Agrarian Giveaway: Win the Season’s Best Canning & Preserving Essentials

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August 27, 2012 | 2,229 Comments

Congratulations to Ann P., winner in last week’s Agrarian giveaway. Ann is the lucky new owner of our  Kilner Jam Pan Kit, including the preserving pan, funnel and tongs.

 

The last prize up in our month-long giveaway is our Multi-Use Water Bath Canner and Progressive Starter Kit (canning tongs, lid lifter and funnel). This combo includes all the essentials DIY canners need to transform fresh-picked fruits into luscious jams, jellies and preserves.

 

For your chance to win this week’s prize, just leave a comment below by Friday, August 31 at 5:00 pm (PT). We’ll pick a winner at random next Monday.

 

Want to know if you’re the lucky winner? We’ll email our prize winner on Monday 9/3, so be sure to check your inbox. Good luck!

 

 

2229 comments about “Agrarian Giveaway: Win the Season’s Best Canning & Preserving Essentials”

  3. Jonathan

    Figs are the best. We have a fig tree out back that produces more figs that we can handle. Even the squirrels and birds can’t manage all the figs!

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  5. leelee

    I freeze homemade tomato sauce with zucchini, eggplant, onions added. I usually freeze fruit, but would like to do some canning.

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  7. Karen R

    Cherries in brandy or amaretto simple syrup. Great over homemade ice cream!

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  8. Katie

    This is a great idea for a giveaway, canning is an awesome way to have great produce all year!

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  10. haley marconett

    My favorites are two: strawberry jam and carrots. Store-bought versions just don’t taste the same!

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  11. Lynn

    Hands down my favorite is homemade jalapeno relish! Thanks for the fun give-away!

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  14. a.w. tran

    Something about the cooking process that pulls out the wonder of apricots. I love making apricot jam. It was the first jam I learned to make and continues to be my favorite.

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  16. Katie

    My favorite summer preserving food has to be tomatoes. So much to do with them!

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  22. Gayle Mullinax

    This would be great to win. Veggies in my garden are coming off.

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  29. Donna

    Love the idea of preserving , you can control the quality, quantity and ingredients. Love the labels!

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  32. Jan Lachowycz

    I’m interested in learning how to preserve veggies and fruits. This looks like I’d have a head start!

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  38. Rachel Johnson

    These beautiful jars and labels would force my to improve my canning skills and step it up a notch. Would be a welcome addition to out little farm!

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  40. Sandy

    I just love canning it gives such a feeling of satisfaction.. and the reward is you get to eat these goodies all year long :)

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  42. Stephanie

    I would love to can tomatoes. This is my first year growing my own heirlooms, and I have more than I know what to do with! So far, I’ve been giving them away. I’d love to save them for a later date!

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  44. kathy

    My favorite summer preserving food is The Tomato. In all colors. My Mother used to call them her jewels. So pretty and colorful!

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  47. Rachel Johnson

    Strawberry jam is king here (reduced sugar). It is the only strawberries that my son will eat!

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  52. Denise

    How do you pick a favorite, it changes with the season. Here in Central Texas peach season is my favorite and love to make peach butter.

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  55. Tamera

    I love canning the raspberries I grow by making preserves and canning to enjoy the whole year. I am also canning my cucumbers that I grew. I will try canning carrots and radish when they are ready:)

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  57. Joanna Bartley

    Tomatoes! Nothing says summer like tomatoes! For me, it reminds me of my childhood! The beautiful red in the jar, and dishes will give u that summer color all year long! <3!!!

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  58. Diane

    I make my mother’s pepper relish which was her signature recipe. She taught me how to make it before she died so it could always be enjoyed. I will teach my son next .

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  61. Sue Haddox

    I love making Roasted Veggie Salsa and canning it for my friends to enjoy!

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  62. Janet Mcgarvey

    Getting ready to can from my bounty of tomatoes grown in the garden!

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  64. Joy Finch

    When I was young we went berry picking in Oregon behind my Aunts house. It’s a toss up between blackberry or currant jam.

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  67. Sandy Graves

    I just finished canning 18 quarts of spaghetti sauce… getting ready to make blueberry jam… would love to be a winner of any of these items…!

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  68. Phyllis Miller

    DEFINITELY homemade pasta sauce – and pickles, pickles, pickles!!!

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  73. Rebecca

    Definitely chokecherry jelly! So delicious! Not to mention you can add so many other great flavors to it like merlot, cinnamon, or sweet basil. Yum!

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  75. Jennifer Bender

    I love to make peach butter this time of year. Come January, when you crave fresh fruit, a sunny jar of peach butter is so welcome!

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  76. Ginger

    Relish for vegetables with a tomato base is probably my favorite….or maybe mayhaw jelly.

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  79. Jessica Llanes

    My favorite food to preserve is rhubarb, especially strawberry rhubarb jelly. It reminds me of summers with my grandmother. She taught me everything I know about gardens and preserving foods. Some of my favorite memories are in her kitchen.

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  81. Elisabeth Rose

    Blueberries in light syrup – so yummy to recapture summer during the winter months with home canned blueberries over pancakes! Plus they are fast and easy to put up!

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  82. Lisa

    I am learning how to preserve at the moment. I love to cook and plan on giving soup away to friends and family. These would definitely help.

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  85. Sarah

    Definitely figs! They have such a short growing season, but fig preserves with ice cream is one of my favorite desserts.

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  88. Dian Fourcher

    This is a great giveaway…This would be great for my first attempt at canning. We have an abundance of fruit in our backyard to much to eat and give away so I will can the rest….

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  90. Sara

    My favorite summer preserving food is my moms blackberry strawberry jam!! Yummy!

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  92. Suzanna Regos

    Just looking at that picture inspires me, everything looks beautiful and delicious!

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  93. Abigail

    Pickles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!— with lots and lots of garlic added to the jar.

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  94. Michele

    strawberries- since these usually start off the canning season for me. Once I taste homemade strawberry jam, I get all revved up to keep going throughout the summer with anything I can get my hands on!

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  96. Melanie Adams

    I’ve canned all sorts of yummies this year but my favorite is peach barbeque sauce, made with all farmer’s market finds. Even the honey in it is local.

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  98. Laurie

    If I only had to pick one favorite, it would probably be peach vanilla jam, which is lovely, but I can a couple hundred jars of produce each year and would love to try these jars. :-)

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  105. GrammaBearRori

    My favorite is Apple Butter! I just love it!! My 85 year old Dad and I also can peach jam and canned meats together!
    Would love to chance to win these jars!!

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  107. Cornelia Cree

    Tomatoes just in from the field are the best produce one can can at home because the store bought, no matter how well done, just can’t meet the minimum.

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  108. terra brett

    Mullberries! One of my favorite fruits and easily foraged around here.

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  110. Lisa Phillips

    Strawberry freezer jam. We’ve made three batches so far and are on our last jar.

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  114. Anna Burchick

    I just love making jams and fruit butters. I just love peaches!!! This year I made a gingered-peach butter , as well as peach jam.. They are nice to have on hand for a gift or just for your personal enjoyment.

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  116. Megan

    Tomatoes! There are so many delicious and useful ways to process them so that we can enjoy that taste of sunshine all winter long!

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  120. Gabby

    Pesto! Pickles! Beets and carrots! Apple jelly! Oh, what wonderful stuff I would can in those beautiful jars!

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  121. Julie Husted

    Planted a garden this summer so I want to try everything! Pick me! I’m a rookie!

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  124. Gail Thomas

    It is very hard to pick just one favorite food to preserve. Freezing blueberries, strawberries and peaches here in the south is a must and helps extend the enjoyment of these delicious fruits all year. There is nothing better than canning fresh tomatoes to have to enjoy for many dishes for the year.

