I don’t need 24oz of pasta sauce. Or 48. Or by the gallon. I need 8 ounces. And no I don’t want to have this jar of pasta sauce hanging around my fridge till it goes bad and not dominant to have pasta 3 time in a row.
If you know you’re only going to eat 8 ounces at a time, pasta sauce freezes just fine. Separate the jar into 8 oz portions and freeze them for later use.
Okay. Well now I need two more containers, because I have to portion it out. And now I need space in my freezer for the containers. And now I need to remember that I’ve got frozen pasta sauce in my freezer when thinking I could use some pasta sauce. And also its frozen, so I cant just use it as is. And also it gets the plastic storage containers I use stained with tomato sauce. And also, I can’t use glass, because this is going in the freezer, and it would crack the glass. And also I better know exactly how much sauce I’ll need at some future date and proportion appropriately otherwise I’ll have to thaw all the sauce, take what I need, and then refreeze, which violates basic food safety principals.
anyways. it seems like I really only need pasta sauce about every 30 days.
I just put the extra is a small ziplock baggie and freeze it.
I always think of it as Americans "family first* bullshit we do. Everything is always made and designed for a nuclear family and it’s just fucking dumb and I hate it. It’s always cheaper to buy bigger too and I’m just like. I want one thing and they give me 30.
So yeah I get that and I hate it just as much. It’s so incredibly wasteful.
Crazy people. Aldi/Lidl here (in Germany) have cans of chopped tomatoes and the standard size is 425ml. Which is pretty much good to make pasta sauce for 2 people?!
