50p a day til Christmas - healthily?! Weezl's next challenge...

shaz_mum_of__2

Thanks Mrs Mc will let you know how i get on

Isom yes please to tomato sauce recipe and could i please have the hot plum chutney recipe too i guess red plum will be ok?

never got your e mail re soaps unless i deleted it along with the 376 spam e mails which arrived whilst away?

Munchki do they still have those jars on e bay or was it a one off also looking for a cheap? dehydrator if anyone has seen one


Shaz

shaz_mum_of__2

whoops crossed posts

i was planning to make the sauces and use the Mr T empty cider vinegar bottles i have been saving with a corked stopper and a wax seal and design some labels and give as prezzies as part of a hamper

Shaz

munchki

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

Munchki do they still have those jars on e bay or was it a one off also looking for a cheap? dehydrator if anyone has seen one Shaz

Here is the ebay shop I bought the jars from http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Emet-Packaging
Hope the link works ok. Please let me know if it does not.
Kathxx

phizzimum

re jars for jam, I find that jars that have had mayonnaise or tomato puree in them don't smell tainted. I have to hide mine from OH too! But he's not complaining now we have 9 jars of blackberry and apple to hoard away for winter (ooh I feel like a squirrel)

thanks for the tip about butter - I never knew that!

meanmarie

Will probably buy a dehydrator if I come across one but last year I used my fan oven at about 90c, four racks which I lined with baking parchment. Core and peel apples, (you can use core and peel to make apple jelly), slice fairly thinly and lay out on racks, leave in oven until dry....can't remember how long it took but was several hours. When dried to a slightly rubbery texture, leave out for about a day, then all I did was put them into a brown paper bag, roll down top and ignore...kept them with my flour and other dried fruit...was really amazed at how long they lasted.

Was a bit of a fiddle, but was lovely to be able to grab a handful and chew...the drying seemed to sweeten them quite a bit.

Marie

Sian_the_Green

ISOM, how do you work 'selling' the jam to colleagues. I'd love to sell some stuff, like HM cards and jam and chutney, not for masses of money but as I often give stuff away I am sure I end up out of pocket. Sorry if I have misunderstood!

cw18

munchki wrote: »

Here is the ebay shop I bought the jars from http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Emet-Packaging
Hope the link works ok. Please let me know if it does not.
Kathxx

Thanks for that link -- they have a fantastic range of jars. I'm also looking at using glass jars for storing odds and sods of craft items (so I can see what I have in the hope I'll use existing stuff instead of buying more that I can't afford!), and they have some small ones that may be incredibly useful for that..... just need to get on with sorting everything so I can work out if I need enough to justify buying 100 of them !!!

MRSMCAWBER

Hi folks

I have just been looking at this site

http://www.freemanharding.co.uk/index.htm
not sure how the prices compare... but they have some lovely prety jars--I like the tall thin ones that you buy that lovely jam in lol

munchki

You are very welcome for the links. my pleasure!!

if there is anything else I can do to assist to help please let me know.. I am always to help

Kath xx

cw18

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Hi folks

I have just been looking at this site

http://www.freemanharding.co.uk/index.htm
not sure how the prices compare... but they have some lovely prety jars--I like the tall thin ones that you buy that lovely jam in lol

Even better

Was looking at the 1.5oz round jars -- the ebay seller does 100 for £31.75 including postage (31.75p each), the site you've linked to sells them in trays of 126 and by the time I've added on delivery they come in at just £25.20 (20p each)