Spaghetti Sauce Seasoning Mix
Mix all ingredients thoroughly and store in small airtight jar in a cool, dry place.
Quick Spaghetti with Meatsauce
Mix together all ingredients except spaghetti and cheese. Bring mixture to a boil. Cover and simmer for about 1/2 hour. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Serve over hot spaghetti.
I found this at http://www.stretcher.com/stories/01/010226g.cfm
Hope it turns out great!
By Anonymous
Close, but wayyyyyy too salty! Can't be right, 2 tsp's of salt PLUS 2 tsp. of all seasoned salt? I tried it, and almost choked, it might work with just the 2 tsp. seasoned salt, omitting the 2 tsp. of regular salt. ps call lawry, owned by unilever, 1-800-9lawrys,,,,,i think, the number is on the spatini box, which has been discontinued. (02/11/2007)
By Johnny Static
I just found out this was discontinued, I am so sad. My recipe is as follows. I can use all other ingredients without the Spatini but it will be missing that added kick. My ex husband told me that another company will be making a product that will be close to Spatini. When I know what it is I will post the information.
Meatballs: ground meat mix with only garlic powder and form them and cook n sauce
Cook everything for 45-60 minutes
Serve over pasta
This is to die for!
(02/14/2007)
By Alisa
THEY STOPPED MAKING SPATINI...IT WILL NO LONGER BE MADE..AFTER ABOUT 50 YEARS...THE MAKER (UNILEVER)STOPPED MAKING IT... TOO BAD..I USED IT ALL THE TIME......BOB (02/15/2007)
By BOB L.
I tried the recipe for Spatini above, and also found it salty. (And I already eliminated the regular salt)
I tried a bunch of recipes and think I came pretty darn close to making my own Spatini. Had some tonight and it was very very close.
If anyone is interested in the recipe, email me at djhassoun AT nycap.rr.com . (02/18/2007)
By Dave H
According to the Spatini carton, the first ingredient listed was sugar, then salt. Can't remember the rest. (02/19/2007)
By JoAnn Young
i loved it and my whole family has used it for the last 30 years and now we have nothing worth while buying to use in place of this. i just can't believe this at all(quote)(/quote) (02/20/2007)
By yvonne
We want Spatini back. I personally have been using it for the 42 years I've been married and my mother before that. I tried last week with other spices and my son said " What's wrong with the spaghetti, it has no taste".
Borden's did that with Creamettes, now it's back on the market. (02/20/2007)
By Marie
you can still buy a lot of it on ebay (02/21/2007)
By larry
I am HEARTBROKEN! Anyone have a recipe that is like spatini?! Please email me at REDITEACHER AT aol.com TY! (02/23/2007)
By LISA
We too have been using Spatini Spices for more than 40 years. We dont know what to do either. We have some on the shelf in Arizona but none on the east coast. We need the receipe! We should contact the company and ask them to post it on the net--it is the right thing to do. HELP!
We think it has sugar, salt, onion power, garlic power, potato starch, beet power for color, yeast extract, and maybe ground oregano, and ground basil. Here is the phone number 1800 952-9797 (02/25/2007)
By Marie the Italian from Easton PA
I have also used Spatini for over 25 years and was absolutely crushed to find out yesterday that it had been discontinued. This was only after the 4th grocery store that I ventured to advised me of this information. What I did find that was almost as good as Spatini was McCormicks packet of spices which retails for approximately 89 cents a pack. The family loved it and never realized the differece. (02/26/2007)
By marybeth
I have been everywhere looking for this beloved family favorite! I wrote an email to Lawry's at their webste WWW. LAWRYS .com I asked them to please do not discontinue it. It is one of the few reminders I still have of my mother who has been gone for twelve years now. I know that many feel the same way. Spatini could never be duplicated!!
(02/27/2007)
By Carol King.
I use GOYA ADOBO all purpose seasoning w/pepper in my spaghetti sauce it contains oregano, tumeric,salt, granulated garlic. It can be found in the mexican foods.
It is my secret ingredient, and it is wonderful on all meats, chicken, pot roasts, casseroles, stuffing, rice, soups, pinto beans, Italian dishes. (02/27/2007)
By Dee
40 yrs. plus and IT'S GONE. Bring it back NOW...PLEASE! WE HATE JAR SAUCE. I've tried different ways to doctor it up, but without Spatini, it's just not the same and never will be. (03/01/2007)
By Enter your name Janice from Williamsport, PA.
I called Lawrys and they said they are telling people to buy the Lawrys dry "original" spaghetii sauce mix. I can't believe how upset I actually am over this. Spatini has been our family secret recipe for hamburger barbque forever! I asked if enough people call might they continue making it again and they said "you never know". Then they tried to get my name and address to send me coupons and such. Didn't know if I could trust it, or if Iwould be on some huge mailing list then. I miss you spatini! (03/01/2007)
By EmeraldEyes
Using spatini sauce mix is the only way I will eat spaghetti, today I went to six different markets looking for some spatini I had no idea it was discontinued. Please put it back on the market I love spaghetti. I'm the one who fixes the spaghetti for the family since my mother past, and we always used spatini.
