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The BEST Creamy Pasta Salad

June 1, 2017 by Stephanie Brubaker 12 Comments

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This is The BEST Creamy Pasta Salad ever, loaded with bacon and cheese! Our favorite side dish for spring and summer, and great for potlucks and cookouts!

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This is The BEST Creamy Pasta Salad ever, loaded with bacon and cheese! The perfect side dish for spring and summer, and great for potlucks and cookouts!

This creamy, cheesy, bacon-y pasta salad is our favorite! My kids are the ones who chose all the add-ins, so you know it’s kid approved! And as far as I know, anything with cheese, bacon, and pasta gets the thumbs up form everyone who likes delicious food! Perfect for your next cookout!

This is The BEST Creamy Pasta Salad ever, loaded with bacon and cheese! The perfect side dish for spring and summer, and great for potlucks and cookouts!

I am so excited for summer break! The school year is over and I get to have my girl home with the rest of my kiddos for the next couple months. I LOVE when we are all together. I think we should celebrate the start of summer vacation with a cook out! I’ll let my hubby take care of the steaks. He’s the grill master in the family – I don’t even know how to turn the thing on?? (I probably shouldn’t admit that…)

But I will take care of the sides, drinks, and dessert!

This is The BEST Creamy Pasta Salad ever, loaded with bacon and cheese! The perfect side dish for spring and summer, and great for potlucks and cookouts!

Ok, drinks! My kid’s new favorite is Tum-E Yummies. Have you tried it yet? It’s a fruit flavored water beverage. The favorite flavor seems to be Orange-arific with Greentastic Apple coming in a close second. The other 3 flavors are: Very Berry Blue, Fruitabulous Punch, and Sour-sational Raspberry.

All Tum-E Yummies flavors have 100% daily value vitamin C, B6, B12 and only 50 calories, 13g of sugar and no sodium! My kids love having their own bottle of juice in their favorite color.

All Tum-E Yummies flavors have 100% daily value vitamin C, B6, B12 and only 50 calories, 13g of sugar and no sodium! My kids love having their own bottle of juice in their favorite color. I am just happy they make these with spill-proof sport caps!! I know you moms out there are with me on this one! You can bring them in the car and not worry about juice spilling everywhere!

 

All Tum-E Yummies flavors have 100% daily value vitamin C, B6, B12 and only 50 calories, 13g of sugar and no sodium! My kids love having their own bottle of juice in their favorite color.

For the sides this Creamy Pasta Salad is an obvious choice! (side note: The day after we had this salad as a side to our meal, one of my boys wanted to eat it warm for dinner. I added chicken and heated it up and he loved it! So this can easily be the main dish too!)

We love making fruit kabobs for cookouts as well! The kids love anything on a stick, so we just run to the farmer’s market or grocery store and pick up the favorites. Currently strawberries, grapes, and cuties. Just peel the cuties and cut off the stems of the strawberries, then put them on a stick – or better yet, have your kids help with this part!

 

As for dessert I’m thinking Berry Cheesecake Fluff, or Fudgy Lemon Brownies, or Chocolate Oreo Cupcakes and Cookies and Cream Frosting! I’ll let the kids decide 🙂

Happy summer!!!

This is The BEST Creamy Pasta Salad ever, loaded with bacon and cheese! The perfect side dish for spring and summer, and great for potlucks and cookouts!

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This is The BEST Creamy Pasta Salad ever, loaded with bacon and cheese! The perfect side dish for spring and summer, and great for potlucks and cookouts!

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Comments

  1. Kelly @ Nosh and Nourish says

    June 5, 2017 at 4:22 pm

    It’s hard to go wrong with bacon and cheese! YUMMM.

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  2. Kimberly @ The Daring Gourmet says

    June 2, 2017 at 10:13 pm

    Pasta salad with bacon and cheese?? I’ll take a double portion, please!

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  3. Kim Beaulieu says

    June 2, 2017 at 9:52 pm

    This is one fabulous pasta salad. I’ve always wanted to try those Tum-E Yummies. Good to know they’re awesome.

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  4. Jessica says

    June 2, 2017 at 5:50 pm

    This pasta salad look so awesome! I’ll have to make it for my next picnic!

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  5. Catalina @ Peas & Peonies says

    June 2, 2017 at 11:16 am

    Pasta is always welcome in our house! During summertime I make often pasta salad! I need to try your recipe!

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  6. Erin @ The Speckled Palate says

    June 2, 2017 at 6:27 am

    Oh, you’re definitely speaking my language with this pasta salad! How can you go wrong with cheesy goodness, bacon and pasta?!?

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  7. Dee says

    June 1, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    What a delicious way to celebrate summer! I love having my kiddos home, too. 🙂

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  8. Amy @ Little Dairy on the Prairie says

    June 1, 2017 at 9:42 pm

    This pasta needs to be at my next gathering!

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  9. Lauren Kelly Nutrition says

    June 1, 2017 at 8:38 pm

    This salad looks fantastic! I will have to check out these Tum-e Yummies for my guys!

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  10. Dorothy at Shockingly Delicious says

    June 1, 2017 at 8:37 pm

    Bacon and cheese make everything better! This looks like it will become a family favorite around here!

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  11. Paula - bell'alimento says

    June 1, 2017 at 7:58 pm

    I love all kinds of pasta salads. So perfect for summer.

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  12. Kirsten/ComfortablyDomestic says

    June 1, 2017 at 3:38 pm

    That is definitely one pasta salad that I could get my kids to eat. You can’t go wrong with all of that bacon and cheese! I’ll have to keep an eye out for Tum-e Yummies. The flavors sound kid approved!

    Reply

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