No and yes. 

No, I have not made my daughter bread, but that is what I absolutely have to do after church today... or she doesn't get a sandwich in her lunches this week. 

Yes, I did some canning yesterday.  Perhaps it was my anxiety or maybe my lack of experience but I really could have used an experienced canner in my kitchen.  And I looked for one... I asked everyone that I knew and even some that I don't, at least not very well. 

I canned 8 pints of BBQ sauce and 4 qts of baked beans.  Two of my qts didn't make it and we have to eat those in the next few days.  But I know what I did wrong.  I filled the jars too full.  I lack the ability to tell how long an inch is and so an inch of head space is a crap shoot with me.  I also failed miserably on those tests in school that asked you if the triangle would fit inside the circle.  Which is why I am never able to figure out how big the container needs to be for the leftovers from dinner.  It all relates!

So anyway those two qt jars were filled too full and overflowed and thus a seal could not be made. 

I was feeling pretty good about myself, I made a condiment that has no artificial colors or flavors or preservatives or corn syrup.  Yes I was feeling pretty darn good.  Then as my pressure canner was hissing away and I was doing some research on Ball's website I found that they line the insides of their canning jar lids with bisphenol A!!!!!!!!  Can you freaking believe?  I never saw it coming. 

The whole plan behind canning was to make our lives easier in terms of choices (BBQ sauce for example) and my own life a lot easier (no need to soak beans today for baked beans on Tuesday).  Now I ask myself, at what cost? 

So now my search is on for canning lids w/out bisphenol A.  If anyone knows of any I would love to hear about them.

Namaste