Bacon-Wrapped Pineapple Bites with Sweet & Sour Sauce

These Bacon Wrapped Pineapple Bites with Sweet and Sour Sauce are salty, sweet and so addicting! They’re An easy, healthy, paleo and whole30 appetizer!

I KNOW you’re ready to party it UP, and eat ERYTHANG with your hands. So, appetizers? YES PLEASE.

It’s a tradition in my household to make appetizers for Dinner on Christmas Eve. There’s usually Greek yogurt french onion dip, homemade crock pot chex mix, healthy California roll sushi bites  AND bacon wrapped water chestnuts.

Whiiiiich is where these SALTY, SWEET AND SO SO TANGY bites of bacon-y BLISS come into action. They’re like the classic, except without the water chestnut and WITH juicy bursts of pineapple and that thick, STICKY sauce that makes you go “heart eyes emoji” when you pop one into yo’ mouth.

See also: was inspired to make these bacon wrapped pineapple bites because I just RLY RLY like to wrap things in BACON.

It’s one of those things that if you think your recipe may not TOTALLY work, throw some salty goodness around that thang and, poof, face plant-able food in an instant.

I wonder if I could disguise some vegetables this way so that Mr.FFF would eat them…..ideas, you guys, ideas.

There is actually not a vegetable in sight here though, so let’s move along.

JUST KIDDING. There SORT OF is. I mean, can we count tomato sauce as  vegetable? I am going with YES because then it means we can get 20 of these bites in the name of getting daily vegetables. RIGHT? RIGHT.

How to make Bacon Wrapped Pineapple 101:

1. Cut your bacon into halves, WIDTH WAYS. Do not do length ways or the bacon is too thin.
2. Wrap it around a pineapple chunk. It WILL seem too big. But, once the fat cooks off the bacon, it will be PERFECT. PROMISE.
3. IMPORTANT: put a cooling rack on top of a tinfoil lined cookie sheet. This helps air circulate under the bites and makes them SO crunchy!
4. BAKE until ALMOST perfectly crunchy –> Add sauce –> Bake again.
5. EATTTTTTT.

Now that you know the basics, can we just talk about the sweet and sour sauce that is hugging each and every craveable bite of thesee of salty-sweet bacon wrapped pineapple bites? Yes, it IS the same sweet and sour sauce as the whole30 sweet and sour paleo meatballs.

You guys. This sauce tastes like the sweet and sour sauce of your childhood. EXCEPT without all the questionable ingredients. It’s thick and naturally sweetened with chewy dates and has this underying grape flavor from GRAPE JUICE, with spicy notes of tabasco and allspice in every bite.

I MEAN. Don’t you just want to go for a swim in that sweet, sticky sauce loaded with salty, pineapple wrapped in bacon-chunks-a-million? Maybe that’s just me though.

No worries. I’ll SWIM BY MYSELF.

So, let’s break down what we have going on in this bacon wrapped pineapple recipe:

1) Salty, CRISPY and kinda smoky bacon

2)  Sweet, juicy and VIBRANT pineapple.

3) SOUR and TANGY saucy goodness.

To be honest with you guys, I was a little hesitant about introducing my favorite meatballs sauce to some bacon wrapped appetizers. BUT,  You know what?

I <3 it even MORE poured over top of  these bacon wrapped pineapple bites It’s thick and sticky and run-down-your-face delicious. The tell-tale sign of a good sauce for me is when Mr. FFF has to wipe my face down like I’m 5 years old.

No face-wipeage = no Bueno in my books.

Bacon. Pineapple. Sauce. Face.

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