dry pack cannery no longer selling bulk food?

**Earthling** · 09-12-2016

has anyone else heard or verified this info I got from my SIL?:

The church's Dry Pack Canneries will no longer have bulk food to sell after Oct. 31; the food will be canned somewhere else and shipped in cans to the Dry Pack Cannery. When the bulk food runs out it will not be reordered. Cans of food will be available until Dec 31 or when they run out. After that only wheat will be sold. The price of wheat will go up.

Bulk goods purchased by individuals and self canned are being stopped--even the empty cans and lids will not be sold. They will stop having empty cans and lids to do your own canning at home by Oct 31, 2016. Only food prepackaged at a larger, regulated cannery will be sold after Oct 31.

September seems to be a crucial month to finish our preps while we can get food on sale in stores and get our bulk put in storage while the supplies and money are still good.

**KF7EEC** · 09-13-2016

Most had already done this. Just a handful of locations kept the bulk food and self canning.

**DMGNUT** · 09-13-2016

Wow, I had no idea. Looks like my family and I joined the church at just the right time, as we pretty much have everything from the cannery that we need... not that we're not continuously adding more, just being more creative and going in different directions to add variety now.
Thanks for the heads up though.

**DMGNUT** · 09-14-2016

The biggest bummer (or as Harm would say... side bummer), is they'll no longer carry the empty #10 cans.
Don't know about here in Idaho, but our stake in AZ had a canning machine, which anyone in the stake could "check-out" (like a library book), and fill your own #10 cans (that you most likely bought at the cannery and filled with other stuff that you bought.
It was actually a stake calling to track the whereabouts of the canning machine and even keep a schedule of who's using it, and for how long.

**still_waiting** · 10-19-2016

I found out that the local drypack was no longer going to sell anymore cans, so I went right down and bought 6 cases (36 ea) with lids so I'd have them. We have our own canner in-house to use at our leisure, which is a good thing, as the Church plans to dismantle and sell the ones they have......so I hear. The missionary at the storehouse said they had almost sold out of cans and wouldn't get anymore in. We'll probably spread these cans among our kids because there's no room left to store more than 6 or so in our home. I don't think there'll be any complaints outa them. My own attitude has hardened a bit about sharing anything we've sacrificed and struggled to afford. Not sure I'll feel any guilt about turning the majority away either. Especially the ones who have expensive frivolous goodies that took precedence over important preps they've been warned about for DECADES.