What an exhausting but fun weekend! Yesterday I took part in a 12hr spin-o-thon for the heart and stroke foundation in honor of my father and today, silly silly me thought hot yoga would be a good idea. I won’t lie, the stretching felt good, but the dehydration still there from yesterday caused a havoc. Can you believe I actually had goodbumbs in a room of 108 degrees!
Anyway, here is where I am going with this. Once I got home and finished hydrating I was hungry but lazy.. Zipped together a very nice meal in a few minutes! (and I have Lunch-overs for the week)
You will need:
- 1lb ground turkey (or other lean meat; chicken, veal, angus)
-1 Spaghetti Squash
-1 bottle of Healthy Choice Chunky Lovers Spaghetti Sauce
1- Split Squash and cook in microwave for 10 minutes then fork it out in strands:
2- While that is cooking, brown your meat in a pan, drain the fat if any and then pour a bottle of the healthy choice sauce on it, from there you may want to add a few spices, I like a little bit of cayenne pepper and hot sauce!
3- Pour the sauce over your squash and eat!!!
The beauty of this dish is the comfort food flavour it brings without busting the calorie bank… Just off the top of my head;
Serving of squash (2cups) about 80 calories / Serving of Turkey roughly about 160 calories / 1.5 serving of healthy choice sauce about 80 calories .
In comparison for similar size, my dinner was 320 calories where a comparable size of regular spaghetti would run you at almost 800 calories and that is being conservative.
Enjoy!! and follow it with a nice bowl of grapes for desert!
Posted by EndorphinBuzz on February 22, 2010 at 11:02 am
I like spaghetti because of the carbs that go with it
I’ve had this squash substitute before and it’s good for a non training day… You should serve with Garlic toasts, but these also have carbs and fats.