What goes with bolognese sauce other than pasta?

[fairyhedgehog]

I've got the ingredients to make bolognese sauce but last time I tried pasta it wasn't great for my BG.

What can I put with it that isn't spaghetti? Or can I just eat it on it's own?

 

[Robin]

I've got the ingredients to make bolognese sauce but last time I tried pasta it wasn't great for my BG.

What can I put with it that isn't spaghetti? Or can I just eat it on it's own?

Put slices of roasted aubergine with it and call it a beef moussaka! (or courgette, to get even further away from its Greek origins)

 

[fairyhedgehog]

Put slices of roasted aubergine with it and call it a beef moussaka! (or courgette, to get even further away from its Greek origins)

That's a great idea! Thank you!

 

[Copepod]

I've seen photos in magazines of courgetti - courgettes cut into thin spiral strips. Would that work?

 

[clive555555]

If you're brave, I use boiled cabbage,???

 

[Mark Parrott]

I had bolognese the other night with courgetti. I have had it stuffed in an aubergine or just with salad.

 

[fairyhedgehog]

Thanks, everyone. My husband would probably love the cabbage idea, but I think I favour the courgetti or moussaka ideas, maybe with some salad!

 

[Radders]

I sometimes have mung bean and edamame spaghetti, or just normal veg like broccoli, cauliflower, green beans etc.

 

[fairyhedgehog]

I sometimes have mung bean and edamame spaghetti, or just normal veg like broccoli, cauliflower, green beans etc.

I don't like mung beans or edamame but I love broccoli, cauliflower, and green beans so that could work!

 

[Flakie]

I have had it tonight on a bed of salad in a bowl. It was lovely.

 

[SB2015]

Courgette is a good replacement, and you could go 50/50 to start with if it seems a step too far.

 

[fairyhedgehog]

On salad sounds delicious.

I could try courgette, but whatever I do won't involve pasta. Not right now, anyway. Maybe when everything has settled down, assuming it does, I'll be able to handle small amounts of pasta.

 

[Mark Parrott]

I avoided pasta since diagnosis so really didn't know how it would affect me anyway. That was until I had a pasta dish on holiday this year. It was free, so had to try it. Sent my BG through the roof!

 

[fairyhedgehog]

I avoided pasta since diagnosis so really didn't know how it would affect me anyway. That was until I had a pasta dish on holiday this year. It was free, so had to try it. Sent my BG through the roof!

I tried a small helping of pasta fairly early on to see what would happen and it raised my BG more than anything else had. I hate to think what I was doing to my BG before diagnosis - I was eating whole heaping platefuls of the stuff!

 

[chaoticcar]

I cook mushrooms and courgette in butter and eat my Bolognese on top of them or have caulli bolly cooking the caulli in small florettes along with husbands spaghetti ( saves washing up ) !
CAROL

 

[fairyhedgehog]

Wha

I cook mushrooms and courgette in butter and eat my Bolognese on top of them or have caulli bolly cooking the caulli in small florettes along with husbands spaghetti ( saves washing up ) !
CAROL

What's cauli bolli?

 

[chaoticcar]

Bolognese with cauliflower instead of spaghetti Bolognese (spag bol )!
CAROL

 

[Beck S]

I avoided pasta since diagnosis so really didn't know how it would affect me anyway. That was until I had a pasta dish on holiday this year. It was free, so had to try it. Sent my BG through the roof!

As a related thought, do you think that the body gets used to not having pasta for so long, that if you do have it you react more?

 

[fairyhedgehog]

Bolognese with cauliflower instead of spaghetti Bolognese (spag bol )!
CAROL

Oh right! I thought you were talking about a special way of cooking pasta and cauli so they don't get mixed up! Silly me.

 

[fairyhedgehog]

As a related thought, do you think that the body gets used to not having pasta for so long, that if you do have it you react more?

I doubt it. I tested myself with pasta quite early on and found that I reacted badly.

I was hoping it would work the other way, so that with losing 10lbs in weight and being hopefully more active my body would be able to cope better with carbs. I haven't tested it yet though!