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Teach Me Tuesday | Homemaking Link-Up #99

Welcome to the 99th edition of our weekly homemaking link-up party: Teach Me Tuesdays! Each Tuesday, you're warmly invited to link up anything homemaking related from you own blog and mingle with others who've done the same.

How have you grown your home this week? Was it through gardening, preserving, baby-wearing, cooking, crafting, teaching your children, cleaning your house, loving your husband, or perhaps through something else the Lord has been teaching you? Encourage other aspiring Proverbs 31 women by linking up below. Share as many posts as you would like!

Bacon-Cheese Topped Chicken

I came up with this recipe shortly after we started eating the Trim, Healthy Mama way. It combines a few of our favorite flavors into one mouth-watering, plan-approved, protein-packed, tender piece of chicken.

Servings: 4

Baking Time: 25 minutes.

Gluten-free, sugar-free, nut free, soy-free

*For anyone else who's a THMer, this staple falls under the Satisfying category.

Ingredients:

1/4 cup Dijon mustard
1/4 cup olive oil
1 Tbsp Truiva (or plan approved sweetener)
2 tsp paprika
1 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp ground pepper
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, halved length-wise
2 cups sliced, fresh mushrooms
8 bacon strips
1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
fresh chives, snipped

Directions:

Mix mustard, olive oil, sweetener, paprika, sea salt, and ground pepper together in a bowl. Pour into a large, sealable bag and add chicken breasts. Toss to coat evenly. Marinate in the fridge for 2 hours (the longer, the better).

Fry bacon. Set aside on paper towel to absorb the excess oil. Discard all but 1 Tbsp of bacon fat. Saute mushrooms and cook chicken until lightly golden in bacon fat.

Arrange chicken in 8x8" baking pan. Wrap each breast with two strips of bacon to from an "X". Pour mushrooms over top and sprinkle with cheddar cheese. Garnish with chives.

Bake at 350 for 25 minutes.

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Linked up at: Trim Healthy Tuesdays.

10 Healthy Snacks Children Love

If you're on a mission to clean up your diet, getting your kids on board with the idea can seem impossible. If they're used to snacking on cookies, party-mix, Smarties, or packaged granola bars it can be frustrating for both of you to adopt healthier eating habits.

Thankfully, there are many scrumptious, nutritious recipes available that'll appeal to the pallet the same way junk food does. But instead of artery-clogging fats, refined sugars and flours, MSG, and simple carbohydrates, you'll be serving your child snacks that are loaded with nutrition and energy to help build a growing body.

Here are 10 snacks our kids love (and have no idea they're good for them!):