Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Sloppy Joes & Mac 'n' Cheese

When my husband called at 3:30pm to let me know he would be home around 4:15pm I asked if he was hungry and he said he was ravenous! So I rattled off the dinner plan and he chose sloppy joes with mac'n'cheese.

We prefer to make the sloppy joes with ground beef (brown it and drain off the fat), a can of tomato paste, water, and a McCormick's Sloppy Joe seasoning packet. For some reason we don't like the canned sauce, and honestly we haven't had it in so long I can't remember why. :) The mac'n'cheese was the deluxe variety from Aldi for $1.30; techinically it was shells'n'cheese - whatever, it was yummy! For extra cheesy shells'n'cheese I don't use all the noodles in the box. I always take out about 1/4 cup of the noodles and throw them in a noodle box I have in my cabinet.

The noodle box is where I throw macaroni, shells, rotini, etc. when I am not using all the noodles that come in a box. When I have enough I use them in my cold tuna salad or serve them with chili. My daughter thinks it is so silly to have different kinds of noodles together!

Happy eating!

5 comments:

  1. How cute, I love your noodle box idea. My family likes that mix too, I made sloppy joes totally from scratch once and NO ONE (but me) liked it. So it was back to the mix for me :)

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  2. I like that noodle idea; we have lots of bits and pieces, I'll call them, of noodles not needed for a recipe; I think I'll put them all together in some type of salad like you did with the tuna salad; that could be fun to eat :)

    I like sloppy joes but we haven't made them in ages, surprisingly the kids didn't like them :(

    I hope your dinner came out great!

    betty

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  3. I do that with noodles, too! I use them to add to soup or pasta salad.

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  4. Brilliant noodle box idea! I'm going to start doing that myself!

    My husband hates sloppy joes (boo!) but I make them for me when he's working nights - I make them very similar to yours!

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