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Easiest Ever Spaghetti Sauce Recipe

June 23, 2015 By Gwen Brown 4 Comments

EASIEST ever spaghetti sauce recipe- just use these three ingredients and shake it in a jar!

This is my go to spaghetti sauce recipe in case we run out of the brand I like. I admit that I’m not a sauce snob by any means, but I do love a great convenience recipe that’s ready in a flash. This fits the bill! If you have visions of seeding fresh, plump sun-ripened…

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French Dressing Recipe Sugar Free

April 20, 2015 By Gwen Brown 42 Comments

a french dressing recipe that's sugar free, delicious, and made with simple ingredients

The French dressing recipe that I posted a few weeks ago is so yummy, but it’s sweetened with honey. Since French is my very, very favorite salad dressing, I had to come up with a sugar free version and this is IT! It’s zesty, and full of flavor, but you probably already have all of…

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Sugar Free Coconut Caramel Crunch

January 28, 2014 By Gwen Brown 44 Comments

This sugar free Coconut Caramel Crunch is the featured topping from last week’s Samoas Milkshake recipe.  In case you enjoy that one as much as I do, this bulk mix recipe will get you set to enjoy LOTS of Samoas milkshakes and save you lots of time.  Bulk mixes are my favorite…they are homemade convenience…

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Sugar Free Brown Sugar Recipe

December 3, 2013 By Gwen Brown 208 Comments

this sugar free brown sugar recipe is an awesome low carb alternative for all of your baking needs!

A sugar-free brown sugar recipe is not something you really ever think about until you are working on going low carb.  And the holidays hit.  And then it ranks right up there as a ‘need’ next to toilet paper and oxygen. “Wait…they MAKE that already,” you might say.  “There is a very tasty product called…

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Perfect Peanut Butter

July 9, 2013 By Gwen Brown 31 Comments

Perfect peanut butter recipe?  YES!  But I’m not just tooting my own horn here.  There’s a perfectly logical reason behind the name that I’ll get to later. All you really need to know right now is that it’s amazingly simple, and absolutely toasty-warm-creamy-licious-peanut-buttery perfection.  If you’ve ever tasted warm, freshly ground peanut butter at specialty…

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Taco Seasoning Recipe

July 2, 2013 By Gwen Brown 26 Comments

This Taco Seasoning Recipe is brought to you by special request this Tuesday. First, I want to tell you a little about WHY and HOW I got into making my own spice mixes. The WHY part is because I started reading about Monosodium Glutamate or MSG, and how frequently it’s used in our foods.  Not…

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Stevia Syrup Recipe

May 21, 2013 By Gwen Brown 104 Comments

I’m SO super excited to share this stevia syrup recipe with you! If you’ve missed my other posts about Trim Healthy Mama…my MOST FAVORITEST food book EVER…head over here and check out my Trim Healthy Mama book review. So, my kitchen, my diet, and my body have had a fantabulous makeover, and I’m just not going…

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Filed Under: Breakfast Recipes, Condiments, Spices, & Homemade Ingredients, Low Glycemic Sweets & Desserts, Recipes, THM Breakfast Recipes, THM Condiments, Spices, & Homemade Ingredients, THM FP Breakfast Recipes, THM FP Condiments, Spices, & Homemade Ingredients Tagged With: Awesome Sugar Free Recipes, coconut free, dairy free, egg free, gluten free, grain free, nut free, THM Sweet Sauces & Syrups, Trim Healthy Mama, Trim Healthy Tuesday

THM Chili Mix & E Style Chili Recipe

April 30, 2013 By Gwen Brown 43 Comments

This THM chili mix recipe is basically a re-working of my family favorite chili mix recipe.  I’ll give you the ‘test batch’ recipe, and the jar-full recipe, as well as a DELICIOUS E style chili with ground beef! Making the chili mix recipe in a big batch means it’s just as convenient and quick as…

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