calculated savings of 80 cents a bag, so saved $12 over the pre-packaged mixes. Ok, not enough to let me buy a condo in Florida, but it was actually a fun process. There's a couple ham bones in the freezer which need to be cooked down - canning ham and bean soup this week - you did a video on that, too! Going to check out the Wallaby bags - thank you!
I vacuum seal mine as well and store in food safe buckets. Sadly, I don't have a basement.
@@tammymiller5801 We're lucky to live in an area where basements are somewhat common. We actually call it the dungeon since the house was built in 1895 - lol. I rode out an intense tornado by escaping to a basement - wouldn't have a home without one!
Don't forget to DATE THE OUTSIDE of EVERYTHING you store!!!
It works great to put the contents on the label as well. Also, the weight of what's stored.
That way, nothing gets lost, you can easily share😁
I use 4 digits. 2303 is for 23d year and 3d month. I just look for the smallest number. For dates like Feb 2000, I'd use 00-02 so it doesn't look like the year 2002!
When do you add the five years to the package. From the expiration date on the bag or from the day you seal it. Nobody has explained it. I just found some of mine from 2018 and wanted to vacuum seal them. Yes on this?
1/3 Home Freeze Dried, 1/3 Home Canned, 1/3 Dried, stored in a 5 gallon bucket.
Nice video!
I have beans in big jars that have been sealed, rice is in a big bucket. My pantry is loaded and am trying to find all the recipes I can find to make items like: cream of soups, breads, and anything else I can do to get wal-mart gone. I will never be able to get that store out for ever but the less I buy from them the better for me.
Yes, those were the first two items I put away. I love rice and beans but my husband does not. I've just started gardening, canning and dehydrating in the last two years. I have a long amazing road ahead of me - and - with awesome women like you sharing information I will be successful!!!
Yes, you will!
add salsa to your rice and beans - YUM
I had some beans that were still chewy even after a 24 hour soak and almost an hour in the pressure cooker. That 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda and another 10 minutes in the pressure cooker softened them up just right.
Glad to hear it
Ordered the bucket openers.. I have a dog rescue and been using 5 gal buckets full of dehydrated meats for them . 🐾
Lots of good information here! I've probably tried most storage methods, but one I like for shorter term storage is to place the beans, etc. in a 1/2 gallon or quart sized canning jar, and vacuum sealing a lid. I will store these in a dark area of the pantry, and the products stay fresh for extended periods. Thanks for sharing! :-)
Maybe add an oxygen absorber for long term storage?
I do the same with a 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda in the jar first, but I use any leftover large glass jar that will take a canning lid, then pack them in cardboard boxes taped shut to keep the light out.
I love using a vacuum sealer and since it’s taking all the air out of the bag, it’s a savings on oxygen absorbers because you simply don’t need them getting rolls of it instead of premade bags is a lot cheaper
I store it in all sorts of ways. I also store seasoning mixes with them. So I always have a way to season them.
My family eats lots of beans. I have them in cans, jars, frozen, mylar bags and buckets. Beans, peas, lentils, barley. Works well.
Great ideas you have shared, another way I store beans is putting them in mason jars and vacuuming sealing the jars! Thanks for sharing, I enjoy your channel.
Me too! Quart jars work for my small family. It means less plastic waste. Also, I don't need to repackage when I move a jar to my kitchen.
I keep two boxes of quarts in a legal file drawer. One case for legumes and one for rice and other grains. That's somewhere between 18 and 24 lbs of various legumes in one case of jars. I use O2 absorbers. Some of my beans are quite old, but still cook up well after using this method. Packaging can be folded and put in the jar or taped to outside if desired.
In the Fall, I refill empties, because that's when the crops come in and inventories are their freshest.
Personally, I mostly use canned beans.
I home can baked beans and pork and beans. Also store canned kidney, black, and garbanzo beans, and dry Northern and navy beans, in their original bags. Wow! Never realized how many beans I actually have stored. 😊
I have canned beans for convenience; and store dried beans on the counter in mason jars (first use beans) or in their original packaging in a cabinet. As a single senior, buckets of beans are simply "overkill". When I cook dried beans, I cook only half a package and it produces enough for 2 meals and a freezer portion for a quick meal a few weeks down the road.
