Slow Cooker Beef & Cheese Pasta

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The funny thing about blogging about crockpot meals is that my family doesn’t get to eat the same meal twice very often. I mean, we do go back and repeat things, but I’m always so eager to try new things, that we often don’t get around to eating a favorite until months later. My poor family.

That is happening with this meal. Apparently, it’s one of my best slow cooker meals. At least, according to my oldest daughter. Tonight, I was working on editing the photo I took of the meal and my daughter walked by and said, “When can we eat that again?” Well…I wasn’t exactly planning to eat it next week, but…. now I am. All of my kids LOVED it! Did you notice it has spinach in it? Yeah, my kids didn’t really even notice that. They just enjoyed the taste too much. So… since they love it, I’m gonna do it again soon. 🙂 They’ll be so happy! Now, how about you? Are you ready to try it?

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Slow Cooker Beef & Cheese Pasta

Apparently, I'm a pretty good cook, at least that's what my kids say when I make this simple pasta dish. My kids love it, AND get their veggies in!

Course Main Course, Slow Cooker

Cuisine American

Keyword Slow Cooker Beef and Cheese Pasta

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 3 hours

Total Time 3 hours 10 minutes

Servings

Calories 856kcal

Author Sarah Robinson

Ingredients

2 pounds of cooked ground beef drained and rinsed
1 medium onion diced
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 26 oz jar of spaghetti sauce
1 15 oz can stewed tomatoes
1 tsp basil
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp Italian seasoning
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 Bouillon cubes
3 cups of fresh spinach
16 oz box of penne noodles or your favorite kind, cooked al dente
1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
1 1/2 cups Mozzarella cheese shredded

Instructions

Place all ingredients in slow cooker, except pasta, spinach, Parmesan and mozzarella cheese.
Stir to mix well.
Cook on low for 6 hours or on high for 3.
Add pasta, parmesan cheese and spinach and cook for another 30 minutes.
Top with mozzarella cheese and serve.

Freezer to Slow Cooker Instructions:

Brown the 2 pounds of ground beef, drain it and rinse it to get any excess grease off.
Chop onion
Place cooked ground beef, onion, garlic, spaghetti sauce, stewed tomatoes, spices, Worcestershire sauce, and bouillon cubes in the gallon sized freezer safe bag.
Label & Lay flat to freeze.

Nutrition

Calories: 856kcal | Carbohydrates: 73g | Protein: 49g | Fat: 41g | Saturated Fat: 17g | Cholesterol: 137mg | Sodium: 1631mg | Potassium: 1343mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 2350IU | Vitamin C: 21mg | Calcium: 354mg | Iron: 7mg

This recipe is now available in a printable one week menu. Freezer to Slow Cooker, Week 12 has published! In it you will find the following recipes:

Mexican Chicken Nachos

Beef & Cheese Pasta

Herbed Roast and Gravy

Greek Chicken

Lasagna Soup

Kansas Swiss Steak

This weekly menu comes with 6 recipes, assembly instructions, shopping list and labels you can cut out and tape onto your freezer bag. Purchase the menu by going here:

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Amorette DavisUser of the Free Freezer to Slow Cooker One Week Menu
Thank you so much! As a special needs mommy these recipes have helped us so much. I often am very busy with being a nurse for our child that I don't have time for making sure we get meals. This allows me to do all my prep on the weekends, while my husband is home to help, and to cook during the week. So grateful!
Linda SearsOwner of Freezer to Slow Cooker Menus
Sarah’s Freezer to Slow Cooker ebooks have been a fantastic addition to my meal plans. They make meal planning easy and my family happy. I love the way each recipe is laid out, with a shopping list and ingredient prep list, along with cooking instructions. Sarah’s done all the hard work for me! The recipes have used have all been delicious and easily adaptable to my family’s taste and the number of people I’m serving.
FranOwner of Freezer to Slow Cooker Ebooks
I purchased all of your freezer to slow cooker ebooks a month or so ago and I'm in love with this way of cooking. I now have taken all 10 weeks of recipes and written them of my menu planner and then I repeated the 10 weeks and will continue to do so throughout the year. My family of 5 adults and 1 child enjoy the meals that you have planned and I have cooked and I'm excited that the next time when that meal comes due up in the rotation I won't have to purchase anything but just pull it from the freezer. Thank you so much

A Happy Slow Cooker User
rayzn2angelsfrom Freezer to Slow Cooker Series
This makes my life so much easier. I'm a busy work at home/stay at home mom, wife, business woman and I feel like dinner is always the thing I just never get time to do. We have done like 15 of the crockpot recipes from Sarah and they are all very yummy. They get a thumbs up from my husband and kids every time. And there is always enough for my husband to take the left overs at least 2x per recipe. I have a family of 5, 2 adults, 21, 13, 16. So it makes plenty. Thank you Sarah.
Dawn S.Buyer of Freezer to Slow Cooker Ebook Series
I am a 59-year-old wife and mother of two grown children. I love your idea of fixing a lot of meals ahead of time and then pulling one out, put it in the crockpot, and you have dinner when you get home. I hate feeling rushed when I cook so Monday - Friday I use those crockpot meals and make enough that we have lunch the next day. I take Sunday afternoon, fix up what I need for the week (I don't have a lot of freezer space so I do a week's worth at a time) and I'm done with it! Saturdays I like to try new recipes from some of my cookbooks which I am finding I can freeze as well! So you have shown me a whole new way to organize my time and still put a healthy meal on the table. Thanks so much and I look forward to future blogs.