Try looking for a "cash & carry" store or restaurant supply store. I go to one and while I have to know my prices for the smaller canned items I can find bulk buys there that I don't find anywhere else, things like baking soda & large jars of dijon mustard instead of the little containers sold in the grocery store. You're also not that far from the LDS home storage, give them a call and see if they allow non church members, providentliving.org has the price sheet. I've gone to the one in BC and they've been extremely gracious. Their prices on dried bean, rice, wheat can't be beat and they are in the #10 cans or mylar bags all ready to put on your shelf. They also sell empty mylar bags & oxygen absorber but they are the smaller size not for a 5 gallon bucket.

LDS home storage
Phone (416) 741-3253
Address 85 Queens Plate Drive
Etobicoke, Ontario M9W 7K4

Anita posted a link to a wholesaler who is in TO and will let us purchase stuff there as well. They had everything and more that we could want. Look her up and check through her posts
anitapreciouspearl

I will take a look to see if I can find the link I created in my browser

It bears repeating = for those reasonably close by this is the place to go!

Grain Process Enterprises Ltd 115 Commander Boulevard , Scarborough , ON , M1S3M7 (416) 291-3226

This is where Bulk Barn buys the items for their stores. It is open to the public and you can get 10/25kg bags of almost anything your heart desires - food storage heaven in my opinion! 🙂

They do NOT have a website however you can call and they will send you a listing of everything they have to offer and they will give you prices over the phone - I've found them to be very nice and knowledgable people. Most of the prices are near half of what they are at Bulk Barn - or at least significantly cheaper.

It's easy to find as well - just off the 401 in Markham.

P.S. - they don't accept credit cards

Just to have a look and get to know.
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Printing on bags can not only beautify a simply designed bag, but also achieve companies' commercial purposes. And a bag with your friend's photo on will definitely be the coolest and most creative gift. So we need to know What kind of print jobs are suitable for variable data? Digital printing, offset printing, which better for you?
While for shopping, using Compostable Paper Bags is better than plastic one, but I think we bring our own bags.

Just to have a look and get to know.
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Well that seems spammy....not a mylar bag on the site from what I can see...

Those bots get smarter all the time.

I used them once for an event we did years ago. Used the 6x6 bags from Uline I believe.
Any sort of packaging supplies I get from ULine. (based in Mississauga)
Uline I have never had a problem with and I have found their products to be fairly decent. Of course the cheaper the price the lower the quality but, the mylar bags were pretty good. And you do not need a tax number or a vendors permit to order from them.

I stored a bunch of wheat in Mylar bags but someone said that they use gold phenolic lined paint cans. You can reuse them and they're much tougher than a bag. Canning jars seal well and you can use em over and over.
I did a quick search for "food grade paint cans canada"
http://www.gwcontainers.com/
Colors/Linings Available
unfinished or printed, Variety of food grade and rust inhibitor linings available

could you just vacume seal the wheat/flour. I want to start vacume sealing rice and flour, how long will it last that way? watch at canadian tire the have pickling jars on sale sometimes.

Wheat has a shelf life of about 4 months max once it is ground into flour without refridgeration - a little longer IN the fridge and approx. a year in the freezer. After that it starts to go rancid. You may not notice it right away but I sure did when I tried to use up some that was significantly over the date and had a massive allergic reaction.

Properly stored wheat with mylar and O2 absorbors has a shelf life of 30+ years. That's why you hear so much about grain grinders on prepping boards. Freshly ground flour also tastes so much better and is better for you because over time it looses it's nutritional value so the fresher the better.