As you might remember, Ball released a line of limited edition blue glass pint jars last year. It was a fun throwback to canning jars of yore and I enjoyed using them throughout the 2013 canning season (though I will confess, they do make my peaches look a bit little sickly).
This year, Ball is continuing the special edition trend with a limited release of green jars. These jars will be available in both regular mouth pint jars and wide mouth quarts, which is particularly exciting for those of who like to use wide mouth quart jars as drinking glasses (I’ll actually have more about my habit of drinking out of wide mouth quarts later this week). Just like the blue jars, they will be making a finite number, so if you fall in love with this particular look, make sure to stock up sooner rather than later.
Typically, I don’t like to write about new jars and products without having had a chance to experience them personally, but we had a little shipping snafu and the jars that were coming to me got a bit delayed. However, I promised a good giveaway this week and so made an exception. When I do get these jars into my hot little hands, I’ll be posting a follow-up post and some photos, so that you can get a better idea of what they look like in the real world.
Fillmore Container recently published a post on their blog about these new jars and they have a couple of additional images if you’re interested. They’ll also be taking online orders for them soon.
Now, here’s the giveaway scoop. The nice folks at Ball have given me 10 cases of the green pint jars to give away to 10 lucky winners (each winner will receive one case, which contains 6 jars). Here’s how to enter:
- Leave a comment on this post and share how you’d use these new jars in your home.
- Comments will close at 12 noon on Sunday, February 2, 2014. Winners will be chosen at random and will be posted to the blog later that day.
- Giveaway open to US residents only (so sorry, my further-flung readers).
- One comment per person, please. Entries must be left via the comment form on the blog at the bottom of this post.
Disclosure: The jars for this giveaway have been provided by the manufacturer at no cost to me. However, my opinions remain entirely my own.
I would use these cheerful green jars for storing dry goods in my pantry!
I would use them as drinking glasses. I have small (8 oz) old jars that are quilted and it looks like they were jam jars that you sealed with wax. Very cute. I would like to expand the use of jars for drinking.
I would make some pickles with them next summer! That way the green wouldn’t clash with the contents.
I would love to fill them with green beans!
I would can mint jelly, as it would be my first time canning with my new canner. I would then gift one to my mom, my mom in law, and a few friends. These jars would be in all places in the country! Love the website btw.
Kira
I would use them along side my grandmother’s old blue glass jars and put my grains & pulses in them
I would use the cool green jars for canning, storing dry goods, making sour cream & salad dressings, and storing left-overs in the fridge.
New to canning, I would use these jars to preserve some jam/jellies I plan to make 😉
With all my green decor, they would be perfect in my house as decoration!
I would use them for canning in preparation for our Annual Tomato party. Every year our neighborhood has a festival called Tomato Art Festival. It’s the largest festival in Nashville. We throw a big party in conjunction. Homemade bloody mary mix would never look so good.
Love these! And they would be perfect for pickling season! I have already started planning my cuke garden! Exciting!
These would surely add some style to my iced tea.
These would make the cutest little lamps with a lamp conversion kit!