Waffle Iron Grilled Cheese

 

Grilled Cheese is one of my favorite things to eat. My favorite part is the crust, where it gets super crunchy, but there's still a little bit of melted cheese hanging on. I read about putting your grilled cheese in the waffle iron, and it is a BRILLIANT idea. I will never make grilled cheese the same way!

Ingredients:

• Two slices of bread
• Butter
• Cheese

Directions:

1. Turn on waffle iron
2. While it's heating, butter two sides of the bread and put cheese inside
3. Put grilled cheese on the iron and close as normal

Here, I enjoyed it with Spaghetti-O's (super adult dish!)

Tip: Make Spaghetti Os' extra creamy by adding cheese to pot when heating up

Enjoy!

Kelsey

Chocolate Covered Ritz Cracker and Peanut Butter Sandwiches

 

I ate this at the end of my Whole30 challenge. Literally every ingredient is NOT Whole30 approved. I thought I would be sick, but it was SO delicious! The salt from the crackers and the sweet from the chocolate, plus the smooth part of the peanut butter, was an amazing combination. Typing this is making me hungry...! The best part is you can make one, or tons!

Ingredients:

• Ritz crackers
• Peanut butter
• Melting chocolate 

Directions:

1. Arrange sandwiches with 2 crackers and about a tsp. of peanut butter
2. Put parchment paper on baking sheet
3. Melt chocolate and dip cracker sandwich into chocolate
4. Take out and put on paper, then put in fridge until hardened

Enjoy!

Kelsey

Frozen Almond Butter and Banana Nest

I've been eating so much almond butter, and I wondered what it tasted like frozen. I was also in need of a frozen, desserty (but Whole30 approved) treat.

Ingredients:

• Almond butter
• Banana

Directions:

1. Line a cupcake/muffin tin with cupcake liners
2. Scoop about 2 tbsp. of almond butter into each cup
3. Push in a large chunk of banana
4. Put in the freezer until frozen

This was REALLY good. Each cup/nest was a huge amount of almond butter, so I only ate one at a time.

Enjoy!

Kelsey

Chili Scrambled Eggs

 

When you're doing the Whole 30 Challenge, you eat a lot of eggs. I had SO much chili, so I thought I would add it to the eggs to change things up. It was actually quite delicious!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 c. Homemade Paleo Chili
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. olive oil

Directions:

1.  Heat olive oil over medium heat in skillet
2. Whisk eggs and whisk in chili
3. Pour into skillet and cook until eggs are done

Enjoy!

Kelsey

Peanut Butter Rice Krispies Treats

It was a friend's birthday, and I asked his girlfriend (my best friend since 6th grade) what his favorite dessert was. She said he loved anything with peanut butter, and I needed to make something quickly, so I settled on peanut butter Rice Krispies treats. I wanted to make it a little more fancy, so I decided to make my own homemade peanut butter frosting.

Ingredients:

• 3 tbsp. butter
• 1 10oz package Marshmallows
• 1/2 c. peanut butter
• 6 c. Rice Krispies cereal

Directions:

1. In a microwave safe bowl, heat butter and marshmallows on high for 3 minutes, stirring every minute and until smooth
2. Add peanut butter, and stir until combined
3. Coat brownie pan with cooking spray
4. Spray hands with cooking spray or with butter, and press mixture evenly into pan
   
5. Wait until cool
6. Cut with a buttered knife to make smooth cuts

Enjoy!

Kelsey

Meat Stuffed Pepper with Fried Egg

 

This was really delicious and actually incredibly easy. All I did was thaw some leftover Baked Turkey and Beef Meatballs, stuff them in a fresh pepper, and top with a fried eggs. To eat, I chopped everything up, the yolk ran deliciously into everything, it was fantastic.

Enjoy!

Kelsey

Fruit and Almond Butter

This is what I ate on my last day of the Whole 30 Challenge. It was SO good! Perfect for something on the go, can prepare the night before, so filling, and so tasty.

Ingredients:

• One banana
• One apple
• 2 tbsp. almond butter
• Dash of cinnamon

Directions:

1. Assemble (night before or morning of)

Enjoy!

Kelsey

Spicy Scrambled Eggs with Sausage, Spinach, and Avocado

When you do the Whole 30 Challenge, you eat A LOT of eggs. After awhile, it can get old, so I always tried to spice things up - literally!! Add lots of cayenne pepper - however much you can handle, and include sausage, spinach, and cut up avocado.

See Sausage and Eggs for general directions.

Enjoy!

