1) Brown beef, onions, peppers, sausage and Italian seasoning. 2) Drain well. 3) Put in stock pot, add mushrooms, sauce, tomatoes, tomato paste, and remaining seasoning, simmer for a long, long time. 4) Freeze in freezer bags (put 3, 4 or 5 cups sauce per bag). 5) ***I?vefound that Hunt?s works great. 6) It is cheaper than some of the others and it made the best sauce ever. 7) I used the roasted garlic variety mostly and one of the others but I can?t remember which one. 8) I think that any of them would give similar results. 9) I?ve also used plain tomato sauce and increased my seasoning ? but the Hunt?s turned out the tastiest. 10) ***You can substitute pan sausage for the Italian sausage and increase the Italian seasoning with little change in taste. 11) When I do this I usually use Jimmy Dean?s.