Healthy Recipe for Crockpot / Slow Cooker Spaghetti Squash with Marinara Meat Sauce

lol I didn’t know that anyone besides myself used left over meatloaf for
other purposes, I’ve used it in spaghetti sauce, sloppy joes, and it even
makes a nice pot of veggie soup or chili beans. I tried using spaghetti
squash in place of real spaghetti several years ago because someone told me
about it. The problem was I’d never cooked spaghetti squash before and had
no idea how. I got on You Tube and typed in how to prepare spaghetti squash
and found out, I fixed mine in the oven wrapped in foil, I think, but I do
know I did it in the oven and it took a couple of hours or so to get done.
I only bought one big one cause it was just Mom and I and I wasn’t sure if
I’d like it or not and they’re too expensive to waste. But both mom and I
enjoyed it so a few months later I bought some more and fixed baked
spaghetti lasagna. That’s what I called it because I layered my spaghetti
squash and added the sauce and cheese like you would for lasagna. I did cut
the cooking time of the squash by 30 minutes since it had to cook some
more in the oven. But it turned out *really* good and we liked it better
than the spaghetti. I also like to take it and cook it, then hold on to it
with a dish towel or something and take it out of the skin hot, then add
some butter/margarine, some garlic powder, a little onion powder, and some
salt and stir it up well and just chow down. I tried it that way because I
like to do that with pasta so I figured I’d give it a try with the
spaghetti squash.

I’ve never looked but I’d imagine that like any other squash there are
probably lots of things you can do with it, but those three are the only
ones I’ve ever tried. I do believe though that my baked spaghetti lasagna
is an original as I’ve never run across anyone else doing that. 😉 Have a
good one Debbie. 

I like spaghetti squash, and put home made spaghetti sauce on it.Even the
base ingredient comes from my pantry supplies of jars of crush tomatoes I
water bath can myself that I use lemon juice instead of salt as the
preservative. I make my sauce rather chunky. With lots onions, celery,
mushrooms. Unfortunately hubby wants his real noodles.So I try to
compensate and use whole wheat noodles and have like a half cup of them
with lots a sauce a. And a salad of course. A lot of times I wish the hubs
and I would get on the same page about these carbs. Only he tried it a few
months to appease me and his blood sugar one morning got so low at work, he
thought he was gonna pass out. I wish I could find a diet that both of us
could enjoy. But I guess I maneuver it well enough. It is tough you know
when both are diabetics, but one leans towards hypoglycemia and the other
leans towards hyperglycemia. He says walk more. Yeah like that is gonna
happen this time of year. Debbie winter has come early for us. It has been
blowing cold and snow for the past couple of days. I don’t mind walking in
cold weather, but not this blowing cold. I have a Wii that has these games
and even a yoga board. So I am thinking of getting some batteries for it
and doing the Wii indoor exercise again. The yoga board is pretty cool. It
measures your weight and BMI then puts you on a program for fitness. Well
then there is a tennis, bowling and boxing program that came with the
machine. I have to move the big foot stool coffee table out of the way for
those. 

Thanks for another way to use my crock pot. Also great way to use up the
leftovers. 

If you have never had Spaghetti Squash, give this healthy vegetable a try.
It’s GOOD!!

Good Job Deb and so looking forward to more recipes!!