Category: snacks
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Easy Two Serving Egg Salad
It is the time of year with longer days and lots of sunshine, and those of us with chickens know what that means: eggs, eggs, and more eggs! At the moment we have around 45 laying hens and two roosters (one for each coop, and they are both great at their jobs). Now that the…
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Perfect Instant Pot Hard-Boiled Eggs
The perfectly cooked and easily peeled hard-boiled egg is a goal anyone making deviled eggs or egg salad hopes to achieve. Since getting chickens a few years ago, I have tried various ways of boiling eggs to make this happen, and one of them has consistently worked the best: steaming the eggs in my Instant…
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Chocolate Protein Nut-Free Granola
Crunchy. Chewy. Chocolatey. Contains fiber, protein, antioxidants, and more. This, my friends, is the best granola I have ever tasted. As I have said before, I love granola but have a difficult time finding delicious types that don’t have tree nuts or coconut – I have an allergy. Learning to make my own has cleared up that struggle, and now I am trying out…
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Bread Machine Mini Sourdough Blueberry Bagels
My family LOVES bagels. We buy and eat them bags at a time. I am on a mission to try making our bread and snacks myself to cut out unnecessary ingredients and be more cost effective, and bagels are next on my list. My hope is that I can get into a groove with bagels…
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Cast Iron Skillet No Nut or Seed Sourdough Granola
Having tree nut and coconut allergies often makes finding healthy, homemade recipes for snack foods and baked goods challenging. Coconut oil and coconut flakes are used as healthy fat and flavor alternatives, and nuts are such powerhouses of protein, healthy fats, and other beneficial attributes, so when you start searching for “healthy recipes”, most will…
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