Zesty Grilled Chicken Salad

This is a clever way to use the Jenny Craig Chicken Sandwich!

(This is to die for!)

1. Place chicken in Ziploc bag. (Save sauce for something else and save bun for this meal.)

2. To chicken, add 4 T lemon juice, 2 T light soy sauce and 1 t chopped garlic.

3. Allow chicken to marinate in the refrigerator as little or as long as a day. (If you are immediately cooking it, just leave it out to thaw.)

4. There are 3 cooking options for the chicken---all are fantastic! Pick one! a) Brown in skillet sprayed with Pam type spray b) Cook on BBQ grill c) Spray cooking sheet with Pam type spray and brown in 350 degree oven. If I am cooking in a pan or in the oven, I like to drizzle the chicken with the marinade and let it cook down. It doesn't take long to cook since it is pre-cooked chicken.

5. Slice cooked chicken pretty thin to make it go far. Top your favorite salad ingredients with it. I prefer a ranch type dressing with this.

6. For the garlic toast, you can lightly coat the bun with some olive oil Pam type spray and sprinkle with chopped garlic before you broil it.

Banana Cream Pudding Dessert

This is a delicious way to use the Jenny Craig Toffee Bites!

This has always been a favorite snack for me. I love to add sliced bananas to light banana cream yogurt (or light vanilla yogurt) and then sprinkle with crushed Toffee Bites. It is something I look forward to a couple times a week. I may continue to do this when I'm on maintenance using a 100 calorie package of my favorite crisp cookie.

Smokey Chicken Fajitas

This utilizes the Jenny Craig Chicken Fajita dinner entree. These are already good but I wanted to tweak it to taste like the fajitas my family has been enjoying for years.

I dump the chicken and veggies in a skillet sprayed with Pam type spray. Add 2-3 T of lemon OR lime juice and maybe 1/2 - 1 single teaspoon of Liquid Smoke. I sprinkle about half the season packet to this and let it heat through. It really does make this extra good.

Easy Homestyle Chicken Salad

This is super easy and healthy. It is a homestyle chicken salad recipe that I created after sampling some at a deli in Portland. I loved it so much that I bought a container with the ingredients listed on the lid and I cracked the recipe. If I'm making it for friends and need to jazz it up even more I sometimes throw in a handful of cashews. I don't do the cashews while dieting though.

1 can Swanson's white chicken
Pam spray
poultry seasoning
salt
pepper

Drain chicken and spread on foil sprayed with Pam. Sprinkle with poultry seasoning, salt and pepper and stir together.
Bake or broil until lightly browned and still moist, NOT crunchy.

celery
sweet yellow onions
light mayo
light sour cream

While chicken is cooking, dice up some celery and sweet yellow onions (as much as you like). I usually use about 1/2 cup of each, give or take. It is whatever you like.
To this I add 1 tablespoon light mayo and 1 teaspoon light sour cream. Sometimes I add more of these but I always use more light mayo than sour cream.

Stir everything together when the chicken is done (even if it is still hot) and enjoy! If you need to add a little more salt and pepper you can but it probably doesn't need it. It is such a simple recipe but is really good. By re-cooking the chicken with seasonings it gives it a truly homemade flavor. I can eat this with just sweet grape tomatoes and be satisfied but sometimes I have a have a few snack crackers with it.