One of the temptations of buying sauce in a supermarket is it’s already prepared and contained in a neat little jar. There’s no muss or fuss, just selecting what flavor you want and heading to the checkout. But buying pre-made sauce is also a more expensive option, not to mention more additive-filled. Finding a sauce with few or natural ingredients tends to be the more expensive option, while cheaper sauces tend to have a less robust flavor and can be loaded with additives.
Instead, make your own sauce, which doesn’t take nearly as much time as it seems. For example, a standard basic barbecue sauce takes about 15 minutes to make, and consists of nothing more than the following:
Once you’ve assembled all the ingredients, mix everything together in a saucepan. Let it come to a boil at medium-high heat, and then leave it to simmer at medium-low for 10 to 15 minutes.
No barbecue is complete without grilled vegetables. While some typical barbecue vegetables can be expensive, like zucchini or asparagus, every vegetable always has a place at the barbecue table. Vegetables like mushrooms, bell peppers and tomatoes are easy to find and inexpensive year round, and make great additions to any meal. Just marinade the vegetables ahead of time and lay them on the grill for a minute or two on each side, and your barbecue meal is complete.
The meat for the barbecue will be the most expensive part of the meal, but it doesn’t mean you have to use a week’s worth of food stamps on one item. Here’s a brief list of how to incorporate meat into your barbecue, and save your food stamps for the rest of the month, too:
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