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Refined Sugar Free Apple Sauce

October 24, 2018 by Annie Chesson 1 Comment

Y'all. I wish I had footage that I could attach here of my one year old fiending so hard over this apple sauce. His little body just bounces up and down when I pull it out of the fridge and he just wants spoonful after spoonful after spoonful. I may or may not sneak a few spoonfuls myself, because this apple sauce is BAE - not just for the chillins. It's easy to make, it's healthy, and it's a ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Breakfast, Brunch, Fall Recipes, Gluten Free, Paleo, Sides, Snacks, Vegetarian Tagged With: 30 minute meal, apple sauce, cinnamon, cinnamon apple sauce, food for kids, healthy apple sauce, kid friendly, refined sugar free, snacks, snacks for kids

Hidden Veggie Marinara (great for kids!)

August 17, 2018 by Annie Chesson 2 Comments

You may only enter this post if all children under the age of ten aren't in visual range of your computer screen. You must answer TWO secret questions to pass the mom test and prove that you are not, indeed, a small child. The questions follow: How many days has it been since you have showered? How many goldfish and/or other cracker crumbs are in the back seat of your car currently? If ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Condiments, Gluten Free, One Pot Meals, Paleo, Vegetarian, Whole 30 Tagged With: food for kids, Gluten Free, Healthy, healthy sauce, kid food, marinara sauce, paleo, paleo recipes, pasta sauce, primal, primal recipes, recipes for kids, red sauce, Sauce, Vegan, Vegetarian, whole 30, whole 30 recipes

Juicy Instant Pot Mexican Chicken

August 1, 2018 by Annie Chesson 5 Comments

Instant Pot meat and Crock Pot meat have never been my faves unless they are in a sauce. I've never had success with just doing straight up meat before, like these chicken breasts. But I was determined to find a way to do it successfully in the Instant Pot so that I could create a recipe for juicy chicken that could be used as a base in meals for the whole week! And we figured it out peeps. ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Dinner, Gluten Free, Instant Pot, Lunch, One Pot Meals, Paleo, Whole 30 Tagged With: Chicken, chicken breast, easy chicken, Gluten Free, instant pot, instant pot chicken, instant pot mexican chicken, instant pot whole 30, mexican chicken, one pot meal, paleo, primal, whole 30

Watermelon Mint Refresher

July 16, 2018 by Annie Chesson 1 Comment

Picture me sipping this while reclining in a soft beach chair with three, no - four, people surrounding me, fanning me with palm leaves. That is the space I automatically transfer to while drinking this ABSURDLY refreshing watermelon-y, lime-y, mint-y, slightly fizzy beverage from heaven. On the refreshing scale of 1 to 10, this watermelon refresher is a 34. Feel me? Watermelon and summer are ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Drinks, Gluten Free, Paleo, Vegetarian Tagged With: drinks, juice, lime, mint, refresher, sparkling water, summer, watermelon, watermelon juice

Instant Pot Italian Beef

June 25, 2018 by Annie Chesson 4 Comments

You guys. I have made tons of Instant Pot recipes since I got it as a Christmas gift this past year, but - let me tell you - this is by far the easiest. It literally requires no work...unless you call searing a piece of meat in the Instant Pot and then dumping two jars of Italian goodness on top "work," becaauussee I don't. It's a zero effort prep...craziness. The jar of pepperoncinis and ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Dinner, Gluten Free, Instant Pot, Lunch, One Pot Meals, Paleo, Whole 30 Tagged With: 3 ingredient meals, beef roast, chuck roast, easy dinner, Gluten Free, instant pot, italian, italian beef, paleo, paleo recipes, primal, roast, whole 30, whole 30 recipes

THE Ultimate Artichokes (Instant Pot + Grilled)

June 5, 2018 by Annie Chesson 4 Comments

Oh...my goodness. I have peaked. It is impossible that it will ever get any better than this, so I might as well just quit blogging. It was nice meeting you and knowing you for 3+ years, byeeeee. Just kidding...but seriously...these are legitimately one of the most delicious things I've ever made or eaten. I was having a bit of an emotional experience while stuffing mass amounts of artichoke ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Appetizers, Gluten Free, Instant Pot, Paleo, Sides, Snacks, Vegetarian, Whole 30 Tagged With: Appetizers, artichokes, Gluten Free, keto, paleo, paleo recipes, primal, Sides, Vegetarian, veggies, whole 30, whole 30 recipes

Watermelon Salsa

May 21, 2018 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

One million percent inspiration for this recipe goes to my bestie, Megan. I have two AMAZING best friends that I've known since I could barely read (aka forever), and to this day they are still two of my favorite people in the entire world. More family than friends at this point. Anyway, they both live in North Carolina, so we try and visit each other whenever we can. Recently, I went there and we ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Appetizers, Condiments, Gluten Free, One Pot Meals, Paleo, Sides, Snacks, Vegetarian, Whole 30 Tagged With: condiment, Gluten Free, Healthy, paleo, primal, salsa, tacos, topping, Vegan, Vegetarian, watermelon salsa, whole 30

Roasted Cauliflower with Lemon Tahini Sauce

May 11, 2018 by Annie Chesson 5 Comments

Roasted cauliflower and me = BFF. Do you have a good relationship with cauliflower? Have you ever roasted it? If you answer was "no" to the first question, it's highly probable it was also "no" to the second question. When you roast cauliflower in the oven for a niiiice longggg time, allowing it to get soft and deliciously toasty and caramelized, it is HEAVEN. It is probably my favorite vegetable ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Appetizers, Fall Recipes, Gluten Free, Paleo, Sides, Vegetarian, Whole 30 Tagged With: cauliflower, Gluten Free, Healthy, paleo, roasted cauliflower, roasted veggies, roasting, Sides, vegetables, Vegetarian, whole 30

Spiralized Sweet Potato Taco Skillet

May 7, 2018 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

Tacos are life. I've been having a consistent taco craving fooorr...I wanna say...approximately 15 years. It's never ending - I'm always down for a taco. Luckily, on whole 30, a taco craving is actually pretty easily satiated. There are a lot of healthy substitutes where you ditch the cheese and tortilla but still get your taco fix. Lettuce wraps = perf. Taco bowls (with cauliflower rice) = ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Dinner, Gluten Free, One Pot Meals, Paleo, Whole 30 Tagged With: 30 minute meal, avocado, dairy free, Gluten Free, ground beef, Healthy, mexican, mexican sweet potato, one pot meal, paleo, sweet potato, sweet potato noodles, sweet potato taco, taco skillet, whole 30

Blackened Chicken with Avocado Cream

May 2, 2018 by Annie Chesson Leave a Comment

I think the world would be a better place if we could eat some type of delicious sauce on everything. Are you with me on this? Sauces make everything SO YUMMY. Whether it be a chipotle sauce on your sandwich, a cheese sauce on your burrito, a bearnaise sauce on your steak (we just went so fancy [except I had to google how to spell bearnaise, so I think that disqualifies my fanciness there]), or an ...

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Filed Under: 30 Minute Meals, All Recipes, Dinner, Gluten Free, Lunch, Paleo, Whole 30 Tagged With: 30 Minute Meals, avocado, avocado cream, avocado sauce, blackened chicken, Chicken, chicken and avocado, Gluten Free, Healthy, paleo, whole 30

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