Save the Spaghetti!!

I LOVE SPAGHETTI SQUASH!! It was yummy! Thank you to my sister-in-law.... I am so glad I listened to you and tried the squash (I forgive you for recomminding the nasty pasta the first go round).... and my daughter for cooking the squash. I had the best spaghetti... ever I think... the other night!! If you read the realllyyy long first post (sorry about that) then you know I had a little girl hissy fit over the last pot of spaghetti to grace my eating table. I was a bit anxious the whole day as I knew I did not want a repeat of the last debacle. But the sauce came out nice and thick and the squash tasted divine. My spaghetti fears were all for not. And I am sure by the end of the night my family was tired of hearing me say "I LOVE SPAGHETTI SQUASH!" I was able to freeze 2 servings of it and had one a few nights later with alfredo and veggies on top and it was divine as well. I don't think I will even miss regular pasta noodle in those two dishes anymore.
One of the things that has been really hard over the last couple of weeks is getting a handle on my grazing. I come from a long line of grazers and have bred grazers myself. Being on Christmas break was rough....and not because of the sweets that most people think of at this time of year. Oh we usually have our share of them but this year we were good, only a few loaves of banana bread (most of which went home with others or in the trash because it didn't get eat, gasp), cookies (only one kind this year) and the always delish cream cheese brownie cupcakes (only one batch). But our true weakness is snacks of the salty varity....chips and salsa, cheez its, doritos, sour cream lays.... you get the picute... and boy can we graze on those salty niblets of goodness. My son can down a whole box of cheez its in one sitting and still want more. I had to catch myself a few times and say nope you can't have that.... or I would only eat one in my weaker moments because just getting that tiny taste took away the craving I had thankfully.
I now look at things from a different angle of not just how what I do affects me and my life but how my choices affect me and my family because I want to be healthy and strong for them as well as myself. I see less dirt road under my feet each day, and more of the "real" road ahead, but I know I still have a ways to get there.