Gifting DIY Sprouts

I love sprouts! However, having to dish out more than a few bucks on some salad toppings that MAY get all the way eaten, is disheartening. Over DH and I's many married years, I've never purchased sprouts. My parents had them on occasions, and all I knew was that they go on salads. Boy was I wrong.

In a quest to be able to grow easy greens in sticky situations, I came across sprouting. I Googled it, Youtubed it, read up on it in my various homesteading books, and read Blog after Blog on it. It seemed a bit tricky, but worth trying it out. We have a thing about if you're interested in it, you should at least try it once. So that's what I planned to do. Got me some seeds at the Organic store. A fancy draining lid at The Faithful Prepper store (found out that cheesecloth works better and faster). Then designated a special area in the cabinet for the jar of seedlings to sit at. I soaked the seeds overnight, then drained, twice a day I then rinsed, then drained, then rinsed, repeat for 5 days. I couldn't believe how quick this process was. In fact, I put too much seed in the quart jar and ended up eating a bit early on some. Finding out that you can only eat certain kinds of sprouts, and then all the different kinds that are available was very easy. My family has grown to love them. We put them on sandwiches, eat them raw, have them in pork fried rice, and of course salads. It's so easy. They also store for quite a while. Even if you don't eat them and they go bad, you're out nothing to make another batch. I try to always have a jar in fridge.

Now if you're here looking for the process of how it's done, then you're on the wrong page. What I've got is a simple craft to make for a Newbie sprouter or a neat gift.

You'll need a Mason Quart jar
Ribbon or other decoration for it
A fancy draining lid or cut cheesecloth
The actual canning jar ring and lid (for storing it)
A selection of seedlings
and of course, my printout of directions.

You should be able to save and print the instructions off, then cut them apart.

Place seeds and Instructions inside of jar. If you're using the cheesecloth, put that in also. The instructions only cover using the drain lid, so if you are only gifting cheesecloth, it may need a demonstration. I wanted to get the instructions to fit onto one sheet. Sometimes I throw that in as an extra. Put the metal ring and lid on as normal. Take the ribbon and thread it through the fancy drain lid. Tie it around and to the neck of the jar. If you don't want to gift bag it, then you can cut a square out of cardstock, punch a hole in it, and hang your own little personalized card from the ribbon.

Picture coming soon...