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Crock Pot Paleo Sloppy Joes Recipe

December 10, 2017 //  by Rebecca Baron 24 Comments

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This is a really good crock pot Paleo sloppy joes recipe which is made from scratch without the high fructose corn sugar and other nasty ingredients. These Paleo  Sloppy Joes were SO good. How can they not be? I mean, they have BACON! I was really surprised by how much the whole family loved these Paleo Sloppy Joes.  We only had half a serving left and I devoured it for lunch. The leftover filling was so good served on top of the sweet potatoes for lunch.

Crock Pot Paleo Sloppy Joes Recipe {Clean Eating, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free}

I really like the contrast of the strong flavor of the Paleo BBQ Sauce with the plain Paleo Hamburger Buns. One of the nice things about these Paleo sloppy joes and that I’ve served them lots of times to my family that thinks I’m weird for eating Paleo and they could care less they are Paleo.

Basically, they are just homemade and they are way better than the sloppy joes I grew up eating that sauce my mom made from a packet. I hated those. I’m actually kind of surprised that I even attempted to make homemade sloppy joes, but my daughter had them at a friend’s house one night and loved them, so I thought I would give it a try. Boy! I’m glad I did. These are a staple now at our house.

I’m often too lazy to make the Paleo hamburger buns, so I’ll just eat it out of the bowl plain with veggies or on a baked sweet potato and let my children use some whole wheat bread to eat with them. Or I serve them at a family party with “real” hamburger buns.

The homemade sauce tastes so much better than the canned stuff and it’s easy to make. I like to blend up the onion and pepper so my kids don’t know they are in there, but you still get the flavor from them.

This took a little bit longer to make all of the different parts but it was nice because I already the sauce made and the buns don’t have to cook very long. I served the Paleo sloppy joes with roasted sweet potato fries.

This is a great recipe for the summertime! It doesn’t get better than a “gooey messy burger.” I also might eat our zucchini chips with this recipe or a simple fruit or vegetable on the side to supplement the sloppy joe.

Can you freeze these Sloppy Joes?

This is a good example of a freezer recipe we make often in our house. How I do it is use four pounds of 80% ground beef and one pound of ground turkey meat. I just put it straight in the slow cooker without unthawing it first (if the meat was frozen) and put it in a big hunk. I put it on high and let it cook for two hours or so and then scoop out all the fat at once with a large spoon or ladle.

Then the meat is ready to break up. Since it is mostly cooked when I do it, I usually only have to break it up about two times. Once the meat is cooked I add the rest of the ingredients. To save money I buy the #10 cans of tomatoes from Costco for like $3 and blend them real quick in the blender because I want the tomatoes to be really smooth like how sloppy joes traditionally are.

If I have any leftover tomato “sauce” I put it in 2 cup containers and then the next time a recipe calls for a can of tomatoes, I pull a container from my fridge. Or, more often I use it for pizza and just use some and put it back in the freezer. You could easily spend $10 on that many tomatoes otherwise and this way there is no waste. I still can’t believe it’s that cheap for that many canned tomatoes at Costco!

Then we eat fresh that night and freeze the leftovers in individual containers after it has cooled down. My children and even I love to pull a serving out and eat it for lunch or dinner when we are in a hurry.

I buy buns or rolls and leave them in the fridge if I think they will be eaten in the next two weeks to add to them. I still haven’t tried to freeze sweet potato fries so let me know if you have tried that but I love to fill my oven with sweet potatoes and bake a bunch all at the same time, put them on the counter to cool then scoop them out with a spoon, put them in a bowl and mash them real quick with a fork before I put them in individual freezer containers.

I’m not much of a bun person so my favorite thing to do is pull out a serving of sweet potatoes and top them with a serving of sloppy joes. It tastes the same as when I cooked the food fresh aka it tastes like I cooked it all day. It’s good enough I would serve it for company. Seriously.

On the side, I serve roasted vegetables. I’m not sure why I bother freezing them. They only last a few days in my freezer because once my children find them, they disappear really quickly.

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I would love to know if you make these and what you think. Please comment below and let me know!

Paleo Sloppy Joes

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Crock Pot Paleo Sloppy Joes Recipe

Paleo Sloppy Joes Recipe

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5 from 3 reviews

This homemade sloppy joe sauce tastes so much better than the canned stuff and it’s easy to make. I like to blend up the onion and pepper so my kids don’t know they are in there, but you still get the flavor from them.

  • Author: Rebecca Baron
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 120 minutes
  • Total Time: 135 minutes
  • Yield: 8 1x
  • Category: Main Course
  • Cuisine: Paleo
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Ingredients

  • 2 pounds Ground Beef
  • 12 ounces Bacon (sliced into 1/2″ pieces)
  • 1 Onion (diced)
  • 1 Bell Pepper (diced)
  • Paleo BBQ Sauce
  • Paleo Buns

Instructions

  1. In a large skillet, brown and crumble the ground beef. Add the beef to a slow cooker.
  2. Add the diced bacon to the same pan the beef was cooked in(no need to wash) and cook until it is just starting to brown.
  3. Add the onion and green pepper to the bacon and saute until the bacon is fully cooked, and the onion and pepper are soft and translucent. Add the bacon, onion, and pepper to the slow cooker.
  4. Add the BBQ sauce ingredients to the slow cooker, stir well, and heat on low for 2 hours.
  5. Serve on my Paleo buns.

