Putting them in a freezer will work if you have the space.

Many people recomend the freezer since that will also kill fly eggs and maggots.
We have been using coffee cans. The metal coffee cans will start to rust so I like the plastic ones better. The lids fit tight enough to keep coffee fresh or to keep fruit flys out and smells in. Only drawback is it can get really stinky when you open it to add more.
We also have a larger bucket for scraps we are not saving for the worms. We don't use a lid on that bucket but if it starts to smell or attract bugs, we just add a layer of sawdust over the contents. This bucket is for the big compost pile.

'Glad you asked - it's an issue I've struggled with especially since the summer began and all I had was one bin under my kitchen sink.

I've discovered that I produce a lot more food scraps than my one bin can consume. Since I'm hell bent on keeping it out of the regular rubbish stream, I stored food in plastic buckets, with lids, on the balcony over the winter, which is as good as a freezer up here. But, it got to be soooooo much that I eventually had to take most of it to green bin recycling centre when temps warmed up in early summer.

I now have a couple buckets in freezer and am hoping that the 2nd bin I have recently started will help me to get the worms to consume the food I've accummulated over the summer.

Over the summer I once again had to resort to storing some food on the balcony. I have about 2.5 buckets out there right now. Despite the warm weather we've had, flies/smell have not been a problem. To make sure the flies don't get in, at a minimum, I've sealed a full bucket of food with gaffers (electrical) tape. Alternatively, I've also put an old plastic bag on a buckef full of food and then put the lid on top of the plastic (to fill gaps flies could get in threw) and then put some heavy stones on top of that till I can distribute the food among the bins. This seems to have worked fine - no maggots, no smell. I've had guests for dinner on the balcony and they didn't notice a thing.

Chris

seacat,
It sounds like you might actually have enough scraps and perhaps even enough space on that balcony to have a regular (if small) compost bin for the stuff that is too much for your worms.

I store mine in a plastic grocery bag in the fridge.

I keep a flat plastic container in a drawer in my kitchen, right below my cutting board on the island. When it's full, I put it in a plastic bag and then put that in another plastic bag, tie it up, and then keep it in a big plastic container outside near the garden, cover the container, and put a big rock or cement block on top to keep out any critters. While it sits in there waiting to go into a worm trench, it gets mushier and more broken down and the worms are ecstatic when I finally put it in. (I do my worming outside in trenches outside).

I put mine in ziploc storage bags in the frig. I have 4 worm bins, and keep them all busy.

Deanna

I am confused over the issue of storing in sealed plastic bags etc. Doesn't it turn the waste anaroebic and as a result not so good for the worm bin?

You don't want your worm bin to get anaroebic but if the food is for a time before being put in the bin it isn't that big a deal. The main problem with food getting anaroebic is it stinks, then again rotting food stinks anyway so it makes little difference.

In the end I decided to keep my scraps in the freezer and it has worked well for me.

I store mine in frig or freezer - wherever I have room! And in a plastic bag. It doesn't get stinky and because I am in warm Hawaii - the cool "food" keeps my bin from overheating. I DO defrost the frozen stuff before feeding the worms. My worms are able to keep up with our garbage so luckily I don't have to toss any in the dumpster. The very few times I was ahead of worms I dug trenches around my papaya juvenile trees and buried the stuff (to enrich the soil)!!

I have an outside compost bin that is full of worms ( as well as an inside bin ) I just put whatever is too much for the inside bin into the outside bin and cover it over so fruit flies can't lay eggs on it. I wouldn't bother freezing stuff.Afterall, we do want this stuff to decompose, don't we? Freezing seems a bit of a waste of energy, increased global warming. As far as the triple bagging and taping, etc. I use my worms to lessen my trash pile not increase it. I don't use peat ( a non-renewable resource) I don't use coir ( has to be shipped thousands of miles by ship and truck to me.) I guess people vermicompost for different reasons but that is my reason, to lessen my impact on landfills and the environment.