GLASS JARS VS PLASTIC CONTAINERS

I will never buy plastic storage containers ever again. I love storing food in glass jars. The best are wide-mouth jars from salsa. I also like the small horseradish jars with the white lid. I pretty much save all my jars until I run out of space to store them. I get a pretty good collection of salsa and spaghetti sauce jars, so I can always recycle some. If you can't get rid of the odor from the lid, you can soak in soapy water for awhile. I find that eventually the odor goes away and does not affect the food stored - even pickle jars - which are great. They are better than plastic containers because you can see through them and don't have to play guessing games. Plus you don't have to worry about bad plastic leaching into your food. I am not sure if you can microwave the glass jars - I haven't tried it. I would venture to say it is probably ok to do so.