WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

[murphysranch]

Quarts are 79 cents at Goodwill. Pints are 49 cents. I got some there and at estate sales.

 

[Mini Horses]

I'm good with pint & quart -- even 1/2 gal that I use for milking. Just little ones I'll have to eat more toast & jelly, or PNJ to empty some.

A friend gave me a lot of her mom's canning jars a couple yrs ago. Added to already had and there's several hundred now.

Not a big jelly eater! Kids were when small but even my GD is now 22. Probably what I should do is make that sort of thing a buy item.

 

[Hinotori]

We're eating more jelly because pb&j is one of the few sandwiches I can make hubby for lunch and be low sodium.

Natural peanut butter. No salt. If you add honey it doesn't separate.

 

[Mini Horses]

Salt-less. I can eat most anything that way, except eggs. Those need something! You get used to it but, takes time. My dad was told to be saltless, so ate that way as a kid. Still low salt.

A challenge for the cook esp to convert.

 

[flowerbug]

got 21 quarts of tomatoes finishing up, picked this morning, worked on here or there through the day. Mom helped peel and chunk some of the tomatoes after she came home from visiting my brother.

i had to get into the the half gallon jars since i ran out of quart jars. wish i could trade in the pint jars for quart jars - i have cases of pint jars i don't use too often.

Mom asked me if i wanted her to buy a few cases of quarts jars but i'd rather not if we don't really need them. i'm not sure how many more we're doing.

 

[Mini Horses]

tomatoes can go in pint jars use them.

 

[flowerbug]

i'll use up anything else i can find and buy more quart jars before i use pints. there's a good chance i won't need to buy any - someone told me they have a case and a half of quarts they'll give me next week plus 20 half gallon jars yet to use so i think i'm covered.

we don't usually cook anything where a pint is enough and i don't like wasting a lid. more often we are using two or more quarts at a time. the half gallon jars are really nice!

 

[Hinotori]

I do jams in pints because hubby likes to switch flavors fairly often. Tuna goes in 10 oz jars. Pint is too much there. Meat goes in quarts. I don't usually can any veggies.

Lotions and creams go in the 4 oz jelly jars. They are the best size I found

 

[Mini Horses]

Just ME for eating, so jelly/jam ... 8 oz. Applebutter, applesauce, pickles, relishes pints...and lot of veg in pints, some qts -- depends on veg type. Meats, broths mostly in qts.

Lot of clean, empty jars right now.

 

[murphysranch]

I think I'm going to make Dilly beans today. There are soooo many beans I harvested yesterday, from both the bush and the vine beans.

Also thinking of making zuc relish.

We don't use/think of either of the above, but my harvest is sooooo large, I don't want to waste the good food.