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  125. Jessica

    Jalapenos!!!!! I LOVE to preserve Jalapenos!!! those are by far my favorite!!!

    Of course, pickles, berries, tomatoes, beets, green beans, anything and everything! And this year I hope to work up to soups and stews!

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  131. Linda McHenry

    My favorite thing to can is peaches…..nothing compares to the flavor of home canned peaches.

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  132. Kathie Hall

    I have so many fond memories of my sweet little mother (of 6, she’s 83 now) canning vegetables & making fig preserves. I’d love to carry on the tradition with my 2 granddaughters! Great contest, thank u, W.S. We LOVE y’all!!!

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  137. Bridgitte Gunnells

    I have so many favorites! I have done, figs, peach jam, raspberry jam, tomatoes, okra, hot pepper jelly and pickles so far. Thanks and happy canning.

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  138. michelle eisner

    My Grandmothers Recipe for Chili Sauce, has been in the family for years!

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  140. Sandy Dolley

    I love canning and making preserves and take a lot of pride in it… Gives me a lot of satisfaction and I know my family is getting good food all year round.

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  141. Tina

    I love this give away will use them for Christmas gifts for family if I win. Thanks!

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  147. Nancy E.

    I use them for dry goods mostly… homemade almond butter, granola, etc. But I love to freeze fresh juiced fruits and veggies in them, too!

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  154. Niki

    It’s got to be cherries, so I can have them all winter in puddings, jams, sauces, cakes, clafoutis, casseroles (chicken and cherry – try it!) the list goes on

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  155. Betty

    Peaches! You can do so much with peaches like peach jam, sliced peaches, peach salsa, peach BBQ sauce, and peach mead. Yum!

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  157. gloria hernandez

    JELLY AND JAMS OF DIFFERENT FRIUTS AND WANT TO TRY TO CAN MY SPECIAL SAUCE FOR ENCHILADAS , AND OTHER MEXICAN DISHES..

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  158. Robin Gitelman

    I’m not sure I can pick my favorite summer preserving food but my favorite summer preserving method is making fruit butters in the crockpot. So easy and doesn’t heat up the kitchen!

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  159. Sharron Collins

    I’d like to try making dilly beans this week. I think these jars are wonderful!

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  163. Shannon Watkins

    The only thing I’ve canned so far is tomato juice! Hoping to try lots more soon!

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  164. brittany

    this looks amazing! what a wonderful way to ensure that summer flavour all year round!

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  166. Kate Pellerin

    Must of the summers of my youth were spent with my Nana in southern Oklahoma. Every year we picked plums from over 30 trees in her land. We then made plum preserves for every neighbor, family member and church goer she knew. Heck, even some she didn’t. She was sort of known for her huge basket with the blue plaid liner just full of jars of jelly and jam. She even had hand made labels that said, “Just Plum Good”. And it was. She just turned 100 this last April, and folks from all around came to wish her well. Most reminisced with her about her preserves. What a gift she is and what a blessing to have had those Oklahoma summers.

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  170. Merri

    I love these jars!! they would be great displayed in my kitchen with some of my home canned goods!!

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  174. Regina Baird

    I hope to be able to get some of these jars someday. I thank you for the contest.

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  175. Carrie

    Spicy vinegar, with onions, garlic, peppers of all sorts. Great on Collards!

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  176. Carolyn holt

    Strawberry and blackberry jam and pickle beets, Green beans…the Wonderful colors of summer and the best things of winter!

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  179. lorraine

    I have just recently started “putting up” or canning the wonderfulness of the garden! I think my favorite so far is pickled okra… fabulous in bloody mary. Going to try making dilly beans tomorrow!!

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  181. Katie

    We love canning: apples, pears, tomato, salsa and our own homemade soups and chili’s!

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  185. Andrea

    Strawberries! Ever since my neighbor taught me how to make and can jam when I was little, I look forward to it every summer :) Thanks!

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  187. Jane Charnley

    Just starting my own stockpile/one years supply of food in my pantry. Learning to can and pickle – want to do jams and jellies – can’t wait!!

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  188. Angie Miller

    I enjoy canning the tomatoes that I grow in my small backyard garden because they are so versatile. I use them to make everything from spaghetti sauce to meat loaf to the stewed tomatoes that we like to serve over rice in the South. One day I will be brave enough to try my hand at ketchup.

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  189. Karen Miller

    I love can, freeze, or dehydrate anything that I can get my hands on. Also, love to dry and freeze onions, peppers, and herbs.

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  190. Sheri

    I love to make peach preserves in the summer. Those cute jars would be perfect!

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  193. Michelle Anderson

    These are adorable! I’ve only seen these online…would LOVE to try them out.

    Hmmm…just one favorite? I guess I’d have to pick tomatoes in all their forms…salsa, sauces, dried…

    Thanks for the opportunity!

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  198. lori black

    I love love love these….I’m going green and using glass for all my storage needs!

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  199. Helen MacAndrew

    I would have to say jam, and things that are mixed…such as mixed veggie pickles, relishes…all the different colors blending together looks great!!
    Thanks so much for this opportunity!! I could sooooo use any of these items; would love them all!!! I must say, those are the best looking labels I have seen in a long time, as they are getting harder to find!!
    Thanks again,
    Helen

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  202. Ann Cornell

    I love everything about your website!!!!! Figs are my favorite and I would love the WECK canning jars to put them in!!!! Also, I like to put up jalpenas (sp?) and could use the jars for that too……

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  203. Jennifer chaffin

    Peaches! I made peach salsa, peach pie filling, and peach jam. I live in Oklahoma, about thirty miles from Porter, and they have the best peaches.

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  208. Rekha

    Good old plain tomato sauce for sure. Indians use a lot of tomatoes in cooking.

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  210. Diana Hagenauer

    Strawberry Jam is always my favorite but I am very interested in trying orange marmalade. Love the Wednesday jars.

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  211. Kristin

    Applesauce, peaches, corn, zucchini and whatever else is growing in the garden that year!

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  216. Erika Benites

    I remember making strawberry jam with my grandmother often. It was a hot and grueling job but to this day this is one of my most cherished memories of my grandmother. I miss those days with her :(

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  217. Cheryl

    I have a mango tree, I love canning mangoes every summer. So special because they’re from my tree!

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  219. Margie Hurt

    My favorite thing to can is green beans. We didn’t have a good garden this year because we are in the middle of the drought!

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  222. jen dunphy

    My fave summer preserving food is blackberries! Which is a good thing because there are hundreds of jars worth growing wild in my yard! Made backberry jam this weekend! Next up is blackberry pie filling

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  223. Vanessa

    Just beginning my canning adventure. But so far salsa has been fun with all the fresh garden goddies!

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  227. Jane

    Love home canned green beans….oh, and dilly beans: yellow wax beans pickled…..mmmmm!

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  229. Rita Hennessy

    My roasted San Remo tomatoes started from seed and finally to canning jar!

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  231. Shannon DeDora

    Pickled green beans! My grandfather made them in his backyard every year. It’s my favorite memory of him and I loved snacking on them all summer long!

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  234. Debra gallichio

    I love to can tomatoes. I grow all of mine. i grow san marzano tomatoes and can all my tomato sauce, v8, dressing, bloody mary mix.. I have canned 54 jars so far.

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  235. Tina McElhattan

    I haven’t canned yet, but its on the to do list. But I have been freezing peppers and tomatoes to use later. Can’t wait to make my own ketchup and salsa.

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  237. Paulina

    We love to preserve our own green beans and chopped tomatoes b/c in the winter they are perfect for vegetable stew! Nothing like homemade…

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  238. Allison

    Wow, these would be great for preserving tomato sauce and all of our peppers!

