Where are all the lids???

[Rammy]

My Mom and I are grabbing everything we can before people go ape$hi// and freak out on the canning supplies again. We snagged a whole box of wide mouth lids and are going to grab regular mouth jars and lids when we find them. Chinamart had 4 boxes regular mouth pint jars and quart jars and one box of wide mouth pint jars. I bought all the pint jars and 3 boxes of quart jars. They had 6 or 8 more boxed of quart but didnt have the room in the cart. 🤣

 

[Fixit]

Picked up 120 wide mouth lids today.

 

[Mini Horses]

Dollar General has had boxes of reg at $1.75 a doz. No WM just lids there seen yet. Golden harvest brand, made in USA. Jarden LLC, who owns Foodsaver, also...used to be part of Ball, so I feel ok. Wm should be along soon. Jars, and ring/lid sets We're in good supply, also.

Weren't there last week, just lid pkgs, other stuff was.

That's my public service announcement for today.

 

[Rammy]

Dollar General has had boxes of reg at $1.75 a doz. No WM just lids there seen yet. Golden harvest brand, made in USA. Jarden LLC, who owns Foodsaver, also...used to be part of Ball, so I feel ok. Wm should be along soon. Jars, and ring/lid sets We're in good supply, also.

Weren't there last week, just lid pkgs, other stuff was.

That's my public service announcement for today.

I scored a whole flat of regular lids plus 16 boxes in another flat at DG. I bought them all! Muhahaha!

 

[CrealCritter]

Yesterday my wife came home with a flat of lids and rings plus 10 boxes each of regular and wide mouth lids. She said they were at Walmart. All Ball brand.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

Bay, when I consider that I can buy a dozen WM lids for $1.47, the cost per lid is pretty small. So, I can understand why you would choose not to re-use lids. But, for me, it's a matter of principle. I'm not gonna spend money on anything that I don't have to! And, when the day comes that lids are not available... well... I'll still have a good supply of lids on hand.

 

[Hinotori]

I picked up all the lids I'd be likely to need this year (and extra) back when everyone else was freaking out about water and TP. I had a bad feeling about it if I waited.

Stores here have the normal amount on the shelves. Which is low but that's because it's tuna season as well as produce.

One of the older books I have talks about reusing canning lids if they are in perfect condition and recommends only for water bathing. It was mentioning items like jams and pickles.

Now if you go old school, you can pour paraffin wax on full sugar jams to seal them. Sometimes there still gets a bit of mold growing. Mom said that everyone would just spoon off from under the moldy bit and then use the rest. Great grandma used wax, so did grandma on dad's side. Don't need canning jars for wax. Cut the tops off bottles and sand the edges then use them. The wax is washed off and saved for reuse.

 

[farmerjan]

I learned the wax sealing as a kid helping my mom. Yeah, the little bit of mold that sometimes was found, you scooped it off with a little of the "good jelly" below it and ate the rest. Not a big deal. We only did the full sugar jelly making then. Us kids would go and scrounge and find the wild grape vines and get the grapes and bring them home for mom to make the jelly. Got apples from the tree, cut out the wormy stuff, made apple sauce and apple jelly. Mint that grew along the creek or wetter spots... Blackberries and raspberries that grew wild. We did the collecting, mom did the making and we had jelly all winter for pbj sandwiches.
I have hundreds of the old bail top glass jars . Only had to buy the rubber rings. You can still buy them and I intend to start using them again next year, if I run out of the regular jars and lids. Once the seal is done and the jar is cool to store, you flip the bail off. Any problems, or spoiling of the contents, the glass lid is loose. You toss the contents.
I do like them for storing stuff on the shelves though, they look nice.
Yeah, I know there are going to be many that will tell me that I am crazy. I do not use the zinc lids with the jar rubber. I don't like not being able to see that the rubber is truly in the right place although have done a few with my grandmother like that when she was showing me how it was done "in the olden days" LOL.

I should have enough to not need the bail lid jars though. Having inherited from so many, plus keeping any jars that will use a standard size jar ring and lid, and even reusing smaller store bought type jelly jars and their own lids, I have enough to last forever. If you sell any, then they have to be new jars and lids. That's only safe and smart.

 

[Mini Horses]

Wax on Jelly -- yes. Most only way grands did it. Save those jar lids for veggies.

My chickens LOVE all those "bad spots" I cut from fruits & veggies. Hey, you got 1/2 the apple...they got half. Better than NONE. Same with many veggies....cut out the bad, use the good.

Now that this came up, of course I look at jar & lid supply at every store. Glad I don't need any....they're scarce!

 

[Rammy]

me too. I stocked up on jars as well.

Yeah, rub it in, why dont you? We alllll saw the pics.....