Real Food... Real Life
Yay! We hit the 1000 mark on our facebook page! You all are so awesome and kind!
As exciting as this is for me, it’s really all about you, so I want to give you something back! (And WOW do I love exclamation points, huh?)
(Yep… 3 chances to win!!)
Jalapeño poppers + mac & cheese? All in one dish? And even low carb if you want it to be?!
I think I may have just died and gone to heaven.
Jalapeño poppers are one of my guilty pleasures. I could eat them every day, and sometimes I kind of do, by making my Jalapeño Popper Dip or Jalapeño Popper Grilled Cheese Sandwiches way more often than I should.
My waistline doesn’t thank me for those splurges though, so I was excited to find a way to make this treat low-carb, which fits into my lifestyle (and my waistline!) much better!
I have been enjoying the Trim Healthy Mama lifestyle lately and using low-carb noodles such as Dreamfields (and leaving off the bread crumb topping!) keep this meal very low carb (making it an “S” for you THMers reading this). So satisfying!
(No, I don’t eat low carb 100% of the time. That is the beauty of THM, but I won’t go into that right now. This is not an advertisement!)
If you like Jalapeño Poppers, I can pretty much guarantee that you will like this.
These “Funfetti Cookies” are about as kid-pleasing of a treat as you can get. I mean, what kid doesn’t love sprinkles? And for that matter, what kid doesn’t like cookies?? And funfetti cupcakes? How cute are they?!
I personally never got the point of sprinkles (they are annoying to me on ice cream or cupcakes, although I will admit they are cute!), so I have been staring at this random bottle that appeared in my pantry for months.
When I spied this cute sprinkle-filled sugar cookie recipe from Julia (on Tasty Kitchen), I just knew that this was going to be the fate of those sprinkles.
I get a little carried away with my freezer jam stash every year. I love berries so much. And I love freezer jam so much. So, I jam and jam and jam until I can jam no more.
And then I hoard my jam all winter long, afraid that I will run out before summer berry season comes again.
And, every single year, you can find my summer freezer already packed with last year’s freezer jam and yet I still want to make more. So, I start looking for fun little treats like these to use up some of my stash so I can justify the makings of more.
It’s a vicious cycle really, but one that I don’t see changing anytime soon. I know myself pretty well.
My two most popular posts, by far, are this list of my Top 10 Uses for Coconut Oil, and my Homemade Pure Vanilla Extract.
So, in the interest of making things accessible, I decided to link the two posts for you here… And permanently up there on one of my main tabs.
My Top 10 Uses for Coconut Oil - except it’s more than 10 now. I keep adding to it!
and
Homemade Pure Vanilla Extract… So easy, and so much BETTER and cheaper than store-bought… there’s really no reason NOT to make your own!
Enjoy! I hope this helps you all find these posts easier when you want them.
Please let me know if there are any other recipes/posts that you’d like super-easy access to!