Sorrowfully hurt (03/01/2007)
By mira
I too have been using Spatini for 42 years. I'm very upset that they discontinued it. Please bring it back NOW. Thank you! (03/02/2007)
By Bonnie
If anyone would like I have some for sale. When i find them in the stores where i live i pick them up. The price will depends on what store I go to and how much I pay. prose1960 AT hotmail.com (03/02/2007)
By Pat
Another sad Spatini customer. My mother introduced me to this dry seasoning. I tried 3 different stores to purchase this product and one store manager told me it was discontinued. How can they discontinue a product that's been around for so long. I made meatballs and sauce for my son who came home from college and it just wasn't the same. Maybe Lawry's will read this posting and bring this product back. I miss my mom and I miss this wonderful mix. (03/03/2007)
By Peg Beisel
I have developed a "replacement" for Spatini. It is for sale at EBay. Search for Spatini and my listing is titled "Inspired by Spatini". Really is almost identical and about the same price!!!! (03/03/2007)
By Dave
I just found out last evening (3/3/07) that Spatini has been discountinued. BRING ME TO TEARS! My Nana is deceased now for 23 years and SPATINI is the "secret ingredient" contained in her lucious ITALIAN MEATBALLS. Those meatballs are a sentimental food to me. And I recently shared my meatballs at work and they were the RAVE! The company better 'rethink' this decision!!!! (03/04/2007)
By Deb from Williamsport
my mom has used spatini to make her spaghetti sauce and bbq since I was a kid and taught me how to cook them with it. I hate companies who take products off the market, when a large amount of population use them they better bring it back. (03/04/2007)
By barry
I too was introduced by my mom to Spatini over 40 years ago. I used it in tons of recipes to enhance flavor. Perhaps we should begin an email campaign to Lawry. Money talks. It enough people contact them, maybe they will reconsider or at least post the recipe. (03/04/2007)
By Denise M
I am going crazy because I do not like spaghetti sauce without spatini.....I can not believe it is discontinued.....how upsetting.......i sent my husband out to 5 stores and he doesn't look for things very well in a store and he said he can not find it, then he said they discontinued it....I thought he was lying......i told him don't come home without it....He is home but no spatini....boo hoo....... (03/04/2007)
By Lisa Ukey
We have always used Spatini spaghetti sauce mix but it has been discontinued at my store. (Giant)
I have found that McCormick makes an item called "Thick & Zesty" spaghetti sauce mix in an envelope that is a very good replacement for Spatini.
Joan M (03/05/2007)
By Joan M
I too am disappointed in the discontinuation of Spatini. I have been using it for 30 years in my meatloaf which my family loves. I have also shared it with friends and family. We have searched through stores in the Lehigh Valley to find out it was discontinued. I wrote to Lawry's and they never responded. What a disappointment. We LOVE Spatini, please bring it back! (03/07/2007)
By Liz from Easton Pa
the only place i'm able to find spatini anymore is on ebay and when that's gone it's gone forever too bad i've used it as my secret ingredient for 30 years (03/08/2007)
By lisa illiano
My friend "Liz from Easton" told me about Spatini 10 years ago and it has become the only meatloaf I make. I can't believe we will never be able to enjoy that meatloaf again! What a delicious mix that was. What were they thinking pulling that off the market?? On the other hand, had she never told me about that mix in the first place I wouldn't be I the quandry that I am today...hmmmm! Darn Liz! (03/08/2007)
By Jen from Bethlehem
lawrys have you lost your mind. bring it back (03/10/2007)
By judy d
I called 1-800-896-9067 and was told among other things that if it was a medical emergency to call another 800 number.Could this be the reason it was pulled? (03/10/2007)
By Enter youjean
I sent my husband to 5 stores to try and find Spatini because it is the only thing I ever use to make a noodle dish that my family loves,it was given to me by a nun that I worked with at a nursing home. Please start making spatini again,I try to add my own spices but just was not the same. (03/10/2007)
By kay Reuwer
Homemade homemade Spatini (tasted very much like the original)
Grind in blender and keep wrapped up in freezer
Use three teaspoons per 6 oz of paste or 15 of sauce
This is not as salty as Spatini. I also added dried minced garlic to the sauce after I started cooking it and a bit of the minced garlic in a jar to give it a fresher taste.
If you add fresh parsley with any dried spice it will intensify the spice and give it a fresh spice taste (03/10/2007)
By Greg
Correction to Spatini Recipe posted 3/10/07
Meant, I added some dried minced onion to the sauce (not dried minced garlic) after I started cooking the sauce.
