Homemade Alphagettis- a meal for kids that is CHEAP & EASY to make!

Carter can definitely be a picky eater, and sometimes getting him to eat a good healthy meal is like pulling teeth!
He often refers to the food he doesn't like as "bad food" and the food he does like as "good food" (I seriously have no clue how he came to call them these names)... his "bad food" list outweighs the "good food" list by far.
With that being said I definitely have to be creative with meal times.
I am also all about making food from scratch for many reasons:

• It is cheaper the majority of the time
• I know what ingredients are going into the food
• Carter gets to help make the food that he is eating, which he LOVES

Ingredients to gather

1 box of Catelli Alphabet Pasta (or whichever brand you choose)
2 cans of Tomato Sauce - nothing with chunks, I used Western Family organic.
Water (use empty can from tomato sauce)
2 tablespoons of Sugar- I used brown Organic Palm sugar (this is completely optional)
Salt & Pepper to taste

Instructions to follow

Cook 1 box of Catelli Alphabet Pasta as per directions on the box.
Drain and put the cooked pasta back in the pot
Mix in:
Tomato Sauce to cooked pasta
2 cans of water (use a tomato sauce can)
2 table spoons of sugar - optional

Simmer on medium heat on the stove, stirring minimally.
The pasta will absorb some of the water and will look thicker after bit.
Let cool, and serve or divide into containers for the freezer.






Want to give this dish even more nutritional value??
Consider these options:
Boil/steam carrots, sweet potatoes, peas, or anything that can be blended smooth and has more of a sweet taste to it.
Blend water and veggies together (so that you have as much of the nutritional content as possible) and add to the tomato sauce.
**Make sure that you are counting this as part of the 2 cans of water for the recipe if you are choosing to do this**

**When I was making this I halved the recipe as I forgot to get more Alphabet pasta at the grocery store. It made 3 containers full (2 servings in each container) and we of course had to taste test it too ;) **

Have you tried this?? Leave a comment about your opinion of this recipe!

 

 

**There are MANY variations out there for Alphagettis but I have tweaked this one to meet my families needs**