Jeff's Quick Low-carb Tomato Sauce

This is a good, quick tomato sauce that can be used when you don't have fresh tomatoes handy or just don't want the work involved with making a fresh sauce. Tomatoes are not for everyone on a low carb eating plan. They can be a trigger food for some people and in a sauce can be carb dense. Even this recipe has 18 grams per cup of sauce. Used 1/2 cup at a time, it adds 9 grams of carbohydrate to a meal. That's too much for Atkins induction, but certainly allowable on OWL for people with high enough CCLL's.

8      ounce   Can, tomato sauce (with no added sugar!)
1/4    cup     Chopped onion 
1      clove   Garlic, chopped
1/2    tsp     Basil
1/8    tsp     Oregano
               Salt, to taste
               Olive Oil

In a small sauce pan add enough olive oil to cover the bottom
of the pan and saute onions until translucent.  Add garlic and
saute for another minute.  Add tomato sauce and simmer uncovered
for 10 minutes.  Add the basil and oregano and simmer another 5
minutes or until the sauce has reached the desired consistency.

Carb Count: Entire recipe - approximately 20 grams. 10 grams per 1/2 cup of sauce. Assumes 8 grams of carb per 1/2 cup of canned sauce.