Discussion»Questions»Food and Drink» How long does it take for you to use up a 3lb bag of sugar. I only use it to make Hummingbird nectar so a bag lasts the Summer.
I use a bit in my pickle juice and pickled eggs/beets. My jerky marinade uses brown sugar, but with the price of meat, I haven't made any in a few years.
Well ... that's disgusting! Didn't your Mother ever tell you not to play with your food!?
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at July 11, 2018 2:37 PM MDT
Dead envious of you and your hummingbirds.. In this I am not nearly as virtuous as you. My daughter has a very sweet tooth, 5 sugars in a cup of tea.. I occasionally have a sugar in my coffee and I use it to make the occasional cake or strawberry sorbet. I'd definitely prefer to keep using sugar than to use sweetners.
A two pound bag would last two years or more ....it's wasted calories and really bad stuff....there are no sugar or artificial sweetener drinks in our homes either....:(
It takes me nearly 2 years to go through a 5-pound bag of sugar. I only use it for baking (e.g. a tablespoon in pizza crust and breads, quarter to half cup in meringue, full cup a cup in cakes and cookies).
I buy sugar in 25 pound bags, except the last time it went on sale it was 4 pound bags and I got ten of them. So I have used roughly 40 pounds in the last year. I make a lot of rice pudding, one cup per 20 servings, and I make root beer, one cup per half gallon and I drink that in two days.
It will harden before I could use that much. I do buy the big bag and keep it in an airtight container which I keep, along with all of the other dry staples, in the refrigerator. Also, I'm particular about it being cane sugar. If the package doesn't say "cane sugar" then it probably came from beets. The only food like that that I can use up is grits. I cook them regularly and we love them for breakfast or dinner. I can't remember the last time I used a full two-pound bag of corn meal before it became rancid and nasty.
Walt O'Reagun 