Healthy Food Ideas

Posted By goodfood on February 22, 2009

Say your cooking white bean chili and your recipe calls for crushed cloves what do you do? You can use a mortar and pestal, but what if you don’t have one? I had an empty sea salt bottle around with the grinder top. I figured I would save it for a spice jar and it really came in handy. I made a nice clove powder by twisting the top. Whenever I see sea salt in those jars that are on sale I buy it because they can be reused for other spices when they are empty. The best part about reusing these jars is each spice can have its own grinder so the flavor stays true and you don’t need to worry about using one grinder for everything and having your cilantro taste like cloves. The only down side is you need to soak the sea salt label off the outside of the jar with hot water. I do not recommend you use pepper grinders unless they have never been filled with pepper. The pepper is such a strong odor you can’t get the pepper smell out and anything you put into a pepper grinder will still taste like pepper.

Categories: Save Money Re-purpose
Tags: money saving ideas, spice jars