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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

I've never counted jars, just cases.  I like to keep the boxes the jars come 
in and then put them pack in for stacking.  Plus I can nicely label the ends 
of the boxes (use labels printed from the computer with the dates and what 
is in them [type of tomato in the salsa, etc.] so we know what works best 
the next time around).

Guess I should count them.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <rayzentz AT aim.com>>
> I know that I am one of the ones that mentioned that my mom put up over 
> 1500 quarts of canned goods every year, not including dehydrated foods 
> (she had two running almost constantly, as I recall, one of which my Dad 
> had made for her and had 23 3' by 3' trays. It was taller than I am). 
> However, just so you know, I am the oldest of 15 kids. While we did not 
> always consume a season of the preserved food in a year, we put a real 
> good notch in it. Now, of course, she does not do as much, and is 
> constantly giving any of her kids who want, jars of food. The last ones we 
> got were salsa and pizza sauce from 1988. Salsa is still good, pizza sauce 
> not so much ;-) Of course, I re-use the jars in my own canning, and the 
> tradition continues...
>
> Of course, I come absolutely nowhere close the the sheer volume of what 
> she did. I look back, and am amazed, impressed, and awed.