...Easy and Frugal Vacuum Sealing...

...we usually have a few taco shells leftover after a taco dinner...

...and it's been my experience that they get kinda rancid kinda quickly...and since it's the air that's making them so...I try to get all the air away from them that I can...

...I don't have a vacuum sealer...but I achieve the same effect with a straw and a regular zip top freezer bag...

...I just seal the top of the bag right up close to the straw...and suck all the air out with my lungs...

...it just takes a couple of seconds...and the bag gets pulled in very close to the object inside...

...not sure you can see it too well in the photos...but there's no air between the layers of plastic...

...maybe you can see it a little bit better here...upside down...the bag conforms to the shape of the object inside it...

...I leave the shells in their (relatively) crush proof container...because I don't want them crushed by the vacuum...and because I put them into the freezer where I don't want them to get smashed by other heavy rigid frozen things...

...so now we have shells for another day...

~Have a lovely weekend!