we love italian food & eat a fair amount of spaghetti, swirls, penne, pasta bakes, lasagnes etc - usually I like to make my own sauces but sometimes due to lack of time or unexpected visitors I have to rely on readymade sauces.

I've tried cheaper makes such as tesco's own & iceland's own brands but to be honest we all prefer dolmio sauces

I've tried quite a few - eg

lasagne white sauce
bolognese sauce
stir-in cabonare
stir-in sun-dried tomato
tomato & roasted garlic

but our current favourite is the extra spicy bolognese sauce in jars which is delicious

not cheap at £1.47 for 500g from tesco - but very tasty & good to have in for an emergency

I think iceland sometimes sell dolmio on offer at £2.50 for 2 jars but it's still much cheaper I guess to make your own sauces from scratch!

the extra spicy one is a favourite with my 17 year old daughter who's fussy about her food.
There are no 'bits' in it & the flavour is nice & strong so she'll eat it quite happily with pasta quills or penne which is a good quick meal when she comes home 'starving' from college with her friends

lovely served with parmesan or grated cheese for extra protein

ingredients
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tomatoes (77% - which is high)
tomato puree
onion
sugar
lemon juice
olive oil
basil
garlic
green peppercorns
herbs
parsley
spices

nutritional info
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I won't bore you with them all - the main ones of interest to me are
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calories - 498 per 100g
protein - 7.7g
fat - 1.2g


there is a recommended recipe on the reverse which I've used but adapted several times using mince but I've also added vegetables to make the sauce go even further.

I would recommend all the dolmio sauces I have mentioned but would look out for offers

I prefer the jars to the pouches & other containers (our cat has her cat food in pouches!) but they are heavy if you have to carry your shopping & can be awkward to open. The good thing is though that you can re-cycle these jars as they are a good size & very strong.

The taste & texture of all of them to date has been great but it is definately not the cheapest way of preparing italian food.