Zoodles!

Today was Day 5 and we ate leftovers for breakfast and lunch. My boys were asking for food a lot today, and I'm trying to do a better job of giving them veggies rather than fruit for every snack. I made roasted sweet potato "bits" that they both gobbled up, and I stopped by Trader Joe's and picked up a package of their mini cucumbers. Here is Tucker eating one:

But he was still hungry. So he ate six. No joke. He likely would have eaten the whole package if I'd let him. But man cannot live on cucumber alone.

So, for dinner, I decided to try zoodles. I love just saying it. They are "noodles" made from zucchini using my handy-dandy new spiral vegetable slicer. You serve them with spaghetti sauce and meatballs and you have a dish that resembles the classic. 

I loved, it actually. It gave me my pasta fix while getting in my veggies! The boys were so-so on it, which surprised me. I thought they'd be into it, especially since I let Tucker help me make the meatballs and the zoodles. But I think they were a little weirded out by the green noodles. They both polished off a few meatballs, though. My little carnivores.

John and I decided that perhaps we did not do a good enough job of getting veggies in this week. We relied mostly on recipes that sounded yummy (bacon!) and lots of fruit. Time to meal plan for next week, dialing down the meat and fruit just a little and dialing up the veggies a lot. Onward!