Spaghetti Squash and Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes: The Low Carb Comfort Foods!

I love spaghetti; I love mashed potatoes. However, wheat does bad things to me. Yeasty foods do bad things to me. Things that are high in high glycemic carbs turn to sugar really fast and feeds the yeast, which is bad for me. Potatoes starch does all that.

I can go on and on about that. But the bottom line is that food that I love and find comforting aren't good for me.

On top of that, my body does best when I eat even complex carb and protein and fat separate from each other. Thus, even eating whole grain pasta, rice pasta etc, means that I can't use most sauces because they have oil in them. Sugar free isn't enough. So I had to make a 'sauce' which was just tomato paste and vegetables. It was good, but, not comfort food.

Then I discovered spaghetti squash. Well, yum.

I first learned about cauliflower mashed 'potatoes' from Suzanne Somers, but there are lots of recipes around. The thing about potatoes is that they have flavor, but you have to eat a totally plain baked or boiled potato to get it. When you eat baked the way I do, with sour cream and butter or mashed with cream and milk and flavoring, the potatoes become just something to hold the good stuff. So it really doesn't have to be potatoes. In the case of mashed, well cauliflower works really well!