Veggie Spiraler

Along with exercising it's important to explore new healthy foods...eating healthy can be challenging because there is so much research about what is bad for you and what isn't. Then, someone disproves that research and everyone is back to square one...let me give you some examples:

Atkins diet...
South Beach Diet...
No Carbs Diet...
Kale fade...
Cauliflower rice...
or recently I've been hearing a lot about coconut oil?

These are just a few diet trends and fades that I can think of that either didn't make it or eventually became unfashionable.

I will never ever follow one of these diets strictly, but I will cut down on carbs a little if that has been proven and that is why we are not longer eating pasta one to two times a week.

I dearly DEARLY have missed it. I miss how full I feel after a bowl of pasta. I miss the garlic and herb spice and I think mostly I miss how easy it is to prepare.

Then, through social media I heard about something called a vegetable spiraler. This is a new fangled kitchen device that spirals veggies into noodle shapes and then you can cook them just like noodles! I know, right?!

I had to have it and so I went to the store and bought the cheapest one I could find, which was this one...hey I'm not made of money and I thought getting a manual one would allow me to burn more calories.

   

 

 I decided to spiral squash...since that's what we had in the house. Unfortunately, I didn't realize until too late that this green veggie spiraler is only supposed to be used for zucchini, carrots, radishes and cucumbers...so my squash noodles may not have turned out picture perfect, but it worked well enough.

Oh and for those wondering...no I didn't match the green bowl and spiraler on purpose. It was just a happy coincidence Green isn't even my favorite color, the spiraler just happened to come in green and the bowl came from the dollar section at Target (um..yea...total score there).

After spiraling the veggies, the next step was to boil them just like noodles. It was all as simple as spaghetti...but of course the next step was to taste it!

I put some on my plate and even though I offered to make real spaghetti for my fiance he agreed to try it as well, however he did wait until we were both served and I tried the first bite of this food adventure...

I tried it and you know what? I LOVED it!

One of the things I missed most about having pasta or spaghetti is how full I felt after eating a big plate of it. With this squash-ghetti substitute I was full after just a few spoonfuls. It was more filling than spaghetti!

I think the veggie spiraler is something I will be using on a regular basis. I plan is for my next adventure with it to be with zucchini...and possibly carrots.