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Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl Salad

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This Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl Salad is so full of fresh flavor it will be your new go-to healthy and hearty meal! Use left over chicken breast, or rotisserie chicken, and this healthy and hearty meal can be made in under 10 minutes flat!This Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl Salad is so full of fresh flavor it will be your new go-to healthy and hearty meal! Use left over chicken breast, or rotisserie chicken, and this healthy and hearty meal can be made in under 10 minutes flat!

This Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl Salad is so full of fresh flavor it will be your new go-to healthy and hearty meal! Use left over chicken breast, or rotisserie chicken, and this healthy and hearty meal can be made in under 10 minutes flat!So over the last few weeks something miraculous has happened….. Cricket decided she is no longer a picky eater and now she eats everything and anything… Really! It’s so strange and I can’t figure out what happened. She just decided she likes food after 11 years. Go figure?!

This Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl Salad is so full of fresh flavor it will be your new go-to healthy and hearty meal! Use left over chicken breast, or rotisserie chicken, and this healthy and hearty meal can be made in under 10 minutes flat!Now this was the dog that only ate fresh grilled chicken and steak, and would turn her nose up to pretty much anything else. Every time we went through a drive through and Cricket would get a Milkbone from an eager drive-through window worker, she would turn up her nose is disdain, and I would have try to make up some excuse of why my dog is acting like such a snob.

But then, she woke up one day (not so long ago) and everything seemed to change. Maybe it’s all the cooking I do? Maybe she is just getting senile in her old age? But whatever had happened she is now a food hound for sure. In fact, I just fed her a RAW CARROT the other day and she scarfed it down like it was a tender piece of filet mignon. Yes way!

This Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl Salad is so full of fresh flavor it will be your new go-to healthy and hearty meal! Use left over chicken breast, or rotisserie chicken, and this healthy and hearty meal can be made in under 10 minutes flat!You know, I can relate to her insatiable hunger. You know, I feel that way a lot of the time too! I try to eat healthy, but sometimes I’m left feeling hungry, actually hangry, which is far worse for whoever is around. haha.

That is where this lovely Chipotle Chicken Burrito Salad Bowl comes in! This super tasty and nutritious salad is packed with flavor and fresh zesty ingredients, and the best part of all is it really fills you up! It has chicken and beans (omit if paleo) for protein, and lots and lots of veggies that provide fiber and nutrients. It makes a great lunch and its easy to whip up especially if you have left over chicken in the fridge!

Cricket loves this salad too. I gave her her own, and she scarfed the whole thing down including the lettuce! I guess she isn’t the best food critic anymore since she has become such an indiscrimitory eater, but I promise this Chipotle Chicken Burrito Salad Bowl is awesome!

This Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl Salad is so full of fresh flavor it will be your new go-to healthy and hearty meal! Use left over chicken breast, or rotisserie chicken, and this healthy and hearty meal can be made in under 10 minutes flat!

Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl Salad

This Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl Salad is so full of fresh flavor it will be your new go-to healthy and hearty meal! Use left over chicken breast, or rotisserie chicken, and this healthy and hearty meal can be made in under 10 minutes flat!

  • 1 cup mixed mesclun lettuce (or lettuce of choice)
  • 1/4 cup cauliflower rice (comes already riced in a bag at Trader Joes! or sub regular rice if you eat it)
  • 1/4 cherry tomatoes (quartered)
  • 2 tablespoons red onion (chopped)
  • 1/4 cup shredded cheese (pasture-raised preferably, or omit for paleo)
  • 1/4 cup black beans (omit for paleo, drained and rinsed)
  • 1/2 cup rotisserie or grilled chicken (chopped or shredded)
  • 1/2 teaspoon chipotle chili powder
  • 3 tablespoons of sour cream (paleo use cashew cream, see below)

Avocado Crema:

  • 1/2 avocado
  • 3 tablespoons sour cream (or cashew cream)
  • 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • optional: 1 tablespoons cilantro (chopped for ganish)
  1. In a bowl combine the chopped/shredded chicken, chipotle powder, and 3 tablespoons of sour cream (or cashew cream), mix well.
  2. In another bowl combine the avocado, sour cream (or cashew cream), and lime juice, and blend vigorously by hand with a fork or use a hand blender. (add a pinch of salt)
  3. Layer the salad by placing the lettuce in a salad bowl and top with the other ingredients (rice, tomatoes, red onion, cheese, beans).
  4. Next top with the chipotle chicken mixture.
  5. Next add a bit of extra sour cream (or cashew cream) and avocado crema to top it all off, You can also drizzle a bit of olive oil on top to and sprinkle with cilantro. Enjoy!

This Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl Salad is so full of fresh flavor it will be your new go-to healthy and hearty meal! Use left over chicken breast, or rotisserie chicken, and this healthy and hearty meal can be made in under 10 minutes flat!

Rainbow Frozen Fruit Cake

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These mini Rainbow Frozen Fruit Cakes are simply stunning! In addition to being beautiful, they are made with 100% fruit and nothing else, making them a healthy and nutritious dessert.These mini Rainbow Frozen Fruit Cakes are simply stunning! In addition to being beautiful, they are made with 100% fruit and nothing else, making them a healthy and nutritious dessert.

Summer is winding down, but here in California, it is still hot, hot, hot!

Summer is my favorite season, and always has been. Maybe it’s because I associate summer with vacations at the beach, summer camp, and no school. I still get the end-of-summer blues even though I haven’t been back to school in quite a few years (ok, it has been WELL over a decade). haha.

These mini Rainbow Frozen Fruit Cakes are simply stunning! In addition to being beautiful, they are made with 100% fruit and nothing else, making them a healthy and nutritious dessert.When I think of summers past there are so many memories that come to mind, and being a food fanatic, many of them do involve something you can eat! Ice cream, Carvel ice cream cake, push pops and fruit popsicles are my favorite sweet and cool treats.  What are yours?

These mini Rainbow Frozen Fruit Cakes are simply stunning! In addition to being beautiful, they are made with 100% fruit and nothing else, making them a healthy and nutritious dessert.The ice cream truck was another marvelous highlight of summer. The small white truck would rumble down our street playing the “ice cream jingle” and all the kids would come running, smiling from ear to ear. I remember standing in line and contemplating which frozen novelty I should get- perhaps a Drumstick? or the Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Bar? Froz Fruit Bar with the whole strawberry chunks hidden inside? There were just too many to choose from, but you could never go wrong!

Froz Fruit bars were definitely one of my all time favorites! Does anyone remember those delicious pops? Strawberry, pineapple, and watermelon were some of my top choices in Froz Fruit flavors. Yum!

These mini Rainbow Frozen Fruit Cakes are simply stunning! In addition to being beautiful, they are made with 100% fruit and nothing else, making them a healthy and nutritious dessert.In honor of my undying love for Froz Fuit bars I have created these sweet and super cute 100% fruit mini cakes. If you have problems deciding on a flavor, no worries, because now you can have them all at once! Pick your favorite fruits and layer them to your liking.

They are made with 100% pure fruit, with no added sugar, so they are super healthy. I prefer to use frozen fruit, as opposed to fresh, as it tends to be sweeter and creates a more concentrated, less watery, frozen fruit cake.

These mini Rainbow Frozen Fruit Cakes are simply stunning! In addition to being beautiful, they are made with 100% fruit and nothing else, making them a healthy and nutritious dessert.I made these mini Frozen Fruit Cakes in ramekins for the perfect personal-sized cake, but you are welcome to make a large cake in a spring form pan if you wish!

And if you have leftover fruit, be sure to make some Frozen FRUIT ICE with the extras! Pour seltzer over this colorful and flavorful ice to make a healthy and fruity soda.

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Happy Summer 🙂

Rainbow Frozen Fruit Cake

These mini Rainbow Frozen Fruit Cakes are simply stunning! In addition to being beautiful, they are made with 100% fruit and nothing else, making them a healthy and nutritious dessert.

  • 1 bag of frozen strawberries
  • 1 bag of frozen mango
  • 1 bag of frozen pineapple
  • 4-5 kiwis (couldn’t find them frozen)
  • 1 bag of frozen blueberries
  1. Allow your frozen fruit to thaw fully (or microwave it for a few seconds until thawed).
  2. Grease 4 ramekins with a bit of coconut oil (or something similar) to make the cakes easier to remove.
  3. Peel the kiwis and cut them into chunks.
  4. Next blend each fruit separately in the blender, and place into separate bowls. Add a bit of coconut water if needed to blend,(but I did not need any) to get a smooth fruit puree.
  5. If you want fruit chunks, set aside a few whole pieces of each fruit, and cut up into small chunks.
  6. Layer each fruit puree in the ramekin to create a rainbow.
  7. Freeze for 2+ hours or until fully set.
  8. When you want to serve them dip the glass ramekin into a bowl of hot water for a few seconds to loosen the frozen fruit cake, and use a butter knife to gentle dislodge the cake.
  9. Serve and enjoy!

These mini Rainbow Frozen Fruit Cakes are simply stunning! In addition to being beautiful, they are made with 100% fruit and nothing else, making them a healthy and nutritious dessert.