A New Addition to my Kitchen

Since I’ve been regimenting my diet to only 1200 net calories a day I have had to become pretty creative with my meals to mix things up. But being a creature of habit my mixing it up is just rotating about 4 or 5 different dinner entrees. I also don’t have a lot of time to prepare meals so this makes it harder to come up with new things to add to my meal plan for dinner time. I need something quick and easy to make and clean up. I get home twice a week at 9pm to eat dinner and the other nights of the work week around 7:30pm. If it take more than 5-7min to prepare, than it’s too much of a hassle and I will toast two Eggo waffles and call it a day. I recently discovered during my last grocery shopping trip down the frozen foods aisle something that will change my whole outlook on cooking. To most this may not seem to be that fantastic but to me its a game changer in the kitchen. Tyson has a entire line of frozen chicken called Grilled & Ready. I’ve purchased Tyson’s frozen chicken breasts before and they take forever to defrost, which is why I stopped buying them. I bought the Grilled & Ready Chicken Breasts, 98% Fat Free last week. After 2.5min in the microwave I had a delicious piece of chicken for my dinner and it’s only 110 Calories! If that wasn’t good enough it actually tasted grilled. Tonight was my 2nd time using this little gem from my freezer. I made a chicken sandwich on a toasted 100 calorie Arnold’s Whole Wheat Sandwich Thin and a dab of Greek Yogurt. Throw on a little lettuce and tomato…I got myself a 226 calorie chicken sandwich. That has less calories than the grilled chicken sandwich I’ve approved for my consumption at Chick-fil-a. I can’t wait to try the other items in the Grilled & Ready line. I think next I’ll buy the chicken strips and do some chicken tacos…I have a lot of tortillas left over from my shrimp tacos. Also there is diced chicken maybe for a salad. Endless possibilities!!! I’m going to have to do some brain storming and introduce new meals into my dinner rotation.

Check out all the other items Tyson’s has here.