Cheeseburger Pasta Casserole -- Easy Weeknight Budget Dinner Meal

Cheeseburger Pasta Casserole -- Easy Weeknight Budget Dinner Meal

Cheeseburger Pasta Casserole
Ingredients
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 (1lb) box small pasta shells
• 2 (10.5oz) cans tomato soup
• 1/2 cup water
• 3 cups shredded cheese (cheddar or a combination)
• seasoning to taste (I use salt, pepper, & garlic powder)

Instructions
• Preheat oven to 375° F and grease a 9x13 baking dish.
• Cook the pasta according to the package instructions, drain, and set aside.
• While the pasta is cooking, brown the beef in a large pan over medium heat until no longer pink. Remove any excess grease and season the meat with salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, etc.
• Add the cooked pasta, both cans of soup, 1/2 cup water, and HALF of the shredded cheese to the pan and combine well with the ground beef. At this point, you can do a taste test and see if you'd like to add more seasoning.
• Spread the mixture out into your prepared baking dish and then top with the rest of the shredded cheese.
• Cover with foil and bake in the center rack of your oven for 20 minutes. Remove the foil and continue baking for 10-15 minutes or until the cheese starts to brown.
• Serve and Enjoy !!

This is the full recipe. We made this using ½ of all the ingredients except the ground beef. We also added some frozen onions and peppers to the recipe. Marie said that she would like it better with smaller noodles instead of the big shells pasta.