Thank you, I do pretty much the same - I don't have any large buckets any more - too much weight when I changed duty stations in the Army. Now, I put them in a quart mason jar and use a suction pump to suck out the oxygen.
Love your channel. I don't understand putting the date when packed instead of expectation date when product last best by date .Thank You Ever Soo much. Love those myler bags.
I have them canned on the shelf both home canned and store bought for short term use. I have them vacuumed in food saver bags and put into a square hard plastic tote with a gasket for longer term storage
I've been pressure canning beans like crazy this winter. Not only did my husband bring home 2 pound bags of EVER BEAN IN THE STORE during covid, but we also had foolishly bought a ten pound bag of pintos just before covid hit. They get harder to cook until soft as they get older, so canning was the right thing to do for our small household. The one drawback? A much bigger footprint!
True
This is food insurance
An Instant Pot does a fabulous job on older beans. No presoaking. I bought the Instant Pot Ultra 6 quart 3 years ago. It has a bean preset also a rice preset I use them all the time. All the pressure cooking guesswork is taken out. I have 50# beans and rice stored and there is just the two of us. I have cooked 10 year old beans and they are just fine. Additionally, pressure canning dry beans is sooo easy. Whippoorwill Holler has some awesome recipes and shows the step by step. Her ranch beans are fabulous. Happy prepping.
If you have beans that won’t seem to soften add a tablespoon of baking soda to the pot. This will take about another hour
I live in a fairly high elevation and must soak beans every minute of 24 hours. When I get to busy to cook them or they're older beans I just rinse and put fresh water in for another 24 hours. Season and can those babies! We're having beans and cornbread tonight and I didn't have to plan dinner 2 days ago.
You can also use mason jars and either hot can or vacuum them.
I vacumn sealed my beans in 1/2 gallon jars, with exception of beans with flavor packets. When we open a jar, I usually can the remaining beans for fast meals, refill the jar the next time I shop and put to the back of my bean shelf, always rotating them.
That's a great idea!
OH! I like the idea of just cutting the corner off and leaving the label and all that instead of pouring the beans in a vacuum bag. That's a tip I will be using in the future. Thanks
This video is perfect timing for me. I have about 70lbs to store now. I love Hurst's beans! That little flavor packet is magic.
I also love the flavor packages
Thanks for the balanced, straight forward presentation. It's well appreciated.
Thank you for all the great information!
Thanks for all the different ideas.
Thank you so much for this.
Very helpful! Thank you!!
Loved all of the great tips and info, you are the best!
Love this idea!
Thanks for all the options.
GREAT TIPS! Thanks!’
Very informative! Thank you!
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As always, you've given such important information!
Wow thank you for that tip on the lid opener.
So many great tips from you and the comments below. Thanks to everyone, and especially you Prepped Potpourri. I am reorganizing my pantry.
I am preparing to store beans & rice for long term storage as we rarely eat either currently on a low carb way of eating. Since it may be necessary at some point to have that nutrition & caloric intake level, I'm not opposed to eating what we need to survive. I have small granddaughters so we collect half gallon juice bottles which are easy to fill & store. Plus I'm a canner & I just bought 20 cases of quart jars used (on top of still having at least 75 left in my stash from the last purchase of over 150. I canned 20 pints of ground beef & pork yesterday so I know that I'll have plenty of meat to make a variety of the beans, rice, & pasta we'll have for emergency.
I do canned, and mylar in half gallon size and rotate through both. I am in an apartment to no large buckets. Great video as always.
I use mylar bags in buckets as long term. Many varieties vacuum sealed in ½ gal mason jars fill a closet turned pantry. A good many I've grown and they can double as seed if need arises. I also keep a good many that I can and some store bought for quick meals. I only worry about rotating through the canned and jarred ones.
That's a great idea keeping the original bags. I have a bunch of beans I need to do. Thanks!
Great Tips! And a true simple time and space saver!
storing beans for long term is a great fall back on this was helpful to know how to store thank you
I'm glad to see a video about portioning. I have portioned mine in half bag portions for years, because for me, that is enough to last me for several meals without compromising the rest of the beans. I admit that I laugh when I see people filling the five gallon mylar bag and sealing it up in their bucket.
