The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Prepper Tip of the Day: 1 Gallon Mylar Bags

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

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PBM Family, it's time for the prepper tip of the day. PBM Family, today's preper tip is brought to you by Pack Fresh USA. Everything I'm about to talk about, you can be had at PackFreshUSA.com, our great sponsor. Check them out. We're talking food storage. Perhaps my favorite prepping topic in all of prepping lore and yore. and so on. Five gallon buckets, oxygen absorbers, mylar bags.

My first go round, I did something by mistake that I've done from then on. I ordered one gallon mylar bags instead of five gallon mylar bags. And I said to myself, oh, I screwed up prepping again. Imagine that. Imagine that. I made another mistake. doing this prepping thing and I remember it like yesterday the buckets were white the pinto beans the black beans and the rice were what I had purchased in bulk from Sam's club and I was you know

that's what I was into that's what I was doing and I realized that storing food in one gallon bag if you're going to actually use the food storage storing food in a one gallon bag three you can fit about three one gallon bags into a five gallon bucket right so you might be thinking to yourself well i'm not getting the efficiency out of the bucket hang on a minute i take a rice i take a black bean i take a pinto bean i stuff them into a bucket okay one milar bag one gallon of rice one milar bag of black beans one miler bag of pinto beans right into the bucket now For stockpiling long term of foods, like a food storage stockpile that you're never going to touch, I wouldn't do it this way. But that's not how I do business.

What I don't have to do, because I do it this way, is I don't have to get more than one bucket to make rice and beans. I don't have to get multitudes of buckets to pool ingredients, right? I do a two flour one sugar bucket the same way, right? I do two one gallon bags of flour and one one gallon bag of sugar. And it gives you the ability to add variety to the bucket. So when you pull the bucket down, when you bring the bucket out, you can do more than one thing out of it, right? In fact, I've done buckets in the past that have been,

one gallon sugar one gallon flour one gallon bisquick and you know you can almost make dinner out of that bucket with a few added ingredients you know what i mean if you know what you're doing um but that's the way that i pack five gallon buckets i have very few i i've never made a five gallon bucket with the five gallon mylar bag in it i've bought things that are filled that way but i don't buy a lot of food storage i make the vast majority of our food storage. So I, you know, if you want to get into rotating your food storage and you're thinking to yourself, what a pain it would be. If I need flour and sugar and macaroni and, you know, whatever else, I got to grab four different buckets, pool ingredients out of these four different

buckets, you know, and that's not the only way to do it. You could also take food out of the mylar bags and store them in containers in your pantry and then seal them. myelar backup. I'm just telling you my quick prepper tip of the day. Try one gallon mylar bags. You can also get them like lots of them for cheaper than the five gallon. That's probably why I got them. Maybe it wasn't even a mistake. Maybe it was a budgetary thing. But anyway, I don't know how much cheaper they are now. But every penny counts anymore these days because, you know, you can't even need a you can't even eat a big mac without taking out alone but think about it give the one one gallon mylar bags a try put put put items in the bucket that makes sense put my items in the bucket that make

a meal you know you could in theory craft buckets that are almost meals I haven't gone that far but that would be a pretty cool thing to figure you know what I mean all right that is the prepper tip of today, folks. Thank you for joining us.