Ah, delicious spaghetti... squash! (see my correct use of an ellipse?!) Yessirie, this here is not a plate with spaghetti noodles, it is a plate with a squash noodle substitute. Not only is it healthier, but it also is really good tasting and easy to make. It has half as much calories or something like that, which is prettty awesome. The meal also doesn't feel as heavy in your stomach as normal noodles do. My friend's uncle has a garden and grows different fruits+vegetables, and had a LOT of leftover stuff. So, my friend got some and gave it to me!! I was a bit worried that it wouldn't taste too good, but she said it was a delicious alternative to spaghetti noodles. I've been trying to eat healthier and whatnot, so I thought I would give this a try.
To go with the 'pasta', I have some boiled+seasoned green beans with a chunk of lightly buttered fancy bread (it's just some french bread-thing, but it's fancy to me). The squash just has some simple vegetable chunk spaghetti sauce, with parmesan sprinkled on top. Since squash is so closely related to the pumpkin, this spaghetti does has a bit of a pumpkin taste. It also really smells like pumpkin. You can't really taste the pumpkin-ness with the sauce on. Nonetheless, this is the best noodle substitute I've ever had.
Like I said, I've been trying to eat healthy. It's not that I consider myself overweight, it's just I feel I need to feed my body better things. I know it is bad for your body to not get its necessary nutrients and such, which is what (for the most part) is making me want to take the healthier road. Honestly, I really don't have a sugar tooth, or not as bad as my brothers. Most things like Little Debbie's cakes just aren't very appetising to me, I can't eat more than a few at a time. But, I wasn't ever really attracted to fruits or vegetables either. I never really over ate, I just never ate the things I should've. Now, I'm teaching my body to like healthier foods. Personally, I think a healthy diet is an extremely important idea for anyone. I don't, by any means, limit my diet to just fruits and vegetables, I just put them in place of other things I don't need. Example: instead of having mac 'n cheese, why not have a salad with chopped up peppers? Or why have chips when we have celery and broccoli (okay, most people wouldn't even consider that...)? For breakfast, nothing ever seemed to make me hungry; everything seemed too sugary or too heavy. So, I've gotten into a habit of eating cut-up strawberries on toast or blueberries mixed into oatmeal, things like that. Breakfast is an important meal, and I used to skip it because most breakfast foods just seem so, nasty, I guess? I dunno, but they never made me say, "Man, I really want that right now." And, since breakfast is so important, why would you start your day with nasty, sugary cereal? (that's my opion, anyway) Really, why would you let your fuel, at any time of the day, be empty calories with next to no nutritional value?
That's just my opinion, anyway. If you don't like it, ignore it and move on. Most of my blogs won't be me preaching my life. Well, this one isn't really trying to pursuade you to live like me, I'm just explaining about the whole spaghettie squash thing. Anyway, if you take this to be pushing you to live like Elyse, sorry. If you didn't, I hope you liked my new take on spaghetti!
To go with the 'pasta', I have some boiled+seasoned green beans with a chunk of lightly buttered fancy bread (it's just some french bread-thing, but it's fancy to me). The squash just has some simple vegetable chunk spaghetti sauce, with parmesan sprinkled on top. Since squash is so closely related to the pumpkin, this spaghetti does has a bit of a pumpkin taste. It also really smells like pumpkin. You can't really taste the pumpkin-ness with the sauce on. Nonetheless, this is the best noodle substitute I've ever had.
Like I said, I've been trying to eat healthy. It's not that I consider myself overweight, it's just I feel I need to feed my body better things. I know it is bad for your body to not get its necessary nutrients and such, which is what (for the most part) is making me want to take the healthier road. Honestly, I really don't have a sugar tooth, or not as bad as my brothers. Most things like Little Debbie's cakes just aren't very appetising to me, I can't eat more than a few at a time. But, I wasn't ever really attracted to fruits or vegetables either. I never really over ate, I just never ate the things I should've. Now, I'm teaching my body to like healthier foods. Personally, I think a healthy diet is an extremely important idea for anyone. I don't, by any means, limit my diet to just fruits and vegetables, I just put them in place of other things I don't need. Example: instead of having mac 'n cheese, why not have a salad with chopped up peppers? Or why have chips when we have celery and broccoli (okay, most people wouldn't even consider that...)? For breakfast, nothing ever seemed to make me hungry; everything seemed too sugary or too heavy. So, I've gotten into a habit of eating cut-up strawberries on toast or blueberries mixed into oatmeal, things like that. Breakfast is an important meal, and I used to skip it because most breakfast foods just seem so, nasty, I guess? I dunno, but they never made me say, "Man, I really want that right now." And, since breakfast is so important, why would you start your day with nasty, sugary cereal? (that's my opion, anyway) Really, why would you let your fuel, at any time of the day, be empty calories with next to no nutritional value?
That's just my opinion, anyway. If you don't like it, ignore it and move on. Most of my blogs won't be me preaching my life. Well, this one isn't really trying to pursuade you to live like me, I'm just explaining about the whole spaghettie squash thing. Anyway, if you take this to be pushing you to live like Elyse, sorry. If you didn't, I hope you liked my new take on spaghetti!
