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The best grilled chicken burger recipe, sure to please any picky eaters. Topped with bacon, avocado, crisp green leaf lettuce, and juicy jersey tomatoes.

This burger.. it’s incredible.  Want to know my biggest pet peeve about burgers?  When they taste like meatloaf.  I hate a burger with added things like breadcrumbs, eggs, and milk.. Seriously.. meatloaf is good but if you’re going to call it a burger.. don’t.   Whenever I make a ground beef burger or even a chicken burger I just lightly season them.  For beef I do simple salt and pepper, but I get a little more spicy with the chicken.  The chicken doesn’t have all that fat to flavor so I love to add things like bacon and avocado to really make it a big flavor punch!

Since my daughter’s FPIES diagnosis we’ve tried a slew of different foods and one of her favorite proteins are pork.  She could eat bacon, ribs, and chops all day if I let her!  Due to her limited diet we always kept things pretty simple and even after her ever expanding list of safe foods we’ve actually now just started focusing on the quantity she actually eats rather than introduce more foods.  She’s has quite the list now compared to only eating banana and strawberries just last summer.

Stretching the dollar, and stretching our dinners .. that’s what I’m doing these days.   We try to buy only organic so if I see a bulk buy for ground beef  I make it all and freeze some and keep some in the refrigerator.  I like making the ground beef seasoning with taco mix (recipe coming soon!) and mixing it up different ways!   Since my daughter’s FPIES trial we’re really trying to get her to TRY the ground beef so I’m trying every recipe I can and she loves taste testing!  The only problem is she spits out the meat.  Not so much of a trial then.. huh?

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Pasta.. It’s a regular thing in our home!   We used to enjoy our pasta loaded with a meat sauce, but I now prefer mixing healthy with satisfying.  Not everything healthy has to taste horrible – in fact some of my favorite recipes are healthy versions!  I’ll never forget when my parents were still here we would go over my grandparent’s house and have a huge pasta dinner every Sunday.  Sauce, Pasta, Meatballs, Stuffed Shells, literally carb overload.

Cooking for family and friends couldn’t be easier. I created a quick and delicious recipe using Velveeta Cheese as a part of a sponsored post for Collective Bias®.     I have a confession.  I’ve never actually tried Velveeta aside from the macaroni and cheese when I was younger.  My sister can go on and […]

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