BEEF & VEGGIE SLOPPY JOES w/ CARROT FRIES

On T-Rex Tuesdays, I make a meal with meat. I've really been craving a good ol' Sloppy Joe recently so that's what we had last night (and Scott ate 3!!!). I made some carrot fries too.

Sloppy Joes: 4 servings

• 1 lb of lean ground beef or turkey 
• 1 small sweet onion, diced tiny
• 1/4 red or orange bell pepper, diced tiny
• 1/4 C carrots, diced tiny
• 3 cloves of garlic, minced
• 1 t dried mustard
• 1/2 t smoked paprika
• 1/2 t brown sugar
• 1 1/2 t Worcestershire sauce 
• 1 C ketchup
• 2 T water
• salt and pepper

Cook ground beef over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Then add in the onion, pepper, carrots, and garlic. Cook until meat is cooked through and then drain any grease. Add remaining ingredients, stir, and simmer for about 15 minutes.

Carrots Fries

• carrots
• coconut oil 
• salt and pepper

Slice carrots (long or mini) into fries. Mix carrots, salt and pepper, and coconut oil in a bowl. Spread out on a baking sheet and cook at 450* for about 30 minutes (stirring occasionally).

(You want to use WAY more carrots than you think you can eat. Like, cut as many as you think look right and then double that. For two servings, I cut about 3 C of carrots and used about 1/2 T of coconut oil.)