You also might want to add a bit more onion powder after you start cooking the sauce (I didn't want to over do the onion powder in the mix); I liked the sauce with a bit more onion powder (but was also recreating my mom's recipe (which is not all Spatini for seasoning)). Taste it while you are cooking and add more onion powder if you like.
I made spaghetti sauce last night and thought it quite Spatiniesque. The bit of the minced garlic in a jar added did add a bit more kick
(03/10/2007)
By Greg
I have been making spaghetti sauce for almost 45 years and i have never made it without Spatini! What am I going to do? I am making it today for my family (3-11-2007) and I know they are going to notive a difference! What will I say? Help! Please bring it back or at least post the ingredients so that I can make my own seasoning! Please! Thank you...Wish me luck today! (03/11/2007)
By MARY ANN BATH
My mother used Spatini as far back as I can remember. I've used it for the 40 years I've been married. For the 10 years my son has been married, his wife asks me to make my spaghetti for her birthday. We had the last Spatini spaghetti for her birthday on Mar. 8. I don't know what we'll use now. I'm not Italian, so Spatini was my only recipe. (03/11/2007)
By Rose Ann S.
For several weeks I went from store to store looking for spatini. I called my mother and she said that it was a good selling item that they just might have run out. A week later I finally went up to customer service and asked them myself. They said it was discontinued. I was very upset. I called my mother and she was upset too. We have been using spatini for generations. Please bring it back. I can't make my spaghetti with meatsauce anymore.
(03/14/2007)
By Megan
If you check the Lawry's site, you can order either regular or extra thick spaghetti sauce spice mix. I think that I may try it. I am lost without spatini. (03/14/2007)
By Chris
Oh my goodness. Tell me it's not true. NO MORE SPATINI - now what am I to use. I started using it in Philadelphia when we first got married over 33 years ago. Why cancel a good thing after all these years? I just got my friends hooked on it.
BRING IT BACK (03/15/2007)
By Kathy - St.Petersburg
Oh no! What'll I do without my Spatini??? Not only do I use it my sauce but also mix it into the meatballs! So do my grown daughters and recently one of my granddaughters asked me for my Spatini meatball recipe! Puleeze bring back my Spatini to me! (03/16/2007)
By Grandma Pat
Why, oh why did you discontinue Spatini.. I used it to make my spaghetti sauce, meatballs, etc. also my ever delicious spatini dip with veggies. Please bring it back. (03/17/2007)
By Also Anonymous
HOW COULD YOU! Spatini has been a part of my Italian cooking for over 35 years. I have passed down so many recipes and can't believe that such a popular item would be discontinued. We need to boycott the manufacturer and cause alot of {NOISE } and maybe it will come back :) (03/17/2007)
By Toni
To contact Lawry's to complain, go to:
http://lawrys.com/index.cfm?lry_value=contact_us
Or call
1800-9-LAWRYS (03/17/2007)
By ThriftyFun
My father manufactured SPATINI. I have the original recipe. Those on this site are just wrong.
His legacy is your admiration. Thank you.
(03/18/2007)
By Son of SPATINI
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Why did the company discontinue Spatini? I have looked at both Safeway and Giant Food and cannot find it??? We need Spatini back on the shelves as I have used it for years and have told many cooks about the product! My grandchildren love "Grams Spaghetti" and I have never used any other product except SPATINI!
(b)Editor's Note:(/b) I've tried using their form on the site to let them know there are many that want it back but it didn't work. Call the company 1-800-9-LAWRYS and complain. If enough do it, they might bring it back. (03/19/2007)
By Juanita Pack
oh my gee, I can't believe you people took it away! One question WHY? What was the big thing? I don't care that you can get it off of ebay, i want it back in the stores! This is an outrage, you people took away family secrets, family recipes, and lots more. Did you even use it? And if you didn't you wouldn't even care because you never even used it. It's sooo stupid!! I'm not only speaking for me, I'm speaking for everyone! I want it back...
