Lie Noodles

As I write this post, my husband is standing in the kitchen making spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. Yep, you caught me–I don’t write these posts same day. Well, I try my hardest, anyway. Sometimes life just happens.

Anyway, he’s cooking spaghetti and meatballs. This has been my lifelong favorite food. It’s how I judge an Italian restaurant I’m visiting for the first time. When my sorority had a picnic auction fundraiser for the Make a Wish Foundation, I made spaghetti and meatballs.

You could probably say I’m a little obsessed.

Well, now that I’ve been trying (or maybe not trying hard enough) to lose weight, I’ve tried using zucchini noodles as a substitute for actual spaghetti. I tried. I tried so hard.

I just really hate them, and now I have a whole package in my refrigerator.

Now, add them to a stir fry, or a salad? Great! It’s nice to get some variety in your veggies. Just not instead of spaghetti.

You cook them for as long as the packaging tells you to, but then it’s still raw. You leave it a minute or two more, and BAM! It’s a soggy pile of mush. And don’t get me started on butternut squash noodles! Though they’re a little better with regards to satiety.

Why can’t pasta not make you fat? It’s heartbreaking that I love it so much! All I know though, is that my husband is now handing me a plate, so now it’s time to eat my favorite!