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  240. Leah

    Enjoy canning my own tomato sauce and salsa. Would love to try making jam.

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  241. Maryann S.

    These canning jars look awesome. I can only imagine how they would look with tomatoes, relish, pickles, green beans and strawberry jam.

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  242. Debbie

    Pickled green tomatoes. I remember helping my mom and grandmother make them at the end of each summer with Jersey garden tomatoes.

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  243. Kristin Johnson

    Love Rasberry Jalapeño Jelly!!! Yummy With cream cheese on crackers!

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  244. melanie

    My favorite summer preserving food is anything that comes out of my garden. Each year is diffrent so I perserve it all at lest a meal of it.

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  248. Heather Lundy

    These are lovely! Thank for the chance to win – I’ve been canning all month.

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  251. Nicole

    Yay, such beautiful canning jars! I love canning fig and strawberry jams and pickles :)

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  254. Terri Gaines

    Cherries! They are so plentiful. I make Cherries Varenya, a Russian treat that can be spread on bread, stirred into some Greek yogurt, or as a topping on ice cream. It’s a great way to warm up winter with nature’s summer treats!

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  255. Gail

    OMgosh, love these jars. My favorite preserving food….I’d have to say….jelly. Yep, jelly..apricot, dandelion, red clover.

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  261. Terri Peña

    Peaches are my favorite summer canning. Lots of work, but i really appreciate it come February. Today I put up a batch of Smoked Green Onions. MMMM

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  262. julie

    Peach marmalade…aka “better than anything a local dealer could sell”…

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  264. Alison Probert

    I took the Tomato sauce class, and my favorite thing to preserve in summer is peach bourbon jam.

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  267. Stephanie G.

    Just made plum freezer jam for the very first time….can’t wait to experiment with other types of canning (this giveaway would be a perfect start)! Thanks for the opportunity!

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  268. Jason

    Roma tomatoes. Love being able to use them for pasta/pizza sauce and chili/stew all winter long.

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  269. Kathy

    Wild muscadine jelly, oh how wonderful it makes the house smell when it cooks! Aug 11 is my birthday, what a great birthday present these jars would make. Have a great day.

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  279. Wendy Flynn

    Love preserving blueberry jam in the early summer!

    Thank you for sponsoring such a lovely giveaway!

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  281. sandra

    I am a newbie, I have bought some jars and lids and a book. Can’t wait to learn how!When I do, I want to hit the farm stand and buy some of everything to can! These jars are so cool!

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  282. Brenda Duncan

    I can everything I can get my hands on. We have a big garden, plus I can a lot of jelly and jams. I also can a lot of chili and soups, plus I butcher and can most of our own chicken. There’s nothing better than canned deer stew or B B Q rabbit. I try to precerve most of our own food. I ran out of jars yesterday and just went and bought 6 more cases today, because I have 5 five gallon buckets of tomatoes to put up tonight. This is a great giveaway, I’m sure who ever wins it will put them to good use. Thanks

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  285. Marilyn Wood

    Peach jam and jalepeno relish are my favorite summer things to can.

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  286. Denise

    So hard to choose – squash relish, blueberry-lemon preserves, pepper jelly, . . .

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  288. Rose C

    I would love to be able to win a set of the jars. Thank you for the chance and good luck to all who enter.

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  290. Adriana Zaragoza

    I am new to canning and lack supplies, I made some quick refrigerator pickles in some old jam jars that I had, these came out tasty. I would love to try canning some preserves, jams and jellies. My friend is giving me the peaches from her trees! Like to use what I have on hand and my friend loves that I take the peaches, I don’t know how anyone could get sick of peaches! LOL

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  293. Debbie

    I haven’t done much canning in recent years but my favourites were Nanking Cherry jelly, Rhubarb jam and beet pickles.

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  294. Becky

    I just discovered how easy radishes are to grow so they quickly became my favorite food to preserve. Pickled radishes!!

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  295. Geralyn Obetz

    Tomatoes!!!!!!! Sauce, Ro-Tel, Juice, Jam, Chutney, Preserves, Diced, Whole, Puree, Crushed, Soup. We plant close to 200 plants every year! They are such a versatile veggie (or fruit, depending on your perspective!)

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  296. Phyllis Chambers

    Love their products I shop at mall of ga raspberries is my fave jam

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  300. Jane Bimson

    We canned 17 qts of bread and butter pickles last weekend!!! 34 pints the week before. And 36 half pints of strawberry jam all with we can’t live without Bell Jars!!!

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  301. Mary Kay DeSola

    I love to can tomatoes, tomato jam and just made a wonderful stone fruit jam!

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  302. Julie Giacopetti

    Canning from the garden is like scrap booking summer – to be opened and enjoyed when in need of summer on a cold winters day.

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  303. Stacie Meiers

    My husband and I just started canning this year. So far our favorite is oven roasted tomato sauce. We can use it for chili or spaghetti sauce this winter. I really enjoyed the canning! But it did get a little hot!

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  304. Melissa S.

    I love to can my homemade Maple Cinnamon Applesauce! It would look wonderful in these amazing jars! :D

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  306. Tonja Lynch

    I’m pretty new to canning. I’m excited about pickling and canning green beans this year. My daughter is also happy about these!

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  307. Bonne Saum

    Most people like pickled cucumbers, but in our house pickled eggs from our chickens rule!

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  308. Patty Kepley

    My favorite is jam,curd, tomatoes, sauce and pickles… in that order.

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  309. Kelly

    Every summer I make strawberry freezer jam, and homemade spaghetti sauce

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  313. Merilee

    Tomatoes are my favorite to preserve. I love having delicious tomato sauce all year long! My kids definitely love pickles the best though!

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  316. Mary Koster

    I love making blackberry jam….and it would look spectacular in these jars!

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  318. Bonne Saum

    Most people like pickled cucumbers but in our house pickled eggs from our chickens rule!

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  320. Jessica Castillo

    Berries! Ripe and at their peak sweetness. Makes for perfect preserves! Summer all year round.

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  321. Sue Driscoll

    I like to make enough strawberry and raspberry jam to last us until next year.

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  322. Rick

    My wife and I enjoy canning the bounty of our garden – fig preserves, pepper jelly, salsa, marinara, and tomatoes.

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  324. Jennifer

    Pears! There is nothing better than opening a jar of sweet pears halves on a cold January day…

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  327. Melyssa

    I love to experiment with all kinds of veggies….this is a great giveaway.!

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  328. e Butler

    Tomatoes. my father’s recipe for stewed tomatoes. I know it’s common, but i love the entire process. These are phenomenal jars for just about everything. Canning, storing, even just making things last much much longer in the refrigerator. I would love to have these jars in every size.

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  329. Heather O.

    I’ll never forget all the wonderful home preserved strawberry jam my Nanny (granny) used to make when I was a child. I can still taste it. I would SO love to win this giveaway!!

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  330. Rena Nash

    I can just about everything but my favorites are jams and preserves! :)

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  335. Lexi Swords

    Strawberry Fig Preserves!!!!!! What a great prize..! Love the chalkboard labels.

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  336. Kathryn

    I love to have canned tomatoes always on hand. I go through tons of them!

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  337. kristin freyman

    Yay! I’m making jam and pickles and chutney……love my local farmer’s market!

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  339. Melissa Prom

    Any fruit jelly or jam. But I do like making pickles too….. so many choices!

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  340. Heidi Hendrickson

    Love your site, and of course your products! Think it is so cool that you also arrange cooking classes, can’t wait until my baby starts bottle and I can attend. Keep bringing/posting inspirations!

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  346. Gina

    Anything to do with peaches. Gotta preserve this wonderful summer fruit for the months to come!