Yes it is a Newbie Prepper mistake
Might be good for a really big family that likes only pinto beans (or chick peas).
I know! Unless you're feeding an army, it's way too much!!
Thank you for your time. I have learned so much from your videos
Thank you for this timely video . I have lots of bagged beans & was going to take care of them this week ..
Been using beans in our meal prep so we get use to them
Thanks for the video your awesome
Great advise. I'm new to canning and prepping and I'm really enjoying your show.
Thanks for the great video
I love wallaby bags! They have worked well for us.
Thank you!!! Blessings to All!
Simple, straightforward and you cover many questions that one asks. Love your presentation!
Glad it was helpful!
I have some home canned. But, I use mostly the vacuum seal method. Works great for us.
Very informative video.
Thank you !
I found some beans that my mom put up in the mid 1980s that were put up in plastic pastry buckets using dry ice to get the carbon dioxide which displays the oxygen and the beans tasted just fine just took a little longer to rehydrate them When using the dry ice method be careful to leave the lid open a little bit to relieve the pressure to displace the oxygen don't wanna create a pressure bomb which will blow your Lid off before the dry ice has off gased all the co2
Another informative video on storing properly. Thanks for sharing and have a blessed day!
I like your idea of keeping the beans in the bag & glad to know to cut of corner to truly seal. A lot of less writing on bags for recipes of idems. I don't like the idea of wasting jars on dried beans. I have got to start this. Tks.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge of storing beans. I have a medium sized plastic tub with bags of beans/legumes in my pantry. I also have a few store bought canned beans, and home canned beans and bean soups. I don't have any long-term storage. I will also have a garden to grow more beans. Beans will be coming out of my ears. 😆 I just recently purchased a vacuum sealer, and I received a Cosori dehydrator for Christmas. I'm planning on cooking and dehydrating beans. I'm going to make bean flour, too, and add to baked goods. I'm in the beans this year. 😆
Sounds like you will be busy
❣I have beans in #10 cans, in mylar bags, and big buckets in mylar bags. I also have store bought beans in cans and I can my own beans.
Great info.
We are a vegetarian family of 5 with 3 teenagers so we eat a lot of beans. We buy 25 lbs at a time and keep them in 5 gallon buckets with gamma seal lids and fill our kitchen containers out of those. I also keep a small stash of long term storage. We put 5lbs at a time into mylar with oxygen absorbers and keep the bags in totes. We tend to use about a lb at a time when I make a big meal, so I know each bag is 5 meals worth of whatever variety of bean we have. I prefer to have smaller amounts with more variety in storage.
Why not store in 1 lb. Packs?
@@homemade6950 Laziness really. The mylar I have fits 5lbs perfectly without having to chop up the bag and reseal it into different sizes. Plus, we use 5lbs of beans fast enough that I'm not worried about storing it once it's open.
I have 5lbs of just about every kind of bean and legume imaginable, most stored in mylar bags or glass jars in my cellar (which is always cool to very cold . I am vegan and we eat a lot of a beans, so 5lbs is not too much for us to reasonably go through. To save storage and freezer space (I was sometimes keeping quart size bags of cooked beans in my chest freezer) I will sometimes batch cook a quantity of beans in my instant pot and then dehydrate them. I do this with rice, especially brown rice, as well, for quick rehydrating on busy days.
I made the mistake at first by dumping them out. I think leaving them in original bags and cutting a slit is perfect to keep instructions ect
Thank you for your video of how to store them. I’ve just been keeping in the original bag in my pantry. Going to get some Wallaby Mylar bags & oxygen absorbers to try.
Glad it was helpful!
Easy to do ❤️❤️
Thank you for the information. And I love your hair! God bless you, Connie
LOL my hair has a mind of its own.
Besides the vacuum sealer that uses the textured bags, I also have a "Magic Sealer" that is made to seal mylar bags as well as ziplock bags.
This is a great intro to storing beans. I use each method. I figure I can rotate from each type of storage over time since I keep a spreadsheet of what I have.
That's a great idea!
