Spaghetti pot 300x199 Frugal dinner recipe: hearty spaghetti sauce with turkey and carrots

Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of MY spaghetti, so this will have to do.

One of my favorite frugal dinners is my sister’s hearty spaghetti sauce, which uses ground turkey instead of beef and carrots instead of sugar. A batch of this sauce, which feeds a hungry family of five or two with leftovers, costs about $5.65, plus another dollar to serve over pasta.

Ingredients

1 lb ground turkey, $3 (try to get one sale for $2)

1-2 T olive oil

1 onion, chopped small $.50 (more…)

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