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Solid_Snake07 posted...

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

I've gotten my meat sauces down to about 3 hours. If my wife helped with the meatballs, it would save some more time.