Keep it simple. Everyone likes spaghetti bol. Just get some prepared sauce from the supermarket pasta section. Cut up some onion & fry it together with your mince, add the sauce and you can't go wrong.

Add some garlic bread - there are some really nice ones in the fridge section of the supermarkets these days.

If you want to make it from scratch fry your onion and mince together with some italian herbs, add a bottle of passata and 2 tablespoons of tomato paste and cook away. You can add garlic as well if you like it.

I do both versions and they never fail to please.


You could also do home made pizza. Grab a pkt of frozen pizza crusts from the freezer section of your supermarket. Cover them in tomato paste, shredded ham, cheese and italian herbs. Add whatever else you like. You could do an aussie one if you add bacon and egg. Or add some canned pineapple to have a hawaiian one. The possibilities are endless.

For a simple lasagne you could grab a large can of spaghetti sauce with beef (there are a couple of different brands in the pasta sauce area in the supermarket) and a packet or two of lasagne and layer it alternately with the sauce and home made bechamel sauce. You finish off with bechamel sauce on top and sprinkle cheese and italian herbs on top. This is the way my mum made it (she always worked so had to have short cut recipes) and it is a family favorite. Even my ex used to say it was the best lasagne he'd ever had and he was constantly eating lasagne whenever we ate out.