Quick & Easy Chicken, Broccoli & Brown Rice

This recipe, created by the Campbell’s Kitchen, uses ingredients that I always have on hand. I buy bags of individual frozen boneless skinless chicken breasts, bags of frozen broccoli, and cans of cream of chicken soup at Aldi about once a month. For the rice part of this dish, I’m using a product I was [...]

Hello from the Nestle Culinary Center!

Yesterday, Nestle flew me to Solon, Ohio to attend a day-long conference and roundtable discussion on the topic of Let’s Fix Dinner. This morning we started out in the Nestle Baking Kitchen meeting with Jenny from VeryBestBaking.com and eating fresh-baked cookies (YUM). Then we moved into their Culinary Center which is like a huge kitchen [...]

Hungry Girl EZ Tomato Basil Chicken

The link for this recipe was in today’s Hungry Girl newsletter. Three ingredients? I’m SO making this!

EZ Tomato Basil Chicken PER SERVING (1/4th of recipe): 175 calories, 1.5g fat, 251mg sodium, 11g carbs, 2g fiber, 6g sugars, 28g protein — POINTS® value 3*

Toss leftovers on top of lettuce for a [...]

Enter the 44th Pillsbury Bake-Off!

Can you imagine winning one MILLION dollars plus new, state-of-the art kitchen appliances, for a recipe? Carolyn Gurtz won last year’s Pillsbury Bake-Off with her recipe for Double Delight Peanut Butter Cookies! Entries for this year’s Bake-Off are due by April 20th.

Each recipe must contain at least two eligible ingredients, and they’re ingredients [...]

Four Foods on Friday 72

I know, I know, it’s Sunday! We have just been going non-stop all weekend.  I’m going out of town tomorrow afternoon and I won’t be back until late Tuesday, so I wanted to get this and my Menu Monday post up now so you lovely readers will have something new to read!

Here are this [...]

Menu Plan Monday-Alli, Week One

In yesterday’s post I wrote about how my doctor suggested I use the Alli plan to lose weight.  In order for Alli to work the way it is supposed to, it’s imperative to follow the calorie/fat guidelines.  If you eat too much fat and take Alli, you are going to have “side [...]

You could win Kahiki frozen food for a year!

Enter Kahiki’s Asian Inspirations Recipe Contest … and you could win Kahiki Frozen Food for a year! Simply choose one of your favorite Kahiki Frozen food products and add your own special ingredients to create an inspired recipe for all to see … and eat. How about an Egg Roll soufflé or a General Tso’s Chicken [...]

Hurry, enter this contest by Nov. 30th!

In celebration of National Tomato Month, Dei Fratelli, a preferred tomato brand sold throughout the United States, has launched “The Dei Fratelli Ripened Recipe Contest.” From October through the end of November 2008, consumers are encouraged to submit an original recipe using any variety of Dei Fratelli products for a chance to win free Dei [...]

I took the Velveeta Challenge, Sort Of

With budgets tighter and the price of groceries uncomfortably high, many families are once again turning to an easy, affordable way to put a delicious meal on the table- the casserole. It’s so easy to take any kind of cooked meat, vegetables, and rice or pasta and turn them into something delicious, especially if you [...]

Four Foods on Friday 55

Here are this week’s four questions. The theme this week is Thanksgiving.

#1. Stuffing. Boxed or from scratch? #2. If you were served the perfect Thanksgiving dinner what would it be? #3. What’s your favorite Thanksgiving leftover? #4. Share a recipe using turkey.

#1- Boxed. I like Stove Top Cornbread stuffing, but if the store [...]