How much is “a little”? When I make a plate, I usually use 8 oz (pre-cooked weight).
Yeah, that’s not “a little.” A standard serving of pasta is 2 oz. pre-cooked weight. Eight ounces is something like 850 calories. Before you add sauce or cheese or bread or a nice tiramisu for dessert…
Nothing tastes as good as thin & fit feels.
Broiled chicken that was marinated in Italian dressing, them stuck in a bowl with spaghetti sauce minus the noodles, with Parmesan cheese over the top. That’s how I do it theses days after realizing my fondness of spaghetti was for the cheese and the sauce, not the pasta.
I’m diabetic, and have to live a low carb existence.
Mexican food does.
Totally kidding…kinda. I recently lost a good bit of weight, and have hit and surpassed my weight goals. One of the things I did was give myself one, sometimes two meals a week that I thought of as a release valve. Eat anything I want, until very pleasantly full. It really kept me going to know Chinese noodles or enchiladas were right around the corner, in mass quantities.
I miss Red Lobster binges.
And McDonalds cheeseburgers. And fries.
And Cheezies (vastly superior Canadian Cheetos).
And ketchup chips.
But hey, my blood is no longer liquid sugar, so I got that going for me!
I started substituting veggies for pasta when I was on an allergy test. We quickly discovered that gluten was a problem for me and, naturally, I started craving all the gluten-y foods I loved. My GF lifestyle began before the recent uptick in gluten-substitute items so I really couldn’t do spaghetti and give it the right mouth-feel or taste then. So I started chopping up peppers and onions and sometimes carrots too for my spaghetti substitute. Even though I can use brown-rice noodles, I still use veggies or mix the sautéed veggies in with the noodles if I am having guests. It makes a great dinner.