Meal Planning -- July 2014

1. Grilled chicken and Healthy Pasta Salad Caprese
2. Taco Pasta Casserole and green salad
3. Grilled pork chops with roasted parsnips and carrots
4. Fourth of July BBQ!!!
5. Beef & Bean Oven Tacos and green salad
6. Parmesan Chicken Bake and butternut squash
7. Baked Turkey & Jack Cheese Chimichangas with sautéed onions & bell peppers
8. Grilled chicken and Summer Pasta Salad with Baby Greens
9. Ham and Gruyère Crêpes with fresh fruit
10. Leftovers
11. DATE NIGHT
12. Asian Peanut Noodles with Chicken and Easy Garlic Snap Peas
13. Easy Pesto Tortellini Salad
14. Grilled chicken sausage, grilled asparagus and Crusty Bread
15. Stuffed Bell Peppers and leftover crusty bread
16. Grilled Chinese Chicken Kabobs, pot-stickers and Sesame Garlic Green Beans
17. Chicken Stuffed Poblano Chiles over rice
18. German Cabbage Buns and green beans
19. Barbequed Burgers, Sweet Potato Fries and green salad
20. Take-out
21. Caprese Chicken with spinach salad and French bread
22. Beef & Spinach Lo Mein
23. Mexican Chicken over rice with salad
24. Smoked Sausage Hobo Packets with dinner rolls
25. Fresh Quinoa Salad with chicken and rolls
26. Chicken Enchiladas and green salad
27. Baked Potatoes with turkey chili and roasted squash
28. Hamburger Oriental Casserole and applesauce
29. Leftovers
30. Cream Cheese Chicken Bacon Wrap, salad and bread
31. Healthy Chicken Quesadillas with added veggies

Cream Cheese Chicken Bacon Wrap

We eat a lot of chicken breasts in our house {thank you Zaycon Foods!}, so we love finding new ways to cook them up! This recipe is A+ in our house -- both in taste and ease of preparation. Hope you will enjoy it too!

Ingredients:

• 2 large {or 4 small} chicken breasts
• 8 strips of bacon
• 1 8-oz container of fat-free cream cheese
• 1 4-oz can of green chiles

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees and grease 9x13 baking dish.
2. Place a piece of a plastic wrap on top of each piece of chicken and use a meat tenderizer to flatten. If you have two large breasts, cut each in half before tenderizing.
3. Place 1/4 of the cream cheese and 1 ounce of green chiles in center of each piece of chicken and roll with cream cheese mixture on the inside and 2 slices of bacon on the outside.
4. Place chicken breasts -- seem side up -- in the baking dish and bake covered {I used aluminum foil} for 45 minutes.
5. Uncover and bake for an additional 5 minutes to brown the bacon.

Serves 4.