Hi readers. Thanks for coming by for a read this morning.
I want to share something I’ve discovered with those of you who cook:
Have you notice that when you bring flour, oatmeal or corn meal home it frequently has weevils already in it? Do you find it disgusting, annoying, irritating?
Well, here are a couple of things you can do. First off, put the bag of grain product into the freezer a few days as soon as you get home. That will keep them from reproducing, eating more of your flour or whatever.
But once you take it back out there’ll be a lot of little bug carcasses dotting things. Your grandmother would have sifted those out before using the grain product. Her grandmother would have shrugged, if she noticed them at all, and ignored their existence.
So depending on which generation of grandmothers you want to emulate, you might try one of those methods. Or you can do what I do to make those dead bugs vanish in a heartbeat.
Flax seed. Every time you use flour, oatmeal or cornmeal for anything, toss in a tablespoon full or hand full of flax seed. All those dead or alive weevils will vanish. I don’t know whether the flax seed eats them, dissolves them, or waves a magic wand and sends them to an alternate reality.
But what’s strange about it is the fact that flax seeds themselves resemble tiny roaches. Or bugs of some other kind. Maybe that’s what they are, predatory little bugs going around eating weevil carcasses.
Maybe grandma’s grandma knew that, maybe that’s what she did, too. A lost old wives tale.
And here I am rediscovering it by modern science.
Old Jules
So Far From Heaven 
Ha ha ha, I have weevils and I am with the Great grandmother, (extra protein she said) but flax seed! Do you then sift them out before the baking? What an excellent idea. I have some of those too. I am going to try it! Thank you.. c
cecilia: They’re good right there in whatever food a person prepares. No need sifting. Good little units added to the mix. Gracias, J
you are absolutely right, flax seeds (because of the high omega 3 are one of my happy foods!) so good in everything.. c
Really? You checked for the little critters before you put in the flax seed and found them first?
Tess: I don’t understand the question. Gracias, J
The bit about the weevils being eaten by the flax is surreal. I was joking and asked if you’d checked the weevils were indeed in there before you put in the flax and saw the miracle. 😉
Hi Tess: I’m never certain until after I’ve done it whether I was joking or not. Life just moves too fast to allow knowing. But I can tell you I think I was on the thing about weevils. Gracias, J
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Put (preferably fresh) bay leaves in your cupboards. This discourages the little bug critters with the smell.