Can you safely heat seal honey nut cheerios cereal into Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers?
Posted by YamstheSky@reddit | preppers | View on Reddit | 31 comments
Can you safely heat seal honey nut cheerios cereal into Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers?
usone32@reddit
Yeah should be fine. I vacuum sealed some raisin bran cereal, tried it 8 years later and it still tasted completely fresh.
AWintergarten@reddit
You better be careful with that. If the item you are sealing has a high enough available water content, it’s a breeding ground for botulism. It isn’t about moisture it’s about available water.
usone32@reddit
Yeah I was worried about that with the raisins. I wasn't able to find any cases of Botulism growing in raisins though. Oddly, corn bread mix grew botulism within a week.
11systems11@reddit
Come on, Cap'n Crunch is where it's at.
Winter-Degree-3591@reddit
Tears up your mouth !
11systems11@reddit
Rookie mistake. You gotta have patience. Let the milk soak in.
DwarvenRedshirt@reddit
You can, you just have to be careful about cereal with moisture or fats in it (which I don't think honey nut cheerios has much of).
enolaholmes23@reddit
I feel like I heard something once about honey from like 2000 years ago still being edible
DwarvenRedshirt@reddit
Yes. But if I'm around in 2,000 years to eat my stored honey, I think I've got other things going for me.
Particular-Try5584@reddit
Probably, but WTF would you?
It's easier to store the cardboard box it came in ;)
shesaysImdone@reddit
It will get stale in the cardboard box. There is no shirt or long term storage of cereal in their original packages
DwarvenRedshirt@reddit
I think he means store the cardboard box for eating. Pretty sure the cardboard doesn't get stale. :P
Particular-Try5584@reddit
Yup. Nutritionally it’s not worth hoarding Cheerios…. And certainly not stale ones!
enolaholmes23@reddit
Not everything is for nutrition. Sometimes you want something sweet just to escape the monotony of healthy foods.
Nostradomas@reddit
I mean to be fair - if you eat them regularly so want to prep with them….. just buy some extra boxes and rotate them right? Store more of what u use. Not random food stuffs that u never eat.
shesaysImdone@reddit
I want to store long term. I eat frosted flakes a lot and put them in mylar.
Nostradomas@reddit
Ya but again. Just have a bigger pantry. Have 10 boxes. Use oldest one. Replace like normal groceries - you just always have 10 boxes and they fresh.
Some things don’t stay as good long term. Just the way it is.
jazzbiscuit@reddit
Not sure about mylar bags, but vacuum sealed half gallon mason jars seem to be just fine. My very first test of the jar sucker was to throw some honey nut cheerios and some oreos into mason jars. Over a year later and both are just as crunchy as the freshly opened packages I compared them to.
DEADFLY6@reddit
Yes, I dehydrated bran flakes for 12 hours just to be sure. Then, vacuum sealed it with the seal o meal. 5 years later, still good. Not one iota of staleness. No mylar. No oxygen absorbers.
koozy407@reddit
I think the real key to your method is the dehydrating it first. I wouldn’t have thought to do that, thanks for the advice! Totally going to try this
runningraleigh@reddit
Love this, found a new use for my dehydrator!
Virtual-Feature-9747@reddit
I have a five gallon mylar bag full of Cocoa Dyno Bites with oxygen absorbers. I'll open them up in a few years to see if they are any good.
RealPersonResponds@reddit
As long as you don't mind them chewy and stale. Also they are not dense, lots of air in the cereal, hard to get much air out and vacuumed sealing will compress them into a block maybe. Fats will spoil fastest.
faco_fuesday@reddit
Define safe.
Yes, you can do this. It will likely be quite stale when you open it but unlikely to be dangerously inedible.
YamstheSky@reddit (OP)
Safe to eat. Why would it be stale if put in Mylar with oxygen absorbers properly
rycklikesburritos@reddit
It probably won't be stale. It could and likely will loose some flavor after years of storage, but it'll definitely be safe to eat if properly sealed and stored, and will still probably taste fine.
rycklikesburritos@reddit
Safely, absolutely. You may have some deterioration of flavor after some time, but any cereal grain should be perfectly safe to eat for decades with mylar and O2 absorbers.
Dmau27@reddit
If it keeps for years on its own its great to vacuum pack. Silica packets and oxygen absorbers.
rainbowtwist@reddit
Fellow prepper all up in here asking the important questions!
Pea-and-Pen@reddit
Yes I have some now. I’ve checked it 3-4 years after and it was fine.
kkinnison@reddit
sure, just like any cereal or grain
just note, after about 1-2 years it can still go stale , and sometimes fats will go rancid after about 5 years and even lose nutrients