Please & Thank you =] (03/19/2007)
By Danielle
BIG HUGE MISTAKE!!! Please bring back my Spatini! I cannot make anything without it! It's not the same. You have taken away my secret for the best spaghetti that my entire family has enjoyed for years. My mother and Grandmother have used it for many many years and I am speaking for them because they don't have a computer. They are as outraged as I am and as everyone else here is. How many people have to beg and plead before you bring it back? People are making a killing on ebay selling it, but it won't be on ebay forever! Please, please, please bring it back! Thank you! (03/21/2007)
By Carol Baker
this product needs to be re-instated asap. you have discontinued a product that has been used by several generations for many different recipes and it needs to be brought back please. there is a large group forming on line that is planning on a national boycott of lawry's products if our voices are not heard. (03/21/2007)
By michael
To SON OF SPATINI-----can you please post the original recipe if you have it? thank you very much. (03/21/2007)
By michael
I am thrilled to hear everyone's stories that match my own. How do I tell my two sons that they can never have "Yiayia Chicken" using Spatini Spaghetti Sauce ever again. Not because Yiayia died, but because Lawry's killed the Sauce!! BRING IT BACK!! (03/21/2007)
By Kathy Polites
anyone wishing to voice their opinion and ask for Spatini to be brought back should email lawry's at Comments.lawrys@unilever.com. let them have it......... (03/21/2007)
By michael
I cannot believe it is gone, We just have to make them start selling it again, I am willing to pay whatever the set the price at. Just please put it back on the market NOW! (03/22/2007)
By Barb Myers
anyone interested in trying to get lawry's to reinstate spatini should call 800 952 9797. they must log every call and have been told this will have an effect if enough people voice their displeasure with the discontinuation. please call........ (03/23/2007)
By mike
Dear Son of Spatini:
I did not write that I had recreated Spatini. I wrote that I had created a mix that I thought gave the sauce a Spatiniesque taste. I decided to share the recipe to help out (note, without any motive for making money)
Greg (03/23/2007)
By Greg
I just want to add my voice to what for me is a real loss in my life. Spatini is the best and I will call and write the maker to express my opinion about their decision not to make the product. Please feel free to contact me with any receipie information about Spatini or just to discuss what can be done to get it back in the stores.
pjm90 AT comcast.net (03/24/2007)
By Paul M
I have been looking for Spatini for months. Asked at all the grocery stores in my area and not any of them told me it was discontinued. I couldn't sleep tonight and decided to do a search for it. To my surprise it was discontinued in Dec. My family has used Spatini for years and does not like any other sauce. They need to bring it back or my family will never have spaghetti again! (03/25/2007)
By Anna
greg--son of spatini, that is nice of you. where would i be able to find your recipe. thank you (03/27/2007)
By mike
I implore every person wanting lawry's to reinstate spatini to call 800 952 9797 and hit 0 for operator/complaint line. Have been told that many calls are coming in but more are needed to change marketing's mind. Have everyone you know call this number. There can't be enough calls made. thank you! (03/27/2007)
By mike
Hi Mike:
I posted the recipe on here on 3/10/07. (making sure you know, I am not Son of Spatini, was just writing a reply to his posting on here).
It does not taste exactly like Spatini, but it did create a flavorful sauce with some zest to it. I have also tried adding a slice of orange peel to the sauce (not zested up, just put as a slice in during cooking), to give the sauce a bit more zing.
If you don't want to buy all of the individual italian seasonings, just buy them together as italian seasoning. Also, a bit of fresh parsley will freshen up the taste of dry seasonings. And, you may want to add a bit more onion powder and parmesian cheese after you have started cooking the sauce. (03/27/2007)
By Greg
to greg: thank you, i did find the recipe. did you happen to call the 800 number for lawry's to complain? please have as many people as you can call them. thnx again......mike (03/28/2007)
By mike
This is totally wrong. If anyone has the original recipe please e-mail it to me at billbro4U@verizon.net (03/29/2007)
By Bill
Everyone be sure to sign the online petition that ThriftyFun has set up. Tell your friends and family. Let's bombard Lawry's with signatures requesting Spatini back!
Sign The Spatini Petition Here
Jess (03/30/2007)
By Jess
I wish that you would bring it back. For many who cook Spatini is a big part of the ingredients! ( (03/30/2007)
By Chris of levittown PA.
Use the Thriftyfun search under: Lawry's Bring Back Spatini Petition and sign this petition! (03/30/2007)
Editor's Note: A link to the petition has been set up at the top of this post. Sign it today!
By Paula
I just looked on ebay and one person is selling spatini (18 bx). Bid is up to $301. (04/01/2007)
By joan sipe
BRING IT BACK NOW THE SAUCE IS NOT THE SAME WITHOUT IT. (04/10/2007)
By Danny Schaffer
I just spoke with a representative at Lawry's. They told me that their Lawry's Rich and Thick Spaghetti Sauce packet is the same as Spatini. I am going to try and find it at our local grocery stores to see if they carry this product. She said that it can be ordered online. Hope this helps. (04/16/2007)
By Donna Opfer
Just bring it back, I have been looking for the mix for the past 2 years. it's a shame something so good was taken off the market. BRING IT BACK AND ADVERTISE IT CORRECTLY, BECAUSE IF YOU DO IT RIGHT YOU GET A MARKET OF NEW COMERS TO THE TABLE!!! (04/16/2007)
By kendall.
That's the problem. Spatini was never marketed properly. It has never been prominently displayed on shelves and there are many times when I've had to spend time looking for it, even in our regular grocery store.
Most people I talk to have never heard of it but once they try it, they're hooked and ask me where they can find it.
Maybe if Unilever knew how to market something properly, we wouldn't have this problem.
