Advent - Day 3

[kyburg]

How to make a gift with something you have around the house. (Version 1.0)

Take a jar of pasta sauce:



Have dinner. (YUM.)



Soak the label off the jar. Note that the jar is exactly a quart - and some brands actually use Mason Jars. Fancy that.

Fill with your favorite 'cookie/cocoa in the jar recipe' (and look to see what you have on hand first to mate up with a recipe - Snickerdoodles can be made nearly anytime if you keep flour, sugar and cinnamon on hand):



Find festive scraps and decorate (Sunday morning comics can be substituted):



TADA.

Links for recipe suggestions:

Hawaiian Sunshine in a Jar
Sunset Magazine's 'Gifts From Your Kitchen'
The search off GroupRecipes.com
The search off Epicurious.com

See you tomorrow -

Comments

[lokabrenna.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh. At first glance, I read the first jar as "A Beautiful Harem". Hi there, brain, you awake yet?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*dies*

OH!

[the-resa.livejournal.com]

Love this! Just love this kind of thing!
Thank you!

[shirasade]

This is awesome! *bookmarks*

[djdig.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for sharing that! It's a wonderful idea!

I've been trying to think of what I can do for my family at Christmas now that my budget has been slashed(got laid off and unemployment may take up to 4 weeks to be processed).

Since both my parents are following weight watchers, I will search hungry girl and weightwatchers.com to see if I can find a recipe that will work for the "in a jar" presentation.

Thank you again for inspiring me (for both the present idea and encouraging me to join WW).