Homemade Cheesy Beef-a-roni with Barilla! #ShareTheTable

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Barilla, but opinions are my own.
An amazing tomato meat sauce combines with elbow macaroni noodles along with layers of gooey cheddar cheese - get your family gathered around the table again!

I'm really proud to say that in our house, eating meals together around the table is the norm. I know it's hard, moms. Believe me, I know it's hard. Especially when you have a semi-picky eater and another one who makes a complete mess out of every meal. By the time dinner is done and cleaned up, sometimes I just want to go to bed - it's exhausting!

But it's so worth it. They're little now, Silas is still in preschool, but I know that in a few short years all four of us will be going in separate directions during the day. Heck, we already do! Getting together around the table is like coming back to home base. We can talk about what happened during the day, and just be goofy with each other.
I have to say, I'm super proud of all of you as well! Every single one of my most popular recipe posts on this blog are either big ol' casseroles, or hearty slow cooker meals. The kind of meals where you just have to sit around the table and enjoy together. Love it!!

Barilla has started a #ShareTheTable campaign to get families eating together again and I'm so excited to be a part of the movement! For every post on social media using the #ShareTheTable hashtag, Barilla will donate 10 meals to Feeding America, the nation's largest organization dedicated to fighting domestic hunger through a network of food banks, and Barilla supports that goal.


Homemade Cheesy Beef-a-roni
16 oz box Barilla Veggie elbow macaroni 1 lb ground beef 2 (15 oz) cans tomato sauce 2 teaspoons dried, minced onion 1 teaspoon basil 1 teaspoon thyme 1 teaspoon oregano 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (to taste) 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Cook macaroni in boiling water until done, about 6 minutes, drain. While pasta is cooking, brown ground beef in a large skillet, drain. Add beef back to the skillet and add in tomato sauce, onion, basil, thyme, oregano, and salt. Simmer for 10 minutes on medium-low heat. Taste sauce and add additional salt if needed. Add cooked macaroni to tomato sauce mixture, turning to coat well. Spread half of macaroni mixture in the bottom of a 4 quart baking dish. Sprinkle 1 cup cheddar over, then repeat layers with remaining macaroni and cheddar. Bake in 350 oven for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted and casserole is heated through.

Click here to view the Barilla Share The Table launch video, hopefully to inspire you to share the table with your own family! Do you have a favorite mealtime story to share with us? Be sure to use #ShareTheTable!

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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Barilla. For every post using #ShareTheTable from now until 4/30/14, Barilla will donate a monetary equivalent of ten meals ($1.11) to Feeding America®, up to 1 million meals. Barilla will donate a maximum of $110,000. One dollar helps provide 9 meals secured by Feeding America® on behalf of local member food banks.