When you start making more things at home, syrups, salves, jams, cleaners, ferments, you realise pretty fast that “just stick it in a jar” isn’t actually a plan. The container is part of the recipe.

We get it—life is busy and you’re not going to get a completely homemade meal on the dinner table every night. Luckily, there are simple ways to give store-bought ingredients an instant upgrade that ...