So guys,
I will tell you a story. Forgive me if my English is not perfect, it's not my first language; so forgive any mistake.
I lived for several years abroad (I'm Italian) in the UK and Australia (3 years for my degree and some other time for internship and gap year), and there I was used to eat pasta once or twice (at best) a week. Unfortunately now since about 4-5 years ago I had to come back to Italy (for several personal reasons that I can't explain easily), and I ended up eating pasta daily (mostly because there is very little choice in terms of eating, everybody eat that and it's common), and this is not making me feel healthy at all. I was eating much better when I was abroad, since I could easily find a lot more in terms of types of food to eat. I weighted less, I felt better and felt more satiated eating less. Now that instead, I ended up eating pasta daily, it doesn't satiate me enough, always have to eat a lot more of it to feel satiated (more pasta and always with another dish), it significantly increased my waist (and weight) and gives me a feeling of "overeating".
So I'm starting to reduce my pasta intake. I already removed bread (with the exception of a cheeseburger once in a while) in the last year from what I'm eating and I'm feeling much better. Now I would like to reduce pasta (to once or twice a week) and the other days replacing it with something better, especially vegetables (I already drink a cup once a day a freshly mixed fruit/vegetable smoothies but would like to eat more vegetables). I eat red meat once a week, and white meat twice a week (I also eat eggs often).
The idea now is to help me replace regular pasta (with the exception of once or twice a week) with vegetables, I'm thinking of buying a spiralizer for vegetables. Things like that:
http://spiralizerreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/pv2.jpg
I would like to do some "pasta"-like recipes but using spiralized vegetables, so I could increase the number of vegetables I eat weekly and reduce the pasta I eat weekly. Unfortunately, regular pasta doesn't make me feel satiated and it's hypercaloric. I always have to eat a lot of it, and I end up eating too many calories daily. I'm not going to remove it completely, but I would like to reduce it to once a week.
It's hard to do it here when I said I want to reduce pasta (so not eat daily), I got shunned by a lot of Italian friends, banned from others or harassed (I'm not joking unfortunately).
When I mentioned I was going to try to cook some zucchini carbonara (so a carbonara with eggs, cheese, bacon and spiralized zucchini instead of spaghetti), I literally got insulted and harassed because, apparently, I'm offending the original recipe of carbonara. Got forced to leave an Italian community on which I used to write because apparently, I'm not Italian or worthy to be if I don't cook regular pasta daily. Some of my friends (with which i often talked on facebook) now don't even want to talk me after this (obviosuly they weren't great friends after all), but I will try to continue with a better dietary pattern anyway (and maybe try to find better friends). I would like to go back to eat what I used to eat abroad (so regular pasta once a week, with pizza once a week and then the other days other things). I know some people might disagree, but I used to feel much better when I was eating pasta only once a week (when I was abroad); it's in moments like this I feel like leaving this country. No one was offending or harassed me if I used to eat less pasta (once or twice a week).
So has anyone bought a spiralizer for vegetables? How did it go? What vegetables do you recommend? Any specific recipe you like to eat?
I will tell you a story. Forgive me if my English is not perfect, it's not my first language; so forgive any mistake.
I lived for several years abroad (I'm Italian) in the UK and Australia (3 years for my degree and some other time for internship and gap year), and there I was used to eat pasta once or twice (at best) a week. Unfortunately now since about 4-5 years ago I had to come back to Italy (for several personal reasons that I can't explain easily), and I ended up eating pasta daily (mostly because there is very little choice in terms of eating, everybody eat that and it's common), and this is not making me feel healthy at all. I was eating much better when I was abroad, since I could easily find a lot more in terms of types of food to eat. I weighted less, I felt better and felt more satiated eating less. Now that instead, I ended up eating pasta daily, it doesn't satiate me enough, always have to eat a lot more of it to feel satiated (more pasta and always with another dish), it significantly increased my waist (and weight) and gives me a feeling of "overeating".
So I'm starting to reduce my pasta intake. I already removed bread (with the exception of a cheeseburger once in a while) in the last year from what I'm eating and I'm feeling much better. Now I would like to reduce pasta (to once or twice a week) and the other days replacing it with something better, especially vegetables (I already drink a cup once a day a freshly mixed fruit/vegetable smoothies but would like to eat more vegetables). I eat red meat once a week, and white meat twice a week (I also eat eggs often).
The idea now is to help me replace regular pasta (with the exception of once or twice a week) with vegetables, I'm thinking of buying a spiralizer for vegetables. Things like that:
http://spiralizerreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/pv2.jpg
I would like to do some "pasta"-like recipes but using spiralized vegetables, so I could increase the number of vegetables I eat weekly and reduce the pasta I eat weekly. Unfortunately, regular pasta doesn't make me feel satiated and it's hypercaloric. I always have to eat a lot of it, and I end up eating too many calories daily. I'm not going to remove it completely, but I would like to reduce it to once a week.
It's hard to do it here when I said I want to reduce pasta (so not eat daily), I got shunned by a lot of Italian friends, banned from others or harassed (I'm not joking unfortunately).
When I mentioned I was going to try to cook some zucchini carbonara (so a carbonara with eggs, cheese, bacon and spiralized zucchini instead of spaghetti), I literally got insulted and harassed because, apparently, I'm offending the original recipe of carbonara. Got forced to leave an Italian community on which I used to write because apparently, I'm not Italian or worthy to be if I don't cook regular pasta daily. Some of my friends (with which i often talked on facebook) now don't even want to talk me after this (obviosuly they weren't great friends after all), but I will try to continue with a better dietary pattern anyway (and maybe try to find better friends). I would like to go back to eat what I used to eat abroad (so regular pasta once a week, with pizza once a week and then the other days other things). I know some people might disagree, but I used to feel much better when I was eating pasta only once a week (when I was abroad); it's in moments like this I feel like leaving this country. No one was offending or harassed me if I used to eat less pasta (once or twice a week).
So has anyone bought a spiralizer for vegetables? How did it go? What vegetables do you recommend? Any specific recipe you like to eat?
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