A delicious, robust, and good-for-you line of tomato sauces … what more could you ask for?
In 2010, I started eating clean. Which means basically trying to eat whole foods, foods that don’t have ingredients in them.
Orange and asparagus are whole foods.
Oreos are not.
And then last year, I did a round of Whole30, and I did another one last month.
And Whole30, if you’re not familiar with it, is like clean eating … jacked up.
Like 1000% more.
And whether you’re eating clean or following Whole30 or another nutritional lifestyle, one thing you learn quickly is the importance of reading labels.
Any time I’m buying something new, the label is the first thing I look for.
I want to know what’s inside my food. And namely, what was put inside my food that really has no place there.
And the more labels you read, the more you see how sugar sneaks in EVERYWHERE.
In bacon.
In ketchup.
In beef jerky.
And in other weird, random places where you wouldn’t think it would be.
In tomato sauces.
And that’s one of the reasons I make a lot of things myself … bacon, ketchup, tomato sauce … and more.
It’s easy to control what goes in, and what stays out.
But sometimes, although I have both a long, time-consuming recipe, and a short version, sometimes I just don’t have time to make my own tomato sauce.
So I would love to have a brand that I can count on.
A brand that doesn’t have all sorts of unpronounceable junk in it.
A tomato sauce that doesn’t have sugar in it.
So when a case of sauce from the folks at Hoboken Farms arrived, right dab in the middle of my second round of Whole30, I was pretty stoked to read their ingredient list.
The ingredient list for their marinara sauce?
Whole Tomatoes, Olive Oil, Fresh onion, basil, garlic and spices.
THAT’S IT.
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