Summer is here and for me that means two things. More time spent out on the deck enjoying my family and yard and working in the garden. Both are things I truly love and hope to have lots of time for this season. I also hope the weather is kind and allows this to happen. A few weeks back we started our garden for the year. We had to start from scratch and dig out an area, add soil and pull out weeds and rocks.
We planted a bunch of veggies both by seed and plant. Many have started growing nicely. I know from previous years, there will be a few weeks of sudden growth. So much tomatoes and peppers that I will not be able to keep up. But this year I have a plan. I am going to make salsa and can a lot of it. I am also going to can jam and whatever else that may inspire me at the time.
Bernardin has sent me everything I need to get started with my canning, when the time is right. I received a ‘Home canning starter kit’ that includes a rack, a 21 quart canner, jar lifter, funnel, lid lifter, bubble remover, 4 pack Collection Elite decorative jars with lids, Original Crystals pectin and recipe booklet. My grandmothers use to do a lot of canning and I have great memories of helping them in the kitchen. I am excited to get started with my children.
Berries seem to be doing very well this year with a fruit stand on every corner. It will be great to stock up and make some jam for the family. Obviously I will need to get myself some additional cans, but this will get me started. I have never canned anything before but hear it is not so hard.
Our exclusive Home Canning Starter Kit is an all-in-one kit perfect for the first timer or upgrading your current equipment. An instructional DVD CD featuring our Executive Chef Emerie Brine. He demonstrates how easy it is to prepare one of the most popular jams, Strawberry.
Since it is still going to be a bit before I get canning, I am enjoying something else I received. A set of four drinking mugs from Bernardin. These may be my fave mugs in the house!
16 oz Plain Drinking Mug• Iconic Mason Jar Drinking Mug
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“For 100 years, home canning has been an exclusive focus for Bernardin Ltd. It’s no wonder Bernardin continues to be Canada’s trusted leader in home canning products.
Home canning has always been the best way to preserve the natural goodness of our foods. Today home canning is even more attractive to Canadians because of their growing concern and interest in knowing the source of the food we eat. We see this thinking everyday in the healthy lifestyle concerns, organic produce, and the proliferation of farmers’ markets. It’s also evident in the popularity of the 100 mile diet and locally grown foods, the enhanced retail produce sections and the overwhelming popularity of home gardening. “
I bet you have some plans for the summer too! Maybe something that includes time in your backyard with your family? Maybe you started a garden and will need to do some canning? If so you will want to enter this fabulous giveaway.
Giveaway time
I have a home canning starter kit for one of my Canadian readers. Fill out the form below for your chance to win. Good luck!
The cookers help canning rack system would be awesome!
I would like to try their jar labels!
I would like to try the Cook's Helper Canning Rack System
The frozen herb kit
I used to own almost all in the system YEARS ago but in a move have lost everything….I MISS canning!!
I would love the mug !! I also see wine cup looking like this too ^_^
I used to own almost all in the system YEARS ago but in a move have lost everything….I MISS canning!! I'd love to try the vintage blue jars…sooooo pretty!
I'd like to try the gift jar kit 🙂 anything from Bernardin really as I want to set my family down the healthy path of canning! 🙂
I think the mugs are the cutest things
I would love to try the Plastic Freezer Jars too! I bet they would be great 🙂
the gift jar set
I like the labels!
The mugs would be awesome for summer!
Both books, Guide to Home Perserving and Complete Book on Home Perserving would be great to have!
I want to try the freezer herb kit and the dissolvable labels. I have just about everything else I need for canning besides more jars!
4 oz Salt & Pepper Shakers with White Caps
I love canning! Can't wait until the veggies are ready for canning.
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I would love to try the mugs! And the freezer jars.
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I would like to try the wee little jars for special gifts
I like the vintage green jars
Canning funnel and the dry herbs jar.
The frozen herb kit sounds great!
The Complete Book of Home Preserving is what I would most like to try because I want to be taught all about canning and have lots of fab recipes to go along with that knowledge.
I hope I win, I have a ton of tomato plants. My strawberries seem to be doing well so far this year, and so are the pepppers|!
