Berry Picking and Jam

So it FINALLY wasn’t raining today and we took the girls to Chena Lakes to go berry picking.  We went looking for raspberries and two hours later we had enough for one thing of jam! LOL

Here are some pictures of our hike and scavenging

 

The girls loved looking at all the different types of mushrooms, and wanted me to take pictures of all of them!

 

Dustin wore Maddie in the sling as my shoulders were hurting – and he’s carrying my pink water bottle – isn’t he sexy! At least I turned the sling around so the flowers weren’t showing. hehehe…

 

Two hours of picking later and we headed back to the car -  but not before we made sure we took one last picture of everyone picking a berry before we left!

Me with the tupperware of berries – about 16 oz of wild raspberries

Now we went back home to make the jam (my first time – but it was SOOOOO easy – just buy pectin and the directions are in the box!)

Rinse Rinse Rinse (and good thing, because we found 3 little worms)

 

Now we spent about another 45 minutes picking the ‘ucky' pieces out and mashing them to see how many ‘mashed berries’ we had

I decided since we were going to make jam anyway, we might as well make strawberry jam too! So I bought a pound of strawberries at Safeway on the way home from picking berries.

JAM!!  We only ended up using half the strawberries I bought!  So this jam total cost us $3.50 (and about 3 hours of time).

4 half pints of Strawberry and a little over 1 half pint of WILD Raspberry