When you see “I Bought This” in the title, it means this is a review of a product I purchased on my own with no sponsorship or compensation.

Spaghetti is my absolute favorite food. I make a huge batch of spaghetti sauce twice a month, and each batch makes two dinner meals for the five of us plus leftovers for lunch the next day or two. I never get tired of it!  I start with a recipe from a book I own called “Frozen Assets”, and then over the years I’ve tweaked it by adding and subtracting here and there until it’s the perfect taste for us.

Some people put ground beef in their sauce, but I always use a pound of Bob Evans Italian sausage. I saute some diced onion and crushed garlic in a tiny bit of olive oil, then break up the sausage and add that, stirring it once in a while until the sausage is brown. I spoon off any grease, then add two cans of fire-roasted diced tomatoes, two cans of Hunt’s traditional spaghetti sauce, and about half a cup of Merlot. I bring it to a simmer, then turn it down and let it sit on low heat for three or four hours, stirring it every once in a while.  It’s not a recipe learned in culinary schools, but it works for us!

Sometimes though, I just want a bowl of spaghetti and don’t want to have to wait to make sauce!  Since we all like Italian sausage in our sauce, I grabbed Prego Italian Sausage & Garlic for making a quick dinner.  The kids and I had it last week and it was surprisingly good! The sausage was little round bits about the size of pencil erasers, and there was a lot of it.  The sauce wasn’t overly sweet like some jarred sauces, and it was a good thickness, coating the spaghetti well.

I’ll buy this again. It definitely tastes like jarred sauce, but for a quick spaghetti dinner without hours of sauce-making, it’s a good product. A 25.6 ounce jar is $1.92 at Meijer grocery stores.