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I was checking out some restaurant coupons that came in the mail and saw an advertisement for a new tilapia dish that one place was offering. It sounded and looked really good and since I'm often on the look out for healthy choices at restaurants, I thought for a second about how David and I could stop in there during an upcoming shopping trip. In the next second, I remembered: I don't have to go out to have this. I don't have to have someone else make it. I can cook it MYSELF. With only a

Over the last year, I've changed a lot about the way I cook and the ingredients I use. I've lowered the fat and calorie content in many dishes and in a few cases, I have stopped making a previous favorite. There are a few things, though, that I purposely decided to not change. I still make some dishes exactly the way I have always made them. I think by doing this I've helped to make our transition to healthy eating a bit smoother - especially for the kids. There are dishes that they (we) have

Chicken and my favorite cheese. All wrapped up in a cute little bundle - it doesn't get better than this. But I what I love the most about Chicken Cordon Bleu is that it appears so fancy and somewhat complicated, but it's pretty simple and not that hard to do. Really. It's the kind of meal you can make and have people ooh-ing and aah-ing and thinking you are some master of the kitchen. Or maybe my family is just really easy to please. [probably] So I made a bunch of these - 15 to be exact

  This past week, David and I were having a mid-afternoon snack of a few Triscuit crackers, plus a Laughing Cow cheese wedge. In my efforts to eat slower (an ongoing goal I have), I was taking very teeny tiny bites and making each cracker last as long as possible. As I was doing this, I started thinking about how very crisp Triscuit crackers are. They are super crunchy! It was in that moment that I thought how they would make a good "breading" for oven baked chicken. That brings us

Parmesan Crusted Tilapia Until about a year ago, I never made fish at home. David always said he didn't like it (that's changed), and fish was very rarely, if ever, one of the meals I had as a child so I had limited experience with it. I found fish to be a bit intimidating. It just seemed like something I would definitely screw up if I ever tried to cook it. But here we are. Sometime last year I decided it was time to get past these fishy phobias. We had started Weight Watchers and I wanted

One of the favorite meals in our house is Chicken Tenders...yum, yum, yum. I make mine by baking them in the oven, rather than frying, and the coating on them is any kind of cereal that I have on hand. Just about any cereal will work - in the past I've used sugary cereals like Captain Crunch (I have no problem admitting that these are GOOD), but lately I use cereals such as Fiber One or Total - which everyone in my family gobbles up too. I've even used Shredded Wheat or Cheerios. The cereal I