Canning Jam
Join National Can It Forward Day on July 14th this year.
You just can not think about making homemade jam or jelly without thinking of Ball canning jars!
National Can It Forward Day will be streaming live this year from Minnetrista, a cultural center in East Central Indiana and the home of the Ball Brothers.
How can you take part in National Can It Forward Day?
Celebrate Can It Forward July 14th 2012
Access Can-It-Forward Day Web TV
You can access all of these through LIVE streaming coverage of National Can-It-Forward Day. Set your calendar for the events taking place at Minnetrista in Muncie, Indiana. Go to FreshPreserving.com for viewing times
Host a Home Canning Party
New to canning? Seasoned pro? Share tips for canning with friends and family by hosting your own Can-It-Forward Day Home Canning Party.
Participate in Person
If you are in the Muncie area on July 14, stop by Minnestrista and participate in person! We’ll have five hours of live canning demonstrations, giveaways, samplings and more! And to feed your inspiration for canning, Farmers Market at Minnetrista is just next door.
If your new to canning or a seasoned pro looking for more information or recipes you can find all the information you will ever need at the Fresh Preserving site. There are tips, trick, recipes and videos. I have literally spent hours there pouring over the information.
Check out the Fresh Tools page for step by step instructions and problem solver to help with all your canning questions.
Have you seen the Ball FreshTECH Automatic Jam & Jelly Maker yet?
Three easy steps and 30 minutes or less to home made jam or jelly!
Check out the video at the FreshPreserving.com
Check out the Ball Canning Facebook page for daily updates and canning news.
You can follow all the live fun on twitter by following the #canitforward hash tag
Now for the giveaway. Ball Canning was generous enough to offer one of my readers a case of Ball Canning jars.
Simply enter the rafflecopter form below for your chance to win! Good luck and happy canning.
Disclosure. This giveaway is sponsored by Ball Canning. I have received Ball Canning products to help celebrate Can It Forward. All text and opinion is my own.
My favorite size canning jar is the 16 oz.
My favorite canning jar is the 16 oz.
I absolutely love Ball canning jars and will not use anything else. I love the ease and simplicity of being able to put up my favorite Jams & Jellies as well as all the other procude we get from our garden each year.
Thank You Ball for your wonderful products, helpful hints, and great recipes.
I’m a fan of the pint size canning jar.
It depends on what we’re canning – my 2 favorites are quarts and pints!
I love the 8 oz size best for jams.
My favorite size is the little 8 oz. jars. They’re so cute!
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My favorite size Ball canning jar is the pint size. They are easier to give to friends and family and fit in the fridge better.
My favorite is the 16 oz jar.
I am new to canning, but I like the pints and quarts…depending on what I am making. I love the big jars for pasta sauce and smaller for jams. Perfect for gifts too!
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My favorite Ball canning jar is the 8oz quilted jelly jars!!
I love using the pint jars.
I prefer the pint because I like the make a bunch to give to family at Christmas time
My favorite size is the 12 oz. jar. Jelly is beautiful in them!
Wide Mouth 8oz. Love the design & easy access.
My fave is 8 oz for jelly and jam, but I do use a lot of the quart jars for sauerkraut.
I love to can, and have already gotten started this year with jams and jellys. I’ve canned lots of things from your basics like fruit and veggies, to meats like chicken and even bacon. What ‘s next?
My favorite sizes are are the Pints and the Quarts! You can fit so much for so many people in those sizes. Plus, I want to can some pickled beets, so I need those larger sizes
My favorite canning jar size are the wide mouth pint jars
I love the wide mouth pint jars, too! I use them in the bathrooms to hold the toothbrushes, and for drinking out of. Not to mention for jam!
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i like all size jars
i bought my husband a canner for our anniversary i sure am enjoying it ! this is my first year canning
My favorite size is the Wide Mouth Pints! Great for a family of three or as gifts!
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i like the pint size best.
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My favorite size of Ball canning jars are the pints.
I love seeing my shelves fill with jars.
I like wide-mouth, quart size the best, altho any time I can can (tee hee) it doesn’t matter the size. It’s the satisfaction of saying “I did that!!”
has anyone used th??e new jelly maker
I love all sizes of Ball canning jars…especially the wide mouth Quarts and the cute little 4 oz that are perfect to share
I love the pints and quarts.
I like the quart size, though the half gallons are also great.
I love Ball’s wide mouth pints ♥
I have never canned but would love to learn…anytime I have received something as a gift I really love the little 8 oz jars…they are precious! :O)
Oh please don’t make me choose! I love them all – for canning, for freezing, for serving, drinking, for storage, for everything!
But if I HAVE to pick, it would be the wide mouthed 1/2 pint.
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I have only tried the quart and the pint jars and like them both it just depends on what I am canning. I would love to use the pretty cut glass looking jelly jars some day and the half-gallon jars.
I like the pint size the best!!
I like the pint size jars. These are just the right size jar to give as gifts. Most of the people I like to gift are older and anything bigger will sometimes go to waste. Hope I’m the lucky one.
My favorite jar size is the 16 oz.
I like the smaller ones, making gift giving quantities better!
This is my first time to can!!! Would love to have this! I don’t know what is my favorite yet…..I bought two cases of the quarts, but I need the pints because I am going to try salsa as well!
I love the 8 oz jars…for gift giving
I love the 8 oz so that I can make jars for gifts.
I love the 8 oz for gift giving and 16 oz for home use
Love the 8 oz esp for gift giving, the 16 for home use
Love the 8 oz for gift giving and the 16 oz for the family
Love the quilted pints and half pints.
I like half pints. You should add this giveaway to the National can it forward linky party on http://kellisretrokitchenarts.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/national-can-it-forward-day-2012-linky-party/
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Mom is coming down Saturday for the can-it-forward event on the farm and we are going to make our first ketchup! Ordereder bottles but won’t be here on time so this will be a test trial!
Cindy that sounds like so much fun!
I go through half pint jars like they are water!
I am new to canning and really enjoying the Can-It-Forward event
Opps, need to say my favorite size, I don’t know yet but I will guess the smaller size to try canning out first.
My favaorite size to use is pints or quarts. This year for the first time I’ve used up all my pints.
I like pints
This is my first year I’ll be canning! I could sure use all the help I can get. My favorite ball jar are the wide mouth 8 oz jars.
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I am so happy to find my way back to canning after being taught by my grandma and mama when i was a little girl in rural Missouri. I remember I was appointed one of the most important jobs of washing the Ball jars since my hands were small enough to fit nicelly inside to scrub them while grandma and mama located their favorite recipes marked in grandma’s worned Ball Canning Book! I will be looking forward to anything you have to offer in recipes, coupons, and any offers available!!! My favorite ball jars are pints and quarts, but will be happy to recieve anything from you because i am having to start over gaining supplies to do the process right. Especially since I will be teaching my chidren and grandchildren what was taught to me using your Ball products! Thank you!!!
8 oz jars work for me!
Don’t know their size, but the tall skinny ones for dilly beans
Love the pint and half pint jars! Also the pint and a half size that recently came out!! Using those for pickles for my daughter and for asparagus! I tend to use more smaller size for a smaller family!