Ok, the food vacuum bags sealed well and I checked them this morning and the vacuum seems to be holding.

This is just my method of sealing food for long term storage in food vacuum bags using 5gal bucket Mylar bag oxygen absorber/hand warmer, vacuum cleaner and cloths Iron

Vacuum Sealing house hold Bottles for food storage in food vacuum bags. I use this when i need to open a 5gal super pail. It would take for ever to eat 50 lb of rice. So i repack it into smaller containers and seal back up the bucket.

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I have an older model FoodSaver machine. The bags are so expensive that I looked into using a generic brand. Are the generic brands the old saying "you get what you pay for" or are they truly just as good and cheaper because they don’t care the expensive FoodSaver label?

Our vertical band sealer has same features as the horizontal band sealer except bags are sealed in a “standing position”. This method of sealing is ideal for the packaging of bags containing spillable items such as powders, liquids, grains, etc. Conveyor speed up to 40 ft. per minute. This unit can also imprint as well as seal. The portable band sealer is completely adjustable for height, heat and speed. Comes equipped with a repair kit. Printable embossing wheel and set of type optional. Maximum Bag height 12″. Video Info: With this machine I tried to show that not only it can seal bags fast but it can seal coffee which would be considered a powdered substance and water which is obviously liquid.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Peel a banana from the bottom and you won’t have to
pick the little ‘stringy things’ off of it. That’s how the primates do it.

Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.
It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.
It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of
spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints
in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.

Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste
of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.

Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply
chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them
in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350
for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm!

Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low
and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on
the cooking channel and it really works.

Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.

Expanding Frosting
When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer
for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes
with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.

Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in
a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food
moist and help it reheat faster.

Newspaper weeds away
Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers,
put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and for-
get about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not
get through wet newspapers.

Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can’t see easily.

No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket.
It will keep the mosquitoes away.

Squirrel Away!
To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper.
The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and the squirrels won’t come near it.

Flexible vacuum
To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel
roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in nar-
row openings.

Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt
or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose.
Place pin in seam of slacks and … ta da! … static is gone.

Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water.
Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such
as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
!
Foggy Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of
your car . When the window s fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!

Reopening envelope
If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside,
just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals
easily.

Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s cheaper than shaving cream and
leaves your legs really smooth. It’s also a great way to use up the conditioner you
bought but didn’t like when you tried it in your hair.

Goodbye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2′ with Apple Cider Vinegar
and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the
cup and gone forever!

Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants They eat it, take it ‘home,’ can’t
digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works
and you don’t have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!

INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS
The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things around the
house for us told us that he wanted to show us something and he went over to the
dryer and pulled out the lint filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from the fil-
ter after every load clothes.) He told us that he wanted to show us something; he
took the filter over to the sink and ran hot water over it. The lint filter is made of a
mesh material … I’m sure you know what your dryer’s lint filter looks like. Well …
the hot water just sat on top of the mesh! It didn’t go through it at all! He told us
that dryer sheets cause a film over that mesh that’s what burns out the heating unit.
You can’t SEE the film, but it’s there. It’s what is in the dryer sheets to make your
clothes soft and static free … that nice fragrance too. You know how they can feel
waxy when you take them out of the box .. well this stuff builds up on your clothes
and on your lint screen. This is also what causes dryer units to potentially burn your
house down with it! He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a very long
time (and to keep your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out and wash it with
hot soapy water and an old toothbrush (or other brush) at least every six months.
He said that makes the life of the dryer at least twice as long! How about that!?!
Learn something new everyday! I certainly didn’t know dryer sheets would do that.
So, I thought I’d share!

Note: I went to my dryer and tested my screen by running water on it. The water ran
through a little bit but mostly collected all the water in the mesh screen. I washed it
with warm soapy water and a nylon brush and I had it done in 30 seconds. Then when
I rinsed it … the water ran right thru the screen! There wasn’t any puddling at all! T
hat repairman knew what he was talking about!
note from Jean—-I checked out my dryer screen–I seldom use bounce,– but water would scarcely go through !! I cleaned it and then the water sailed right through -.imagine that ! —-
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO OTHER PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK.
NOT ONLY COULD IT SAVE SOMEONE’S HOME, BUT IT COULD SAVE
SOMEONE’S LIFE.

FLAVOESEAL Vacuum Appliance and food storage bags used to protect food from freezer burns and stores food fresh longer

I’m looking for constructive criticism, but please no harsh thoughts on how I have no potential. I have been thinking about writing this novel for a while, and I was just wondering what you think of my start.

