re: What's an easy pasta to make ?

Assuming you mean pasta sauce/topping, and not actual pasta noodles made from scratch, I'm gonna defend jarred red sauces as being not too bad, if you buy good ones.
--cheap and tasty: Newman's Own brand marinara
--more expensive but tasty: Rao's silician style or Sal & Judy's
Bottled red sauce with some turkey meatballs, or browned ground turkey, is pretty tasty in my book. Top it with some freshly grated Romano or Parmesan....again, even my rural WalMart carries those cheeses.

IIRC, you're trying to eat healthy. Look for the Barilla Protein Plus pasta in the yellow box. It's a multigrain pasta w/added protein that tastes like "regular" white flour pasta. Use the Protein Plus pasta, toss a few handsful of fresh chopped baby spinach into the red sauce, and you've got a vegetarian meal that's fairly balanced w/plenty of protein.