Francesco Rinaldi Pasta Sauce: Healthy AND Delicious

It seems like all too often you have to sacrifice taste for healthiness.  Why is it that the most delicious things are usually fat-laden and chock full of high fructose corn syrup and other diet killing ingredients?  Luckily for those of us who are diet conscious but love italian food, Francesco Rinaldi has come up with a compromise.

Their new pasta sauce line, “To Be Healthy,”  features low carb, low fat spaghetti sauces fortified with DHA Omega-3 fatty acids (a.k.a. good fats), an essential part of our health that is not naturally manufactured by your body.   Each serving contains only 70 calories, 2.5 g of fat, zero cholesterol and only 10 g carbohydrates.

I had the opportunity to try the Tomato & Basil sauce.  It was a typical marinara sauce, and I prepared it as I usually do-adding it to some ground turkey and onion that I had already browned and sauteed.  I went pretty easy on the spices, since I had never used this sauce before and didn’t want to overwhelm anyone.  The first testers were my little girls, ages 5 and 3.  They LOVED it.  ”This is so nummy, mama!”  That is the important answer in my house-if the kids like it, we adults can make do.  I tried it, and found it to be a little bland-possibly why my kids enjoyed it SO much.  The base flavor was good, so the blandness is easy to fix, however-make it straight up for the children then add maybe some minced garlic and pepper for Hubs and I.

The Francesco Rinaldi To Be Healthy pasta sauce line also features flavors such as Garlic & Onion, Garden Vegetable, and Spicy Marinara-the last one being the flavor I would most likely try next.  You can find it at your local grocery store, and more information on the products at Francesco Rinaldi’s To Be Healthy website.

This post was written for Francesco Rinaldi who provided the complimentary product in exchange for my honest review.