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  349. Kristin K

    I love canning jam. I use to can raspberry, with my grandma, who taught me how to can. Now I can both raspberry and strawberry. Reminds me of Summers with her! :)

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  352. Anna Nickson

    I’m taking a Water Bath Canning class tomorrow night. I have a freezer full of picked berries and lots of farm fresh veggies to preserve!

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  355. Susan Jachimiec

    What a great project for providing a cruise on our sailboat.

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  356. Darla Griffin Lapeyre

    Cucumbers with fresh dill and blueberry and strawberry preserves. Would LOVE to win. Pretty please!

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  359. Cynthia Baker

    My favorite home-grown canned produce is Jalapeño Jelly! This summer has provided a bumper crop of super hot jalapeño peppers and hot peppers in general. Yummy!

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  360. Amy Cotterman

    Tomato relish … nothing like it mid winter with fresh foccaccia … yum!

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  361. Lenda

    What a fabulous giveaway! Someone is gonna be very, VERY happy! I hope it’s me!

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  362. Maria Steenberger

    This summer I have canned preserves for the first time. My new favorite, strawberry jam to go with fresh scones. What a wonderful treat this will be on a cold winter’s morning!

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  363. Loren Gaffin

    I love to can New Jersey Roma tomatoes from the Garden State. My canning begins next weekend and I share them with friends who enjoy using the tomatoes during the winter months. I’m trying cucumbers this year, in addition to the tomatoes!!

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  364. carole pierce

    I just started canning and am loving all the different receipes ad different ideas that people have. I really could use some canning supplies because I want to start incorporating canning in my homeschooling lessons here at ho?e.

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  368. Heidi Hendrickson

    Forgot to mention my favorite. Growing up I loved it when my mom made fresh raspberry jam. So in fruit section I must say raspberries and red currant berries too. Other timatoes and chilipeppers are my favs, will attempt to make chilli-jam tonight. First time ever canning (with limited supplies), wish me luck :)

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  374. holly giauque

    two little words: Peach Butter. …i love love love everything in this giveaway!!!!! The winner is sooooo lucky! Need those jars.

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  375. Patricia

    Fantastic give away!

    I’ve been preserving plum tomatoes for many years to use to make fresh tomato sauce for pasta. My Italian mother-in-law showed me how to do this when my husband and I were first married and it has been an August tradition ever since. The sauce made from these tomatoes tastes amazing!

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  376. Julie Gibson

    I love making jellies – my favorite this year is peach-raspberry!

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  377. Rebecca

    Have made Mixed berry jam and Strawberry Jam so far. Will never buy store bought again

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  379. Preppy Pink Crocodile

    My favorite food to preserve is tomato. Specifically SALSA! I could eat salsa every day! MMMM! And it is such a treat to eat my own home grown t’maters in my canned salsa in February!

    KK

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  385. Nicole

    So far my favorite was an accident! My niece and I set out to make peach butter, but a small reading error gave us a LOT more sugar than we needed. So we added the apricots I had and named it Fuzzy Butter.

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  389. Kim

    I love preserving every summer food, but my favorite would have to be whole tomatoes with zucchini,onions,and banana peppers! We get together as Family and can for almost 24hours!

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  400. Rod coon

    Tomato jam! Just recently discovered it. with the mass quantities of tomatoes coming out of my garden I have to find many uses for them.

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  402. Desiree

    Without a doubt my favorite are Roma tomatoes. Just the thought of them makes my mouth water-because that means I’ll be making sauce. My Sicilian mother-in-law taught me how to make sauce when I was nineteen. I am now fifty-six. She passed away four years ago. Every Sunday dinner when I make one of her dishes, I wave my hand over the sauce like she did and I smell the sauce. I close my eyes and I can hear her laugh and thank God I had her in my life. She was THE best cook. SHe will be forever missed.

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  408. Andrea Olley

    Tomatoes! No pickles! Wait, strawberry jam. No….really, I have to pick a favorite?

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  409. Berit Maxwell

    I’ve never canned, but I’ll say strawberries since I love my mother in laws strawberry freezer jam

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  410. Kristin

    Cucumbers for bread and butter pickles! They would look fabulous in those Weck jars!!!

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  414. Lisa Donati

    I don’t think I could pick a favorite…I am canning all summer long! I did have a good peach year…jam, preserves and salsa

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  416. Sandra Elboubkri

    Definitely lemons this is the time of month Ii preserve my lemons for all the tagines we have in the fall and winter. Also check the lemoncello which is ready to be bottled in two weeks to enjoy with our Thanksgiving dinner.

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  419. Tricia Duliban

    I am new to canning so at the moment I am enjoying canning everything! lol I think one of my favorite summer food to preserve will be pickled beets.

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  420. Rebecca Lewis

    I love hot pepper jam! These cans and labels look like they would make it SO easy!

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  421. Tami

    I love to can the things I use the most and that would have to be tomatoes! I love these jars too. How absolutely beautiful.

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  425. Libby

    This would be such a great prize to win! I have some plums that need canning….

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  427. Nicole H

    I would love to win : ) We just planted our first ever garden and I would love to do some canning! Thanks!!!

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  428. mary

    can not beat canning your own home grown tomatoes. we wait all year and then “can” like mad! LOVE these jars!!!!

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  430. Sheri

    My favorite summer food…so hard! I’m going to say crabapple butter. It’s the ultimate in thrifty. You take crabapples, which I forage from places that normally let them rot on the ground (places that don’t use pesticides). Then, after simmering out the juice and making jelly, I press out the pulp of all those tiny apples. It gets cooked down with a bit of the juice, some sugar and cinnamon. It’s just amazing. A near win is peach peel jelly.
    Thanks for a great giveaway!

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  431. Kathleen

    I just put up Sweet Pickled Peaches – they’ll be delicious by Thanksgiving!

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  434. beverly willey

    Gotta say the bloody mary triple threat…. Home made tomato juice, pickles cured in a crock and pickled onions. But I do love my strawberry jam too.

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  435. Jane

    I absolutely love pickled green tomatoes and pickled green beans. Your photo is absolutely wonderful!

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  439. Donna

    Tomatoes or green beans! Reminds me of all the wonderful things my Mother used to can!

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  440. Caryn

    I love Weck jars! I save them for my gifts because they are so pretty.

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  441. Melissa

    I’ve been into canning pickles, tomatoes, and other vegtables this year.

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  443. Elizabeth Finfgeld

    Succulent pears and wild raspberries foraged from my 11 acres — holy yummmm.

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  445. Tiffany Miller

    I just canned for the first time last week, this would be amazing!

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  446. Frances LeClair

    My favorite summer food to can is probably cucumbers and tomatoes. Nothing like making your own pickles and having tomatoes from the garden to cook with all summer long.

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  447. Melanie Chezem

    I’ve just started canning, carrying on the tradition of my grandma!

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  449. Marilyn Smith

    I love yo can salsa. There’s nothing like opening a jar in January and enjoying a bit of summer flavor

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  450. jean

    I absoluyely love putting up jams and jelly. there are so many unusual kinds out there, and We have access to a much larger veriety of fruits than ever, I give my labors to friends and family, anyone that comes along, as long as I gewt my jars back. I just love to share. Same goes for all the things I freeze from summer to summer

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  451. April C

    My favorite has to be sour cherries. They have a short season and so are the perfect candidate for preserving.

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  454. Jodi Hall

    I love canning and freezing all the summer harvest. There is nothing better in the dead of winter, then to open the summer harvest items and enjoying the fresh taste of your own food !!! There is no way I could chose just one. They are all so wonderful !!!!

