Go-To Cheap Meal - Veggied-up Spaghetti

Someone asked us what our go-to cheap meals were, given the current state of affairs that the Hollow. Well, over the years and the vet bills we've got a lot of experience eating on the cheap, and one of our go-to meals is a veggie heavy version of your typical spaghetti.

You need:
1/2 eggplant, chopped into cubes (freeze the other half for later)
1 zucchini - quartered and sliced
5 oz frozen onion- thawed
5 oz frozen green pepper - thawed
6 oz frozen okra- thawed
1 lb ground italian sausage

1 can Hunt's Spaghetti Sauce (your choice of flavor).
1 tbsp olive oil
8 oz spaghetti noodles - cooked
Frozen Garlic bread (8 count slices)

Fry the first 5 ingredients lightly in olive oil until almost cooked. Add the sausage. Cook until the sausage has browned. Add the spaghetti sauce.

Mix with the spaghetti noodles in a serving bowl.
Top with cheese if desired.
Toast 2 of the garlic bread slices for each person each meal.  

The total cost for this somewhat healthy meal (which will feed 2 adults for 4 meals depending on portion size) is about $11.24 total, or $2.81 a meal. Add some steamed broccoli on the side for about $2.50 and you can definitely stretch this out to 4 meals for 2 without hitting $4.00 a meal.