Is Jar/Packet Sauce really evil???????

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Well, lacking substantial flavour/nutrition/healthiness anyway

It is a creation of the devil and you will go straight to hell for even thinking about using it.

Also depends on the packet or jar, some much more evil than pthers...

Just noticed moondog's around though - she really does believe my first sentence

It tastes bland and yucky.

Eg pesto in jar is fine and has uses - not same as fresh stuff but perfectly OK

Or its loaded with salt to achieve any sort of flavour at all.

I don't mind Seeds of Change organic stir-in pasta sauce.

I think that's the only real jar sauce we ever use. Oh, store-bought chiller-cabinet pesto.

Well, lasagne ragu & white sauce.

Packet white/cheese sauce.

Casserole/chilli con carne type packets/mixes.

Did see a pot of bisto granules for white/parsley/cheese sauce in the supermarket and thought they were a bit much but then again, i am truly lacking in knowledge of these things

I like Bertolli pasta sauces, and Patak's curry paste (and I can make very nice pasta and curry from scratch but, you know, sometimes I just can't be @rsed )

Will admit to using jars but bnto packets. at least the jar contents look fresh-ish and "real". Same with soups, tins /cartons not dried.

I think those ragu and white sauce ones are vile though.

Oh, yes, I use curry paste, I am that lazy.

White sauce in a jar is a bit scary/gross to me. White sauce isn't that hard to make.

Thats my problem - i always cook things from scratch but im finding more and more that to cook some things from scratch involves these kind of sauces/stocks and i find them time consuming, and i TOO cant be arsed!

I use jars a lot - lasagne, bolognese, chicken tonight kind of sauces, curry etc.

Not too keen on packets as they can be a bit salty and taste a bit powdery IMHO.

Wouldn't say they're evil because every so often they save my sanity and allow me to make the evening meal dead quick (usually make everything from scratch) and thereby collapse on the sofa with a glass of wine much quicker.
I think Gillian McKeith even says that you only need to follow her rules 80% of the time once you're past the detox so I'm sure the same applies to RL

Depends say Covent Garden pasta sauces are really good
But a powdered one
Ugh spawn of the devil
I'm firmly in Moondogs camp on everything but the odd fishfinger

Cheese/white sauce only takes 5 mins to make!!!

only sauces worth eating - Lloyd Grossmans.

I mean - from a jar. As opposed to the ONLY sauces worth eating. My own tarragon sauce infact is wonderful. Just tell me to shut up now.

EVIL

All evil

make it yourself!

yes ,evil ,evil,evil,!!!!!!!!

weeeeeeeell not EVIL
but pretty tasteless generally
I sometimes use th packet spices for fajitas but that's it

i never make my own sauces. use jars quite alot. what sauces do you all make and how?

Surely no one makes their own ketchup?

oh yes we do..........