Pasta!

Growing up, I ate a lot of pasta, because it was easy to make, you boil noodles, pop open a jar of sauce and you're in business.

I have no jars of home made sauce anymore, mostly 'cause I moved across the country a little more than a month ago, but also because I can and do cook for myself. Someone asked me to try putting calories on this to keep track. Aside from the beef, this could be considered health food!

1 pot, 1 skillet.
1 clove, garlic - 98 calories (16 carbs)
2 bell peppers 64 calories
2 tsp sugar -16 calories
2 28oz(large) cans tomatoes one crushed, one diced - 160 calories
1/2 onion chopped - (one onion = 67 calories)  Some people like onions.
1 pound lean ground beef. - 864 calories.
1 teaspoon of olive oil to saute the veggies (100 cal)
A shot of beer  ? Varies.

Tomatoes, in the pot, spices, in the pot, a shot of beer in the pot. Low heat while you dice 1 clove garlic, and half an onion.
Sautee the bell pepper, onion in olive oil  with the garlic. Don't forget to stir the sauce.
Add the sauteed onion, bell pepper & garlic to the pot, keep stirring.
In the same skillet you just sauteed the veggies in, toss in the ground beef. let it soak up that garlic & onion goodness as you brown it.
Drain -some- of the grease off the beef, and add everything else to the pot.

Bring to a boil then down to a simmer for 45mins-3hrs depending.

I make open face Sloppy Joes on whole wheat toast, or make some noodles.

ProTip; That skillet you just used to brown the beef? While you're simmering your sauce in the pot.
Fill the skillet with cold water, and then set it on a medium flame. Take the amount of noodles you were planning anyway, and put in the skillet. Stir both.
When the water in the skillet is boiling your noodles should be done perfectly.

Now that I've moved, I'm cooking things on the weekend to eat as delicious lunch all week at work. This makes enough sauce for me to take a dose each day for 5 days for either noodles or sandwich. So you could say "5 servings". But we're bachelors. We don't pay attention to so much.