Fried Chicken and Waffles!

Hello friends, happy Monday!!

That's OVEN fried chicken, and Eggo Nutrigrain Low Fat Waffles. And I didn't exactly put them together, but you could! :)

So, just a starter, I did great this weekend. Dinner at Perry's Steakhouse was fabulous, so good! I counted all my points and dipped into my extra 35 - and it was indeed a "pricey" point dinner. But it was worth every bite! Sometimes you have to go out and splurge like that. :)

Ok, so I have been CRAVING waffles lately. Every time I pass by the frozen waffles at the grocery store for the past several weeks, I find myself eyeing them and fantasizing about giant belgian waffles with tons of fruit, whipped cream and syrup.....yummmmmmm. So, this week I decided go for it. I had my handy dandy points calculator with me, and found that Eggo Nutrigrain Low Fat Waffles are only 2 points for 2 waffles. Perfect! A solution to my fantasy. So I bought them, and I ate them for dinner last night with a cup of mixed berries (rasp, blue, black) and 2 tablespoons of Log Cabin sugar free syrup. It hit the spot! Total for that little "breakfast dinner" was 3 points! NOT BAD AT ALL!!

Lately I have been wanting to try some new dinner recipes. Blogging about my diet is great, but it's more fun when I have new stuff to talk about. So this week I decided to make Oven Fried Chicken. I got the recipe from Weight Watchers eTools, and modified it a little to fit how many points I wanted to spend. So here's what the recipe calls for:

1 lb boneless skinless chicken breasts
2/3 cup lite honey mustard dressing
salt
pepper
1 medium scallion
2 tsp freshly chopped dill
1 cup cornflake crumbs

Points = 7

I changed mine, instead of honey mustard, I used an egg white. I didn't want to use points on honey mustard. Unfortunately I didn't use any of the spices either, which I should have. But my version was good anyway. So mine was only 4 points per breast, instead of 7.

It was super good, and a nice change from your ordinary baked or grilled chicken. They turned out so nice!! I ate my chicken with a big salad, some cucumbers marinated in Apple Cider Vinegar and italian spices, and a red potato.

This is my weekly salad - I'll eat on this bad boy all week!

Cornflake Crusted Chicken

So here's what I had to eat today:

Breakfast:
Weight Watchers Fruitty Nutty Maddness Bar - 2 pts.

Lunch:
Hot Dog w/ cheese - 3 pts
Light FF Pringles - 1 pt.

Afternoon snack:
1 cup grapes - 1 pt
WW String Cheese - 1 pt.

Snack before dinner cause I was starvin Marvin!!:
Quaker Mini Rice Cakes (Chocolate) - 1 pt.

Dinner:
Cornflake Crusted Baked Chicken - 4 pts.
Red Potato - 1 pt
Salad w/ Wishbone Salad Spritzer Dressing - 0 pts.
Cucumbers marinated in vinegar and italian spices - 0 pts.

Dessert:
WW Drumstick - 2 pts.

And I still have 4 points left for the day! Eesh I better find something else to eat. Maybe I'll have a glass of wine....

So, this week I'm also trying some new things. In addition to trying the Eggo Low Fat Waffles, I'm trying VitaTops. I heard about these last week at the WW meeting, and then saw them again on Hungry Girl's facebook updates. So I decided to try them. At the WW meeting, the woman who brought them up uses them like a brownie and tops with ice cream. YUMMY! I'm not sure yet how I'll use it....perhaps I'll try one tonight. But they are only 1 point! I found them in the organic frozen foods section of the grocery store.

Well friends, I'm signing off to spend some quality time with my little doggie. She's looking quite sad laying next to me and I can just hear her saying "Mom, play with me, pleeeeeeeease???"

Until next time, Happy Life, Happy Eating!!

Sommer