-- HACKENSACK, N.J.
By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
Salt, sugar and high-fructose corn syrup are common ingredients in many bottled and canned pasta sauces.
At the ShopRite in Paramus, Victoria sells one of the few bottled sauces without added sugar, and its Vodka Sauce doesn't contain artery clogging cream.
But Victoria's Low Sodium pasta sauce is hard to find.
A half cup of Victoria Marinara contains 18% of the maximum amount of sodium you are supposed to consume in a day.
ShopRite's own Wholesome Pantry Organic Pasta Sauces contain only 8% of the recommended daily maximum.
You can cut the sodium in your pasta sauce by using canned tomatoes with little or no added salt, and blending them with a higher-sodium bottled sauce.
Another way to cut the sodium in your pasta dish is never, ever salt the pasta water.
Salt, sugar and high-fructose corn syrup are common ingredients in many bottled and canned pasta sauces.
At the ShopRite in Paramus, Victoria sells one of the few bottled sauces without added sugar, and its Vodka Sauce doesn't contain artery clogging cream.
But Victoria's Low Sodium pasta sauce is hard to find.
A half cup of Victoria Marinara contains 18% of the maximum amount of sodium you are supposed to consume in a day.
ShopRite's own Wholesome Pantry Organic Pasta Sauces contain only 8% of the recommended daily maximum.
You can cut the sodium in your pasta sauce by using canned tomatoes with little or no added salt, and blending them with a higher-sodium bottled sauce.
Another way to cut the sodium in your pasta dish is never, ever salt the pasta water.
How Costco pays me to shop
Every February, Costco Wholesale members receive their "rewards" from using the no-fee Costco Anywhere Visa Credit Card.
In my case, those $365 in cash rebates on warehouse and Costco.com purchases, gasoline, restaurant meals, travel and stuff you buy in other stores totaled more than 3 times my annual membership fee of $120.
KOREAN NOODLES: Costco also carries Japchae, Korean glass noodles made from yam flour.
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GLUTEN FREE: These Organic Rice Ramen Noodles are made from millet and brown rice, and they are sodium free.
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