My "Garbage" Pasta Salad

My good friend from back home makes an amazing pasta salad. I mean, I have many people's pasta salads, but I have never had one quite as good as Lesley's!!

So, I needed to make a dish for my son's Day Care picnic. I decided to try and recreate a pasta salad, almost as good as Lesley's... 

There is no real recipe involved. She told me what she uses in her pasta salad and I just added to fit my taste and likes!

When I made this it was made for a party so there was  whole lot!!! Unless you plan on entertaining, modify the recipe to fit your family's needs!!

INGREDIENTS: 

*  1 box of spiral noodles
*  1 large bottle of zesty/robusto italian dressing (I just used the kroger brand)
*  1 bag of turkey pepperoni (cut round pieces into 4s)
*  Grated Parmesan cheese
*  1 Container of cherry tomatoes (sliced in halves)
*  1 can of sliced black olives (optional - my husband doesn't like them so he picked them out)
* 1 green pepper (chopped)
* 1 red pepper (Lesley's recipe calls for this but I didn't use it) 
*  1 can of kidney beans (I used light red one for more color)
* 1 bag of sharp cheddar cheese cubes (clicked in halves)
*  1 small can of corn 

Cook the pasta as directed. While pasta is cooking cut your pepperoni, tomatoes, peppers, and cheese. Drain pasta and place in a large bowl. Drain and rinse the kidney beans, drain corn and olives. Place and stir items into the large bowl. Start adding the Italian dressing and sprinkle in the grated cheese. Start adding the fresh vegetables and adding dressing as needed. Keep adding the grated cheese! Just mix everything together.

I let the pasta salad sit over night. Stirred it probably once before I went to bed. Woke up the next morning stirred again. Before the picnic we were attending I added more Italian dressing since a lot of the liquid soaked into the past over night.