I didn’t start to replace my family’s favorite pasta sauce, but I hurried one night between school levy and football by Aldi. I couldn’t find our beloved Rao. Prianos pasta and a bread in one and broccoli in the other hand quickly gripped the glass next to the shaped hole of the Rao – a glass of Aldi’s Specially selected premium marinara sauce. It was half of the Rao and a shot worth it.
I was a little worried about dinner. Would my selective, Rao’s loving daughter notice that today’s pasta was different? At my joy and surprise, she not only went back for seconds, she also made a compliment! And it Was yummy. In fact, it tasted almost identical to the pasta nights that I existed, only because of Raos Marinara.
Aldi’s specially selected premium Marinara
- Price: $ 4.29
- Why I love it: The taste is purely tomatoes with a little oregano, and the sauce is a good middle ground between fine and chunky.
Many glasses of Aldi special premium-premium marina later I am confident that it deserves an almost perfect dupe for Rao and regularly costs only $ 4.29 at my local Aldi. There are even some Raos Purists who swear that this half-the-price glass is actually disguised.
Simply recipes / Meghan Splawn
Why I specifically selected Premium Marinara love
As with RAO, specially selected Premium Marinara mainly consists of tomatoes (both and crushed), olive oil, onions and some spices such as salt, pepper and oregano. There is no sugar for sweetness (a no for me) or great Herby aromas (a no for the children). The taste is the best and the sauce has a texture that is neither too fine nor too chunky. It tastes like a kind of tomato sauce that I like to turn tomatoes in doses when I have time.
We use it regularly for pasta night, both with and without fleshy additions such as sausage or beef minced meat. It also runs in pizza rolls for lunch boxes and English muffin pizzas (if we go out of our favorite -Adi -pizza crusts). I even turned it into a fast tomato soup to accompany grilled cheese in one night when we were between grocery runs.
Is specially selected Premium Marinara really Rao’s in disguise?
Despite the Many reddit threads This insists that Aldi sauce is only Rao with a different label, there is no final proof that this is the case. A Redditor cited joint manufacturers as evidence and said that Rao and Aldi used the same company to pack their recipes and distribute the sauces.
Last year this company SOVOS Brand was taken over by Campbell’s. So it is unlikely that Aldi and Rao are still filled in the same facilities, and neither Aldi nor Raos from Rao have ever spoke to this theory.
Regardless of whether it is Rao or just a first-class replica, for my food money and the preferences of my family, Aldi’s specially selected premium marinara, where I will spend my pasta sauce dollar.
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Simply recipes / Meghan Splawn