Mac & Cheese Spaghetti Squash

Indulge with this healthy version of your favorite comfort food! Providing vitamin A and vitamin C, spaghetti squash also contains some of the B vitamins. It's a great source of fiber as well. Thinking of leaving out the nutritional yeast cause you don't have it?! Hold that thought--nutritional yeast is often high in B12 and is a complete protein. It contains other B vitamins, is low in fat and sodium, is free of sugar and gluten, and contains iron. It is often used as an alternative to dairy products because of it's "cheesy" flavor. 

1 spaghetti squash

1/2 cup cheddar cheese 

2 T olive oil 

2 T nutritional yeast

1 t garlic powder

Approximately 1 c broccoli

Preheat oven to 350. Cut spaghetti squash in half. Remove seeds. Lie open side down on oven safe tray or dish. Poke with fork. Bake for 30-40 minutes. Allow to cool.

Using fork, draw out "spaghetti" strands from the squash. Mix with olive oil, garlic, nutritional yeast and cooked broccoli (I microwaved, covered, for about 2 minutes with a small amount of water). Pour back into squash halves and top with cheese. Bake until cheese has melted. 

Clean Eating Pumpkin Cake

Here's my own concoction of recipe randomness! Mix 1 can of pure pumpkin, 1/2 c liquid egg white, 2 t cinnamon, 2 t chia seeds, 2/3 cup almond flour. Bake at 375 for 30-40 minutes. Pumpkin is a great source of fiber and the egg white/chia seeds provide protein.