Easter is over

Easter is over.

 

By the time you read this, Easter will be over for this year. NOW is the time to go to the store and stock up on Easter CANDY as it will be on clearance, normally half price or cheaper. Especially the jelly-beans and other such candy that will be relatively shelf stable and most not affected by heat- in this case room temperature so that when you open the container that you are storing it in that it has not melted into a solid mass.

 

If you store this candy in airtight containers in a reasonably cool area it will be just as good for next year as it is now. Come next year you will have cheaper candy for the season and can repeat the process year after year. The price of the candy and most likely everything else is only going to climb. So you will be SAVING money in this process too. Let us say that next year about this time a family member has lost their job, well the candy is already on hand for the kids and you don’t have to expend anything extra. And here is the biggest plus to this action, if something bad happens and you need to get into the candy sooner it is once again already on hand.

 

OK that is the why of it, now for the nuts and bolts of HOW to store the candy for medium to long term storage. The 2 main choices of storing dry food rigid or soft sided. The rigid containers come in 2 flavors which are glass or metal. The soft sided are basically plastic or Mylar. I like the metal cans the best in general as they are stackable and mice can not chew into them. Of the 2 main metal cans, I like new paint cans as they can be opened and resealed without damaging the cans.

 

What I do is take a 1 gallon slide or zip lockable plastic bag and put it inside the 1 gallon paint can. Then I put the bags of candy still the original packages into the bag in the can. As I get ready to close the big bag [and then the can itself] I put an oxygen package inside, you can also use those chemical hot hands packages in too.  They are the same thing except for the size. Either way they absorb both the oxygen and the moisture which in turn extends the storage life of the product.

 

Even if you do not add the packets the candy should be good for MANY years as is. As an example look at the fallout shelter candy that is still good after 50 years in storage.

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