Yesterday at work, our company had a chili cook-off benefiting the United Way. My two teammates and I decided on a Mean Girls (the movie) theme. What does Mean Girls have to do with chili? Nothing! But we decided that since our recipe was so fetch, we just had to build the theme around it!

I spent Thursday afternoon and evening making the chili, and Crissy and Jenny spent days making all the decorations and props. In the end, it turned out great, because while the chili didn’t win, our theme did!

One thing that I was adamant about was making sure the chili was Paleo, Keto, Whole30 compliant, and gluten-free. And, being that we are in Texas, no beans! What I didn’t expect was how many people reacted positively to being Paleo, Keto and Gluten Free (we didn’t call out Whole30, but that’s due to me forgetting more than anything else).

The point of this post is that even when you’re taking part in pot lucks, or having to bring food in for events, you can find a creative way to make it healthy and delicious. We did that for our chili cook-off, and people really liked our chili!