The Foodsaver saved us again yesterday. I usually buy several extra boxes of breakfast cereal when we find a brand we like. This lasts several months. When I buy cereal I remove the cardboard box and vacuum seal the inner plastic bag using the regular large Foodsaver plastic rolls. Pulled out a bag of corn flakes yesterday and noticed a dozen or more dead weevils inside the Foodsaver bag. The insects don't have an oxygen supply inside the sealed bags and quickly die.
If I had placed that bag of corn flakes directly into the locker, or had placed it inside a large ziplock or in a sealed Tupperware-type plastic container, those weevils would have been running around the locker and probably into many lockers. This is the third or fourth time that the Foodsaver sealing has prevented insects from getting in the
boat. Each time the bugs have died inside the Foodsaver sealed bag and easy to dispose of.
Another of those convenience items that should be on every cruising boat, IMHO.
Judy