Easy meat sauce

Prep time- 5 minutes
Cooking Time- 30 minutes
Feeds - as many as you want it to

Number of things that get dirty- 3
1 pot

Ingredients

as much ground beef as you want
8 oz tomato paste
1 cups of lemon lime or gingerail soda
2 tsp onion soup powder
2 bay leaves (if you have them)
1/3 C ketchup

break up ground beef and combine with other ingredients over high heat
stir thoroughly.
turn down to a simmer until meat is cooked through
Keep stirring periodically or it all sticks to the bottom.

Sheppards Pie

Prep time- 10 minutes
Cooking Time- 1/2 - 3/4 of an hour
Feeds 6

Number of things that get dirty- 3
mixing bowl
oven safe container (either steel or pyrex)
fork

Ingredients

1 lb ground beef
1/3 cup of ketchup
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1 tbl onion soup powder
2 C frozen peas and carrots
1 C frozen corn
2-3 cups instant mashed potatoes (flavoured if desired)
3 egg

mix ground meat, ketchup, onion soup bread crumbs and 2 eggs together until well mixed.
spread in bottom of pan
sprinkle on frozen vegetables
mix mashed potatoes according to instructions using remaining egg as part of the liquid required.
spread potato mixture on top of vegies and meat.

If you would like a nice smooth top use a piece of plastic wrap to press down the potato mixture.

Bake at 350* until juices from the meat run clear and the potatoes are golden brown.