Turkey Tater Bake

This recipe is SUPER EASY to make and it's the perfect recipe to make ahead and bake when you're ready to eat! It's a sweet dish that you'll love for any time of the day! 

Turkey Tater Bake 

What You Need:

1 lb sweet Italian style turkey sausage links 

1 (30-32oz) bag frozen Alexia Sweet potato puffs

1 cup shredded Italian cheese

1/2 cup mozzarella/provolone cheese

6 eggs

1 and 1/2 cups milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a large skillet, cook sausage until no longer pink. Drain fat. Cut into bite size pieces. 

Toss together sweet potato puffs, cooked sausage and 1 cup Italian cheese. Pour into a lightly greased 9x13-inch pan.

Whisk together eggs and milk. Pour over turkey & sweet potato puff mixture.

(Cover and refrigerate at this point if baking later)

Bake uncovered for 60 minutes, or until eggs are set.

When you have about 10 min remaining, top with the 1/2 cup mozzarella provolone cheese. 

Passionut Pumpkin Cake Bites

Passionut was kind enough to send us some of their Pumpkin Spice Nut and Seed Butter to try in exchange for an honest review. We were not compensated monetarily for this post, just sent product. All opinions are our own. 

We enjoyed this nut and seed butter on top of muffins, in our oatmeal, on our waffles, but our favorite way to eat it was inside of my recipe for Passionut Pumpkin Cake Bites! 

Passionate Pumpkin Cake Bites

Ingredients:

~1/2 cup finely Shredded carrot

1/2 cup coconut flour

1/2 cup Nuts-N-More Almond Whey Protein 

1/2 cup Passionut Pumpkin Spice Nut butter 

2 tablespoons Coconut Almond Milk 

1 tsp Cinnamon

1 pack Made in Nature Fruit Fusion apple cinnamon dried fruit snacks 

Directions:

First, shred about 7 baby carrots in your food processor with the shredding blade. 

Next, switch to the normal food processor blade and throw all other remaining ingredients inside for about 2 minutes. 

Roll into balls and store in fridge or freezer! We enjoy them both ways.  

These bites are super easy and so tasty!  

Here's some info from their website about why Passionut is different from your normal nut butter:

Passionut™ Butters combine healthy and tasty in a versatile nut & seed blend. Our butters combine the power of 3 nuts (walnuts, almonds, and cashews) and 3 seeds (sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and chia seeds) and are enhanced with MCT oil and Epibolics® WheyPür™ protein. We ensure our premium ingredients retain their health-promoting factors by using their most raw legal form (some nuts require pasteurization); no nutrient-destroying roasting here! Our butters are hand-made in small batches and we guarantee that our butters were made no longer than 7 days prior to your order!

Check out Passionut's Instagram for more info and awesome recipes! 

Mikey's Muffins

We reviewed Mikey's English Muffins in the past, and they have recently come out with some new products. They generously sent some of the new muffin tops, bread, and pizza crusts, as well as some english muffins because they have changed slightly since we last reviewed them. 

We were not compensated monetarily for this post, just sent product. All opinions are our own. 

Our Thoughts:

Our favorite new product was definitely the muffin tops! The lemon blueberry was my favorite and was perfectly light and fruity as a dessert or sweet part of breakfast. I made a oatmeal, yogurt, muffin, and fruit parfait with a lemon blueberry muffin top in an almost empty peanut butter jar and it was mighty tasty! Jared loved the chocolate muffin tops with peanut butter for a snack and also as a sweet addition to breakfast. 

The english muffins were delicious as well. The cinnamon raisin was a great base for a peanut butter and egg sandwich. We used the toasted onion english muffins for our mini burgers one night for dinner. They are so packed full of flavor! 

One night, we babysat this sweet boy and had a make your own pizza night using Mikey's crust! He did a great job helping spread his sauce and put his ingredients on his pizza. Isn't he the cutest??? (His parents gave permission to use these pictures) 

We thought the pizza crust was flavorful, but definitely had more of an egg like texture to it. It still tasted good, but just wasn't exactly a normal "dough" texture. They were the perfect size for a personal pizza. 

