Strawberry Passion Tea Drink

1 cup frozen strawberries
1 cup breqed Tazo Passion tea (1 bag tea steaped in 1 cup hot water)
**Blend these together**

Add 5 squirts of Vanilla stevia or stevia sweetener & vanilla

Add 1/4 to 1/2 cup Unsweetened carton coconut milk

Fill 32 oz Mason jar with ingredients and add ice

This is a Trim Healthy Mama FP (Fuel Pull).

I threw this together today because I didn't have the ingredients to make a Keto Pink Drink and I didn't want to shell out the $$ for a Starbucks Pink drink adjusted to make it keto/THM friendly. I am very happy with the end result!

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Misty's Chili Mac

Misty's Chili Mac (Two versions)

Misty's Drive Through Sue Chili Mac 

Ingredients:

1- 8 oz package Macaroni style Shirataki noodles (konjac root noodles), throughly rinsed and drained 
1- 15 oz can tomato sauce 
1- 15 oz can Red Beans, rinsed and drained
1 TBL chili powder

1/2 tsp onion powder 
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella 
1/4 cup nutritional yeast

Directions:

Combine all the ingredients in a medium saucepan and stir often until heated throughout. For me, this made two large servings and the amount of mozzarella gives each serving only 5 grams of fat. The slow carbs come from the beans. The noodles come from the konjac root and don't add any significant fuel.

Note: This version is more soup like.

Misty's Smokey Bean Chili Mac 

Ingredients:

1- 8 oz package Macaroni style Shirataki noodles (konjac root noodles) - throughly rinsed and drained 
1- 7 oz jar tomato paste
1 & 1/2 cups Smokey Red Beans with a small amount of liquid from making the beans*
2 tsp chili powder
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella 
1/4 cup nutritional yeast

Directions:

To make this like my original recipe, you'll need to click the link in the ingredient list and make a batch of my Smokey Red Beans first. Then combine all the ingredients in a medium saucepan and stir often until heated throughout. For me, this made two large servings and the amount of mozzarella gives each serving only 5 grams of fat. The slow carbs come from the beans. The noodles come from the konjac root and don't add any significant fuel.

Note: This version is thicker & less soup like. 

Options:

*You could use canned red beans drained & rinsed, but the recipe will need 1 TBL chili powder & 1/2 tsp onion powder and a little water or non-dairymilk.

Background:

I came up with this recipe because I really like the Amy's Chili Mac freezer meal & I wanted to see if I could create something similar that would be a single fuel (slow carbs, E for energizing if you are a Trim Healthy Mama) rather than a heavy personal choice XO (Trim Healthy Mama Crossover) that is really pushing the carbs and not really balanced with the protein. This is a much lighter but still delicious and filling meal.

Pizza Eggs THM S

Pizza Eggs are inspired by the Pizza Omelet from the Trim Healthy Future Cookbook, but I am not a huge Omelet fan. Also, I feel like Omelets take more time and attention to fix well. 

To make these, i dump a bunch of frozen, chopped spinach in a non-stick skillet, add chopped tomatoes (fresh or canned) and generously sprinkle Italian seasoning. Cook until spinach is completely thawed and tomatoes are looking cooked. 

Next crack 2 or 3 eggs on top (some of our chickens lay really small eggs and sometimes I just want the meal to last a long time). 

Mix the eggs up with the veggies and cook through. 

Once cooked, add the cheese of your choice. My favorite is parmesan and nutritional yeast. I have also used Sharp Cheddar. I know that mozzarella would also be delicious. Of course, combinations of cheeses would be great, too. For Dairy Free, you could use just nutritional yeast. 

My current favorite combo is parmesan, nutritional yeast, and extra sharp white Cheddar.

Shells and Tomato Juice

Ingredients:
8 oz package gluten-free shell pasta
32 oz tomato juice
Pink Salt
Very Generous Peppering (fresh cracked is especially good)
1 to 2 tablespoons butter
A little non dairy milk (optional... I like mine to be a certain color, because my Mom used to put milk in this when I was growing up at home). **You could also use a couple tablespoons of heavy cream or half and half instead of the butter and milk. I have done that, too.

Directions:
Cook pasta in water, as directed on package.
Drain and put back in pot with all the tomato juice, seasoning, butter, and milk.

Warm the mixture and be sure the butter is melted. 

You can add a can, or two, of black-eyed peas, mostly drained, but not rinsed OR home cooked black-eyed peas (i make a big batch in the crockpot from dried). This is also super good with a side of green beans with butter. Tuna is also complimentary to any of those combinations. 

Orange Creamsicle Sipper THM FP

This is the secret recipe for my Orange Creamsicle Sipper: 

2 Vitamin C Shine tea bags, hot steeped in 1 & 1/2 cups of water (or cold steeped in 2 cups water)

1 serving on Orange flavor Calm Drink,  Approximately 3 squirts of Vanilla Crème stevia (adjust to taste, could also use a combination of stevia and Vanilla extract),

And lots of ice 😁

Black-eyed Peas in the Crockpot

Black-eyed Peas in the Crockpot 

3 cups dried black-eyed peas 

10 to 12 cups water

1and 1/2 TBL mineral salt 

Cook in crockpot on high about 4 to 6 hours, or low (usually overnight), until desired tenderness. I do cook them on high overnight, too.

It took some trial and error to figure out the correct ratio of salt to peas, but I finally got it. I knew there had to be a way to make Crockpot Black-eyed peas taste great, with just salt and water like the canned ones. And I was right!

Black-eyed peas are one of my very favorite foods! You can see in the picture above, one way I like to eat them: with cornbread (pretty Southern USA). The top picture is cornbread from a family size pan and the picture just above is a single serve microwave cornbread (both made with Masa Flour).

 I also like to pair them with Wild Rice.

This is a bag each frozen caulirice, peas, green beans, corn, and yellow squash cooked in a skillet together until thoroughly cooked. Scooped a portion onto the plate and topped with black-eyed peas. 

Black-eyed peas with shells and tomato juice is another great combination. 

Macaroni & cheese with black-eyed peas and green beans cooked with butter is classic comfort food to me.