Strawberries

I love the beginning of summer when strawberries are ripe for the picking. I generaly just make strawberry jam but this year I also wanted to freeze strawberries for strawberry shortcake and strawberry topping for homemade cheesecake (yum).
This weekend my mom and I went and picked 40 pounds of strawberries.  I didn't pick any last year so I forgot how much jam we made the previous year so I figured what we picked should be enough and it was.

Here's all the berries that we picked.

And here's what we made:

8 batches of freezer jam which is 40 cups! I only kept a jar since this recipe has lots of sugar. My mom and brothers took the rest. 

1 batch of regular cooked jam. I used the low sugar recipe and got 8 half pints.I love the way the jam looks it the jars its so pretty.

12- 2 cup bags of sugar pack strawberries which is 1 cup sugar to 6 cup berries.

As you can tell we had a lot of berries to work with and did all this is about 3 hours which isn't too bad. My mom washed, hulled and cut up the berries. I made the jam and processed it and also made the freezer berries. Thanks mom for your all your help!!

Have you canned jam or froze strawberries yet this year? I know the berry season isn't too long.