Healthy chicken mince spaghetti

“What do you eat?” is an often asked question in my life followed closely by, “How do you get organised with the food?”

Bulk cooking has a lousy reputation for producing food from the freezer that’s bland and watery. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

I eat simple, fresh food, that’s fast to assemble and calorie friendly.

Dishes like curry, mince, stew, soup, meatloaf or spaghetti sauce are prefect for freezing to use at a later date, when they can be served with fresh vegetables, salad, zucchini or carrot spirals, mashed cauliflower or even Slendierslim pasta or rice.

Healthy chicken mince spaghetti recipe

This is a lazy simple recipe that I make often. It tastes great and takes around 10 minutes to get everything into the pot and 15-20 minutes to simmer and cook through.

I use shortcuts like the Latina sauces and the squeezy bottles of garlic and herbs (which already live in my fridge), to add flavour and make life a little easier.

The recipe listed below is for half the ingredients that I’ve shown here in the photo. I doubled up when I cooked it as my freezer was looking a little bare.

Serving

I like making spiral vegetable spaghetti noodles from zucchini. They are so pretty and colourful!

For lunches, I put the zucchini spirals in the container raw, the chicken mince spaghetti on top and then the zucchini spirals cook as it heats up in the microwave. Texture wise, they are a decent replacement for spaghetti pasta.

Betti Bossi Vegetable Twister

Edited to add: several readers have asked what I’ve used to make the spaghetti noodles.

Introducing the Betti Bossi Vegetable Twister. The name makes me laugh!

I bought this from a kitchen shop at my local shopping centre, but they are available online at a variety of kitchen shops as well.

Before I bought this, I’d just use a normal vegetable peeler to make ‘fettucine’ strips from zucchini or carrot.

Nutrition

This recipe comes in at a little under 1,200 calories.

I aim to make each of my meals around 300 calories in total so I would divide this recipe into five portions (240 calories each) so that there is some room to add zucchini spirals, Slendierslim pasta, mashed cauliflower or a salad and make the meal up to 300 calories in total.

Freezing

As seen over here, I’m a big fan of the zip lock bag. They stack flat in the freezer so you can fit a lot more in than if you froze your food in take-away containers.

Remember to squeeze the air out of the the top to avoid ice crystals forming on your food.

And I find it useful to write the name of the dish and the calorie count on it for future reference. Sometimes everything in the freezer starts to look the same.

Over to you, Frock Friends

What are your favourite recipes that freeze well, taste great and are calorie friendly?

Let me know in the comments. I would love some new ideas!