Editor's Note: Their contact form on their website is broken and has been since we started this campaign. If anyone calls them, tell them about the petition and all of the unhappy people who have posted. (04/16/2007)
By Mike
My mom has used spatini for at least 50 yrs. If find it hard to believe that there was not enough demand for this product. If my mom has used it for 50+ years why take it away now.
I would really really appreciate if you would return it to the shelf. And by the way it was hard to find on the shelf.
Thank you (04/18/2007)
By Millie
I was astonished to find that Spatini has been discontinued. As all others, I Have been using this 30+ years. Everyone loves my spaghetti sauce. Now my Grandson will only eat spaghetti made with Spatini, but we will have to find something else to use for the sauce. This was really a great item too bad the company made a stupid mistake. That's corporate mentality for you! (04/22/2007)
By PBetson
Where has it gone???? I've been using Spatini in my spaghetti sauce for over 20 years. All of a sudden, it's gone. Please, please, please bring it back. I've checked with 6 grocers and they say, people are begging them to get it back but it has been discontinued. Lawry's, please bring it back by popular demand. (04/23/2007)
By Janet Beley
I have read all these wonderful pleas for spatini to come back. My babysitter has been cooking with spatini for as long as she can remember and she introduced it to me just a few months ago and i have been looking for it since. She is going to be so heartbroken when i tell her it was discontinued, but this will equal 2 more calls in to the Lawrys complaint center. Complain enough and we will get it back! (04/24/2007)
By Tammy P.
Their are some of us that still cook. Please bring back spatini.
(b)Editor's Note: (/b) Please call 1-800-9lawrys tell them you want it back and tell them about our petition and multiple posts from unhappy customers. (04/25/2007)
By Mike Z
We are selling a similar product...but just s note..ourd is specifically designed to make sauce and not a finely ground product...check us out on ebay by typing sano's in the search field...it's been a great asset for our restaurant and others on ebay seem to like it? Give it try? (04/30/2007)
By bruce entelisano.
we need to let unilver we will boycott all therir products if they do not bring spatini back (05/01/2007)
By jack
I am very disappointed that I can no longer purchase Spatini spaghetti sauce mix (05/06/2007)
By Kevin Lawrence
WHY.....WHY......WHY............I used to buy spatini every week just to stay stocked up with it. Now my supply has diminished and I am angry. Why has it been taken off the shelf is amazing to me. Instead of taking it off the shelf you need to fire someone in your promotions department, because it just take one tastes spatini spaghetti sauce and you have a customer for life. (05/07/2007)
By Joe from Jersey
I was shocked about Spatini.,...I called them and they said there was NO DEMAND for it so they quit it and replaced it with another product by Lawry....well me like a dummy bought it...well a word to the wise DO NOT BUY it...it is not the same in fact it is terrible...I want Spatini back....there is a DEMAND ... (05/10/2007)
By Jane Mcgown.
I don't want to do not without Spatini. They have to bring it back. I don't know how they can say it didn't sell good. We have been using it for generations. (05/11/2007)
By Loretta
I agree that there is a demand. I want it back as well. Enough people buy it but I have never seen the product advertised. Why did they not try that? I do not want a substitute or a try for something else. I want spatini. (05/11/2007)
By Maria
I found a recipe in Reader's Digest Great Recipes for Great Health that tastes a lot like Spatini.
(IMPORTANT: (You will need to add a tablespoon of Parmesian or Romano cheese for each four teaspoons of the mix AFTER you start cooking -- DO NOT ADD to the mix to store it))
A teaspoon you eat with is usually a real teaspoon... A tablespoon you eat with is 4 teaspoons (so if you measure with an eating tablespoon use one tablespoon plus a teaspoon), or to each 2 teaspoons if you grind the mix in a blender)
(what is in parenthesis above is my added)
Place all ingredients in a 1-pint jar, cover tightly and, shake well to mix. Store in a cool, dark, dry place for up to 2 months. Makes 1 and 1/2 cups (of if you put it in a blender 3/4 cups)
NOTE: This recipe has in it NO salt and less sugar than Spatini (you will need to add salt after you start cooking the sauce, if you like salt)
I put this in a blender and added a bit more onion powder and it was a great substitute.
After you start cooking the sauce, add about a tablespoon of onion flakes if you substitute the onion powder for onion flakes.
Use 4 teaspoons of the mix for each 6 oz can of paste or 12 oz can of sauce
OR
If ground in blender; 2 teaspoons of the mix to each 6 oz can of paste or 12 oz can of sauce.
And again, after you start cooking (or if making meatloaf, after you have added the spice to the meat) add 1 tablespoon of Parmesian or Romano cheese for each 4 teaspoons (or 2 teaspoons if you grind the mix in blender) and then salt to taste (and you may want to add a small bit more sugar (small bit).
Greg (05/13/2007)
By Greg
I have considered contacting the Better Business Bureau and telling them that Lowry is passing of it's Lawry Mix as a substitute for a Spatini.
