Homemade Spaghettios

Yup, that's what I mean-homemade spaghettios-those nasty fake pasta things in a can that are actually quite gross.  My kids LOVE them and I don't buy them anymore.  I only ever bought them a few times on sale or they had them at their Grandmas house with other cousins that loved them.  So it was my sons night to help me make dinner.  He wanted to make spaghettios-so I went on a search for a recipe.  I found several and liked 2 recipes-things from both.  So I came up with my own and. . . it was delicious!  I not only had seconds, but third helpings (we must realize that my first helping was very small in anticipation that I wouldn't care for this meal).  We also didn't use little round "o"  pasta, but instead found this alphabet letters pasta at Winco-likely intended for soups because it is very small in size, but it worked out great actually, I mean how can you go wrong with a meal made for kids and alphabet letters?

Homemade Spaghettios
15 oz can tomato sauce
1/2 can of water (using the tomato sauce can-rinsing out all the tomato while adding the water)
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder (or 2 minced garlic cloves)
1/4 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp chili powder (or red pepper flakes)
2 tsp oregano
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1/4-1/2 tsp pepper
1 TBLS butter
1 can V-8 (totally optional-just to add more nutrition and good flavor-I only did this when I re-heated the leftovers and it was delicious)
1-2 cups cheese (whatever kinds you want to use-I used about 1/4 cup parmesaen (the real kind that you actually grate, you could use the other kind, but it will be grainy), and 1 1/2 cups mozzerella because I had some I needed to use) 
1-1 1/2 cups dry pasta (cook while making the sauce)

Mix all the ingredients except cheese and pasta together.  If you don't have all the ingredients, you are probably fine-it will likely taste better than the canned stuff no matter what.  The sauce should taste strong to you because once you add the pasta it will tone down the flavor quite a bit.
While sauce is heating up, cook dry pasta according to package directions.  Bring tomato mixture to a simmer and then slowly add cheese.  Add cooked pasta until desired amount (we like a lot of pasta-so if you want it more saucy, probably stick with 1 cup of pasta).  Serve and enjoy!