Vegan Pizza

Butternut squash pasta

Ingredients:

-1 lg butternut squash

- raw sharp cheddar

- gluten free noodles

Directions: 

- poke holes in butternut squash, microwave for 8 mins

- cut in half, put on baking sheet, roast at 375 for 20 mins

- let butternut squash cool, add to blender.

- blend butternut squash until smooth

- boil gluten free noodles

- add butternut squash puree to gluten free noodles, top with raw cheddar cheese! 

This is a nice spin on mac and cheese! Healthy and tasty!

Pizza rolls

These are fairly low calorie, big on taste!

Ingredients: 

- egg roll wrappers

- turkey pepperoni

- pizza sauce

- light mozzarella cheese stick

Directions:

- take an egg roll wrapper, put 1/2 tbsp pizza sauce onto surface

- add 4 turkey peperoni and 1/2 string cheese

- roll up from corner to corner, tucking sides in (like a present) 

- bake at 425 for 10 mins

Enjoy! Make as many as your family likes! I used 1 pkg of egg roll wrappers, 1 1/2 pkg of peperoni and 1 pkg of string cheese for ours. It made extra for snacks later on.Kylie did these by herself! :)

Roasted Cherry tomatoes

Ingredients:

* 4 small containers of cherry tomatoes

* 5-8 basil leaves

* 2-3 tbsp olive oil

* salt and pepper to taste

-Pour tomatoes onto baking pan

- tear basil leaves onto tomatoes

- pour olive oil over tomatoes

- add salt and pepper

- mix together, I use my hands

- Bake at 375 for 10- 15 mins

Sometimes I add parm to this after its done baking!

This is very easy and very good!

Tomato, motz, arugula pasta salad

Ingredients:

* 2 boxes of penne

* arugula

* marinated mozzarella balls

* cherry tomatoes

 Mix all ingredients to your liking! I used 3 containers of marinated mozzarella balls, 2 boxes of penne, 2 containers of cherry tomatoes and about 2 cups arugula. The marinade from the mozzarella balls makes an excelent sauce! 

Sloppy joe casserole

Ingredients:

* 2lbs ground beef or turkey

* 1lg bag of tater tots or potato rounds

* 1 lg can of tomato paste

* yellow mustard

-Brown ground beef in a skillet, season according to your liking

- add can of tomato paste

- add 1/4 c of yellow mustard

- mix, turn off heat

- add sloppy joe mixture to casserole pan

- top sloppy joe mix with bag of tater tots

- bake at 375 for 20 mins!

My family really enjoyed this one! 

Chicken bacon ranch spaghetti squash pasta

Ingredients:

* 3 spaghetti squash

* 1 bottle Hidden Valley Ranch

* 1 pkg of chicken breast

* large bag of shredded cheese

* kraft parm cheese

* 1 pkg bacon

** set oven to 375, bake your chicken and bacon until done, make sure bacon is really crispy!

** While the chicken is cooking you need to cook your squash. All you do is take the squash one at a time, put into microwave for 11 mins. When each one comes out put it on cutting board and cut in half. Let cool.

** after squash is cooled scrape out seeds, then take a fork and scrape inside of squash. This should produce long strands of squash that look like spaghetti, do this to all 3 squash. Add spaghetti squash to baking dish.

** when chicken is done, let cool then tear into small pieces or cut into small cubes, add to baking dish with squash.

** crumble all bacon into baking dish with chicken and squash.

** Add your ranch, I used the whole bottle 

** add as much cheese as you like (I use alot) and mix all ingredients together in the baking dish.

** finally add more cheese to the top and bake for 20 mins at 375.

This was really good! I found this chicken, bacon ranch pasta dish I wanted to try but don't like eating pasta all the time. I decided to try and substitue spaghetti squash, it was just as good as any pasta! This is a good way to sneak veggies into your kids diet!