Hello my buddies! How is quarantine life? HINT: If you are doing it the wrong way…it probably doesn’t suck even a little bit. If you are doing it the right way by social distancing, wearing your mask, and limiting outings it probably sucks a little bit!

I have a confession…I’m a jam/fruit spread/fruit preserves hoarder. I am not sure when this started but can tell you that the advent calendar of jam was likely not the start!

When did it start? Probably when we purchased our home that came with a big fridge and last year when the husband made us buy a jam holiday pack branded by Downton Abbey, which we were/are obsessed with. When did it continue? When we were gifted/had to try various local jams. Maybe when we thought we needed fancy jams for our charcuterie boards. Also, when I though we needed extra jam for holiday cookies! Do we need more jams? No, but we will have more because see above on our advent calendar choice. When will we need to purchase more jam? Probably 2022, because new rule (I still have to tell #thehubs about this rule I just made up) is no more jams until we finish all of these! What’s the problem for having too many jams. Why do we need less jams? So that we can fit more hot sauces in our fridge. Because more jams means more bread (because we know bread and bread-like foods are the best vehicles for jams) which means more bread/carbs = more calories= need to burn more calories.

Do you have a jam hoarding problem? Do you have a favorite jam? Do you want to know where to purchase some of these jams? Let me know in the comments!