Wednesday, April 22, 2015

A Trader Joe's Inspired G Free Cookbook

One day I was at Barnes and Noble looking for heart healthy cookbooks for my father-in-law. He had recently had a heart attack and needed to change some eating habits. While searching for the perfect cookbook for him (yes I found one: Betty Crocker's Heart Healthy Cookbook), I stumbled across a G free cookbook based entirely on Trader Joes:

How cool is that?!? I like Trader Joes. It's Whole Foods without the expense...although nothing replaces the awesomness that is Whole Foods. I purchased the book and set off to pick out some meals. 


The first one I tried out was their tacos. Pretty tasty. A little spicy, but yummy. This meal was hubs approved.


The next one I tried was the Honey Mustard chicken. This was pretty fantastic. The hubs really liked this one. I used all organinc products that I found at Trader Joes, Raleys and Costco.

The hubs made a side dish to go with this: 

Organic zuccini that has olive oil, garlic salt and cheese on it. Th then BBQ'd it. Delicious and healthy!


Pretty yummy!

The last meal I made from this book was Paella. I love paella. It's a Spanish dish that is pretty hard to mess up. You can add all sorts of things to it. 

This is the first time I made paella not using my special paella pan, so that felt weird. But the meal turned out really good! I need to make some more things out of here. They have breakfasts, lunches, dinners, desserts and side dishes! All items in the cookbook can be found at Trader Joes. It's a really cool book. Some of the items are easy to make and some, not so much. Be sure to read the recipe all the way through.

Enjoy~





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