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  455. Marilyn Smith

    I love preserving roasted pepper salsa. There’s nothing like opening a jar in January and enjoying a bit of summer flavor

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  456. bdaiss

    Nope, sorry, can’t pick. That’s like choosing a favorite child. Beets, dilly beans, pickled asparagus, mixed berry jam, tomato soup….there are too many to love. Thanks for the chance!

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  457. Carrie

    Hard to choose between strawberries or peaches. They are like summer in a jar, especially in January.

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  460. latisha

    My favorite thing to preserve is a toss up between rose petal jelly or apple jalepeno jelly.

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  462. Jennifer

    Simply delight-full jars! I would fill mine with tomatoes, basil and onion!

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  463. Dayius Turvold Celotta

    It’s a toss up between strawberry jam and dill pickles. Who could really pick? They are SO different!

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  464. Roxanne

    Fresh summer tomatoes…there are so many different ways to enjoy them all year…salsa has to be my fave though!

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  468. Danielle

    Peaches are the pinnacle of summer to me, and I love reserving them to get great summer flavor all year round!

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  469. Patty Woolever

    Those jars are beautiful. They would elevate whatever you put into them. I’ve never seen them before.

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  470. Tami Shedden

    Salsa would have to be my favorite. It looks so pretty and colorful in the jars. But everything that comes out of the garden is important because I grew it and I know that it is safe to eat and usually better tasting than what you get from the store.

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  473. Matthew LaShure

    Just have to stick with the classics, and go with a good half sour pickle!

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  475. Deb Hoskins

    I love weck jars – I have slowly been collecting them to try out canning with them this year!

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  476. Rebekah DiGiorgio

    Hoping to win and learn to can for the first time! Thanks!

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  479. Ellen Godfrey

    My favorite thing to can is strawberry jam. Ok, it is the only thing I know how to can. I’ve only been doing this for two weeks. My mom broke her hip last week. It has been an intense week and the recovery has only just begun. Jam making is what I look forward to in the few precious spare hours I can call my own. It gives me some control in an otherwise out of control situation. It also gives me a nice thank you for the kindnesses shown by the doctors and nurses who have come to our rescue.

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  480. Marissa

    I’ve never canned before, but I’d love to try to make some apricot jam!

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  482. Tracy Richardson

    This is my first year canning. So far, I have made strawberry jam, raspberry jam, blueberry jam, and pasta sauce. I’ve enjoyed every bit of it. I planned to do applesauce, apple pie filling, and apple butter. I think those will be on the top of the list.

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  483. allen millirons

    my parents used to make the best grape jelly,i would love to keep up their tradition and give them a couple of jars my homemade jam ! they are too old to do anything like that now,so i grow a garden just to give them veggies i grew myself !

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  485. Deb Hoskins

    I want to make mango chutney, black raspberry jam, hamburger relish, the sky is the limit!

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  488. Kris Dunn

    Tomotoes- they are so versatile – I make so many different things with them. Thanks for the chance to win!

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  489. Christy

    Last summer I taught my sister’s then-10-year old daughter how to can fresh strawberry jam. She came up to visit and we struck out early for strawberry fields to pick fresh Hood Strawberries. She loves to bake and I’ve tried to foster her interest by buying her quality, fun cupcake and baking tools over the years. I truly hope I can be the mentor for her that I always wished that I would have had. We had so much fun and she went home with a year’s worth of homemade goodness!

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  500. Tara

    So many things to chose from; strawberry rhubarb jam, apricot jam, apricot bbq sauce, rhubarb jalepeno chutney, apple chutney, apple sauce, apple pie filling, just to name a few, but I would have to say roasted tomatoes with garlic and herbs is my favorite. Perfect for quick dinners in the winter.

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  501. Raven Hawthorne-Lockett

    I’ve always wanted to try pickled watermelon rhine. Had it as a kid and now that my garden is in full production mode it would be great to save some of it.

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  502. Rosario Seelen

    Ok so if I must pick “one” ……farmed picked blueberry by the family! –What a great giveaway! Please pick me. We just made a military moved across the country. These are great for canning but I would use them for my 3 kids assigned by sizes for pantry use. These are so multi purpose. Are these in the store already?

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  503. EMK

    I just made my first jar of jam and am excited to really get into preserving! These jars would be the perfect way to get me started!

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  507. Patricia Pennebaker

    Are you kiddng?? Home canned tomatoes are fabulous! This year I will be trying to pickle cucumbers! I am growing the cukes and the dill. Wish me luck!

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  508. Jamie wegener

    Fresh blueberry and rosemary marmalade marinated with a fresh orange and lemon rinde

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  510. Melanie Swenson

    I grew up canning with my mom and sisters, we canned pears, peaches, cherries. We would eat the fruit with either cottage cheese or yogurt. I have passed this tradition onto my 4 daughters!

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  512. sandi sohn

    Right now I love canning pickles and experimenting with different flavors. My friends and co- workers are my captive guinea pigs, oh I mean recipients of my canned gifts. :)

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  515. Andrea

    Fruit for pie fillings. So much better than store bought, especially mid-winter.

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  520. Leslie Birmingham

    Tomatoes, alwsys have plenty. I can make sweet to savory. Jam to salsa to sauce.

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  522. Julia

    Favorite thing to preserve in summer? Is that the question? If it is, then that is a tough one. Tomatoes are exhausting, but so rewarding, so I’ll go with them. But, jam, of course, is more full of love.

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  525. Susan Mangus

    I love peaches! Preserving them allows me to enjoy them all year long.

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  527. Kelsey H

    Okra, okra, okra! Spicy, salty and perfect for brunch Bloody Marys.

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  529. Gabrielle Beck

    Anything containing strawberries! Most of all, strawberry salsa! There is nothing quite like the taste of pick of the season strawberries in the dead of winter. YUM!

    Thanks for a chance to win some amazing goodies!

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  531. Emily m low

    Figs in balsamic reduction. Perfect on grilled pork or chiabata with goat cheese

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  533. bethany

    I love canning tomatoes, I never can seem to do as many as I use in the winter, but they make the best soups!

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  535. Emily

    Great giveaway! I plan on canning tomatoes and homemade spaghetti sauce tomorrow!

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  537. Gail Carriveau

    It would have to be tomatoes. I plant about 25-30 plants every year, mainly heirloom varieties.
    I can tomato paste, chunk tomatoes, pizza sauce, ketchup, BBQ sauce, tomato chutney. This year I will try a tomato jam. Oh can’t forget the salsa! Hoping for a decent harvest despite the low rainfall. The best part; the air conditioning we had installed last year- its much more pleasant now!

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  545. Elizabeth Davis

    I love making strawberry jam the best!! I am really looking forward to canning my heirloom tomatoes this year though.

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  547. Morga]

    Ooh fun! I’m getting into canning again this year, and my tree is full of pears!

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  552. Dee

    Salsa!! I love to grow everything in our garden & sample different pepper combinations. It reminds me of making salsa with my Mexican Grandmother when I was young.

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  553. Tonya Baxter

    would love to try these haven’t seen these around in our area.. Would be beautiful with peach-cherry jam!! Great if not the best giveaway I have seen!!!

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  554. Jen

    Strawberry jam, but I have some culinary lavender I’d like to use to make Strawberry Lavender Jam this summer! : 9

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  556. Johanna

    Strawberries are my favorite classic, but cherries, green beans, and tomatoes also are wonderful.

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  557. Nancy murdock

    I’ve never canned, but I’ve looked wistfully at bread and butter and mustard pickles at state fairs. Some of those jams turn my head, too. I promise to bless your name as I check that baby off the bucket list, if I win. :)

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  558. Dawn

    Various incarnations of strawberry jam to eat on my yogurt throughout the year. Can’t live without it!

