The global movement towards getting back to basics and eating locally and in season has made the time-honoured ritual of canning and preserving a treasured craft that is once again having its moment.
Buying or even growing fresh fruits and vegetables in season yields the rewards long after if they are properly treated and lovingly prepared. Whether it is a few jars of jam or a family-sized batch of tomato sauce, no one can dispute the satisfaction and heightened enjoyment of ‘homemade’.
If you are busy in the kitchen canning and preserving this fall, you’ll definitely want to check out the various jars and tools available from Canadian company Trudeau to make the task a success!
Quattro Stagioni from Bormioli Rocco is an iconic Italian brand of home food storage products that have been in the marketplace for over 35 years! The durable and recognizable embossed decorative design and gold tone lid are symbolic of the beauty and dependability. The line is synonymous with traditional design combined with modern vacuum sealing properties that are especially designed for homemade preserves. The Trudeau tomato and strawberry hullers are not only super fast and efficient, they are a lot of fun! I was surprised actually at how much fruit we were wasting cutting off the top, the middle of a strawberry is quite small!
But let’s go beyond the kitchen, and think outside of the ‘box’! The functionality for glass jars and bottles are as limitless as your imagination, or even a visit to pinterest! They are so many other ways to use jars and bottles in your home that doesn’t involved preserving! I’ll show you a few of my favourites!
By layering lentils and beans of different colours and sizes, you can create a gorgeous seasonal display in one of your Quattro Stagioni jars! Fill right to the top so they don’t have room to move around too much and secure with the lid. They make beautiful fall decor pieces and a nice gift as well.
The smaller sized Quattro Stagioni jars make an adorable vase for small cut flowers out of your garden! They really add character over a standard vase and look so cute on the table!
You can also use these multifunctional jars for beverages, they look amazing with a fun paper straw inserted!
The Fido line from Bormioli Rocco is the original preservation and storage container created 50 years ago. This airtight jar has a vintage shape and modern twist with a chalkboard design for easy labeling and added personalization. My cupcake liners were always getting squashed in my baking cupboard and it’s been irritating me for some time. I used this large mouthed jar to stack my liners in to keep them safe from being crushed and added a cute little cupcake design with some of the kids chalk on the board. It can easily be wiped clean and used for another purpose, but right now I have it displayed on top of my fridge and I love it.
Glassware featured is all from the Bormioli Rocco collection, made in Italy and distributed exclusively in Canada by Trudeau. You have a chance to win a full set (5) of the Fido Chalkboard Line of jars, plus both the tomato and the strawberry huller! Just enter below and tell me what you would store in your chalkboard jars! (open to Canada Only)
I would store pens, and rubber bands. We’re always looking for these to use!
Legumes
Homemade jam
I would use them in the bathroom for hair ties, cotton balls and q-tips.
I would store accessories.
I would use them for decorative purposes….pasta, beans, rice, etc. for the kitchen.
I would probably store cooking items like broth mix, dried beans and the like
all my crafts stuff… like buttons, fake jewels and yarns
I’d store bobby pins, hair elastics and maybe some sugar cubes!
I’d use mine in the bathroom to store bits and pieces and use as deco 🙂
I shop at Bulk Barn so the possibilities are endless, but mine will probably filled with treats and sweets for the kiddies!!
I’d probably use them to store cosmetics and bathroom stuff.
I would use these for my jewellery making supplies.
soup supplies like lentils, pasta, and beans
kid’s craft supplies
baking supplies
tea bags
I already use jars in my pantry for all my baking and cooking supplies but I tend to write on the bottoms with sharpie – I would love to be able to label my sugars and flours and such with the chalkboard!
I would put some baking ingredients in them , esp with Christmas coming.
I would use them for candles, decorative ideas.
I would use them to store small pasta, dried beans, barley etc.
I would store pretty candies in them – I think they would be great for this at parties. 🙂
I would store barley, beans and lentils 🙂
I think I would store pasta, beans and rice.
Craft supplies.
Chocolate chips and other baking supplies
I`d store spices and baking ingredients in them,
I would store mostly dry goods in them.
Dry goods, like rices and pastas!
I would use it to preserve the pepper that we grow in our backyard
Various Spices
I love the chalkboard labels! I would use them for tea and baking supplies!
