Win a £250 shopping voucher by telling Uncle Ben's your tips and recipes that include sauces in jars

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Uncle Ben's® wants to collect your tips and recipes for using jarred sauces for family cooking and would like to put your questions to their registered dietician.

You can ask any food questions you have to Uncle Ben's dietician Juliette Kellow. These could be about, for example, cooking for your family in general, nutrition and kids, dieting and special diets as well as Uncle Ben's. Juliette is a registered dietician, works as a nutrition consultant and currently writes for many different magazines and newspapers.

You don't need to be a user of Uncle Ben's sauces, or indeed any sauces, to take part but we do ask that you are a parent of at least one child aged six months or older.

Everyone who completes this short survey will be entered into a prize draw to win £250 of vouchers for the store of their choice.

Thanks and good luck. MNHQ

Done but don't use very often.

Done!

I do not think they will like my top tip though!

Done - don't think they'll like it though - my question to their nutritionist was 'do you think it's responsible behaviour promoting convenience foods to an obese nation' [prim] and [smug]

Done!

We use jars every so often, DP is a chef so he doesn't like them much, but as the rest of you seem to have offended nice old Uncle Ben it looks like its just me in the running for the vouchers!

Surely they cannot decide I do not deserve the prize just because my best tip was to "ditch the jarre and cook from scratch!" Can they? Really?

Done

I recommended jars of curry paste - they're not too bad are they?

PS - anyone ever tried to make eg a tomato sauce for pasta with the proportions of sugar and salt that you'd find in a jar of tomato sauce. It's just impossible, you have to ladle the stuff in. I don't care if it tastes better (allegedly!) I just can't do it.

Come on you sauce snobs - haven't you ever used shop-bought pesto? That's a "jarred sauce" you know

Pesto was the only jar I admitted to . Although if you freeze it it needn't cost as much - £1.50 for a small jar buys the basil, then small quantity of pine-nuts and lots of olive oil, whizz in teh blender = large jar of pesto.

The one time I attempted to make a pasta sauce from scratch, it ended up being the blandest thing I've ever made, no much how many herbs, onions and garlic etc I used. I actually prefer the taste of jarred pasta sauce, at least it actually has a flavour. Even if it is one of vinegar and sugar

done but i don't use any jar crap excep pesto. will that bias me against winning?

yes I woudl buy pesto
harldy ever htough

I'd never even heard of pesto till I joined mumsnet

I like Uncle Ben's rice but I didn't know they made sauces. I wouldn't buy a curry one but might buy a thai one or sweet and sour type thing I guess if I was in a hurry and fancied chucking something in a pan.

My tip, drink lots of wine to take the taste away...

....do you think I'll win?

done !

I have a tip using tesco bargain tomato pasta sauce.

1. Open top of jar.

1. Pour sauce down sink. Make sure all the chunks go down the plug.

1. recycle jar.

lol Reality you got there before me

DH once told me he prefered jarred ragu sauce rather than my homemade tomato sauce...as you can imagine that went down like a lead balloon.

I suppose I do use jarred curry paste and pesto. The only other sauce I would use from a jar is sweet and sour chinese sauce as I'm not sure I could make it.