Hi foodies!
Today is my first official day of my new clean eating / mostly paleo nutrition plan. I’m really excited to start it because 1, it’s something I already follow about 60% of the time, but I wanted to really lay out it and be more serious about it and 2, this weekend while visiting my good friend Ryah, we had ice cream for lunch…. twice. So this is probably a good time to start.
Last night, I made this extremely lazy girl chili, and let me tell you, it was fantastic! The salsa I used ended up not being 100% paleo (it’s not unhealthy by any means, but I’m trying to follow the guidelines I set out), so I’ll have to adjust the next time I make it. Still, totally delicious and really simple!
Ingredients:
-3 pieces Black Forrest Bacon from Trader Joe’s
-1 package (4 servings) 96%/4% extra lean ground beef from Trader Joe’s
-1.5 containers of ‘Cowboy Caviar’ salsa from Trader Joe’s
Directions:
-chop up the bacon into small pieces, and cook until desired crispiness in a pan over medium heat
-transfer the bacon and most of the bacon grease into a pot and set aside
-with the remaining bacon grease, begin cooking the ground beef in the same pan over medium heat; add desired spices to it as well (I added a mosquite seasoning from Costco)
-once the ground beef is mostly cooked, add the salsa to the pot with the bacon and begin cooking that over medium heat
-transfer the ground beef once it is thoroughly cooked into the pot with the bacon and salsa, and continue mixing until hot
-serve and enjoy!
This is the yummy salsa I ended up using.
And here’s the final product!
It was so easy to make, tasted amazing, and provided me with a lot of protein. Success!
Nutritional Information:
serving size is about 1 cup, recipe makes about 5 servings
-229 calories
-6g fat
-20.1g carbs
-24.5g protein
Try this out, and post your photos on Instagram! Tag @laurenslovelyrecipes and #laurenslovelyrecipes in the posts.
Enjoy!
xo, Lauren
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