Crockpot Honey Almond Chicken

This was our first time trying it and the family talked about how much they liked it the whole meal. It is super easy too! I found this recipe here: http://healthyandyummymeals.blogspot.com/2012/01/honey-crock-pot-chicken.html  If you know me, you know I can never follow a recipe without changing a thing or two, I added Almonds, Water Chestnuts and Celery to give the Chicken more crunch. Here is my version to the recipe:

Super good for you, super tasty and super easy, this will be a repeat at our house for sure. It is packed with protein from the raw nuts, chicken and brown rice, it gets its sweetness from the honey...the only thing in it that is questionable as far as it being natural or nutritious is the ketchup, but I give it an A on the health-o-meter.

**Note: I had extra sauce in the crockpot, so if you added 1 or 2 more small chicken breasts to the pot, you would still have enough sauce. Though this fed my family of 4 as is and I had enough leftover to eat it for lunch the next day.  Also, my photo kind of sucks, sorry... I think my camera is on the fritz, it keeps making weird shadows half way through the shot! :(

Crockpot Broccoli Potato Soup

I know, I know...another soup- but we LOVE soup! Even my daughter who does not like potatoes LOVES this soup....

I like to change this up depending on what I have, this time I added broccoli -last time I made it I added chunks of ham leftovers that I had. It is a great potato soup recipe all by itself too. I got this recipe originally  from HERE and altered it to have less milk, less butter and less bacon with a few other adds. Any kind of potatoes work fine, just use more if the potatoes are small. This recipe gets a B on the Health-O-Meter because it does have a fair amount of cheese, plus the bacon, butter and milk even though I reduced it. It is a family favorite for sure though.


I also made THIS Honey Wheat Challah bread, I just put it all in the breadmaker, then braided it Challah style. It was extremely dense, I think it was way too much flour, next time I will try altering it to make it fluffier.


 I have also tried this recipe below:
Easy Bread Machine Challah:

• 3/4 cup milk
• 3 eggs
• 3 tablespoons margarine
• 3 cups bread flour
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
• 1 egg yoke with 1 tsp of water for the egg wash

Let rise in bread machine, then braid and rise again for 1-1.5 hours, do egg wash then bake

and it is VERY good, but it has a lot of butter in it and is an all white flour version, so I am on the hunt for a Healthier alternative. I think next time I will try using components of both recipes to try to create a healthy version that is still fluffy. Once I have perfected it I will post it for you.  I love Challah, it is so pretty and tasty,  the first time I made it, I taught myself how to do it by watching quick videos on youtube. It is actually really, really easy. Don't be afraid to try it! :)