Do most packaged and prepared foods have too much sauce for you?

I don’t buy food that comes with sauce. My husband sometimes has a packaged/prepared pasta dish and he said he’d usually prefer a bit more sauce.

When we eat out, it’s rare I’ve had a meal that includes sauce where I’ve felt there was too much. I’d say it’s not common over here for food to be served swimming in sauce. I think asking for a second plate or for the sauce on the side makes a lot of sense.

I don’t find this, generally.

If it’s an entree I appreciate the extra sauce to go with noodles, rice or potato.
If it’s ‘meal’ including noodle, rice, or potato I seldom feel like there’s too much sauce.

Are you talking about stove-top or baked? Perhaps you’re not keeping the temp high enough/not venting enough.

I know there was a recent discussion where mopping with bread was much reviled, but that’s what I do with the excess sauce. We had spaghetti last night and made sure there was plenty of garlic cheese bread to mop uo the sauce.

It isn’t the sauce. I’ve fallen into the habit of reading the ingredient listings of damned near anything in a pkg or container before tossing it into the cart. Even things that look appealing arouse paranoid suspicions amounting to “that looks so good- but wait! If it appears so yummy, why haven’t you tried it before?” No remedy for impulse buying surpasses reading the ingredient list on processed foods. I’ve saved a fortune, as well as developed a tongue so flexible that it can pick locks: all from reading aloud the ingredient dissertations on cartons of (fill in the blank) frozen entrees. This brings up an interesting thought worthy of a question.

Extra red sauce on Italian dishes wouldn’t bother me much. It’s not something I would think to mention.

Almost all the Chinese frozen that you can make on the stove has too much sauce for me. I add vegetables and it balances out.

If a frozen veggie combo has some sort of butter herb sauce, I take out half the butter before microwaving.

Some pasta and cheese I add extra pasta. One that comes to mind is Stouffer’s Fetuccine Alfredo I double the pasta.

Yes. I’m guessing it’s because it’s the cheaper than the main part of the dish.

I find frozen pre-prepared foods are usually heavy with salt and gravy.

We don’t eat pre prepared food at all, ever. It’s a pain in the arse.

I never fix packaged prepared foods in the microwave…I think that may be part of your problem with excess sauce. Less cook time and less steam released. Some of the frozen meal-in-a-bag dinners I have to add a bit of water or milk to after fixing them on the stovetop.

My issue is there’s never enough sauce. I don’t like dry food.