Food ideas for the starch lovers out there..

I'd imagine with the squash's natural water- even after baking & shredding, the raw egg would have just made squash mush anyway!

Let me know how you like it, they are slightly sweet like any squash- and carbonara sounds like it would be great with that.. My fav way of serving has just been salt, lots of black pepper and good Parmesan!

Tonight it's getting baked, shredded and served as a bed for shrimp & swai cooked in mexi tomato sauce (Tapo hot tomato sauce from a can, kicked up a bit.) Plus a side of broccolini, easy dinner planned. I'm making more pumpkin protein muffins later today after my workout, round two slightly different.. and maybe a few pumpkin mini cheesecakes for a weekend treat, maybe, if I have more pumpkin left. 

One can of pumpkin goes a long, long way. SF pumpkin syrup for coffee, protein muffins, pumpkin "ice cream" ice cubes to throw in my shakes.. pumpkin mixed in GY.. I think I'm going to just get a whole baking one from the orchard when we go here soon, and try home-made puree.. I'm just a little obsessive sometimes and get on food "kicks".. was mushrooms, now squash apparently.

I recently tried the Tofu Shiritaki because I heard it was the best of the various brands. This is what I found worked for me to be able to tolerate it.  I put it in a colander and let them rinse under running water for several minutes.  They I put them in a bowl to soad and changed the water a few times.  They probably soaked for 30 minutes.  Next step is to boil them, I added salt to the water for 3-4 minutes.  Then rinse well again.  I them put them in a frying pan and let them cook on the dry pan to get the water out of them.

My favorite is to top with 2 oz of ground beef, a bit of Arabiata Sauce and a sprinking of grated parmesean.  I have reheated the plain noodles.

I have thrown away numerous bags of these in previous low carb days because I couldn't tolerate the fish smell when the bag is opened.  The trick is in how long I rinsed them.  I totally satisfies that craving for something to put sauce on.

Beware, they seem to expand some once in my Sleevie so using a 1 cup bowl is necessary.

Oh, how I envy those of you with husbands who will help eat these things!  Mine can detect cauliflower at 100 yards, and that's about how close he'll get to it, no matter how I dress it up with cheese, greek yogurt, bacon bits....  At least cauliflower I can buy frozen and use what I need...  I shudder to think how long I'd be working on a spaghetti squash or a rutabaga if I tried it.  Soups that can be frozen would help use up though.... hmmm....
Along these lines, I've read that eggplant makes a nice "bready" substitute in something like bread pudding.  My only experience with eggplant was a LONG time ago, and it wasn't a good one.  Slimy comes to mind.  I'm tempted to try a "bread" pudding, but sheesh, that's a lotta eggplant.  They don't sell "baby" ones at Trader Joes like the baby bell peppers...

Anybody do zucchini "noodles"?  I'm more inclined to try those than spaghetti squash, and I'm even tempted to get the spiral cutting tool to make it happen. 

Another "fave" is Jicama - makes a nice crunchy apple substitute, especially if you soak it in something to absorb flavors.  Total carbs are close to apple stats, but higher in fiber, lower in sugar.  I understand some people bake or roast it and use it for a potato substitute, but I don't think it gets as soft as potato. 

I only recently discovered mashed cauliflower and LOVE it!   Even my hubby, who did not eat cauliflower before, loves it!   Better than mashed potatoes to me!    Or, maybe I forgot what the "real" potatoes taste like, LOL!
YUM!!  

I just made cauliflower fried rice the other day and it was pretty good. My husband wouldn't even TRY it. I was eating it for days and still threw away quite a bit!

I agree a can of pumpkin goes a long way. I take the leftover pumpkin and put it into little ziplock bags and freeze then. Then I just break off a chunk whenever I need. It's wonderful in oatmeal. also good in GY with sweetener.