I just went out and bought a 6 pack of 2 qt canning jars.
Our old poorly built farm style kitchen cupboards are not mouse proof.
While I was digging for the brown sugar, I found the bag with a hole chewed in it. Then a couple more.
That’s it for me.
ALL the baking stuff in in canning jars now, flour, sugar, brown sugar, rice, etc. Nice thing it, the sugar and brown sugar won’t get hard as a rock any more either.
Keeps it cleaner too. No ooops, knocking the bag over to have it spill all over the place.
We have a farmhouse from 1900 and no indoor cats, so there are always a few mouse ‘incidents’ in the fall here, too.
I’ve always kept my baking items in Tupperware, but I keep rice and pasta and granola in the big Ball jars. I have some really old blue ones with the metal screw-tops on display in the Pantry, the oldest being from 1910!
This link is helpful for dating older canning jars:
http://www.minnetrista.net/blog/2013/06/27/ball-family-history/how-to-date-a-ball-jar/
I’m kind of a Mason Jar nut, LOL!
That’s why Grannie’s storage cubbard had tin lining!