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Diet Friendly Pulled BBQ Chicken

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So I’ve been a little adventurous this week with a new ingredient – White Wine Vinegar.  And I’ve had to be a little less kitchen-averse on this diet.  You just can’t pull out a bottle of BBQ sauce and expect to loose weight.  And this recipe?  I’ll never use a bottle of BBQ [...]

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Curried Chicken & Rice

This was a little different for our gang, but mommy loves curry! This isn’t AT ALL spicy, just the yummy flavor of a little curry thrown in for good measure.
You’ll need:

2 SL BL chicken breasts, cubed
1/2 Tbsp garlic powder
1/2 onion, chopped
Campbell’s Chicken and Rice Condensed Soup – GF in Canada- I’m not sure about [...]

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Fried Rice with Chicken and Broccoli

This came of necessity since I had about 8 cups of rice in the fridge!  I made a tad more than I needed last week.  lol

3 Tbsp oil (I use half olive, half canola)
3 defrosted skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cubed
1 carrot, thinly sliced
1/2 onion, thinly sliced
3 cups of broccoli (I used frozen)
4 cups of cooked [...]

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BBQ Chicken Quesadilla

One of my favorite lunches!
Ingredients (for 4 quesadillas):

4 small brown-rice tortilla wraps
2 Sl BL chicken breasts, sliced thin
1/4 each: green, red bell peppers, and onino, sliced
1 clove garlic, minced
4 tbsp Kraft Original BBQ Sauce
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
salsa & sour cream, if desired

Directions:

Stir fry veggies and chicken over medium-high heat with 1 Tbsp EV Olive [...]

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Low-fat, Low-point, gluten-free snacks

Hubs is just down-right ticking me off with all his weight loss.  He’s winning hands-down.  And don’t even try to tell me that it isn’t a competition.  If it is something we are both doing, then obviously its a competition.
Oh.
That’s not obvious?  Anyway, here’s my observations from raiding his gluten-free snack cupboard:
3-4% MF Cheese

Freybe Turkey [...]

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Cook Once, Eat Twice, Twice this Week

Let’s cook once, eat twice, twice this week! 
Skinless Boneless Chicken breasts:

Butterflied white meat breasts, with baked potatoes, salad, and peas
Warm Chicken Walnut salad, with raspberry vinaigrette & goat cheese

Extra Lean Hamburger:

Lasagne, caesar salad, corn on teh cob, and broccoli with toasted almonds and garlic
Soft Taco night.

Salmon

salmon, BBQ seasoned roasted potatoes, red peppers, broccoli, [...]

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I’m sick of bland!

I’m getting sick, sick, sick of skinless boneless chicken breast!  I mean, hubs does a fantastic job of grilling it perfectly, seasoned with garlic and rosemary, melt in your mouth, cut with a fork, type of SL BL Chicken breasts.  But enough already!  There’s got to be SOMETHING out there that is healthy and DIFFERENT!
I’m [...]

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Warm Chicken Walnut salad

This is so yummy, and gets those servings of veggies and protein in there too.

2 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cooked
3/4 cup walnut pieces
1/2 pkg spring salad mix (maybe 16 cups, loose)
3 cups red grapes, halved
1/2 cup thinly shredded goat cheese, optional (we used feta cheese)
Prepared Raspberry Vinaigrette

To prepare chicken, season and cook until JUST cooked.  [...]

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