Cereal storage?

[Paul D.Smith]

Anyone direct me at a supplier of "tupperware like" containers for cereals
that will hold a full 1Kg or 750g of cereal?

Lots of manufacturers seem to have 375g size containers but we go through
enough cereal to make buying the biggers boxes sensible. It's just that
sometime they don't get resealed properly and then the cereals go soft.

Thanks,
Paul DS.

[Owain]

Post by Paul D.Smith
Anyone direct me at a supplier of "tupperware like" containers for cereals
that will hold a full 1Kg or 750g of cereal?

lock-n-lock on QVC or Lakeland?


14 litre storage bin
http://www.lakelandlimited.co.uk/product.aspx/!20601

Doesn't say whether airtight, but says suitable for cereal.

Owain

[Adrian Tupper]

Post by Paul D.Smith
Anyone direct me at a supplier of "tupperware like" containers for
cereals that will hold a full 1Kg or 750g of cereal?
Lots of manufacturers seem to have 375g size containers but we go
through enough cereal to make buying the biggers boxes sensible. It's
just that sometime they don't get resealed properly and then the
cereals go soft.
Thanks,
Paul DS.

I use a ginourmous plastic box which holds 3 or 4 25Kg sacks of different
grains for mixing muesli. Probably a bit excessive for you purpose though.
We have a few old containers of the type you need.

Have you tried Lakeland? I'm sure when we bought ours, Sainsbury's stocked
them.

[June Hughes]

Post by Paul D.Smith
Anyone direct me at a supplier of "tupperware like" containers for cereals
that will hold a full 1Kg or 750g of cereal?
Lots of manufacturers seem to have 375g size containers but we go through
enough cereal to make buying the biggers boxes sensible. It's just that
sometime they don't get resealed properly and then the cereals go soft.

If you are planning to eat a lot of cereal regularly, it is unlikely
that it will have time to go soft. However, if you insist on
transferring it to a plastic container, (like flour, it is often a
better idea to keep it in its original container), Lock & Lock are
excellent and are sold in many stores and supermarkets.

[Paul D.Smith]

If you are planning to eat a lot of cereal regularly, it is unlikely that
it will have time to go soft. However, if you insist on transferring it
to a plastic container, (like flour, it is often a better idea to keep it
in its original container), Lock & Lock are excellent and are sold in many
stores and supermarkets.

June,

Thanks for the suggestion. The issue tends to be that the box gets left
"open" which is why the stuff goes "soggy" and I'm a real pernickety sod for
needing my cereal crunchy ;-). I'll look into Lock & Lock although I did
find some cereal containers from them but they were small box (375g) sized.

Paul DS.

[Owain]

Post by Paul D.Smith
Thanks for the suggestion. The issue tends to be that the box gets left
"open" which is why the stuff goes "soggy" and I'm a real pernickety sod for
needing my cereal crunchy ;-). I'll look into Lock & Lock although I did
find some cereal containers from them but they were small box (375g) sized.

Why not buy several of the smaller containers and split the big box of
cereal between them.

Then instead of (say) a month's worth of cereal being subjected to 30
openings, each weekly box is only subjected to about 8 openings. The
contents of the individual boxes should then stay crunchier.

You could also keep the cereal in an old biscuit barrel - the sort that
had a dessicant canister in the lid that could be rejuvenated in a warm
oven.

Owain

[Jane Gillett]

Post by Paul D.Smith
Anyone direct me at a supplier of "tupperware like" containers for cereals
that will hold a full 1Kg or 750g of cereal?
Lots of manufacturers seem to have 375g size containers but we go through
enough cereal to make buying the biggers boxes sensible. It's just that
sometime they don't get resealed properly and then the cereals go soft.

Fold the top over a few times and put a clothes peg on it. Can you get your
family organised to do that?

Jane

Post by Paul D.Smith
Thanks,
Paul DS.

[Paul D.Smith]

Post by Jane Gillett
Fold the top over a few times and put a clothes peg on it. Can you get your
family organised to do that?

If I could then the cereal wouldn't be going soft ;-). Some battles are
worth fighting but some I just have to grin and bear it. Of course there is
the implicit assumption that they would put the top back on the "tupperware"
correctly but that's simpler than "fold and peg" so you never know.

Paul DS.