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!

Crockpot deer burger, broccoli, pasta alfredo

Ingredients-

*1 1lb pkg deer burger

* 1 small bag of frozen broccoli

* 4 jars of your favorite alfredo

 sauce

* 2 small boxes of favorite pasta (I used gluten free)

This recipe is really easy, I use recipes like this on nights when i'm working late or have sports. The only prep is to brown the deer burger, once browned add to crockpot. Mix all the rest of the ingredients in, set on high for 3 hours. If you are going to need to to cook longer just set it on low!