I just found weevils in 15 pounds of basmati rice.

If it was near other dry food - flour, cereal, etc, I'd check those as well.

Thanks, I will tell the Mrs I got the word to throw it out. (Apparently I am married to the only woman under 80 who seems to have lived through the depression.)

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Rice is cheap man

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Exactly, especially if you have a Costco membership. I usually buy bags of rice in the 25 lb. range.

I store it as soon as I get home in old one gallon glass pickle jars or the one gallon Blue Plate Mayo plastic containers from Costco. You really need to have a container that has a very secure top to them.

I fill them to the top and use them as needed and never have an issue with weevils.

That's a two'fer!

Protein source and rice all in one!










I'll show myself out now ...

My mom lived through the depression and she would have cooked that shite in a heartbeat.. "It's protein just eat it"

I store rice in the freezer for this exact reason. You can cook it directly from the freezer and there's no freezer burn or anything.

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Thanks, I will tell the Mrs I got the word to throw it out. (Apparently I am married to the only woman under 80 who seems to have lived through the depression.)

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My wife is like that. Super frugal. She and her sisters were raised that way by their mom. It's a good way to be, and I'm sure you could eat the rice and not be poisoned. But I would just find it too gross to eat it.

We had to do that too, btw. Had to toss out several boxes of really good pasta and some grits.

Weevils wobble but they don't fall down.

Did they fall down? If so, I would toss.

My mom was a boomer, and just picked the bugs out of the rice. They're not going to kill you.