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Save your money, and the environment. Use your old Jam Jars. Sterilise in the dishwasher on it's highest setting, and then put them in a warm oven to finish drying, until you are ready to use them.

Preserve Shop sell jam jars and jam making equipment. It might be worth taking a look as they have lots of different jars. www.preserveshop.co.uk

Has anyone experience of the Ikea jars (similar to Le Parfait) in terms of re-use several times.
All the above suppliers are great until you add in the P&P for smallish amounts.

I agree marigold. I don't use the lids, I use those waxed discs and then cover the jar with a transparent cover which you dampen and secure with an elastic band. If you do this while the jam is still hot they tighten into satisfactory little drums. I spiced some kumquats earlier this week and the recipe didn't call for sterilised jars. In this case I did use the lids, pre-soaked in Milton as Pennash suggested. Thanks for that Pennash, I had never thought of it.

I would have thought that using Milton or something similar would work?

Even if you do use your own jars you should use new lids. You can't sterilise the lids without damaging the plastic stuff inside that seals the lid.

I think that saving your own jars is fine if You make for yourself, friends and the like, BUT if You make to sell at fairs, farmers markets and the like ( I have just started to make to sell for charity) then You have to buy jars that are all the same, and in large quantities, so it does matter how much they cost, as that affects the price You sell for.
In the last 2 weeks I have used over 130 jars! (Been busy). My neighbour and I have picked all the fruit from local farms and made all the jam (Strawb/Rasp/Blackcurrant/Gooseberry) ourselves.

I make jam, chutney, picalilli, lemon curd, marmalade - I love preserving. But I just save all my coffee jars, mustard jars, tomato puree jars, well anything I buy that comes in a glass container. I sterilise them before use and they are, in effect, free.

I don't feel too great about pickled onions since you ask, gastrosurf.

Wow what a price!

I've just thrown a load out - should have put them on ebay...lol

Actually, I would have been more than happy for someone to have taken them away.

I buy pickled onions, usually the value brands, which by the looks of it, cost not much more than some suppliers charge for an empty jar.

I just took a look on ebay and 24 X 12 oz jars are selling for £8 + £8 pp ?

How do you feel about pickled onions?

For large bulk quantities there is also Emet Packaging, where You can buy 24,100,500 or 1000 jars at a time, with gold lids, costs go down the more You buy. 1000 jars work out at 22p each. However 24 jars/lids works out at 71p each! These costs ARE before delivery is added though.
They can take up to 3 days to deliver so they don't step up to the mark in comparison with Carter's on delivery, but they do on the cost of 100 jars plus at a time.

Ladies,

Lakeland... EACH 1lb JAR with lid costs a total of 57p..for 12 at a time, before any postage!

Freemanharding... it costs 36p per jar and lid (gold) before any postage for a batch of 33 jars! With postage they work out at 60p each.

I use Carters Packaging from Redruth in Cornwall, they sell on Ebay and You can pay with Paypal, AND they also have a website. They supply in batches of 56 and they deliver next day, if You order before noon.

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You can also order by phone and for repeat orders they just ask for Your name and get you on their records PDQ.. great service.

Their jars with lids (gold) work out before postage at 32p per jar. WITH postage it goes up to 46.7p.. by far the best deal I have seen so far.

Good place for jars is Freeman and Harding, telephone 01322 351315 or www.freemanharding.co.uk. very helpful people. can buy online with lots of jars and spare lids too

frexy
I would like details of your man for jam jars please.

Ah yes Blondie02 but for those who wish to sell jars of preserves they have to be a certain type to take a new lid and prescribed amounts.
However some shops sell jam and other preserves even cheaper than that.
Always buy my micemeat in pound jars now and after Christmas can often get cheap cranberry preserves in good jars.Last year 10 pence a jar.
Made some great Orange and cranberry marmalade with the cranberries bought this way.

you can get cheap jam jars by going into sainsburys and buying a mixed fruit jam for 32p and u rinse it out then u hav a free jam jar : )

Nick worry not the guy in question gets them from...the Bristol bottle co.Its just that he will repackage into smaller quantities which is great for the seasonal preserver. But if you want a whole box then he gets Bristol to deliver and his quantities are smaller for no p p.
I buy a whole box of lids from him , we used to be able to buy from Thomas Hunter of Rugby but they are alas no more and these new ones are from France, not impressed rather grey looking rather than white but not sure if gold ones are for me. Decisions decisions but will post his name and tel if you want.

I re-use all my jars, jam, marmalade, mayonnaise, olives ... anything that comes in a jar! Put them through the dishwasher and store them till needed. I didn't bring any with me to Oz though so my niece and her m-in-l are saving them for me now! (The lady who bought our house in England got a fantastic collection of clean jars with lids!)

Who is it frexy??

We use Bristol Bottle co - Who are very good - Cost us 25p a jar inc lid - If we buy 1,000 at a time!!!
So if anyone wants any I will sell them at 30 p a jar inc lid if you pick up from Poole.

I don't do deliveries or mail order for that as we cannot afford that, but if you are in the area give us a shout. Have as many or as little.

WE use 25 cl Sauce bottles
8 oz Hexagonal jars
12 oz Hexagonal Jars

Cheers

Can provide a contact in Wales for all sizes of jamjars and various size tops/lids if anyone is interested.
They supply all of us preservers in the Womens Institute markets ,is reasonable,reliable and will deal in small quantities.

They have a website itsbud, www.lakeland.co.uk and if you just type jam jars in the search by keyword when you get there, it should take you straight to them.

hi Imogen- Ive had problems locating Jam Jars - Do you have a contact email - phone number etc for Lakeland - Thanks for your help - Bud

Tried them today to great success! 12 jars for £4 - thats more like it. Thanks

Have you tried Lakeland?