The beautiful start-of-summer evening in Sherwood, as Jason Clark liked to think, was the sun welcoming him and his family to their new home. The room was filled with boxes, and everyone was lazily unpacking their things they would need before the serious unpacking that would go on the next day.
As Jason gazed out the large window in the crowded family room, he dreamed of the summer of relaxation, fun and sleeping he had ahead of him. Since he had just finished grade 9 a week before, he just turned 15, and was proud of it. Just the thought that he would be able to drive a year from then left Jason’s heart racing in excitement.
Maia Clark, better known as Mom in the household, like her son, wasn’t fully engaged in unpacking her needs. Her mind was lost in thought, but about what she was going to prepare for dinner, the bump on baby Hannah’s head she didn’t know where it came from, and about how she had a sudden craving for a pickle. But then a thought came into her head: garbage bags. They needed a garbage bag so she could spend less time vacuuming the next day.
“Jason,” Maia called to her eldest son. “Could you go grab some garbage bags? I put a box of them in the basement.”
Jason looked up to her mother.
“Do I have to, mom? Why can’t Kyler do it?”
Kyler, Jason’s younger brother, looked up to him.
“Because she asked you to.” Kyler said as-a-matter-of-a-fact-ly, as he so often did.
“Kyler has a job too.” Maia said, trying to avoid the usual round of the blame game. “Kyler, please go feed Hannah her food. It is in the small tins on the counter.”
The youngest son turned to his baby sister, who was cooing happily in her highchair, then to his father who was totally oblivious to the argument.
“Do what your mother says, Kyler.” Cayden Clark said as he always did, taking his wife’s side to avoid farther disturbance.
Kyler went to turn to Jason for further argument, but it was too late. He was already gone.

Thank-you in advance for your answers.

PMG’s Thom Dolder vacuumpacker.com explains how to use a chamber style vacuum sealer to seal jars.

How to clean the VacuPack Elite. Vacupack Elite by PMG at vacuumpacker.com is a robust durable channel style vacuum packer used for sealing and preserving. The evacuation of air is retained through a textured air barrier bag. The Vacupack Elite eliminates freezer burn, prevents infestation of bugs, used for short, medium, or long term storage for all types of foods, such as fish, beef, chicken, wild game, grains, nuts, vegetables, fruits, water, juices, also used for clothing, metals, documents, seeds. Any item either fresh or raw, cooked or dehydrated any type preparation, can be stored for extended time via the VacUpack Elite Vacuum Sealer.

I’m just curious. I must be nesting. I completely tore apart our bedroom Wed morning before my dr’s appt. Packing up winter clothes for storage, washing the new babies clothes, packed our bags for the hospital. I’m 34 weeks 4 days now. I just came in from trimming the hedges with the electric hedge clipper! It was really hot so I was only out there 15 mins but I felt like I could be out there all day. I came in to cool off even though I REALLY didn’t want to. My DD came at 36 wks 5 days and they think this one will be about the same time. I didn’t nest this hard with her. I planted some small bushes right a few days before she was born. I’ve also had a bad pregnancy still taking Zofran every morning for nausea. I’ve had no energy and have been taking it pretty easy these last few weeks because I started with contractions at 30wks & they stopped them. I have no idea where this energy is coming from. I really, really want to go vacuum and wash my car!I know I will pay for it later if I do, and my DH just might kill me.

check it out:

DID YOU KNOW?

Peel a banana from the bottom and you won’t have to
pick the little ‘stringy things’ off of it. That’s how the primates do it.

Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.
It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.
It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of
spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints
in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.

Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste
of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.

Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply
chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them
in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350
for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm!

Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low
and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on
the cooking channel and it really works.

Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.

Expanding Frosting
When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer
for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes
with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.

Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in
a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food
moist and help it reheat faster.

Newspaper weeds away
Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers,
put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and for-
get about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not
get through wet newspapers.

Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can’t see easily.

No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket.
It will keep the mosquitoes away.

Squirrel Away!
To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper.
The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and the squirrels won’t come near it.

Flexible vacuum
To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel
roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in nar-
row openings.

Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt
or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose.
Place pin in seam of slacks and … ta da! … static is gone.

Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water.
Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such
as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
!
Foggy Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of
your car . When the window s fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!

Reopening envelope
If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside,
just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals
easily.

Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s cheaper than shaving cream and
leaves your legs really smooth. It’s also a great way to use up the conditioner you
bought but didn’t like when you tried it in your hair.

Goodbye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2′ with Apple Cider Vinegar
and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the
cup and gone forever!

Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants They eat it, take it ‘home,’ can’t
digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works
and you don’t have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!

INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS
The heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixe

I had bought several salmon fillets which are vacuumed sealed. Three days later i found out that my freezer broke and thawed the food in there. The salmon had thawed too, but i moved them to a different freezer without thinking if they are still edible. What do you think?