With all the bad news about plastic these days, Mason jars are enjoying a resurgence as one of the home cook’s must-have items, and my kitchen is no exception. I keep four sizes on hand and use them for salad dressings, homemade preserves, dried beans and lentils storage, flower vases and most recently, food storage containers.
Tall Mason jars work best for packing picnics as they fit snugly into whatever bag or basket I’m using.
We’ve put ice in our jars (for keeping our foods cold), drinks, salads, desserts and even dips. Small jars hold tzatziki and hummus and the medium-sized ones are the perfect vessel for a homemade layer dip to accompany some chips.
While some may worry about breakage when carrying around glass jars, I have yet to experience that despite travelling with active boys and our gregarious 60-pound dog.
Tell us, are you using Mason jars more than ever these days? Would you pack your picnic foods in them?
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I use mason jars for everything in the house - storing grains, liquids, freezing soup. we also make salad dressing in the smallest ones (great for shaking!) and lemonade with ice for picnics. Great all purpose vessel!
Way to go! Been using mason jars for years as storage - grew up using them for canning all the time and in fit against all plastic started using them for storage. Pack them with me to picnics and playgrounds with two kids and never had one break! You can use plastic lids as well instead of seals and rings.
Do you have any more of these wonderful mason jar recipes….they are just awesome.
Thanks, ladies. @ Andrea - I will definitely share more jar recipes. I’m glad you like them.
Love the mason jar recipes. Looking for more….salad’s, etc. especially dried ingredients for soups, etc for holiday gift giving.
Love the recipes
But how do you get the dip out of the narrow necked jar?
Hi Caroline - If the neck of the jar is too narrow to dip your chips into it, just scoop out the dip (into a bowl) when you arrive at your picnic. Alternatively, you can make individual containers of the dip for each guest who is eating, for the smaller jars often have the widest opening.
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