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LDS cannery in Worcester or in #10 cans from their website. There is a thread around here somewhere with more details.
How much cheaper are you hoping to get? 1lb bags of beans at Market Basket are about $1 each. I bought some in bulk from Emergency Essentials so that I wouldn't have to do the mylar bag and O2 absorber thing, but you can probably be more frugal than what I did.
I hope the $45 per 100 lb of rice is something good, like Jasmin rice (my favorite white rice). Otherwise, that's high for your generic cheap stuff. I packed my rice in buckets myself, but I got lazy with the beans and ordered them already packed for storage.
Best prices I could find locally, where do you buy yours? The LDS link is selling it for roughly a $1 a pound before shipping.
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Or try heading to your local produce supplier. We buy 20-pound cases and I believe the price is about $.42 per pound. A friend of mine owns a Spanish restaurant... he purchases 100-pound bags and ballparks the price at around $20.00. The only issue is that you'll need to pick through to make sure there are no stones... but you should be doing that with the grocery store stuff, anyways.If you know someone that owns a restaurant you can ask them to buy some for you. I did that and, although I can’t recall the price, it wasn’t too expensive. But heck, even WalMart sells beans for somewhere around $1 per pound. And I’d rather pay a little more and have them on hand when need then to save a few bucks and not have them when needed.
I just updated the LDS cannery thread. I called earlier today. It's not open to the public.
I just updated the LDS cannery thread. I called earlier today. It's not open to the public.