The other day I was so hungry for a 3 Bean Salad. My Mom and Dad used to always make it in the summer time and it just sounded good. Well, a few weeks ago I took advantage of a great deal on a small hand-held spiralizer on Amazon. I was looking for something to use it on and decided to come up with a Trim Healthy Mama friendly bean salad. Only with my salad, I used spiralized zucchini, along … [Read more...]
Delicious Roast Chicken {In the Crockpot}
This is one of our favorite chicken recipes and it is so easy to put together. I hope you enjoy it! DELICIOUS ROAST CHICKEN {IN THE CROCKPOT} The night before: Wash a whole chicken (3-5 lbs.) and pat dry. Prepare the spice mixture below and rub all over the chicken, inside and out. Place the chicken in a pan and cover with plastic wrap. Put it in the refrigerator over night. Roast Chicken … [Read more...]
The BEST Brown Rice
As I have moved to trying to cook more healthy, one of the switches I made was to using brown rice instead of white rice. I always cooked brown rice on the stove, and it always seemed that the rice just didn't quite get done. The rice seemed a bit crunchy sometimes and my family always noticed when I was using brown rice because of it. Well...enter this recipe...baking brown rice in the … [Read more...]
Trim Healthy Mama {Vanilla Cake – FP}
One of the THM Facebook Page moderators, Bev N., played around with my FP Cakes recipe and came up with a vanilla version! Bev gave me permission to post it here on my blog. Thank you Bev! VANILLA CAKE (FP) 1 T oat fiber 1 T coconut flour 1 T Whey Protein Powder - Vanilla 1 T Gentle Sweet or Truvia (to taste) 1/2 t. baking powder 1/2 t. Glucomannan dash salt 1/3 cup egg … [Read more...]
Trim Healthy Mama {Waffle Bread for Great Sandwiches! – “S”}
I love having sandwiches for lunch...lunch meat and lettuce, egg salad, tuna salad, etc. Since starting THM last year, I have been using the Bread in a Mug recipe and cooking it in a small Pyrex bowl in the microwave. I pop it out and let it cool, then slice it in two to make two "slices" of bread. While this worked "ok", I had a hard time actually eating the sandwich with my hands. I usually … [Read more...]
Macaroni and Cheese – My New Recipe!
This past week I decided to make some macaroni and cheese for dinner (with some chopped up ham mixed in..yum!). Well, I did not have a few ingredients from the recipe that I normally use, so I decided to just change up the recipe a bit (I am famous for that in my house!). I just used whole milk and totally deleted the cheddar cheese. This is the recipe I made (below) and we actually liked it … [Read more...]
Potato Soup
I just love fixing soups when the weather turns cooler. It has been such a HOT summer here, that these 70 degree days seem pretty COOL! I love this potato soup recipe. It is very economical and is SO good! Add in some chopped ham or bacon for an extra treat...enjoy! POTATO SOUP 4 tablespoons butter 1 onion, chopped (or 2 tablespoons dried minced onion) 3 carrots, peeled and chopped … [Read more...]
