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I can host one at my house this week, or at the North Bend Farmers Market on Thursday. Thay have a band that plays from 6-8pm, good food, and day-old strawberries for making jam.
Speaking of jam, what are the prices for jam making product where everyone lives? Prices here are outrageous, even on sale. I just looked at QFC:
$4.99 1 small box of sugar-less pectin
$2.99 12 wide-mouth lids (flat part only)
$2.19 12 regular mouth lids (flat part only)
$11.99 1 case of 12 x 12 oz "quillted" jars with lids.
These hideous prices are SALE prices. You'd sink a couple bucks into each jar of jam before you even get the fruit in! I went on vacation in Idaho last summer and paid half that with no sale!
I don't need any more jars, but for anyone who lives where these items are cheaper, I'll gladly send you some $ to fill a flat-rate postage box with lids and pectin, and I'll even send back a couple jars of jam.
I just went to my grocery store here in Raymond, and the tight wad produce guy has a cheap quick day-old sale rack, and on it was 4-5 flats of strawberries that had maybe 1 slightly icky on in each plastic tub, 12 tubs per flat, each tub was 99 cents.
I bought a mess, washed, sliced, tossed 2 or 3 berries and froze the rest
Ogress, QFC is usually about 30-50% high on everything compared to Top and Fred Meyers; I know pectin is under $3 at my local Freddies. Puget Consumer Co-op used to have the best prices on canning stuff, but that was before they decided to be Whole Foods for the Northwest.
Do you have a Winco within reasonable distance? They're running lowest on most basic foodstuffs (which pectin and canning supplies are, dern it!) across the board, although I avoid them because the one near me is way too darned BIG.
