3-Ingredient Low-Carb Ham & Pickle Bites {With Babe Dill Pickles Or Pickled Okra}

Easy 3-ingredient low-carb Ham & Pickle Bites ... made alongside infant dill pickles or pickled okra ... may exactly live the simplest picayune political party nutrient or snack around. And Ham & Pickle Bites are only delicious, too!

made alongside infant dill pickles or pickled okra 3-Ingredient Low-Carb Ham & Pickle Bites {with Baby Dill Pickles or Pickled Okra}

Sometimes it's the unproblematic things that are best.

In thinking close life, as well as how I similar to pass my time, I realize that what I relish most inwards life are the unproblematic things.
I don't similar a crazy-jam-packed schedule. I don't similar a hectic rat-race. I for sure relish fourth dimension alongside friends, as well as going to parties, as well as dinners out, as well as traveling as well as trips ... but at a practiced spaced-out-not-busy-all-the-time sort of pace.

My favorite times are inwards the kitchen baking a cake or batch of cookies. Or enjoying a drinking glass {or bottle!} of vino alongside my Mom. Robbing our bees alongside my husband. Or playing games alongside my family. Low-key, unproblematic sort of things.

Playing menu games as well as board games is something I've done alongside my household unit of measurement since I was a picayune girl.

I accept real fond memories of us all ... my Mom, Dad, brother, as well as me ... sitting around the picayune tabular array inwards our household unit of measurement room playing Monopoly, or Parcheesi, or Gin Rummy. And Canasta. Oh, how nosotros used to love to play Canasta! I haven't played inwards as well as hence long, that I wouldn't fifty-fifty know where to laid about now. My Dad as well as I used to play Cribbage all the time, too. And yet play some now. Though he beats me all. the. time. To this day, I intend I've alone beaten him 3 times inwards my life.

Playing games is yet something I love to do alongside my family.

Mom, Dad, as well as I accept a novel game we've started playing ... called Farkle. Here nosotros are playing Farkle on, like, a random Tuesday afternoon non besides long agone ...

Have y'all e'er played?

It's a unproblematic picayune die game that pretty much comes downwards to luck as well as guts. Roll die combinations that are worth points? ... your plow keeps going, as well as y'all proceed wracking upwards points. Having guts to proceed rolling = large points. But if y'all accept a curlicue alongside no scoring die combinations ... you're done! ... as well as y'all forfeit whatever accumulated points for that turn.

My Farkle philosophy = No guts, no glory! {And yeh, I likely shouldn't become to Vegas.}

Yes, similar getting together to play Farkle alongside my parents ... sometimes it's exactly the unproblematic things that are the best.

And similar these unproblematic low-carb Ham & Pickle Bites, too. Probably i of the absolute easiest picayune political party or snack foods y'all tin scope the axe make, but yet they're i of our absolute favorites.

It really doesn't larn whatever easier than Ham & Pickle Bites, made alongside exactly 3 unproblematic ingredients ham, cream cheese, as well as pickles.

You tin scope the axe brand these alongside either infant dill pickles or pickled okra ... both are great, but nosotros love them alongside okra the best.

So exactly how unproblematic are these? Very simple. Very very unproblematic indeed.

Just spread a deli ham spell alongside softened cream cheese as well as identify a infant dill pickle or pickled okra pod inwards the centre ...

... curlicue it upwards snug as well as tight ...

... identify 3 toothpicks, evenly spaced, into the pickle ...

... as well as role a sudden knife to cutting betwixt the toothpicks, creating 3 pieces. {Tip to create build clean cuts, wipe the knife alongside a newspaper towel subsequently each cut.}

And in that place y'all accept it Ham & Pickle Bites! All gear upwards to live served upwards for piece of cake as well as delicious snacking.

Simple, right?

For me, exactly similar the best things inwards life.

Ham & Pickle Bites {with Baby Dill Pickles or Okra}

Source: Adapted from Southern Living

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

Deli ham slices
Jar of infant dill pickles or pickled okra
Cream cheese*, softened {plain or onion & chive flavored}

Directions

Drain dill {or okra} pickles; blot dry out alongside newspaper towels to take away every bit much wet every bit possible.
Lay a ham spell out flat; spread alongside a sparse layer of cream cheese. Place a pickle or okra pod inwards the middle as well as curlicue up. Insert 3 toothpicks, spaced evenly apart. Repeat alongside remaining ham slices as well as pickles to brand your desired amount. Cover as well as refrigerate for close an hour. {Chilling sets the cream cheese a flake as well as makes the Ham & Pickle Bites easier to cut. If you're brusk on fourth dimension as well as wan to serve the bites immediately, y'all tin scope the axe skip the chilling step.}
Use a sudden knife to cutting betwixt the toothpicks, separating each curlicue into 3 pieces. {For build clean cuts, wipe your knife alongside a newspaper towel subsequently each cut.}

* You tin scope the axe role cream cheese sold inwards the 'brick' or cream cheese spread sold inwards the picayune plastic containers. Plain cream cheese tastes great, but nosotros intend chive & onion flavored cream cheese spread tastes fifty-fifty better!

Note We oftentimes run out the curlicue ups whole as well as relish them every bit snacks or for luncheon instead of every bit political party fare. We similar them alongside both dill pickles as well as okra, but similar okra best.

Enjoy!

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