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  565. Mukta

    I absolutely love making pickles with the fresh cucumbers, onions, and herbs from the summer harvest! This year I also did sour pickled green tomatoes–delicious!!!

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  566. Adrienne Sommer

    Every July/August I get together with friends and we make different varieties of peach jelly and jam. We pick the peaches from our peach trees and always look forward to trying new recipes. This year we made Raspberry/Peach, Ginger Peach and Lavender/Peach using all the freshest fruits and herbs from the garden. My favorite is the Peach/Lavender which I’m giving as holiday gifts this year! It is really yummy.

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  570. Mary

    A great way to enjoy all the wonderful summer fruits and vegetables over and over!

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  574. Sara

    Organic strawberry jam using the smallest, sweetest strawberries from Chinook farms in Snohomish,WA!

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  575. C. J. Hall

    I grew up canning with my mom. At the age of 42, there are things I have never purchased from the store because I cannot imagine something store bought could ever taste as good as home made.

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  580. Lynne Maxwell

    Canning is not only a way to assure quality but also saves money and extends summer flavors deep into winter and beyond. These jars and labels are a delightful way to pay homage to our harvests!

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  583. Karen

    It’s going to be tomatillos with the banner crop I’ve got growing this year!

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  585. Jodi

    Strawberry, raspberry and blackberry preserves. We eat it on everything…icecream, bagels + cream cheese + preserves. So good!

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  587. Sara

    I just attended the canning class at my local William Sonoma. Our instructor used these jars, they are beautiful and would make great holiday gifts.

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  588. Jill McK

    I am just getting back in to canning and freezing and I LOVE it!!! My new father in law has a huge garden every year and this year I get to help myself to whatever I want!! To pick a favorite produce would be impossible! Blueberries, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers of all kinds, squash, cabbage…. you name it!! I can’t get enough! I am hoping to make jams and apple or pear sauce this year for the first time!!

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  590. serena dang

    Strawberry jam is the winner! I simply love all thing strawberries, so why not preserving the goodness?

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  592. Paula

    Lemon blueberry jam! And spiced peach jam! And dilly beans! And carrots, and zucchini, and red onion jam because my sister loves it… (This is why I need the jars.. I get way too excited and need to make it all from a tiny New York apartment…)

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  593. Christine

    Watermelon pickles – don’t throw the white away. Love the idea of chalkboard labels!

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  594. Debbie McClelland

    I love preserving tomato and pizza sauce. I just finished some honey vanilla sauce.

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  595. Sara G

    I love canning! I can’t pick a favorite, so far this summer I’ve canned strawberry jam, fig jam, tomatoes, cherries, plum jam and peach butter. But strawberry jam is something I do every year, so that’s probably my fav.

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  596. Erin R.

    I LOVE those little Weck jars! I saw them in your store yesterday and nearly flipped out in front of a room full of people.

    I just made bing cherry jam for the first time this summer and the cherries were so sweet I was able to cut back most of the sugar in the recipe. Yum. I’ll definitely be making it every year.

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  599. Ann

    I love to make jams and jellies and this is the ime of the year to do it!!! Anykinds and even pickled veggies. It would all look great in the jars.

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  600. Jennifer

    Grilled tomatillo salsa is my all-time favorite to can, however this year we will also be doing lots of pickled vegetables from our garden, as our three year old daughter loves anything pickled.

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  601. Cynthia Smith

    Strawberry-rhubarb jam, raspberry jam, chow – chow , grape jelly, pickles and a million other things!! I love to preserve all the wonderful food I either grow , or get at farmers markets.

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  603. Kienda Phillips

    My favorite thing to preserve in the summer is squash/zucchini…there’s so much to be done with it but my favorite is relish.

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  604. Sue

    Love canning sweet cherries- nothing like a taste of summer in February.

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  605. Shirlyn Malley

    Just started canning this year and can’t stop. I’m a farmers wife and need all the canning essentials. Besides the Kilner jars and labels would look perfect in my pantry! Please enter my name in the Sweepstakes. I may even consider sharing my delectable pluot jam recipe.

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  608. Krystal

    Oh how I love Weck Jars. The picture with this article is BEAUTIFUL!

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  615. Krystal

    Oh, and I love to preserve PICKLES of all kinds- sweet, dill, relish, whatever!

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  617. alyssa

    Woah, definitely peaches. Michigan peaches. :) And if they’re peaches from the orchard I work at…. even better. <3

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  618. Annie Leos

    Raspberry Vanilla Jam tied with Peach Butter tied with Tomato PAste or Diced Tomatoes gotta love all the wonderful canner/paste heirloom tomatoes riws qith Cherry Jam:)

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  620. JennyJLSB

    Rhubarb! I don’t see rhubarb around like it seemed to be everywhere when I was younger. My grandmother boiled rhubarb down with sugar ~ it was the absolute BEST fruit spread in the world. Nothing can top that one, in my opinion :) MMmmm… warm rhubarb spread (on toast – is that what we ate it on? Must’ve been.)

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  623. Salsa

    I love making and canning Tomato Salsa. Start with a basic salsa and add other favorite veges and spices. After a short cook time, put them in your beautiful jars. Just be sure to put your name on the bottom of the jars if you want them to be returned. Otherwise you may never see them again, they are such nice jars.

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  625. Maggie T

    Favorite summer preserve?!?
    Jalapeno jam. No wait, I mean boozy cherries. No wait, I mean tomato paste. No wait, apple / cherry cider. No wait, salmon. Alright I’m sticking with salmon.

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  626. Tiffany Westfall

    Love canning soups – the tomato soup from the Technique class in July & the corn zucchini soup from yesterday’s Technique class will be made in mass quantities!

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  629. M Jones

    My pickled garlic scapes would look good in these…they look like the heads of Birds of Paradise in a jar.

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  631. Laura

    Stewed tomatoes with garlic and chives. :) A wonderful base for so many things. You get that fresh summer taste in February! Love canning.

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  634. Jean whitaker

    I really enjoy making all kinds of picles and relishs with what ever I can find at the farmers market
    Hope to have my own garden,small tho it may be small, this time next year
    sure would be extra nice to have really nice canning jars to have to display my canning

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  635. Shirlyn Malley

    Ever bite into a ripe Pluot that is in season? It’s like eating a big sweet cherry. Pluot preserves are absolutely wonderful. Versatile for spreading on your morning toast and smply amazing when addaing a dollop on fresh made ice cream.

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  636. Jonquil Alexia

    My favorite summer preserving food are tomatoes…from sauce to jam, from red to striped,they are so versatile!

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  637. Tammy

    I am new to canning, so I don’t have any favorites just yet. I am just begining to aquire my arsenal of canning supplies, so this would really help!!

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  638. Miriam Rouziek-Bergman

    Mulberries! They’re plentiful down here in Houston.

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  639. Jared

    I like canning just about anything. Really what every I end up with a lot of

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  642. Kelly Utkin

    So far I have only made jam but, I am planning on canning some beets from our garden this summer. It will be the first time for me! Would love to win some new canning supplies. Everything that I have was found at garage sales!! :)

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  646. Grace

    Oh, I forgot to say what I like to preserve! I love canning tomatoes, but I also love to try new things- chutneys and interesting pickles. Yay!

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  647. Christine Harmon

    Apples are my favorite. Apple pies. Apple butter. Yummy!!!!!!!!!!

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  649. Heidi

    Blackberry freezer jam, I didn’t have the items for traditional canning. Would love to win so I could learn more.

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  651. Michele

    I always can beef. It’s makes a great fast meal when you need one.

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  652. Stacy Corder

    Fig preserves are our favorite. We put up 15 pints this summer.

