Tomato-Basil version.

If you love to eat cheesy breadsticks but can't make it work anymore due to carb restrictions, I have found what I think is almost the exact taste and texture, and this marinara sauce is an excellent complement:

1) Go online or to a local upper-end store and look for bread cheese. Probably any bread cheese will do, but Carr Valley is the best I've found for this purpose. It comes in a cheesy slab about the size and shape of a piece of toast, so it's pretty good-sized (6 servings for 100 cals/1g carb per serving).

2) I heat the cheese in the microwave, griddle it, or heat it in the air fryer. When done, I sprinkle it with some garlic powder.

3) Use a pizza cutter to slice it into 6 finger-width strips, and serve with the Tomato-Basil sauce for dipping. Reminds me of Pizza Hut cheesy breadsticks and marinara sauce from when I was a kid and still able to eat those!

The tomato/basil is pretty good, but I have a tip or two to give for it, and so I'll review that separately.

The garlic+herb sauce is pretty strongly herbal-tasting, hard to explain: I do not like it by itself in pasta, BUT I have found that if I mix it 1:1 ratio with any of the "leftover" seasoned oil from, say, a jar of roasted tomatoes, or a jar of marinated artichoke hearts, it is just about unbeatable! It really needs that oil for body, and to cut the herbal strength a bit. In both of the jarred products I mentioned, the oil is only lightly flavored (usually) with whatever it was preserving, so it doesn't clash with nor overwhelm the garlic+herb from the Walden Farms product.

All this, and it's 0 cal/carb with a pretty good flavor when prepared right. If you have some at home and weren't able to figure out what to do with it, it might be worth giving this a try so you don't feel like you wasted your money.

It also might be workable with a vinegar and oil preparation, too, or to stretch out a more-caloric dressing such as store-bought Italian. Would definitely cut the calories and carbs (which is my own goal), and also the fat, too.

For the tomato sauce. . . once I added ground beef to it, hoping it would be tastier. It really was inedible. I prefer two ounces of plain real tomato sauce with my own seasoning. .. low in calories and carbs and much, much better than this.

The Tomato & Basil Sauce is a shade that is into the pink range. That put me off the first time I used it. Upon reflection, I decided that the addition of it's taste trumped the visual aspect.

The Alfredo Sauce taste is a little strong for my palate, but it still adds welcome flavoring.

I was so happy that I got my order in! I wanted to try this right away. I am a big fan of Walden Farms foods, however I do take them with a grain of salt, and other additives. The trick with Walden Farms products is to know that they aren't the real deal and to not expect them to be, and to be creative once you have them. I would never eat anything by Walden on its own...the products aren't meant to fly solo (for example, the peanut spread....alone, very questionable, a little dab on celery, and it's perfectly fine).

The Scampi sauce was very garlicky, not so buttery, which isn't a big surprise. The alfredo lacked that creamy butter part too. So, like the alfredo, I added no calorie butter spray, and in the scampi's case, served it with broccoli, spinach and shirataki noodles. Still heavy on the garlic, but I definitely get that scampi fix.

I'd recommend the product, just remember, like all Walden Products, you might need to spruce it up to make it passable in your own book.

I tried to add cheese and butter to make it better and it didn't help. I usually love Walden Farms but this time they missed the mark on this one!

On the other hand, I like the Alfredo ok. It has a bit too much of a tangy/sweet flavor and needs more of a creamy/cheesy taste. It tastes better with some grated Parmesan and pepper. It is pretty thin too but after heating it thickens up as it sets. I would give the Alfredo a 4.

This alfredo sauce was completely inedible, one taste and I threw it out. Truly awful, to the point where I am now afraid to try other Walden products.

Ick.