Paleo Pasta

Okay, it's not really pasta. It's spaghetti squash, and it's magical. I like it with butter and spinach, but it's REALLY good with some marinara sauce, ground beef, and spinach. The best part is you can make a ton it so you don't have to cook for like four days (as long as you are okay with eating the same thing every meal for four days).


Ingrediants

• 1-2 medium spaghetti squash (or one giant one)
• 2 pounds ground beef
• 2 jars of marinara sauce (whichever variation you prefer...read the list of ingredients though because some add sugar and what not)
• One bag of frozen spinach

There are a ton of ways to make spaghetti squash. Here's one. I like to stick mine in the oven for about an hour at 250 degrees. It's easier to cut open after it's been cooked. After you cut it in half scoop out the icky looking stuff and then take a fork and scoop out the rest.

Brown the beef, sauté the spinach, and add the marinara sauce. That's it. You're done. Enjoy four cooking free days. 

Poor, paleo(ish), and delicious

I work at a local gym, which is nice because my coworkers all eat pretty clean so I don't have to worry about turning down donuts every day. (I say pretty clean, because my coworker sat at the front desk yesterday and ate an entire box of sour gummy worms.)

But we still have cravings. I told my coworker, Melissa, yesterday that all I wanted was a brownie but didn't want to ruin the clean streak I was on. She came this morning with a batch of "clean" brownies and the recipe she made them with.

Granted if you have eaten a regular brownie in the past, like, month, you probably won't enjoy these as much as I did.

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup coconut flour
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa flour
• 1/3 cup coconut oil
• 5 whole eggs
• 1/2 cup Grade B maple syrup
• 1 scoop vanilla protein powder (we like SFH)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven, 350 F

2. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the coconut flour, cocoa and protein powder

3. Whisk in the coconut oil, eggs and maple syrup; blend well

4. Pour batter into greased dish (7x11) and bake; 20-25 minutes

5. Allow to cool. This is important they tend to fall apart easily when warm

6. Makes 15 servings

And the most amazing part....the macros.

Calories: 107

Protein: 4 grams

Carbs: 7 grams

Fats: 7 grams