I realized lately, after noticing that I let two sweet potatoes rot, that I have forgotten all about the delicious orange tuber. How is that even possible? I got so wrapped up in other foods (mostly fruits, whoops) that I forgot about my favorite veggie. So I tossed the rotten ones (so sad) and got some pretty new ones. But those pretty new spuds didn’t deserve the same ‘ol treatment, they needed to be turned into something new and different.

Enter the twice baked potato. Typically, the twice baked potato is something you imagine being all white and starchy, smothered in bacon, cheese, and sour cream. Try to stop drooling right now. I was talking to me. But white potatoes are actually boring and sweet ones are not. Not debatable, it’s a fact. So twice baked potatoes with made sweet potatoes have got to be good, right? But what do you do when you cut out the cheese and sour cream? You don’t cry about it and you make it way more awesome.

That’s what I did tonight. But since us paleo folk love meat, I had to put some sort of animal on the potatoes, and chicken is what I had on hand. Chicken has the tendency to be boring and BBQ sauce was just the solution for that. I’m a sucker for good BBQ. It’s definitely one of my favorite non-paleo treats.

Oh, and before I forget, let me tell you one of the best parts about this meal. It can actually turn into THREE different meals! Yeah, crazy right? The actual recipe below only accounts for two, so let me tell you how to add the third meal. You just double the chicken. The recipe calls for only 3/4 lb of chicken, but if you bump that up to 1-1/2 lbs, or even 2 lbs, you can have everything ready for lunch and dinner the next day, with hardly any prep. Ok, so now I should explain the “how”.

Turn 1 Meal Into 3

Make the recipe as written below. Since you’ll be doubling the chicken, only use half of it for this recipe. Store the other half in a tupperware in the fridge. The next day, mix the shredded chicken with some Paleo Lime Mayo, chopped dill pickles, some salt and pepper, and enjoy a delicious chicken salad for lunch.

For a family of 4-5, you may only wind up consuming half of this recipe. That’s what we did, so there will be 4 potato skins leftover. Scoop all the potato out of the skins, mix it all together, and store in a tupperware in the fridge for dinner the next day. There will be a little prep needed for dinner.

For dinner the next day, you’ll need about 4 chicken breasts. Butterfly the chicken breasts and stuff them with the leftover sweet potato mixture saved from the night before. Close the chicken breasts, salt and pepper them, and secure with toothpicks. Bake at 350F for 25 minutes.

There you have it, two dinners and one lunch. I’m all about making my job easier here folks, and if that translates into easier meals for you too, then that’s just gravy. Paleo gravy, of course.