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I don’t know about you’re home, but at our house we eat a decent amount of pasta.  Pasta meals are usually pretty easy, and they’re such a crowd pleaser (although Nick goes back and forth with it).  I was pretty excited when I was asked to review Fun Pasta. It sounded so like so much fun.  Yep, the name really fits.

Until I was asked to review Fun Pasta I’d never heard of a company like it.  Not only are there a ton of fun pasta packages to choose from, but there are pasta food kits too.  How great is chicken noodle soup made with chicken pasta?!  One thing that I really like about Fun Pasta is that they work with groups as a fundraising source.  How many times have you had a fund raising campaign, or had people ask you to buy from theirs, and it’s for stuff you don’t want.  I remember doing band fundraising and always selling chocolate.  Yeah chocolate is great, but do you really want to waste a bunch of your money on it?  Pasta on the other hand is great because most families buy a lot of pasta, so you can help raise money for an organization you like and you’ve got your pasta shopping done.  How great is that?

I was blown away by all of the types of Fun Pasta that was sent for us to try.  The offer such pasta shapes as Collegiate teams, animals, seasonal, and more.  The shapes for all of the different themes are so cute and fun, and each bag has plenty of pasta to work with.  Plus they all came with different recipes to help inspire new and fun ways to make pasta dishes.  I’m sure we’ll try some of those ideas out later, but for my first use of the Fun Pasta I decided to go with a family favorite…home made mac & cheese, and in honor of the upcoming season I decided to use the bag of Halloween shapes.

We made the mac & cheese for a family night that included Nick, my mother, my grandparents, my brother, and myself.  At first we weren’t sure if the Halloween bag would be enough pasta, but we needn’t have worried.  There was plenty of pasta, and the pieces are thick so they’re very filling.  There was even enough pasta for me to have leftovers on another night!  I love that I was able to make the mac & cheese with fun shapes.  Kids are always wanting to get the boxes of fun shaped mac & cheese, but making it yourself is much healthier.  With Fun Pasta your kids get the fun shapes they love, and you know exactly what you are serving them.

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Fun Pasta And Home Made Mac & Cheese

5.0 Stars (1 Review)

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Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cups Fun Pasta (or macaroni)
• 1 16oz block of Colby-Jack cheese
• Milk

Instructions

1. Boil pasta until tender (approximately 12 minutes)
2. Pour macaroni into a large bowl that can go in the oven.
3. Pour all of the cheese into the bowl and mix it together with the macaroni
4. Pour milk into the bowl. Continue to add milk until it has reached the top of the macaroni.
5. Bake at 350 for 45-60 minutes until the top is golden and crispy

Disclaimer: I received a free box of Fun Pasta in order to facilitate my review.  I was not compensated in any other way and all opinions are entirely my own.