Try pet food containers. Possibly be cheaper than Oxo containers?

I use gallon, or half-gallon, glass jars.

Try Consolidated Plastic for food safe buckets (various sizes) with gamma lids. They don’t sell the Mylar bags afaik but those are easily found online. If you’re considering the OXO Pop containers, reconsider-they are trash. Not dishwasher safe (the ones I bought about five years ago, this may have changed) and definitely not air tight.

Thank you. Dishwasher safe is not a concern for us. We just want to store dried goods. Rinsing then out should be good enough. Oh I thought they seal airtight based in the reviews. Do you have a link to the ones you're talking about?

I bought the set from Costco. I don’t know what people are thinking is airtight, but those aren’t. Even with the lids “popped” or “sealed” they are easily lifted open. They feel flimsy compared to the buckets I have now. I hated them and gave them away after six months.

I use mason jars to store all dry goods. The half gallon size works well!

I’ve read all sterilite products use food grade plastic? I just use a sterilite air tight storage bin for my 25lb rice

Which specific model?

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Came to say the same about the buckets and gamma lids. Pricey for what they are but they work well. I love large wide-mouth jars and my vacuum sealer attachment for smaller amounts of dry goods but if you need to store 20lbs of Flour, the buckets are the way.

Go to a restaurant supply store, they have really great cheap food grade buckets with lids. I picked up 2- 6gal buckets with gamma lids for $14 a few weeks ago

Lock Lock makes great containers for bulk storage of dry goods. Here's an example of the containers they sell, you can also look around on their Amazon store for more options.

I reuse screw-top containers. Costco mixed nuts and snacks come in smallish plastic containers that can hold about 3lb of pinto beans. Costco animal cracker containers are bigger...two of them will hold a 25lb bag of rice. Those mixed nuts containers are useful for storing nuts and bolts in the garage, too.

I use second hand plastic barrels/drums. They come in 200/220 litre size (40 gallon?) as the easy to search for one, but also in sizes right down to ~20 litres. Both screw top and lock ring, but it's very "what's in stock" where I live. I search online then look for "other items from this seller" if they're on ebay etc, or just browse the website.

Barrels tend to be rotomoulded and thick walled, so sturdy. Depending on what the contents was you may end up with "infused with the aroma of olive oil" or whatever the first year or two. But there have always been 'clean' options when I've bought, just the smally ones are cheaper :)

Sellers like this: https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-seller/Drum/1021976616/date/1

Also, might be worth looking at "molecular sieves" if you want to keep the contents dry, they're the modern version of reusable silica crystals.

What you are looking for are wide mouth glass jars. What is great about them other than they last for multiple lifetimes is that you can vacuum seal them too.

How do you vacuum seal glass jars?

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Admittedly I haven't been in an actual store in years, but TJMaxx and such used to occasionally have Oxo containers for decent prices. I've also found some sets for cheap at random websites over the years. I only mention in case slightly lower prices would put them in the realm of affordablility - prices can vary a lot if you watch for a bit. The pop tops are a dream IMO, but yeah, still relatively expensive, so I have just a couple for things I use frequently.

For everything else I use large mason jars, have slowly accumulating glass latch jars (they pop up in thrift stores frequently and sometimes go on big sales in stores), and polycarbonate bins/buckets from restaurant supply. Highly recommend hitting up a restaurant supply store; they sell things meant to stand up to commercial kitchen abuse and it's often cheaper than what you'd find sold at Target or popular on Amazon or whatever.

Oxo pop is terrible. Bought one to store my dog food and the top broke in, no joke, a week.

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My husband has had different sizes of this for well over 10 years, and there are no cracks in the lids of any of them.

The 16 cup size is big enough for a 5 lb. bag of rice or beans. We don't put 10 lbs. of anything in these because then we wouldn't be able to get it down from the shelf.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Rubbermaid-Modular-Canister-Food-Storage-Container-16-Cup-Red/16486808