Things rude houseguests do, a vent:

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Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

+1

Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

Exactly!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

+1

Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

+1

Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

No, I wouldn't either. But since I am gluten free, my lasagnas that I made for myself, during college when I was broke and using the cheapest materials I could find (aka, cheese I would never use now that I am a grad) still ran me about $35 a pan (not for a large pan either). I use a very high quality tomato sauce, per my mom's recipe (who also raised us eating healthy). I don't consider it a fancy food, I just think when you are buying nice food that's not mass produced, you have to expect to pay more. The idea of an $8 lasagna is patently absurd to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

+1

Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

No, I wouldn't either. But since I am gluten free, my lasagnas that I made for myself, during college when I was broke and using the cheapest materials I could find (aka, cheese I would never use now that I am a grad) still ran me about $35 a pan (not for a large pan either). I use a very high quality tomato sauce, per my mom's recipe (who also raised us eating healthy). I don't consider it a fancy food, I just think when you are buying nice food that's not mass produced, you have to expect to pay more. The idea of an $8 lasagna is patently absurd to me.

Especially serving that crap to guests.

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Who cares if a PP called it fancy. It was not The expensive lasgana making people who called it fancy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares if a PP called it fancy. It was not The expensive lasgana making people who called it fancy.

+10000

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can we go back to talking about banging at grandmas house?

What did grandma think? Was she upset? Did the weird cousin find out that everyone heard?

Boring. Grandma probably can't hear well.

Not as boring as people arguing over lasagna.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares if a PP called it fancy. It was not The expensive lasgana making people who called it fancy.

That linked example of an $80 recipe up thread that uses different types of bone on meat is way fancier than any lasagna that I've ever seen. In fact, I wouldn't even call it lasagna.

At some point these dishes become another dish entirely. A very, very expensive casserole is still a casserole but it isn't necessarily recognizable as lasagna which, by it's nature, is NOT a fancy dish.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

+1

Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

No, I wouldn't either. But since I am gluten free, my lasagnas that I made for myself, during college when I was broke and using the cheapest materials I could find (aka, cheese I would never use now that I am a grad) still ran me about $35 a pan (not for a large pan either). I use a very high quality tomato sauce, per my mom's recipe (who also raised us eating healthy). I don't consider it a fancy food, I just think when you are buying nice food that's not mass produced, you have to expect to pay more. The idea of an $8 lasagna is patently absurd to me.

Gluten free noodles are all over the place now and they are not expensive. Homemade sauce is delicious but not necessarily expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we go back to talking about banging at grandmas house?

What did grandma think? Was she upset? Did the weird cousin find out that everyone heard?

Boring. Grandma probably can't hear well.

Not as boring as people arguing over lasagna.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Can we go back to talking about banging at grandmas house?

What did grandma think? Was she upset? Did the weird cousin find out that everyone heard?

I actually think that it is pretty horrifying that a guest in someone else's home would do something like that. And in grandma's house of all places, good grief.

I'd love to know what grandma had to say about that, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

+1

Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

No, I wouldn't either. But since I am gluten free, my lasagnas that I made for myself, during college when I was broke and using the cheapest materials I could find (aka, cheese I would never use now that I am a grad) still ran me about $35 a pan (not for a large pan either). I use a very high quality tomato sauce, per my mom's recipe (who also raised us eating healthy). I don't consider it a fancy food, I just think when you are buying nice food that's not mass produced, you have to expect to pay more. The idea of an $8 lasagna is patently absurd to me.

Gluten free noodles are all over the place now and they are not expensive. Homemade sauce is delicious but not necessarily expensive.

The brand I use is about $10. I don't make the price. It's the brand I grew up eating and a very respected one. I'm willing to spend $10 for my jar of marinara sauce, why do you care so much?

Also, I don't use gluten free noodles. I generally use some kind of vegetable/fruit, either zucchini, eggplant, or spaghetti squash.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we go back to talking about banging at grandmas house?

What did grandma think? Was she upset? Did the weird cousin find out that everyone heard?

Boring. Grandma probably can't hear well.

Not as boring as people arguing over lasagna.

I actually quite enjoyed it. I think if it weren't Thanksgiving you'd have a lot more people chiming in.

After all, if you can't make an $80 lasagna on DCUM, where can you make it? Is nowhere sacred?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

+1

Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

No, I wouldn't either. But since I am gluten free, my lasagnas that I made for myself, during college when I was broke and using the cheapest materials I could find (aka, cheese I would never use now that I am a grad) still ran me about $35 a pan (not for a large pan either). I use a very high quality tomato sauce, per my mom's recipe (who also raised us eating healthy). I don't consider it a fancy food, I just think when you are buying nice food that's not mass produced, you have to expect to pay more. The idea of an $8 lasagna is patently absurd to me.

Gluten free noodles are all over the place now and they are not expensive. Homemade sauce is delicious but not necessarily expensive.

The brand I use is about $10. I don't make the price. It's the brand I grew up eating and a very respected one. I'm willing to spend $10 for my jar of marinara sauce, why do you care so much?

Also, I don't use gluten free noodles. I generally use some kind of vegetable/fruit, either zucchini, eggplant, or spaghetti squash.

You know that you should send away for coupons and buy that sauce on sale, right? You could make much better at home and for less money.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

+1

Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

No, I wouldn't either. But since I am gluten free, my lasagnas that I made for myself, during college when I was broke and using the cheapest materials I could find (aka, cheese I would never use now that I am a grad) still ran me about $35 a pan (not for a large pan either). I use a very high quality tomato sauce, per my mom's recipe (who also raised us eating healthy). I don't consider it a fancy food, I just think when you are buying nice food that's not mass produced, you have to expect to pay more. The idea of an $8 lasagna is patently absurd to me.

Gluten free noodles are all over the place now and they are not expensive. Homemade sauce is delicious but not necessarily expensive.

The brand I use is about $10. I don't make the price. It's the brand I grew up eating and a very respected one. I'm willing to spend $10 for my jar of marinara sauce, why do you care so much?

Also, I don't use gluten free noodles. I generally use some kind of vegetable/fruit, either zucchini, eggplant, or spaghetti squash.

You know that you should send away for coupons and buy that sauce on sale, right? You could make much better at home and for less money.

It's not worth it to me to clip coupons, and I have no idea if this particular brand ever goes on sale anyway.

It's not your money, why do you care how I spend it?