Pantry Pasta Salad

Note: I used to buy those boxed pasta salad mixes, but then realized one night that I could make a huge batch really inexpensively. The boys love just grabbing whatever we have in the pantry and making something new everytime which is how we came up with the name.



Pantry Pasta Salad



Ingredients:

1 box garden rotini

Your choice (use as many or as little as you like):

1 can of sliced olives

1 can of shoe peg corn

1 can of black beans

1 can of mixed vegetables

Fresh garden vegetables - tomatoes, zucchini, cucumber, squash, etc...

Meat of your choice - shredded chicken, tuna, taco meat (whatever leftovers you may have or nothing at all)



Seasoning:

1 pkg. Hidden Valley ranch seasoning mix

1/2 cup oil

1/2 cup vinegar



Directions:

Stir ingredients for seasoning together and refrigerate. Boil rotini noodles and drain. Add your choice of pasta ingredients. Pour seasoning mix over pasta salad and toss. Serve or refrigerator until ready to serve.