Budget Bytes's spinach ricotta pasta is both easy and cheap

Beth uses frozen spinach here for cost-effectiveness, and explains how squeezing the water out of the thawing spinach is important for the sauce to stick to the pasta later. Of course, you may use fresh spinach if you're not as strapped.

The second potential alteration you can consider concerns the pasta. Beth's choice of fettuccine makes for a delicious meal, but the length of the pasta can make it difficult for spinach and other ingredients to be correctly integrated into it. Beth made the bold choice to cut her noodles in half to allow for a more well-blended dish, but you're free to resort to a smaller type of pasta instead. 

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