The Easiest, Best Pasta Dish Ever

This pasta dinner is sooooo delicious. Any time I see fresh asparagus on sale, we have this.

Ingredients:

One box of pasta (your choice, we usually use spirals or penne), $1
One package of bacon, $4 (you could easily only use half the package)
One or two bunches of asparagus ($2-$5)

Cook the pasta as directed. Fry the bacon. You can either cut it up before cooking, or cook it first and crumble it. I usually cut it first because I haven't thought to start the bacon cooking ahead and I don't like working with hot bacon. Break the asparagus into thirds or fourths. I usually throw away the bottoms of the stems, not sure if that is necessary or not. Once the bacon is done cooking, put the asparagus in the pan with the bacon to cook. When the asparagus is ready, dump in the pasta and stir it all up. This makes a lot, especially if you used 2 bunches of asparagus. Tonight we had this with some salad, but many times we eat it alone. The kids all 3 give it a thumbs up.