stuffed pasta (freezer stock)

Family pack of ground meat

2 cans of pasta sauce

Celery

Onion

Green pepper

Salt

Pepper

Italian seasoning

Garlic

1 1\2 cups bread crumbs

3 packages of Canelloni noodles

Or manicotti noodles or large shells

1 family size brick shredded cheese

Foil pans with lids (YOUR family meal size)

Ziploc bags those pans fit into.

In a food processor 

Chop celery onion and green pepper

or chop by hand to fine pieces.

Add 4 seasonings and bread crumbs.

To ground meat 

Add 1\3 cup of pasta sauce

And mixture you made.

Mix well.

Boil pasta in small batches

To avoid breakage

Only to non rigid state

Then scoop out to cool on a clean towel.

Place cooled to touch pasta 

into a large bowl of water

To stop stickiness.

Pour small amount of pasta sauce

Into foil pans to prevent sticking when baking.

Using the meat mixture,

Make hot dog shaped meat mixtures

And stuff into shells, filling from end to end.

Place into pans in batches that make sense

To feeding you family.

Cover the batches in sauce

And shredded cheese.

Apply lids and then fit into Ziploc bags.

Bake from frozen for 1 hour at 350.

This recipe made about 40-50 shells.

I do not use these alone as a meal.

I serve these ON pasta with garlic bread 

and a huge salad.

"Bon Appetit!"