My homemade chicken nuggets are super easy to make, and only require a few minutes of hands-on dipping and frying time. Or, if your troops are already on board with real food, I hope this recipe will be a comfort meal to add to your meal plan, along with a vegetable or easy weeknight salad. Today’s recipe is one that I hope you’ll be able to use in your rallying-the-troops mission. Win them over with a basket full of homemade nuggets. In the beginning, the most important task of a real foodie is to rally the troops, and show them the delicious, homemade ways of real food. Yes, the long-term goal is to introduce more veggies ( like a simple side of roasted veggies), leafy greens, and maybe even kombucha and/or kefir. And trust me, rallying the troops is essential for making real food a long-term lifestyle. Once a family understands and tastes a juicy homemade burger and fries, homemade nuggets, or homemade macaroni and cheese, it’s much easier to rally the troops. Why do I recommend going the homemade alternative route in the beginning? Because that, my friend, is the easiest way to win a Standard American Diet family over to the real food side. Each week introduce a homemade alternative, or a “cleaner” store-bought option. Instead of throwing out the words chicken nuggets and waffles, make these comfort foods at home. My best advice is to ask the reluctant family members what kind of foods they love to eat, and then start making these foods at home. One of the most frequently asked questions I receive is how to “convert” a reluctant family over to the real food side. My answer is very simple, and a bit surprising to some people, but it guarantees real food success in the early days… Considering our former nugget addiction, it’s pretty amazing that it’s taken me nearly three years to share a chicken nugget recipe here on Live Simply. For my family, chicken nuggets made up a large portion of our processed food diet for many years (hello, food group size). Yes, chicken nuggets are technically a food, not a food group. Now, it’s time to move on to one of the biggest food groups in the American diet: chicken nuggets. A few weeks ago, we swapped out the processed, freezer-style waffles for real food waffles (aren’t they amazing?).
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