Coconut and Whole Wheat Chicken Tenders
By: Alison Cunha
Published: Monday, December 21, 2009 - 11:53am

Ingredients




1 package of chicken tenders
2 egg whites
1/2 cup of whole wheat bread crumbs
1/2 cup of unsweetened coconut

Preparation

1 Pre Heat the oven to 350 degrees 2 Dip chicken tenders in egg whites 3 Mix together the whole wheat crumbs and unsweetened coconut 4 Roll eggie Chicken in the breadcrumbs/coconut mixture 5 Place on a cookie sheet in bake for 20 minutes

About


Two Fantastic Recipes!!!
By Ali
Well, dinner tonight consisted of two really good recipes that I will post for you guys here, but first let me back up. Since I wanted my afternoon post to be devoted to National Love Your Body Day, I didn’t post my meals. I will do that here for you guys now.
Around 9am, the counselor I was shadowing (who was super great by the way and happens to be my neighbor), gave me and her intern Alyssa (who was so awesome too!) a homemade muffin.
It had bananas and dried cranberries! SO GOOD! My day at the High School was awesome! My neighbor is really great at her job, I love how the school counseling program is structured (the kids have the same counselor all four years). I got to help out a little too which I loved. She is counseling seniors on college stuff and having worked in Admissions for two years I liked jumping in a helping out. Her intern was there too and was great an answering questions. Overall, I had a great day! It was an early release day, so I was home by about 12:20pm.
Here is my outfit for the day:
Black and White Hounds Tooth pants (GAP), White Cami (GAP), Green Cardigan (Old Navy), Black Flats (Anne Klein).
I love pairing black and white with a solid bright color! I adds a little kick to it and makes it fun. I really love cardigans because you can do a lot with them. I am sure you guys have noticed that! When I got home I made a quick lunch and watched some TV on the coach with Oscar…perfect afternoon.
I made a turkey, american cheese and hummus sandwich on a whole wheat tortilla pressed on the Forman.
I also had a salad on the side: spring mix, tomatoes, red peppers, cucumbers, carrots and three bean salad, vinegar.
A few hours later, I got snacky and I had some of these (addicted!).
While writing my National Love Your Body Day post, I had a cup of decaf.
Around 6:15, Adam got home (he is coaching 8-10 year olds in basketball now, so cute, right?) We went for a 4 mile run, we ran at a nice easy pace. This run made me realize it is time for new running shoes. When my shoes wear out, I get some ankle pain and hip pain on my left side. I am hoping to find the money really soon to replace them!
Like I said ,dinner consisted of two great recipes. First up, Coconut Chicken Tenders.
This is all you need:
One package of chicken tenders, egg whites, whole wheat bread crumbs and unsweetened coconut.
You just dip the chicken in the egg whites, rolled it in a mixture of coconut and ww breadcrumbs. Then place them on a cookie sheet.
Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees and enjoy!
Ok, as a side dish I made Sweet Potatoes with Toasted Pecan Butter!!!
You will need:
    * Fat Free milk
    * 2 sweet potatoes
    * pecans
    * cinnamon
    * brown sugar
    * butter (yup, the real stuff!)
Step 1: Poke holes in the sweet potatoes, and place them on a paper towel in the microwave and cook for 10 minutes (turn over after 5).
Step 2: Once, the potatoes are done wrap them in a clean dish towel and let them sit for 5 minutes.
In the meantime, you want to make the butter:)
Step 3: chop up the pecans (I toasted them earlier in the afternoon, but to toast just cook them for like 5 minutes at 350 on a cookie sheet.), then mix the pecans with, 1 TBS. of melted butter, 1TBS. of Brown Sugar, and 1/4 a tsp. of cinnamon! It will look like this.
Yum right!
Step 5: After the the potatoes have been in the towel for 5 minutes cut them open and dig put the…what is that stuff called? Guts? Pulp? We will go with pulp…pull out the pulp.
Step 6: Add 3 TBS of Milk, a pinch of salt and 1 TBS. of brown sugar and mix.
Step 7: Add your butter mix and enjoy!
Both of these recipes are great and have a ton of flavor! I really loved them and dinner was ready in 20 minutes, I cooked them at the same time, but didn’t want to overlap the recipes so you guys don’t get confused.
I added some steamed green beans and called it dinner!!! There are leftovers, so expect to see more of this stuff!