Use Your Noodle!

What did the paperclip say to the magnet?

Not going to tell you until the end of this post, silly goose!

But that joke is making you use your brain and sometimes your brain is referred to as your noodle and now I want to talk about noodles! Get the connection now? Yay!

I made the best homemade spaghetti and meatballs for my family yesterday. All 3 of my kids wanted seconds....score for Mama! I definitely wanted seconds too but opted to have a side salad instead of a second helping of spaghetti. 

The noodles were not noodles at all though. There. I said it. To be perfectly clear what I mean is that the noodles were not pasta. They were actually zucchini squash cut by my spiral slicer!

What an amazing invention! The spiral slicer! It helps me make noodles out of any vegetable and chips and fries out of nature's very own candy vegetable...... the versatile sweet potato!

Haha! You just had to see Bobby. He finds a way to get into almost every picture I take. Good, sweet boy, Bobby. And here are just 3 zucchinis noodles cut up by my spiral slicer. Enough noodles for all 4 of us!

Spiral slicing vegetables is a fabulous way to get your kids involved in making dinner. All you do is stick the veggie onto the handle part, hold the machine firmly and start turning the handle. The handle turning is what my kids like the most. But if I'm perfectly honest with myself I find it quite entertaining and soothing too. Ahhh, the simple pleasures in life that float my boat. 

So, back to the awesome meal. The kiddos and I just spiral sliced the noodles (smallest choice of spiral). Then we made a quick sauce, added turkey meatballs which were a breeze to create (just lean ground turkey, basil, italian seasoning, nutritional yeast, ground flaxseeds, sea salt, pepper all rolled into little balls and pan cooked with coconut oil for a few minutes on all sides.....or just buy Trader Joe's frozen turkey meatballs. They rock!). And our meal was done.

For the sauce just sauté onions (probably about 2 cups) in coconut oil until the onions are translucent, add 5 cloves of minced garlic, Trader Joe's strained tomatoes (2 cans), a can of TJ's tomato paste, basil, Italian seasoning, sea salt and cracked pepper. 

This is truly an easy, super healthy meal made in 25 minutes or so. You do have time to make healthy meals. YOU get to decide what to do with extra time in your day. Do you waste time sitting in drive through lines? If you have time to do that then you have time to prepare healthy meals for yourself and your family. 

If you don't have a spiral slicer buy one! It's a fun, easy way to make awesome vegetables even more awesome! Here is a  link to my exact slicer:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0007Y9WHQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1400822095&sr=8-1&pi=SX200_QL40

See! Almost 3,000 people love it on Amazon. I'm not loco en la cabeza after all! 

Enjoy the awesome spaghetti and meatballs! Oh and I bet you want the answer to the joke?

Answer: "I'm attracted to you!" 

HA! What a knee slapper! Love that joke! My kids only understood the paperclip being attracted to the magnet due to magnetic force. They didn't get the cute attracted to you part. In a few years sweet children you will and I'm definitely not counting down those days. 

Thank you to my thoughtful sister, T, for my awesome spiral slicer! You know me so well!