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Create a Well-Balanced Plate with Stouffer’s and Kid Friendly Sides

This post is in collaboration with Balance Your Plate and Stouffer’s.
As part of the collaboration, I received product and incentives in exchange for participating in the program.

With the holiday season quickly approaching and our schedules filling up, we have had some difficulties with menu planning and actually having real meals, as a family.

When it comes to mealtime in our home, we do our best to make sure that our meals are well-balanced. Since we don’t always have the time to throw together a complete, well-balanced meal from scratch so we do have to get creative and come up with other options.

On those days of complete chaos and no time to throw a meal together, I am thankful that our family can turn to Stouffer’s and their Lasagna with Meat & Sauce made with premium ingredients, along with some quick, kid-friendly sides. Not only is this meal great for those hectic days, it is also perfect for holidays and entertaining.

Stouffer’s Lasagna with meat & sauce contains freshly made pasta layered between a rich meat sauce and topped with real mozzarella cheese and boasts 16 grams of protein per serving! Once you add in some delicious fruit kabobs, garlic bread, and a simple Caesar salad, and you have a well balanced meal on your plate.

Stouffer’s lasagna comes in a family size, and is made the way you would imagine, just pop it into the oven, pair it with these simple sides to balance your plate, and serve!

 

Fruit Kabobs

Fruit kabobs are so easy to make that even the kids can create them. For our kabobs, we used wooded skewers and fresh raspberries, grapes, and blueberries, as well as mini-marshmallows. Before you place items on your skewers, make sure that all of your fruit is clean.

When you start your kabob, you will want to place a marshmallow on the skewer first to ensure all of your fruit stays on. After that, layer fruit as you wish, add a marshmallow here and there, and finish wish a marshmallow to make sure nothing falls off.

The great thing is that making fruit kabobs takes less than 15 minutes from start to finish.

Caesar Side Salad

For our Caesar salad, the kids just tossed some romaine lettuce along with Parmesan cheese, croutons, and Caesar dressing in a bowl to properly distribute items and then we served it on the side. 

 

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Everything Is #Saucesome with Ragú ® + Recipe

Sitting down for dinner as a family of 7 is not something that happens a lot around here. There are many nights when someone is missing and our family mealtime isn’t quite complete. When we do have the chance to enjoy a meal together we do whatever it takes to make it great!

Over the weekend, we actually had the chance to sit down together a have a meal as a family and it was the best!

My crazy clan waiting for dinner.

We love to put together meals that everyone enjoys but also meals that don’t require a lot of prep work or a lot of dirty dishes.  Our meal for this family dinner was our take on the No-Boiling Lasagna recipe from Ragú®. Not only was dinner saucesome but being with all of my kids and my husband made it even saucesome-ier!

Ragú® is recognizing and celebrating everything that makes family mealtime Saucesome. From unique recipes to silly moments to crazy weeknights…it’s all Saucesome with the delicious help of Ragú® Sauce!

Our Take on a Ragú® Classic Recipe

Often time we stumble upon recipes that we know that everyone will enjoy but I’m always looking for a way to change them up and sneak protein and veggies in so I know the kids are getting everything they need.  We took the Ragú® no-boiling lasagna recipe and made it our own by adding 93% lean beef and spinach to it. The kids, actually all of us, couldn’t get enough of it. It was absolutely delicious! Ragú® Old World Style Traditional Sauce has a delicious taste your whole family will love

Make Your Own Meaty Cheesy Spinach {No Boil} Lasagna

All you need to make this delicious lasagna is:

  • 2 – 1lb. 8oz  jars of your favorite Ragú® Sauce (We used the Old World Style Traditional Sauce).
  • 2 containers (15 oz. ea.) ricotta cheese
  • 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese, divided
  • 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese, divided
  • 2 eggs 
  • 12 uncooked no-boil lasagna noodles
  • 5oz. bag of spinach
  • 1lb. lean ground beef (or other ground protein).

It’s simple to prep and make this lasagna and takes less than 15 minutes from start until it hits the oven.

Prep, cook and layer as pictured above and once you are done layer, top it with cheese and pop it in the oven at 375° for 1 hour.

Once your lasagna is baked, let it cool, cut and serve!

What Makes Our Mealtime Saucesome?

Aside for a delicious meal that everyone enjoys, our mealtime is made saucesome just by being together as a family, having fun, eat and laughing and just enjoying each other’s company.

They may be crazy, but they are my crazy family and I love each and every one of them!

Win Saucesome Prizes

Be sure to visit www.RaguSweeps.com for a chance to win a variety of Saucesome prizes, including a grand prize of $12,000 towards a Saucesome kitchen makeover!

Connect

Be sure to connect with Ragú® on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.

What do you do to make your mealtime time saucesome?

Quick Lasagna Casserole

This recipe is a creation of the Alex’s and is definitely a family favorite in our home!

Ingredients
-1lb ground beef or turkey
-26-32oz of spaghetti sauce ( we like to use a mixture of our favorite Ragu sauces).
-1/2cup chopped yellow onion
-4oz canned or fresh mushrooms
-8oz shredded Italian cheese blend
-12oz mafalda pasta
-garlic salt

 

Directions
1.Brown hamburger with mushrooms and onions. Lightly season with garlic salt.
2.Drain grease, add sauce.
3.Add cooked mafalda pasta and stir.
4.Mix in 6oz of cheese and save the remainder to garnish!

ENJOY!