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.
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 summer time! It doesn’t get better than a “gooey messy burger”. The sweet potato fries were great. I also might eat our zucchini chips with this recipe or a simple fruit or vegetable on the side to supplement the sloppy joe.
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PrintCrock Pot Paleo Sloppy Joes Recipe
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.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 120 minutes
- Total Time: 135 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
- Category: Main Course
- Cuisine: Paleo
Ingredients
- 2 pounds Ground Beef
- 12 ounces Bacon {*} (sliced into 1/2″ pieces)
- 1 Onion (diced)
- 1 Bell Pepper (diced)
- Paleo BBQ Sauce (Look at ingredients on individual recipe)
- Paleo Buns (Look at ingredients on individual recipe)
Instructions
- In a large skillet, brown and crumble the ground beef. Add the beef to a slow cooker.
- 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.
- 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.
- Add the Paleo BBQ sauce ingredients to the slow cooker, stir well, and heat on low for 2 hours.
- Serve on My Paleo Hamburger Buns Recipe.
Keywords: ground beef, bacon, Paleo bbq sauce, Paleo buns
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Donner
May 22, 2018 at 9:59 amLove the blender idea!
★★★★★
Ushmana Palmo Rai
September 3, 2017 at 11:33 amBacon 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
★★★★★
Shannon Cotsworth
July 31, 2017 at 3:19 pmI 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.
★★★★★
Trish
September 3, 2016 at 7:31 amHi, I’m looking to do some make ahead meals. Have you tried freezing this? i would imagine it would be fine.
Thanks!
Rebecca
September 6, 2016 at 12:05 pmI 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.
Stef
January 14, 2016 at 4:21 pmI made these tonight and they were awesome. Does anyone know the fat, fiber, protein, and carbs info for this recipe for weight watchers??
Rebecca
January 21, 2016 at 7:05 pmI am sorry we don’t provide the information for our recipes at this time.
Christina
October 24, 2015 at 9:38 amDo yo have a recipe for the paleo buns you could share? I’d love to try these!!
Rebecca
October 24, 2015 at 3:38 pmThere is a link on the recipe but here it is also, https://www.mynaturalfamily.com/recipes/paleo-recipes/paleo-hamburger-buns/
Christina
October 27, 2015 at 7:40 amI must have missed the link when I look at it….thank you!!
Holiday
October 1, 2015 at 9:22 amHi 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?
Rebecca
October 1, 2015 at 10:51 amYou can totally just mix it all together, nice and easy.
Holiday
October 2, 2015 at 12:06 pmWe 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!
Rebecca
October 7, 2015 at 11:09 amI’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.
Lori R
September 13, 2015 at 1:32 pmYou 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?
Rebecca
September 16, 2015 at 4:34 pmThanks 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. 🙂
Lori R
September 21, 2015 at 9:16 pmThanks 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.
lorraine
July 13, 2015 at 9:10 amhow much of the Paleo barbeque sauce is used in the recipe? Thx
Rebecca
July 13, 2015 at 11:45 amFor 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
Shannon Cotsworth
September 16, 2014 at 6:07 amI 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.
Rebecca
September 29, 2014 at 5:18 pmIt 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!
Rebecca
August 31, 2017 at 2:35 pmThanks for the great tip!
Richard Kohout
September 2, 2014 at 10:08 amWhat 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,
Rebecca
September 2, 2014 at 10:56 amYes. 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.