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My husband is Italian, and is tring to diet with me on the 'South Beach', but really misses his pasta, bread, etc. I experimented in making meatballs without any bread/bread crumbs in it. The first experiment, just substituing parmesean cheese ended up in disaster, but my second attempt, mashing up steamed cauliflower and puting it with the lean beef worked really well. I made cabbage rolls with the meatball mixture and he said it was pretty close. (I didn't tell him exactly what I put in there, didn't want him to pre-judge how it was going to taste.) Anyway, long story short, you can eat many of your family's traditional dishes, you just need to be creative in substituting the bad carbs with healthier options.