What Can You Make or Do With This?
- Thread starter Jmurman
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Many garage or farm workshops have rows of them being used for storing various small items... screws, nails, washers, etc.
The trick to not having a ton of loose jars which will be lost or broken is to mount the LIDS to a board. Screw the jar and and off the lid as needed to access the contents. This can be either horizontal (mounted under a shelf) or vertical (mounted on a wall), depending on what you put in the jars and how full you fill them. It works well because you can see through the glass from the side or bottom and easily find what you're looking for.
They also make a nice size jar for filling with homemade herb salves, or storing spices, etc...
Summerthyme
The trick to not having a ton of loose jars which will be lost or broken is to mount the LIDS to a board. Screw the jar and and off the lid as needed to access the contents. This can be either horizontal (mounted under a shelf) or vertical (mounted on a wall), depending on what you put in the jars and how full you fill them. It works well because you can see through the glass from the side or bottom and easily find what you're looking for.
They also make a nice size jar for filling with homemade herb salves, or storing spices, etc...
Summerthyme
adgal
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Okay - I've been reading TB2K too much lately - 
The first thought that came to my mind is that they could be made into little "bombs" for self-defense. My nephews and neices make "Drano-bombs" - I think it's illegal, but if you need to defend yourself - babyfood hand grenades might do the trick. 
The first thought that came to my mind is that they could be made into little "bombs" for self-defense. My nephews and neices make "Drano-bombs" - I think it's illegal, but if you need to defend yourself - babyfood hand grenades might do the trick. murgatroid_98
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You can store seeds in them.
If you don't want to have to have all of those babyfood jars around to find uses for, make your own babyfood. If you have dehydrated foods, just pulverize them before you add the water. Add boiling water to them and allow to cool to baby temp and it will be cooked and the right texture for baby. The same can be done with freeze dried foods. they do tend to have things in them that baby shouldn't eat, tho. Read the lables and decide which are appropriate.
An alternative to pulverizing first is to rehydrate, cook then mash. This will make food suitable for an older baby who is starting to chew.
Mushroom
An alternative to pulverizing first is to rehydrate, cook then mash. This will make food suitable for an older baby who is starting to chew.
Mushroom
Rattlehead
did someone say BBQ?
You put your weed in it, man 
surfingdemon
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You can make nice snow globes out of them...
ncsteelmagnolia
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This is how I organize all my small craft items - I make jewelry and place all my rocks & beads in this and then arrange by color groupings.
Freeholder
This too shall pass.
All the proposed uses are great (and babyfood jars are very useful items to have around) but my thoughts are running along the same lines as Mushrooms -- why are you buying babyfood? All you have to do is smash up whatever you guys are eating, and give baby that. The Eskimo peoples chewed their babies food for them, and I did that for my girls -- I suspect this is one way children get innoculated with the necessary organisms that live inside us and help you digest your food. Don't do it if the adult involved is sick, of course, but otherwise it's a perfectly good way to make baby food!
Kathleen
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housemouse
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Freeholder said:
A good post, Kathleen. Once babies, who are usually on Mom's lap during dinner , while Dad cuts her meat and makes her feel semi-handicapped, grab for stuff from Mom's plate, they are ready for "finger-food". That means, let them soothe those aching toofie spots while gnawing on a "drumstick". Let them taste everything healthy and non-allergenic that is on Mom's plate...
Best foods for baby at 6 months can be either humongous chunks of cool stuff, like apples and carrots, which feel so good in the tingling gums, or soft mushy stuff, like little teensie steamed carrot cubes, bits of bananna, little pieces of hamburger, tiny cubes of chicken.
But, watch them carefully at this stage. They have a tendency to stuff their mouths full, and then try to swallow a "glump". It is best to watch them closely for swallowing the first few bits, making sure they have gummed these down, and actually swallowed, before offering a few more bits. More toddlers than you can think of have choked by stuffing their little gullets full before chewing up the pieces, so only offer one or two pieces of little bits of stuff at a time!
Cheerios are good for whole grains, but again only two or three at a time. This is a chance to build brain skills with "hand-to-mouth" coordination. If your wife insists on canned baby food, put a dab or two down, and let the baby fingers do the work. Clean up is so much easier, believe me, and they learn some valuable motor coordination skills at the same time.
Again, do not put more than two or three bitsy pieces on their high chair tray at a time, or one humongeous chunck for gnawing, and do not "spoon feed" them stuff. That starts some pretty odd parental/child interactions that can lead to lots of food refusal later on. Always be cheerful when sitting with them while they explore food, and be enthusiastic about whatever they chose to eat! Make them feel great about the new skill of feeding themselves!
Best advice to you, eat the kinds of food you want your child to eat, make sure they get lots on teensie tastes, and let them play with their food. Respect their appetites, but keep on offering the good stuff. It might require 6 or 10 tries before they decide they like whatever. Pay no attention to the first refusals, just quietly keep offering while you set a good example by scarfing down the broccoli or green beans with gusto.
Eventually, they figure it all out, and do a pretty good job of balancing their own diets, if we eat properly, and set a good example.
adgal said:Okay - I've been reading TB2K too much lately -
Woa and I thought I was the only manic to do this sort of thing! Of course that was 35 years ago.....
A southwest tradition is the luminaria: lining the sidewalk to a party with candles. In Mexico they put the candles in pots, but in the USA they use paper bags. Since nobody appreciates burning paper bags, they now use small jars to hold the candles inside the paper bags.
The local university threw a party a few years back. One of the organizers got creative and filled little jars with wax and beans for candles on the tables. If you do that, leave out the beans. THEY STINK!
The local university threw a party a few years back. One of the organizers got creative and filled little jars with wax and beans for candles on the tables. If you do that, leave out the beans. THEY STINK!
dirtdigger
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Baby food jars......
What a treasure those little jars are. You can freeze eggs in them. Scramble first and pour about 2 eggs per jar and freeze. I put about a dozen jars in a plastic container and freeze. Actually, I had to buy little plastic containers at the Dollar Store but I would have preferred the glass baby food jars.
What a treasure those little jars are. You can freeze eggs in them. Scramble first and pour about 2 eggs per jar and freeze. I put about a dozen jars in a plastic container and freeze. Actually, I had to buy little plastic containers at the Dollar Store but I would have preferred the glass baby food jars.
I use them in my tackle box. Hooks don't snag on glass. I don't drop the jars near as much as little plastic bags. The jars are easier to keep clean. The bags get scratched, torn and foggy. One is for cigarette butts. And the weight helps keep the tackle box from getting knocked over and spilling my little cottage cheese container of worms all over my tools and rag. And a little jelly jar filled with crushed ice is nice to have along on a hot day. Plastic tastes lousy.