Save all small bits of jams and jellies in one jar. Melt and use as a basting sauce for ham, chicken or lamb.

If you rub the bottom of your preserving kettle with a little oil, your jam will not burn. The oil leaves no taste.

When sealing jelly jars with wax, before the wax hardens put a piece of string down in the wax. When removing the wax, just pull the string.

If you have a damp storage area, wipe the outsides of your filled canning jars with white vinegar to keep mold away.

Buy spaghetti sauce on sale and use as sauce when making pizzas.

No chili sauce - Grind little bit of chili pickle in the mixer for 2-3 minutes so as to obtain a smooth paste and then mix with your ordinary tomato ketchup to obtain a chili sauce.

After opening a bottle of sauce, first introduce a drinking straw into the bottle all the way down, turn it clockwise and anti clockwise and then take out the straw. The sauce will flow freely.

When you open a new bottle of ketchup, insert a straw and push to bottom of bottle. Remove the straw and you will find that the ketchup will flow easily.

Instead of adding sugar to sweeten homemade tomato sauce, grate a carrot into the sauce. Lower on calories too.

To prepare a quick and delicious sauce for vegetables, simply whisk a few tablespoons of mayonnaise into the cooking liquid from the vegetables and season to taste.