Reusing Old Pasta Sauce Jars

By

kleed

I use my old pasta sauce jars to make luminarias. Cover the outside with a light tissue paper... tied around the neck with a ribbon or twine. You can use orange and make a halloween jackolantern, by adding the face out of black construction paper. Or cover in yellow tissue paper and add the face of a chick in construction paper. How ever you decide to do it, you just add sand and a candle when it is finished!

By

hugmehugs

Don't throw away the extra jars you can't use: recycle them!

By

ELSABLUE

I use heavy duty glass jars for canning foods I will give away. How often have i given jelly, or relish et, asked for the jars to be returned, only to find it never happened. I use sterile clean jars and their lids, follow the recipe, put the lids on. I always tell people to put the jar in the fridge for storage, even if the used lid snaps down. I don't trust it for long storage as i would a fresh lid. This way I don't mind giving the fruits of my hard work away.

By

Teresa Kay

Make a snowman or santa with them. Paint the jar or cover with the proper colors with the one you are making!

By

TerryRawlinson

Use them with those layered jar recipes. They come in all different recipes and you can hot glue pretty cloth & ribbon to the lids!

By

yoder178

Since the jars are used for pasta sauce they are good for hot temperatures. Take some Christmas potpourri add a string of twenty Christmas lights, white or colored, use a wooden spoon handle to bury the string inside the potpourri. Thread the string over the rim for plugging in and cover with a doily, add a ribbon and bow to the rim. These are wonderful teacher, aunt, friend gifts for Christmas. You can buy them for about $30.00 at bazaars etc. Good luck.

By

2airishuman

The jar threads fit with the base of my blender. This allows me to use the jars in place of the pitcher - the large pasta sauce as well as the small pesto sauce sizes both fit. I grind coffee beans in the jar I plan to store them in; blend a smoothie in the jar I drink it from; chop nuts; make peanut butter, grind spices, make whip cream or oat flour. As handy as my imagination allows.

Anyone have a clever ideas for using empty mason jars from pasta sauce. I have so many of them and would like to store something in them.