I have canned once before alone and can't wait to try again this year. I made the most yummy salsa from a recipe my mom gave me. I had some orange tomatoes in there as well as sweet peppers, it was both kinda sweet and spicy, it didn't last long at all. I opened one jar and then went to look for more and it was gone! LOL
I need the Canning Funnel
The Limited Edition Green Jar!
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I'd love to try the Frozen Herb Kit.
Would like to have one of the lifters.
I love canning fruits and veggies. Tis looks like a great prize.
i like the 4 oz Salt & Pepper Shakers with White Caps
I would like to try the Cook's Helper Canning Rack System . Thanks for the chance. Cheers.
canning labels
I'd like to ge their salt and pepper shakers.
Sip & Straw Lids. I have 2 little ones. Straws are a family favourtie!
I LOVE THE Decorative Mason Jar 1 L Wide Mouth
DOREEN LAMOUREUX
I'd love to try this mug!
Those jars look fun!
I would like to try the Plastic Freezer Jars
I would like to try the Frozen Herb Starter Kit
The Salt and Pepper Shakers with white caps are cute. I could use those out on the patio.
Another product from Bernardin that I would love to try is the Cook's Helper Canning Rack System.
The plastic freezer jars!
OMG, LOVE TO try Cook's Helper Canning Rack System. Thanks for the awesomeness, the contest, & generosity.
I would love to try their Dissolvable Labels
Vintage Collection Green Pint Jars (500ml) would love these
the plastic freezer jar set
The dry herb jars and shaker caps
Their newer canning trays mine is old and the jars tip over in the canner
I like the plastic containers with twist on lids. These are great for packed lunches.
I would love to try the plastic Freezer Jars, sometimes I would rather make freezer jam.
I'd like to have the Gift Jar Kit
I want to try the Pickle Crisp. I've got several cucumber vines going and I'm planning to pickle most of the produce from them.
I would like to try the Sure Grip Jar Handler.
I wouldnt mind the frozen herb kit.
I want to try the Frozen Herb Starter Kit
I'd love to try the dissolvable labels.
would love to try the Canning Funnel – Collapsible
the magnetic wand
Another item that I would like to try from Bernardin is the "Secure-Grip Jar Lifter". Thanks for sponsoring this giveaway and for the opportunity to participate.
jam jars
This is an awesome prize, I would love to win – my mom and I make strawberry and raspberry jam every year. Another Bernardin product I would like to try is the Dry Herb Jars.
The gift jar kit looks awesome!!
Decorative mason wide mouth 500ml. http://www.bernardin.ca/pages/product_page/47.php?pid=39
The Plastic Freezer Jars would be great to have!
I'd try the 946 ml Plastic Freezer Jars
4 Pack Drinking Mugs I what I would like
canning rack would be sweet
The Gift Jar Kit would be great for making gifts
I would like to try the Jar Lifter.
i would love to try the limited edition blue vintage jars- they are beautiful
The Plastic Freezer Jars would be useful to me
Dissolvable Labels look great! Very neat idea!
I like the Dissolvable Labels .
Would love to try the Frozen Herb kit!
I would like to try the new green jars. They would be perfect for gifts filled with some yummy pickles.
I think the Limited Edition Blue Vintage Jar is lovely!
I would love the Gift Jar kit, I have made these in the past for Christmas gifts and people love them, however when I made mine up they were not done with a super easy kit!
I'd like to try the freezer jars – freezer jam is so easy!
I love the Dissolvable Labels, I hate soaking and picking labels off jars!
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I want to try The Frozen Herb Starter kit.
Decorative Mason Jar 250 ml Wide Mouth!! Would love this for all my spices.
I think the Jar Lifter would also be handy for canning!
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I would really like to try Raspberry Freezer jam! , it would be delicious
I would love to try the salsa mix…looks great
As I was reading this post, and in particular the bit about berries, it got me thinking about making freezer jam again and wondering if the Bernardin freezer "Jars" were any good. Would like to test them for sure!
I would like the Collection Elite Wide Mouth Mason Jar 500 ml
I'd like the Plastic freezer jars
Would love to win this!
I'd love the Gift Jar Kit, such a neat idea!
I WOULD LOVE THE CANNING RACK
i would love the Limited Edition Blue Vintage Jar
I would like the Dry Herb Jars
I want to try the Liquid Pectin
J' aime bien le " limited édition blue vintage jar " , souvent on donne en cadeau nos conserves et dans des pots de couleur, c' est encore plus spécial et appétissant.
