To think that courgette spaghetti is NOT a perfect alternative to pasta?

[Ollycat]

Despite the claims on the packet it really isn't is it?

Well it works well with meatballs in sauce the same

One of the cruellest of life's deceptions. It's not spaghetti, whatever the marketing people may say.

I love it as a pasta alternative!

You can get 'spaghetti' which is dried and made out of beans / pulses but is lower calories and carbs which is much closer to real pasta. It's expensive but really quite nice.

I have found it a perfunctory alternative if you're low carbing. Perfunctory at best, really. Pasta it ain't but I have got used to it.

I use it in place of noodles rather than pasta, works well with a stir fry with stock in it.

I liked one of the hairy bikers dieting ones. Swapping out lasagne sheets for leek! It was really nice!

I saw very thin slices of butternut squash being sold as lasagne sheets today.

I really like vegetables but I don't really see why you'd pretend they were something else.

If its not pasta, its not spaghetti. It's a pile of oddly cut vegetable.

It's nice, but not very filling.

Try butternut squash, spiralised and stir fried with garlic and chilli. Still not pasta, but not bad at all and a bit more substantial than courgette.

You can use it mixed in with regular pasta as a way of reducing your consumption of the real stuff...and it's a lot less watery that way.

Spaghetti with sauce is lovely. Especially linguine

I think it's okay with a hefty dose of protein, so replacing the spaghetti in spag bol or with meatballs, but with something like a basic tomato or pesto sauce it's hardly filling.

I'm not keen on pasta so the vegetable spaghetti/ lasagne stuff suits me

You know what I love? Mixing spaghetti and courgette "spaghetti" (I just cut it up like spaghetti strands), put loads of garlic in with the courgette, some olive oil, and cook it for a while, then at the end you add spaghetti and crumble feta cheese on top. YUM!

Pre cut courgetti in a packet is fowl. However, done freshly at home it is bearable.

I loathe courgetti (and boodles). They are no substitute for spaghetti and would ruin your meal.

I really don't understand why this is currently a thing. There are plenty of better ways to increase your consumption of courgette or butternut squash.

M&S do butternut squash noodles which are nicer and more filling than the courgette ones.

Haha foul not fowl

I'd be fine with it if they didn't try and market it as pasta! It's fucking veg. If I want to replace my pasta with a lower carb alternative then great, I'll have veg. If I want pasta I want fucking pasta, not some crappily named vegetable substitute that is nothing like pasta!

If you hadn't noticed, I don't like it and it's one of my pet peeves.

Argh. Rant. Over.

Where do you get it from? Both Asda and Tesco don't seem to stock it anymore?

So pleased it's not just me!

Am in a diet (going v well) and I thought I'd substitute my spaghetti for courgetti - currently feeling a little sad

So cauliflower rice - work if the devil?

For the record I love courgettes and cauliflower but not in the place of pasta and rice!

Catch - just make at home using basic spiriliser (oxo -£5)

YADNBU. If I wanted that instead of pasta I would do. I don't need it to be sold as pasta and in a special shape