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"thudpucker" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 04 May 2009 13:46:28 -0700, Serene Vannoy
> > wrote:
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>>James Silverton wrote:
>>> wrote on Mon, 4 May 2009 12:36:26 -0700 (PDT):
>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> I looked on the label of a small can of tomato sauce, and I noticed
>>>> that the main ingredient was tomato paste. So would you be better off
>>>> just buying paste, and adding liquid to it? or would it not make
>>>> muchdifference. I have been a label reader for forty years, and
>>>> cannotbelieve that I never noticed this before.
>>>
>>> It's just a matter of convenience. There's less bother if a brand of
>>> sauce pleases you but you might start with the paste if you intend to
>>> add your own herbs etc.
>
> Dang, I didn't know that. I just tossed out the better part of a can
> of tomato paste after using a couple tablespoons to thicken a sauce.
>
> Never again.
I try and get tomato paste in a tube. They keep in the frig forever despite
stale dates and I never waste any.

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