Growing up in a society of chicken nuggets and other convenience food, my wife really likes “poppers” and “bites” little hand foods that are easy to eat and very tasty.
Genny spends a lot of time searching for healthy recipes and these broccoli bites are one winner at my house. They are easy to make, are healthy, and pretty tasty – especially when dipped in sauce.
I am pretty pleased at her results in her journey to get healthy, and since the running total now (not when this video was created is 90 pounds lost) I am very happy with the work she is putting in.
What I really like though is shooting videos with her. I find I like being behind the camera producing great video more than I enjoy being in front of the camera making ok videos…
There have been some negative comments on her videos, which gets my wife discouraged, she isn’t as dedicated to video as I am, so those trolls really get to her. Please take some time to watch the video and tell her what a great job she is doing.
She has lost over 100 pounds since she started her journey. Give her a hand.
I first saw this on a great channel called MeatManGary – if you haven’t visited him online you should.
Once I saw that it could be done, I both started planning a time I could get the wife out of the house (because if she saw it while I was doing it she would not have ate it) and to do some more research.
Basically chicken nuggets are a breaded and shaped meat paste.
The boy eats LOTS of chicken nuggets.
While it isn’t his only food group like the poor 18 year old girl that ONLY ate nuggets – it is easy to make and he really likes them.
The problem is that most chicken nuggets are made with “mechanically separated” meat – which is a very unappetizing process. Basically the chicken carcass bones and all is ground and turned into slurry and forced through a very fine sieve to catch the bone particles. That is NOT something little WT should eat.
If you want to make your own homemade chicken nuggets, here is the process
Ingredients
Ground Chicken
Spices (I used Salt, Pepper, Onion Powder, Oregano, and Parsley)
Flour
Eggs
Oil
Procedure
Mix Chicken and spices in a food processor
Shape mix into ping pong sized balls and mush gently into nugget shape (I found it was easier to do after dredging)
Dredge in flour
Dip in egg wash
Coat in flour again
Fry
Alternatively you could bake the nuggets. What I like to do is to fry briefly and then finish in the oven.
What works well is to fry, then freeze on a baking sheet, and then dump in a large Ziploc for bulk storage. Then you can thaw in the oven to finish cooking whenever you need a quick meal.
Two things to consider – ground meat has a large surface area for contamination, so clean hands and cold meat is necessary to prevent food-borne illness and you must fully cook the nuggets.
The boy and his mom both like this recipe, and I do admit it tastes good, but I think next time I am just going to chop the chicken into bite sized pieces and fry up real nuggets…
My wife takes her journey to get healthy ever bit as serious as I treat my journey toward self reliance. She does not “diet” she makes lifestyle choices.
As such she is constantly on the lookout for healthy foods that taste good and satisfy the desires for sweet, salty, or savory.
While I don’t really like Zucchini, these baked zucchini chips are easy to make, relatively inexpensive, and my wife likes to snack on them – which makes a win in my book. They aren’t bad, my wife actually says she likes them. I can tolerate them, but they sure aren’t pringles…
I am not going to write out instructions for these chips, because I’d rather you watch the video and give my wife some positive feedback in the comments to show her that her effort to share her journey to get healthy is appreciated by more than just me.
By the way, she lost over 80 pounds this summer – and foods like this are a big reason why.
Genny eats these zucchini chips on the weekend when she wants something crispy to snack on. She also takes these to parties as a snack. Try them, I bet you will like them also.’
I like pineapple upside down cake, but I don’t make it often. We never end up eating the whole cake and I hate to see it wasted. (and lately Genny has been known to throw away sweets because she doesn’t want to be tempted)
When we made the bread in a can video I started thinking, and I wanted to see if I could cook other things in cans.
This is an experiment (but in researching I have seen others do this in similar ways) in cooking cake in cleaned out tuna fish cans.
I call it Tuna Can Cake
I made some yellow cake batter (from a mix), and made some individual portioned pineapple upside down cakes.
Grease and dust your can out with flour before you start cooking so everything will come out nicely.
A pineapple ring fits very well in a tuna can, and when the can is filled about ¾ full of the batter and cooked for about 20 minutes you get a very well formed cake.
Just dump the can over on a parchment paper covered cookie sheet and refill until you have made enough individual cakes.
My wife did appreciate the cakes, but after eating one she did say “You really just did this to make a video didn’t you”….
She even let me get away with an “of course not” – but then again I did clean up the kitchen before she got up…
Making this tuna can cake is probably best suited to cooking with kids, but it tasted good and looked good.
I first saw Ice Cream Bread recipe on YouTube on the Cooking with Jack channel, but after doing an internet search I found several sites that had very similar recipes.
What makes this recipe so nice is how simple it is — it only takes 2 ingredients and just a minute or two of active cooking time.
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients
Ice cream (it does not matter what kind, but the premium brands have more fat and less air which makes a much better loaf)
Self-Rising Flour (Must be self-rising and not all purpose or bread flour)
It is almost a one to one mixture — especially after melting. But for my recipe I used a pint of ice cream and 2 cups of flour.
Procedure
Set your ice cream in the fridge to melt (I do this the night before)
Preheat oven to 350 F
Grease (or spray) a loaf pan
In large bowl, dump in melted ice cream; stir in flour until just blended.
Scoop into prepared pan
Bake 43 to 48 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool on wire rack 10 minutes
I didn’t really taste the ice cream, but I used a plain vanilla ice cream. If I used something like rocky road I bet It would be more noticeable.
This was a very easy recipe, easier than my tuna can cake. I will probably make it again – especially during the holidays for the neat factor.
I first saw this on a great channel called 