I would love to try the
Limited Edition Blue Vintage Jars
Would like to try the vintage green and blue jars
The Secure-Grip Jar Lifter
The Plastic Freezer Jars look really nice
I havn’t tired their products before and would love to!
Id like to have the green jars- pretty cool !
I want to try these mugs lol!
We do a lot of Jams evry year and labels would be nice to have,
the Frozen Herb Starter Kit looks cool, i'd like to try it.
Haven't done any canning in years – just what I need to be inspired to get back at it.
I'd like to try the Dissolvable Labels
I would like the gift jar set
Decorative Mason Jar 125 ml
Great Mugs
The Dissolvable Labels would be a life saver
The frozen herb kit!
I want to try the gift jar set
Would love the Limited edition blue vintage jars.
the freezer jars would be great for soups and stews!
Cook's Helper Canning Rack System
The frozen herb kit.
The plastic freezer jars look like a great idea
I would like to try the pickling spice… I just started canning last year but was too chicken to try pickles
I love the gift jar set
I could really use the jar labels
I'd like to try the Sure Grip Jar Handler
I like the Limited Edition Blue Vintage Jar
I have been looking at the starter kit (and extra jars of course) this is the year I learn to can!!!!!
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I'd love to try the herb freezing set!
I'd love tons of the Limited Edition Blue Vintage Jars!
I would like to try the jar labels!
I'd like the Dry Herbs jars!
i love the pretty coloured jars!
The plastic freezer jars and the frozen herb kit would be neat
I love the drinking glasses but I do plan to can a few things this year for sure…
I would love to try the Mason Jar Drinking Mug
I love the white plastic lids they make. They are great to use mason jars for everyday storage!
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I would like to try their jar labels.
I like the Gift Jar kit!
The funnel would be really useful
I'd like to try the Cook's Helper Canning Rack System. Thank you!
I would really love the blue vintage jars 🙂
Probably try their Plastic Freezer Jars
the Plastic Freezer Jars would be handy to have!
the Plastic Freezer Jars would be handy to have!
I'd love to try the Gift Jar Kit
The Complete Book on Home Perserving would be great.
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Limited Edition Blue Vintage Jar
I would like the book Complete Book on Home Perserving, since I have never done it before but would like too
Limited Edition Blue Vintage Jar
I'd like to try their gift jar kit.
I would like to try this: http://www.bernardin.ca/pages/product_page/47.php…
I would love to get the 4 pack of drinking mugs 🙂
I would like to try the Cook's Helper Canning Rack System
I would love to try the magnetic wand or the frozen herb starter kit
I would love to try the Mason jar infuser. I have yet to try canning so this looks like a great way to get started!
My dad's diabetic so I'd like to try the No Sugar Needed Pectin (Suzi)
Freezer jam pectin 🙂
I would love to try the Limited Edition Blue Jars they look so lovely
Would really love to have a home canning kit, I've been canning without the correct tools and its been somewhat difficult.
I like that they have dry herb shaker caps.
I would love to the try the plastic freezer jars or the jar labels
I like their blue and green jars. Green would be fun for Christmas gift giving. Also would love one of their cookbooks
I would love to try the
Gift Jar Kit
thanks
Jar labels 🙂
love to try jars label. entry plx.
These mugs are the greatest drinking cups for iced tea. Hands down;)
The cookers help canning rack system would be great to have. Love making jams & salsa.
i want to try their Liquid Pectin
I would love the mugs …perfect for camping
The gift giving kit or the sure grip jar handling I can never open jars.
I would love to try recipes out of the Complete Book on Home Perserving.
their jar labels
I would also like to try the frozen herb kit.
I would like to try the Fiesta Salsa Mix
I would love to try any of their fabulous products but especially the Cook's Helper Canning Rack System and the labels.
I would love to have the complete book on home preserving.
Sure Grip Jar Handler! Can’t count the number of times I’ve burnt myself while making pickles with my mom. Would love this set to get started on my own!
Would like to use the Jar Lifter
I would like to try the plastic freezer jars and the green jars
I would like to try the Freezer Herb Starter Kit.
I like their decorative labels.
HAVE THE MUGS…NEED LABELS
the drinking mugs