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cjsdowg posted...

Making it from Zero seems like it cost more to me. And not as good depending on what you are doing. I use to make my own sauce. I would spend hours.

shallots, Garlic, tomato paste , tomatos, bell peppers, thyme, Rosemary , and more. Let it cook for a 5 hours. When I could just go to the store and pick up Regu.

The most expensive ingredients are the tomatoes. I can buy a pretty good sized can of San marzano tomatoes at Kroger for like $2.50 and there are cheaper options than that. Rest are pretty negligible amounts of things that people who regularly cook are probably already gonna have on hand anyway.

5 hours is pretty excessive even if its a slow cooked meat sauce. For a simple tomato sauce just saut off some onion and garlic then add the tomatoes and simmer off the raw tomato flavor. Maybe like half an hour, and it doesnt need to be fussed over, just put it on low and let it do its thing.

Also cheap sauces like rag are loaded with sugar