One of my New Year's resolutions is to improve my emergency food supply. As part of that, I am regularly visiting the local warehouse store to buy more items in bulk and increase my stores of water, canned foods (people and pet) and bulk staples.

I recently bought a 4.4 pound container of Carnation dry milk powder. It is in a bag. Should I empty this bag into a large, Tupperware-like container? Should I just place the bag of powder into a secondary container? How do ETS members handle this?

I am looking at bags of beans, rice, etc. and they present the same situation.

Thanks in advance for your help.