time for me to get my day moving

have a great day all

Take care Chuck.

Suz did you look up under diabetic strawberry preserves?

later chuck

No, not yet. I'm not opposed to sugar, just some that's all you taste is sugar. If I'm gonna go through the work of picking them, then doing something with, I want them to taste like strawberries and not anything else

I agree

ill see what i can find out for ya

5 cups mashed up strawberries
1 cup water
1 package "no sugar needed" powdered pectin
1.5 cups sugar

The "no sugar needed" pectin is what allows you to make this recipe with a lower sugar amount. In regular jam recipes, you will use around 7 cups of sugar! Ick! I have played around with the amount, and have found 1.5 cups to be just right for us. You can use no sugar at all for a tart jam, or experiment with honey or other sweetners too.

Combine all of the ingredients and bring them to a boil, stirring continuously. After the jam is boiling, keep stirring for one minute and remove from the heat.



While you are doing this, you will need to have your clean jars and lids in a pot of hot water, not boiling. Always use new lids.




Once your jam has boiled for 1 minute, you will use your canning funnel to get the jam into the hot jars. You can get a kit at Wal-mart in the seasonal section that has the funnel, ruler, jar remover, and lid magnet for a good price, this will make your canning life much easier.





You will fill your jars up to almost the top, leave 1/4 inch of "head space". Use the ruler that comes in the kit for easiest measuring.





or



Ingredients

1 cup fresh or frozen unsweetened strawberries
1 tsp liquid Pectin
1 tsp Splenda



Directions

Place berries in top of a double boiler. Cook over boiling water until soft and juicy. Crush berries against sides of the double boiler. Add pectin and Splenda and mix thoroughly. Cook until medium thick (or to your desired thickness).
Cool and pour into a glass jar with an airtight lid. Store in the refrigerator.
This recipe can also be made with blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, etc. You get the idea.
Yield: 2/3 cup
Calories (for the entire jar!): 50
Diabetic exchange: 1 fruit

Number of Servings: 1

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Pam, that's great! The first one was just what I was looking for. I've never made jam, jelly etc before, this'll be a first. I remember my mom making it once but that's about it.

Glad to be of help I will go back and make sure that I didn't miss copying anything.

i have space again,,,, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Suz are we doing this thing tonight?

I'm not, but I thought you guys were?

I don't really want to now but I guess we can stop in for a second

me still have class tonight

don't you usually have class?

yeah thrus and fri and sat

so other than that you have no class

no i have class,, but it aint the type you would recognize