How to Find Flour Sold in Cloth Flour Sacks

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By Peggy Hazelwood
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Find Flour Sold in Cloth Flour Sacks

Remember when flour came in cloth flour sacks? Women made clothing for themselves and their families from this printed cotton fabric. These flour sacks full of flour are still available for sale in some grocery stores.

Here's how to find cloth flour sacks.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

grocery store that sells flour packaged in cloth sacks

Step 1

Recently I saw two brands of flour in cotton cloth sacks on the bottom shelf under the paper bags of flour at a Safeway store in Phoenix. The cloth bags contained 20 and 25 pounds of flour. That's enough for a couple loaves of bread and a batch of cookies or two!
Step 2

Lapina sells flour in charming flowered print cloth sacks. Flowered flour sacks... I couldn't resist!
Step 3

Cortez Milling Company sells Blue Bird flour in white cloth bags printed with a blue bird on the front. Check the Resources section below for a direct link to their website.
Step 4

Cloth flour sacks can be fashioned into one-of-a-kind towels, pillows, clothing, or other crafted items.
Step 5

Look for flour sold in cloth flour sacks on the bottom shelf at your grocery store. If you don't see flour for sale in cloth sacks, ask the store manager if they can order flour in cloth flour sacks.

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joanhaines said

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on 6/12/2009 I will be sure to ask them to start stocking it. Free cloth is a good thing.

BHolmes said

on 1/31/2009 I have one of those old cloth bags...somewhere....Thanks for the info! :-)

adlp said

on 1/30/2009 I can find no reference to Lapina flour, and the link for BlueBird is not active. Who makes Lapina flour? I thought I found a reference to General Mills, but they do not have a product called Lapina flour.