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11-20-2009, 07:11 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: KCMO
Posts: 8,648
| | | Ooooh, spaghetti squash!
Had mine with butter, salt, peper, and parmesan! After baking one hour. I think I had only had it steamed, before.
I ate TWO CUPS, and my Bg was like 126 an hour afterward. WAHOOOO! It was delicious!
DH is not as enthusiastic. Well that is okay -- I can bake one ever ytwo weeks and put the rest in the fridge!
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Linda
Feb 18 A1c 6.1 
Nov 30 A1c (MD office) 5.6% 
Jul 09 ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30
Mar 10 C-pep 2.8 (20 g carb); GAD 3.2 
metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.2
coming soon ... : Levemir We DID NOT eat our way here. |
11-20-2009, 07:20 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Missouri Ozarks
Posts: 2,795
| | Isn't it wonderful?! I can eat a ton of it too . . . and I'll be adding parmesan next time I bake one. (and yep - his loss! hee hee . . . more for you! )
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11-20-2009, 07:26 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: KCMO
Posts: 8,648
| | | Highly recommend it to one and all!
Not all his loss -- he ate at least a cup of it with salsa mixed in!
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Linda
Feb 18 A1c 6.1
Nov 30 A1c (MD office) 5.6%
Jul 09 ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30
Mar 10 C-pep 2.8 (20 g carb); GAD 3.2
metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.2
coming soon ... : Levemir We DID NOT eat our way here. |
11-20-2009, 07:29 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 9,670
| | | I have been using Spaghetti squash for a long time. I replace use it in place of most pasta noodles. I love it plain also. It is just nutty and good! Making Butternut squash soup tomorrow.
__________________  Nancy Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa diagnosed type 1 October 1986
currently using Medtronic MiniMed
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11-20-2009, 10:40 PM
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Posts: 1,008
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Originally Posted by foxl  Had mine with butter, salt, peper, and parmesan! After baking one hour. I think I had only had it steamed, before.
I ate TWO CUPS, and my Bg was like 126 an hour afterward. WAHOOOO! It was delicious!
DH is not as enthusiastic. Well that is okay -- I can bake one ever ytwo weeks and put the rest in the fridge! | Hate to do this to you but used forum search for the recipe and cant find it.  |
11-20-2009, 10:58 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Virginia
Posts: 736
| | | This is the one I made tonight....yummy....Hubby said it was a keeper too!
Spaghetti Squash Florentine
Book: Weight Watchers
Chapter: Side Dish
Serves: 4
1 spaghetti squash, cooked, 2 1/2 to 3 pound
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 teaspoons margarine
1 cup sliced red bell peppers
1 cup sliced onions
1 cup sliced celery
1 clove garlic, minced
4 cups spinach, thoroughly washed and torn into pieces
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon white peppers
1 tablespoon grated parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon grated parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Using the tines of a fork pierce squash in several places; place whole squash on baking sheet and bake for 1 hour.
Cut squash in half and remove and discard seeds. Scoop out pulp, reserving shells. Set shells and pulp aside.
In 10 inch skillet combine oil and margarine and heat until margarine is melted; add bell peppers, onions, celery, and garlic then saute until tender crisp, about 5 minutes. Add spinach and stir to combine; cook until spinach is wilted, and thoroughly cooked, about 3 minutes. Add reserved squash pulp and seasonings; stir to combine. Spoon mixture evenly in the 2 reserved shells, top each with 2 tsp Parmesan Cheese.
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Susan 
A1C - 6.2
Meter - Freestyle Lite
Medication
125 mcg Synthroid
100 mg Januvia
Lumigan eye drops
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11-20-2009, 11:14 PM
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Posts: 1,008
| | Omg, thankyou so much, a good project for my daughters on Sunday.  |
11-21-2009, 06:12 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: KCMO
Posts: 8,648
| | Cherokee t hat looks good and elaborate -- and I agree a Sunday meal!
I actually baked mine after stabbing at 375 for 1.5 hr -- the skin was browning when I pulled it out, and it was baked-potato-soft.
During that hour and a half I made kids dinner and read a book ... so did not make anything elaborate anyhow.
I opted to just put butter, salt, pepper, dried hot pepper, and parmesan (not the canned stuff, the bag stuff ) on it -- an old favorite way to eat my pasta.
Today -- leftovers with garlic sauteed in olive oil, and salt and red pepper! (ali oli -- another fave!).
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Linda
Feb 18 A1c 6.1
Nov 30 A1c (MD office) 5.6%
Jul 09 ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30
Mar 10 C-pep 2.8 (20 g carb); GAD 3.2
metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.2
coming soon ... : Levemir We DID NOT eat our way here. |
11-21-2009, 07:10 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: missouri
Posts: 1,618
| | | I had always heard of it,and thought it sounded delish. My mother-in-law always talked about it,and fixed it . I can't believe I haven't eaten it,yet,I pretty much will try anything and I love every other kind of squash and zuchinni and veggies. I definetly am going to the supermarket TODAY to buy one!
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Difficulties present choices:
we can either waste away from
our wounds or use them to grow our souls
The balance is,as always,delicate
We are constantly falling off one side are the other.
But the center is always there,waiting for us to discover it.
"Before you know kindness / as the deepest thing inside, / you must know sorrow / as the other deepest thing…. / Then it is only kindness / that makes sense anymore…."
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11-21-2009, 08:29 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Topanga CA
Posts: 1,311
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by foxl I opted to just put butter, salt, pepper, dried hot pepper, and parmesan (not the canned stuff, the bag stuff ) on it -- an old favorite way to eat my pasta.
Today -- leftovers with garlic sauteed in olive oil, and salt and red pepper! (ali oli -- another fave!). | Mmmmm....just what I'd do! Need a dinner companion?
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11-21-2009, 08:42 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Virginia
Posts: 736
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Originally Posted by foxl Cherokee t hat looks good and elaborate -- and I agree a Sunday meal! | Actually you can cut the time it takes to make that dish by cooking the squash the night before. Just store the pulp in the fridg.
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Susan
A1C - 6.2
Meter - Freestyle Lite
Medication
125 mcg Synthroid
100 mg Januvia
Lumigan eye drops
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11-21-2009, 09:35 AM
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Posts: 1,008
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Originally Posted by cherokee_psh Actually you can cut the time it takes to make that dish by cooking the squash the night before. Just store the pulp in the fridg. | One more question then Ill leave you alone, went to the supermarket and they had like several kinds of squash. What kind do I buy and what color. Thanx  |
11-21-2009, 10:13 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Posts: 272
| | Lucid Nutrition: All About Spaghetti Squash
the above link has photos of the wonderful spaghetti squash, for those who have not bought one before & also detailed cooking instructions. Enjoy
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diagnosed 09/15/2009 ......Plendil 5mg 25mg hctz,
A1C 7.7 .......................... Vytorin 10-40; Qvar
A1C Nov 2009 6.4
A1C 01/15/2010 5.6 Metformin 500mg
Carbs 50 to 100 daily no white flour.
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11-21-2009, 01:17 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,964
| | | Good timing, I picked one up a week ago and had been too lazy to figure out how to cook it
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11-21-2009, 03:25 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: missouri
Posts: 1,618
| | | I picked mine up today,gonna fix it tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!
__________________
Difficulties present choices:
we can either waste away from
our wounds or use them to grow our souls
The balance is,as always,delicate
We are constantly falling off one side are the other.
But the center is always there,waiting for us to discover it.
"Before you know kindness / as the deepest thing inside, / you must know sorrow / as the other deepest thing…. / Then it is only kindness / that makes sense anymore…."
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