Plastic Lids For Mason Jars [Raw Food Tips]

It was not love at first sight.

I didn't want to do it.
I resisted.
I hated it at first.

But eventually, I tried it.

I tried drinking out of Mason Jars.

It all started when I began my juice feast. For the first few days of juice feasting, I resisted using Mason Jars. I thought they were too big as I grasped them in my dainty hands. I felt like I was drinking from a raw foodist equivalent of gulping a big 40 oz. of malt liquor. I wanted to drink out of my lovely glass goblets that I got as Christmas presents last year.

Then reality set in. When you are juice feasting, you don't have time to drink out of measly 8 oz or even 16 oz. drinking glasses. Mason jars are the only way to go. We started with 4 jars during the first few days into this Mason Jar adventure, but that became very impractical when JS wanted to start juicing too. He needed his jars, I needed mine.

I bought a box of Mason Jars at the local grocery store. Total cost? Less than 8 dollars for a dozen. 12 jars. That is less than one dollar per jar! You can't buy drinking glasses at that price. And the value is truly priceless.

Since starting our separate juice feasts, and since I have completed my juice feast, I did not know how often we would be using the jars. I thought we might stop using them and go back to drinking glasses. I was wrong.

The love of Mason Jars has continued, and then some. About a month ago we got to a realization that we didn't like our Nalgene bottles anymore unless we were going somewhere that a glass jar might be dangerous. (like hiking, or rock climing, etc.) Nalgene bottles just weren't good for daily use anymore. They made everything taste funny. And at 8-11 dollars for ONE Nalgene bottle, we could go out and get a dozen Mason Jars.

There's just one problem with classic Mason Jars:
they come with metal lids.

There are two issues I have with metal lids:

1. Metal lids have two parts. This can be annoying. Two parts to clean, two parts that are clumsy to open. Two parts to find and fit together as you are scrambling in the morning to get ready for your day.
   
   
2. Metal lids are made of metal. And you can taste that metal, especially in drinking water. What's getting into your body?
   

We didn't know what to do...we couldn't stop using mason jars. The metal lids were annoying, but so was the weird plastic taste from our ratty plastic bottles.

Since we started using Mason Jars on a daily basis, we have been feeling better drinking our raw juices, raw smoothies and our water out of Mason Jars.

But we hated the metal lids. Especially in our drinking water.

Then JS found what we thought might be a miracle solution:

Plastic Lids for Mason Jars.

JS found a site online that sold these lids, but he wanted me to look at stores around town. We thought someone might sell them, but after checking 5 stores I found nothing.

Our curiosity got the best of us: We had to order a pack online. With shipping a pack of 8 costs about 8 dollars, with shipping. That's about a dollar a lid. It seemed a bit pricey, but we had to try it.

Less than one week later the lids came in the mail. It seemed like Christmas. We rushed to try out our new lids.

So? What did we think?

We loved it! It was worth it!

We have stopped using our glasses and plastic cups and Nalgene bottles. I'm even thinking about storing all my glassware away and using them only when company comes over for dinner. We have found a solution that has really helped us. And perhaps these plastic lids will help you too.

Seriously, our lives have never been the same since. Glass is so much better than plastic. And plastic lids are so much better than metal.

So if you are sick of that eerie metallic taste in your juice, smoothies or even your purified drinking water, buy a pack of these plastic lids. I think you will be very happy.

And if you don't want to buy online, check around your local grocery stores and Big Box stores, or any place that sells "canning supplies". We just bought another pack of 8 lids at the local store for around 2 dollars!!!

Before I go, here's a little photo from a few months ago, during my juice feast. This lovely green juice needs a pretty white plastic lid!



It truly is the simple pleasures in life that make everything wonderful.

Wishing you all the best in your adventures in raw food,

~ Heidi

P.S. These "canning sections" in stores usually only are set up during the "canning season" that ranges from late June to September. So take advantage of those times of the year to buy these handy lids!

Related:

• Find out more about Juice Feasting at JuiceFeasting.com.