It is six o'clock. You are tired. And the fridge has nothing to say.

Now picture a shelf of small jars, each one a dinner already made in your own hand. Tip one into a pot, add the water written on the lid, and in about twelve minutes a hot, proper meal is on the table. Sized for you. Or for you and the one person across the table.

That is Meals in a Jar for One or Two.

WHY THIS BOOK EXISTS

Most meals-in-a-jar recipes are built on the quart jar, and the quart jar is a family jar. It feeds four, sometimes six. If you live alone, or it is just the two of you now, that means the same dinner three days running, or halving recipes at the worst hour of the evening.

This book fixes it at the root. Every recipe is sized for one pint jar: one big bowl or two smaller ones. You cook it, you eat it, it is finished. Tomorrow you open a different jar.

THE PINT-JAR CARD

Every one of the 75 recipes ends with a Pint-Jar Card that tells you at a glance:
n- How many it serves
n- The layer order, first in to last in
n- The exact water to add on cooking day
n- Stovetop or microwave time
n- The best-by rule, counted from the day you fill the jar
n- The oxygen absorber size
n- Sodium per serving, printed plainly
n- A low-sodium swap to bring that number down
n- The quart version, in one line, for when family comes

SODIUM ON EVERY JAR

Jar meals lean on bouillon, and bouillon is salty. Most jar recipes never tell you the number. This book does, on every recipe, with a simple swap beside it.

75 JUST-ADD-WATER RECIPES

- 18 Pint-Jar Dinners: Chicken and Rice Supper, Beef Stroganoff-Style Noodles, Cheesy Broccoli Rice, Taco Rice, Chicken Pot Pie Noodles and more
n- 14 Soups and Stews: Peppery Chicken Noodle Soup, Quick Beef and Barley Soup, Creamy Potato Soup, Golden Corn Chowder and more
n- 10 Chili and Bean Jars: Red Lentil Chili, Weeknight Red Beans and Rice, Creamy White Chicken Chili and more
n- 10 Breakfast Jars: Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal, Cheesy Grits, Egg and Potato Scramble and more
n- 8 Side Jars: Buttery Mashed Potatoes, Stovetop Mac and Cheese, Herb Stuffing and more
n- 8 Sweet Jars: Creamy Rice Pudding, Apple Crisp, Cinnamon Bread Pudding and more
n- 7 Company Jars: quart jars that feed four, for the weekend the family arrives

NO DEHYDRATOR. NO CANNING.

Every jar is built from store-bought dried and freeze-dried ingredients: instant rice, small pasta, potato flakes, freeze-dried chicken and beef, dried vegetables, milk powder and spices. Nothing is cooked and sealed wet, so you need no pressure canner and no water bath.

Three short chapters show you how a dry meal jar works, how to stock the pantry, and how to layer, seal, label and cook every jar, with illustrated guides to pint-jar layering and oxygen absorber sizes.

HONEST ABOUT SHELF LIFE

These jars keep for months, not decades, and this book says so plainly. Every best-by rule sits at the careful end of university extension guidance, and you will learn why a cool cupboard matters.

ALSO INSIDE

- Jar Labels to photocopy
n- A Shelf Rotation Log, so no jar is ever forgotten
n- A Pantry Shopping List for every chapter
n- An Oxygen Absorber Sizing Chart
n- A Pint-to-Quart Conversion Table
n- A recipe index by chapter, plus a finder that sorts every jar by what is inside it
n- Nutrition estimates for every recipe: calories, sodium, protein, carbohydrate, fat and fibre

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

If you live alone, cook for two, have an empty nest, travel in an RV, or simply want hot dinners ready on the evenings your energy is not, this book was written for you.

Fill four jars this weekend. By Wednesday night, you will understand.

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Meals in a Jar for One or Two

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