Slim Pasta!!!

After a longggggg choir rehearsal (we're talking almost 5 hours with a sore throat) the last thing I wanted to do was shop.. but when you have more than yourself to look after and your hubby is dying for junk food after a shocker of a week how can you say no to a shopping trip? This was my haul (his looked rather different as you can imagine)

A nice cheap pineapple ($2 & big!), ripe discounted tomatoes, strawberries, stuffed olives, coconut & aloe water, buckwheat crisps & slim pasta (in spaghetti & angel hair)

I was amazed to see these- I've never seen the before and they look like a dieters dream

Slim Pasta! :)

Slim Pasta Nutritional info- yes thats right, 18 calories or 8 calories a serve.

they're more like noodles if you ask me but for the calories how can you complain?!?! Its made from a vegetable flour called Konjac, its a veggie like a yam apparently and some soy in the spaghetti one. They don't have much flavour of their own so you need to put it with a good sauce but neither does pasta/noodles really. I'm totally buying more! They're more akin to noodles so if you dive in with that expectation they won't disappoint. Just don't overcook them! they only take 1 min or they get this weird harder texture (the opposite of pasta)
Here's some more info on them: Slim Pasta FAQ
So my dinner was:

Slim Pasta Tomato Spaghetti

1 packet (technically 2 serves but who's counting? not me!) of slim pasta- spaghetti style
1/2 can chopped tinned tomatoes
1 tbsp tomato paste
1 tbsp nutritional yeast
lots of ground paw paw seeds or pepper
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
10 olives (pimento stuffed & drained)
small handful of oregano
little bit of sage

• cook sauce frist but put a pot of water on to boil
• combine tomatoes, tom paste, nutritional yeast, vinegar, olives and paw paw seeds
• simmer for 5 mins
• add herbs
• rinse pasta well (its in water like tofu)
• cook pasta for 1 min ONLY, drain & put in sauce
• Mix through & enjoy with some veggie hopefully!

This was satisfying and filling in a way that rice noodles can't do, you know what I mean? It was just what I needed after a long day. I can see this with added protein (tofu/beans/lentils?) being a great post workout meal... or a great anytime meal, just with more veggies!
And for the second find of the night- Coconut & Aloe water. Let me just say, the lid did not lie. It was delish! 

Sweet, refreshing, creamy with some fibre for fun! Its strong though- I could only manage half of it. Works for me, 2 serves in one bottle :) & the bottle is so cute, glass, cute shape so I decided to remove the label and keep in in the fridge. It has berry ice tea in it at the mo and is a nice addition to my pretty glass jar collection (it may be an addiction but more on that another day)
Have any of you tried slim pasta? have you heard of the konjac flour? are there any other versions of this product? I'm interested... any opinions on it? good/bad?
Hope you're all well xxx