Green Beans with Bacon is an easy side dish that your family will love. {gluten free, keto, whole30, paleo}

I have a super easy side dish for you today → Green Beans With Bacon.

This is a must try, family favorite and I've even included a shortcut. I use precooked bacon...

Sorry I know it's a cheat and can be pricey but I love having bacon in the fridge that I can easily add to a dish without having to fry it. If I had to fry it for this dish I would simply leave it out. Not going to happen.

Make sure you find the nitrate free bacon, especially if you eat a lot of it.

We use Wellshire Farms. We even add it to our school lunches sometimes.

Here are some other ways to use pre-cooked bacon to make your life easier...

quick school day breakfast
add to pancakes or waffles
on a sandwich
in a salad
cooked with roasted veggies
on rice, risotto or quinoa
in soup
on a pizza

A few more fun and delicious ways to use bacon:

When I was little we would always get fresh green beans from my grandfather's farm and there was nothing like them.

Mom would slow cook them all day with lard, yes lard. So good!

She added raw onions and fresh heirloom tomatoes at the table and that was often the main dish for dinner. Ah, those were the days. Southern slow-cooked green beans are the best.

Anywho, my family prefers crisp, fresh green beans so I did a quick parboil before I sautéed them. It makes them tender and more palatable for the kiddos.

The bacon adds lots of salty, smokey flavor without a ton of oil. Sauté them longer if you want them to brown more.

If you have leftovers, add chicken or some other protein and have a green bean salad for lunch the next day.

Roasted Green Beans are also a must as well as a few other Roasted Vegetables that make an admirable side dish: