That chicken is my staple.. you are removing skin and eating white meat and that's what counts to make it 'legal'.. I buy a whole chicken and DH gets the legs and I use the breasts to make salad or recipes with cooked chicken.
Try a whole wheat pita with cooked chicken on it, add a bit of green pepper and onion sauteed according to plan and top with salsa and a bit of shredded cheese and broil .. I toast my pita first so it stays crunchy. You can pick your amounts of veg, chicken and cheese according to plan and count 1 tbsp of salsa as a condiment. I made a chicken salad tonight using cooked chicken, fat free plain yogurt, ginger and curry and added celery and red onion for a cold chicken salad for lunch tomorrow.. you can have a Wasa crisp or a pita to add a starch.

I'm with Kristin on the reliance on the rotissierie chicken. I actually buy the Purdue breasts already cooked. What I love is I know each is roughly the right allotment, I just pull off the skin and I'm ready to go.


Granted, I also plan ahead of time constantly, and sometimes I frankly just want to pull chicken off the bone. One breast in a ziplock bag is great to pack for the brown bag lunch.

when i first started LAWL the manager/dietician at my COD said that i could use the grocery store chicken.. white meat only with no skin.. but she also advised not to eat it too often..

Let me put on my best Dan voice... "That's because the seasonings they use have a lot of sodium."

Sodium??? Quick run for your life!!!

I am a soup junkie. It makes me happier for some strange reason. The white chicken chili in the cookbook is pretty good. I also get a chicken breast and cut it up in bite size pieces cook it in a pan sprayed with pam add mushrooms and onions and spice(I use Mrs. Dash and Garlic powder) when the chicken is done and the onions are soft I add 1/4 of a cup of rice and 1 cup of low sodium chicken broth bring to boil and then cover simmer till rice is done. The girl at LAWL here always tell me to stick to what is in the cookbook but I have found I can wiggle and still lose weight so there s more of me to wiggle! Hope this helps.

Tosha that sounds really good. And as far as "using what's in the cookbook", each one of those ingredients is on your plan separately so I don't see why they would say anything. If you notice in the cookbook some of the recipes are submitted by members, so if everyone stuck to the cookbook, they wouldn't have a lot of the recipes. Just my opinion. But now I have something new to try, so thanks.

I also use ground sirlion instead of the chicken and a tomatoe instead of the mushrooms. I count it as 1 S, 1 P, 2 V. I forgot to say what I counted it as.

Does anyone think that they'll come out with a new cookbook anytime soon? I'd love to see one that featured ALL favorites of members - wouldn't that be cool? I love to try recipes when they are recommended by someone who actually is following the same plan that I am...it makes me trust it a little bit more!