My family has been eating the private label jarred marinara sauce produced by On Point for years. Initially it was produced under the label Master's Choice and we bought it at the Food Emporium, A&P,and Waldbaum's. All the flavors were delicious: Four Cheese, Bolognese, Tomato Basil, Marinara to name a few. All natural ingredients, made with olive oil, no additives or hidden spices. Always the best price for the homemade-quality taste when compared to the specialty brands like Rao's, Patsy's and the like. Also, they were all Kosher. Even the Bolognese was OU-Glatt.
No longer Master's Choice, the sauce is now marketed under the more attractive label of Via Roma. This is still the private label for A&P, and mama mia are they doing a good thing!
For the Kosher folks out there, only the Marinara is certified Kosher parve. (Please, bring back the other flavors! You are very good for the kosher world!). This is the best quality, best tasting, best priced jarred Parve sauce any Kosher consumer will ever have. It is a necessity for Friday night sweet & sour meatballs. I recently tried substituting ketchup, and my kinderlach could taste the difference.
For everyone else: try out all the flavors and see what you like best.
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| Via Roma Marinara Sauce, $3.99 per jar, currently on sale for $2.49 at my local SuperFresh, Certified Kosher by the Orthodox Union (the O-U) |
At $3.99 a jar, this is the best homemade-tasting sauce for your buck.
It is made locally in Pennsylvania, too!
Currently it is on sale at SuperFresh (also an A&P affiliate) for $2.49 a jar, no limit.
My sister Reba dismisses this sauce, as she is more of a food purist and immersion-blends a can of san marzano tomatoes as her sauce, but she doesn't have children yet, and so I wonder if she will start relying more on the convenience foods that most families use when God-willing she has children of her own. But, I hear her. And, she remembers the glory days of when this was part of her after-school snack atop a piece of vegetarian schnitzel (aka tivall in Israel) with melted cheese on top.
The Marinara is higher in fat than the others at 6g per serving, but the Tomato Basil is lower and similarly tasty.
Manga!
And, if this type of stuff matters to you, for further info on the company, read this recent Forbes article on A&P's CEO.
1 comment:
I LOVE this sauce...and have bought it for some time, however, my Superfresh store no longer has the Marinara sauce(my faviorite)! Where else can I buy this?? I must find it! I like the other flavors too...not as much as marinara!
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