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$8 MEAL IDEA SPINACH & ARTICHOKE PASTA
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$8 MEAL IDEA SPINACH & ARTICHOKE PASTA

This is what I made my family for lunch today. It’s one of my favorite appetizers. Spinach and artichoke dip, but turned into a pasta. And it only cost $8 to make. Let me show youall how to do it. Hey, so here’s what you’re going to need. Starting off, you’re going to need a box of pasta, whatever shape you like. I’m going to go ahead and pop that into my water cuz it’s boiling already. This is a 12 oz bag of frozen spinach chopped. No, I didn’t defrost it. No, I didn’t rinse it and drain it. No. Like, yeah, it’s going to give off some water, and that’s okay. We need that for our sauce. Turn that on and just just let it do its thing. Let it start to melt. Also, oven on 350. One can of artichoke hearts. Open it up. We’re going to drain it. Artichokes get chopped. Add them in. Black of cream cheese going in. Remember how I said don’t defrost the spinach cuz we’re going to need some of that liquid. I reserved about 3/4 of a cup of my starchy cooking water from my pasta. I’m going to pour that right over the cream cheese. A little piece of pasta. Get in there. Let this relax. Let this melt. For seasonings, we’re going to go super simple. Salt, pepper, and garlic powder. I always say in this meal series, I never account for the cost of those because it’s so minimal. Like a thing of garlic powder. A whole container of it might be like 80 cents at Aldi or Walmart. So, salt, pepper, and garlic. Now, the cream cheese is almost fully melted. I’m going to add in half of my 8 oz bag of mozzarella. It’ll look something like this. Carefully adding in my pasta. Adding this into a casserole dish. Also could have used a bigger one of these, too, but whatever. It works. Top it off with the remaining half of your mozzarella. All right, this is going in the oven at 350, just until the cheese is nice and bubbly. It just came out of the oven. As always, I will leave a grocery list right here of everything that you guys need to make this. We’ve got some lunch to eat. I will talk to you guys later. Bye.

31 Comments

  3. @Mommamel02

    THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ADDING THE INGREDIENTS AT THE END!!!!! SO HELPFUL AND IM DEFIANTLY MAKING THIS TONIGHT FOR DINNER!!!! ❤ MUCH LOVE & SUPPORT

  5. @janem3575

    I'm stunned at how much cheaper groceries are, where you are! even after exchange rate…

  7. @cgoodpaster

    I love and appreciate your details in the cooking process. Ex: spinach defrost or not defrost ❤❤❤

  8. @dianeduvall7895

    Made this tonight for myself, froze the other half for another time. Picky family is welcome to try but they get jar sauce for their pasta !

  9. @susanmcpeak7267

    My husband believes it is not a meal without meat. I was thinking of maybe adding some ground beef or italian sausage or get the fajita bag of precooked chicken ( or maybe steak 🤷‍♀️)
    What do you think that would work? 🤔💭
    @karissastevens

  14. @fawnebrown4619

    Just happened to be scrolling by and stopped to watch. So glad I did. This has to be one of the easiest meals to prepare and it's something I've never had before. Always looking for more dishes you don't need chicken, pork or beef to make, but could add if you want. Also, thanks for including the price breakdown.

  26. @erinmaxwell8133

    Instead of putting it in a casserole dish, you can add a large box of chicken broth and make soup.
    I always use fresh spinach though.