Pasta salads

Cold or warm pasta salads, what are your favs? Please post your recipe.

Looking for SIMPLE and Easy to whip up recipes, please. lol And on the healthy margin to.  

These are going to be for my kids school lunches, and easy meals for my 11 month old as well as my moms work lunch ( I make her lunch too) lol

I usually do a bowtie spinach and fetta cheese salad with a greek salad dressing, but its getting old.

Thanks all.

im a sucker for



and then i add extra stuff in there to make it more than just noodles

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  and the ranch one.   mmmm

Pasta
EVOO Greek Vinaigrette (Kraft salad dressing)
Olives, chopped, 2 cans (the small ones)
3 cucumbers, peeled and chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 package feta cheese

Then sometimes I'll add some sort of meat, either chicken or salami and what not.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Juliette:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting ×ø×K·ßear×ø×:</b>" im a sucker for and then i add extra stuff ... [snip!] ... and then i add extra stuff in there to make it more than just noodles"</blockquote>   and the ranch one.   mmmm"</blockquote>


  those are good hot or cold.

My all time favorite is a simple Spaghetti salad. (and it's fun for kids)
We use angel hair pasta
home made italian or vinegarette dressing
chunked pepperoni (or salami or any meat really)
tomatoes, black olives, green olives, onions, celery,cucumbers,(pretty much any vegetable you want) grated parmeason cheese, chuncks of your favorite cheese (we use sharp cheddar for a zing) and mix it all together. and WALA...

Quoting ×ø×K·ßear×ø×:" im a sucker for and then i add extra stuff in there to make it more than just noodles"

Im in Ontario, we dont have that.

<blockquote><b>Quoting crazy coupon lady:</b>" Im in Ontario, we dont have that."</blockquote>




  I shall ship you some! You are missing out. I'm sure you could make it pretty easy from scratch though if you Google it.

Quoting Mother of One plus One:" <blockquote><b>Quoting crazy coupon lady:</b>" Im in Ontario, we dont have that."</blockquote> ... [snip!] ... I shall ship you some! You are missing out. I'm sure you could make it pretty easy from scratch though if you Google it."

LoL I dont know. I usually dont eat anything out of a box. Kids eat homemade kraft dinner and homemade hamburger helper etc......Im not a health junkie or anything, I just prefer homemade foods lol they taste better. lol

But it does look good. lol I 'll try googling it, thanks.

Herevis one recipe unfounded for the Bacon ranch

http://www.justapinch.com/recipes/main-course/pasta/homemade-suddenly-salad-bacon-ranch.html

Cold

tri color rotini
Black olives
Capicola cut into cubes
Mozzerella cut into cubes
Peperoni cut into cubes
Ham cut into cubes
Cherry tomatoes
Zesty italian dressing

Get all meats cut about a half inch thick and 2 slices each and cheese same way
cut into cubes, slice olive and cherry tomatoes in half add all to cool rinsed 1lbs of tri color rotini and add zesty italian. AMAZING!

This is what it looks like when done!