Cabbage and Chicken

Hello all the Manic Monday HCG-ers!

We have a special guest post today.  Thank you to Kathy, who sent this recipe and photo to share with all of you.  She has been enjoying this meal while on the HCG Diet Protocol.  We hope you enjoy it too!  Have a great week everyone.

Cabbage and Chicken
3.5 ounce raw chicken breast (no skin or bone)
3.5 ounce cabbage (cut up into chunks)
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons of fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 teaspoon Mrs. Dash garlic and herbs
1 tablespoon Dried minced onion
1/2 teaspoon Sea salt
1/2 teaspoon Ground black pepper

In a small sauce pan, add your water and lemon juice. Add your chicken breast and cook until it turns white on both sides. Add your seasoning to taste and simmer on low heat until chicken is cooked all the way through. Add water to the chicken as needed to create a nice sauce. While your chicken is cooking, boil your cabbage (covered) in salted water until tender.


To serve, place your cabbage on a plate. Cut up you chicken into small bite size pieces and place it on top of your cabbage. Pour the remaining juices and spices from your pan on top and enjoy.

I usually try and make multiple meals when cooking for phase 2 and freeze what I'm not going to use that day. So you can either make one portion as indicated above or more if you want to save yourself a couple of days of cooking.

If you want to make multiple portions:
Take your package of skinless, boneless chicken breast and cut it up into 3.5 ounce portions. I can usually get six servings. You'll have to increase your seasoning to match. Then weigh you cabbage to match your chicken servings. So if I have six portions of chicken, I weigh 21 ounces (6 X 3.5 ounces) of cabbage to match. After your cabbage is tender, drain and divide it into six equal portions. Each portion can be weighed to make sure they are equal. I usually label and freeze each meal in plastic snack containers.

Veggie Fun

Sunday is a day of rest, family time and fun.  Today I had so much fun with my new kitchen toy.  I have to say I am sold on this, I usually prefer to ignore every type of kitchen gadget that promises to save time but actually takes more time to set up, use and clean then it would be to just get out a cutting board and knife.  This "Veggie Fun Machine" is called a Spiral Cutter and can be used on vegetables, fruit, cheese, etc...anything hard enough to hold by little spikes.  I normally will not post without a new recipe but I have heard so much about these lately and wanted to show you so you can determine if it is worth your money.

I made my Cucumber Salad today using this and just had to post about it.  Anything to make our very limited food list more interesting is a tool for success in my mind.  I also see a great zucchini lasagna in my near P3 future! 

This is what I bought...because it has different blades and shapes. 

but there are many versions and price ranges.  If you have one already, I would love to hear how you use it and recipes!  Have a great rest of your football Sunday!

Rosemary Ranch Chicken

Hey all,
I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend and got to take some time off.  Now it's back to work and school today!  Wishing all the teacher's and kids a wonderful day back :)

I wanted to get something posted for everyone to enjoy the rest of what we have of grilling weather.  Here in MN we only have minimal weeks left!  Use up the rest of the herbs in your planters or garden and enjoy the rest of the warm weather we may have coming.

Rosemary Ranch Chicken

1 TB water
1 TB Apple Cider Vinegar
2 TB lemon juice- freshly squeezed
1 TB fresh chopped rosemary *1 tsp dried
1 TB fresh chopped chives *1tsp dried
1 tsp fresh chopped parsley *1/4 tsp dried
1 tsp sea salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper, or to taste
1 packet powdered or 1/4 tsp. liquid stevia
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast

Place all ingredients in a bowl and stir to coat.  Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes to overnight.

Preheat the grill for medium-high heat. Grill until the chicken is no longer pink in the center, and the juices run clear.  Note: You can also broil in oven or pan fry in water or broth.  PS:  This would be great on a white fish and grilled.

Sugar to Stevia Conversion Chart

This is a conversion chart of sugar to Stevia.  This is a very useful guide when I want to take a favorite "regular" recipe and turn it into a Phase 2 protocol recipe.  I am sure this will come in handy for Phase 3 and beyond as well.  I refer to it often when I am cooking food or preparing large batches of iced tea.  I hope you are able to use it as much as I have! 

Have a great weekend Labor Day Weekend everyone!