Storing in bag it came with is good if you give food away & person may not know how to cook the beans. I love my bucket opener, Gamma Lids but use regular lids for long term storage! Love my vacuum sealer but don't "over kill". Canned beans are awesome for quick meals, Canning beans so far I have only done Pinto & Black Beans. Thank you for tip on grinding old bean's for bean flour! Love your channel!
Thank you for sharing all the different ways! I will vacu-seal some and I put some in 5 gallon buckets with gamma seal lids. It's encouraging to hear I'm not doing it the "wrong" way, as some videos suggested. I also appreciate that we can vacu-seal in the original package. I started doing that after dumping some out. It seemed to make more sense, then I watched a video saying that was not correct and I wondered why. The only explanation given was that there could be some "water" in it from the grocery store, but my beans were dry, so it left me confused. At that point I started putting things in buckets (which does work for my large family) and I was hoping the others would be ok. Again, thank you for sharing ALL the different ways to do it. You are right, there are more than one way to do things!
Another good reason to store chick peas in the original plastic bag is because they have an irregular pokey surface and they will pop the food saver vacuum seal bags. Been there done that.
Good tip
Wrap in a paper bag before vacuum sealing.
Perfect timing. I found a bunch of dried beans on clearance yesterday at Rural King.
Wipe down beans original bag with sanitize wipe. Then bag it in vacuum bag once dry. For new people reason for putting original bag in vacuum bag. Sometimes beans have little rocks in them and it could keep bags from completely sealing. I used to sort through beans then seal. To much hassle.
Thank you for the bean flour suggestion, if they are to old or not stored properly. We’ve had some very old beans. Great idea. Thank you:)
I think bean flour is from cooked, dehydrated beans.
So many people here are saying to use an instapot (bean setting), & they turn out perfect.
You can also add baking soda to soften them & cook for an extra day.
I have some 15 year old beans that got misplaced we tried cooking & were just hard that I'm gonna try out these methods on to see if I can salvage the beans... I just didn't have the heart to toss out a whole Tupperware bucket, as it's such a waste. Probably should've stored it differently, but I was just beginning & it was airtight. Guess I'll see.
I have a vacuum sealer and like that idea
Would love to see a video on what to do with bean flour.
Very good informative video, thank you.
Great video.
Great video, thank you ma'am, I'm off to get some mylar bags and beans and start my first prepper project 🙂
Wonderful!
Excellent job on dried beans, I hope newbies find this video.......
I say it again; you are so lovely. Thank you for sharing your expertise. I really appreciate it.
And thank YOU for watching!
Hair straight iron seals wonderfully instead of an iron.. 😀
Our white rice, beans and flour are in their store bags in 5 gal buckets w beans separated by black, pinto, red /kidney/whites together. We have 2 gallon “working” bakery buckets for beans and rice we are working through. Bakery buckets are much easier to manage on a regular basis. I leave bulk of unopened bags in 5 gal buckets. Then refill the 2 gal from the larger buckets. Then larger buckets are numbered as to which I would use first. I bought plant dollies to roll my stacks of 5# buckets so if I decide to rearrange things its easy. We have the coolest overstock store nearby that gets so many oddball things at reasonable prices and many items like the dollies I can use in the garden, garage shop and pantry. Our local thrift store always has 1,2 and 5 gallon food grade buckets all the time. I don’t vacuum seal the beans or rice in 5 gal buckets. I have some pretty old beans and with my Instant Pot they cook up fine.
You have a good rotation system
Thanks for the information.
Thank you
We do this alot, mostly mylar and buckets for long storage. Vaccuum seal in bags or half gallon jars for the house.
We have some canned beans (dated for rotation), and bags of dried beans. Thanks for vacuum sealing suggestion. We have buckets to organize our grains.
Great tips!
Thank you for your demonstration on beans. Your information was wonderful. May God be with you always.
You are so welcome
I have found that using distilled water really is the key to getting our beans ready to eat.
I now also keep some soaked and canned. Such a great way to make quick meal. I also can just reg bean soup but when I take one jar sometimes I add kale and Italian seasoning and serve with Parmesan on top like a Tuscan bean soup. So great!
I've done most of my beans in the original pkgs and vacuum sealed. I didn't cut the corners though and I can see the benefits for that.
Ok after I commented I watched rest of vid. Got my answers thanks