Lawry has to know it's mix is not similar to Spatini.
Perhaps Americans should boycott all Lawry products until they start conducting better business.
We should use Lawry's bad sales attempt of pushing their Lawry Mix on us and their contempt for the people who have been cooking for with Spatini (a product on the market for 50 years) as an example of bad business practices.
By Greg (05/13/2007)
I got through to the Lawry's 800 number. While on the phone I asked for an address where I could send my written comments. The address is:
Unilever Consumer Services
920 Sylvan Ave.
2nd Floor
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
I sent in my complaint and told them that I for one am boycotting Unilever products (you'd be surprised what all they make) because of the loss of Spatini. Other may wish to do the same... I hope (05/16/2007)
By Martin
The feedback should show the company that Spatini is in great demand, I was in 3 states trying to buy it. Why is it when you find something so good that they up and take it off the market? Shame on you! We still live in America! (05/20/2007)
By Peggy Smith
My mother in law makes the best spaghetti. What did she make it with? Spatini of course. I searched at every grocery store in the area for spatini so she could make us spaghetti yesterday. Then I was told it was discontinued. the spaghetti just wasn't the same without the spatini. BRING BACK SPATINI PLEEEEEAAAAASSE!!!!! (05/21/2007)
By erin
I and my family have been using this for 3 generations. Soon my son would be using it. I can not tell you how upset we all are. We use this product 5 out of 7 days per wk. We are boycotting all of the products that we use from this company! Bring it back and soon or lose lots of customers. Then you will have to cancel all of your products! (05/22/2007)
By Dana leonetti
My mother has been using Spatini since I was a baby. I'm so disappointed and upset about this. I just called them to make a complaint and the operator I talked said she was upset about it too since she also used it. She said that stores weren't taking enough demand for it so they stopped ordering it. She also said the only places that would have it now, if they have any, would be Big Lots or discount stores. I'm so annoyed that they would get rid of a product that my family has been using since before I was born. (05/23/2007)
By Vanessa Hoke
I am so disappointed to find out Spatini has been discontinued. I've been searching all the supermarkets in my area and just now decided to check it out on line. My spaghetti doesn't taste the same without it. Please bring it back!! (05/24/2007)
By Dottie G.
My mother used Spatini when I was a child and I likewise have been using it for 35 years. Please bring it back, my spaghetti will not be the same. (05/24/2007)
By Linda Vallorani
I have been looking for spatini everywhere, my mother passed away and left me her cook book to make speghetti and corn hash, I am so dispointed, i rode around for 2 hours looking for it, PLEASE BRING IT BACK.PLEASE (05/29/2007)
By patricia robinson
I am very upset that Spatini is no longer being made. My mother who has been gone for 40 years introduced me to Spatini. My sister, daughter and I used it in all kinds of recipes, not just for spaghetti. I guess the almighty dollar is more important than producing a quality product. (05/29/2007)
By Bev E
My mom was using spatini. I grew up with this....it's so sad--I used to brag. Why get rid of a great product? I want spatini back...I haven't ate spaghetti ~ it's the only kind I like! It's like trying to change Coke! Bring it back! My whole family is hurting cuz of this! Care about the customers for a change! (05/29/2007)
By WILLIAM BUDKA
Used for 30 yrs. Sauce and meatballs don't taste to same - why discontinue - my spaghetti will never be the same - need the seasonings in spatini - please consider bring back! (06/10/2007)
By Sandy Turner
I am not a happy camper, I love Spatini like the rest I have grown up on this stuff. My whole family used this mix. Bring it back Now! my sauce will never be the same. Why did they discontinue it? (06/12/2007)
By Carol
Uggh, so that's why I can't find it anywhere! I have used McCormick's spaghetti sauce mix recently and it is similar. I made my sauce and meatballs for a recent Grad party to RAVE reviews once again. The McCormicks stuff is not easy to find, not every market in my area carries it. Giant Markets so far has been the only place I consistently purchase it at. (06/12/2007)
By Barbara
I am very sad that I can not find this sauce mix anywhere! I got hooked on it from my then to be mother-in-law and it was THE BEST! Now 17 years later I was still using it and even got my kids hooked on it, who are VERY picky about sauce, well picky in general. They refuse to use any other sauce because it isn't like Spatini. They love it because its plain and just has a great taste, as do I. PLEASE BRING IT BACK, ITS THE BEST! Please let me make my kids happy and me for that matter. (06/13/2007)
By Missy Frindt
I live in Central PA and the local grocery store here STILL carries Spatini!! Are you speaking of the stuff that comes in a little packet that you mix with your spaghetti sauce, or is this something else?
