100+ Meal in a Jar Canning Recipes

Heat and Eat Meals on Your Pantry Shelf

Canning meal-in-a-jar recipes is the ultimate meal prep! These tasty, nutritious recipes are easy to grab and eat, whether you’re dealing with a busy workday or a power outage.

Many home canners start their canning journey by water bath canning jam or pickles, sometimes moving up to pressure canning fresh vegetables from the garden. This is a whole different ball game. 

These recipes will leave you with a whole meal rather than just individual ingredients. In today’s busy world, this can make a huge difference in sticking to home-cooked food.

Read More: 100+ Meal-in-a-Jar Canning Recipes

The link above will take you to the full list with more than a hundred meal-in-a-jar canning recipes, but here are some of my favorites:

• Beef Pot Pie Filling

• Beef Pot Roast in a Jar

• Beef Stroganoff

• Chipotle Beef for Tacos

• Thai Red Curry Duck (or Chicken)

• Classic Chili con Carne (with Ground Beef and Beans)

• Pasta Sauce with Meat (just add pasta!)

What should I make next? Let me know in the comments.

Canning Recipe Ideas

Looking for more ideas?

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• 20+ Pie Filling Canning Recipes

• 20+ Chicken Canning Recipes

If there’s a canning or preserving recipe that you’d like to find, please do let me know in the comments, and I’ll see what I can do to track it down for you.

Happy Canning!

-Ashley at Creative Canning

(Ps. I also run the blog Practical Self Reliance, which has information on all manner of food preservation techniques (cheesemaking, salt curing, fermenting) as well as just about everything else you’d need to learn to be self-reliant in this modern world. It has its own substack as well, and you can subscribe to practical self-reliance separately as well. That newsletter comes out weekly and covers canning, as well as everything else.)