BBQ Chicken Stack

For those of you interested in my personal weight loss stats, I've recorded my week by week weight loss for you to peruse, along with a terrifying/interesting before and current picture of yours truly.  It is available after the recipe. 

So...enough about me!  On with the important stuff:  the food!

I know you won't believe it, but I occasionally screw up.  Like when I was trying to microwave chips for the recipe yesterday.  I initially added too much water to the chip batter, and it wouldn't firm all the way up and dry out, like a chip should.  So I ended up with a plate-sized crust of chicken soup, and I refused to throw it out.  This stuff is expensive, you know!  So I gave my favorite standby recipe, BBQ Chicken Pizza, a visual makeover.

Geez, I have missed cooking for myself.  I mean, I still have to cook for my husband and daughter.  (Yes, I'm a masochist.)  But it's nowhere near as fun cooking what you can't eat.  In fact, it stinks.

But this doesn't.  It's visually different, a feast for the eyes, and not too bad for the tongue, either.  Sweet and smoky.  Go eat a stack.

BBQ Chicken Stack

Ingredients:

BBQ Chicken entree
2 Chicken soup packets
1 teaspoon taco seasoning
1/8 teaspoon mesquite grilling seasoning (optional)
Drop of liquid smoke (optional)

Whisk the chicken soup with taco seasoning and 1/4 cup of water.  Spray a dinner plate with Pam (once again, I love butter flavored, but any will do.) 

Pour the soup batter onto the plate and microwave between 2.5 and 5 minutes.  Watch carefully!  This will burn easily and stinks to high heaven.  It is done when the middle is no longer watery and shiny.  This should be thinner looking than a chip, and will puff up more in the microwave.  Remove it from the microwave and immediately pry it off of the plate in one piece with a fork.  Set it on a cool plate or a cutting board.

Warm up your BBQ Chicken.  Add the mesquite seasoning and liquid smoke for a wonderfully smoky BBQ taste.  Cut the chicken into small chunks and stir the whole thing together.  The smaller, the better.  You want chicken in every bite!

Cut the chicken soup crust into quarters.  Start with a crust, layer on a third of the chicken mixture.  Keep layering until you're out of chicken, and top with the last crust.  Sit back, take a good look at it, smile, and enjoy.

Counts as 1 entree and 1 shake for Decision Free.




My stats (and occasional commentary):
Date                                             Weight                              Pounds lost for the week

March 15, 2012                               301                                                  -
March 21, 2012                               289                                               -12
     (Obscenely cool first week.  But I ate a huge meal right before weigh-in on the 15th.)
March 28, 2012                               283                                                -5
April 4, 2012                                   278                                                 -5
April 11, 2012                                 275                                                 -3
April 18, 2012                                 271.5                                              -3.5
April 25, 2012                                 268                                                 -3.5
May 2, 2012                                    264                                                 -4
May 9, 2012                                    261.5                                              -2.5
May 16, 2012                                  255                                                 -6.5
     (Very happy this week!)
May 23, 2012                                  253.5                                              -1.5
     (But a big week is almost always balanced out by a small week.)
May 30, 2012                                  248                                                 -5.5
June 6, 2012                                    246                                                  -2
June 12, 2012                                  244                                                  -2
June 19, 2012                                  241                                                  -3
June 26, 2012                                  239                                                  -2
July 3, 2012                                     235                                                  -4
July 10, 2012                                   232                                                  -3
July 17, 2012                                   229                                                  -3
July 24, 2012                                   227                                                  -2
July 31, 2012                                   225                                                  -1.5
     (And here starts what feels like a very long stall...just a plateau though!)
August 7, 2012                                223.5                                               -1.5
August 14, 2012                              222                                                  -1.5
August 21, 2012                              220.5                                               -1.5
August 28, 2012                              221                                                  +0.5
     (Yep, that's a gain.  I got frustrated with the plateau and cheated for the first time.  Don't do this!  It wasn't worth it, and I got sick to my stomach.  It simply couldn't handle those hotdogs anymore.)
September 4, 2012                          215.5                                                -5.5
     (Take that, stupid plateau!)
September 11, 2012                        214.5                                                 -1
     (Big week balanced by a little week again.  It's all good!  I'll take that drop in the bucket.  And that's where I stand now.)

And here's the picture I promised.  I never intended for these to be public, so bear that in mind (please excuse the bathroom/phone pic).  I'm selflessly doing this for you (grin).  I must be mad to put this online...

See how happy I look to be taking pictures of myself?  I hated having my picture taken.

Aaaaand me now.  Hi, all.  Nice to make your acquaintance.  Notice the smile?