In college we would make pasta with spinach, tomato sauce and ricotta all the time. Yummy, cheap, easy and feeds a ton of people.

Take a big pot, boil water in it, add a box of pasta (any kind will work) and cook according to directions. In the last four minutes of boiling, add a box of frozen spinach. After that, microwave a big bowl of pasta sauce. When the pasta/spinach is done, drain it all in a colander/with the lid of the pot, add the tomato sauce, and then add about half a container of part-skim ricotta and then mix it all together - the hot pasta/sauce will melt the ricotta until it turns everything into a creamy tomato sauce. If you're feeling fancy, throw some parmesan cheese on top.

You wind up with something that tastes just like lasagna, is reasonably healthy, and very quick and easy! And for some reason, easy as it is, people are always impressed with this.

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