well, if you can't find it when you use that jar, you could offer a prize to the "lucky" one who finds the magic paper. you know -- if life gives you lemons, make lemonade --kay

Open jar, remove paper, make spaghetti for dinner...VOILA!

I wouldn't re-process. Odds are you'll use the jar before the paper disintegrates. I doubt it'd be a health problem if it were inadvertently ingested. You're just getting a little additional fiber.

Carol

I'm with Carol.. a little piece of a paper label is great as a fiber substitute (ha!) Its just too much bother to reprocess that single jar, unless you lost several pieces of paper bits. Imagine finding a big nail in a store bought cookie, or worst yet, that lady who found a rat head in her Allen brand canned string beans a few days ago.. ugh!

Well, that's what I thought when I intially canned the sauce, since I couldn't find the paper strip, as far as I was concerned it had dissolved! It's tiny, about the size of 1/8 of a piece of confetti. It came off the rim as it got caught by the can opener. But it's just sitting there in the jar now, sneering at me!

It's odd how rarely I eat spaghetti, maybe only a couple of times a year. It's one of the things I have on hand for company. Otherwise it's usually too much for single me. But these pint jars will be great. At the very least I can use it as a base for minestrone, which I do make quite often, as it freezes well.