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Im a Classico Four Cheese advocate. Its just a classic sauce that can go on anything. I usually add in a protein though.

Hopefully with the tomatoes coming in the summer I might be able to make some sauce from scratch

You can make pretty much any jar of sauce taste decent with some fresh garlic and various herbs and spices. None of the jarred stuff is good straight out the jar but fixing them up is quick and easy.

They're all too expensive nowadays. You're better off buying a can of crushed tomatoes and making a sauce yourself

Kroger buffalo is good.

Buffalo pasta is neat

Fine whats grandmas recipe?

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Rao's is the best if you feel like selling an arm to buy a jar. If not they're all the same though I find Private Selection a bit better.

Classico slaps the shit out of anything else.

If you're going to do this you might as well just buy a can of tomato sauce

Buffalo pasta sauce? Haven't seen that before at Kroger

Just buy canned whole tomatoes, smash them and simmer with garlic, salt, oregano, and some olive oil. Thats about as simple as it gets when it comes to cooking. Raos is decent, but its also like $10 for a jar of tomato sauce

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

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

For a true sauce 5 hours isn't enough. You have to let it simmer for far longer than that.

Theres no such thing as a true sauce. You can simmer it however long you want, half an hour taste pretty good to me for a quick and easy tomato sauce. I might do even less if Im working with fresh tomatoes and want something lighter and more fresh tasting.

And Im not saying you have to do it they way I like. Thats the beauty of cooking, you can make it however works best and taste best to you. Hell if heated up cheap ass rag taste good enough for you thats all that really matters.

I would recommend at least trying to make it on your own though to decide for yourself.