Our weekly dinners often consist of at least two meals that include pasta. Pasta is a good food budget stretcher and it is an easy sell with kids. Last Sunday, I had a desire for fettucine alfredo. Typically we consume our pasta buried in a marinara or other tomato based sauce. Lately, I have been craving a cheesy white alfredo topping. Meijer carries quite a few of their own label alfredo sauces (Classic, Four Cheese, and Roasted Garlic). I chose the Meijer classic alfredo.
Packaging
The alfredo sauce is packaged in typical Ragu or Classico
style jar. The jars are sold in the dry
good section next to the pasta.
Price
The cost of the fifteen ounce size jar was $2.29. The name
brand sauces run between ten to fifty cents higher than Meijer labels.
Preparation
There is not much effort to preparing the sauce. Simply
empty the jar contents into saucepan and heat up until hot enough to serve over
pasta. It process of cooking the pasta took much longer than heating up the
sauce.
Taste/Texture
I was pleased with the quantity of sauce in proportion to
the pound of fettucine I served. There was plenty of sauce to coat all the
pasta evenly. The sauce was not as thick as I am accustomed to seeing with
heavier alfredo sauces in restaurants or even sold in the refrigerated sections
of stores. The taste of this alfredo sauce was a disappointment. There seemed
to be something definitely missing in this sauce. Perhaps the sauce needed a
more pronounced parmesan flavor or a hint of garlic. When I think of delicious
alfredo sauce, I think of a good dose of cheese flavor in every bite. That was
not the case with this sauce.
Overall Result
I don’t see myself purchasing this sauce again. I will
either spend a little more and purchase the heavier refrigerated instant
alfredo sauces or test the Meijer four cheese or garlic option, or even go with
the brand name labels.
