Crockpot Chicken Supreme

I found this recipe at about.com. The recipe is not mine or the picture. However, it is so good and easy. My husband was very impressed. (YEA!) It's eleven points for for one whole breast or two halves. I used slices of 2 percent Velveeta to lower the points.

http://busycooks.about.com/od/chickenrecipe1r/chixsupreme.htm

You can substitute different types of cheese and different flavors of condensed soup to change the flavor of this fabulous, easy slow cooker recipe.

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 6 hours

Ingredients:
3 slices bacon
6 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
10 oz. can condensed cream of chicken soup OR 10 oz. jar four cheese Alfredo sauce
4 oz. jar sliced mushrooms, drained OR 1 onion, chopped
1/2 cup diced Swiss or Havarti cheese

Preparation:In large skillet, cook bacon until crisp. Remove bacon from skillet and drain on paper towels. Crumble bacon and set aside in refrigerator.

In bacon drippings in skillet, cook chicken over medium heat 3-5 minutes or until light brown, turning once. Place in 4-6 quart slow cooker. Top with mushrooms. In skillet, heat soup and pour over mushrooms and chicken. Cover and cook on low setting for 4-5 hours, or until chicken registers 165 degrees F on a meat thermometer.

Top chicken with cheese slices and sprinkle with bacon. Cover and cook on high for 10-15 minutes or until cheese is melted. 6 servings

Note: Author of recipe recently started cooking this dish using frozen chicken breasts. Brown them, as directed, in the bacon drippings, then cook on low for 6-8 hours, until no longer pink in the center.

P.S. It's been a really bad week. This is my best I can do for checking in for the healthy you challenge.

Easiest Omelet Low Points Yummy

Easiest Zip'N Steam Omelet for 3 points. (It's Big) In a Medium Zip'n Steam bag pour 1 cup of egg beaters into bag. Add onions and tomatoes, as you like. Add 1 slice of cut up 2% cheese into bag. Add salt and pepper. Cook for 3 1/2 minutes to 4 1/2 minutes. Just keep looking at it till it looks done in your microwave. It's so YUMMY! (I've heard regular eggs work, also)

Garlic Potatoes

The Ziploc Zip'n Steam are definitely worth trying for a delicious, healthy vegetable side dish. I have tried them with fish and chicken, but didn't like them as much. I made potatoes in them the other night. I sliced up potatoes so they were a quarter inch thick. Through in some garlic salt, about two tablespoons of bottled garlic and brushed the potatoes with a little bit of olive oil. (Just a bit of garlic on the brush, and spread it around) Then I shook the bag up really good. Then I followed the directions on the bag for cooking in the microwave. They were so delicious.

Broccoli and Cheese Soup w/ tomato

Ingredients:

2 lbs of frozen broccoli
1 can of tomatoes w/ green peppers and onions in mixture.
10 oz Light Velveeta cheese.
Two 14 1/2 oz can of chicken broth.
2 tablespoons of flour
5 Teaspoons of powdered creamer.

salt to taste

Directions:
combine broccoli, tomatoes and broth.
Bring to boil. simmer 10 minutes.
Add cheese, flour, and creamer.
Puree in blender.

salt to taste.

2 points a cup. Makes 10 one cup servings.

This is so good!! Also, it's easy. It's a great recipe to do with kids. Also, kids loved eating it.

Source=weight watcher's message boards, however so altered it's not hardly recognizable.

Veggie Dip

Spicy Veggie Dip

1 tub of fat free sour cream
1 block of fat free cream cheese
About a cup of medium-hot salsa

Beat the sour cream and fat free cream cheese, add the salsa. This was really yummy and the total was 11 points for the entire bowl which made a ton. I ate almost half the bowl with fresh veggies and so I counted it as 5 points.

Commentary:

Why am I posting such an easy recipe? Mostly because I made most of it up myself. I had an original recipe that called for fat free yogurt, but since the store was out of plain fat free yogurt, I substituted the sour cream and cream cheese. I'm feeling really good about my cooking lately. As a french fry and hot dog cook, I think I'm really seeing some benefits of expanding on my cooking adventures.

I'm going to keep up with the dip and veggies because it's a great way to get the Weight Watcher's required veggies in.

Bell Pepper Tomato Soup

I forgot to mention I made really good 1 point tomato soup. It's from Weight Watchers and called Bell Pepper-Tomato soup. It's not to hard, but made me feel like a master chef.

2 tsp olive oil
2 medium garlic cloves, minced
1 medium onion diced
1 medium carrot chopped
1 1/2 tsp herbes de Provence. (Internet search gave me easy recipe for this her mixture)
3 medium sweet peppers orange or red sliced
14 1/2 oz can of chicken broth
28 oz can of crushed tomatoes
1 tsp of salt
1/2 cup of fat free creamer or fat free half and half. (I used powdered fat free coffee creamer)
1/2 tsp of black pepper
1 tsp sugar

In large pot, heat oil over medium heat. Add garlic, stir until fragrant about 1 minute. Add onion and carrot. cook until onion is tender about 5 minutes.

Add herbes de Provence, cook stirring until fragrant about 1 minute. Add peppers cook until begins to soften about 5 minutes. Add broth and tomatoes.

Bring to a boil. cover, simmer for 25 minutes. Stir in salt, pepper, creamer, sugar. Puree in small batches, briefly reheat if needed.

Yields eight 1 cup servings of 1 point value.

So YUMMY!

Brownie Bites

Ingredients

1 Box of Fudge Brownies-Chocolate Chunk
1 12 0z can of diet soda. ( I used diet Cherry)

Directions

Grease with cooking spray, mini 24 cupcake Pan.
Mix 3/4 of soda can into Brownies and cook as directed.
Fill cupcakes about half full.
Cooking time may be about 6-10 minutes less than box directions.

Brownie Bites are heavenly and about 1.5 point each. Makes about 40 Cup Cakes. I got this off of another site, but changed it drastically.

COMMENTARY:

These are the more health conscious cup cakes. They are made without oil and egg. If I ate the whole batch I would have about 60 points. How many times have I eaten about the entire batch in a couple of days, and those were with the eggs and oil. How do I spell mindless eating? Reality Check!!!! IN THE PAST BROWNIES HAVE MADE ME FAT! I don't think I ever really thought about it. My favorite desert helped me get FAT!

Broccoli & Cheese Soup

So I made this really easy recipe that I took from a Weight Watcher's message board. (Sorry I forgot the name of the person that posted it) It's really yummy and easy. However, be careful the cheese doesn't burn to the bottom.

Ingredients:
6 cups of fat free chicken broth
16 0z of Kraft Velveeta Light Reduced fat pasteurized cheese
24 Oz of frozen broccoli
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup of water

Instructions:
1. Put broccoli in broth, bring to a boil and boil for 5 minutes.
2. Add cheese. Stir till melted.
3. In a separate bowl, combine flour and water. Slowly add to soup till it thickens.

Makes 11 one cup servings for 3 points a serving. Also, it freezes good.