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  653. Miriam

    Hmmm…favorite would have to be tomato sauce to be used in the winter….yum yum yum

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  656. Betsy Coons

    Williams-Sonoma, you Rock!!! Awesome giveaway opportunity…I am grateful for the chance.

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  659. Diana

    I love tomatoes and making sauce like I did with my grandmother years ago.

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  661. Kelly

    The only thing better than the smell of homemade sauce on the stove is the smell of homemade sauce that was made with yummy tomatoes from the garden! That’s why tomatoes are my favorite. :)

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  662. Vicki Moffitt

    This year my favorite is salsa. I took the best of several recipes, came up with my own version and we absolutely LOVE it!! The goal was the fresh taste of the salsa at our favorite Mexican restaurant and it is pretty close.

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  663. Amber

    We are looking forward to canning tomatoes this year! It will be out first year canning and preserving food, and I’m so anxious to see what we can do! I use tomatoes frequently in recipes year round; it’s going to be fantastic to know exactly where the came from and what’s inside each jar this fall and winter, rather than use the store-bought cans!!

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  664. Sheila

    Love canning chow chow,my family looks forward to it every year.It is really hard to pick just one we do so much canning.

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  665. Amanda Fox

    Favourite Summer preserve is Bread & Butter Pickles – delicious!

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  666. Sue McVae

    I enjoy canning peaches, plums , and apricots (when I can find them)!

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  669. Kristina

    I love making okra pickles because it keeps the okra nice and fresh, not slimy, and I have some friends who have to hide jars from the rest of the family to get them to last longer than a week!

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  674. Stephanie

    Preserved peaches! To have a taste of Summer when the season is long gone.

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  676. Mary Ellen Stites

    I can what feels like almost everything but my new favorite this season has been creating a delicious hot pepper jam that uses an assortment of my sweet and hot peppers into a delicious jam to pour over cream cheese for a delicious appetizer. YUMMY! I made my own raspberry vinegar this year too and would LOVE some of those jars to put it in! That would make one beautiful gift from my loved ones!

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  677. Theresa Adamson

    I love Blueberry Jam. Im 51 I haven canned since I was a teenager on the farm. I am getting back into it again. Ill never forget spreading that blueberry jam on pancakes on a cold Indiana morning. :)

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  678. Michelle

    Jam for sure! I have made all kinds this summer and just made my first batch of cherry last week. :)

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  679. Theresa Hager

    These jars look great! I love making different things in canning jars. Good luck everyone!

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  682. Theresa Adamson

    I love blueberry jam. Im 51 and now getting back into canning since being a teen on the farm. Theres nothing like fresh blueberry jam on pancakes on a cold Indiana morning.

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  683. Paula Buzhardt

    I make fig preserves and can lots of tomatoes. I’d love to win to try these jars!

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  686. Donna Schulz

    Weck canning Jars……..saw them on a friends cellar shelves, filled with foods last fall, had to ask what kind of jars they were, as I had never seen them before. They are beautiful on the shelves. Have had my old jars for so long, may have to start adding new Weck ones to pretty up the selection in the cellar!

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  687. Saralynn Walker

    Raspberries for sure! One of the best memories I have is picking raspberries with my grandmother and then making jam!

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  688. Morgan Lansing

    I love plain old, freshly picked tomatoes! Keeps my options open for so many different recipes!

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  690. Diane Hartman

    My favorite, albeit unusual, food to preserve is tomato preserves. My grandmother made this garden treat every year, thus making it reminiscent of those special moments together in the kitchen. No one else in my family has ever been brave enough to partake in its unusual goodness. They would prefer the more standard fare of home canned green beans or strawberry jam.

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  693. Sanya ZT

    SALSA!!! and apple butter! Picking 1 is just so hard to do. :) Awesome give away, btw!

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  698. theresa kelsey

    My favorite canning for summer is actually in the fall. I love to can home made apple sauce !!

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  699. Christy Alonso

    I love so many but my aunt use to can the end of the seasons green tomatoes I’m guessing they were just pickled but they were so good and and no one knows how to make them. I also love ripe tomatoes and peaches yum!!

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  701. Michi Knight

    I will be canning for the first time this ever, using my first bountiful crop of tomatoes since moving to the mountains. So, I must vote tomatoes!

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  704. Sherry

    Favorites in this order:
    Blueberry (made with MI blueberries)
    Peach (made with MI Red Haven peaches)
    Black Rasberries (made with IN black rasberries)

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  705. meredith

    I’m in love with all kinds of berries! Making jams are the perfect way to keep summer days all year round :) I love making pies with fruit preserves using the Breville pie maker purchased at Williams Sonoma! It was a wedding gift and I must say is one of my favorites ;)

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  706. Christen Williams

    Tomatoes! I love to have “fresh” tomatoes from the garden in the middle of winter. There is something about that bright flavor! I just bought my first set of Weck jars, and would love to add to the collection!!

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  707. Melanie M

    Haven’t canned yet but attended a canning demonstration and have been collecting recipes. Probably going to start with some jam.

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  709. Michelle

    My mom’s Spaghetti Sauce. Hands down. I love when it has just started to simmer while cooking down for canning. The fresh tomatoes from market to sauce and in a jar for winter enjoyment. I was so happy when I learned to can on my own. Now she taught me and will help me now.

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  711. Jane

    Peppers! Hot, Mild or Sweet! They grow so easy, even in this year’s drought!
    Canned in spicy salsa. Pickled for pizza’s and sandwiches. Stuffed, breaded and Frozen for the BEST Jalapeno poppers all winter… out of the freezer, into the hot oil.
    Dehydrated for adding to winter stews and chili. Yep! Peppers!

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  715. Deb

    we always make berry jams but just tried pickles for the first time… not too bad!
    I’m wondering if one can win more than one prize. They seem to get better as the month goes on!

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  719. veleaka

    Bread and Butter pickles are my favorite. Just canned the first time this year.

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  720. Dawn C.

    My favorite summer preserving food is peach/blueberry jam made with fresh picked fruit. Awesome!

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  724. Amy Lodge

    These look wonderful. Our favorite thing to can is all things tomato.marinara, salsa, chili base, plus berry jams…huckleberry, raspberry, blueberry and jalapeño jelly.

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  726. Aimee G

    When forced to choose, I’d have to say my favorite things to preserve in the summertime are figs and pickles – particularly curry pickle slices which I am addicted to. Oh, and blackberry jam with fruit harvested from the garden.

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  734. karla schritter

    I love to make salsa from my garden – Roma tomatoes, Serrano peppers, cilantro, onions, garlic, and my special ingredient: Rose’s LIme Juice. This red salsa would look so great in some of those cool Weck jars, to give a Christmas gifts decorated with green ribbons!

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  736. Tanae

    I love canning peaches. I love how they look in a jar and they are our favorite to eat in the fall/winter.

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  737. Kimberley Burns

    Blackberries grow wild and abundant all around our home zone of living in the middle of a national forest!!! I can have as many blackberries to can, as I can pick!!! I like to make blackberry jams, jellies, syrups to can, and make fruit salads, smoothies, and snacks of blackberries by freezing them, and topping them with whipped cream in a bowl to eat, once they are frozen. I also like to can peaches from our neighbor’s trees, as they gift us with a lug of ‘bend over peaches’ (they are sooo juicy, you have to bend over to not get peach juice down your chin and front of your shirt!), and I usually buy a lug or two from them, as well. I put in my own garden in our pasture area this year, and it’s 200 ft. x 50 ft., tilled, weeded, and supplemented with compost from pine, oak, maple leaves, kitchen veggie and fruit scraps, and horse and cow manure from our own creatures. Zucchini, crookneck and scalloped squashes are doing fine, and we ought to have some Amish heirloom pumpkins do well by harvest time, too, for some homemade pumpkin pie filling of pureed pumpkin and spices that I’d like to can, too.

