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Paleo Almond Flour Waffles

May 26, 2018 By Sonnet Leave a Comment

Every once a while, I need a lazy weekend afternoon.

In order to accomplish this, I wake up early to finish all the grocery shopping, laundry, and never-ending grad school homework… and hopefully that leaves me with a couple of hours of freedom. And, in that case? It means it’s time to watch old episodes of Parks and Recreation.

The only downfall of this plan? Well, for some reason Leslie Knope is obsessed with waffles and she mentions waffles so often that after four episodes, I’m craving… yep, you guessed it: waffles.

So, what’s a gal to do? I guess it means you have to give in and make these paleo almond flour waffles.

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