Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Creamy Chicken in the Crockpot

I have a family of five. My youngest is 4 (almost 5), my middle child is 8, and my oldest is 10.  In preparation for today's dinner I trimmed and washed four decent sized boneless skinless chicken breasts that I bought on sale at my local grocery store for 1.89 pound. I sprayed the inside of my crockpot with cooking spray and placed the chicken breasts in the crock. I opened one large family size can of cream of chicken soup (today was Campbell's brand since it was on sale) and I spread this evenly over the chicken. I added about a half of a can of whole milk (that's what I had in the fridge). Looking back the flavor would have been better if I would have used canned milk. Please remember that! After adding the milk I mixed it around in the crock pot a little and turned it on low. It cooked all day. Tonight when we all got home and it was time to eat I boiled a bag of egg noodles (I forgot to salt the water - damn it!) I microwaved Bird's Eye Broccoli in light cheese sauce. Let me just tell you - HUGE disappointment. If you have children like mine who only like the "tree" part of broccoli then this veg in a bag is NOT for you. When we opened the two bags it wass filled with mostly stems or "trucks" as my kids call them. They are tough, have no flavor, and taste like crap. Shame on Bird's Eye. I won't be buying that again. I also did a steam friendly brand of peas. Below is a picture of what the meal looks like minus the peas.
Oh, I forgot the best part of this meal. When the chicken cooks all day it simply falls apart. When dinner was ready I just took the serving spoon and mixed the chicken around until it was shredded. You can see it in the black crock pot in the picture.
After dinner was over I saved the leftover creamy chicken in a gallon size freezer bag. I will freeze this for a later time. I will use it for when I make chicken pot pie!!!
This was my plate. I love veggies. Peas are my favorite.

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