Recipe time!

First a few comment replies, because I'm bad at that. I have ADD. -_-

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Okay, recipe time. I made spaghetti squash and meatballs for dinner. I'm sure you can find a proper recipe for this, but I just got the idea and winged it.

You will need:
- 1 lb ground turkey (it was actually 1 lb 5 oz, I weighed it), 630 cals for whole 21 oz
- Tomato sauce (I just used Prego), 70 cals per 1/2 cup
- 1 slice bread (normally I would have used a low fat one, but we only had some fancy Italian bread that was a few days old), estimated 150 cals based on the nutrition label
- ketchup (I ended up using 3 tablespoons), 45 cals
- Worcestershire sauce (I used 3 tsp), 15 cals
- spaghetti squash (I used 2 medium-sized ones), between 40 and 50 cals per cup
- 1/2 small onion (minced with the Slap Chop), ~30 cals
- garlic salt, pepper, basil, thyme, rosemary, oregano, and marjoram
- 2/3 cup beef broth (you can use any kind of broth), 10 cals

Put the Prego in a crock pot and turn it on high. If you don't have a crock pot, just heat the Prego sauce in a big pot and let it simmer on medium-low heat. Soak the bread in broth for like 15 minutes. In a big bowl, combine the meat, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, minced onion, and soggy bread (squeeze a lot of the broth out) and mixed it up real nice (wash your hands first!). Then fling in the salt, pepper, and herbs until it smells nice. Next, make the meat combo into balls roughly 1 1/2 inches across. It made a total of 30 meatballs when I did it.

In a skillet on medium heat, quickly brown the meatballs just to sear the flavor in. Then put them in to cook in the Prego sauce. Leave that cooking in the crock pot or simmering in a regular pot on the stove for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours. (Check it after 1 1/2 and test one.)

For the squash, cut it in half and scrape out the seeds and stringy bits, then bung it in the oven on 400 degrees Fahrenheit (~205 degrees centigrade). Let it cook for like an hour, then poke it with a fork. Use your best judgement to decide if it's soft enough. I left them in for like 1 hour and 20 minutes. After you take it out, let it cool a bit, and then use a fork to scrape the insides out into a bowl - it comes out like spaghetti. Serve it with the meatballs and sauce.

If I had used low cal bread, 1 meatball = 26 calories.

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