The grocery store is called WEIS MARKETS, and I'm not sure where you all live that like Spatini, but I believe that Weis has stores in only a few states. (06/14/2007)
I miss using this in my sauce. Please let me know where I can purchase this. (06/14/2007)
By margie
ICAN'T BELIEVE THAT I AM NOT ABLE TO FIND SPATINI IN THE LOCAL STORES AND THAT IT HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED. WHY???? PLEASE BRING IT BACK. MY FAMILY GREW UP WITH IT AS I HAVE BEEN USING IT FOR OVER 40 YEARS. (06/14/2007)
I too am very disappointed to discover that Spatini has been discontinued! One of my husband's favorite dishes is Spatini and Spam on pasta. (Chop the Spam into half inch squares, fry, and add to sause. One can of Spam per packet of Spatini.) I have only two envelopes left! AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH! So, now is gone yet another of his favorites. And mine too! (06/14/2007)
By Kimberly
Please put spatini back on our store shelves. I have used it for 37 years. I have never made my spaghetti sauce without it. My family is very upset when I told them we will not be having homemade spaghetti sauce again. Please bring spatini back. Nothing else will ever compare to it. Why in the world would you discontinue a very good product lots of people buy. Please bring SPATINI back!!!! (06/15/2007)
By Carol
I have also used Spatini for over 31 years and was absolutely crushed to find out that it had been discontinued. We live in Texas and would have it shipped by the case from relatives in PA . I used it in a wide varity of cooking and baking dishes. I'm am very disappointed (06/16/2007)
By Lucille Keicer
My mom was also disappointed in the loss of her spatini and inquired at the grocery store as to where she could get some. They told her that Kraft had bought the company and she would have to go through them to complain. (06/18/2007)
By j wilkinson
Good heavens, Sunday afternoons will never be the same again.(quote)(/quote) (06/19/2007)
By Peter Donnora
My mother has been using Spatini to make her spaghetti sauce forever!!!! Everyone in our family loves it and we miss it so much. Please bring Spatini back!!!!! (06/20/2007)
By Julie Foard
My mother has been making Spatini spaghetti sauce my whole life, 30 something years! She passed the recipe down to me and now my wife loves it as much as I do. We had to have friends ship it to us here in the west (not available out here), then I found it on Amazon.com and bought it by the case. Now NO MORE SPATINI!?!?!? What will we do?? I just purchased several boxes on ebay at a much inflated price, but it will be well worth it to have Spatini a little while longer :( Just called the Lawry's number 1-800-896-9067 and cried on their shoulder, she said there are no plans to bring it back at this point. I guess all good things must come to an end.... (06/21/2007)
By Mike
BRING IT BACK!!!! I WILL JUST DIE WITHOUT SPATINI... I MAKE SPAGHETTI SAUCE EVERY SUNDAY AND MY FAMILY WILL DISOWN ME. (06/24/2007)
By MARYANN
Good news for Spatini fans! I just posted my clone recipe for homemade Spatini -- it's this week's free recipe at http://www.topsecretrecipes.com Enjoy! (06/25/2007)
By Todd Wilbur
Top Secret Recipes analyzed and recreated the recipe. Try this link:
http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/recipedetail.asp?id=511 (06/26/2007)
By Lola
I was so disappointed when I learned that Spatini is not being made anymore. I am 57 years old and my mother used it when I was a kid. And I have been using it over the past 37 years myself and my children have been using it the last few years in their recipes too. Help! What can we do? Is there anything out there that compares? No. I already know the answer. (06/28/2007)
By BJ
I tried lowerys dry sauce. They told another person that this tastes about the same as spatini. It DOES NOT TASTE LIKE SPATINI. PLEASE bring back spatini!!!!!!!! Its no way near the spatini taste. (07/03/2007)
By Dave S.
All I can say is FORGET Lawry's... We have used Spatini for years and now you pull the plug on it? I will never buy any of their products again...
NONE of these other silly recipes are going to satisfy our hunger for the original product.. "Tastes Like" "Almost Like" ain't gonna cut it...
(07/05/2007)
By Stephen Pike
what happened to the sauce mix.. i used it all the time.. its just like it that when you have a good thing you lose it ..bring it back (07/07/2007)
By james
What have you done? We have been using Spatini for years. Bring it back. Tell whoever is making it to continue on. Why let a good thing go. What are you nuts. Now what am I going to do? I demand that you bring it back. Pleaseeeeeeee! (07/09/2007)
By Sharlene
Yes, i have a recipe for Spatini,very easy actually and alot less expensive. (07/14/2007)
By Dell.
