Ooooh, for lunch I had.....dessert!
When I finished my paperwork and settled in for my first meeting, Phyllis was extolling the virtues of the sweet potato as a wonder food -- sweet, satisfying, low point value.
So I picked up a couple at the PathMark on Saturday. While I was roasting an oven-stuffer roaster last night ($.79/lb, on sale, a couple of weeks ago), I popped a couple of sweet potatoes into a Corning Ware casserole and cooked them until they lost their structural integrity.
Today I took half a large cold sweet potato (2 points), topped it with a half a cup of full-fat cottage cheese (2.5 points), sprinkled all with nutmeg and called it lunch. I do believe I died and went to heaven, savoring it in small slow bites. Imagine that: a 4.5 point lunch that tasted for all the world like a rich dessert and had a total prep time of 30 seconds (plus another minute to wash the potatoes and put in the corning ware dish yesterday). It's all about working ahead.
About chicken: it's great stuff. And periodically it's laughably cheap at the PathMark. This past weekend, boneless chicken breasts were $1.88/lb, so I bought about six pounds of them -- separated them into ten individual half-breasts, slid each into a plastic baggie, put five each in two larger zip-lock baggies, and I'm good to go for 30 servings of boneless chicken breasts for about fourteen bucks. Go me.
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