Our eldest has a couple of days off work and got bored so yesterday went out into the orchards at the back of us and picked a load of blackberries. When she got back she started cooking them up. I asked her what she was up to and she told me she was making jam. I asked her if she had everything she needed and she told me she had found all the ingredients she needed in the cupboards.
I pointed out she had forgotten something as we didn't have any and was told, indignantly, that she had double checked and had everything. I asked what she was going to put the jam in and was told she would put them in jam jars and was miffed when I told her we didn't have any
As it was late Sunday afternoon nowhere was open to get any so she bagged the cooked blackberries up and popped them in the freezer.
I looked online and the cheapest I could find were 10 for £8 but then I looked at a well known supermarket and saw I could get 10 jars of lemon curd at 22p a jar. So this morning I cleared their shleves, brought them home, emptied them out and washed them up. A waste of lemon curd I know but I don't like it and it was the frugalist way to get the jars I needed.
Between the pair of us we knocked up eight jars of blackberry jam and filled them up.
Dom