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Guess how much I paid for some organic, sugar-free, low-salt tomato sauce? Free-ninety-nine. Let me explain. We have two tomato plants that are producing more tomatoes than we have time to eat. So Saturday, I had Ketchup boy find me all the tomatoes that were really red. About 10 in all. I dunked them in boiling water. As soon as the peels began to crack I plunged them in icy water. Pulled the peels off, chopped and pureed in my mini food processor ($24 at Costco). This would have been much quicker if I had a large food processor. Once pureed I poured all the tomatoe sauce into a crock pot and added seasonings and shredded carrotts. I can add more vegetables when I’m ready to use the sauce. Then after it was thick and delicious, I bagged it into one cup portions to freeze for later. The Pro’s:
Super good! It tasted so fresh and so good, and a great way to get vegetables.
Did I mention, IT was FREE!!!
It didn’t take much time. Really! This is a great weekend activity and much faster than canning. If you can tomatoes only to use it on pizza or spaghetti, skip the canning process and go straight for the sauce. It freezes well.
It was so much thicker than the store bought kind.
So Healthy!! Like I said, organic, low-salt, full of veggies.
I’m ready for Whole Wheat pizza night at a moment’s notice.
The Con’s
Tomato sauce is cheap anyway (the plain 8 oz can kind). On sale I get it for $0.33 a can, and I can get no salt, no sugar for that price. And for ten tomatoes I only got 2 1/2 cups of sauce after it simmered down.
It was messy. (especially when you let the kids help).
It burned the side of my crock pot. But somehow I let everything burn the side of the crock pot.
It used precious freezer bags which I’m running out of quickly, with no sale in sight.
Bottom line; if you have a tomato plant or someone has given you tomatoes, this is a great weekend activity and you can have some ultra healthy tomato sauce in your food storage. If you have to buy tomatoes to do this, I would just stick with some canned tomatoe sauce, add a fresh tomato or two, some seasonings and other veggies and let simmer.
Guess how much I paid for some organic, sugar-free, low-salt tomato sauce? Free-ninety-nine. Let me explain. We have two tomato plants that are producing more tomatoes than we have time to eat. So Saturday, I had Ketchup boy find me all the tomatoes that were really red. About 10 in all. I dunked them in boiling water. As soon as the peels began to crack I plunged them in icy water. Pulled the peels off, chopped and pureed in my mini food processor ($24 at Costco). This would have been much quicker if I had a large food processor. Once pureed I poured all the tomatoe sauce into a crock pot and added seasonings and shredded carrotts. I can add more vegetables when I’m ready to use the sauce. Then after it was thick and delicious, I bagged it into one cup portions to freeze for later.
The Pro’s:
The Con’s
Bottom line; if you have a tomato plant or someone has given you tomatoes, this is a great weekend activity and you can have some ultra healthy tomato sauce in your food storage. If you have to buy tomatoes to do this, I would just stick with some canned tomatoe sauce, add a fresh tomato or two, some seasonings and other veggies and let simmer.