We also use a Food Saver to vacumn pack dried goods we buy at the grocery store. We take a bag of rice or beans and just put the whole bag in a food saver bag and then vacumn pack it.
We also make up 5 gallon buckets of wheat, oats, rice, 9 grain cereal, ezekiel mix, and different beans. We get the buckets at the grocery store bakery for $1 each and then line them with Mylar bags and put an oxygen absorber in each bag, seal it up and put on the lid. We also keep a few cases of MRE’s and #10 cans of freeze dried veggies and TVP meat.
Drat! I read that on a thread on FR once per week. I make a mental note to stop at the bakery department when I go shopping on Thursday...then promptly forget to "read" my mental note. I'm writing it on next week's 'want' list right now!
BTW...do those buckets you get have the rubber O-ring in the lid?