Healthy With a Chance of Meatballs

I have been on a bit of a cooking kick the last couple of weeks. I haven't made my beets yet, but yesterday I made a most delicious dinner that I must share with you all. It was amazing! And I know I didn't make it up as an original dish, but I made up my own recipe. If you think you can handle eating something really healthy and liking it, you should give this a try the first chance you get. OK, so what is this super-good-for-you-and-yummy-at-the-same-time meal? Spaghetti squash and meatballs of course!Squash has almost no fat, and is high in vitamin A, B, and C. It has a mere 42 calories per cup versus traditional spaghetti pasta which has about 220 calories!

How to make it:
The sauce was simple (but to make it even easier you can just buy tomato sauce in a jar) tomato, chives, water, olive oil, garlic, dried parsley and oregano. Then I bought low fat turkey meatballs in the frozen section of the grocery store. I baked the squash for 40 min at 350 degrees in about an inch of water. (Many of the recipes I looked at today say bake for 20 min face down and 20 min face up, but I left it down the whole time and it turned out fine.) Heat the meatballs and tomato sauce in a pot, and after the squash is done and removed from the skin with a fork, you just pour sauce over it and POOF! Healthy dinner is served. (Oh, I salt and pepper the squash before I mix it with the sauce. You can use a little butter too, and garnish with Parmesan cheese.)
It's really tasty, and filling. And REALLY easy. It might be more of a fall winter dish, but it is a good replacement for a "pasta night" anytime. If you've never tried it be brave and give it a go!