A jar of tomato sauce is an essential pantry staple. Its versatility ranges from using it as is for a quick and simple pasta dinner or using it as the base for one of these 12 recipes that use a jar of pasta sauce that aren’t spaghetti. Either way, keeping a few jars on hand means you’re always just a few minutes away from a healthy, satisfying dinner. But the pasta sauce aisle is full of hard-to-navigate options.

How do you know which one to pick? Well, we started with your favorites from our Community Choice Awards and pitted them against each other to find out which tomato sauce was really the best whether your budget is high or low.

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