What a stupid name.
These bite size morsels of happiness are divine. And a perfect party platter appetizer. I ate them as a meal because I don’t like social situations. But if you like parties, and people, you should totally make these.
My allergies have become a sh*tshow. Even more of a sh*tshow than I was on Saturday at the bar. You see, I babysat a dog part of Saturday and for some reason, she has become the reason I can’t even think. I’m in a haze. She was in my car that day so every time I get in my car now, I can’t stop sneezing. I can’t breathe either. Am I dying? No. I just now know I cannot ever own a golden retriever. Ever. I would be in constant stuffy nose pain. Too bad. She was probably the sweetest dog I’ve ever met.
Thank god I lost my sense of smell though. I cleaned out about 10 pieces of tupperware from our fridge yesterday. 3 girls + 1 household = grosseness. I saw black mold. I saw green mold. I saw fuzzy mold. I saw creamy mold. Yeah, I just said creamy. Cantaloupe molding = creamy mold. I saw it with my own eyes. When sh*t gets that nasty in tupperware, I usually just throw it out. But tupperware is expensive. And I’m poor.
Guess what I’m doing?! Ok so since I’ve cut out nuts for a couple weeks now, I’ve decided to try the 21 day sugar detox by Balanced Bites. Why not? I love her and her site, so might as well trust her right!? Well, that’s not really why I’m doing it. It’s more to see if I can cut the sugar cravings. I craved nuts like crazy (go on and giggle, you’re hilarious) when I ate them a bunch, but now I don’t even think about them. Same thing with the sweets. I crave them because I have them too much. So I’m cutting out all sugars, including fruit for the next 21 days. I’ve gotten through one day so far and I haven’t fallen off the wagon! NBD. I am honestly doing this to just be healthier. I don’t expect or really want to lose weight, I just want to feel in control and not really crave sweets. What I do expect though, is to be taller, prettier, and extremely hilarious when I’m done with these 21 days. If that doesn’t happen, I’ll be eating a bag of chocolate chips every night for 21 days to make up for the bullsh*t that I pushed upon myself and the 21 days of happiness I missed out on. Nuts AND fruit?! What the hell am I going to cook this weekend when I’m not out at the bars?! Blasphemy.
I miss bananas.
Baby Pizza Bites
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
- 12 button mushrooms, wiped of any dirt and stems removed
- 1/2lb italian sausage
- 1 egg white
- 1/4–1/2 cup pizza sauce or no sugar added marinara sauce
Instructions
- Turn on your grill so it’s hot. Make sense.
- Wipe down your mushrooms and remove stems. Then place them stem side up on a plate.
- Throw your italian sausage in a bowl along with your egg white. Use your hands to combine it all together.
- Then make tablespoon size balls of the meat mixture and plop them into the cap of the mushrooms.
- Place on top rack of grill and cook for about 8-10 minutes or until sausage is cooked through.
- Top each mushroom and sausage cap with either hot or cold pizza/marinara sauce!
- Stick a toothpick in it and EAT IT. Careful, these b*tches get wicked hot.
Eeeeeat the babies.
These look so freaking good. I have all the ingredients too, so yay!
Looks yummy! Can’t wait to try these. BTW, Tupperware has a lifetime guarantee so put them in the sun or place newspaper in them to take out any odor after you wash them. If that does not work, then ask a rep to replace them. 🙂 I can’t imagine life without Tupperware since it is better on the environment then non-recycleable items (and I was a TPWR rep to support my habit! 🙂
Good luck on the 21 day; haven’t gotten up the nerve to try it yet (choc & fruit, crazy!!) so let us know how it goes!
Allergies, no nuts?, no sugars? and basically no alcohol?!!! Girl, I hope that at least you’re having crazy amounts of wild sex because you are my idol!. Good luck in your 21 days.
i wish that were the case Kristina, god i wish. but sadly no. i’ll just be day dreaming about nuts, sugar and sex instead.
These look great and good luck on the detox. I always cave at day 6. Stupid sugar. I wish I had your willpower.
Oh these look amazing! Great Idea, I might have to add a black olive inside the mushroom cap under the sausage to make them even more pizza like! I am totally making these! Are you going to write about your sugar detox, I would love to hear about it. Something I have always wanted to do but never had the guts to do it.
I’ve done the sugar detox–it was crazy hard, but it definitely helped kill some of my sweet toothiness. I hope you can come up with lots of detox-friendly recipes because I really need some more 🙂 i highly recommend trying the zuccini cakes.
I ate nuts while on my detox.
Oh, and dairy too because I’m not very hardcore.
Gosh that sugar detox sounds like something I need to do. So maybe I need to consume all that there is in the house so it’s no longer there. I CAN’T QUIT SWEETS! But maybe it is like you said, you eat it so much that you always want it. If I can get through WOD’s I should be able to do it too.
Since my body sucks at handling blood sugar and my love handles explode if I smell a cookie, I’ve cut out almost all sugar and fruit as well (for the time being). Trust me, if you load up on protein and fat, you’ll be good to go! I try for about .8g of protein per lb. of body weight and I’m so satiated all the time, it really helps with sugar cravings. When I’m really desperate, I’ll mix some cinnamon into canned coconut milk and eat that sh*t like pudding. It helps.
You’ll do great!
Yay these look so yummy! And I was trying to think of some sort of small protein addition for tonight’s dinner since I don’t have enough chicken breasts at home to fill my husband and still have leftovers for lunch 🙂 These will be perfect!
Hats off to you for giving up fruit; that would be a b*tch for me. Someone left 70+ bananas at work on Friday and I took 56 of them home, chopped them up, and put them in the freezer. I had banana “ice-cream” with almond butter and coconut milk on Saturday and ate (no kidding) probably 10 bananas on Sunday after a 2.5 hour endurance workout…Frozen banana bites are addicting.