Jars

We were in the local Big Lots store today and they had several pallets
of Golden Harvest jars there. Regular mouth quarts, pints, and
half-pints. Bought a case of half-pints for $6.75 plus tax. Last week I
bought a case of four-ounce jars, Ball brand, at the local Kroger store,
cost for those was $10.75 plus tax. Also bought Golden Harvest jar lids
at Big Lots, $1.35 a box of a dozen, considerably cheaper than Ball lids
so bought four boxes. I think we have enough jars on hand to start the
canning season, although I don't like paying that much for them. Guess
I'll have to start cruising the thrift and charity shops again in the
endless search for cheap jars. Where are those nickel a piece jars now?

Also bought a jar of Black Cherry Jam at Big Lots, one-pound jar for
$2.50. Made in Denmark, in Big Lots you never know where something is
from until you check the label. This was an unusual cherry jam though,
the label said, "Extra Fruit Added." Turns out there were whole cherries
throughout the jam. Rather odd but still tasty, especially with peanut
butter on the other slice of bread.

Looks like we will pick enough green beans tomorrow to finally be able
to can some in the pressure canner. I prefer canned green beans to
frozen so that will be a good thing. The summer squash is coming in gang
busters too so reckon there will be more of that frozen tomorrow also.
Lots of cherry tomatoes but none of the big ones as yet, hard to make a
BLT with cherry tomatoes though. The pickling cukes are starting to
produce too, need some pickles as we only have a couple of quarts left
of the 2007 crop we put up.

In article <TvhXl.52288$[Only registered users can see links. ]>,
George Shirley <[Only registered users can see links. ]> wrote:


Holy guacamole, Batman! Those prices do not impress me one whit. And
it makes me nervous that you're getting those prices at Big Lots. I buy
my 4-oz jars at Walmart because no one else carries them. Are they the
ones with the fruit embossing or the quilted look? I much prefer the
former; they stack nicely with rings in place‹the others are just a
leetle too big in the circumference to fit inside the ring.

When I was in Fleet Farm a couple weeks ago the half pint Kerr jars were
$6.99/case of 12. I'll be curious to see the sale price in a couple
weeks.
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Melba's Jammin' wrote:

Don't know, haven't opened the blister pack yet and didn't pay any
attention at the time. Was just glad to get some four-ounce jars. Same
with the half-pint, they are Golden Harvest so probably have the circle
with fruit in it, although, once again, I haven't looked.

I much prefer the

I don't think we get a lot of people canning in half-pints and
four-ounce jars, most of the canners I know here don't use anything
smaller than a pint.

I wasn't impressed by the prices either, I just figured it was more
Obamanomics at work.

Mimi wrote:
Not too bad! I would pay that any day of the week and miss work too, if
I had to go to work that is.

My old high school has an annual "homecoming" when grads of all years
get together to break their fast, revisit old times, and just see what
we grew up into or out of. Today is the day and I will leave the house
about 0930 for the thirty-minute drive over into Texas to attend. I'm
taking Aussie Jack snacks this year, a high fiber snack often eaten by
Australian Defence Forces during the Vietnam war. Let's us see what
those old ladies have to say about what I brought this year.

Mimi wrote:


Darn right. I just found a case of a dozen 12 oz. jars (Ball, I think)
at a local Kroger (King Soopers the in Denver area) for (hold onto your
hat) $10.97, IIRC. I thought twice (or maybe four times) before I
picked them up, but 12 oz is a size I rarely see and they are so
convenient when I'm making multiple batches of jam. The price was
obscene, but what are the alternatives?

gloria p

George Shirley wrote:



Teehee. I hope you remember to tell them they won't need prune juice
tomorrow!

;-)
gloria p

gloria.p wrote:

Actually two old geezer guys ate most of the stuff, turns out one of
them had bivouacked alongside the Aussies way back when. I hope they
don't get a stomachache once they start drinking water.

The main dish is always brisket, well done by a local BBQ joint. The
side dishes were excellent. I had a corn pudding with a cheese topping
that was excellent, some dirty rice, baked beans made from scratch, and
the desserts were to die for.

Ran into at least three people I had not seen in fifty years so I guess
it wasn't a total bust. Normally there's just me and my friend Nita from
my class and darned few younger than us. The class of 1939 had a reunion
going with the homecoming as a high point. They were all in walkers or
wheel chairs.

Found out my old Spanish teacher, Mrs. Hilda Rees, had died two years
ago at age 108. She was a good teacher and brooked no problems in her
classes. Some of us were taught by her from elementary school through
graduation. She lived in three centuries, being born in 1890 something.

Attendance is slowly dwindling, I guess the younger folks have no
interest in such doings. From all the white hair in there a casual
observer would think it had snowed. I came home and took a nap.

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Yikes. When I was starting out, I bought lots and lots of my canning jars
at thrift stores where I paid 10 to 25 cents a piece. I think the last jars
I bought were Golden Harvest. I have a few 12-ounce ones, but not many. I
think I've seen them at Ace Hardware before.

On the same note, I just got email from my church group that they got a hold
of cases of jar lids (didn't say how much they actually got) but they're
selling them to us for 65 cents a box for regular, 97 cents a box for
wide-mouth. And yes, these are Ball lids still in their boxes in cases from
the factory, not the ones that are packaged in sleeves. I'm going to buy 10
boxes of each. I still have a little stockpile as I buy them here and there
throughout the year, but I couldn't pass this up.

On Jun 16, 1:44*pm, "Marilyn" <return.to.sen...@address.unknown.net>
wrote:

If you have a Free Cycle in your area you should put an ad in it for
free canning jars.
picked up about 250 assorted jars (50% still full from the 1970's) for
the price
of a pint of mixed fruit jam (my gift really). There are so many
people who still
throw them out. Many people where I live in So. Calif. don't know that
anyone
still uses them. And you do know that Golden Harvest is just a Ball
jar with
another name. Each one is a tad bigger - the pint is 1/2 liter, and
the larger of
the two - what used to be a quart is really a liter. Some folks have a
fit and
wonder why they can't, in some caners, make them fit. I have not had
that
problem because all my jars are mixed together.
Jim in So. Calif.

jimnginger wrote:
All the fruit jars sold in this country are made by the same
manufacturer now, including Ball, Kerr, and Golden Harvest. I recently
bought some new Golden Harvest jars and they are actually one pint and
one quart jars. The only smaller ones I have seen are the ones Classico
spaghetti sauce comes in, they're 26 ounce versus 32 ounce. Never saw a
Golden Harvest jar that is 1.2 liter. Where do you find the odd sized ones?