So, yesterday was hockey day.  That means we tend to eat food in the hockey arena, which is expensive, not particularly great tasting food, nor is it in any way conducive to a ‘healthier’ lifestyle.  When the Toyota Center brings in Chipotle or some kind of salad bar – then we’ll talk.

Actually, that’s not strictly true.  My friends Sheri and Gunnar plonked down beside us in the stands, with a baked potato in-hand.  Lindsay picked one up too and I just had to have one.  Baked potato, chopped turkey, a little cheese and a splash of BBQ sauce and you got yourself a pretty low-syn dinner, under the roof of a sporting arena – though no veggies, so I ate a mountain of fruit when I got home!

However, I’m on-plan, I’m determined, now more than ever to STAY on-plan and I realised that I’ll also never get around to trying 100 recipes if I eat out at every turn.  Especially when eating out, is a much less favourable alternative to some of the recipes I have lined up.

This looks Deeeee-licious on Pinterest.  But I’ve heard lately, that a lot of people aren’t happy at how recipes come out that are bigged up on Pinterest, so I was concerned at how it’d turn out.  The original recipe can be found here, over at ‘organizeyourstuffnow.com’, the Slimming World friendly version is below.

If you count the dairy as Healthy Extra(s), the recipe comes out to be 13 syns, 4.5 syns per serving.  (Which, considering the original recipe used two tins of full-fat soup, whole milk and full fat sour cream, that’s really not bad, plus I could have reduced it further using fat-free sour cream!)

It’s pretty tasty – it also strikes me as a versatile recipe.  Feel free to experiment, a few suggestions that come to mind, firstly – try using some cooked pasta twists or bow ties instead of rice, or, perhaps even some sliced (cooked) potatoes layered along the bottom of the dish.

If you really don’t care so much about sticking to the ‘Cordon Bleu’ part of the recipe, perhaps replace the chicken with a nice piece of fish (or mixed fish) and the ham can obviously be exchanged for bacon.  Also, I’d add a tbsp of wholegrain mustard next time too, something to give it a little ‘kick’.  Col had left overs for lunch on Sunday and said it tasted just as good on day 2, it would probably freeze pretty well too.