They also have a sliced bread loaf and I'm thinking of making some kind of peanut butter french toast with it. Be sure to keep an eye on my Instagram so you can see the recipe when I post it! 

In the meantime, check out Mikey's website, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for more delicious ideas with their yummy foods! 

Hope Foods Hummus

Hope Foods sent us some vouchers to try their hummus in exchange for a review. 

We were not compensated monetarily, just sent free product coupons. All opinions are our own. 

I love this info from their website:

The freshest ingredients make for the best tasting products. So we source as much as we can—from our garbanzo beans to many of our spices—using time-tested relationships with local farmers across the American southwest and beyond. Our partners share our values around honest ingredients, clean water, and even agricultural job creation.

Our Thoughts:

Jared and I both LOVED each and every flavor. The Kale Pesto was my all time favorite and I don't even like kale. It tasted just like pesto and I wanted to put it on EVERYTHING, so I did :) 

We made mini burgers using ground meat, Mikey's Toasted Onion English Muffins, and hummus and they were SO flavorful! Of course, sweet potato fries were the perfect complement to the burgers. 

One day, I mixed together chicken, zucchini, and kale pesto hummus for a super easy and healthy lunch. 

Then, I made the EASIEST and CREAMIEST, Chicken Pesto Spaghetti Squash bowl that I've ever had. The best part was that it was only 4 simple ingredients!!! I used leftover chicken from the night before, added it to a bowl with spaghetti squash, spoonful of cottage cheese, and 2 spoonfuls of kale pesto hummus. I mixed it all together and warmed it up and HOLY MOLEY! SO GOOD! 

You can find out more about Hope Foods from their website, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter pages.

What recipes have you made with hummus? Please share in the comments below because I love trying new recipes!   

Peanut Butter Bark

Today I created a brand new recipe using Purely Inspired Powdered Peanut Butter. 

I know I am pretty much the only person who doesn't like chocolate, but I also know that most people LOVE peanut butter, so I created this peanut butter lover's dream healthy dessert! (or anytime snack because let's be real, peanut butter is ALWAYS good) It is super simple to make. 

Peanut Butter Bark 

Ingredients:

1/2 cup coconut oil

1/2 cup Purely Inspired Peanut Butter

1/2 cup peanuts

1 tsp NuStevia Simple Syrup 

First, heat the coconut oil and powdered peanut butter on LOW. Stir until all of the mixture is smooth and there aren't any coconut oil clumps remaining. 

Next, add the tsp of NuStevia and 1/2 cup of peanuts. 

Then, spray a glass pan with nonstick spray (or you can rub more coconut oil on it) and pour the mixture inside. 

Place it in the freezer for about 20 minutes. 

Lastly, break it up into pieces and enjoy! (FYI, the pieces will be different sizes)

These are super quick to make and they taste delicious! Hope you enjoy! 

Purely Inspired is providing us with product in exchange for a new recipe each month. We are not compensated monetarily for these posts, just sent product. All opinions are our own.

Phive Bar

We were sent Phive Bars to review on the blog. 

We were not compensated for this post, just sent product. All opinions are our own. 

 

First, here's some info from their website:

Phive Bar is the world’s first and only bar to use a specific ratio of organic, non-gmo, wholefood ingredients to nourish our bodies the way nature intended.

Derived from an ancient recipe and crafted using the PHI ratio – a unique ratio found within nature – PHIVEbar uses a very specific blend of organic, non-gmo, fruits, nuts, and seeds that work in synergy with your body. Each ingredient has been selected for our modern lives in one sublime, on-the-go superfood that is both ridiculously nutritious and supremely tasty. More than just a bar, this is food with a purpose!

Our Review:

WE LOVE THESE BARS! They are JAM PACKED full of nutritious and delicious organic ingredients! You can't get much better than that! They were not only tasty, but super portable and perfect for the golf course and on-the-go! 

They don't get squished in Jared's golf bag or my purse. You can see and taste each different nut and seed. It was so cool to see that there were SO MANY superfoods all packed into one bar! We highly recommend these to everyone! 

For more info, please visit Phive Bar's website, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook! 

