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Spanish Cauliflower Rice
Let me just say this… mexican food is my kryptonite! Before starting Paleo we ate Spanish rice weekly! I have had a huge craving for some Tex-Mex style Spanish rice lately and I just had to come up with something that would work! Some people get really freaked out at the idea that cauliflower could taste like anything but cauliflower. I am here to tell you that going Paleo has opened my eyes to the many uses of cauliflower! Since cauliflower does not have a strong flavor it works really well in all kinds of recipes! We have made mashed faux-tatoes with cauliflower, cauliflower crust pizza, and now I am…
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Chia Seed Jam
Recently we started buying the chia seed drinks and squeeze packs by MammaChia and my kids love them! The only problem is they can be quite expensive when two kids (and sometimes mom) want them every day! We picked up our bountiful basket last weekend and I received 8 pounds of fresh strawberries. I dehydrated 4 pounds and the kids ate two pounds fresh. With the remaining 2 pounds we decided to try our hand at some Chia Seed Jam. Most of the recipes I was finding online added regular sugar or maple syrup… neither of which I had on hand. I recently bought some coconut palm sugar and was…
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Paleo Fajitas!
My husband and I try to cook on the grill every weekend. We cook enough to eat for the entire week and incorporate into our dinner and lunch meals. This weekend we grilled some seasoned skirt steak to slice up for Fajitas! We also use the same skirt steak in our omelets and to top our salads with! I use either Montreal Steak Seasoning (Not super Paleo) or Trader Joe’s 21 Seasoning Salute to season our beef with! This is a simple and easy to put together meal that we eat often because we loved traditional fajitas! Paleo Fajitas Ingredients: Grilled skirt steak or other flat piece of beef. Guacamole…
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Paleo Meal Plan Week 1
Paleo Meal Plan Week 1 Breakfasts: Eggs Sausage Bacon Veggies Ham Fruit (Limit to two a day) [wp_ad_camp_2] Snacks: Avocados Almonds Cashews Boiled Eggs Grapefruit Guacamole Nut butters (Almond or cashew) Veggies (celery, carrot, cucumber, jicama, sweet peppers, bell peppers) Lunches: Chicken Legs Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette Vegetables (Canned, fresh, frozen) Canned Salmon Pepperoni (Applegate Farms) Lunchmeat (Applegate Farms) Dinners: Monday- Wild Caught Cod (baked) with super veggie salad and homemade balsamic vinaigrette. Tuesday- Buffalo chicken lettuce wrap with tomatoes and bell peppers. Wednesday- Steak, mushrooms, and onions with mashed butternut squash. Thursday- Zucchini noodle spaghetti with red sauce marinara and chicken sausage. Friday- Chicken Legs and green beans. Saturday-…
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Paleo Hack: Chipotle Chicken Bowl
One of my favorite Pre-Paleo restaurants is Chipotle Mexican Grill. I would get a Chipotle Chicken bowl full of black beans, corn, sour cream, chicken, guacamole and my all time favorite food: cilantro lime rice! For 8 months I haven’t stepped foot in a Chipotle and the craving for a Chipotle chicken bowl hit hard this week! I was looking through my Paleo recipe books and NomNom Paleo had a stir-fry rice recipe and I had the thought that it would be simple enough to make a cilantro and lime “white rice” recipe out of cauliflower! I made it and the whole meal took MAYBE 10-15 minutes to prepare and…
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Healthy snacks for traveling!
Paleo Healthy Snacks for traveling! As some of you know we travel a lot! If you don’t know you can check out our travel blog HERE. Before we started eating Paleo foods we would just eat whatever we found at convenience stores or gas stations. This lead to us feeling tired, sick and ran down during and after our trip. In September, after two years of eating typical road-trip foods we were sick of it! Our weight was up significantly from the years before, our bodies were sluggish and tired and the kids were cranky and their behavior was all over the place. We decided then that we would always…
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Rustic Butter Biscuits
Rustic Butter Biscuit Recipe Boy do I have a treat for you today! My family has asked me to make biscuits for years. They want real, home made biscuits fresh out of the oven for breakfast. I don’t have two hours in the morning to measure, mix, form and bake biscuits so I went on the hunt for some super simple biscuits that I could make quickly! I found Rustic Butter Biscuits and decided to try them for myself! The recipe looked easy enough, but I was worried they would not turn out well. I was so surprised to see these beauties come out of my oven today! You will…
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Homeschooling online with Time4Learning.com
Homeschooling online with Time4Learning.com Our Journey Towards Homeschooling Online Parents choose to homeschool for many different reasons. No matter the reason, the first step is exploring the various options. We won’t delve into all of the homeschool curricula available, but we will share with you our experience homeschooling online and the curriculum that works best for our family and that may work well for yours. Our decision to homeschool is based solely on economic reasons. We were never those parents who had dreamed to homeschool. Patrick, my husband, has a job that includes lots of travel. So much travel, that in our eyes homeschooling became a very real necessity. After…
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Dehydrated Watermelon
Dehydrated Watermelon When I was a kid we always had an abundance of fruits and vegetables! My mom used to have this HUGE garden that she would tend to everyday and we would visit the farmers market and roadside fruit stands! One of our favorite ways to preserve foods was to dehydrate them! My siblings and I would always sneak into the dehydrated before the fruits were done and eat them! [wp_ad_camp_2] We dehydrated a ton of foods, but the one item that stood out most in my childhood memories was dehydrated seedless watermelon! The texture and taste of the dried watermelon is unlike any of the other fruits! We like to…
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Healthy Kids Lunch Boxes on a Budget
Save money and help your budget with these healthy kids lunch boxes! [wp_ad_camp_3] As some of you know, we home school our kids and travel the country in our RV. Since we home school we don’t have a real need for packable school lunches. A reader reached out to me to ask if I could do a series on healthy kids lunch boxes that are budget friendly and Paleo! She asked and we delivered! Something awesome came of this! We now have breakfast and lunch ready to go everyday! We just pull it out of the refrigerator, re-heat if needed (breakfast) and serve. This makes my life so much easier, especially…
