Spaghetti

Cook on the stove until heated through.

You can add cooked meat to the sauce or meatballs if you like.

Notes:

I buy all of my spices, my olive oil, and my tomato sauce at Sam's Club. The tomato sauce is less than $3 for the huge can. Depending on your family's preference for sauce, it can cover 3-5 pound of pasta. We like lots of sauce on our noodles (about twice what you see in the photo above), so it covers 3 pounds for my family. I usually cook 2 pounds of pasta at a time so that we can have leftovers for the next day (my family eats 1 pound at a meal). My husband's favorite breakfast is leftover spaghetti. It's simple enough to just cook 2 pounds at a time in a large pot.

We save the extra sauce in the freezer. Sometimes we just keep the sauce until the next day, and use it to make pizza.

My family prefers a meat sauce. We found that we could use just a little meat to flavor the sauce, without making it too expensive. When I buy ground beef (on sale), I cook it up in batches with dried onions and granulated garlic. I then freeze in in 1 1/2 cup amounts (give or take). When I'm making saace, I just throw the frozen meat right in.

I used to buy the pasta at Sam's Club. It's around .87 a pound. I then found that Smith's has pasta on sale for .50 a pound a couple of times a year; now I stock up there.