{"id":242,"date":"2016-01-04T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mamabearlove.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2016-01-28T09:14:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T17:14:32","slug":"day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthiermama.com\/day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 of Clean Eating, Homemade Mac and Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today for lunch I made one of my family&#8217;s all time favorites, whole chicken in the crock pot.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very quick for dish to make.\u00a0 I cut a large onion in half and put it on the bottom of the crock pot, add the whole chicken and spice it by following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.100daysofrealfood.com\/2011\/02\/25\/recipe-the-best-whole-chicken-in-a-crock-pot\/\" target=\"_blank\">this recipe<\/a> from 100 Days of Real Food.\u00a0 Let it cook for 4 hours in the crock pot on low and voila and succulent, juicy chicken every time.\u00a0 Personally I buy the whole organic chickens from Costco.\u00a0 I find that not only is the organic chicken better for me, but they taste much better too.\u00a0 I wish I could share a picture, but truth be told it always falls off the bone when taking it out.\u00a0 Of course that&#8217;s part of what makes it so delish.<\/p>\n<p>For dinner we had homemade mac and cheese.\u00a0 The whole recipe with grating the cheese and cooking the noodles only takes about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_257\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mamabearlove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-257\" src=\"http:\/\/mamabearlove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0006-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"The best homemade whole wheat macaroni and cheese\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthiermama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0006-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/healthiermama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0006-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/healthiermama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0006.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The best homemade whole wheat macaroni and cheese<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I can honestly tell you that Kraft Macaroni and Cheese has got nothing on this.\u00a0 I added peas, carrots, and green beans to it and even the kids loved it.\u00a0 I used a whole wheat elbow macaroni and followed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.100daysofrealfood.com\/2013\/04\/08\/recipe-creamy-whole-wheat-mac-and-cheese\/\" target=\"_blank\">this recipe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today for lunch I made one of my family&#8217;s all time favorites, whole chicken in the crock pot.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very quick for dish to make.\u00a0 I cut a large onion in half and put it on the bottom of the crock pot, add the whole chicken and spice it by following this recipe from 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[35,41,34],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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