Chicken and Zucchini Over Spaghetti Squash Noodles

Blah! The weather is so nasty outside. Adam had to go teach tonight at Panhandle CrossFit so I decided I would surprise him with a nice Zone blocked meal. We have been doing Zone for about 2 weeks now and we are eating the same meals as week 1. He will be excited to have something new on the menu. This will make two 3 block meals. Adam is supposed to get 5 blocks for each meal so I will add a little bit more to his portion. You can modify and change this to fit your appropriate blocks.

 You will need:

2 cups spaghetti squash

2 cups tomato,chopped

1 1/2 onion chopped

2 cups zucchini chopped

2 3oz skinless chicken breast

2 tsp. olive oil

Oregano

Basil

Parsley

Cheyenne pepper

Instructions:

Take a whole spaghetti squash and stick it in the oven. Cook for 1 hour. When cool cut and take out seeds and shred into bowl.Take 2 cups chopped tomatoes and put into a pot. Add 1 1/2 chopped onions and 2 cups zucchini's cut up. Add 1 tablespoon oregano, basil, Cheyenne Pepper and parsley. Cook until onions and zucchini are done.In a medium nonstick saute pan, heat 2 tsp. of olive oil add chicken cook until done.Chop chicken and add to zucchini/tomato mix. To serve, put cooked spaghetti squash on each plate, place even amounts of zucchini/tomato mixture on top and enjoy! :D

 

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2 tsp. Cinnamon


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