Spaghetti Sauce for Spaghetti Squash for the win!

Ah Spaghetti Squash how we love you so. I never thought the day would come when Eliza would actually ask for the veggie. I mean this is the child that didn't think that anyone but McDonald's could make a hamburger. We spent many of nights with her crying at the table because there were balanced meals on the table versus some frozen nuggets and tater tots.

So when the day came that I asked her what he wanted for dinner and she said Spaghetti Squash I almost wrecked the car. Now no, she didn't just come up with this out of nowhere. We had made it, and didn't tell her what it was, I disguised it under some yummy Italian Sausage tomato sauce and she ate it up. The next time she was with us when we bought it... she asked what it was, we told her, she knew we were having it for dinner, but I think she forgot because she asked if it was cheese. He father and I just went with it... Hey whatever it takes to get the kid to eat something healthy right?
So finally one day she helped me make it and that was it.. she was hooked.

So now I was tasked with the New Year, and needing to REALLY lose some weight, like a lot of weight, to change my sauce. It was no longer going to contain the yummy goodness of Italian Sausage but would only have ground turkey for the meat.

So here is how I pulled it off.

Ingredients:
~ 3 jars of Barilla Sauce (I used 2 tomato/basil and 1 marinara)
~ 48oz of Ground Turkey Meat
~ 1 med onion. finely choped
~ 2 tblspn EVOO
~ water
~ spices (I used oregano, garlic powder, and some salt free garlic and herb)


To start I heated up a large pot and added my EVOO, then after that was hot added my onion. I cooked those until translucent in color and then the turkey meat went into the pot. I browned this pretty good and added a little bit of my spices. After it was cooked through well, I drained all of the grease off.

Back into the pot my meat went and to it I added more oregano (maybe a couple of teaspoons) garlic (maybe 1.5 tablespoons) and some of my salt free garlic and herb. To that I put my three jars of sauce in and when my jars were empty I filled each about 1/3 full and put the lib back on, shook it around to get all of the yummy bits and then added that to the put. I stired it really well, added the lid and let it simmer for about an hour.


This created approximately 15 cups. 1 cup of sauce was enough for me and 1 cup is only 273 calories. I paired this with 1 cup of microwaved spaghetti  calories and dinner was only 320 calories. YUMMO!!!!