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Alternates to Pasta?

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  • significance
    significance Posts: 436 Member
    Two more suggestions:
    1) Serve it over baby spinach leaves or chopped iceberg lettuce, or in lettuce-leaf cups.
    2) Serve it by itself, but add kidney beans to the mix to make it more filling and less runny.
  • daffodilsoup
    daffodilsoup Posts: 1,972 Member
    Yes, I will probably use rice, the spaghetti squash doesn't look too nice.

    Maybe it'st just me, but isn't this kind of a silly reason not to try it? Seriously, spaghetti squash is the bomb dot com.
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    If you like spaghetti bolognaise (ie, you enjoy the pasta), then I would add lots of veggies to the sauce which gives you more food without adding many cals, then serve it over a smaller serve of pasta - try the really fine angelhair spaghetti, because its finer it looks like you are getting more than a thicker pasta.

    Or if you really just love the sauce then don't bother about trying to substitute the pasta - eat it as it is with a salad on the side, or use it as stuffing for something like capsicum or zuccini.

    Generally, I'm not a fan of trying to substitute things that I enjoy - I'd rather eat a bit less of the real thing than add in a fake that is never going to taste the same. But, it doesn't hurt to be creative in the way you serve something - bolognaise doesn't HAVE to go with pasta.
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