What do you do when you are hungry and you have 10 minutes to eat and you have leftover baked beans in the fridge? Well you make a smashed baked bean avocado sandwich of course.

I know, I know this sandwich may seem a little weird if you are use to eating the regular type of sandwich with lunch meat and cheese. But stick with me here...there is another way to enjoy sandwiches with just a few healthy switches.

Why baked beans?

Baked beans are a great protein option and when you make your own you know exactly whats in them. We make homemade Mexican Baked Beans in the slow cooker at least once a month and then freeze the leftovers so we always have them on hand.  They taste so delicious in a sandwich!

Why avocado?

We always keep fresh avocado in our pantry, its really become our replacement for cheese. We feel lighter and have more energy when we eat avocado.  We had our first avocado about 8 years ago when we took our first trip to California.  In California avocados seemed to be everywhere.  

Have you every tried avocado in your meal instead of cheese?  If not the next time your are out grocery shopping pick one up and try it.  Your gonna love it.  Confession, we get really excited when we slice open avocado and its perfectly ripe, yessss we do.  

Why Ezekiel Bread and what the heck is it?  

Ezekiel bread is made with super good ingredients. We use Food for Life's Ezekiel bread because its organic, its made with freshly sprouted grains and contains absolutely no flour.    

Who wants to read labels together?  I do.  Go to your cupboard and grab your bread, I will grab mine as well...be right back.  Got it, these are the ingredients on the label of my Food for Life Ezekiel Sesame bread:

Organic Sprouted 100% Whole Wheat, Filtered Water, Organic Sprouted Barley, Organic Sprouted Millet, Organic Malted Barley, Organic Sprouted Lentils, Organic Sprouted Soybeans, Organic Sprouted Spelt, Fresh Yeast, Organic Wheat Gluten, Sea Salt, Organic Sesame Seeds.

Now your turn, what's on the label of your bread?  Do you see any chemical type ingredients or sugar/glucose-fructose?  If you do here is a challenge for you.  The next time you get you groceries, try Ezekiel bread.  We get our Ezekiel bread in the freezer section in our local health food store or in the healthy/natural row our local large chain grocery store. 

So delicious and good for you :)

Smashed Baked Bean Avocado Sandwich on Ezekiel Bread Recipe

By: saltsole.com

Serves: makes 1 serving

What You Need

• A couple of spoon fulls of Mexican Baked Beans (or any other baked bean that you like)
• 1/2 ripe avocado
• 1 pickle
• 2 tomatos slices
• 2 slices of Ezekiel bread (we used sesame for this sandwich) 

What To Do  

(1) Toast the bread.

(2) Smash the baked beans with the back of a fork on a small plate, slice open the avocado and scoop out half of it.

(3) Top with tomato and enjoy! 

Let’s Get Healthy Together

Get in the kitchen and give this recipe a try.

Enjoy

Let us know how it turns out for you.  Write us a comment or post a picture on instagram and tag us @saltsole, we wanna see it.

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Credit/Acknowledgement

Hand made napkins

• The lovely napkin was hand made by a good friend, you can check her out over at etsy - its sew Katrina