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  745. Mari Guerrero

    Not sure if it is considered a preserved food item however, I love making chimichurri sauce and also definitely preserving salsas…to go with almost anything and everything.

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  751. Kellie

    I love my garden so I do my best to can and preserve everything. It’s like my very own summer vacation in the dead of winter! Favorites so far would be strawberry jam, tomato sauces, and pestos. I’m a newbie at preserving.

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  752. Diana D

    I love pickling green beans to use in my bloody marys! :) Those chalkboard labels are so super-cute!

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  755. Kimm Gillam

    I like preserving tomatoes and on a good day I’ll even make a few quarts of puttanesca sauce.

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  759. Tricia

    while its not aways what you jam as its all incredible, it’s what you jam in… any excuse to use WECK!

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  762. Peggy OToole

    My favorite item to put up is pickled hot peppers! Very warming on a winter’s day!

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  764. Joanna Clayton

    Tomatoes is the necessity.. but my fav is hot pepper hot shots (spicy cherry peppers stuffed with a chunk of hard provolone wrapped with prosciutto in seasoned olive oil)! – yum! best treat and makes an amazing gift!

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  770. Tiffanie

    I am a big fan of canning in Weck jars! I love that there is no BPA in these quality canning jars.

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  773. Holly

    Just one favorite? Hmmmm… ground cherry jam, no… peach pepper jam. Yeah, or giardiniera. Sorry, I can’t pick just one!

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  779. Tonya

    What an awesome giveaway, thanks , Kumquats will be here soon , need jars to make marmlade.

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  785. anne

    pickles would have to be my favorite.
    soury goodnessand get to use up all those cukes from the garden.

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  788. Patricia minter

    Fiest year to can. Tomatoes and peaches this year. Watch out next year!

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  789. Kathy swetzoff

    Love to make all kinds of jam. Remember fondly my mom’s crabapple jelly. Yummy with peanut butter or cream cheese.

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  791. Connie Gaulden

    Blackberries – to make cobbler in the winter, for a little taste of summer sunshine!

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  800. Deb McCahan

    I love to can red beets, tomatoes, string beans, and carrots, and make grape and strawberry jelly. Pickles are a favorite too. I love all the colors and they would be that more beautiful in these jars

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  801. Jessica Krenner

    My favorite summer preserving food is tomatoes. I absolutely love my Homemade Spaghetti Sauce and feel like I am in heaven when I smell it cooking!

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  802. Donna Adams

    I know it is typical, but I love preserving pickles. Bread and butter, dill, kosher, it doesn’t matter. They all taste delicious.

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  807. R. Kuiper

    I love the long jars for carrots and beans. I have never seen them before. :)

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  808. Janet Sanford

    strawberry jam, I make it for my grandson. I love his smile when I hand him a jar.

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  810. Katie

    I love to can tomatoes, tomato paste, salsa, beans and this year with our new pressure canner I’m going to try canning soup and some of our pasture-raised chickens. I’d love to win some of those gorgeous jars.

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  814. Christina

    Peaches… In a heart beat. There is just something about peaches that screams summer to me.

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  817. Tracy

    There’s nothing like strawberry or raspberry jam , in the middle of winter! yum!

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  819. Jaime

    My favorite summer canning food is probably a tie between green beans and tomatoes. Nothing like enjoying the fruits of your summer garden labor in the middle of winter!

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  827. Susan Sam

    Salsa! But now I am intrigued by cinnamon pear jelly. Will have to look for a recipe!

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  829. Vernic Popat

    Love william Sonoma! What a great idea to have more fruit in you diet! Even healthier cause you make it yourself! I’m ready to try new and different fruit purée Rambutan lychee dragon fruit wow!

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  830. Samantha

    I’m a canning newbie, but can’t wait to try all the great suggestions on here. YUM!

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  831. Nellie

    hmm…probably whole tomatoes of all colors (green zebras, golden jubilee, black prince). They make such beautiful jars, plus they are delicious!

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  832. Bud

    Favorite summer-preserving food or favorite summer for preserving food? Any summer is a good summer to preserve anything fresh from my backyard.

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  835. Linda Lovely

    My favorite canning food is anything that grows successfully in my garden. From outside my garden, I love to make and store jam. Yummy.

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  837. Kelby

    Haven’t canned anything yet – never had the gear nor the know-how, but I want to start!

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  840. Kizzi

    This is my first year trying any kind of preserves. My first is going to be zucchini relish which I will then bring to our local food swap. Then I’m going to do some tomato sauce.

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  841. Vicki Murphy

    What a GREAT! giveaway! Would love to win this just in time for apple season! The jars will make great gifts filled with my garden’s bounty!

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  842. Alice Bach

    I’ve just started preserving this year using some of my mothers old things. I put up some great blueberry jam but I would live to try canning a bunch of tomatoes this year

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  844. NILA GATES

    I love using zucchini, yellow squash and tomatoes (red or green)!! They go great together in ratatouille, relishes, or alone in pickles, sauces, and salsas! Zucchini I just wash and seed then chop and measure into 2Cup packets, freeze and use whenever I want to include a recipe. Roma tomatoes I just wash and freeze for whatever recipe I am making such as soup, stew or sauces. Very versatile!!!

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  845. Renee W.

    My first canning experience was beans in the mid-80s – disaster! But DH made pickles last month that were great, so I am ready to give it another go.

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  846. bethkaya

    Just started canning this year, but a longtime organic grower.
    After my first canning experience (pickled zucchini) I became hooked!
    The of the cans popping was totally exhilarating and they look SO beautiful on the special shelf we cleared for them.
    Our favorite so far is organic apple butter – I simmered it in the crock all day and canned it during a power outage – thank goodness for lanterns and gas ranges.
    We’ve been eating peanut butter and apple butter sandwiches on the beach every weekend! My toddler goes crazy for it.
    I <3 preserving nature's beautiful gifts!

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  848. Abigail

    For fruits, favorites are berries, all kinds of!!! strawberries, cherries, blueberries, blackberries! they make awesome marmalades and jams! Mangoes are great to make chutney and enjoy at Xmas time!!!

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  849. Melanie

    I’ve never preserved before, this would be a grand opportunity to start, Thank you for the chance.

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  851. Sarah Ann

    I can’t pick just one… Strawberries, okra and tomatoes are a must!

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  853. Jade

    I am a sucker for combinations. Peach and wild blueberry marmalade with a hint of vanilla. Great give away, such great ideas a re posted because of it. Thanks!

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  855. Susan

    I remember the summer my mother tried to make grape juice from our neighbors concord grape vines. She failed miserably. But she instilled in us a love of gardening and preserving. My sisters and I now share jams, butters, pickles etc with one another and the rest of the family.

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  858. Dawn Probst

    I’d love to try my hand at canning. I had a friend show me how to do pickles once, and I’ve been wanting to try ever since.

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  860. Jennifer C

    I often freeze sauces, but when it comes to canning, it’s all about the fruit. I have great memories of making jam with my father and am still trying to get those childhood recipes just right.

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  862. Amy Ray

    Tomatoes in any form; salsa, marinara, stewed. They look so beautiful and when I think of all the hard work that went into making them, it’s very satisfying!

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  863. Jeanne

    I just LOVE these jars need them for my jams and jellies and would like to know where I can find the labels at! I need to win this!!

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  864. Renee

    I love to can tomatoes… Nothing compares to my winter chili prepared wth canned tomatoes from the previous summer!

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  865. Glenda Melvin

    My absolute favorite canned good is sweet and crunchy pickles. I have made several batches this year. The process takes 7 days but it is so worth it!

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