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25+ Homemade Food Gifts in a Jar (31 days to take the stress out of Christmas)

October 30, 2014

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This post is part of a series – “31 days to take the Stress out of Christmas”. You can read all the posts in the series here.  And to make sure you don’t miss a post you can subscribe to have every post delivered to your inbox, or follow me on facebook.

25  Homemade Food Gifts in Jars

So earlier in this series we talked about gifting non-food in jars.  Today let’s talk about gifting food in jars. 

Giving cookie or soup mix in jars has been around for a long time – even before Mason Jars were popular like they are now.  There are hundreds of cookies, bars, soups in a jar mixes ideas out there.  And cute printable tags to go along with them.  I won’t share many cookie mix in a jar ideas in this post because literally I could do a series of posts on mixes in a jar and not cover them all.  So if that is something you are wanting to do – do some searching on Pinterest for the one that suits you.    And for the jars – you don’t have to use mason jars although those are readily available at any grocery/craft store in your area.  Save up spaghetti sauce jars or pickle jars or even frappuccino bottles all year and then use them as your gift jar.  I don’t usually throw away glass jars from anything like that because there is so many uses for them!   

So let’s explore some other ideas for food in a jar gifts in this post.  Even some no-baking-required ideas at the bottom that are super cute!  I hope you can find some ideas – these would be great gifts for co-workers, neighbors, friends at church, teachers, even a hostess gift. 

I love this twist on cookies in jar – actually bake the cookies for them and gift them in a jar.  You could even make your cookie dough up now, freeze it like I showed you yesterday, and whip up a dozen of these gifts in no time later in December.

Baked cookies in a jar

baked cookies in a jar

Vegetarian Five Bean Soup

five bean soup mix

Oreo Peanut Butter

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Holiday Puppy Chow

Puppy Chow in a jar

Christmas Mint Cookies

Christmas mint cookies

Homemade Brownie Mix

brownie mix

Alphabet Soup

Alphabet soup

Cinnamon Sugar Popcorn

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Ultimate Trail Mix

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4 kinds of snack mix

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Caramel Apple in a Jar

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Homemade Salsa

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Reindeer Food

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Friendship Soup

Friendship soup

5 cookie/bar/bread mixes with free printable labels

Cookie-Collage

Homemade Granola in jar

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Caramel Popcorn in a Jar

popcorn in jar

Pork Rub or any kind of spice rub that you love and use

Pork-Dry-Rub-Recipe

25 Mason Jar Cookie Recipes

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And here’s some no-baking-required gifts in a jar ideas that are still super cute!

Merry “Kiss’mas” Jar

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White star pretzels in a jar

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Christmas M&M poem – I LOVE this poem and idea!

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Here’s some tips on decorating the jars

Use cupcake liners for jar toppers

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and some free printable labels and tags

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I hope you can find some ideas for gifting food in a jar this Christmas!  Have you ever done food gifts in a jar?  What is your favorite idea?

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Comments

  1. Lanita says

    October 30, 2014 at 2:38 PM

    Hi Christina,
    I love all of the different ideas you shared for gifts in jars!! I’m saving up my jars and planning to give some for Christmas gifts. Thanks for the inspiration – I am really enjoying the series!
    Blessings,
    Lanita

    Reply
    • Christina says

      November 3, 2014 at 11:29 PM

      so glad you enjoyed it!

      Reply
  2. Chandra@The Plaid & Paisley Kitchen says

    October 30, 2014 at 3:38 PM

    Thank you so much for including me in this great round up!

    Reply
    • Christina says

      November 3, 2014 at 11:29 PM

      you are welcome!

      Reply
  3. Julie says

    November 24, 2014 at 1:39 PM

    I am usually a “crafty” person and love doing anything homemade….but I have to say, the cupcake papers used for Ball jar tops are AMAZING!!!! I just stared at it and kept thinking DUH!!!! Thanks to you, your brain clicked on that one and I am so pleased you shared it. Love your blog Christina!!!!

    Reply
  4. The Gourmet Grocer says

    December 19, 2014 at 1:34 AM

    I like these jar gift ideas. I think it is a fantastic gift not only during Christmas but also on ordinary days to cheer up a friend. Awesome.

    Reply
  5. vanessa says

    June 20, 2015 at 11:53 AM

    I love the M&M Christmas poem and jar, and think I might make some for Christmas gifts. I also do craft fairs selling homemade cards…. would I be allowed to use this poem to sell some jars to?? Such a cool idea
    Vanessa

    Reply

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