Posted on 04/01/2021 9:26:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
We went to buy some canning jars fro Walmart, to have them shipped to us. Good thing I didn’t just automatically hit the check out button without looking. Shipping was several dollars more than the product
Saint Vincent DePaul store always had boxes of canning jars and lids. Maybe not now but it would be worth a looksee.
Wow, the lady in the article cans 90 jars per year.
I’m more like 24. And that’s plenty.
Tomatoes and Green beans.
Plus a ferment some pickles and peppers.
90 jars.
Who wants to bet that some DC bureaucrat made the decision that the LID COMPANY was NOT ESSENTIAL????
IF you can get them off in the first cycle of usage !!!!!
If there was only a way they could be manufactured in the US rather than China. Last year I order a dozen lids. After missing the shipping date several times, Amazon gave me a automatic refund. I was able to by a case of 12 1qt wide mouth jars and a set of 24 lids and rings a few months ago locally but they dried up again. I was also able to get a set of plastic lids. I mostly do sauerkraut so the plastic lids are better since they don’t rust.
Many years ago I became interested in canning when we visited my wife’s relatives who can just as the family always has. Most all county and state fairs have competitions for canning, baking, candies, all kind of crafts, and vegetables. Usually extremely cheap for free to enter. I have over 300 ribbons hanging in my kitchen from several local counties + the California State Fair. If interested go to your fair’s website and find something called Exhibitors Handbook, or something like that. It’ll give you the process for entering
I have a closet full of the standard and wide mouth sizes. And just FYI, the generic ones at WalMart work just as well and are made in America.
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These are the days of convenience foods, where almost everything can get microwaved.
Microwave is the technology of future cooking, as long as there is reliable electricity.
Home canned goods are a relic of past skills of many generations,
but people are learning that home canning is one of the best way of food reliability and home storage.
As stated by one of the titles of my favorite book :" Too Many Tomatoes, or What to Do When Your Garden Explodes" ,
home canning is the best way to save your seasonal gardening surplus, or even any surplus from the Farmers Market.
Among those who want to remain self-sufficient, home canning is a valued skill which is only dependent on availability of canning supplies and lids.
This is not a 'fad' or a 'bubble' which will eventually burst, home canning skills will outlast us all.
Plan ahead and you will never be disappointed or surprised by shortages.
Check out some of the Farm , Seed, and Garden stores; sometimes the smaller stores that get overlooked.
Last I knew, my Tractor Supply had several shelves full of various sizes (with lids).
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2553889.m570.l1313&_nkw=canning+lids&_sacat=0
Plenty of Ball, Kerr and Tattler brand lids at COVID prices of course.
Not near as bad as OSB though.
Pre-COVID, $9 per sheet.
COVID price, $38 per sheet.
Our cabin has roof rafters, purlins and tin on it and is LOUD when it rains. I was wanting to pull the used/repurposed tin, deck the roof with OSB and put new tin on it this Spring but it will have to wait.
Last year when I couldn’t find any lids, I switched to dehydrating.
“...just easier to buy what I want canned.”
I agree to an extent. BUT, we MUST have my own homemade Salsa, Pickle Relish, V-8 Juice and Bloody Mary Mix. ;) If push comes to shove, all of those items could be frozen.
I did NOT have a good gardening season last year, so the pantry is looking a little bare. Redoubling my efforts this growing season. It’s going to be Tomato & Pepper Heaven around here! :)
We keep winter squashes and potatoes in cardboard boxes in the 55 degree basement all winter, and I’ll freeze shredded zucchini (for bread, muffins and Zucchini Pancakes) and good old green beans.
‘The Chairman’ gave me the OK to use what is usually a food plot for turkeys & quail to grow more potatoes and winter squash this season.
Yes, but did you see the small print? All limited supplies (Only 1 Left! Only 4 Left!) and the price is 2x the norm.
Price gouging, for sure. But, Supply and Demand rule the day, as always. ;)
My ‘Inner Evil Canner’ is just WAITING for a few years into the future when all of these would-be canners and gardeners are going to be selling their unused supplies at Garage Sales for CHEAP! ;)
I broke down and bought some Asparagus today - I won’t have any in my patch for another 4 weeks or so. The price was right. ;)
“If you’re going to be self sufficient, you’ve got to be self sufficient.”
Those of us that can sew, bake bread from scratch and grow vegetables are going to RULE this Brave New World! Mark my words! ;)
I did the same thing and caught it before I pressed the final ‘Place Order.’ They wanted $10 shipping for a case of 12 jars with lids and rings...which was already $15! When canning jars are costing you about $2 EACH - your Bottom Line is not being met.
Though - if I actually PAID myself the $45 an hour which is my standard Consulting Fee, I’d never break even - EVER, LOL!
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