Product Review: Hunt's Classic Italian Zesty & Spicy Spaghetti Sauce

When it comes to buying spaghetti sauces, you usually do "get what you pay for." There are some very nice bottled spaghetti sauces available in the grocery stores for $4-$6 a bottle. But if you would like to save a little money on spaghetti sauce and still have a sauce you are proud to serve to guests, try Hunt's Classic Italian Zesty & Spicy Spaghetti Sauce! This sauce is my family's favorite, and the only kind of spaghetti sauce that we ever buy now, even if we are having company for dinner!

Hunt's Classic Italian Zesty & Spicy Spaghetti Sauce comes in a 26 ounce can and generally sells for about $1.59. That is about six 4-ounce half-cup servings. Or, if you like a lot of sauce on your spaghetti like my family, that is about 3 one-cup servings!! Either way, at $1.59, adding a can of Hunt's Classic Italian Zesty & Spicy Spaghetti Sauce to a ½ pound or less of lean ground beef, your favorite meatball recipe or frozen variety, or Italian sausage results in a very economical sauce for your family spaghetti dinners. Add a salad and garlic bread and you have a wonderful meal!

The ½ cup serving of the sauce has 60 calories, 15 of which are from fat, so it is a healthy low calorie sauce for dieters. Each serving has 10g of carbohydrates and 3g of dietary fiber. You get 10% of your Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of Vitamin A, 6% of your RDA of Vitamin C, and 4% of your RDA for iron per serving. Main ingredients in Hunt's Classic Italian Zesty & Spicy Spaghetti Sauce are tomato puree made of tomato sauce and water, less than 2% high fructose corn syrup, water, soybean oil and salt. The "zesty and spicy" comes from a blend of spices including garlic, green chiles and crushed red pepper.

Not only is this sauce great on spaghetti, but it can be used in a variety of other recipes as well. Spread it on a pizza crust instead of your usual pizza sauce. Use it in your other Italian dishes, like lasagna. Add it to vegetables (bell peppers and carrots work well for this) for a quick sautéed vegetable dish. Use it for dipping garlic breadsticks, or even put a spoonful on top of garlic toast before baking in the oven! This makes a quick and nutritious after-school snack for the kids.

Hunt's Classic Italian Zesty & Spicy Spaghetti Sauce freezes well, if you manage to have any leftovers. I freeze it in small plastic containers, which allows me to unthaw just the amount I need for a snack or sauté sauce.

Try Hunt's Classic Italian Zesty & Spicy Spaghetti Sauce for all your Italian dishes - it has a wonderful flavor and is an inexpensive option to other spaghetti sauces.

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