Food Saver Vacuum Packer - keeps meat for years!

We like ours too. When I BBQ, I cook a lot more than we will be eating anytime real soon and there is plenty for later meals. Like 3 or 4 weeks worth of meals.

Ours came with a bunch of vacuum seal containers that are very handy for sucking the air out storing leftovers in the fridge. Stuff will last a lot longer than you can imagine that way.

Frozen in the bags, I have eaten stuff more than a year old that was fine. The bags are reusable but its kind of a pain to clean them so we don't. They work good though for reheating. Just take the food out of the freezer and put in the microwave. Does not dry out at all.

The containers are handy for marinating too. Put chicken breasts in the containers, cover with Italian dressing and suck the air out. Leave in the fridge for a few hours and then BBQ.
 
They work for "boil in bag" dinners as well. I can vacuum a couple of servings of spaghetti, freeze it, then just throw in in a pot of boiling water at camp.
 
YUP--I second that one. I do the same thing with chili and beef stew. Nothing like a home-cooked MRE when in the field and it's colder than a well-digger's butt in january. ;)
 
There great, I have had a few different experiences with them. Mostly food we still butcher our own beef, hogs, deer, etc. The vacuumed sealed packages do last longer, but you must make sure there are no sharp bones poking out or it will fail, I am still working on a solution to this. I also vacuumed sealed ammo, make my own battle packs works best with cardboard boxed ammo. Loose ammo or on stripper clips will puncture and loose the seal. I have also done clothing for a trip. My wife works for the VA and had a business trip that was in San Diego, CA. which was free trip for me except for plane ticket. I only brought a backpack that I vacuumed sealed all my cloths in. Worked great really opened up allot of room. I was planning on putting this under the plane but the quick check gal said it would count as my one carry on. Cool except I had a folding pocket knife and some toiletries with more that the 3 oz of liquid in them that threw a red flag going thru security. The security check people were quite interested in my vacuumed sealed green shorts, green shirt and green underwear. They did not open them but it did cause allot of scrutiny.
 
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