Super Low-Cal Italian Chicken Dinner

Now that Dayle has this new app for his phone that lets him calculate how many calories, fat grams, carbs, etc. are in the food that he eats, it’s been fun to run the numbers with him on our meals every night. His phone will even let him snap a picture of a barcode on a packaged food item and then immediately tell him the name of the product and all of the nutritional information. It's pretty amazing!

The other night I made this Italian chicken dinner and I had no idea how low calorie it was - I just knew it had some healthy ingredients. So we were pleasantly surprised after he plugged it all into his phone!

Italian Chicken

4 or 5 boneless/skinless chicken breasts (I used frozen this time)

1 bottle low fat Italian dressing (the cheaper the better)

This is hardly even a recipe, but this is what I did:

Preheat the oven to 375^o. Rinse off the protective coating on the frozen chicken. Place the chicken on a foil covered cookie sheet. Pour about half of the bottled dressing over the chicken. Bake in the oven for about 55-60 minutes, or until juices run clear (If using fresh chicken breasts marinate them in the Italian dressing for 3-4 hours before cooking and reduce the overall cooking time).

I served this with frozen mixed vegetables and steamed brown rice. I tried something different with the brown rice this time and added chicken broth in place of the water in the rice bowl so it had a little more flavor.

This is the nutritional information for the WHOLE dinner:

1 serving chicken (1/2 breast)

1 serving mixed vegetables (1 cup)

½ serving brown rice (1/2 cup)

326 calories; 7.6g fat; 33.21 carbohydrates; 29.32 protein

Positive thought for the day:

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. - Confucius"