Friday Night Dinner

Chicken Fingers w/Ranch Dip
&
Seasoned Fries

Friday night Bri, Mel, Benita, and I made dinner. I found this recipe on the weight watchers website and told the girls that we should give it a go. Here are the ingredients.

• Cooking Spray
• 1 lb of boneless, skinless, chicken breast
• 1 Tbl spoon of Dijon Mustard
  
• 2 1/2 packets of uncooked, instant oatmeal
• 2 tsp garlic herb seasoning
• 1/2 table salt
• 1/4 black pepper
  
• 2 large russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch fries
• 1 Tbls Creole seasoning
• 1/2 cup fat free ranch

Instructions:

• Preheat oven to 400ºF. Coat a large baking sheet with cooking spray.
  
  
• Coat chicken strips with mustard. Combine oats, garlic herb seasoning, salt and pepper in a shallow dish. Dip chicken strips in oat mixture and turn to coat; place chicken strips on prepared pan.
  
  
• Arrange potatoes around chicken on pan; lightly coat both with cooking spray. Sprinkle potatoes with Creole seasoning.
  
  
• Bake, flipping once, until chicken is cooked through and both chicken and potatoes are tender and golden brown, about 30 minutes. Serve chicken and potatoes with dressing on the side. Yields about 3 ounces of chicken, 1/2 a potato and 2 tablespoons of dressing per serving.

Points Value: 6
Servings: 4
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes

I have to admit that I was a little hesitant to try this recipe (and to be honest...any recipe I find on here I'm probably going to be weary of) just because chicken fingers are something that I LOVE. Chicken Fingers with Texas toast and some gravy and fries man oh MAN! However I was pleasantly surprised at how good this chicken tasted. The oatmeal after being baked gives the same kind of crunchiness that you would get when eating the fast food chicken fingers. The one thing I would suggest with the fries is to coat the potatoes in vegetable oil. When they are baking it helps to make the potatoes cook faster and to be more crunchy, but the ones that we ended up with were still just as good. I was kind of a wimp though with that Creole seasoning. It was a little spicy for me...I would have to be very conservative with that seasoning for myself....I'm a wimp I know. Out of 10 I would definitely give this meal a 7. I enjoyed it A LOT and it was way easy to whip up. Combined with good company it made for a GREAT night! I'll let the other girls give their rating for the meal. I have one day left before weigh in day...I'm a little nervous about this one because I've been too lax in my tracking and I've eaten a lot more. I'm hoping that I'm over-exaggerating the eating in my mind and if nothing else, I've stayed at the same weight. Here's to hoping!