I have been using Spatini for over 20 years. My mother in law told me about it. My husband is really upset its the only thing we use to make spaghetti sauce for spaghetti and lasagna. We are now boycotting ALL of Lawry's products until Spatini is brought back. I wonder if anyone has send this link to Lawry's to let them know just how many customers they are losing (07/16/2007)
By Ginger
I just got off the phone with Lawrys. They say they don't plan on making spatini anymore, but they are taking peoples names and forwarding it to the marketing division. If enough of us call them we can try to get Spatini brought back. Its worth a try and it only takes a few moments to call them. Let them know you wont purchase any Lawrys products unless they bring back Spatini. Here is the number you can call. 1-800-745-9232 (07/16/2007)
By Ginger
I'm very angry. I live for spatini! I have not made any Italian recepies since this was discontinued. I planed on opening a restaurant some day however now I probably won't. Why did you discontinue the best ingredient ever? (07/17/2007)
By linda
My wife and I are VERY picky eaters and Spatini was the ONLY tomato sauce we would use. I grew up on it and introduced it to her years ago. Now it's gone? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? It's a great product and everyone that's heard of it loves it. Sounds like a marketing issue! Don't take it out on the rest of us! (07/18/2007)
By Geoff
When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's the only spaghetti sauce my family liked was Delgosos. (not sure of spelling) It was available in Pennsylvania, but not Florida so we would bring it back with us when we went up North to visit relatives. At the time most spaghetti sauces had a high sugar content and sometimes vinegar to make them sweet and tangy. Prego is an example. We hated that. It tastes like catsup, or sloppy joe sauce, but must be popular with a lot of people. Now my favorites are Classico and Old World Style Ragu. I also check the sugar content when other brands are on sale. I can add garlic and oregano if a sauce is bland, but if it is too sweet I am wasting my money. (07/19/2007)
By SusannL
After reading all and I mean all of your posting I thought I'd throw my 2 cents worth in. My mother and grandmother used Spatini, and loved it. Then it stopped being made I found this site for the recipe to make your own. It makes memories of thier sauce. Please try the spatini recipe.
http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/home.asp
When you get to site, click recipe icon. Then in search box type spatini and it will take you through the process to have the copykat of our favorite Lawry's recipe. (07/19/2007)
I like Classico too because of no sugar added. I had no idea that sugar was such a common ingredient in jarred sauce. Plus, Classico is in regular canning jars that you can reuse for many things, impromptu vases, dry storage, leftovers, gift jars and . . . canning! I drive my husband crazy because I never let him get rid of any of the jars.
I'm sorry about Spatini. I never used it but I certainly would now that I heard all the rave reviews. If you haven't signed the petition, follow the link at the top. Last I checked, there were almost 2000 signatures!
Jess (07/19/2007)
By Jess
Bring back spatini, can't live without it, I had been using it for over 25 years and I am really disappointed to not be able to use it my sauce is not the same, lasagna is missing its kick, tomatoes are turning ripe to make sauce and the ingredients are not there for the best tomato sauce. Bring back spatini (07/22/2007)
By Carolyn
We need this product to produce the family receipe. Please bring it back. (07/26/2007)
By Sharon Citro
just found out Spatini is gone. Husband ran a restaurant for 40 years and that's what they used in their recipe. I recently got in the habit of adding it to my "own" sauce. Everytime somebody had it I got raves. Bring that baby back! (07/26/2007)
By mo
My mom went to a local supermarket and found that Lawry has repackaged the old Spatini brand under a new name called 'Lawry's Spaghetti Sauce'. There was even a sign by this product indicating that it is the orignal 'Spatini' mix. She bought one but we have yet to use it. The price was $1.50 for 1 package - no longer 3 in a box for $1.50!
(07/27/2007)
By Jay
Thanks for the feedback, Jay! I'll try it and see if it's as good as the old Spatini! (07/30/2007)
By Stacie
Please bring the spatini back. I went to every store I knew that carried spatini and could not find it anywhere. I do not understand why they took it off the market. It is a wonderful product and I have used it for years. I do not wish to use Lawry's product. I want to use what I have always use, SPATINI. Do you really have any reason at all why you took it off the market? If you do, please let me hear it. (07/30/2007)
By CORRINE SHERMAN
Lawry made the original Spatini sauce. The renamed and newly packaged 'Lawry Spaghetti Sauce' is supposed to be exactly the same thing and is currently available in supermarkets. My mom bought a package but we haven't tried it yet. I won't believe that it's really the same thing until we taste it. (07/31/2007)
By Jay
I can not believe that they have taken this product off the market. Did they not learn from Coke? It is a shame. (07/31/2007)
By Ed Skinner
I just signed the petition. I just saw that someone is selling 3 boxes of the old spatini online at ebay! It is 3 boxes and the highest bid is already $45.00!!!! I wouldn't sell the 3 boxes I have for anything! I love the stuff! My mom used to ship it to me across the country! (08/05/2007)
By Jennifer
My mother has used Spatini for over 50 years. It is the only kind of sauce me and my children eat. We have not eaten pasta or homemade pizza for months. I had no clue that they were going to discontinue it. I would have bought them up if I would have known. Please bring Spatini back. (08/29/2007)
By Patti Z.
Please bring it back. My family can tase the difference without spatini. Don't know what to replace it with. (08/29/2007)
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