I normally purchase both pasta and pasta sauce from Tesco. The sauce I purchase is 75p and the bag of pasta I purchase is £2.89. In my previous post I discovered that pasta is cheaper in Lidl and they also sell cheaper sauces too. I'd like to make a point that my absolute favourite sauce is a brand, the Homepride pasta bakes. They do go on offer for £1 but standard price they're £1.59; so if I can get a good sauce for 65p I'm up for that but I won't be biased.
When it comes down to nutritional values you'd assume a cheaper sauce would be worse to make it taste better? It can actually be the complete opposite, the more expensive brand sauces can be worse.
Here are the comparisons:
The breakdown for the Lidl sauce is:
Energy: 515kJ / 124kcal
Fat: 8.0g
Saturates: 1.1g
Sugars: 5.8g
Salt: 0.92g
In summary the branded sauce is the worst for salt and fat. Tesco is worst for sugar and Saturated fats. The Lidl sauce beats nearly every single category compared to the branded sauce besides Sugar; but it's not as bad as the Tesco sauce. Keep in mind that the Lidl sauce and branded sauce contains bacon, meaning more fat content. If the Lidl sauce has bacon in it and STILL beats the two other sauces for fat that has to count for something, right?
Down to the taste test!
I usually only use half a jar of sauce per meal and keep the jar in the fridge for the following week, saves money and spreads the meals out. However we are going back to our parents for a week and therefore shall be using the whole jar.
Comparing sizes, there is a difference. The Tesco pasta is thinner and longer whereas the Lidl pasta is shorter and wider. It did affect cooking time, with the Lidl pasta taking longer but taste test there was absolutely no noticeable difference. I don't think Lewis would have even noticed there were two pastas if I hadn't of undercooked the Lidl pasta.
The jar sauce itself, when I opened it, I couldn't believe the smell; it smelt EXACTLY the same as the Homepride sauce I use to buy. Even better, it actually taste the same as well! Maybe if I had them either side of each other I'd notice but I could not tell that this was a different sauce. I couldn't actually believe it taste so similar. There were actual bits of bacon in it too, I was surprised by how many pieces the sauce contained. They were cut into small squares and did taste/look like bacon.
Lewis said that he preferred the Tesco sauce but perhaps it was an unfair comparison because I hadn't got a cheese sauce and instead got the bacon sauce. I would 100% buy this sauce again, especially for the price. Next time I will buy a cheese one and see how Lewis feels about it then!
Comparing sizes, there is a difference. The Tesco pasta is thinner and longer whereas the Lidl pasta is shorter and wider. It did affect cooking time, with the Lidl pasta taking longer but taste test there was absolutely no noticeable difference. I don't think Lewis would have even noticed there were two pastas if I hadn't of undercooked the Lidl pasta.
The jar sauce itself, when I opened it, I couldn't believe the smell; it smelt EXACTLY the same as the Homepride sauce I use to buy. Even better, it actually taste the same as well! Maybe if I had them either side of each other I'd notice but I could not tell that this was a different sauce. I couldn't actually believe it taste so similar. There were actual bits of bacon in it too, I was surprised by how many pieces the sauce contained. They were cut into small squares and did taste/look like bacon.
Lewis said that he preferred the Tesco sauce but perhaps it was an unfair comparison because I hadn't got a cheese sauce and instead got the bacon sauce. I would 100% buy this sauce again, especially for the price. Next time I will buy a cheese one and see how Lewis feels about it then!
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