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Meal Plan Tuesday 9/20: Italian Sausage Spaghetti!!!


Tuesday September 20th: Italian Sausage Speghetti 

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups Italian Sausage
  • 1 lb spaghetti noodles
  • 1/2 cup finely diced onion
  • 4 cloves finely diced garlic
  • 1/2 cup finely diced sweet colored peppers (optional)
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh Sweet Basil
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh Cilantro
  • 2 cans Italian Tomatoes or 1 jar of pasta sauce (your choice)
  • 2 tbsp Brown Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
  • Salt and pepper
  • Garlic powder

Directions:

  1. In an extra large pot bring water to a boil. Once boiling add spaghetti noodles to the water and add a pinch of salt. Boil until noodles are tender.
  2. Add olive oil to a large saute pan or Dutch oven and heat. Place chopped Italian Sausage in pan and cook until evening browned.
  3. Remove Sausage from pan and add a dab more olive oil to the drippings in the pan. Add onion, garlic, and sweet peppers, season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, cilantro and sweet basil; saute until tender.
  4. Add Italian tomatoes or jar of pasta sauce, brown sugar and balsamic vinegar and simmer for approximately 15 minutes.
  5. Serve with fresh grated parmigiana cheese :)
Prep Time: 15 min       Cook Time: 30 min      Difficulty: Medium

Shopping List:
  •  Johnsonville Italian Sausage (Albertsons or Safeway $3.49 and use $1/1 Johnsonville Brat or Italian Burger printable or $1/1 Johnsonville Brat or Italian Burger printable or $0.50/1 Johnsonville Sausage SS 9/18…Final Cost: $2.49)
  • Barilla Spaghetti noodles (Fred Meyer, use $0.55/1 Barilla Whole Grain Pasta SS 9/18, Buy (3) @ $1.00/each and Receive a $2.00 Catalina…FREE + $0.65 MM)
  • Garlic
  • Onion (Fred Meyer, $0.39/lb)
  • Colored Sweet Peppers (Albertsons $1.99/each)
  • Cilantro
  • Sweet Basil
  • Italian Tomatoes/pasta sauce (Stockpile item or Safeway Prego Pasta Sauce, $1.29 and use $0.75/2 Prego Sauce, exp. 11/15/11 (SS 09/11/11)…Final Cost: $0.92 each)

Approximate cost for meal: $5.50 (depending on what is in your current stockpile and your current catalinas/coupons you have to use!)  

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