shortages

[baymule]

I keep a 2 year supply. I write the year purchased on the box, so I use the oldest first.

Son bought 6 boxes of regular mouth lids at a store for $2 each this week!

 

[flowerbug]

we don't have room for all that we could can so there is the importance of making priority and to me the main priority is what we use the most. tomato chunks. so those are what we grow the most for canning and then whatever else we do around the edges. 100-150 quarts. 10-15 boxes of lids plus a few boxes for strawberry freezing if i'm short on budget lids.

 

[tortoise]

Son bought 6 boxes of regular mouth lids at a store for $2 each this week!

Nice! Ball lids are starting to appear here. $3.99/reg, $4.99 wide. I'm buying an extra box each time I shop. I need to do a proper inventory. I have plenty but need to keep stock rotated. I plan to can more than usual this year. I'm watching jar prices too. Stores stocked up on off brand jars, and Ball jars are back now too. So many jars! Prices should come down.

 

[Mini Horses]

Should. . Won't

 

[FarmerJamie]

Walmart was stocked to the gills with canning shelves. Got 6 doz pints, 3 doz quarts, additional 12 doz lids. Didn't dent the shelves. This should be about enough

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

Our WalMart had been hit or miss but $3.99-4.99 for Kerr and Ball. Golden Harvest $2.93. Hardware store only has Pur Brand

 

[FarmerJamie]

Golden harvest lid

We have a great farmer's market uptown (a friend is one of the growers) for extra produce. Now that I have convinced the wife the pressure canner won't blow up the house, she wants to can everything and then some. We agreed to set some time aside with no distractions, to look through my canning recipe books to get a list together.

I am wavering on how many jars/lids we should have on hand above and beyond that stuff.

So we went through the canning books independently, wrote down our preferences, and compared lists.
The project manager in me now has the start of a plan to execute. Lol

 

[FarmerJamie]

Found 10 more dozen jars, including counting those that are filled.
Wife helped count loose jars. She exclaimed excitedly we have over 300 jars now in total. Thought maybe we could back off a bit. Lol

 

[Rammy]

Found 10 more dozen jars, including counting those that are filled.
Wife helped count loose jars. She exclaimed excitedly we have over 300 jars now in total. Thought maybe we could back off a bit. Lol

Yeah, right......back off...... men can be do cute sometimes........just teasing @FarmerJamie....

 

[Fixit]

When it comes to canning supplies the words To much is not enough comes to mind.