In a Jar

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If you’re sitting on a ton of #10 cans full of freeze-dried foods, what do you do with it? This method allows you to create meals from that food storage so that you can rotate this into your daily meals. Some of the links will be made by folks who sell certain freeze-dried food products. In a Jar will be an obvious choice for a Moving book, but it’s much, much more. The objects in the jar would be mere objects if not for the memory they recall. The collection was lovely but ordinary before Llewelyn found Evelyn. Their relationship made what went into the jar all the more marvelous, extraordinary. In a Jar is very much a friendship book in a present tense; a book about memories that is about the making of them. It’s an active book, creating the memories, collecting the moments, sharing, gifting them--not a passive visitation of jars long made. It inspires not only the imagination of what would I collect, but with whom might I collect, or share, or gift? This is one of those lovely, meditative kinds of reads where you spend almost more time pointing out all the little details in the bright, beautiful illustrations than you do reading. Its a book to take your time with, which is a wonderful message to give to young children. Its also a testament to the importance of sharing experiences and memories with others. Then Evelyn must move away with her family and Llewellyn is unsure how they will still be able to share all the things they've collected. Eventually he figures out how to keep sharing all his experiences and new memories with Evelyn and connect with new friends now that she is farther away. Next, cut out all of your book titles and fold all of them. It’ll take a while and your fingers might feel like you’re getting minor friction burn, but IT’S WORTH IT. Once you have a pile of paper, stuff them into your jar (or treasure chest) and give them a little shake to shuffle them up. That bit’s optional, but mine were all almost organised by shelf and I don’t want that – I want variety!

Overall, this is a sweet little book about friendship and celebrating the things that hold friendships together.

Book in a jar

Two rabbits collect shared memories in jars—visualizations of intangible moments that build their friendship and help sustain it when one moves away.

Ultimate Dehydrator Cookbook (read my review here). Not only is this a great technique book on how to dehydrate those products that can build your meals in a jar, she includes a lot of “just add water” meals, too! This is the longest and least fun part. Go through every single book you own (or the ones you want to include in the jar, which in my case was ALL OF THEM) and write them on a piece of paper. Just write them all in one go with a small gap between each one, so you have room to cut them out. I kind of alternated between each colour of paper so I didn’t end up with 35 of one colour and 3 of another.

Spring 2009 Issue 57

There’s only one final thing left to do – find somewhere to display your brand new book jar! Display it with pride! Make that wooden treasure chest the centrepiece of your pirate-theme bedroom or the plastic box the feature of your bedside table! Here’s where I put mine, next to my little Mike Wazowski… Llewellyn was a rabbit who loved to collect things in jars. He collected small things from his days like bright yellow leaves in the autumn which would remind him of what he had done and seen. One night when the sunset turned the sky “the color of tart cherry syrup,” Llewellyn went down to the shore with a lot of jars. He gathered the light of the night into his jars and gave one to a girl who came by. Evelyn was amazed to find that the in the jar glowed all night long the color of sunsets. Soon the two of them were gathering all sorts of things in jars like rainbows, the sound of the ocean, and even entire seasons. Their collection got very large, until one day Evelyn’s family moved away. For some time, Llewellyn felt like an empty jar but then he had an idea. He went out one night and collected a meteor shower in a jar and sent it to Evelyn. In turn, she collected the sounds and lights of the big city she now lived in and sent it to Llewellyn. Llewellyn set out on an autumn day to gather a jar for Evelyn and that’s when he met Max, and Llewellyn happened to have a jar for him too. While there are all sorts of fun things you can store in a jar in the fridge or keep on a shelf for a short period of time (like salads in a jar, etc.), I’m going to concentrate mostly on those food storage meals that you can put up for long-term storage. This list will be very helpful and useful to you. Image Credit: Canva. I have all these #10 Cans? Can I use them?