Yummy!!

We've been trying to use at least 1 new recipe a week from Recipezaar - one that we found either from Gayle at the Grocery Cart Challenge, assuming it will be fairly cheap, or one that I found while searching around through popular recipes. Well, this week's recipe, Crock Pot Chicken, was a hit!! It was super simple to make, not horrible on the nutrition scale, makes a ton and it's pretty versatile.

Aaron came home for lunch and threw the chicken breasts, salsa, black beans and corn in the crock pot on high. When we came home from work, we threw the cream cheese on, turned it to low, and took a walk for 45 minutes. When we came home, we realized the chicken was really 'fally-aparty' (a very technical term) so we shredded the chicken, stirred everything together and threw some rice in the steamer. We ate the chicken mixture over rice and it was very tasty!!

After we ate, there was still about 6 cups of the mixture left, so we froze half of it and kept the other half out for another dinner and a lunch. Others who have reviewed the recipe have suggested using the leftovers to make wraps, which we might try out with what we froze. (We don't currently have tortillas or have any need for them for any upcoming recipes.)

Next time we make this, I think we might try using less chicken, doubling the black beans and corn and using the fat-free cream cheese (we used 1/3 less fat this time). We weren't really sure how the cream cheese was incorporated or how the fat-free would work out texture wise, but since we just mixed everything together, there's no reason not to use the fat-free.