Ooooh. Thanks for the reminder to start looking!

Oh dear....nevefr thought that lids might be in short supply

It's weird what's in short supply at the moment.

I tried to buy paint yesterday and was unable to get semi-gloss due to shortage in supply. Someone posted that aluminum cans for paint are in short supply, but the paint itself is as well.

I bought lids a couple of weeks ago.

Interesting about the paint supply. I have not heard that one. I suppose any product that relies on the raw materal to be manufactured. I know many faimilies over purchased canned goods not having any extra freezer space. Foods they never eat but that excess will most likely be donated.

Scammers will always grab ahold of shortages. Price gouging and second party china production.

Amazon cosistently surprises me at the lack of policing. Using official Ball jar pics but sending china produced fakes. Must be a few thousand people writing fake reviews...

So much waste to have canning failure. EBay is just as bad but do have the proper 'Ball' brand but are price gouging.

Another cooking forum member did contact the Ball company and they say they should catch up with demand by mid summer.

My go-to is the WebstaurantStore on-line. They have the regular mouth lids but not the wide mouth. They do have a 'contact me when available'.

I get my flat-pack parchment from them and bread bags. Last order was 2019. Good for another year or so+. Game changer to not deal with pesky rolls of parchment. I put in a 4inch tall shelf in my pantry in some dead space...holds the box of parchment, front end cut out and just easily grab a piece like a ream of printing paper. That shelf conviently also has room for my FoodSaver.

The bread bags are another game changer. The size is perfect. Gusseted and thicker than grocery thin worthless bags. My veg box comes un-bagged but needs to be washed, dried, then stored properly. 18 inches tall fits all veg like celery. Easy to put one on each hand and wash just like washing hands. We can spread our hands wide so we used them for pumping gas...especially when everyone was freaking out about touching shared surfaces. Easier than gloves and reach up to the elbows and stay put. No need to waste the thick freezer zip-locks for fridge veg. And these are much easier to re-cycle/wash.

I grabbed the last two boxes of regular mouth lids at a restaurant supply...$2.49. I have hope they'll get more in.

When I was at a Meijer last week they had a couple cases of the wide mouth, and a few cases of the regular. I snagged 6 boxes of the regular lids since I'm dead out of them.

And not lids, but an interesting set of jars- wide mouth pints in a nestable. I wouldn't ever stack my finished canned goods or nest empty jars for obvious reasons, and my canner sure isn't deep enough to try stacking them for canning, but they looked interesting for fridge use for folks into that sort of thing.

beesneeds, I saw those too, but did not buy any, I have all the jars I could possibly use.

I saw this coming clear back in December and January, when I stocked up on flats, I have lots of rings. I remembered the shortage back in the 70s and when I couldn't order seeds because "more people than ever" were gardening, I knew what was coming. People have to do something with all that produce they are now growing.

So, I have plenty, I hope. I pick up a couple of boxes when/if I see them, but I mostly leave them for other people who need them. That said, my local stores have a limit of 2 per customer per day, because so many people are buying them and reselling for outrageous prices. i hope the market just gets flooded with lids and all those people who are price gouging/reselling are stuck with them!

Elery did buy a couple of those "Ball lids" that were advertised on Amazon. I sent them right back, they were just cheap knock offs, as pointed out by sleevendog.

Annie

Walmart had none yesterday.

the grocery store had them limited to two per purchase and they had none!

If you are looking for lids, don't fall for a site called Mason-Official. They tout American made, the lids you trust -- ship from China and are totally unusable. I didn't catch it until I went to track the package because they weren't here within the time I expected them -- discovered they had shipped from China. I ordered them when we were expecting 100 lbs of peaches plus summer tomatoes and I couldn't find any here. We'd also been busy with out 15-1/2 yr old lab who had been sick and recently passed -- I guess I was distracted just enough to not notice something I should have. DH alternates between angry with them and amused that I got taken because I am so careful - even remind my son to check reviews, return policies, etc. -- oh yeah. This site says 30 day returns no questions asked. Working on disputing the charge and have found what I think will be enough Ball lids at the grocery and hardware stores. It really is strange the things we are running short of.

I was at a Walmart over the weekend and they had 8 or 10 boxes of regular mouth lids but no wide mouth. I use mostly wide mouth so didn't buy any.