I would use them in the kitchen to store items bought I Bulk Barn
I have all of my baking, cooking, and pantry supplies all in glass jars. I usually use Mason jars, but these are wonderful. I would use them to put my homemade spices in. They would make my spices look so very special.
oh crap. This is for canada only…sorry i didn’t read the rules until it was too late 🙁 Good luck everyone 🙂
sorry Kelly
I would use it to store hair ties and cotton balls.
I would store kitchen food supplies! Like dried pasta & oils… for decorative & practical use… all in one! Thank you so much for the opportunity!
I’d use them for grains.
Like you, I would store my cupcake liners. I would use the others for various baking supplies. I actually bought a jar for the cupcake liners, but they didn’t fit.
Q-tips, cotton in the bathroom.
Dry foods, as well as smoothies!
Dry foods & spices
I would store candies in these jars.
coffee beans and tea leaves!
Hair Acc, Q tips, pasta, candy would be great!
Coffee and tea! Very cute!
So cute! I would store chocolates for display and to snack on.
I would store my flax,hemp and home made salad dressing
I would store q-tips, cotton balls, etc in them!
definitely my cupcake liners (was just looking for a jar that would hold them)
I’d store coffee and tea!!
We use a lot of beans and I think these will be perfect for them, even the bottle shape will hole lentils.
I would store my granola, lentils and use as flower vase. Love these.
I would store flour, rice and other such things.
I would store baking supplies – rolled oats, chocolate chips, nuts.
I would use them for dried pasta’s, vinegar and some baking stuff!
Homemade salad dressing and the good little extras like nuts and dried cranberries.
I would store pantry items: pasta, flour, sugar, spices
I’d store Acini, rice, etc. in them.
Flour, sugar, coffee and maple syrup!
I would use the chalkboard jars to store baking ingredients/items
I would store the vegetables that I dehydrate out of my garden and my homemade vanilla extract
I would store crayons and other craft things for the kids!
I would store baking supplies.
i would use them for spices
i would use them for storing beans
I would store baking supplies. They always seem to be all over the place.
I would love to replace all of my plastic containers with glass to hold all of the different kitchen ingredients I have, these would be great!
I would use them for storing sewing supplies.
I think I would use them in the bathroom – so qtips, cotton balls ect
for cosmetic and brushes
I would store baking goods like sugar, flour, etc
pasta, beans etc. for the pantry
I’d store nuts and chocolate chips!
Sugar, coffee, and baking ingredients!
I would either store baking ingredients or display baking creations!
These would be great decoration
I would dedicate one to hair ties and clips, that’s a definite!
I have drawer full of many small items that I would be able to sort out and see what is in these containers. Right now things are just lost and forgotten most of the time since there are no sorted things to know what is what.
Spices..sugars maybe
I would store colourful buttons
I would store salsas and strawberry jams in mine and gift them for cool presents.
I would put my flours in them.
I’d use them in my bathroom for cotton pads, Q-tips etc. They’re so pretty!
coffee, flour, ect
I would use these for storage of rice, beans, etc in the kitchen.
I would store popcorn, dried beans, and quinoa in the jars.
I would store bathroom items, like cotton balls etc.
I would store beans, lentils, red beans for asian desserts!
I would store dry goods like pasta, rice, and coffee
Sugar, spices, oil… 🙂
I will store a variety of dried beans.
Miscellaneous items at our entrance way, such as flowers and laundry quarters.
I’d most likely use them for dry foods…..they sure would look great too!
I’d store curries which need a tight seal to preserve the flavours.
I would store dried goods in it, such as lentils, pasta, and put flowers in one too. Great jars, lots of uses, thanks. Good luck all.
These jars would be great to store in various places in the home, hair accessories in the bathroom, baking goods in the kitchen, shells saved from vacations the kids collected, and flowers.
they are adorable – i would store dry goods; like barley, lentils, or pasta. My teen daughter would use them in her room to store makeup brushes – so many practical uses for these!
I’d store spices.
I love how you put your cupcake papers in the wide mouth jar! I do that too so the don’t get squished, dusty or pick up scents from other items sored close to them! I think I’d use mine to store coffee & tea or maybe art/craft supplies!
