Eating Frugal by Canning Commercial Food

A lot of us go to places like Costco and buy the huge containers of various food items because it saves us money - and it is usually an awful lot cheaper per ml to do this, no doubt about it! But the downside is of course that once you open the container, it takes up an incredible amount of room in your fridge, and you have to eat it quickly before it goes off. So you may end up overeating to get through it all, or losing some of your great savings to spoiled food.

Home canning to the rescue!

We've done this with a number of different huge containers at Costco, including Salsa, Salad Dressing, Wing Sauce and more. It is really quite simple - you just go through your regular canning procedure with the stuff you've bought. Clean your jars and so on, fill them, and can them up according to the same schedule you would use to can that item if you'd made it yourself.

Choose the appropriate-sized jars according to how much of it you think you'll use once opened. For salsa, for example, you might want to choose the smaller 250ml / 1 cup jars like we did in the video we'll be posting shortly to accompany this article.

This simple procedure is also a good foot-in-the-door if you don't yet do any home canning. You can start off just by canning up the store-bought stuff for reasons noted above, and eventually this may lead you into getting hooked on canning up your own stuff.