Last week our favorite brand of pasta, Barilla, was on sale for $1.27/lb. Since I love pasta we bought the 4 boxes allowed and cooked up 6 ounces that were sauced with the ground beef and tomato sauce I made last week for our stuffed peppers.

As an aside, since grocery prices have increased, it is important to flex your economic power by stretching your proteins. I took 1 pound of ground beef and used half of it to make 8 stuffed pepper halves which were a dinner and two lunches. The other half pound was used for this spaghetti sauce. Actually if I had added another can of tomatoes I probably could have squeaked out another pasta meal.