Stuffed Chicken Breasts

I found this on a website I really like to use for some cooking inspiration and YUM! This is soooooo tasty!

yield: 4 servings (5 ww pts per serving)

foil
cooking spray
2 chicken breasts
1 cup of small broccoli florets
4 pieces of any kind of cheese you like
seasonings (whatever you like for chicken)
toothpicks

1. lay out four square foil pieces and spray them with the cooking spray
2. take each raw chicken breast and cut it in half so it creates two thinner chicken breasts of the same width (does that make sense?)
3. lay each piece of chicken on a foil piece
4. season to your liking
5. top with cheese slice and broccoli
6. roll as tight as you can and stick with toothpicks to hold shape
7. loosely close the foil packet
8. grill/bake for about 20 minutes (or until chicken reaches 165-degrees internally)

Obviously there are a lot of variations you could do with this recipe. The original recipe used swiss cheese and did an egg wash and bread crumbs. Next time I'd probably only use half of a slice of cheese and see about added different (and more) veggies into it. I also think it'd be really tasty if you marinated the chicken breasts (after you sliced them into thinner pieces) in italian dressing and THEN stuff them. Yum! We'll definitely have this one again!

Quesadilla Burgers

yield: 8 burgers (4pts/burger)

cooking spray

8 slices of fat-free american cheese

4 whole wheat tortillas

1 lb lean ground beef

1. make 8 little hamburger patties (like sliders), we buy the roll of ground beef (hey - I'm a sale shopper) so I just defrosted it enough to where I could slice it into eight patties and it was still slightly frozen so it'd hold shape, this made it REALLY easy

2. grill (or fry) the hamburger patties

3. cut tortillas into forths, set aside

4. once the patties are done, spray a pan with cooking spray and set it to medium heat

5. place one tortilla section down, top with half of a slice of cheese, then the burger, another half slice of cheese and then top with another tortilla section

6. heat until the bottom tortilla gets browned (2-3 mins), then flip and repeat

7. serve it up...we had ours with salsa but you could do normal toppings like ketchup and mustard, too

The verdict? HUGE hit. We'll do this again for sure. It was really tasty and we even had ours with some steamed (zero point) veggies - YUM! If you wanted to save half a point, you could opt out of two half slices of cheese on each burger...but frankly - it's worth it! And yes...I took a picture with a bite out of the burger - I wanted you to actually see the burger, lol!

Cheese Wontons

This is a recipe for cheese wontons "weight watcher style".

yield: 12 wontons (1 ww pt each)

3/4 cups of shredded cheese, whatever kind you like
12 wonton wrappers
cooking spray

1. preheat oven to 350-degrees
2. coat mini muffin pan with cooking spray
3. gently push wrappers into each muffin
4. spread cheese into each wrapper
5. pinch the edges of each wrapper together
6. spray with cooking spray (this makes them bake crispy)
7. bake 10-15 mins

While these may be missing a little bit of that fried deliciousness...they're still quite tasty! And forgive me...but they didn't last long enough after they were out of the oven for me to take a picture...oops! I think the way Mike described it recently to someone was, "Sam has really been doing some wonderful things with wonton wrappers." Seriously, I could have died laughing. Filling with cheese and baking = Wonderful...just in case you didn't know :)

Deep Dish Pizza

yield: 6 servings (6 ww pts per serving)

cooking spray

1 lbs lean ground beef: browned and drained

1/2 jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce

1 can of refrigerated pizza crust dough (10 ounce)

6 slices of mozzarella cheese

1. prehead the over to 425-degrees

2. combine beef and spaghetti sauce

3. spray bottom of 9x13 baking dish

4. spread the pizza crust dough into the baking dish, bring it up on the sides

5. lay three slices of cheese on the crust

6. top with meat mixture

7. bake for 12 minutes

8. finish off with last three cheese slices

9. bake additional 5-7 minutes

10. enjoy

What I love about this is all the possibilities. You could add as many veggies as you want to this...or heck, take out the meat entirely and make it a veggie pizza for fewer calories/points!

Chocolate Shake

A friend brought this recipe to my attention...and having the sweet tooth I have, I absolutely HAD to try it! It is unbelievable simple and satisfied the chocolate love in me instantly - what a tasty treat!

yield: 4 shakes (1 ww pt per shake)

1 pkg of fat-free sugar-free chocolate pudding mix
2 cups ice
2 cups skim milk

1. blend it all together and enjoy

We have a magic bullet so I actually made two larger shakes (so it was 2 pts each instead of 1 pt) and just put one in the freezer for another day. Having one shake actually satisfied my chocolate craving AND filled me up...this recipe really makes quite a bit! Yum! I think next time I might even add four points worth of peanut butter and turn my 2 point shake into a 4 point shake and maybe even share my other one with the other peanut butter love in our house! Yum!