a sort of hamburger helper kind of experience

I love all the qualifiers in this statement. Also the idea of a Hamburger Helper Experience is cracking me up. :D

I've always been really happy with Tinkyada brown rice pastas. The spiral is my favorite. It has no soy ingredients, and the English on their packaging (and website!) sounds like it was ran through Google Translate and back again, twice, but in an endearing way.