How To Make Healthy Delicious Low Carb Spaghetti Dishes - Introduction to Spaghetti Squash - My Story

The spaghetti squash is an oblong seed-bearing variety of winter squash. It is considered a fruit. The color can range from ivory to yellow or orange.

The orange varieties have a higher carotene content. Its center contains many large seeds and pulp. It is only 35 calories per cup.

I sure love pasta and spaghetti dishes, and they sure love me back. They turn to fat and hang around for years growing like weeds. Eating spaghetti is inexpensive, filling and delicious; it is no wonder it is a very common dish.

Pasta lovers have been known to have problem controlling their weight and having an even harder time letting pasta go. There is good news. You can eat the spaghetti dishes you love by changing the type of spaghetti you eat.

Making changes in your waist line is something that we all want to do but using methods that are quick and fast are only temporary. Making changes in the way you eat has to be a lifestyle change. Let’s talk about changing your spaghetti.

What I am suggesting is replacing your spaghetti with spaghetti squash. I was presented with the same option and was appalled at first. You see I have never had spaghetti squash before and not a lover of the squash that I am familiar with. I was turned off to say the least.

One day my daughter bought this horrific looking vegetable into the house and poked holes in it and tossed it in the oven. She told me she was cooking a spaghetti squash. I could not wait to try it out to confirm how it could never replace real pasta.

The Spaghetti squash baked for about an hour and a half hissing and moaning from the heat releasing from the holes that my daughter poked in this crazy melon like fruit. This did nothing for the way I already felt about this unknown vegetable.

I couldn't imagine my mind being changed; however I was waiting with an opened mind. It was a safe experience I was willing to see to the end.

What happened next…

The timer on the oven went off and my daughter attacked this spaghetti squash as if it was a medieval slaying. She put it on a cutting board and cut it in half! She took a big spoon and removed the insides.

After the insides were cleared she then took a fork and began scraping the meat of the spaghetti squash into a bowl. I was amazed at what I saw. This vegetable, I mean fruit, was separating in the form of spaghetti right before my eyes...

I have to say I was very skeptical at first but now felt more opened to try this mysterious spaghetti squash. But to my defense it was the first time I was introduced to it. Being new to me I was curious but hesitant. The fact that I loved pasta and ate spaghetti often and could lose a few pounds over ruled my silly fears.

As I watched with amazement the possibilities of the many pasta dishes I could replace filled my mind. For now the most simple of dishes would be made.

The First Taste...

My mouth watered with anticipation as the fork came closer to my mouth, my tongue met the first morsel with amazement. The taste was clean and a bit firm but pleasing to my taste buds. It felt like a clean crisp hybrid pasta. The taste was smooth and could be altered to taste with your favorite seasoning.

I could definitely see how I could enjoy this as my new pasta replacement. I have a new food I could use to change the way I eat, feel and look.

Making lifestyle changes is how to stay fit and trim for life. How many changes can you make? Hopefully you will venture out and try this wonderful spaghetti squash. I have since seen that many have already been eating this for years. If you love pasta and it doesn't love you this may be what you have been waiting for.