Ragu spaghetti sauce put out a blogher luncheon for us at Blogher 2009 that was absolutely brilliantly beautiful!! They had wonderful food like chicken margherita, upsidedown pizza, Pasta Margherita, Baked Rigatoni, along with a spetacular array of just desserts.

I had a chance to meet the creator of all of these fantastic quick and frugal recipes as well. It was wonderful to meet the lady behind the food. She said that her son loves to make the upsidedown pizza even while away at college, and I totally understnad why! It was FABULOUSLY DELISH!

All of the recipes were created using Ragu sauce. Which is my absolutely #1 favorite. This is what my mom always cooked with at home, and now is pretty much all I will use as well.

Not only was the food great, but they had out of this world centerpieces on the tables. They made flowers out of garlic bulbs and other vegetables.

But the GRAND DADDY of all was a HUGE jar of Ragu Sauce created out of vegetables! It was so fantastic. I couldn’t believe my eyes at how huge it was and when I noticed it was all made of vegetables, that just blew me away!Even the words were cut vegetables like green peppers and onions!

They really went all out for us, and they did a tremendous job! I cannot even imagine the hours of planning and work that went into this event for us bloggers. This was the most fantastic meal for lunch I think I ever have had!

Here is some more facts about RAGU:

• In the last year Ragu has delivered over 900 million servings of vegetables. That’s enough tomatoes to cover nearly 100 football fields!
• Ragu provides a full serving of vegetables in every 1/2 cup of sauce.
• Women spend an average of 40 minutes cooking dinner on a typical week day (12 minutes more than their ideal time).
• Visit Ragu.com for 75 ways to cook chicken in 30 minutes or less!
• 8.6 percent of all home-prepared meals are Italian (served more frequently than Asian & Mexican meals combined).
• Ragu has a portfolio of more than 30 great -tasting sauces.
• 8 in 10 women try to save money by preparing meals at home.
• Ragu provides tasty recipe ideas for less than $3 per serving.

I will be posting the Ragu recipes that we tried in a series of 4 blog posts that will follow. You will want to try them out because they are very delish!!!

Also, if you have a meal that uses RAGU Sauce please share it with us as well. Just leave a comment with it, or if you would like to do a guest post about it please email me (xbeth@yahoo.com) and I will post it with your name as you sent it in to share it with us!! THANK YOU.

The Plus Size Mommy