Easy Beef Stew

Many of my favorite Easy Meals I have gotten from my mother in law.  She just knows how to cook well, and fast.  That's what happens when you have 5 boys!

Easy Beef Stew

1 lb beef stew meat
1 jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce
2 cups water
3 potatos, cubed
2 - 3 carrots, sliced
3 bay leaves
optional: 1 packet of onion soup mix

Brown the stew meat in the onion soup mix, or I even just brown it in salt with chopped onions, or just plain old onion salt.  (that's the easy part - use whatever you have that day!) Pour in the spaghetti sauce and water, then simmer for 20 minutes.  Add your potatos, carrots and bay leaves and simmer another 20 minutes, or until the potatos are soft.  You can let this sit on low on your stove top all afternoon or evening.  We love to eat it over rice - Hawaiian style.  (more hawaiian style, put a little bit of hot sauce on top.)  p.s. make sure you don't eat the bay leaves.  Yuk.