Meals in a Jar: Quick and Easy, Just-Add-Water, Homemade Recipes
September 16, 2019 - Comment
STOCK YOUR PANTRY WITH HOMEMADE MEALS
Pull it off the shelf. Mix with water. Cook. Serve.
It’s as quick and easy as preparing a box of mac and cheese―but it’s not store-bought junk, it’s your favorite dishes made from scratch. With Meals in a Jar and a little planning, you’ll have your pantry stocked with healthy, delicious ready-to-cook meals, like:
• Tomato Soup with Cheese
• Cheddar Garlic Biscuits
• Cornmeal Pancakes with Syrup
• Breakfast Burritos
• Chicken Chipotle Soup
• Carnitas
• Braised Short Ribs
• Turkey Pot Pie
• Coq Au Vin
• Rustic Fruit Pie
Meals in a Jar is packed with step-by-step instructions for natural breakfasts, lunches, dinners and desserts that allow even the most inexperienced chefs to make scrumptious, nutritious dishes. Not only are the recipes in this book perfect for carry-along camping fare, rushed weeknight dinners and meals for Dad (or even a teenager) to prepare, they can also be life-savers in times of disasters like fires, blackouts or hurricanes.
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Wonderful book, great ideas I love this book.! Several reasons I purchased this book. I’ve always had an interest in easy to prepare food. I have trouble “cooking small” after many years of cooking for a family. By halving the recipes and canning them in pints jars, I can pull out something, use the side kit and salad… meal complete. The food is good.!! So far only made the chicken and beef chipotle, but the flavor is lovely. Again, side kits make match-ups easy… meal complete. There are so many recipes, I…
Good ideas, but I didn’t realize it required purchasing additional kitchen equipment I purchased this book after it was featured in a Mother Earth newsletter. After reading the book description, I had visions of filling the pantry with canning jars full of ready prepared meals.I am disappointed that most of the recipes either call for a dehydrator, pressure canner or vacuum sealer. I have wanted a dehydrator for years; however, for my family it is a big financial investment. I have a vacuum sealer, but it creates plastic waste. I liked the idea of canning jars…
Completely misleading Even though I purchased this book at an introductory price, I feel it was $8.35 wasted. It falls far short of my expectations. If I could give it zero stars, I would.One: The book is called “Meals in a Jar,” and yet the preferred technique to prepare this food for long term storage uses something called a “retort pouch.” So it’s not about storing dry food in a container packed with an oxygen absorber; it’s a book about pressure canning wet/cooked foods. Even the…