Allergy Friendly Breakfast Bars

So inspiration struck me the other day when I couldn't sleep after working a third shift.  I could make a breakfast bar for Eli using rice cereal and sunbutter (a peanut butter like stuff but made with sunflower seeds).  So I bought some rice krispies, sunbutter and started tossing stuff together!

 So I started with dry ingredients- rice krispies, dried cranberries, raisins, honey roasted sunflower seeds, and coconut flakes.  Tossed these in honey and sunbutter until it all sticks together. Put it in the fridge for about 10 minutes then took it out- looked like this.

 I tried to roll this into balls, but it didn't lend well to rolling, so I pressed it into a Tupperware as bars and put in the fridge again.  Once they are totally cold I can cut it into bars and give to Eli to try!

Hope he likes it!

Crockpot meals

Here was my project this week.  My healthy eating wasn't doing so good with my busy school schedule, so I made crockpot meals to throw in the freezer.  I even bought crockpot liners so we don't have to scrub it between meals.  Here's the website I got the recipes from.  Warning, however....the grocery list provided doesn't actually make all of these meals.  A couple of them were missing important ingredients and there was no where enough chicken (I had to thaw some from our stock in the freezer).  So..my suggestion is go through the recipes you want and make your own list ;)
Sometime in the next two weeks (when I run out of these beauties!) I'm going to make my own grocery list and meal list and put it on here to share with you all.  Many of these are not Eli friendly so I'm going to aim for a few more allergy friendly meals!

http://femiology.com/make-ahead-freeze-crockpot-dinners-feed-your-entire-family-for-3-4-per-meal/

School is in

Back to school for the last year!  This means one thing...very little time.  As I come up with or try new recipes I'll post them, but don't expect as much activity for awhile. :)  A few things to look forward to: possible allergy testing for little man after the first of the year, a move to another state, new jobs and new home.  Big changes coming so stay tuned.

BBQ chicken salad

So it's a good think I take pictures of stuff...because I couldn't remember what I made yesterday until I looked at the picture!

So this was an easy chopped salad.  I did my own thing from the recipe on pinterest.  Ideally you grill the chicken and corn, and put chips and whatnot on it.  I just made it my own.

I broiled chicken breasts with BBQ sauce on it (we had sweet baby rays).  When that was cooked I took some canned corn and canned black beans and threw them into a skillet to warm up.  Had some bagged lettuce, chop some red onion, dice some tomatoes, put the chicken and corn/beans on it, top with montyjack cheese.  Done :)

It's Allergy friendly as long as there is a BBQ sauce you like and no cheese.  You'd want to avoid cheese for Advocare cleanse also.  You can top with more BBQ, some ranch or even sour cream, but I thought it was fine as is.