A couple weeks ago I discovered Mrs Dash has low sodium spice packets now. I love Mrs Dash. Their seasoning is good on top of low sodium triscuit crackers and cottage cheese. Sprinkle a little bit of the seasoning on top and you’ve got a real healthy snack
. They just recently came out with a line of spice packets such as sloppy joe, beef stew, fajita seasoning, and taco spice. Love all of them. The one thing I wish they would get, that they don’t have, is a spice packet for spaghetti sauce. It’s much easier to just use a spice packet, in my opinion. I have to watch my sodium intake because of my blood pressure.
I decided to try making my own spaghetti seasoning mix and this one turned out really well. Add in some ground beef. There’s only around 21 mg of sodium in this!
Here’s another rant of mine. All the chefs on TV say to these food show contestants is, there’s not enough salt or flavor. Could have used more salt,etc. I absolutely hate it when I go to a restaurant and when I’m done with a meal, all I taste is salt. It lingers in your mouth for quite awhile. Makes me want to go to Dairy Queen and get something sweet to get that taste out of my mouth. (I did that once) Restaurants need to start putting less salt on their food. It would probably help save a lot of lives and less trips to the pharmacy for blood pressure medication.
Low Sodium Spaghetti Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup chopped onions
- 15 oz no salt added tomato sauce (canned)
- 8 tablespoons of no salt added tomato past (Hunt’s)
- 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
- 3 tsps garlic
- 1 1/2 tsps ground oregano
- 2 tbsps leaves basil (dried)
- 1/8 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 1/2 cups of water
Instructions
- Spray a pan with cooking spray. Cook the onions until they’re translucent and add the tomato sauce and tomato paste; then water. Stir in all the spices, and let the sauce simmer on low for 30 minutes. Adding in ground beef is optional.
Notes
Points Plus: = 1
SmartPoints = 1
Serving for sauce 1 cup
Serve with 1 cup of noodles.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 8
- Calories: 52
- Sugar: 7.47
- Sodium: 21
- Fat: 0.17
- Saturated Fat: .03
- Carbohydrates: 11.30
- Fiber: 3
- Protein: 1.72
This was great! Thanks!
I just made this and im not sure if i did it correctly but it came out a little to watery, any suggeestions?
My son and hubby are both on low sodium diets and they LOVED this sauce. It is our new go-to sauce!!! Thank you so much for such a great recipe.
This is a very tasty sauce and was easy to make. I will definitely be making this again. Thanks!
Thanks Aaron!
3 tsp garlic….is this garlic salt or powder?
Garlic not salt
Can this be frozen?
Donna, I freeze this recipe each each time I make it. I quadruple the recipe because I am already dirtying a pot so… might as well!
Do you think this recipe can be canned?
I’m sure it can be if you follow proper canning techniques. 🙂
I’m looking forward to making this, as I really need a good low-sodium Spaghetti Sauce. More than anything else I have to commend the photos, which made this so appealing. My mouth was watering just from the excellent photos.
what is one serving of red pepper flakes
recipe updated
I use garlic powder and dried basil- oregano leaves – quantity of each?
Yummy!
Can this be used not using wine?
Yes, just replace it with chicken stock or beef broth.
How much water do you add? Don’t see that on the list.
★★★★★
Ignore above question…I overlooked it.
Super yummy, super easy and super fun to make! It is a new favorite in our low sodium/carb housrhold now!
★★★★★
How am I to read the nutritional information at the bottom? With no units of measurement, I’m not sure what to think about them. Any help would be appreciated!
Please see the page at the top of this about serving sizes and nutrition info. Thanks.
Ok. I took a look at the page you specified, and it is of no help to me what-so-ever. Thanks anyway, i guess.
Sodium and Cholesterol are always in mg. Everything else is grams. If you are still having problems I would enter them into a site like cronometer or myfitnespal like I mentioned on that page.