Homemade Meals in a Jar: Quick and Easy Recipes with Just Add Water

Wonderful book for just starting out in canning: Easy to follow the steps. Great recipes

Australia on Apr 05, 2024

Yancy T.Yancy T.: So much more than the title suggests!
Every “recipe” is so thorough, of course, a list of ingredients, but also how to store them. The processes vary, ensuring even beginners with little equipment can do a few. From water bath canning to Mylar bags, instructions are enough to ensure confidence for short, or long term storage.

United States on Mar 23, 2024

Jivette: Very disappointed. The ingredients are bagged in plastic bags.

Germany on Jul 07, 2023

Jacqueline Foucault: Gave me ideas for making meals on busy days

Canada on Sep 14, 2021

DKGreenDKGreen: I love this book.! Several reasons I purchased this book. I've always had an interest in easy to prepare food. I have trouble "cooking small" after many years of cooking for a family. By halving the recipes and canning them in pints jars, I can pull out something, use the side kit and salad... meal complete. The food is good.!! So far only made the chicken and beef chipotle, but the flavor is lovely. Again, side kits make match-ups easy... meal complete. There are so many recipes, I can hardly wait to try them all. Company comes over, put however much I need off the shelf... again meal complete. And I would actually have time to visit. Win-win. Ideas are even suggested how to start stocking your pantry. Seems a bit simplistic, but you'd be surprised. The nebulous ideas that this is a possibility becomes more concrete and doable. Again you'd think that someone with half a brain should be able to figure this out... and you'd be right. However, some of us... and I include myself in that group... just need a little shove in the right direction. This book does just that. Very grateful. I am in the area where Hurricane Harvey hit this year. I didn't have much done yet as I'd just gotten...

United States on Sep 09, 2017

patricia ellingford: This book has got me thinking in putting stuff up for use later in the month suited to this country's ingredients. I am going to enjoy the playing.

Thank you for a different take on things.

United Kingdom on Mar 23, 2016

camallis: I like to preserve thing - especially from my garden. But then there are those meals that you would like to just have ready to go after work but do you really want something with a pile of ingredients that you can't pronounce? This book had great ideas for jars of food that compliment all of my other preserves and I can change it up however I like! I really enjoy this book.

Canada on Jul 31, 2014

Gabby: We have been purchasing long term food storage items for a while and now need to learn how to cook with them. This book is great and offers a variety of meals to pack and try. So we made an afternoon out of it. Chose about 8 recipes to pack up and got all the jars, tools and dry goods together to get it done. What a blast (and a mess, but a good mess). And is was very satisfying to see so much food put up and ready to use with everything you need right there.

I had some friends over for dinner and I prepared one of the recipes (beef Stroganoff) and it was great! What I really like about it is that it also gives you recipes for canning the wet ingredients if you want. The beef recipe used in the stroganoff was fabulous. We canned blueberries last year and I used them in the Cobbler recipe and there is never any left over. My friend tried the pancake mix and last night I cooked the beef-a-roni with freeze dried beef. It served 6 folks just fine. Just add salad and a drink to the menu and you have dinner!

Of course, I can never let a recipe be straight out of the book, and this does allow you to make adjustments. What I do is test the recipe first on the family (or...

United States on May 08, 2013

J.C. Keller: I have been canning for more than 30 years. So, I have water bath canners, pressure canners, and a food dehydrator and a vacuum sealer already. I am already familiar with the correct USDA methods for canning meats, which is required for many of the main dishes. So I was thrilled with this book which takes things a step further and combines canned meats with other ingredients which you get ready ahead of time and combine in a meal kit. Essentially, you are making ready-to-eat meals at home that are shelf stable. It's a good way to stock a pantry, prepare for emergencies, or have home-made convenience food on hand. However, you don't have to be an expert to use this book. The basics are right there, and the author does remind people to check the USDA guidelines as well. That statement made me trust the recipes all the more. If you are a beginner and want to use this book, please be aware that you should learn to pressure can, and gather up the proper equipment.

This book is not for the type of person who wants to toss a few ingredients in a jar and call it a meal. This book is for those who want to truly create meals ready to eat, from scratch, at home, and are willing to put...

United States on Mar 06, 2013