Chili Sweet Potato's

I find that from week to week I tend to buy the same ingredients at the grocery store and sometimes, it's hard to get creative with meals. Anthony expressed that one day he missed chili, so as I was searching for recipes online and as usual I don't have all of the ingredients, so as usual, I improvised, upon searching for recipes, I found one where this woman had put her chili over sweet potatoes and I knew that was something Anthony would do.

For to people, cut two sweet potato's in half and then put desired type of fat ( coconut oil, olive oil, ghee, butter etc...) in between them, cover in foil and bake at 425 for one hour

For the chili:

1 package of all natural ground turkey

(brown the turkey and drain the fat before mixing with other ingredients)

1 can of diced tomatoes

1 large can of tomato sauce

1 tiny can of tomato paste

1 green pepper, diced

spices to taste: Chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, basil, oregano, salt &pepper.

Heat on high for 30 min and let warm for 30 min or longer if desired

Pour chili over sweet potato slices, enjoy!

Paleo, when you get sick?

So what... I've been lazy over the past month and some, I've taken a hiatus from blogging and Anthony has been reminding me lately that I should continue to blog. Well, all it took was getting sick and being bed and couch ridden for me to finally get motivated to do this again.

Day 2 of being sick, is much better than day 1. Day 1 was awful and we won't even go into details today's accomplishments consisted of watching Mrs. Doubtfire, Mayor Cupcake and now Waiting for Superman; doing the dishes, job searching, taking out the trash and walking to get the mail and now blogging. If you have read before you understand that my diet is clean, exercising is a must and daily thing for Anthony and I and healthy lifestyle is how we live. But on the rare occasion of getting sick, especially the kind of sick where it feels like your life really might end and the only one that can make you feel better is mom. However, at least my mom's remedies to getting well are nothing even close to Paleo, chicken noodle soup, sprite and crackers. Luckily my husband is smart and brought home chicken noodle soup and sprite anyways but in all seriousness, for those who are die hard paleo, what is one to do? My stomach wouldn't keep good old H2o and apple slices down so I knew there was no hope but to cheat on paleo, and I'm sure glad that I did. I tried googling what paleo things you ought to eat when you are sick, but the only results that come up are what happens when you are sick of eating paleo. Well, I'm not sick of eating Paleo, I just want to know what will settle a stomach that is paleo?

As for a recipe, I recently made what I would call guacamole soup, and it's exactly what it sounds like.

It was dark when I took the picture and the lighting in our apartment isn't great, but I will post it anyway.

(Serves 2)

In an oven:

- cut 1 sweet potato in half, cover in desired oil or fat (olive oil, coconut oil, butter whatever you please or have on hand)

-cover in foil twice (so the oil doesn't leak out or make a mess on your pan, saves time with dishes)

-bake for an hour at 425

-once the sweet potato is squishy, place is bowl and mix with hand mixer until smooth.

-Add sweet potato to soup in crock pot.
In a crock pot:

-coat bottom of crock pot with about 2 inches of chicken broth

In a bowl mix:

- 2 avacados

-1/2 diced onion

-1/2 tomato

- garlic and onion powder to taste

Add in shredded chicken breast, I just used left over from the night before, I used 2 chicken breasts worth.

with hand mixer, mix until creamy

-place guacamole in crock pot and mix with spatula until smooth and mixed in with chicken broth, cook on high for 30 min and warm for the rest of time, when sweet potato is done mix that in as well.

Enjoy!