Pantry Moths

[writerkit]

Okay, so in addition to more rice I need another visit to TJ Maxx to spend vast quantities of money on more Oxo containers (I love my Oxo containers), but how did I get pantry moths in an entirely unopened bag of sushi rice? Sure, it's the bag it came from the store in, but that bag is plastic and resealable, and again, entirely unopened. (Also the open one did not have pantry moths.) Mice chew through thin plastic; pantry moths get into the stuff you store in paper, which is why they get into your flour so easily. Also I didn't think they went after rice. (Of course I didn't think they went after Benefiber either and yet that was how I wound up with my first round of Oxo containers.)

I've had this bag of rice for quite a while, so if the answer is "it came from the store contaminated," I would have expected the moths to be dead long ago.

Also my panic reaction to there being bugs in a foodstuff being to throw it on the back porch is probably not the worst thing but is also not ideal, although AG pointed out that it's trash day and he'll be taking out the trash before he goes to bed so I can just... put it in the trash can.

My beef heart stew, meanwhile, shall be served over udon noodles. (Beef hearts, by the way, are big. I have so much beef heart stew in the freezer.)

Eventually I will have obtained enough Oxo containers at the TJ Maxx that I can just store all the non-canned food in them.