You’ll never guess that this unbelievably creamy, cheesy mac and cheese is actually lightened up!
As bikini season is slowly coming to an end, I decided to make the best kind of comfort food of all: mac and cheese. With bacon. Lots and lots of crisp bacon bits mixed in and sprinkled on top because, well, everything is always better with bacon, right?
But to balance out all that bacon goodness, I lightened this up by swapping out just a few ingredients. For starters, I used Silk’s Unsweetened Original Almond Milk. It only has 30 calories per serving with absolutely no added sugar and 50% more calcium than dairy milk! Best of all, you can’t even taste the difference with all these goodies in here.
I also swapped out the sour cream for a little bit of Greek yogurt and it was just as creamy and rich. And with the addition of peas – well, there’s your serving of veggies!
No, but in all seriousness, this is my absolute favorite kind of mac and cheese. It’s rich, creamy and lightened up so you can have 2 servings instead of 1!
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Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Silk. All opinions expressed are my own.