Ragú® Recipe for a Good Start

Ragú® is teaming up with actress and mom Molly Ringwald to promote the Recipe for a Good Start Contest asking moms to share their recipes for a good start for a chance to win a $5,000 college scholarship. By visiting http://www.recipeforagoodstart.com/, you'll have a chance to submit your recipe for a good start in life and your original Ragú® recipe that has the family running to the dinner table! Three first prize winners will be awarded a family trip to New York City where they will compete in a nationally televised Ragú® Recipe Challenge for the chance to win the ultimate prize of a $5,000 college scholarship.

Ragú® offers moms hundreds of nutritious, convenient, delicious and affordable meal ideas- perfect for busy families on the go. From making sure the kids get their veggies (Ragú® red sauces contain more than a full serving of veggies in every half cup of sauce) to skip-a-step recipes like No Boiling Lasagna and No Frying Chicken Parmesan, Ragú® understands your hectic lifestyle and desire to feed your family quality meals at a great value.

I have been a Ragú® lover since I can remember. My favorite is/was their Super Vegetable Primavera Pasta Sauce. Huge zuccini chunks and other great veggies. Haven't been able to find it for about a year. Every grocery store I go to I try and find it. I love chunky Ragú® sauces! My 16 yr old on the other hand will only eat the Parmesan & Romano Pasta Sauce. I swear to you, these are our favorite sauces! I was thrilled to talk about my love for Ragú®. *grin*

Now, you'd think that I, being a lover of all things pasta, would have some fantastic recipe to submit. Well, you would be wrong. I'm a simple girl. Give me noodles and a boat load of Ragú® and I'm good to go. When I was a single mom in the mid 90s spaghetti was the staple in our house. I would literally eat it every day. My kids weren't forced to, but I loved it! I don't think my 18 yr old really ever recovered from the year of pasta!! We still have it at least once a week but my 16 yr old and I are the only ones who eat it with sauce. My 6 yr old only has butter and parmesan cheese. My 18 & 10 yr old prefer something else altogether. Well, that's more for us!

What about you? Do you have any fabulous recipes that include Ragú®? If so, head to http://www.recipeforagoodstart.com/ and enter it to win a $5000 college scholarship. Trust me, if you have a recipe, it's worth entering it! I have one daughter in college right now (cha-ching) and another one going in just over a year (double cha-ching). Even if you have a young child, $5000 is a fantastic amount for the future of your child. And hey, a trip to NYC would be a blast! Have faith in yourself and your recipe. Come on, you know you want to enter! Do it!!

To receive recipes and exclusive tips from Ragú®, go to http://www.ragu.com/

Disclosure: I was entered for a chance to win a Ragú® family package in exchange for this post. No monetary exchange took place. I'd also like to thank the people at MomSelect for sharing this information with me to pass on to you!