Making my own strawberry jam (low calories one)

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This Tuesday I made my first strawberry jam. It’s all beginning with an idea to make a healthy food for my husband. Well, everybody knows that I’m not good in the kitchen. I never cook, I mean really cook. Of course I’ve cooked some instant food like noodles, porridge, water, rice (with rice cooker of course) and some simple cah vegetables but for me that was not a really cooking. I even can’t remember the process if I should do it again… If you ask me to find a pan, I will lost in my mother’s kitchen. (ok.. I admitted it… that’s too much).
So a day before I was going out to Carrefour market and choose a box of fresh strawberry. Why strawberry? This is my first trial so I don’t want to mess up with awkward fruits. So I decided to a common fruits. Then I went to sugar shelf and find a low calories sugar and gelatin. This is how the process:
1. wash strawberries directly into a flow water
2. chops it into small pieces or you can blender it if you are lazy
3. add little water and start to cook it with a small fire
4. pour sugar as your wish
5. when the strawberries are smooth enough and the jam getting sticky add a little gelatin. The gelatin used to make the jam more solid when it’s cold
6. put the jam into a glass bottle, better with a stainless top and put it into refrigerator
it was so much fun to do. And the best thing is LOW CALORIES hahahahahahaha…. This home made jam don’t have a good color, if you want to make it more lovely seen you can pour a little food color. But for me it’s lovely enough because it’s low calories and of course no preservative. Hm… I don’t know how long this home made jam with low sugar calories can eat at the best condition, but if you used common kitchen sugar, it can last at least 6 months to one year.