Hi, I'm Jami and I love to share simple real food recipes, easy gardening tips, and the best, quickest ways to preserve seasonal food. In my emails you'll find behind the scenes news from the farmhouse and doable, delicious recipes for every stage of life straight to your inbox!
🎀 Quick and cheap gift ideas.
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Hi Reader,
Are you starting your Christmas gift shopping, in the middle of it, or already finished?
I've finished with most of my shopping, with only a handful of gift cards to still get, so now I'm into the wrapping stage (thankfully with my quick-wrap gift system I just pull out the bin of wrapped boxes and it's done in no time - for our family at least, I still have to wrap the gifts we take to others).
Since that (and baking, but we talked about that a few days ago 😀) are on the top of my to-do list, I thought I'd share a few quick and inexpensive ideas for gifts in jars and a roundup of other quick ideas if you need them.
I love giving food gifts because it's one thing you know most people will actually use, it's often a lot cheaper than store-bought gifts, and you can personalize them easily.
I also find foods the best gifts for school secretaries, teachers, mail deliverers, hostesses, etc. It usually really brightens someone's day!
Food Gifts in Jars
Here are both sweet and savory options (with the newest gift in the blog section and more to come next week!):
Finally, you can check out these ideas for 36 Quick Handmade Gifts - Food, Crafts, Home, Family & Bath!
(You can also go HERE to see all the gifts in a jar I've published.)
From The Blog
Here's to a lovely week!!
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An Oregon Cottage: Simple Homemade Life
Hi, I'm Jami and I love to share simple real food recipes, easy gardening tips, and the best, quickest ways to preserve seasonal food. In my emails you'll find behind the scenes news from the farmhouse and doable, delicious recipes for every stage of life straight to your inbox!
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, Well, well, well. As if the deer, gophers, moles, and ground squirrels weren't enough animals to eat/damage our produce the birds decided to join in! We've had pecks and holes on things in the past, but there was always enough left for us that it hasn't been an issue. Until now... Do you remember the photo of our grapevine loaded with large...
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, We got back from our vacation at the lake (the menu worked great, btw!) to find the garden BURSTING with ripe tomatoes and a TON of green beans. There is a good harvest of both onions (it's been a really good year for them - some are SO huge!) and peppers, so I'll be making the first batches of salsa this weekend for sure. 😀 I'll be freezing...
Some links in this email are affiliate links- if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.* Hi Reader, We've finally started to get bigger harvests from the garden! The beans are really producing now, I've got a large bowl of tomatoes ripening on the island, and I've been having fresh blackberries on my granola.💜 The past few meals I've been able to say that all the produce has come from the garden, everything for the pico de gallo, cumin slaw,...