{Recipe} 3 Healthy Noodle Alternatives

By Kate Horney

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Confession: Here at BeyondFit Mom, we are PASTA lovers.

But we know that pasta isn’t always physique friendly. 🙁

In our pre BeyondFit days, it was a main dish loaded with carbs, but now that we’re living the fat loss lifestyle, we’ve come up with some great noodle alternatives that serve as a go-to ingredient when creating low-carb, fat-loss friendly “noodle” dishes.

Here are some of our favorite pasta swaps, perfect for changing things up to turn traditional pasta recipes into fat-loss friendly, healthy recipes.

3 Healthy Noodle Alternatives:

Zucchini Noodles

Zucchini noodles are a phenomenal fettuccine swap, and they work great in lasagna as well.

How-to:
Start by peeling zucchini into super-thin strips; rotate the zucchini as you slice it. Cook in a covered skillet with 1/3 cup water until tender but al dente (about 5 minutes).

Broccoli Slaw

How-to:
The trick here is to cook the slaw until it’s super-duper soft. Cook it in a covered skillet with 1/2 cup water (10 minutes or so) or in a covered dish in the microwave with 2 tbsp. water (about 3 minutes).

Spaghetti Squash

3 Healthy Noodle Alternatives

Spaghetti squash is a healthy noodle alternative that’s really versatile. It’s great in almost every recipe we’ve tried!

Here’s how to bake your spaghetti squash.

Here are a few of our favorite recipes using this healthy noodle alternative:

1. Taco Squash Bake (in the picture above)

2. Italian Chicken Pasta

3. It’s even great with fat-loss friendly chili!


 

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