Keywords: savory, healthy

 

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Comments

  1. Donner

    May 22, 2018 at 9:59 am

    Love the blender idea!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  2. Ushmana Palmo Rai

    September 3, 2017 at 11:33 am

    Bacon and ground beef? Sloppy Joes? YUM!
    Very mouthwatering and with so much less ingredients! Boy, am I lucky to have found your blog! Keep sharing more!xx

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  3. Shannon Cotsworth

    July 31, 2017 at 3:19 pm

    I used turkey bacon and turkey meat instead. This was amazing and easy to do. My fiancé even loved it. We used tortilla instead of bread. Amazing. This is going to be a big hit at my next work pot luck.

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  4. Trish

    September 3, 2016 at 7:31 am

    Hi, I’m looking to do some make ahead meals. Have you tried freezing this? i would imagine it would be fine.

    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Rebecca

      September 6, 2016 at 12:05 pm

      I haven’t, but I would think it would be fine too. Please let me know if you try so other readers will know how it turned out.

      Reply
  5. Stef

    January 14, 2016 at 4:21 pm

    I made these tonight and they were awesome. Does anyone know the fat, fiber, protein, and carbs info for this recipe for weight watchers??

    Reply
    • Rebecca

      January 21, 2016 at 7:05 pm

      I am sorry we don’t provide the information for our recipes at this time.

      Reply
  6. Christina

    October 24, 2015 at 9:38 am

    Do yo have a recipe for the paleo buns you could share? I’d love to try these!!

    Reply
    • Rebecca

      October 24, 2015 at 3:38 pm

      There is a link on the recipe but here it is also, https://www.mynaturalfamily.com/recipes/paleo-recipes/paleo-hamburger-buns/

      Reply
      • Christina

        October 27, 2015 at 7:40 am

        I must have missed the link when I look at it….thank you!!

        Reply
  7. Holiday

    October 1, 2015 at 9:22 am

    Hi Rebecca. I’m making your sloppy joes tonight, and I’m wondering if I need to make the bbq sauce separately and then add it to the crockpot, or should I just put the individual ingredients for the sauce in the crockpot and cook that way?

    Reply
    • Rebecca

      October 1, 2015 at 10:51 am

      You can totally just mix it all together, nice and easy.

      Reply
      • Holiday

        October 2, 2015 at 12:06 pm

        We had the sloppy joes last night and they were DEILISH! I’ve made three of your recipes now, and loved them all. Thank you for sharing!

        Reply
        • Rebecca

          October 7, 2015 at 11:09 am

          I’m glad you like them! I make them a lot for my family, especially for parties. I think I’m going to make them for my Halloween night party so when we get back from Trick or Treating, dinner will be ready to go and my husband can eat it while he stays at home to answer the door.

          Reply
  8. Lori R

    September 13, 2015 at 1:32 pm

    You mention for the BBQ sauce used with the Sloppy Joes to “Increase the lemon juice to 1 TBL”. However, when I click the link for the BBQ sauce recipe, it doesn’t have any lemon juice. So what is the correct amount of lemon juice?
    You also mention to “Omit the 2 spice blends from the BBQ sauce recipe, but again the BBQ sauce recipe doesn’t have any spice “blends”. I only see onion powder and smoked paprika in the sauce recipe. So do we just omit the onion powder and use the garlic powder in its place and just use less of the paprika?

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    • Rebecca

      September 16, 2015 at 4:34 pm

      Thanks for letting me know and sorry for the confusion, we recently improved our BBQ sauce and so we forgot to remove that. For the Sloppy Joes make the BBQ sauce exactly how it is now shown. 🙂

      Reply
      • Lori R

        September 21, 2015 at 9:16 pm

        Thanks for clearing that up. I look forward to trying this. My daughter’s favorite meal is sloppy joes, but I haven’t made them since going paleo due to the brown sugar previously used.

        Reply
  9. lorraine

    July 13, 2015 at 9:10 am

    how much of the Paleo barbeque sauce is used in the recipe? Thx

    Reply
    • Rebecca

      July 13, 2015 at 11:45 am

      For this recipe we make one batch of our Paleo BBQ Sauce: https://www.mynaturalfamily.com/recipes/paleo-recipes/paleo-bbq-sauce/ and put it with this recipe. One to one ratio. 🙂 Hope that helps

      Reply
  10. Shannon Cotsworth

    September 16, 2014 at 6:07 am

    I used turkey bacon and turkey meat instead. This was amazing and easy to do. My fiancé even loved it. We used tortilla instead of bread. Amazing. This is going to be a big hit at my next work pot luck.

    Reply
    • Rebecca

      September 29, 2014 at 5:18 pm

      It really is good and easy, huh? I can’t figure out why you would need to buy a packet or use something from a can. This recipe is so good and easy and healthy!

      Reply
    • Rebecca

      August 31, 2017 at 2:35 pm

      Thanks for the great tip!

      Reply
  11. Richard Kohout

    September 2, 2014 at 10:08 am

    What do you mean when you say ‘blended’ for the peppers and onions. Do you actually put them in a blender (would think they turn into mush that way)? Or are they just to be finely diced?
    Thanks,

    Reply
    • Rebecca

      September 2, 2014 at 10:56 am

      Yes. I just blend them in the blender so it’s like a sauce. You get lots of flavor and the kids don’t see chunks. They just like the flavor.

      Reply

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