This is a lot of tomatoes.
My mother-in-law is in town and yesterday she loaned her 30 years of canning experience to help me "put up" lots of tomatoes (probably about 40 pounds, costing me about $48). This is fourteen 32-oz jars (why do they call it canning when you use jars?) I borrowed the supplies (a very large pot, a mechanism that holds the jars in place, a gripper to pull the jars out of the boiling water and a funnel) from someone in the mothers' club.
The jars cost $1.10 each. I need to go to the store and figure out what the actual cost per oz is for the home-canned vs the store-bought. Of course there's a lot of work involved with the actual home canning, but there are benefits...
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