Wednesday, Jan 5th, 2011

Breakfast: Cheerios with bananas
Lunch: pb&j sandwhichs, apple slices
Snack: Chocolate Chip Oatmeal muffins
Dinner: Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos , spainish rice, refried beans and cheese
Eva's Snack: String Cheese, Strawberry Go-gurt, cheerios

The kids LOVED the muffins, but hey, it had chocolate chips in it. Kept my mind off the smell of the chicken in the slow cooker! I'm so glad I saved the recipe on Family.Go.com because when I went to refer the recipe, it was changed!! So this is all I did to make this:
Took out my slow cooker
Poured in enough salsa to cover the bottom
Threw in 2 pkgs of chicken thighs
Pour over the rest of the salsa
Turn on high and cook for 6 to 7 hours
Take chicken out, let cool until easy to handle. Take meat off the bones and put back into the salsa. Add 2 tsp cumin and 1 tsp chili powder, stir to blend.

Use hard tacos or flour tortillas to make tacos or burritos.

It's Saturday and we're always busy.  I made pancakes for the triplets while Eva was at choir practice. Then I made a hotdog and carrot sticks for Eva before I took her to hip hop and the trips to swimming at the Y. After the trips swimming lesson, they have family swim, so we stayed and swam for an hour before we had to leave. Got home, got Eva dressed for an irish dancing show and we were off! I had made pizza dough out of my favorite recipe and stuck it in the fridge. When I got home, I just split it into two pieces and rolled it out into a 14" circle. I made two, thin crust pizzas with that recipe!! The pizza on the left was half cheese, half cheeseburger. The pizza on the right I used the leftover slow cooker chicken, some chopped green peppers, some chopped onions, and some sliced black olives. Sprinkled pizza cheese (mozzarella and colby) and some chili powder on top.  Baked at a 475 degree oven for 12 mins.  YUMMMMMM!!                                                                                                                                

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

It's Wednesday - yeah!! For Eva's snack, I packed: colby cheese cubes, carrot sticks, go-gurt, strawberries, and whole grain goldfish.  For Gerald's breakfast, I packed in his Fit & Fresh: Kashi's 7 grain cereal, milk, and Schwan's Golden Fruit Blend. For lunch, I had leftovers from last weeks dinner, the Cranberry Chicken on Rice with Green Beans. (I had frozen it when I realized he wasn't going to eat it the next day for lunch!)
Breakfast:  Sausage Breakfast Sandwhich and strawberries
Lunch:  Chicken nuggets,potato chips, and grapes.
Dinner: FINALLY! The Slow Cooker Chicken. This was sooo good! Eddie and Gerald ate it as a burrito. Ella and Joey ate it as a taco salad. Eva wouldn't eat it at all (no surprise - I made her a cheese quesadilla). I spread refried black beans on my plate, then the taco chicken meat, then some cheddar cheese, then some diced avocados, tomatoes, and olives. Then I scooped it up with blue corn chips. YUMM-O!!


Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos
2 pounds of boneless, skinless chicken thighs
1 jar of green or red salsa of your choice
1 can of diced green chiles
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 tablespoon chili
1 onion chopped  (I used 3 tablespoons dried onions)
2 cloves of garlic, minced

Directions
1.  Place chicken in the bowl of a slow cooker. Top with salsa, diced green chiles, cumin, onion and garlic. Cover and set on low. Cook for 8 hours.
2.  Remove chicken from pot, shred, and return to juices.
3.  Spoon chicken into taco shells, with whatever toppings your f amily likes. Or use the meat to make burritos, tostadas or as a filling for enchiladas.