Easy Chicken Alfredo Zucchini Pasta: A Quick Meal That Is Delicious

Hello “comfort food”! Sometimes, when we’re eating healthy or trying to lose weight, it feels like a chore. That’s why I absolutely love indulging in comfort food that is also good for you. With this Chicken Alfredo Zucchini Pasta, you get the best of both worlds: delicious Chicken Alfredo yumminess without sacrificing with processed ingredients. Instead, you’re sneaking in veggies in a way that tastes delicious! What better way to celebrate a healthy lifestyle than eating “comfort food” that makes you feel amazing!

What Are Zucchini Noodles?

You can make zucchini noodles using a spiralizer and then cook them on the stove until they’re soft. I love using a spiralizer tool like this. If you’re wanting something smaller, you can also find cheaper ones like this spiralizer. Either option works and gives you a healthier option than regular processed noodles for your favorite Italian recipes.

What if My Kids Won’t Eat Veggies in Recipes Like Chicken Alfredo Zucchini Pasta?

I have 4 kids raging in age from 5 to 15. Finding a meal the whole family enjoys is a challenge, to say the least. I think pancakes is about the only dinner everyone can agree on. How do I handle meals like this, especially when I know a few of them will turn their noses up at anything green?

For Chicken Alfredo, I usually boil penne noodles for the kids. We cook the chicken and pull out chicken for the kids before we add the rest of the ingredients. I use 2 jars of alfredo sauce, one for the kids and one for us.

To avoid the rest of the family getting highly processed noodles, I usually get the Ancient Harvest Penne Noodles or another veggie based noodle. I also love to get pure semolina noodles from places like Azure Standard. That’s another way to ensure I’m getting organic ingredients without a lot of additives. Another reason I like making sure the kids’ recipe is also clean is so that any of us can enjoy the leftovers without having to use a “free meal” or sacrifice the quality of ingredients.

Chicken Alfredo Zucchini Pasta is Low-Carb and Full of Protein

In general, there’s nothing wrong with eating healthy carbs. However, if you’re aiming to keep a meal low-carb but still get in your protein, Chicken Alfredo Zucchini Pasta is the perfect meal. One serving provides you with 57 grams of protein and only 5 grams of carbs. It has about 21 grams of fats, which is a little high, but not bad since it’s such a low-carb meal. Also, the entire plate is only 442 calories, which is great for such a filling meal like this. I love having delicious meals that feel like cheat meals but actually help you stay on track!

Does It Really Matter If I Use Whole Ingredients?

I believe God put certain foods on this earth for us to enjoy. A lot of the health problems we see today stems from all of the processed foods that contain chemicals and other additives that aren’t good for our bodies. When we go back to clean, original foods, we can fuel our bodies in a way that helps them thrive.

What Makes Something A Whole Food?

There are several ways to tell if something is a whole food. First of all, would your great-great-great grandmother recognize it as food? If it’s something they had on a remote farm or at a trading post centuries ago, then it’s probably food. If it’s the latest candy or soda or chip on the market, it probably has very little whole ingredients in it.

Secondly, does it look as closely as possible to how it did on the farm? In other words, if you can’t go pick it off the stalk like that, it’s undergone processing and is no longer a whole food. The closer you can get to its original form, the better.

Third, did it come in a plastic wrapper or a cardboard box? You can stick with mostly whole foods just by watching which section of the grocery store you’re shopping in. A lot of your healthier ingredients line the outside of the store, in the meat, deli, dairy, and produce section. The more processed, boxed foods are usually in the inner aisles of a grocery store. Of course, there are exceptions to this, like canned veggies, but as a general rule, you want to shop the outside sections of the grocery store.

For Chicken Alfredo Zucchini Pasta, I like to use organic zucchini. So many noodles undergo a lot of processing, including processed flour, so if you can use something like zucchini instead, your avoiding this issue altogether. I also love using Rao’s Alfredo Sauce. I love that Rao’s pasta sauces have recognizable ingredients. If you can find a sauce with a shorter list of ingredients you recognize, it will be better than a lot of the other sauces on the market.

Chicken Alfredo Zucchini Pasta and Other Recipes You Love Can Help You On Your Health Journey

I truly believe that people prioritize what’s really important to them. Eating healthy isn’t always easy, and it isn’t always perfect. However, if you really want to be healthy and feel your best, you make it happen. It requires changes and working with both your schedule and the people closest to you to do it successfully. Sometimes, it means eating something different than everyone else is eating.

For me, this looks like making the kids regular noodles and eating Chicken Alfredo Zucchini Pasta when I’m trying to do a low-carb dinner. It means drinking a smoothie or eating one of my favorite protein bars instead of birthday cake at a party. It requires changes.

A lot of these changes might sound like “sacrifice”, but they don’t have to be. You don’t have to eat food you don’t enjoy. Instead, make that smoothie that tastes like a milkshake using frozen fruit. Get that raspberry white chocolate or cookies and cream protein bar that’s almost like a candy bar. Eat Chicken Alfredo Zucchini Pasta and enjoy every bite because it tastes so good! The key is to find those healthier options that you love and eat more of that. Don’t just settle for the food available around you. Plan ahead with foods you love and enjoy feeling amazing as you crush your fitness goals!

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