Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> In article >, Nyssa >
> wrote:
>> Nyssa, who scored big yesterday finding Pickle Crisp, the jar of Ball
>> pectin, storage lids both regular and wide, a marked down jar of Fruit
>> Fresh and capped it off with a new BH&G Canning magazine
>
> Mercy! I'm getting the vapors over all that, Nyssa.

LOL! That's why I do a Big City run once a month to get stuff that I
can't find locally.

The only item I found in a local store was the marked-down Fruit Fresh.
You'd think being a rural area, more folks would be doing preserving
and canning. The stores here will carry a few cases of quart and pint
jars which are terribly over-priced, but not most of the other items.

I'm now starting to regret not picking up an extra case of half pint
and maybe one of 4 oz jars. I've got plenty of quarts and pints, but
only a few of the half pint. Since I'm single the smaller jars make
more sense for a lot of stuff. That and my neighbors who might get
some surplus are all singles or couple-only and would have trouble
using up a big jar of something.

Nyssa, who planted four blueberry bushes this year and is dreaming of
ways to use the blueberries in years to come