In my experience store brands are maybe 75% the price of Prego, and comparable quality. It’s not high end but it’s also not vastly overpriced. Maybe $3-4 a jar vs $2-3 for store brand, or $7-10 for the fancy brands.
i really dislike Prego: too sweet for me and the flavor is weak
my grocery store has nice canned San Marzano-type tomatoes for about $4 for a big can. Enough to make maybe 2 jars of sauce.
You need to add your own herbs, spices, and simmer a bit but the end result is generally as good as the $10/jar fancy brands. I keep a fancy brand jar in the cupboard in case i don’t have time, but i try to simmer my own sauce as often as possible
My go-to herbs are coyote mint, yerba buena (Clinopodium), Mexican oregano (Lippia) and california bay leaf. i will also throw in some toasted garlic and some hard cheese when on hand
I get great value and best choice(?) and they beat the crap out of not only prego but some other higher end pasta sauces as well. Especially great value. I was super surprised by them. And they are like $1.50 vs $4-6 for the various prego and analogs. And I actually think the great value is better than most premiums in the ~$10 range. Carbone might be the one that is hands and fists above all others.
Great Value is Walmart and I just won’t shop there. I can say I notice little difference (in a good way) between lower end brand names like Ragu or Prego and various store brands. I just don’t see the price difference as much though. Maybe a dollar’s difference. I’m still a store brand buyer, but I’m more price sensitive than taste sensitive on the question.
You’re not wrong about avoiding Walmart as best you can. But I live in their home territory, so it’s that or Kroger, and Kroger donates big to trump and have a history of union hostility. So it’s really a push for me until a locally owned place pops up.
In my experience store brands are maybe 75% the price of Prego, and comparable quality. It’s not high end but it’s also not vastly overpriced. Maybe $3-4 a jar vs $2-3 for store brand, or $7-10 for the fancy brands.
i really dislike Prego: too sweet for me and the flavor is weak
my grocery store has nice canned San Marzano-type tomatoes for about $4 for a big can. Enough to make maybe 2 jars of sauce.
You need to add your own herbs, spices, and simmer a bit but the end result is generally as good as the $10/jar fancy brands. I keep a fancy brand jar in the cupboard in case i don’t have time, but i try to simmer my own sauce as often as possible
My go-to herbs are coyote mint, yerba buena (Clinopodium), Mexican oregano (Lippia) and california bay leaf. i will also throw in some toasted garlic and some hard cheese when on hand
There are varieties made with little or even no sugar.
I respect the DIY sauce game, but my point was that if you’re buying pre-made sauce it’s neither pricey nor necessarily loaded with sugar.
yeah it’s ketchup.
if I have to buy a sauce because I don’t have time to make some, it’s newman’s own sockarooni.
I get great value and best choice(?) and they beat the crap out of not only prego but some other higher end pasta sauces as well. Especially great value. I was super surprised by them. And they are like $1.50 vs $4-6 for the various prego and analogs. And I actually think the great value is better than most premiums in the ~$10 range. Carbone might be the one that is hands and fists above all others.
Great Value is Walmart and I just won’t shop there. I can say I notice little difference (in a good way) between lower end brand names like Ragu or Prego and various store brands. I just don’t see the price difference as much though. Maybe a dollar’s difference. I’m still a store brand buyer, but I’m more price sensitive than taste sensitive on the question.
You’re not wrong about avoiding Walmart as best you can. But I live in their home territory, so it’s that or Kroger, and Kroger donates big to trump and have a history of union hostility. So it’s really a push for me until a locally owned place pops up.