Friday Favorites 12/16

It's time for another round up of our current Friday Favorites! 

Organic Valley and Organic Prairie  

Organic Valley has a line of Protein Shakes and man are they tasty! Jared and I both think that they taste like milkshakes! They are super decadent tasting, yet they have Absolutely NO antibiotics, synthetic hormones, toxic pesticides or GMO anything. 

We are HUGE fans of having snacks on hand at all times, and these Mighty Bars and Beef Jerky packs are DELICIOUS and perfect to carry around in your purse or golf bag ;) 

Check out their Organic Valley's website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram

Check out Organic Prairie's website and Facebook  

Primal Kitchen 

Jared LOVES Ranch dressing. He used to put it on EVERYTHING. In college, he started to eat healthier, so he significantly decreased his ranch consumption because most of the dressings available are full of bad ingredients. Jared was so excited to eat ranch dressing again! Here's some info about the dressing from the website: PRIMAL KITCHEN™ dairy-free ranch is the holy grail of dressings: an uncompromisingly delicious, rich, full-flavored, and oh, so healthy ranch dressing. Using 100% pure avocado oil, our ranch includes only the finest health-enhancing, nutritional ingredients, including organic garlic, onion, dill, cage-free organic eggs, nutritional yeast, black pepper and chives. And that means no dairy, no buttermilk, gluten, soy, canola or sugar in sight.  

The Grass Fed Collagen Protein Bars were absolutely DELICIOUS! The texture was chewy and packed with nuts and the collagen is really good for your skin, hair, and nails! Talk about a winner of a protein bar! If you are unaware of what collagen does, check out this info from their website: Collagen is the protein that holds everything in your body together. It makes up about 30% of all the protein in the human body, and is found in your bones, tendons, ligaments, connective tissues and skin, and plays various roles in your overall health. Collagen production naturally declines with age, reducing the structural integrity of the skin and instigating the weakening of cartilage in joints. You can help make up for decreased collagen production by eating collagen sourced from grass-fed bovines pasture-raised in Brazil.

Mayo was another favorite of Jared's a long time ago, so he is looking forward to making some chicken salad with this Mayo from Primal Kitchen! Here's info about it from their website: PRIMAL KITCHEN™ Mayo takes us back to our primal roots—pure, nutritious, real food ingredients with no artificial colors, preservatives, or ingredients. It’s the first ever avocado oil-based mayo, made with cage-free organic eggs and vinegar from non-GMO beets whipped into that full, rich classic mayo taste you love. Because avocado oil boosts the bioavailability of nutrients it’s paired with, you increase your body’s absorption of antioxidants whenever you add a dab of Primal Kitchen Mayo.  And our mayo is sugar, gluten, dairy, soy and canola-oil free, and non-GMO Project Verified so you can indulge to your taste buds delight. Healthy mayo, who knew?

Check out Primal Kitchen's website, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for more info and more awesome products! 

Banza Chickpea Pasta 

I am not a pasta fan, so I tried a few bites to see if I would like it better, and it tastes just like regular pasta. My husband on the other hand is a HUGE pasta fan and he clearly enjoyed it because I came home and he had eaten the ENTIRE box (minus the few bites I tried). He didn't even snap a picture before he inhaled it all. haha He definitely had his protein and fiber quota for that day! One serving of Banza packs 25g of protein and 13g of fiber! How awesome is that?!?!

Check out their website, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook for more details. 

Fit Darlings T-Shirt!

This is my new favorite shirt! When I showed it to Jared, he immediately said, "That is you EXACTLY." I just want to LOVE JESUS, Train Hard, and Eat ALL the Peanut Butter!!!! 

Check out Fit Darling's website and Instagram for even more awesome shirts and other products as well.  (I was given 40% off for this review). 

ZOODLES 

This isn't sponsored, I just wanted to share that we finally got a spiralizer and are having so much fun making noodles out of zucchini!! We also tried eggplant, but it didn't work quite as well as the zucchini. It's the perfect way for us to eat more veggies and be able to make new meals that usually use pasta (since I don't like pasta). We love it! 

These companies were very gracious to send us free product. All opinions are our own. 

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas season!