Cheese Ball

Plan Z Phase: This is a Z3 (ZReboot) recipe. Dieter Misty wrote to me asking for a cheese ball recipe. She was accustomed to making the one that uses the dry soup mix pouch. We checked the ingredient list of that pouch and gasped at all the garbage in the ingredient list. So I worked with Misty to come up with one that is all natural. REAL ingredients.

Ingredients:

• 8 oz of cream cheese, softened
• 2 cups of grated cheese (most folks use cheddar but you can use all kinds of flavors; pepper jack will make a spicy cheese ball)
• ¼ cup of dehydrated onions. You can buy them in the spice section. Or you could mince real Vidalia (mild) onion.
• ½ tsp of grated sea salt
• ¼ teaspoon of lemon pepper
• 1 tsp of onion powder
• 1/2 tsp of Truvia
• 1 cup of chopped nuts, optional

Instructions:

Add all ingredients to a medium sized bowl,  mix thoroughly and form into a ball.

Optional: Many like to coat their cheese ball with chopped nuts. Pecans are the traditional favorite or chopped peanuts might be fun, too. If you want to do this just form your cheese ball and roll it in the chopped nuts.

You can use Triscuits or veggies.  Celery sticks would be very easy and make perfect scoopers.

Enjoy!

Cheers,