Hubby found some lids early this summer. I still have a fair sized stash from end of year sales from a few years back. At one time, there were no jars here either.
I had a case of each size jars stashed from last year too, and hubby happened to run across some when he was on the job in another county, and bought several cases.
So I’m using the stash, and putting the lids from the new jars in a ziplock bag with the date to use later on this year. I do actually have some off brand lids-which I bought as a just in case there aren’t any from anywhere-ordered them on Amazon-probably made in china-ugh.
I’ve even got some lids that I used before that didn’t have discernable dents that I stashed just in case all else fails.
I read somewhere that Walmart stores are prioritizing the urban areas, if they don’t have quite enough stuff. Lids are not the only thing that we have trouble finding.
And a lot of the stuff I used to order on - line is now out of stock on-line, and often only available for pickup at stores located in contiguous counties.
We have a hardware/farm store that sometimes has some canning supplies when no one else does, but even they were out. I have been thinking about trying out the tattlers. Watched a couple of videos.
Please let me know if you like the reusable ones.
For years I have saved used lids and re-used them several times if no dings or bent edges and have sufficient rubber stuff on them. I don’t do pressure canning, just fruits and tomatoes water bath.
Did you ever reuse lids with any success?