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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Recipes / Grassfed Recipes / Grass Fed Beef Recipes / Grassfed Beefaroni Recipe: Better than Chef Boyardee

Grassfed Beefaroni Recipe: Better than Chef Boyardee

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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beefaroni recipe, homemade beefaroniBefore I got into healthy eating, one of my very favorite processed foods was Chef Boyardee beefaroni. 

No kidding.

And don’t even get me started on Stouffer’s Macaroni and Beef frozen dinner. I just loved that stuff.

Canned or frozen dinners were quick and easy after a long, hard day at work when I was exhausted and way too whipped to even think about cooking a healthy dinner for my single self.  What’s really sad is I actually once thought that these dinners were healthy simply because I cooked them myself at home in the microwave!

My oh my, how far we have come, haven’t we?

I haven’t had either of these processed foods for well over 20 years, but I still love that beefaroni recipe mix of pasta and ground beef with tomato sauce. That much hasn’t changed.

As you begin your transition to Real Food, it is very important to be able to create healthy versions of the garbage foods that were once your favorites. This makes your transition much more likely to succeed and stick for the long haul.

Homemade Beefaroni

That’s exactly what I did with my beefaroni habit so that I could satisfy that desire for a mix of flavors I enjoyed but improve the quality of the ingredients, eliminate the additives, anti-nutrients, and very importantly, lose that microwave and induction stove!

While I don’t advocate pasta as a healthfood by any means, an occasional bowl of rice pasta is not a problem if one is healthy and not on the SCD, GAPS or AIP diet. We eat rice or sprouted pasta once or twice a month in our home, generally as rice mac and cheese or this beefaroni recipe dish I share below.

Do your kids like Chef Boyardee canned ravioli or frozen mac and beef? Try this Real Food beefaroni recipe alternative instead and see how they come back for more!

beefaroni recipe, homemade beefaroni
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Homemade Beefaroni Recipe

Healthy beefaroni recipe made with sprouted pasta and easy no cook tomato sauce that will get your kids off Chef Boyardee for good. With grain free options!

Course Main Course
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 6
Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sprouted pasta
  • 1 pound grassfed ground beef
  • 1/2 - 1 cup ketchup preferably organic
  • onion powder preferably organic
  • 2 cloves garlic minced, preferably organic
  • 1 cup tomato sauce

Instructions

  1. Prepare sprouted pasta as directed.

  2. Drain cooked pasta and stir in 1 cup of homemade tomato sauce. Set aside.

  3. Cook grassfed ground beef in a large frypan. While cooking sprinkle in a generous amount of onion powder and the 2 minced cloves of garlic.

  4. When grassfed ground beef is thoroughly browned, remove from heat (do not drain the beef fat, it's good for you!). Stir in the organic ketchup. Mix ground beef/ketchup mixture with the pasta and tomato sauce and serve.

  5. Be sure to refrigerate any leftovers. Great reheated for quick lunches or a thermos in the lunchbox.

Recipe Notes

Grain Free Option

If you wish to make this dish grain free, I recommend red lentil pasta. I've tried all the various types of grain free pasta, and I feel that this brand of red lentil pasta tastes best and has excellent ingredients with no hidden additives.

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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Category: Grass Fed Beef Recipes, Pasta Recipes
Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (54)

  1. Leanne nolen

    Mar 10, 2019 at 2:56 pm

    Can I make a big batch and can it?

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    • Sarah Pope MGA

      Mar 10, 2019 at 3:05 pm

      I’ve never tried this to know for sure. If you try it, let us know how it turns out!

  2. Ariane

    Feb 2, 2019 at 3:26 pm

    5 stars
    This was a hit with my husband and my 2 year old. I used garlic powder instead of cloves in the cooking. Then once it was on our plates we topped with lots of fresh snipped basil and raw minced garlic. You should give that a try, it was amazing!

    Reply
  3. Debbie Eisa via Facebook

    Apr 30, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    I can’t even put a number on how many cans of that stuff my sister and I, along with friends in our neighborhood consumed as kids. We also washed it down with tons of Kool Aid! When you know better you do better.

    Reply
  4. Lucia Paterra Catania via Facebook

    Apr 30, 2014 at 2:13 pm

    not in my house never!!!! “in my house home made only”

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