Kelsey

Homemade Italian Garlic Bread

 

Homemade Garlic Bread is a staple n our house. My husband absolutely loves it, and he absolutely loves Italian seasoning, so I thought I would put the two together. All night he was raving about it. Will definitely do this the next time we make garlic bread!

Ingredients:

• French bread
• 1 stick of butter
• 1 tbsp. minced garlic
• 1 tbsp. Italian seasoning

Directions:

1. Set oven to 350 degrees
2. Cut French bread into sizes you want the sandwiches to be
3. Cut bread again until it's cut in half (for sandwiches, cut until the bread is almost cut in half, but not all the way so that there is still a binding between both loaves)
4. Heat skillet over medium heat
5. Melt butter and then add garlic
6. After about three minutes, stick bread in garlic and butter mixture face side down
7. Place garlic bread on baking sheet, garlic and butter side up
8. Sprinkle Italian seasoning on top
   
9. Pour over any leftover butter
10. Bake until bread starts to crisp. Be careful as the bread can burn very quickly!

Enjoy!

Kelsey

Sausage and Eggs

 

It took me until day 29 of my Whole 30 challenge to find compliant sausage!! One of the biggest things I learned through this challenge was to read ingredient labels. One - there is a lot of sh*t in the food we're eating. If you can't pronounce it or don't know what it is or it sounds like a chemical - it probably is and you shouldn't be eating it!! Second - sugar is in EVERYTHING! Especially sausage. I found this at Marianos.

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp. olive oil or coconut oil
• 1 sausage
• 3 eggs
• Italian seasoning

Directions:

1. Heat oil in skillet over medium heat
2. Cut up sausage and whisk eggs
3. Add sausage to skillet and cook for a few minutes (the sausage I buy is already cooked but I like to brown it a little)
4. Add eggs and cook until still a little runny
5. Top with seasoning

Enjoy!

Kelsey

Roasted Carrot and Broccoli Slaw

I always see the carrot and broccoli slaw at Trader Joes, but I never know what to do with it. I decided I would do something similar to what I did with the Oven Baked Shredded Carrot Fries, and bake them in the oven.

Ingredients:

• Bag of carrot and broccoli slaw
• 1 tsp. olive oil
• Sea salt

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees
2. Make sure slaw is completely dry
3. Cover baking sheet with aluminum foil
4. Add slaw to a bowl 
   
5. Spritz with oil, enough to cover everything but not too much that it's drowning
6. Coat with hands
7. Sprinkle with sea salt
8. Add to baking sheet 
9. Bake until crispy. These cook really fast because they're so thin (you can see in the pic above some of mine burned a bit). Keep a close watch every few minutes!
   

I ate these with Thai Coconut Curry Shrimp and Cauliflower Rice

Enjoy!

Kelsey

Cauliflower Rice

I love rice, but couldn't eat it during the Whole 30 Challenge. So I got creative with cauliflower and made "rice"!

Ingredients:

• One head of cauliflower
• 1 tbsp. coconut oil
• Dash of salt
• Dash of pepper
• Dash of curry powder

Directions:

1. Rinse off cauliflower and dry with paper towel
2. In a medium pan, add water and wait until boiling
3. Cut cauliflower into florets and add into water
   
4. Cook for about 6 minutes, or until soft (but not too soft!)
   
5. Drain and shake off excess water
6. Add florets into food processor with coconut oil and pulse until consistency of rice
7. Add spices
8. Pulse again until mixed
   

Serve with Thai Coconut Curry Shrimp!

Original recipe here

Enjoy!

Kelsey

Thai Coconut Curry Shrimp

 

I just started eating curry this past year, and I absolutely love it. I couldn't wait until I could make it on my own!

Ingredients:

• 1 lb cooked shrimp (can also use uncooked)
• 1 can unsweetened coconut milk
• 1 scallion
• 1/2 onion
• 2 tbsp. coconut oil
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 tsp. ground cumin
• 1 tsp. ground coriander
• 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
• 1 tbsp. curry
• sea salt

Directions:

1. Make sure shrimp is peeled, deveined, rinsed, and dry
2. Chop the onion and mince the garlic
3. Put coconut oil in medium plan and heat on medium
4. Saute onions and garlic until soft
5. Add shrimp (make sure to cook for a few minutes if adding in raw)
6. Put together all dry spices 
   
7. Add coconut milk and all dry spices
   
8. Use spatula to scrape up seasoning from the bottom of the pan
9. Simmer for 4 minutes on very low heat
   

 I ate this with Roasted Carrot and Broccoli Slaw and Cauliflower Rice

Enjoy!

Kelsey

Original recipe here