Question, mac &cheese

[Joni]

 

Good Morning all!!

Question, I got a great deal on a case of Mac&cheese individual boxes, can I vacuumn seal the individual boxes in a 5 gallon bucket with a mylar bag and oxygen absorbers or do I have to remove contents from individual containers?

 

Joni

[HSmom]

You can seal them in the boxes, but it wastes a lot of space, and you'll need more O2 absorbers. Macaroni already needs extra O2 absorbers (because of it's tubular shape) - add in all the air in the box! Whew!

 

Here's what I would do:

*Open the boxes.

*Put the cheese mix packets in the mylar bag.

*Measure the amount of dry macaroni in the boxes. Measure 2 or 3, to make sure they're consistent, or to get an average.

*Dump the macaroni into the mylar bag.

*Add a note to the mylar bag that says how much dry macaroni to use per cheese packet. Also include cooking instructions (I know you know how to make mac-n-cheese, but what if you're gone and your kids or dh are using it?)

*Throw away the boxes.

*Add O2 absorbers and seal it up.

 

Conversely, you might look at the expiration date on the boxes and decide that you can rotate thru them before that time.

[Jewlzm]

Im always one post behind it seems. But I do exactly what HSmom has posted.

[Joni]

 

HSMom,Sounds like a better idea.

 

[HSmom]

I hope it works for you.

 

That is what it's all about: what works for you!

[halfpint]

Because we use our mac n Cheese and rotate stock, I don't want to use oxygen absorbers as they would need to be replaced each time I opened the package. What I do is open the boxes and pour the noodles into a large jar that I use my pump-n-seal on. I put the cheese packets in a freezer bag, and put them in the freezer, with the date of the expiration written on the bag - however with freezing I've noticed that it does keep past the expiration date. Instructions to make it are put on the macaroni jar.

 

Dawn