Rice, cornmeal, sugar,quinoa, cornstarch, almost any kitchen dry goods that needs proper storage.
Oh gosh, I’d have so many uses for them…primarily using them for half-empty boxes of whatever.
I world store my different kinds of pasta from the partly used packages that take space in my cupboard
they would be good for baking supplies
sugar and baking items
I would save art supplies. How cute!! Thank you for the chance
i would keep buttons and sewing notions. maybe candy.
I would store my spices, flour, sugar and things of that nature!
I would use them for buttons. (Yes I have that many. I <3 buttons.
I would store oils in the tall bottle, and candy in the others.
I would store tea, coffee and sugar on my counter top
I would sore decorating sugars for my cupcakes
I’ll be storing my baking stuff and maybe some rice!
Bathroom supplies, I think.
I can envision using these in the kitchen for various bits and pieces.
I would store lentils and candy
What wouldn’t I store in those beautiful jars? The veggies I am dehydrating, grains, kombucha, and the list goes on.
snacks
I would place them on my counter tops and store cookies and candies inside of them.
They would be good for small ingredients and candies.
Ohhh sugars for baking!
I’d store lentils in the jars.
I would store my marble collections.
They will be my cookie jars!
I would keep all of my lose change in the jars.
I would store cotton balls, q tips, hair ties for in the bathroom!
I would store my different coffees in these jars.
Probably spices, popcorn, sugar, etc
pantry items. This will look good in it.
hair beads
Be great for storing some of the kids smaller toys in.
I would store colored candies on mine
Probably quinoa, flours, teas, etc.
I would store tea, pasta, rice and more.
I would like to try my hand at making homemade irish cream for Christmas. Storing the Irish Cream in the jars would be awesome.
I would use the jars for storing things like beans, chickepeas, lentils etc!
I would keep them on the kitchen counter.
We already use jars to store many things but having them labeled would be really helpful, especially for tea!
Mine would be filled with candy!
For jam.
Dog treats!
I would put infused olive oil into the jars as well as a blend of the spcies we use for chai tea. I love the idea of keeping cupcake liners inside too – so perfect!
Various teas.
the possibilities! Im not 100% sure but I do know I could make good use of them, whether Id decide to fill with goodies from the bulk barn or try to find fancy dry goods to put them on display in the kitchen or maybe even preserves? I would have to see them in person but I know I would give them a good home 🙂 They are stunning!
I’d use them to store kim chi and jam.
I would store coffee, sugar and tea in them on my kitchen counter.
dried beans and pasta
I would store honey in one of my jars.
flour or sugar!
I would use the jars to store filtered water, nuts, and cooking flours (almond and coconut).
I would store things for the kids like snacks and their Lego pieces and crayons.
Definitely fruit.
I’d store tea and coffee
I’d store my loose tea in them. Perfect!
I would store oats, barley and quinoa.
I would store coffee and candle shavings
i would love to put coffee and coffee supplies in these jars
I would love to store baking supplies.
Gluten Free Baking ingredients, almond flour, corn starch, chocolate chips, etc
I think I would do noodles, oil, cotton balls, and tea lights! Total organization! Thank you for the opportunity!
That might be a tough decision, so may things, buttons, baking supplies, bathroom stuff
I would store craft items in them but first I would love to use them at my daughters wedding next year.
I would store baking stuff in them
I would use them to store homemade jam and jellies.
I would store homemade jam and some nuts in them!
I would store vacation mementos in them.
pre made salad for single servings.
I would store homemade vinegar
I would store spices in the jars.
I’d fill them with flour, sugar, spices etc with the upcoming holidays it’ll make it more convenient to bake and cook everything.
I would store pens, pencils, and markers.
craft supplies
I would store seeds for the garden!
Candy
To tidy up the kitchen a bit!
Awesome food storage!
I would probably use them for maple syrup, jam, fruit etc…
I would probably have one for decoration and then the rest to store things like q-tips and cotton balls.
I would store my dry foods and baking supplies.
I like to store sugar, beans, granola, and items I buy in bulk at the store in jars.
I would store craft items.
These bottles, made by Trudeau, are certainly versatile and may be used for so many uses. Thank you for your useful and timely tips.