I ALWAYS buy tomato sauce in a jar. I LOVE it! I love having the choice of "cheese blend", "basil" or "oregano". I just love all the choices. My favorite place to buy pasta sauce is at Publix, because usually every other week they have a certain kind of pasta sauce on BOGO (Buy one get one free)! I love a deal! So instead of $2.69 a jar. It works out to be $1.35.
One of the things I love about buying pasta sauce in the jar is having the jar to reuse afterwards! I save them, glue ribbon around them, and spray paint the lid. I use them to store dry goods in my pantry, or to give gifts in. I love these jars!
The jars started out in my pantry like this:
Then I got my creative and made them pretty! I love my pasta sauce jars in my pantry!
Tonight I decided to try my hand at making pasta sauce:
- 4 cloves of garlic sliced
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 28 oz can of crushed tomatoes
- basil, oregano, salt & pepper to taste
It turned out great! I loved it, what's even better is that my family loved it! It was a hit! Not only did homemade sauce taste a lot better, it's cheaper to make and much better for you! I looked at one of my jars of pasta sauce and it had 50 grams of sugar in it! Why on earth would pasta sauce need 50 grams of sugar? That's roughly 12 teaspoons of sugar in that 1 jar!!!! Ridiculous. What I love about making my own sauce, is that I know EXACTLY what is in it.
We made the switch to whole grain pasta about a year ago. It was pretty tough since we loved the white stuff (even though it was bad for us). We made the switch to it during the Daniel Fast. I'm so glad we did. The whole wheat is so much healthier for you. I think if I make the switch to making our own sauce I'm going to miss the pasta sauce jars more than the actual store bought sauce. I'm going to have actually start buying mason jars.
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