Thanks for the heads up on the canning lids at Walmart.
We use brand name and generic lids and they all seem to work well.
Lids seem to still work okay even after being stored for years.
We always check lids for defects and give them a hot water soak before sealing them on the jars.
We have accumulated so many of the screw-on bands for regular jars that now we usually buy just the flat lids.
I see Walmart also has bulk deals on no-name generic lids (no bands)
100 regular mouth lids @ $14.99
100 wide mouth lids @ $18.99
Amazon also has 100 regular mouth lids @ $14.99
But 100 wide mouth lids at Amazon are $22.99
This place (Temu) sells Chinese merchandise: https://www.temu.com/
They have 150 regular mouth lids for $19.88 and free shipping
We haven’t bought lids from Temu but some of the other lids we bought locally are Chinese made and work OK.
We did buy a different item from Temu and it was as advertised and shipped pretty fast.
Once in a while we have found close-out deals on marked down canning jars and lids at local stores at the end of canning season
when they are clearing the shelf space for Thanksgiving and Christmas merchandise.
FROM THE UNFORSEEN CONSEQUENCES FILE
Legalizing “Medicinal” Marijuana
There are radio and TV ads advertising places that offer prescriptions for “medicinal marijuana” over the telephone - no actual Dr. visit required.
Now some of the large tomato and pepper growers in our area have stopped growing vegetables and converted their farmland to growing legal marijuana.
Supposedly the profits from growing marijuana are much higher than vegetable crops.
Farms that used to offer good deals on You-Pick vegetables after they completed picking for the commercial market are now gone.
We once had many farms to choose from where we could pick bushels of peppers, tomatoes and other vegetables for canning at low prices but now there are very few.
Supply is down and prices are up.
Thanks for listing all the inexpensive options for canning lids. I’ll have to get some and experiment. My problem is I leave things on the Shelf much longer than recommended, so I’m wondering if the cheaper Lids would last as long. The Ball and Kerr it seem to do well up to 5 years at least.