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A few weeks ago, I went through Pinterest & picked out a week of dinners that I had never made before. I made two, this one being the second, after the way this one turned out I got super discouraged and stuck to my weekly go-to meals. 

This was the zucchini raviolis.. very few ingredients and seemed pretty easy to make. We picked up everything on our weekly grocery trip. The zucchini were so great that week, so I was super excited to make a new meal. 

Ingredients 

Ground Turkey 

2 cups Spinach

1/2 large onion 

2  tsp of garlic 

Salt & Pepper 

2-3 large sized Zucchinis 

Tomato Marinara Sauce 

Preheat oven to 350. Wash zucchini & peel with a peeler. 

Take each zucchini & slice very thin slices. I called my husband in for reinforcement (I didn't want to cut my fingers off!). It was nearly impossible to get it into thin strips.

In a medium sauce pan, cook the ground turkey. When the ground turkey is cooked, add spinach, onion, garlic and a pinch of salt & pepper (& your choice of seasoning, I used Mrs. Dash). 

Let me stop you right here.. this is where this meal went south really freaking fast!! 

When everything is cooked, take 4 zucchini slices & a scoop of the mixture. Wrap them up & place them face down in a baking dish- this is where I truly wanted to punch whoever created this recipe & said it was "easy"! The zucchini slices broke in half on basically every other one. And the ones that didn't break wouldn't stay closed so I ended up using about 12938024 tooth picks. It made the biggest mess ever!! 

When the disaster of wrapping is over with, top with marinara & stick in the oven for about 30-45 minutes. 

Remove from the oven when zucchini is soft. We sprinkled a little shredded cheese on top. 

I will be honest, I was not into them at all ! I ended up eating chex cereal instead. My husband ate them but he will basically eat anything. He did rate it only a 6.5 out of 10, so that means it sucked! Ha! It wasn't the worst meal that I have ever had but it was a pain in the ass, so I will most likely never ever make this again! 

So what meals have you tried from Pinterest that have turned into an utter disaster?!