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Spaghetti squash instead of pasta. The easiest way to cook s'ghetti squash is in the slow cooker: 1 cup of water, low setting, for 7ish hours, scoop out the seeds, and fork out the "noodles." Use it in place of s'ghetti with sauce and bison meatballs. Also, if you squeeze out ALL of the moisture, it kicks ass in any kind of "bake, " from a mac-n-cheese recipes to baked ziti kinds of things. Almost zero carbs.

Finally, a big fan of the cauliflower rice, too. Grate one head of cauliflower, put in microwavable dish with cover, high for four minutes (NO WATER ADDED!), and you will have an impressive, super low carb, rice-like side to sauce up however you please. I like it with butter and shaved parmesan cheese.

Not to be a killjoy (a downer, not the terrible film), but observing roly polies in their natural element is pretty easy and very entertaining. It is probably best to leave these little fellows in their happy dark, damp place, breaking down all forms of organic matter, where they are truly doing themselves and your garden/yard/Earth worlds of good. I write this as a former pre-school teacher who has witnessed kids spending hours watching the roly poly world OUTSIDE...not in a plastic box. (The roly polies, not the kids.)

Amen!

Yep, giant head and little tiny arms...

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