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What do you use to store flours & sugars?
I am re-organizing my kitchen. My mom always had glass jars with flip lids for her flour/sugar stuff. DH & I found ceramic ones years ago, and they look great and are air tight - but they don't hold much. I fill them with the flour or sugar and then have 1/2 - 3/4 of a bag left to store elsewhere - I don't have a lot of storage space, so that doesn't cut it. I don't like keeping it in the bags because it is hard to keep it closed and they are bulky (and can't stack them).
I would love to find good plastic (perferably stackable and not super expensive) or even glass storage for these things that will hold the entire standard size bag. Anyone have a recommendation? Thought someone might have something they love that they could recommend...TIA!
Re: What do you use to store flours & sugars?
This - I love it. It's light and has two little wheels so I can store it in a harder to reach upper cabinet but still access it no problem.
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I haven't used any of these items but have heard good things about crate and barrel storage. Ina Gartner uses the big glass jars for her flour/sugar and they are beautiful on a countertop. There are smaller stackable glass jars as well as the OXO plastic containers...not super cheap but they look really handy.
We're moving into our house this summer and I plan on using some of these items for food staple storage.
http://www.crateandbarrel.com/organizing-and-storage/food-storage/1
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I use the Snapware or Lock and Lock containers. There's one that is just a litle bigger than a carton of ice cream (rectangular) and it holds a large bag of sugar or flour perfectly.
I have a label maker and I label each one on the lid and on the side facing out.
I also use the smaller ones for baking soda, baking powder, and cornstarch.
They are about $7 at BBB (don't for get to use a coupon for a 20% discount) or they sell them on the QVC website.
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Rubbermaid from Target. That stuff lasts forever. And it's in a slide-out cabinet with all my other baking stuff (baking soda, baking powder, brown sugar, extracts, etc.) so it doesn't really matter what they look like.
I had a few things with the clicky-snappy lid - the kind that folds over on each side. But they're really a major pain and I'm slowly replacing them with the pricey, but awesome, OXO pop-ups.
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thanks everyone, I will be happily shopping in weeks to come.