Made by Carie: Homemade Freezer Jam!

The sugar and strawberries went on sale this week at my Price Chopper. That meant one thing, time to make strawberry jam! I stumbled across a recipe for freezer jam about one year ago and decided to give it a try. At that point I was sick of spending so much money on jam at the grocery store. Now I know you can get it pretty cheap but I try to steer clear of food that has large amounts of high fructose corn syrup in it. So the result was I was spending $3 on one little jar of jam that only has a little over a cup in it. For the price of $7 I can make 12 cups of strawberry jam. Throw in another $5 if you need to buy containers. Way cheaper than buying it at the store. I use the recipe on the sure jell box. It works great every time.

Gather all the ingredients. You need 4 lbs of sugar, 2 containers of stawberries, I always buy one extra. Two packages of Sure Jell, a chopper, and containers. I like the small twist and store plastic ones. They hold 2 cups each.

Wash your fruit

Cut off the tops of the strawberries

Chop up the strawberries. Don't chop up to much you want bits of fruit in the jam.

Chop up enough to get 4 cups. The recipe only calls for 2 cups but I double it. We eat it and it can stay in the freezer for a long time.

add 1 1/2 cups of water and 2 packages of Sure Jell in to a 3 quart sauce pan. Turn on high.

Measure out 8 cups of sugar. It takes almost the whole 4 lb bag.

Add chopped strawberries to sugar

and mix well.

While the strawberries are sitting soaking up the sugar goodness. Stir Sure Jell and bring to a boil.

Stir for one min after it comes to a boil and then take off heat. Don't let it burn!

Add strawberries

mix well. Turn the heat on to medium, stir until all of the sugar is dissolved. The recipe on the box doesn't tell you to do this but it turns out much better if you do. =)