SC - losenges fryes/potage of beans boiled

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Oh good, I thought I was the only one who thought of keeping moth balls in the
pantry to fight off the tenacious flour moths! OK, it's not an insecticide but
it does deter the existing moth population. It makes the pantry smell funky but
everything in there is supposed to be sealed anyway.  Cold is the ONLY safe
insecticide as far as I am concerned, so the flour stays in the freezer.

Selene

LYN M PARKINSON wrote:

> There are some horrible tiny moths that appear from nowhere and get into
> things.  Maybe they come with Chilean fruit?  I got out my Bisquick the
> other night to make up some biscuits for my chicken, and the big box was
> full of these critters!  They have ruined beans, barley, rice, and nuts,
> dried fruit, all sorts of things.  When I find a fresh batch of them, I
> have to throw out a bunch of groceries, scour the cupboards and still
> they find places to hide and re-appear.
>
> Now, all the nuts, barley and dried peas/beans etc. live in the freezers.
>  Wish there was a food-safe insecticide to spray, but I don't dare do
> that around food.  Have lately been wondering if it would be safe to
> saturate cotton balls with insectacide and place them in cupboard
> corners.  Finally got the critters to stay away from fabric by buying
> some cedar pet bedding and leaving it on a bottom shelf of the fabric
> wardrobe.  I don't want all my food to smell of cedar, though, so haven't
> done that in the kitchen.
>
> Regards,
>
> Allison
>
> allilyn at juno.com
>
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 00:54:03 -0600 Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net>
> writes:
> >Allison said:
> >> I've got a package of dried fava beans sitting in the freezer, right
> >now.
>
> >
> >Why do you keep the dried beans in the freezer? I thought that since
> >they were dried they would keep perfectly well that way without
> >needing
> >to be frozen.
> >
> >--
> >THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra