You may have tried Zucchini "noodles". I highly recommend you try this.
I started making long strips of veggies (zucchini, yellow squash, carrots, daikon) and lightly sauteeing them in olive oil and then topping them with sauce and parmesan (or whatever spaghetti like toppings I am in the mood for). One night I added healthy homemade turkey meatballs.
I am told you can also boil or microwave the "noodles" but so far I haven't tried that.
There are expensive vegetable spiralizers out there but I found something that does the job for about ten dollars and doesn't take up much room in the kitchen.
This is the coolest little gadget ever --- the Julienne Peeler -- it slices similar to a regular veg peeler but the blade is horizontal instead of vertical and has a second row of "teeth" that forms nice thin strips.
http://www.amazon.com/Zyliss-30700-Julienne-Peeler/dp/B0018ICHH2Let me know what you think!
By the way, this thing is sharp! It comes with a nice little plastic protector so you won't cut yourself reaching around for it in your utensil drawer.
Another tip is to purchase long vegetables. You will hold the veggie at one end and slice downward. You get longer noodles with longer veggies. The end you hold can be saved for another purpose or just chopped up small and thrown in with the noodles.
Some people like to cut the zucchini and squash in half and scrape out the seeds first. The seedy centers don't peel well. I don't mind a little seed mush in my "pasta" so I don't do this.
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